Topics in philosophy

The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment in the wake of electoral victories for authoritarian populists and unceasing news of violent atrocities.

In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

In its second edition, this extended and revised volume brings together alternative and innovative approaches in conflict resolution.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

This book explains how the idea of there being no ultimate, universal truth is in itself a contradictory philosophical position.

This book explains how the idea of there being no ultimate, universal truth is in itself a contradictory philosophical position.

Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others.

En este breve ensayo de 1933, Georges Bataille propuso elementos fructíferos para pensar el nazismo y el poder soviético.