Philosophy

Originally published in 1991.

This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991.

This book, originally entitled Why Men Fight, is generally seen as the fullest expression of Russell's political philosophy.

The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law.

After more than seventy years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexico formally began the transition to democracy in 2000.

The second edition of Environmental Ethics combines a strong theoretical foundation with applications to some of the most pressing environmental problems.

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

Well-being occupies a central role in ethics and political philosophy, including in major theories such as utilitarianism.

In Real History, Martin Bunzl brilliantly succeeds in bringing together two schools of thought at the forefront of the philosophy of history: that of realism and objectivity.

William Ferraiolo examines what it means to incorporate Stoicism into 21st century life, adapting classical Stoic philosophy for the modern day.

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common?

In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas.

This title was first published in 2000: Beginning with a sustained argument against the new tenseless theory of time and against McTaggart's A series/B series distinction, the author of this essay goes on to provide a non-paradoxical, tensed, phenomenologically-based account of the 'going on' or 'taking place' of events in time that escapes the paradoxes endemic to 'passage' as understood via the A series/B series distinction.

This book examines four main areas of music in early childhood: the traditions of music for young children, their capacities for music, the way they make music with others, and constructed and mediated musical childhoods.

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value-and what to do when your goals conflictWhat do you want out of life?

Frank Herberts Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse.

Evils, both large and small, are a constant feature of human life.

Praxiology is the study of working and doing from the point of view of effectiveness.

An award-winning public reader of Homer discusses poetry and the nature of performance with the probing and insightful Socrates in Plato's immortal dialogue.

Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with Critical Inquiry and its editors.

This book brings together over thirty of the foremost contributions to environmental ethics, from pioneering papers to recent work at the cutting edge of thought in this field.

Taking recent German debates of diversity terminology as a case example for scrutinizing enactments of genealogy that assume a linear image of progressive generation, this book engages with performative effects of genealogical stories in academic texts that negotiate conceptual belonging.

This comparative study examines what kinds of societal forces shape European relationships towards democratic political life in contemporary Europe.

Der Begründer des buddhistischen Tantra, Saraha, der vor über 2000 Jahren in Indien lebte und von dessen "Lied an den König" dieser Text handelt, trifft eine Pfeilmacherin, die ihn die Kunst der Verschmelzung lehrt.

A cutting-edge and groundbreaking set of new essays by top philosophers on key topics related to the ever-influential knowledge argument.

This book offers an important contribution to the field of curriculum studies and higher education by examining the impacts of colonialism and neoliberalism in the South African education system and addressing ways to decolonise curriculum and teaching.

The social status of dogs has changed dramatically in the past 75 years.

This edition first published in 1960.

This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one.

This book looks at two 'revolutions' in philosophy - phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology.

First published in 2002.

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza-as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization-among its key opponents.

In October 2010, Shane Clifton had a serious accident that left him a quadriplegic.

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications.

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the College de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

Explore the computational possibilities unleashed by modern physics.

Conspiracy theories have become a major element in modern opinion formation.

Working with Children in Art Therapy is a collection of papers by ten art therapists working in the major child care agencies as part of a professional team.

A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'?

This book examines international criminal law from a normative perspective and lays out how responsible agents, individuals and the collectives they comprise, ought to be held accountable to the world for the commission of atrocity.

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Plato's Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people's general view of the natural world.