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How not to be human
This book presents an analysis of the poet Robinson Jeffers in view of his contributions to recent debates about the status of “the human” and the development of an inhumanist philosophy.
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Meaning, mind, and action
Julia Tanney’s Meaning, Mind, and Action challenges widely held presuppositions within philosophy in its classical ‘analytic’, ‘naturalist’, and ‘cognitivist’ forms. Beginning with canonical views in the philosophy of language and logic, the arguments are then applied to discussions of knowledge,...
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Political ethics in illiberal regimes
This book explores how and why citizens come to terms with living in illiberal regimes and offers a new, liberal realist approach to political ethics.
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Anarchism and utopianism
The first book-length treatment of the relationship between anarchism and utopianism reveals the anarchistic influences active in the history of utopian thought. It provides fresh perspectives on academic and activist debates about ecology, alternatives to capitalism, revolutionary theory and pra...
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Constructing foucault's ethics
The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault’s core postulates, this study advances the concept of ‘life continuance’, an approach it contrasts with...
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Logos and life
The essays in Logos and Life cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. Several take as their starting points the ideas of Wittgenstein and of Elizabeth Anscombe. They will be of interest to anyone studying these philosophers.
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Offering theory
A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today.
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Intellectual entertainments
‘Intellectual Entertainments’ consists of eight dialogues on the nature of the mind and consciousness, thought and thinking, perceptual qualities and ownership of pain. Each dialogue has five participants, some living, some dead and some imaginary who represent different points of view. No philos...
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Process philosophy
The book analyses and compares a variety of processes of change: in evolution, learning and innovation, language and meaning, self and society and ethics and morality. Taking a realistic approach, the book is inspired by pragmatic philosophy, in particular, that of Dewey, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein ...
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Confronting the irish past
Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
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The political philosophy of jean-jacques rousseau
This exciting new text presents the first overview of Jean Jacques Rousseau's work from a political science perspective. Was Rousseau--the great theorist of the French Revolution--really a conservative?
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The end of the world and the last god
The End of the World and the Last God is a philosophical work that poses a disturbing existential question: what if mankind is definitively bored with Earth? And if so, what will happen if we fail to find a way out of our planet?
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Power of sage
The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
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Critical perspectives on further education and training
This book is essential reading for educators, student teachers, policymakers, and anyone with an interest in critical viewpoints on adult, community, and further education. It offers a variety of outlooks that include educator identity, critical pedagogy, assessing learning, community education, ...
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Dialogics of self, the mahabharata and culture
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.
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A beginner's guide to the later philosophy of wittgenstein
In this Beginner’s Guide, Peter Hacker introduces the later philosophy of Wittgenstein in a lively and engaging combination of lectures and dialogues that presupposes no philosophical knowledge. He examines such topics as the nature of language and linguistic meaning, the analysis of necessity an...
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What's in it for me?
Why do we hold the political views that we do? We often dwell on the self-interest of opponents, yet seldom reflect on our own. Considering five contemporary worldviews, Thomas Prosser argues that our views tend to satisfy self-interest. Paradoxically, awareness of self-interest makes us more ref...
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The dao of civilization
The book sets out a prospectus for a new form of civilization patterned at every level to serve and sustain the biosphere. It calls on China to lead the world towards this new era by re-crafting its own civilization in accordance with its indigenous tap-root: Dao.
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Applied ethics and human rights
'Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications' offers a philosophical perspective to ethical problems by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities.
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Reading walter benjamin
A new reading of Walter Benjamin that places his work in historical context and explores the theoretical links with German and Jewish philosophy and theology. The book also provides unique readings of Benjamin and the British artist Rachel Whiteread and British experimental author B.S. Johnson.
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Postmodernism. what moment?
This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field.
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Hacking digital ethics
This book is not a critique of digital ethics but rather a hack. It develops an exploit kit on the basis of state-of-the-art social theory and uses it to breach the insecure legacy system upon which the discourse of digital ethics is running. It exposes the bugs, the sloppy programming, and the f...
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John of salisbury and the medieval roman renaissance
A reappraisal of the role that Roman classical sources, notably the works of Cicero and Seneca, played in the political thought of John of Salisbury, a leading humanist of the twelfth century.
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Lest we lose love
Few are aware that since antiquity, there has always been the philosophy of love at the core of Western culture. It articulates what makes life meaningful and worthwhile, and how we can live a good life together through an ethic of love. This book fills this significant gap, not only reconnecting...
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Critical theory and legal autopoiesis
The first English-language collection of the work of one of Europe's top legal sociologists, introducing his influential theories of societal constitutionalism and legal autopoiesis.
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Logisch-philosophische abhandlung: die hundertjahrsausgabe
Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the logical form of the book by distinct reading units, linked into a fashioned hierarchical tree. The text becomes much clearer and every reader can enjoy, finally, i...
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Democratic inclusion
Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauböck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory.
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John dewey
Arguing that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but as a philosopher of globalisation, this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism.
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Critical theory and dystopia
Bringing the resources of critical theory to bear on the genre of dystopian fiction, this volume demonstrates both the continuing potential of Theodor Adorno’s work on literature, and the meaning of dystopia when considered in the light of Adorno’s critique of modernity.
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Senses of upheaval
Spanning a decade of Michael Marder’s contributions as a public intellectual, Senses of Upheaval documents a period of exceptional global turmoil in intellectual, cultural, technological and political spheres.
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The good life and the good state
There is no good human life outside of a state, and the good state enables us to live well together – so says Constitutivism, the theory developed in this book. Reinvigorating Aristotelian ideas, the author asks in what sense citizens of modern, populous and pluralistic societies share a common g...
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Essays on philosophy, praxis and culture
This collection provides a panoramic view of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes. These essays cast light on our perennially imperfect human condition.
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Wittgenstein, human beings and conversation
These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual’s relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a signific...
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Knowledge and human liberation
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. This book seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis familiar themes such as human interest, critical theory and cosmopolitanism.
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Four moments of aesthetic experience
This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.
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Wittgenstein’s critique of russell’s multiple relation theory of judgement
This book sets out to adjudicate the scholarly controversy surrounding Wittgenstein’s May–June 1913 critique of Russell’s multiple-relation theory of judgement. It also aims to familiarize readers with the historical events, textual evidence, letters, working notes and diagrams which are crucial ...
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Conspiracy and contingency
What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. ‘Contingency phobia’ is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is the cause of a variety of other phenomena that have become emblematic for liberal d...
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The end of ageing
Can biotech conquer death? And if so, what would it mean for us as individual human beings, for societies and for the planet? A brilliant, thoughtful book on how ending aging will change everything.
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Spinoza on ethics and understanding
This volume collects together Peter Winch's previously unpublished lectures on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. Winch's original interpretation of Spinoza's Ethics sheds new light on the work of one history's most difficult and admired philosophers from a different perspective.
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A. n. whitehead and social theory
This book outlines A.N. Whitehead’s philosophy of process and uses it to re-orient a range of topics within social theory, namely: the relation of language and the body; sexual difference and conceptions of nature; the question of realism; the concept of the social; and capitalism as process.
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What is the state for?
The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (1744–1817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.
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On reading the history of philosophy
An exploration of the value of the history of philosophy as a reading practice—that is, as a practice through which words from a philosophical past can give rise to wonder, can alienate, can lead to transformational breakthroughs or can animate a will to create anew.
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The archaeology of war
The 20th century holds many titles that emphasise the extraordinary. It was a century of totalitarianism, but also one of betrayal, an age of extremes and the incomprehensible. Betrayed, that is, at the mercy of unrestrained violence, were not only the people themselves but also, as it were, the ...
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The political thought of the liberals and liberal democrats since 1945
This book provides a detailed analysis of the political thought of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats since 1945. The contributors include both academic experts and senior Liberal Democrat MPs and will therefore appeal to students and the general enthusiast alike.
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Critical theory and demagogic populism
This is the first study to make a detail case for the Frankfurt School’s relevance to understanding contemporary populism. It reconstructs their analysis of ‘modern demagogy’ and demonstrates its advantages over orthodox ‘populism studies’ and the work of Laclau. The book also extends the Institu...
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Orientalism
The first major study of Orientalism by a historian of imperialism, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature and concludes that western approaches to the Orient have been much more ambiguous and genuinely interactive than Said allowed.
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Critical theory and epistemology
This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Law and violence
A interlocution containing a stimulating lead essay on the relationship between law and violence by one of the key third-generation Frankfurt School philosophers, Christoph Menke, and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics.
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Critical theory and sociological theory
Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democr...
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Critical theory and international relations
An introduction to critical theory in international relations summarising the history of critical thought in the discipline and its possible future.
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Subversive spinoza
In 'Subversive Spinoza', philosopher and political activist Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the s...
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Victorians in theory
This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Eliz...
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Technical politics
This book explores Andrew Feenberg’s idea that technology is both the main medium of domination in contemporary society and the principal site of democratic resistance. It presents his work as an account of the connection between disputes over the design of specific technologies and the challenge...
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The contract of mutual indifference
Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras’s argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and gr...
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Rethinking untouchability
This book explores the political thought of B.R. Ambedkar, one of the most important thinkers of modern India. Ambedkar’s ideas transformed untouchability, often considered a millenary religious issue, into a political problem by linking it to larger ideas in the twentieth century such as liberty...
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Benjamin's arcades
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin’s Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metapho...
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Critical theory and feeling
This book examines the vital role of affect and feeling within the work of the early Frankfurt School. The author investigates a range of concepts – including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects, and mimesis – and argues that a contemporary reading of critical theory needs to accommodate an...
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Critical theory and social pathology
Axel Honneth’s critical theory of recognition has failed the Frankfurt School. A new social-theoretical foundation is urgently needed. As this book argues, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm are crucial allies in this task.
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Modern movements in european philosophy
In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this century’s most influential European thinkers, and acts as an introduction to three major movements: phenomenology, critical theory and structuralism.This edition includes a chapter devoted to Julia Kristeva, whose ...
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The ethics of war
A new edition of the leading book on this subject that takes a serious account of the most recent developments, with new entries on terrorism and counterterrorism.
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Love and revolution
Love and Revolutionbrings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists – discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary ...
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Everything must change
Taking its cue from Michel de Montaigne, this book asks what COVID-19 can teach us about the ‘art of living’. It examines eight themes from a philosophical perspective, including attitudes to old age, populism and life under lockdown, arguing that the crisis presents opportunities to create a mor...
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Critical theory and independent living
This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled people for self-determination.
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Forever fluid
Forever Fluid is the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray’s important text, Elemental Passions. It provides a lively alternative to the binary logic that runs through western culture, showing how sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds
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Karl polanyi and twenty-first-century capitalism
As the neoliberal order decays, we recall Polanyi's warning against market domination and his trademark ideas: commodified money, the double movement, the US exception development, the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex society. The contributors consider the links between P...
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Gaia wakes
A bold and compelling new framework for understanding the past, present, and future of our planet, one which explores the development of a technologically enabled planetary brain capable of coordinating ecological functions and peering far into the future and universe.
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Political authority
This volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.
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Wittgenstein on other minds
The book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others. Sandis sketches a picture of how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of ‘other minds’ is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the r...
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Of time and lamentation
A bold, original and thought-provoking exploration of the nature and meaning of time. Tallis, with characteristic fearlessness, seeks to reclaim time from the jaws of physics, arguing that time as it is lived, the long narrative of our human journey, can not be told by caesium clocks and Lorentz ...
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Freedom
Tallis brings his familiar erudition and insight to this most intriguing and important philosophical question – the nature of our freedom – one that impacts most directly on our lives and takes us to the heart of what we are.
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Seeing ourselves
Philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis brings together the preoccupations of some fifty years of writing and thinking about the overwhelming mystery of ordinary human life, and goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives if we are to reject re...
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Pessimism, quietism and nature as refuge
How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? To bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek, argues Cooper, requires a quietism that seeks refuge from the everyday human wo...
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Logos
Raymond Tallis steps into the gap between mind and world to explore what is at stake in our attempts to make sense of our world. He reveals how philosophers, theologians and scientists have sought to demystify our extraordinary sense-making capabilities and how their attempts are of little help i...
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Circling round explicitness
With characteristic erudition and acuity across a breathtaking range of subjects, Ray Tallis explores how explicitness connects with fundamental ontological, metaphysical and epistemological questions that takes us closer to understanding what it is to be, to be human, and our connection with the...
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Care
Caring is a central aspect of our being. It anchors us to the world and to one another. And yet, understanding what caring is and how it operates in our lives is a challenge. This fascinating book meets that challenge, by canvassing various approaches to care and offering an overview of the key r...
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What matters most
This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.
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