Topics in philosophy

Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into neighboring countries; children separated from their parents at the US/Mexico border--these are the images that the Global Refugee Crisis conjures to many.

The question of to what extent, manifestations of religious beliefs should be permitted in the European public sphere has become a salient and controversial topic in recent years.

Recovering Bookchinholds social ecologist Murray Bookchin's ideas and legacy alive.

Challenges theological models of divine action that locate God''s activity in human mind.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

This volume examines the concept of falsification as a central notion of semantic theories and its effects on logical laws.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism.

John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century.

A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the personal and philosophical origins of Andre Gorz's work, this book includes a unique analysis of his early untranslated texts, as well as critical discussion of his relationship to the work of Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Marx and Habermas.

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

Was ist Wahnsinn und was ist Kunst?

This book engages with the question of making sense of seeing in today's technologically dominated world.

What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience?

Presuming readers start with no background in philosophy, this enhanced introduction to bioethics first provides balanced, philosophically based coverage of moral reasoning, moral theories, and the law.

In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice.

This book analyses the formulation, interpretation and implementation of sharia in Pakistan and its relationship with the Pakistani state whilst addressing the complexity of sharia as a codified set of laws.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

This book concentrates upon how economic rationalities have been embedded into particular historical practices, cultures, and moral systems.

This textbook introduces students to the various arguments for and against the prohibition of recreational drugs.

For decades, framing an issue as a 'human rights' issue carried certain power and effect in politics and international relations, one that has been challenged by the recent rise of populist political forces.

This book introduces an important group of logics that have come to be known under the umbrella term 'susbstructural'.

Through cross-disciplinary explorations of and engagements with nature as a forming part of architecture, this volume sheds light on the concepts of both nature and architecture.

With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s.

Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy is widely regarded as one of the most important works of moral philosophy in the last fifty years.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

That knowledge about the world and self is imparted through narrative is widely accepted; the techniques used to construct this knowledge have received less attention.

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

The new millennium can only be a time of true globalization if different histories and systems of understanding the world are appreciated.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius' Psychomachia, written in the fifth century.

This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology.

The early modern philosopher Anne Conway offers a remarkable synthesis of ideas from differing philosophical traditions that deserve our attention today.

Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth.

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements.

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge.

Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1896-1945.

A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square.