Topics in philosophy

Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism.

Examining the conditions that not only blocked attempts to make America great again but also actively made the country worse, Why America Didn't Become Great Again identifies those organizations, institutions, politicians, and prominent characters in the forefront of the economic and social policies - ultimately asking who is responsible.

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.

In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy recent political and religious conflicts, attention to religious violence has increased exponentially.

This book features original essays on knowledge and rationality as related to the work of Stewart Cohen.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors.

This book presents a set of historical recollections on the work of Martin Davis and his role in advancing our understanding of the connections between logic, computing, and unsolvability.

»Kaum ein anderer Denker veranschaulicht die Widersprüche des heutigen Kapitalismus besser als Slavoj Žižek.

Surrounded by steep escarpments to the north, south and east, Ethiopia has always been geographically and culturally set apart.

After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

Charting new directions for cultural theory and practice and offering alternatives to the project of neoliberal class restoration.

On the heels of an extremely lively U.

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today.

A revisionist interpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political ideas, including novel readings of canonical authors such as Burke and Mill.

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

Less than a year after the assassination of President Kennedy brought Lyndon B.

Gadamer's Path to Plato investigates the formative years of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Plato studies, while studying with Martin Heidegger at Marburg University.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

This book is the fruit of a critical inquiry into the nature and scope of Marcel's philosophie achievement.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower.

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion.

In the beginning was the night.

This book offers a solution to the ancient philosophical problem regarding the nature and the justification of morality.

EU external democracy promotion has traditionally been based on 'linkage', i.

A new, hands-on approach to social inquiry for social scientists who wish to make a difference to policy and practice.

Following on the heels of his critically acclaimed God of Abraham (Oxford, 1996), Lenn E.

Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People's Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn toward the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute between different social actors.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of China'Wonderful' Andrew Marr, New StatesmanSince the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism.

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture.

This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.

Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of 'arthouse' and Hollywood films.

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education.

 Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most important films.

How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem.

This third out of four volumes by Richard Ned Lebow in this book series includes texts on psychology and international relations, causation, counterfactual analysis.

In both Europe and North America it can be argued that the associational and institutional dimensions of the right to freedom of religion or belief are increasingly coming under pressure.

Politics cannot function without responsibility, but there have been serious disagreements about how responsibility is to be understood and huge controversies about how it is to be distributed, rewarded, legislated, and enforced.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science.

Gender and Human Rights in a Global, Mobile Era delves into feminist debates surrounding the relationship between gender and human rights through engaging feminist perspectives on the multifaceted issue of human trafficking.

Originally published in 1973.

Every philosopher of science, and every student of the philosophy of science, has heard of Paul Feyerabend: the iconoclast who supposedly asserted that science is not rational, nor objective, but is characterised by anarchism, relativism, subjectivism and power.