Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries.
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled.
Reflections on Art and Culture: From Diderot's Salons to Panodyssey and Art Explora offers a series of art reviews of some of the most exciting and artistically diverse trends in contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, presented in light of art history, aesthetics and intellectual history.
Contemporary societies are marked by deep inequalities grounded in collective failures to recognize the histories, needs, and experiences of marginalized social groups.
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'.
This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses.
In this book, author Lucas Murrey argues that the thinking of the modern German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1944-1900) is not only more grounded in antiquity than previously understood, but is also based on the Dionysian spirit of Greece which scholars have still to confront.
Originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Step program now provides life direction for the millions of people worldwide who are recovering from addiction and undergoing profound personal transformation.
The Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patocka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work.
Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today.
The Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patocka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work.
Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today.
One of the most important contributions to contemporary political philosophy, Rawls's A Theory of Justice, re-ignited political philosophy and revolutionized how we theorize about justice.
One of the most important contributions to contemporary political philosophy, Rawls's A Theory of Justice, re-ignited political philosophy and revolutionized how we theorize about justice.
In Cosmic Evolution Theory, Yousef Arrasheed presents a bold and unified vision of existence—one that moves beyond traditional cosmology and into a deeper philosophical and structural understanding of reality.
Roberto Esposito's poetic and historically layered new book draws on a famous, and famously opaque, passage from the Old Testament to shed light on the vision of self and domination that has profoundly shaped western identity and left its mark on western culture.
An author is caught in a creeping drowning; at first a minor dissatisfying splash slowly followed by an upwards current which only ends up dragging into restless waters until the final decision: Sink or Swim Away.
A hybrid work of theory, poetic reflection and experimental memoir, AI Intimacy and Psychoanalysis explores the ever-evolving relationship between humans and generative AI through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminist philosophy and autoethnography.
The Nine Noble Virtues represent a cornerstone of Asatru philosophy, embodying the ideals that guided our ancestors and continue to resonate with those who embrace this path today.
La estetica, segun la mirada de Yuriko Saito, no puede reducirse a una filosofia del arte, sino que esta intimamente relacionada con nuestro dia a dia, con el cuidado de lo cotidiano, es decir, con la relacion que establecemos con lo otro, ya sean seres humanos, criaturas no humanas, entornos u objetos.
This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity as translation” (transformational process where modernity itself is conceptualized through translation), “translation of modernity” (object of transformation; that is, modernity as the object being translated across different contexts), and “modernity in translation” (contrastive modernities existing within ongoing translation processes).
