Socrates
Socrates made human questions central to rational inquiry, a foundation for European identity. But this view has been challenged by history, faith, and art. Can Socratic philosophy survive these critiques and still sustain political life?
Meeting the Information Challenge
Africa faces the serious challenge of information and communication technologies. Meeting this is vital for its social, economic and political goals. This volume provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
Racism in Novels
Novels from early 20th-century Brazil and South Africa reveal a shared history: the use of racial policy to control society. Elaine Rocha examines how literature reflected the stark realities of everyday segregation in both nations.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the fight to abolish the British slave trade. It explores the struggles of enslaved peoples and activists, the contested line between slavery and freedom, and abolition’s enduring legacy of inequality.
Re-Constructing Place and Space
This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.
The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.
The Resonance of a Small Voice
A pioneering study of Walton’s Violin Concerto, placed in the golden age of the English concerto (1900-1940). It sheds new light on works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, and Britten, and uncovers unjustly forgotten masterpieces.
This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.
The Supportive School
With young people’s wellbeing in decline, how do schools affect them? This book uses over 300 studies to identify the key factors, from peer relationships to academic pressure, and shows how a strong culture of support can make a profound difference.
Elizabeth Taylor
A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century’s master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.
The Fictional North
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
Overlapping Territories
In a chaotic, interdependent world, traditional categories of identity and culture are called into question. The Asian voices in this book use Western philosophy to find their Asian positions, and Asian reality to problematize the Western framework.
This book explores the intricate relationships between language, culture and social connectedness in our diverse local and transnational communities. Language education is no longer about memorization, but using language to connect to others around the globe.
Women in the Modern Workplace
This research examines venture creation among women in Ireland. It addresses motivations, the start-up process, and the barriers explicit to the nascent female entrepreneur to propose a theory on the challenges that have the most significant effect.
This selection of papers presents ongoing research in Greek Linguistics. Covering a wide range of topics, the contributions investigate known problems using new methods and innovative ideas, showing the application of linguistic theory to current research.
How have migration and globalisation impacted belonging and identity? This book provides empirical accounts of citizenship, race, and asylum, with case studies from Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka that inform key government policies.
“Germany and the Imagined East” explores the exchange of views on “the East.” These multidisciplinary essays treat Germany as both part of and separate from this construct, from within the German-speaking world to the Far East, offering new insights on East-West relations.
Meaning without Analyticity
This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.
This book challenges contemporary phenomenology’s denegation of Being. It provides a fruitful alternative through a reassessment of Edith Stein’s ontology, considering Being in Steinian terms of support and safety to overcome this critical impasse.
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