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Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics - Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living

"This volume provides the first critical comparison of Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics. ...

David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism

Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.

Meinongianism

Meinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this ...

Amalia Holst

Amalia Holst's trailblazing book On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Intellectual Education (1802) dropped a bomb on the German speaking s...

The Logic of Grounding

The concept of grounding - of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts - has been a topic of intensive philosophical and logical investi...

Anna's AI Anthology - How to live with smart machines?

Herausgegeben von: Dr. Anna Strasser, Berlin. - Mit der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT sind so genannte 'große Sprachmodelle' (Large Langua...

Rationality and Time Bias

We often care not only about what happens to us, but when it happens to us. We prefer that good experiences happen sooner, rather than la...

Disagreement

This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types o...

The Life of the Mind - Texts

Zum ersten Mal ist Hannah Arendts letztes Buchprojekt nach der Typoskript-Fassung zu lesen, begleitet von zum Teil bisher unpubliziert ge...

Kant and the Feeling of Life - Beauty and Nature in the Critique of Judgment

Collects together for the first time essays devoted to a detailed historical and systematic discussion of the topic of life in Kant's work.

Kairós - In Defence of 'Due Time'

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to to...

Perceptual Content

Perceptual Content is the first book to discuss and compare the representational characters of all the traditional "five senses". It has ...

Philosophical Health - A Practical Introduction

"Are you philosophically healthy? Do your actions reflect your thoughts, do your words mirror your values, or do you live in contradictio...

Concept Formation in Global Studies - Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge

This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Euroc...

Aesthetics of Weather

In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of ...

Seeing Double

The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at ...

Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity

In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nat...

Art and Moral Change - A Reexamination

"This book reconsiders the relationship between aesthetics and theological ethics. The primary question it seeks to answer is whether art...

Literature and Ecotheology - From Chaos to Cosmos

This book challenges us in a time of climate crisis to find more common ground between the dual projects of ecocriticism and ecotheology....

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up...

New Directions in the Russellian Theory of Time - Metaphysical and Ontological Issues

The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, o...

Nihilism and Technology

Investigating how human values mediate the design and use of new technologies, the updated edition of Nolen Gertz's Nihilism and Technolo...

Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism

This book engages with a radical critique of the modern state and the contemporary economic order: Alasdair MacIntyre's 'revolutionary Ar...

Heidegger on Being Affected

Things get to us. We are moved or affected by 'things' in the ordinary sense=the paraphernalia of our daily lives-and also by ourselves, ...

Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de Prima Lectura - Study of the Manuscript Tradition and Critical Edition

This volume provides the first critical edition of the first redaction of the Questions on Aristotle's Meteorology by Nicole Oresme, one ...

Knowing - Unknowing - African Studies at the Crossroads

Calling into question the asymmetrical global economy of knowledge and its uneven division of intellectual labour, our interdisciplinary ...

Norman Maclean's "A River Runs through It" - The Search for Beauty

Norman Maclean's "A River Runs Through It": The Search for Beauty is the first book-length study of Norman Maclean or any of his works. T...

The Alchemy of Addiction - Carl Jung, the Enneagram, and Contemplative Wisdom Traditions

Within this important book, Costello draws on Eastern philosophy, Western psychology, and wisdom traditions, to offer an interpretation a...

Intelligent Democracy - Answering the New Democratic Scepticism

Whether due to Donald Trump, Brexit, or the rise of populism, many are increasingly questioning the value of democracy. Complaints of ign...

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy - From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key ...

Collected Writings of Giles Clark - Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947-2019), whose original clinical the...

Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence - Freedom, Nature and Agency

In an original approach to Foucault's philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcen...

Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology - MacIntyre on Practical Reason and Virtue

How does ideology function and, more importantly, can philosophy help us resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these ...

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion

An outstanding resource for both students and researchers, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion is essential reading for thos...

The Labyrinth of Love - A Tale of Latin American Romance

This book studies the various narrative shades of love in twentieth century Latin American fiction. It examines writings by Isabel Allend...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy

Breaking out of the dominance of Anglo-American scholarship, this volume centralises East Asian philosophical traditions to explore cross...

Personal Identity and the Self

What are we? What owns our thoughts and experiences? Are we anything at all? After an introduction, Section 2 assesses a 'no-bearer' theo...

Focus on What Matters - A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well

Why is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it's a timeless i...

Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation - The Finite in the Infinite

This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinoza's basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of h...

Evil Corporations - Law, Culpability and Regulation

This book elaborates and interrogates the idea of evil corporations from a diverse range of disciplines.

The Origins of Consciousness - Thoughts of the Crooked-Headed Fly

The Origins of Consciousness challenges the dominant view that consciousness is an emergent property of the complex human brain.

The Ethics of State Responses to Refugees

This book appears at a time of intense debate on how states should respond to refugees, and provides an account of what an ethical respon...

Challenging Psychiatry's Reliance on the Disease Model - A New Take on Diagnosis, Pathology and Disablement

This volume critiques and challenges the use and promotion of the disease model in psychiatry, arguing that its misconceived approach pre...

The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy, ethics and political t...

Imagination and Experience - Philosophical Explorations

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique cha...

Adventures in Philosophy

First published in 1925, Adventures in Philosophy presents a series of essays dealing with some of the chief problems of metaphysics and ...

The Road to Paradox - A Guide to Syntax, Truth and Modality

This book provides a clear and direct introduction to the theory of paradoxes and the Gödel incompleteness theorems. It will be valuable ...

Morals in the Melting Pot

First published in 1948, Morals in the Melting Pot is an important historical reference work addressing some of the age-old moral dilemma...

Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life - Beyond Nihilism and Morality

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. In a compelling and original argument, De Boer ...

Virtue Ethics and the Environment

This book addresses one of today's most burning issues, the environmental crisis, offering an insight into the problem from the perspecti...

Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of assisted reproductive technologies. It presents a...

Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking - Romanticism and the Living Present

Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poeti...

Calculating Ethics in the Fourteenth Century

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Midd...

Marx

In this outstanding introduction to Marx's philosophy Jaime Edwards and Brian Leiter begin with an overview of Marx's life and intellectu...

A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy

Abductive Reasoning in Science

This Element gives an opinionated overview of both accounts of abductive reasoning that have been proposed and the problems that have mot...

On Mysticism - The Experience of Ecstasy

Rules for the Inquiring Mind - A Unified Framework of Norms of Inquiry

This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry. It tackles not only philosophical issues regarding what inquiry is, but also issu...

An Introduction to Ethics

A clear, comprehensive presentation of the most important theories of ethics in Western philosophy, including extensive coverage of John ...

Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets - Human, Animal and Planetary Health

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-base...