Philosophy and Religion

Presents Soloveitchik''s philosophy as a conceptual response to Nietzsche''s critique of religion that brings Nietzsche''s life-affirming sensibility to halakhic Judaism.

Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare''s work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history''s exceptionalism.

A dynamic account of the sharia in Lebanon as both state law and as personal ethics.

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

The only available volume of essays from scholars of every interpretative viewpoint on self-knowledge and self-ignorance in Plato''s thought.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

The final volume in a series of four books presenting the seminal papers from the Caltech-UCLA ''Cabal Seminar''.

The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

Leading scholars investigate Kant''s conception of what a human being is and how a human being can act autonomously.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

First comprehensive treatment of the ontology of epistemic normative notions including reasons, justification, and rationality, reflecting important current debates.

Uncovers the rich diversity and distinctive accomplishments of eighteenth-century German thinking, long overshadowed by Kant''s philosophy.

Investigates early modern women philosophers'' views on reality, matter, time and mind, uncovering neglected perspectives and demonstrating their historical importance.

First essay collection devoted to Kant''s faculty of feeling, a concept relevant to issues in ethics, aesthetics, and the emotions.

Explores the multifaceted debate on the interconnection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities.

Positively re-assesses the relationship between body and soul in Plato''s later dialogues, focusing on the harmony between them.

Offers an accessible yet cutting-edge tour of the many conceptual interconnections between physics and computer science.

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

Weinstein argues that Plato''s ''fighting spirit'' in the Republic plays an essential role in rational agency.

The Jewish Family examines Jewish family law in the light of new attitudes concerning the role of women.

Provides a unified account of the notion of law - both natural and moral - in Kant''s abstract and empirical philosophy.

This book examines how Gustav Radbruch, H.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Demonstrates the theological power of Pindar''s victory songs by interpreting them within their contemporary religious landscapes.

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

An innovative, scholarly introduction to the distinctive and enigmatic Christian liturgy of early medieval Iberia.

Offers a pluralist reading of transitional justice to deal with conflicts constructively and to enable diversity in approaches.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Provides new insights into contemporary debates surrounding the metaphysics of objects, a subject undergoing an important revival.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Argues that German classical philology personified antiquity and imagined scholarship as an inter-personal relationship with it.

Applies Aristotle''s argument - that citizenship is like friendship - to the liberal and democratic societies of the present day.

Presents a variety of scholarship on Schopenhauer''s monumental text, placing it among the canonical works of nineteenth-century philosophy.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

Traces the development of Kant''s views on free will from earlier writings through the three Critiques and beyond.

A new explanation of the beginnings of Jewish angelology and demonology, drawing on non-canonical writings and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

Do the gods love you?

New essays on Kant''s complex work, considering its place in his oeuvre and in the history of science.

The first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

A collection of essays on the foundational themes of freedom and spontaneity in Immanuel Kant''s philosophy.

Presents a shift from the accepted IR standard of theorizing, by analyzing policy decisions made in non-ideal conditions within a broader framework of practical choices.

This book traces changing perceptions of Egypt''s monastic landscape through an analysis of archaeological and documentary evidence from late antiquity.