This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lives of two Taiwanese female philosophers. It links the marginalization of female theorists with the unrecognized contribution of Taiwanese philosophy, revealing both stem from discourses of exclusion.
Medieval and Early Modern England on the Contemporary Stage
This volume explores the connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. It assesses how adaptations and history plays offer a new perspective on our past, present, and future, exploring today’s burning social and political issues.
This book investigates the translation potential of names in children’s literature using *Harry Potter*. It proposes a new functional name-translation model, arguing that while some functions are lost in translation, other important ones are brought to the spotlight.
The Role of Comparative Philosophy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Despite its history of conflict, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an enthusiasm for comparative philosophy. This book examines the challenges of teaching it in the multicultural Balkans and shows how comparativism is becoming a way of challenging stereotypes in the region.
This book explores the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel who use the language to transmit authentic Arab culture. They see themselves as messengers building a bridge between Arabic and Hebrew cultures, and as potential contributors to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
In History and Education, from the Munster Blackwater to the Indian Ocean
This book illuminates 70 years of educational development in Ireland and internationally. The author traces his journey from an early life in rural Ireland to academic work in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Asia, linking his experiences to major historical events.
The Priority of the Possible
This book shows the importance of the possibility approach for contemporary debates on metaphysics, God, evil, and transhumanism. It offers a new starting point for philosophical theology beyond the barren alternatives of metaphysics and anti-metaphysics.
Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
This volume explores how acclaimed literary texts of the 19th and 20th centuries reflect a distinctive Catholic sensibility, shedding light on profound spiritual experiences in imaginative and memorable ways.
This collection of essays explores the role of experimentation, dissidence, and heterogeneity in philosophy. Critiquing monolithic tendencies, it traces the influence of marginal thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Deleuze, Foucault, and Benjamin.
Elements of Peacemaking Revolutions
Intractable conflict traps generation after generation in a chain of destruction. This book introduces the study of peacemaking revolutions, a process required to turn opposing parties into a community and build a peaceful society.
The Confucian Revival in Taiwan
Xu Fuguan is a central representative of Modern Confucianism. This book focuses on his fundamental contributions to philosophy, particularly his reinterpretations of Confucian and Daoist aesthetics. It highlights the link between ethics and aesthetics in his innovative theories.
This book explores the social conditions for valuing education and the limits of sociology in addressing this problem. Its central idea is that the main challenges refer to the conditions of autonomy of the social sciences, especially when studying higher social spheres.
The Pizzigoni Experimental Method in Sara Bertuzzi’s Diaries
Giuseppina Pizzigoni was a contemporary of Maria Montessori. While one is world-famous and the other unknown, both were protagonists of profound change in the Italian school system. This study explores Pizzigoni’s innovative method, continued by her disciple Sara Bertuzzi.
This book explores the colonial history of Cyprus through technology. Examining infrastructural projects like the island’s railway, harbours, and electrification, it reveals how the British Empire used technological development to reproduce and prolong its rule.
The Rise of the GCC States and Turkey
Once strategic partners, the GCC states and Turkey have become rivals for regional influence. Their relations are dynamic, shifting from agreement to conflict. This book studies their commonalities and differences and proposes ideas to make convergence possible again.
Two of the world’s most wicked writers, decadent poets Viereck and Crowley, formed an alliance in 1915 New York. Viereck was the editor of a pro-German magazine; Crowley was his new hire. But was Crowley a British secret agent sent to spy on the German network?
A realist polemic against nominalism, relativism, and nihilism. This volume formulates Husserl’s dependence ontology of experience, contrasting realist and nominalist views. It also explores Kant’s and Husserl’s concepts of time and how empirical facts arise from experience.
With dementia growing much faster in Asia than in Europe and America, the region faces a crisis. Cerebrovascular disease is a leading cause of death. This book brings together 11 experts in vascular cognitive impairment to present the most urgent problems in the region.
Experience, Reason, and the Crisis of the Republic Volume 2
This realist polemic analyzes the 21st Century crisis of Western politics and culture, arguing it is symptomatic of the dominance of nominalism. It argues that our experiences include values, that there are God-given natural rights, and uses modal logic to prove that God exists.