Topics in philosophy

In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality and the law.

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.

'The capacity to affect and to be affected'.

This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts.

With his insightful and wide-ranging theory of recognition, Axel Honneth has decisively reshaped the Frankfurt School tradition of critical social theory.

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries.

The most accessible expression of Fran ois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims.

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

An original interpretation of a key concept of Hegel''s philosophy with implications for the correct understanding of his entire legacy

Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding.

"e;At the hands of a minor talent, profiles are often flat, two-dimensional outlines of a thinker s intellectual physiognomy.

Compte tenu de l'intérêt suscité par la médecine chinoise en Europe, cet ouvrage présente pour la première fois une analyse de l'histoire des idées en médecine chinoise depuis ses débuts, il y a plus de deux millénaires jusqu'à nos jours, associée à une comparaison avec l'histoire de la médecine occidentale.

The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the polis, were a constant preoccupation of his writings.

Robert Service 700107BlrubIt has now been a little over a century since the publication of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity.

At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil, and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for historians and their work?

The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature.

How can we resolve conflicts as Christ commanded?

In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion.

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Contemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self struggling with its unconscious.

A narcissistic president is determined not to leave office.

During the eighteenth century, some of the most popular British poetry showed a responsiveness to animals that anticipated the later language of animal rights.

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity.

Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities?

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.

Drawing on her clinical practice and pioneering efforts in workaholism Dr Killinger describes the personality traits and psychological, philosophical, historical, and familial influences that help develop and maintain integrity.

Inheritance of the Meek: The Return to Hidden Forest is a fast-paced and heartwarming story about how a group of friends discover the importance of questioning old beliefs and of embracing renewal.

This is a classic Marxist study first published in 1924 - one of the principal Soviet contributions to jurisprudence theory.

Despite the fact that Confucius and Rumi were born in different periods and places, both were born at a time of social upheaval and political turmoil.

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With this title the author believes he has arrived, like Pilgrim in the 'Celestial City', at the end of his long and at times extremely arduous philosophical journey, which began back in the early 1970s and beyond which he believes no meaningful progress could now be made, since the axes and pseudo-axes, about which he has revolved much of his mature writings, have finally been resolved in a way and to an extent it would be impossible to improve upon, much less overhaul, not least in respect of their relationships with gender and class, together with the 'moral' implications that such relationships entail in what becomes a veritable 'apotheosis' of his ethics.

In a well-known text called The Communist Hypothesis , first published in 2007, the renowned philosopher Alain Badiou breathed fresh life into the idea of communism as an intellectual representation that provides a critical perspective on existing politics and offers a systemic alternative to capitalism.

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.