Philosophy

Axel Honneth is one of the most influential social and political philosophers in contemporary German political thought and one of the central figures of the third generation of the Frankfurt School.

The Future of Social Epistemology: A Collective Vision sets an agenda for exploring the future of what we - human beings reimagining our selves and our society - want, need and ought to know.

What does it mean to be sad?

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it.

Early Confucian philosophers (notably Confucius and Mencius) emphasized moral significance of shame in self-cultivation and learning.

Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights.

How does the avant-garde create spaces in everyday life that subvert regimes of economic and political control?

Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon.

Why should we read?

Philosophy matters for the social sciences.

A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish.

The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies.

What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for 'nature'?

In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world's relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them.

The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state.

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism.

Many of us long to connect with something greater than ourselves to experience the sacred in our daily lives, and to enhance our sense of spiritual enlightenment - yet often we don't know where to begin.

The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines.

Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn't stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today.

The prominence and variety of global movements of resistance indicates that the idea of politics as governance is contested.

Soren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual.

What underlying philosophy and mission should museums pursue in the first half of the twenty-first century?

We're living on the wrong clock.

Ecology, Ethics, and Hope explores what hope is, how it operates, and whether or not it is important in our response to ecological challenges like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

The author presents a number of strategies for making decisions based on desires or values which are incompatible or which conflict with one another in various ways.

The author presents a number of strategies for making decisions based on desires or values which are incompatible or which conflict with one another in various ways.

Jan Patocka, perhaps more so than any other philosopher in the twentieth century, managed to combine intense philosophical insight with a farsighted analysis of the idea and challenges facing Europe as a historical, cultural and political signifier.

Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of 'time'.

Axel Honneth is one of the most influential social and political philosophers in contemporary German political thought and one of the central figures of the third generation of the Frankfurt School.

It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues.

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment.

Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in de-subjectivation.

Does recognition of the basic human right to subsistence imply that the needy are morally permitted to take and use other people's property to get out of their plight?

Normative Identity is about how we define ourselves and others in terms of our ideas about the good and the right.

In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the 'practitioners' of identity.

How can ethics be communicated in an age of globalisation?

As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Michel Foucault's reputation today rests on his political philosophy in relation to the contemporary subject in a neo-liberal and globalized society.

This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four contemporary artists from different countries, working with different media.

Human rights and development cannot be understood separately.

In the early part of the 20th century, state and corporate propagandists used the mass media to promote the valor and rightness of ascending U.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it.

Early Confucian philosophers (notably Confucius and Mencius) emphasized moral significance of shame in self-cultivation and learning.

Ecology, Ethics, and Hope explores what hope is, how it operates, and whether or not it is important in our response to ecological challenges like climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and pollution.

How has technology changed what it means to be human and to be a member of a human society?

What do we mean when we speak about and advocate for 'nature'?

Animals regularly populate philosophical texts as a foil to illustrate what it means to be human.

In David Hume's science of human nature each and every self is located by passions that bind it to groups, repel it from other groups, and rank it on a hierarchy: we call this discovery a 'topology of passions'.

Navigating between society's moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the 'virtual ninja' can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century.

This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.

For the past 30 years, Paget Henry has been one of the most articulate and creative voices in Caribbean scholarship, making seminal contributions to the study of Caribbean political economy, C.