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Understanding Music - Philosophy and Interpretation

With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy ...

A Secular Age

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And cle...

Cinema II - The Time-Image

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and...

A Brief History of Equality

In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving to...

Liberty - Incorporating 'Four Essays on Liberty'

Liberty is an expanded edition of Isaiah Berlin's classic of liberalism, Four Essays on Liberty. Berlin's editor Henry Hardy has incorpor...

Frontiers of Justice - Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

purposes of political cooperation and the nature of political principles--and to look to a future of greater justice for all.

Waking, Dreaming, Being - Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy

A renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the ...

You Are Gods - On Nature and Supernature

David Bentley Hart offers an intense and thorough reflection upon the issue of the supernatural in Christian theology and doctrine. In re...

Education Automation - Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity

R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous g...

Theory and Reality - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

"How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is 'really' like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the uni...

Political Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction

This "Introduction introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, fem...

How Life Works - A User's Guide to the New Biology

Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

Affizierungs- und Teilhabeprozesse zwischen Organismen und Maschinen

Der Band reflektiert Forschungspraktiken, die für das Projekt der Biokybernetik wie der aktuellen bionischen Prothetik und Medienökologie...

Pierre Musso and the Network Society - From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet

This book is devoted to discussion of the views of Pierre Musso and starts with a central chapter written by Musso, entitled Network Ideo...

Image Politics of Climate Change - Visualizations, Imaginations, Documentations

Scientific research on climate change has given rise to a variety of images picturing climate change. These range from colorful expert gr...

Socrates to Sartre (a history of philosophy)

Akarok, tehát vagyok! - I will, hence I am!

Vajon le­het-e, sza­bad-e úgy ér­te­ni Des­cartes-ot, Nietz­schét vagy Hei­deg­gert, ahogy azt a ha­gyo­mány teszi. De - s ez szá­mom­ra,...

The western intellectual tradition from Leonardo to Hegel

Companion to Romanticism

The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey by an international collection of scholars, whose 52 specially commissioned c...

Companion to Intrinsic Properties

what makes a property intrinsic? What exactly does the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction rest upon, and how can we reasonably justify this ...

Stroller

The Best Books of 2022, The New Yorker Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary...

Evolution of the Idea of God - An Inquiry Into the Origin of Religions

Originally published in 1897, The Evolution of the Idea of God is a study of humans' belief in God from primitive tribal religions to wha...

World after Liberalism - Philosophers of the Radical Right

In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements in the twentieth century, th...

The War of Words - A Glossary of Globalization

Harold James looks at the nineteenth-century origins of ideas debated today--nationalism, conservatism, liberalism, socialism, and capita...

Freedom - A Disease Without Cure

We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom....

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivat...

The Origins of Unfairness - Social Categories and Cultural Evolution

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O...

Contemporary european philosophy

Synthetic Biology - Metaphors, Worldviews, Ethics, and Law

Assessing synthetic biology from a societal and ethical perspective is not only a matter of determining possible harms and benefits of sy...

Truth in Science, the Humanities and Religion - Balzan Symposium 2008

by the Academies of the two countries - to the Italian-Swiss University of Lugano for the two-day-Symposium. The question of the meaning ...

The Great Doctrines of the Bible

This book "" The Great Doctrines of the Bible "" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for...

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is - A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have di...

Doing Things Together - A Theory of Skillful Joint Action

To understand many of our everyday joint actions we need a theory of skillful joint action. In everyday contexts we do numerous things to...

The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge - From Myths to Knowledge

Are we entitled to say that the Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radiu...

More Posthuman Glossary

The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures a...

Resilience of Democracy - Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges

This book posits three potential reactions of democratic regimes: to withstand without changes, to adapt through internal changes, and to...

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

"From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the self-serving lib...

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, René Gir...

The Thomist Tradition

This volume provides the first comprehensive treatment of the central topics in the contemporary philosophy of religion from a Thomist po...

Philosophy of Science - The Central Issues

Both an anthology and an introductory textbook, Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues offers instructors and students a comprehensive...

The Pecking Order - Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem

How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness. Niko Kolodny...

The Active Image - Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling

The ¿active image¿ refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of ¿actions¿ that images perform. This volume ...

Zionism and the Biology of Jews

This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He looks...

Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge ...

Free Will and Consciousness in the Multiverse - Physics, Philosophy, and Quantum Decision Making

It is hard to interpret quantum mechanics. The most surprising, but also most parsimonious, interpretation is the many-worlds, or quantum...

From Stars to Brains: Milestones in the Planetary Evolution of Life and Intelligence

The permutation of basic atoms¿nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and phosphorus¿into the biomolecules DNA and RNA, subsequently evolved ...

Nihilistic Times - Thinking with Max Weber

Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values?including truth itself?and reduces politics to narcissism and power-...

Argument Evaluation and Evidence

¿This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying r...

Guardrails - Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI

How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertainty When we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, “gua...

Justice for Animals - Our Collective Responsibility

From renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum, a revolutionary exploration of animal rights, ethics, and law.

Free and Equal - What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book, timely, wise, authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry...

The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is - A History, a Philosophy, a Warning

A history of the internet, uncovering its origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of improving the quality of human life by creating t...

Socialist Economic Systems - 21st Century Pathways

Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism¿s promises and performance 1820-2022, identifies a feasible path for...

Surplus-Enjoyment - A Guide For The Non-Perplexed

Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to...

Elite Capture - How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to serve their own ends

The Class Matrix - Social Theory after the Cultural Turn

Does class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural theorists have ma...

Towards a Green Democratic Revolution - Left Populism and the Power of Affects

How to rebuilt left populism around the demands for the Green Democratic Revolution

I and Thou

'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber (1897-1...

How to be Radical in Philosophy

Radicality is at the very heart of philosophy. Sustaining this lifeblood of progressive thinking means refashioning philosophy constantly...

Against Constitutionalism

Tracing constitutional thought from the Enlightenment to the present, Martin Loughlin shows how a tool for the protection of self-governm...