Philosophy

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics-the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science.

The starting point for this book is a particular answer to a question that grips many of us: what kind of thing are we?

Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized.

This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.

The topic of certitude is much debated today.

The death of feminism is regularly proclaimed in the West.

A captivating look at the history of the pure females of Islamic paradise known as the houri The fascination with the houri, the pure female of Islamic paradise, began long before September 11, 2001.

Discussing the generally ignored issue of the classification of natural objects in the philosophy of science, this book focuses on knowledge and social relations, and offers a way to understand classification as a necessary aspect of doing science.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

This book offers a new way of approaching Schopenhauer by investigating the links between his philosophical practice and his aesthetics.

Although abstract principles alone cannot guide action, they can be combined to shape good practical judgement and change the world.

A new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition in philosophy has recently focused on critical, societal challenges, such as the silencing and questioning of the credibility of oppressed groups, the political polarization that threatens the good functioning of democratic societies across the globe, or the moral and political significance of gender, race, or sexual orientation.

Dixon Chibandas beautiful and heroic book will inspire everyone who reads it.

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them?

With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "e;truth"e; in politics has become a game of interpretations.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

Several years ago I came across a marvelous little paper in which Hector-Neri Castaneda shows that standard versions of act utilitarian- l ism are formally incoherent.

This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language.

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Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race challenges the critical emphasis on otherness in treatments of race in literary and cultural studies.

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in case studies from animation, video games, and virtual worlds.

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In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom.

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire's ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977.

Richard Rorty is one of the most influential, controversial and widely-read philosophers of the twentieth century.

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This book provides the first comprehensive discussion regarding the role that Kant ascribes to systematicity in the sciences.

This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world in which we live.

By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication and employing coded language to evade detection.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

Vibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking.

In Cultural Hermeneutics, Mario J.

The Enigmatic Founder of Israel: A Nuanced Portrait of David Ben-GurionIn this definitive biography of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's leading journalist-historian Tom Segev draws on previously unreleased archival material to paint a nuanced and startling portrait of Israel's founder.

'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' - Henry A.

This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds.

The second annual Alchemy Lecture brought together five artists, thinkers, and writers who proposed new ways of being and discussed radical visions for the future.

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume.

This book uses the conceptual tools of philosophy to shed light on digital media and on the way in which they bear upon our existence.

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning.