Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Islam is more than a system of rigid doctrines and normative principles.

This volume explores recent developments in the practice of hospitality, as well as the curious, precarious relationship between guests and their hosts.

This book makes connections between selfhood, reading practice and moral judgment which propose fresh insights into Austen's narrative style and offer new ways of reading her work.

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic role of attention as a faculty that enables change within subjective and intersubjective experience.

This volume gathers a collection of fourteen original articles discussing the concept of drive in classical German philosophy.

This book investigates the central metaphysics and epistemology of Advaita.

Presenting the history of an unexplored yet significant institution in East Germany, this book analyses the development of the Parteihochschule Karl Marx (PHS), a training institute for Communist party officials and members of the functional elite.

This book examines South Africa's post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the "e;new"e; South Africa, best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings, was fundamentally an affective, emotional project.

This book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle.

This book offers a new look at emergence in terms of a hierarchical emergent ontology.

This book approaches work by Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou through their shared commitment to multiplicity, a novel approach to addressing one of the oldest philosophical questions: is being one or many?

The purpose of this work is to critically assess Errol E.

In thinking about ontology as the study of being or what fundamentally exists, we can adopt an ontology that either takes substances or processes as primary.

Ben Lazare Mijuskovic has spent 40 years researching theories of consciousness in relation to human loneliness, using an interdisciplinary and "e;history of ideas"e; approach.

This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

This volume presents discussions on a wide range of topics focused on eco-phenomenology and the interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary environmental thought.

This book offers a selection of the papers of the Women in Pragmatism International Conference held at the University of Barcelona in January 2020.

The main purpose of the present volume is to advance our understanding of the notions of knowledge and context, the connections between them and the ways in which they can be modeled, in particular formalized - a question of prime importance and utmost relevance to such diverse disciplines as philosophy, linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence and cognitive science.

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an "e;attempter.

This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin's political thought.

This book analyses how the three books of visions by Hildegard of Bingen use the allegorical vision as a form of knowledge.

Dana S.

It was not so long ago that the dominant picture of Kant's practical philosophy was forma-listic, focusing almost exclusively on his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason.

 The book is the first formulation of a meta-philosophical scheme rooted in the embodied cognition paradigm.

This collected volume is inspired by the work of Edward Halper and is historically focused with contributions from leading scholars in Ancient and Medieval philosophy.

This volume expands the concept and role of the schema, with three goals in mind:  1) to outline the continuing issues in the schema concept as the legacy of Kant's concept and analysis, 2) to show that Kant's challenges resulted in successful but truncated views of the schema and its functions, 3) to reconstruct Otto Selz's schema concept by proposing an alternative.

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 - c.

This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920.

This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence.

This edited volume presents a comprehensive examination of contemporary Confucian philosophy from its roots in the late 19th century to the present day.

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

Using both Father Kevin Wall's eidetic matrix of "e;the relational unity of being"e; and Edith Stein's remarkable synoptic view of intentionality in both Aquinas and Husserl, this book uncovers purely logical ground for a subalternate eidetic science called "e;convergent phenomenology,"e; itself located at the inmost depths of Husserlian phenomenology.

This book draws on existential theory and original research to present the conceptual framework for an understanding of existential authenticity and demonstrates how this approach might be adopted in practice.

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role.

This book transforms phenomenology, music, technology, and the cultural arts from within.

This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism.

This book describes what an "e;art of multiculturalism"e; could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art.

This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India.

This edited collection marks a new wave of international and philosophical scholarship on "e;the heart"e;- that rich dimension of our emotional being in the world.

This book presents a systematic reconstruction of Leibniz's dynamics project (c.

What role do fables play in Cartesian method and psychology?

This book seeks to provide new perspectives, to broaden the field of philosophy of science, or to renew themes that have had a great impact on the profession.

This book aims to address in a novel way some of the fundamental philosophical questions concerning suicide.

This book demonstrates for the first time how the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein can transform 4E Cognitive Science.

This book joins the contemporary recovery of Kant's empirical works to highlight the relevance of his concept of culture for understanding the sources of various characteristic modern dilemmas, such as the tension between culture and happiness, the morally ambivalent nature of cultural progress, or the existing conflicts between a factual plurality of cultures and the historical forces pressing toward a universal civilization.

The present text surveys and reevaluates the meaning and scope of Ortega y Gasset's philosophy.

This book explores how the weather and city-form impact the mind, and how city-form and mind interact.

This book contains a series of essays that explore the concept of unconsciousness as it is situated between phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics.