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The Concept of the Interesting portrays the artistic theories and life-view of S ren Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous aesthete......more
A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human Unde......more
This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena exten......more
Is the self or subject discontinuous across technological platforms? Do technological developments increase inequality a......more
Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volum......more
Rationality and Cross-Cultural Understanding explores in what sense rationality secures the ground for the possibility o......more
Monadological Intimacy: The Relational Operation of Folds in Leibniz and Deleuze analyzes and explains G.W. Leibniz’s th......more
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A defense of the radical imagination from a scholar of social movements. Political theorist and philosopher Richard Gilm......more
Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a presence that brings us energy, clarity, and deeper connection. Justin Z......more
Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism f......more
Sentimental Empiricism reconsiders the legacy of eighteenth and nineteenth century empiricism and moral sentimentalism f......more
The Beatitudes bring us face-to-face with ourselves and to the heart and mind of Jesus. As the beginning of Jesus’s famo......more
The Beatitudes bring us face-to-face with ourselves and to the heart and mind of Jesus. As the beginning of Jesus’s famo......more
The clean separation between manifold phenomena and a systematic order that prevails in them is a basic feature of the r......more
An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading f......more
What does it mean to be a self, and a self which lives? At first, we would seek to alter the "which" into a "who," givin......more
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Uniting analytic philosophy with Buddhist, Indian, and Chinese traditions, this collection marks the first systematic cr......more
Spanning the period between Wittgenstein’s return to Cambridge in 1929 and the first version of Philosophical Investigat......more
Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first c......more
This book argues that David Foster Wallace failed to provide a response to the existential predicament of our time. Wall......more
The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on......more
First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Zizek’s breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as ......more
When you hear "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(DE&I)," what images occur in your mind? I guess that you imagined the ch......more
When you hear "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion(DE&I)," what images occur in your mind? I guess that you imagined the ch......more
This is an open access book. Modern society is characterized by the fact of contingency, uncertainty, and ambiguity. The......more
Society has introduced us to a life where the norm is to work until our 60s, after which we can retire from employment. ......more
Essays prepared,1976 to 2020, some previously published, some published for the first time....more
The book explores Peirce’s non standard thoughts on a synthetic continuum, topological logics, existential graphs, and r......more
This edition includes the letters exchanged between Charles S. Peirce and the Open Court Publishing Company between 1890......more
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. As student of Rudolp......more
Problem Solving Technologies provides a user friendly understanding of technological objects including what they are and......more
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that pre......more
Predicting our future as individuals is central to the role of much emerging technology, from hiring algorithms that pre......more
This book assesses the existentially relevant consequences of physicalism. It argues that accepting physicalism is the h......more
In the dimly lit labyrinth of an unnamed city, a solitary figure embarks on a nocturnal odyssey in search of purpose and......more
"Provocative and engaging...The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s......more
Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support s......more
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Light After Darkness dives into the aftermath of questioning fundamentalist religion. With over 40 Case Studies of real ......more
Illuminating study of the ideas and influences of a near-forgotten American philosopher. This book examines the ideas an......more
Argues that humans are animals that philosophize about their condition by fictionalizing other animals. Humans are anima......more
Jeffrey Bell offers a novel approach to longstanding problems in metaphysics by highlighting the shared history of the a......more
Jeffrey Bell develops a critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist wri......more
This book explores the activism of the Italian collective Wu Ming. Engaging in a dynamic conversation with critical theo......more
The Pythagoreans once believed the pentagram was a symbol for wellbeing, equality, and mutual respect. A closer look rev......more
The growing interest in fragmentalism is one of the most exciting trends in philosophy of time and is gradually reshapin......more
Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to ......more
Western philosophical orthodoxy places many aspects of other people’s lives outside the scope of our knowledge. Demonstr......more
Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the......more
This book offers an innovative take on the study of Chinese academic history, approaching the subject from the perspecti......more
This book "resonates" the work of Chinese and Western philosophers, developing ontological ideas that are neither purely......more
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only......more
Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in p......more
Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in p......more
This book brings together insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and existing work on autonomous ag......more
As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, th......more
Given basic commitments to philosophize from lived experience and a shared underlying meliorist impulse, American philos......more
This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new argument......more
Emerging from the confusion and chaos of neoliberal economic systems around the world, this book brings together a colle......more
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays on the nature and value of love. Th......more
It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "T......more
When we criticize social institutions and practices, what kinds of reasons can we offer for such criticism? Political ph......more
Winner, 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group Subordination did n......more
Winner, 2025 Charles Taylor Book Award, APSA Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group Subordination did n......more
This book examines the rise of a new form of emergency capitalism in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring the Le......more
Gary Cox explores Sartre’s infamous maxim ’Hell is other people!’ in this in-depth existential account of the human cond......more
Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of ema......more
Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of ema......more
A groundbreaking feminist text that frames our obsession with true crime as a form of sexual terror. In 1992, three teen......more
Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color t......more
This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China t......more
In three comprehensive volumes divided into five books, Logic of the Future presents a full panorama of Charles S. Peirc......more
At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These unc......more
At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These unc......more
While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practic......more
While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practic......more
Finalist, 2024 Translation Prize - Nonfiction, French-American Foundation Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by......more
William James was a giant of turn-of-the-century intellectual life. He helped found the young science of physiological p......more
Peter L. Berger on Religion provides an overview and critical assessment of the work of one of the most influential soci......more
Peter L. Berger on Religion provides an overview and critical assessment of the work of one of the most influential soci......more
This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle......more
The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain expounds the scene of reading as one that pr......more
This book tells what we know of man, how he first lived, how he worked with other men, what kinds of houses he built, wh......more
This volume consists of selected essays on the art and aesthetics of the avantgarde, contemporary art, and postsocialist......more
Gary Cox explores Sartre’s infamous maxim ’Hell is other people!’ in this in-depth existential account of the human cond......more
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by ......more
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by ......more
This volume announces a new era in the philosophy of God. Many of its contributions work to create stronger links betwee......more
Zarathustra is a sage and a prophet who has a great love of humanity. Because of this love, he desires to leave the soli......more
This collection brings together internationally renowned literary scholars to develop a literary theory for the age of n......more
This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her infl......more
Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work ......more
Philosophizing the Americas establishes the field of inter-American philosophy. Bringing together contributors who work ......more