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When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression.

“A profound personal meditation on human existence .

What's the use of sociology?

This book is a product of my desire to come to grips with the death of my son Darryl by suicide nine years ago.

The development of Ranci re s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional misunderstandings.

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time.

The essays in Sudden Eden explore the ways in which the memory of Paradise, or experience of the paradisiacal, has shaped canons of experimental writing from the late Middle Ages through to the present day.

What is life?

Rethinks Rome''s Christianisation as a crisis of knowledge propelled by Constantine, with Emperor Julian as its key interpreter and catalyst.

Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric.

Do you agree that our government is interfering in our everyday life when it comes to our education, health care, retirement, income, and some social issues, such as racism, gun control, immigration, and the way we vote?

Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out humanity, is still a philosophically viable project.

This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory.

This is the first comprehensive study of the core philosophical questions posed by terrorism such as: How should we define it?

America's system of capitalism and democracy is on a down-hill spiral and cannot continue to go unchecked.

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today.

“This book reminds us that hunting provides sustenance for both body and soul, and that mindful eating requires both respect and gratitude.

In this age of nearly unprecedented partisan rancor, you'd be forgiven for thinking we could all do with a smaller daily dose of politics.

Despite the fact that the European Union faces the biggest crisis since its foundation, on July 1st, 2013, a new state joined the club.

The crisis of man is the appalling absence of identity.

Jerry Fodor is one of the most important philosophers of mind in recent decades.

On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality.

Wittgenstein's May-June 1913 critique of Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgement (or MRTJ) marked a crucial turning point in the lives of two great twentieth-century thinkers.

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The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy.

In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration?

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

“This book reminds us that hunting provides sustenance for both body and soul, and that mindful eating requires both respect and gratitude.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.

Wittgenstein's May-June 1913 critique of Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgement (or MRTJ) marked a crucial turning point in the lives of two great twentieth-century thinkers.

How adequate are our theories of globalisation for analysing the worlds we share with others?

Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and network thinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservative thought.

Thomas Hobbes was the first great English political philosopher.

In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou s latest work on the most complete of the arts, the theatrical stage.

Prometheus and Gaia examines the ideological currents known as Futurism and Eco-Pessimism.

This original book enters the undeveloped territory of feminist metaphysics and offers a bold and unusual contribution to debates about identity, essence and self.

The Author, William Eastwood, began developing his unique methods (now called international philosophy) at 12 years of age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on 25 of May 1803 in Boston and was a famous writer, American philosopher and poet.

Adorno s lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960 61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger s philosophy.

This exciting new book is the first comprehensive and critical study of the relationship between the Pragmatist tradition and political theory.

The crisis of man is the appalling absence of identity.

The essays in Sudden Eden explore the ways in which the memory of Paradise, or experience of the paradisiacal, has shaped canons of experimental writing from the late Middle Ages through to the present day.