While most books on the Olympics focus on economics or management, this collection remains faithful to Coubertin’s original vision of youth, sport and education. Leading academics and young researchers analyse Olympism as a philosophical and educational idea.
On Affirmation and Becoming
This book re-explores Nietzsche’s critique of nihilism through Gilles Deleuze. Using Deleuze’s experimental reading, it introduces Nietzsche’s ethics of affirmation and ontology of becoming, moving beyond traditional metaphysics to a new image of thought.
On Allegory
This collection of essays explores the allegorical imagination in pre-modern western culture. Contributors study its impact on literature, philosophy, and the visual arts, revealing the variety and complexity of allegory at the heart of medieval civilisation.
On and Off the Page
This collection of essays explores the pervasive and alluring concept of place. Including research from a broad range of fields, it reveals the complex cultural interplay between place and identity, and how we make sense of our own “places” in the world.
What happens when we remember? This book argues that autobiographical memory is not a recollection but an active, imaginative reconstruction of our past, linking historical philosophy from Bolzano and Husserl with contemporary cognitive science.
On Being True or False
What sort of thing is true or false? This book argues that the main answers—sentences, beliefs, propositions—are mistaken. The chief truth-bearer is what someone says or writes. Being true or false is rooted in human talk. This broad examination also criticizes linguistics.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
On Exceeding Determination and the Ideal of Reason
This book argues that Kant’s metaphysical system conceals a deeper reality behind phenomenal appearances. Drawing on William Desmond, Shaw critiques Kant’s theological limits and lays the groundwork for a new discourse: “Noumenology”.
What does it mean to be gendered? This book bridges philosophy and science—from biology to neuroscience—to reveal how nature and nurture forge identity. It unites research on both cisgender and transgender experiences to build a new path toward equity.
Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
On Ibsen and Strindberg
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
On Intangible Heritage Safeguarding Governance
What is governance for intangible cultural heritage (ICH)? This book explores ICH safeguarding through the 2003 Convention, analyzing major issues and the interaction between global and local governance. Case studies provide tools to enhance safeguarding.
A definitive reference for the theory and practice of Islamic finance. Explore global banking innovations and understand their vital role in today’s volatile economy.
On Language
Most philosophical inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own traditions. This book shows these traditions can speak meaningfully to each other, turning their differences into opportunities for fruitful inquiry and illuminating the fundamental nature of language.
On Meaning
This work explores individuation and the definition of identity through the semiotic process of cognition. It examines how symbolic forms define our world and how languages like English and European Portuguese develop unique strategies for naming and referring.
We are caught in the mirror, under its spell. Mirrors direct us without our awareness because we do not perceive them as they are. This book explores a philosophy of mirrors through art and culture, opening up their hidden world and offering a challenge to organization theory.
This volume is an extended discussion of *Moral Sentimentalism*, the key ethical work of foremost theorist Michael Slote. It contains original commentaries and a substantial response by Slote, providing fresh insights for anyone interested in contemporary ethics.
On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
What is noise and what is it doing to our world? This book is a philosophical investigation of its obnoxious movements. Starting from the statement that ‘noise is nature’, it explores how we try to order it and what happens when it remains in the realm of the obscure or obscene.
On Personal Space, the Traversable Self, and the Happily Ever Experience
This book explores the symbolic relationship between personal space and the Cinderella fairy-tale. It characterizes personal space as a deeply individual realm of memory and self, where such nuanced associations are the essence of the happily ever after personal experience.
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