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Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

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...

Capital and Capitalism - Old Myths, New Futures

Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not jus...

Capitalism and Crises - How to Fix Them

The book draws on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance to describe what has gone wrong, what ...

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...

Changes in the image of man from the Enlightenment to the age of Romanticism

The Hungarian and German authors of this book have examined the processes that took place in 18th century philosophy, aesthetics and othe...

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...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

It is no common thing to find an artist who, even if he be willing to try, is capable of expressing his aims and ideals with any clearnes...

Confucian Role Ethics - A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?

The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic ...

CONJUGIAL LOVE

Written in 1768, presents the nature of masculine and feminine qualities, their divine origin, their correspondence, and the dynamics of ...

Consider the Turkey

"Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feastA turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and...

Contemplation - The Movements of the Soul

This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, ae...

Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical researc...

Contemporary Debates in African and Western Philosophy - Analytic and Intercultural Approaches

Driven by an intercultural vision and comparative research, this is the first volume to bring together African and Western philosophical ...

Contemporary Debates in Epistemology

The perfect introduction to contemporary epistemology, completely overhauled for its third edition In Contemporary Debates in Epistemolog...

Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics

New Conversations in Philosophy, Law, and Politics offers a new agenda for work where these three disciplines meet. Eminent scholars and ...

Cowboy Metaphysics - Ethics and Death in Westerns

Peter French examines the world of the western, one in which death is annihilation, the culmination of life, and there is nothing else. I...

Creation and Metaphysics - A Genetic Approach to Existential Act

During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played...

Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare

This book examines animal welfare themes in fiction, and considers how authors of the last two centuries undermine dominative attitudes t...

Crime Prevention by Exclusion - Ethical Considerations

Critical Views of Logic

This book examines positions that challenge the Fregean logic-first view. It will be a resource for academics, researchers, and advanced ...

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm - Humanistic Politics and the Psychoanalytic Clinic

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm's theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalyt...

Dancing with the Devil - Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good

Most people think bad feelings--feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt--are obstacles to a good life. You're supposed to do your ...

dark blue is celebrating all ..... nature colourful

dark blue is celebrating all - nature colourful is a nature book and technical book and memories book and sporty book and celebrating boo...

Death Comes for the Cathedrals

¿"Suppose for a moment that Catholicism had been dead for centuries, that the traditions of its worship had been lost. Only the unspeakin...

Deep Perception - The Direct Awareness of Individual Being and the Practice of Being Who We Are

Deep Perception draws on analytic, continental, and Eastern philosophy to argue that direct perceptions of the being or essential charact...

Defending Materialism - The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy

Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely...

Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch und Hebräisch - Der sechzig Hymnen und Gedichte dritte Ausgabe

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Uberse...

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions - History, Metaphysics, and Science

Design Discourse in Abrahamic Traditions reconnects discussion of design arguments to its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim history.

Determinism, Death, and Meaning

This book offers new arguments for determinism. It draws novel and surprising consequences from determinism for our attitudes toward such...

Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate - On Violating the Violated Anew

In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn considers survivors' arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing wha...

Disability Bioethics - Moral Bodies, Moral Difference

This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, ...

Disagreeing despite the Data - The Destruction of the Factual Commons

Drawing on twentieth-century philosophy of science and language, this book identifies three requirements for widespread factual agreement...

Disagreement

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

Disguised Academic Plagiarism - A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors

This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities discipl...

Distrust, Fear, and Science-Denial in Medicine and Healthcare

This book analyses the decline of trust, mounting of fears, and increasing denial of science and looks at their role in medicine and heal...

Doc-Humanity

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that wa...

Does God Exist? - A Rational Investigation

Ever wondered if God exists? We all have our life-time to find out, so no hurry. Answering this question has involved an extensive invest...

Does Truth Matter? - Democracy and Public Space

On the political level many seem to agree that democracy doesn't need foundations, nor are its citizens expected to discuss the worth or ...

Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs p...

Double Vision - Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher a...

Embodied Awareness of Space - Body, Agency and Current Practice

This edited volume explores the notion of embodied experience through a diverse range of disciplines: architecture, music, literature, pe...

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide - Volume II: Theories of Specific Emotions and Major Theoretical Challenges

Emotion Theory: The Routledge Comprehensive Guide is the first interdisciplinary reference resource which authoritatively takes stock of ...

Epistemology with a Broad and Long View

Epistemology with a Broad and Long View is an original and provocative challenge to standard epistemologies which assume that the reasona...

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering - Best Practices and Insights

Creating an inclusive environment where different software developers can feel welcome and leverage their talents is an ethical imperativ...

Eroticizing Aesthetics - In the Real with Bataille and Lacan

Bringing together Bataille with Lacan and Nietzsche, Tim Themi examines the role of aesthetics and how this can invoke the erotic process.

Error and Inference - Recent Exchanges on Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, and the Objectivity and Rationality of Science

Explores the nature of error and inference, drawing on exchanges on experimental reasoning, reliability, and the objectivity of science.

Essay on Man - An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

First published in 1944 by Yale University Press.

Essential Works of Socialism

Essential Works of Socialism is the most authoritative one-volume collection of major socialist writings to appear in English. Edited by ...

Ethical Decision-Making

Ethical decision-making challenges us every day - be it in our private or professional lives, be it on an organizational or institutional...

Ethical Theory - 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present 50 of the field's most exciting puzzles, parado...

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa, later Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 - 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Por...

Ethics

Ethics and Biomedical Engineering - Facing Global Health Emergencies

This book is about the interaction between biomedical engineering and ethics during emergencies, such as Low Resource Settings and Covid-...

Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention

This book addresses the ethics of situational crime prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP strategies, but to demons...

Ethics and the Environment - An Introduction

"A new edition of a widely used and cited introduction to ethics and the environment. It relates the field to broader issues of philosoph...

Ethics in the Real World - 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

A book of brief essays from the influential philosopher, in which he applies his controversial ways of thinking to a range of current iss...

Ethics in the Real World - 90 Essays on Things That Matter - A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition

"In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abo...

Everyday Stoicism

Grow in wisdom with this practical guide to Stoic philosophy for modern day-to-day life Discover the path to a more contented, fulfilled ...