Topics in philosophy

This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism.

This first volume of Husserlian Legacies: Themes for the 21st Century  focuses on hitherto underexamined dimensions of Husserl's philosophical thinking and in particular, values and love.

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately?

This book explores bell hooks' trajectory of work and cohesiveness of thought about the meaning and meaningfulness of black womanhood in terms of a Black Marxist feminism, which uniquely confronts the dimensions of feminism and womanism; the relations between the secular and the religious; the problems of gender and sexism; and the structural and systemic issues of oppression, domination, white supremacy, and capitalism.

This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts.

Während der Weihnachtstagung zur Begründung der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft versenkte Rudolf Steiner gemeinsam mit den Anwesenden den spirituellen Grundstein dieser Gesellschaft «in die Herzen» der Menschen.

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, or B-theory, ordered by earlier than or later than, are equally fundamental.

This book examines the development and fundamental nature of legal pluralism.

The Making of the Soviet Citizen (1987) examines the distinctive feature of Soviet education - the crucial importance it gives to the formation of a new type of person, the model socialist citizen.

Soviet Russia Fights Crime (1934) examines the workings of the Soviet penal system in the pre-war years of the Soviet Union.

This volume announces a new era in the philosophy of God.

Die Grundsteinmeditation bildet das Fundament des in der Weihnachtstagung 1923/24 errichteten «geistigen Goetheanum».

The book sheds light on the forms of neoliberalism's political rationality by highlighting the theoretical foundations upon which they are built.

Die Sesshaftwerdung des Menschen markiert einen der bedeutendsten Wendepunkte der Menschheitsgeschichte.

This book examines how power dynamics unfold during crises, focusing on how transformations in competing socio-political arenas, both domestic and international, shape power structures.

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers an alternative concept of imagination to the classical internalist and representationalist theory.

Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation.

Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory Ernst Bloch, Georg Luk cs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies.

Focusing on moments of continuity and rupture, as well as the thin lines of fracture in Critical philosophy itself, Metaphysics of Nature and Failure in Kant's Opus postumum navigates the rough terrain of Kant's final thoughts.

This new reading of Gilles Deleuze forges a link between his early and later works by decoding his hidden agenda for communism.

Reconceptualizing the relationship between race and Islam in the United States, No God but Man theorizes race as an epistemology using the FBI's post-9/11 Most Wanted Terrorist list and its posters as its starting point.

A Primer on Theatre and Aesthetics explores the philosophy of arts from the Ancient Greeks to our contemporary world.

The Gulf States and the Horn of Africa takes a deep dive into the complexities of power projection, political rivalry and conflict across the Red Sea and beyond.

Should historical injustices always be repaired?

Niccolò Machiavelli – ein Name, der für politische Scharfsinnigkeit und pragmatisches Denken steht.

This book provides a collection of chapters that critically explore the making and development of Africa's independence constitutions through the different phases in their full generality.

Drawing on Marcuse, Adorno, Arendt and a variety of other critical social philosophers, this book introduces us to a familiar character amid the wreckage of the post-pandemic economy: no-dimensional man.