Philosophy

Contributions to Illuminations: A Scarecrow Press Series of Guides to Research in Religion provide students and scholars, lay readers and clergy, with a road map to research in key areas of religious study.

In this work, Marcos Del Roio analyses Gramsci's pre-prison political-theoretical activity in light of a radical thesis: that throughout Gramsci's life we see a total continuity between his political praxis and his philosophical reflection.

I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodor W.

Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics.

The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present.

Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history.

Aristotle analyzed the popular art of his time: the tragedies and epics.

Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and will ask questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both ecological theology and deglobalization theory.

Carry Ralph Waldo Emersons wisdom with you in this inspirational guide that features 60 of his most insightful quotes.

In the course of this compact and insightful work, Dr.

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This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important early modern thinkers.

By the time Martin Heidegger passed away on May 26th, 1976, he had become the most important and controversial philosopher of his age.

Metaphysics is what Aristotle described as "e;the First Philosophy"e; or "e;first science,"e; a comprehensive inquiry into the ultimate nature of reality.

Surrealism was a broad movement, which attracted many adherents.

Malevolent Legalities draws upon archival research conducted at the Scalia Papers at the Harvard Law School Historical and Special Collections to examine the influence of Justice Antonin Scalia's judicial philosophy of "e;textualist-originalism"e; on the US Supreme Court's antidiscrimination jurisprudence.

Malevolent Legalities draws upon archival research conducted at the Scalia Papers at the Harvard Law School Historical and Special Collections to examine the influence of Justice Antonin Scalia's judicial philosophy of "e;textualist-originalism"e; on the US Supreme Court's antidiscrimination jurisprudence.

'Glorious' Guardian'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATORIn his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors.

Nei Gong has been a well-kept secret within the Daoist sects of China for centuries.

Although the energetic anatomy of men and women is different, the ancient teachings of Nu Dan, a separate branch of internal alchemy for women, have been lost in the literature over the centuries and only survive through practice in the lineages.

As the perfect companion to introduction to ethics courses, Dell'Olio and Simon's reader includes the most influential ethical theories without overwhelming the beginning student.

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).

Small though it may be, Unitarian Universalism has had a big impact not only on its members but also on the world around it.

As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region.

* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category *The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony.

An international community of Reformed churches emerged during the sixteenth century.

Nei Gong is the practice leading to attainment of real internal skill and transformation, and the philosophical art of change that runs through all Daoist practice.

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

The actions, images and stories within films can impact upon the political consciousness of viewers, enabling their audience to imagine ways of resisting the status quo, politically, economically and culturally.

There is nothing new in thinking that we live in stupid times.

This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education.

This is a book about ourselves, and our world, but it is also a book about, and for education.

Hall's work takes the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience.

This book represents a continuation of Jean-Luc Marion's work on givenness as a foundational concept.

We make our life with things, surrounded by technical artefacts and technologies.

We make our life with things, surrounded by technical artefacts and technologies.

Meet Joseph - Joseph is curious to understand more about forgiveness.

As spiritual paths, Zen and Christianity can learn from one another.

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English.

In Uncommon Sense, Andrew Pessin leads us on an entertaining tour of philosophy, explaining the pivotal moments when the greatest minds solved some of the knottiest conundrums-by asserting some very strange things.

The 'end of the world' opens up philosophical questions concerning the very notion of the world, which is a fundamental element of all existential, phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy.

Life on earth is currently approaching what has been called the sixth mass extinction, also known as the Holocene or anthropocene extinction.

What does it mean to be good?

Moral Theory at the Movies provides students with a wonderfully approachable introduction to ethics.

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"e;I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of which the essays in this volume constitute one major part"e;.

This interdisciplinary work philosophically analyzes the role of positive duties in moral theory, the efficacy of theocratic republicanism, viable strategies for political revolutions, the implications of an enduring Sicilian ethos, and the profits and perils of the individual-community continuum, in service of distinctive interpretations of the lives and ideologies of Giuseppe Mazzini, Antonio Gramsci, and Salvatore Giuliano.