Social and political philosophy

This book argues that the private appropriation of human knowledge through intellectual property gives rise to power relations, which colonise the collective mind as well as individual minds.

Taking as its starting point the diagnosis that events such as the pandemic, the ecological crisis, and the increasingly volatile international situation have made our relationship to the world problematic, the book aims to survey the ways in which this new situation can be productively theorized.

Isaak I.

This volume addresses the political traditions that flourished in regions traditionally neglected by Atlantic history, but which are nevertheless indispensable for a comprehensive interpretation of political modernity.

First published in 1973, The Secret and Sublime is a warmly sympathetic account of Taoism, a colourful religion and way of life.

This book is a major early work of Japanese philosopher Wataru Hiromatsu (1933-1994).