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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...

Activated Citizenship - The Transformative Power of Citizens' Assemblies

To counter pervasive levels of citizen disengagement from political institutions, this book examines democratic innovations that meaningf...

Affizierungs- und Teilhabeprozesse zwischen Organismen und Maschinen

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

Against Constitutionalism

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

A hundred years 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,...

A letter concerning toleration...-The principles of...-An enquiry...

Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love

This book explores the relationship between romantic love and personal identity by examining work in both areas by philosophers in the co...

Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual - Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Contemporary analytic philosophy of religion and philosophical theology are known for being focused on issues pertaining specifically to ...

An Instrumentalist Theory of Political Legitimacy

What justifies political power? Most philosophers argue that consent or democracy are important, in other words, it matters how power is ...

An introduction to comparative philosophy (a travel fuide to...)

An Introduction to Modern Political Thought - Machiavelli to Foucault

This book is an excellent critical introduction to modern political thought. It studies the ideas and contributions of sixteen major poli...

Antinomy and Symbol: Pavel Florensky's Philosophy of Discontinuity

This book is the first comprehensive English-language study to examine the entire philosophical work of the Russian philosopher, theologi...

A Philosophy of Crisis

"Not a day goes by that we don't hear of a crisis, declared or looming: the ecological crisis, the public health crisis, the housing cris...

Apocalyptic Patience - Mystical Theology / Gnosticism / Ethical Phenomenology

"Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is t...

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...

Art as Communication - Aesthetics, Evolution, and Signaling

Questions surrounding the nature of artistic communication are often approached from one angle, such as linguistics, art theory, evolutio...

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...

Auguste comte and positivism

Austinian Themes - Illocution, Action, Knowledge, Truth, and Philosophy

Austinian Themes offers a reconstruction of philosophical views on several themes developed by J. L. Austin. Marina Sbisà draws on both p...

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism - A Discourse Approach

Authoritarian Populism and the Challenges for News Journalism: A Discourse Approach is a cutting-edge study of the practices of news jour...

Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum,...

Before philosophy

Bertnand Russell and the british tradition in philosophy

Beyond Nihilism-Nietzsche without Masks

Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought

This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, demonstrating the way...

Chaos and Cosmos - The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

This unprecedented exploration of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges presents him as a thinker of the political whose prolific fiction re...

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...

Citizen Rights, Migrant Rights, and Civic Stratification

This book addresses the concept of civic stratification and examines its contemporary relevance for analysis and understanding of the fun...

Civil Society - Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions

Civil Society: Ideas, Interpretations, Transgressions is essential to learning about the place and importance of civil society to creatin...

Clandestine Theology: A Non-Philosopher's Confession of Faith

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 ...

Companion to Romanticism

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

Confronting the Irish Past - The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland...

Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health - Rhythms of Everyday Life

What is the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health?

Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice

Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practices.

Contemporary european philosophy

Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade - Normative Subjectivity in Western Fine Dining Traditions

offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical a...

Dark Ecology - For a Logic of Future Coexistence

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted...

Decolonial Pluriversalism

This book explores how decolonial epistemologies are concretely translated in thinking and theorizing about cultural and political practi...

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism

Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capital...

Deleuze's Conception of Philosophy - Creation of Concepts

Democratic Backsliding in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Arshad examines the phenomenon of 'democratic backsliding' in post-2011 Egypt. Capturing a critical juncture in Egyptian politics, this b...

Democratic Deals - A Defense of Political Bargaining

Bargains are a fact of political life. But if bargaining inevitably involves asymmetric power, can it ever be just? Drawing on an analogy...

Descent of the Dialectic - Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism

This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this...

Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation - Revisiting Chalcedonian Christology

This book offers an original perspective on the doctrine of incarnation through a discussion of divine presence and action, arguing for t...

Divine Revelation and the Sciences - Essays in the History and Philosophy of Revelation

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a hist...

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...

Earthborn Democracy - A Political Theory of Entangled Life

This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis, allying visionary political theory wi...

Ecological Reasoning

What role does 'reason' have in tackling the catastrophic ecological situation of the early 21st-century? Can the concept shrug off its p...

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...

Elements of Constructive Philosophy

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

Environmental Justice in African Philosophy

This book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance t...

Erotics of Deconstruction - Auto-Affection After Derrida

Cultivates erotics in the common ground between deconstruction, psychoanalysis and continental feminist philosophy.

Ethics

Ethics

Everyday Utopia - In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home

A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why ...

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...

For the People? - Democratic Representation in America

Many observers of American politics believe that representative government, particularly in the Congress, is failing. This book examines ...