Topics in philosophy

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

Cet ouvrage de référence réunit les principaux experts nationaux et parfois internationaux des différentes spécialités de la reproduction.

Two centuries after Carl von Clausewitz wrote On War, it lines the shelves of military colleges around the world and even showed up in an Al Qaeda hideout.

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Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed?

White identity is in ferment.

The world is populated with many different objects, to which we often attribute properties: we say, for example, that grass is green, that the earth is spherical, that humans are animals, and that murder is wrong.

'Greed' is a visceral insult.

Recent years have seen an enormous amount of philosophical research into the emotions and the imagination, but as yet little work has been done to connect the two.

What is forgiveness?

Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until recently it was largely neglected in philosophy.

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative.

International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom, with Southern Africa, and Nigeria in particular, positioned joint sixth in the top ten of sending countries.

The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings.

Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine.

The problem of evil perennially vexes theology, but many theologians have abandoned the project of theodicy, or the theological explanation of evil, as either fruitless or hopeless.

In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy.

This volume comprises nine lively and insightful essays by leading scholars on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing mainly on his early work.

This new introduction to ethics is written for students who are approaching philosophy for the first time.

Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China and around the globe.

Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete?

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment—efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.

This book examines key narratives animating the techno-progressive rhetoric of the human enhancement movement, arguing that enhancement and transhumanist discourse performs a variety of distinctly mythic functions.

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography.

The Truth in Short Order: Truth, like a home plate umpire in baseball, is positioned to call the balls, strikes, and fouls.

Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace.

This book sheds light on Kant''s claim that the Critique of Pure Reason is a ''treatise'' or ''doctrine'' of method.

Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion.

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day.

What fundamental account of the world is implicit in physical theory?

Unde malum from where does evil come?

“What is love?

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb?

With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture.

In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being.

All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency.