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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,...

Contemporary european philosophy

Socrates to Sartre (a history of philosophy)

Political Philosophy - A Very Short Introduction

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

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...

The Interpretation of Dreams

The western intellectual tradition from Leonardo to Hegel

Staging the People - The Proletarian and His Double

These essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four...

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 Book of Sleep

On Populist Reason

The book that has inspired the contemporary discussion of left populism

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...

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 ...

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 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...

The Double Shift - Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work

How Marx and Spinoza can explain our perverse attachment to the indignities of work

How We Walk - Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body

HOW RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICS INFLUENCE THE WAY WE MOVE

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.

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...

Hope in Hopeless Times

At a low point for the left, one of the world's leading Marxist philosophers demonstrates the grounds for revolutionary hope

How to be Radical in Philosophy

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Why Climate Breakdown Matters

Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as ...

Necropolitics

In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary wor...

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...

Justice for Animals - Our Collective Responsibility

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

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...

When Reason Goes on Holiday - Philosophers in Politics

Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usuall...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Philosophies of Religion - A Global and Critical Introduction

This global introduction of philosophy of religion begins not with a single tradition, but with religious philosophies from East Asia, So...

Kritik(en) des Leidens

Erika Benini hat mit einer Arbeit zu Theodor W. Adorno: Die Mimesis des Leibes binational promoviert, ist aktuell als Redakteurin der Zei...

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...

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.

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...

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 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...

Against Constitutionalism

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

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...

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...

Companion to Romanticism

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

Philosophy of Science: Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of the main themes of contemporary philosophy of science. It explores the fundam...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...