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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.

Ethics for EveryoneIs it always wrong to lie?

Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes.

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

This volume presents a series of essays which investigate the nature of intellectual inquiry: what its aims are and how it operates.

The field of rhetoric and composition has, at last, received a long-lost message delivered in the form of Victor J.

The planet is sick.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

A medieval warrior, whose life is threatened by two evil gods, must venture off with his friends to multiple dimensions after having their village destroyed by Yndryrrid, the universal destroyer, and being attacked by a merciless evil god named Maroth.

From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle East, fire proves to be an indispensable element of the political.

The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.