Philosophy

Sikhism's short but relatively eventful history provides a fascinating insight into the working of misunderstood and seemingly contradictory themes such as politics and religion, violence and mysticism, culture and spirituality, orality and textuality, public sphere versus private sphere, tradition and modernity.

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"e;Grace"e; emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy.

Anyone can be a quiet influencer.

The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy.

First published in 2002.

The Nasirean Ethics is the best known ethical digest to be composed in medieval Persia, if not in all mediaeval Islam.

The theory of capitalism and of the economic order is the central topic of the German economic tradition in the 20th century.

This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights.

Ireland's relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties.

Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires.

Despite efforts to build the state, profound political order in rural Afghanistan is maintained by self-governing, customary organizations.

This book introduces readers to the ethics of philanthropy, particularly in the Indian context.

THE ART OF COMICS The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Introduction is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical questions raised by the art of comics.

First Published in 1990.

Encyclopaedia Of Gods And Goddesses Is A Vast Collection And Compilation Of Authoritative Information On Gods And Goddesses Worshipped In All Religions Of The World.

Paul Gordon proposes a new theory of art as synaesthetic and applies this idea to various media, including works--such as movies, illustrated books, and song lyrics--that explicitly cross over into media involving the different senses.

"Unser Zeitalter ist nicht mehr das eigentliche Zeitalter der Kritik.

This important new book offers an introduction to Heidegger's phenomenology of perception, interpreting and explaining five key words, ';Sein', ';Dasein', ';Ereignis', ';Lichtung', and ';Geschick'.

The last twenty years have seen a rapid increase in scholarly activity and publications dedicated to environmental migration and displacement, and the field has now reached a point in terms of profile, complexity, and sheer volume of reporting that a general review and assessment of existing knowledge and future research priorities is warranted.

Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems: A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework (LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating the work of the health and human service professions.

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict across the globe.

This book offers a new rehabilitation of the knowledge argument for dualism, demonstrating its interconnection with philosophy of mind.

The place (or absence) of God in Nietzsche's thought remains central and controversial.

La violence est autant un fléau qu'une constance dans l'histoire de l'humanité.

This book challenges the view of the relationship between Kant's and Sartre's practical philosophies arguing that Kant was one of Sartre's most significant predecessors.

Originally published in 1924, this title is substantially a continuation of Baudouin's earlier work Studies in Psychoanalysis, being an application of psychoanalysis to the theory of aesthetics, as illustrated by a detailed study of the works of the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.

'Riveting; as fresh and relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago.

Originally published in 1938.

This book is a thorough analysis and discussion of the nature of time and eternity, focusing on the timelessness of God.

Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

This outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters examines German idealism from several angles and assesses the renewed interest in the subject from a wide range of fields.

Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge.

Medieval Englishmen were treacherous, rebellious and killed their kings, as their French contemporaries repeatedly noted.

Sir John Redwood has been at the centre of the movement to speed up the growth in wealth and income around the world through the rediscovery of private enterprise.

This book presents the hitherto unstudied variety of ways that human rights socialisation is attempted in the context of regional organisations, arguing that existing conceptual accounts of this phenomenon need to be expanded to best explain this diversity.

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau.

Moral pragmatism has been largely ignored in Business Ethics, despite its natural attraction and the fact that it is prominent in philosophy and socio-economic theories.

Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R.

Kant's views about mathematics were controversial in his own time, and they have inspired or infuriated thinkers ever since.

These 2010 essays offer a plurality of critical approaches to Kierkegaard''s fundamental text of existential philosophy and explore its contemporary relevance.

Brain, Decision Making, and Mental Health acknowledges that thinking is not a constant phenomenon but varies considerably across cultures.

The Philosopher's Banquet is the first sustained study of Plutarch's Table Talk, a Greek prose text which is a combination of philosophical dialogue (in the style of Plato's Symposium) and miscellany.

This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.

Schwabe EpicureaHerausgegeben von Michael Erler und Wolfgang RotherIn dieser Reihe erscheinen Texte, Kommentare und Studien zu Epikur und zur epikureischen Tradition bis zur Neuzeit.

Do we control what we believe?