Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Our view of Plato and Aristotle was forged in Late Antiquity, a tumultuous era of Roman decline and Christian ascent. Discover how this clash of worlds shaped our modern concepts of time, the body, and death, laying the foundations of our own world.
Death is the limit of life. This book argues that only by living within this limit can we be truly free, loving, and compassionate. It explores death as life’s paradox to test what it means to exist, overcoming the divide between philosophy and theology.
Applied Logotherapy
This monograph is a seminal contribution to applied and clinical logotherapy and existential analysis which draws on Dr Viktor Frankl’s Viennese School of philosophical psychology, from therapeutic techniques, to the mass neurotic triad of aggression, addiction, and depression.
This book tackles legal analogical reasoning, critiquing traditional approaches. It advances a new account, drawing from psychology, that makes analogy’s unique properties understandable and reveals the scientific basis for the almost mystical faith in its power.
Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know
This collection explores curiosity from many philosophical perspectives of relevance to various fields and disciplines. It offers unique engagements with what motivates us to ask questions and how this motivation operates from an ethical, cultural and political point of view.
Hegel’s System of Logic
This book presents Hegel’s Logic as a total system where everything, from physics to theology, finds its true place. Following the logic’s own development, it reveals how Logic is “the form of the world” and re-establishes metaphysics as the true theologia—the mind of heaven.
Colin Wilson (1931-2013) was a celebrated English philosopher and polymath. The papers here explore a variety of Wilson-related topics, ranging from Existentialism to the Occult; from Robert Musil to classical music; and from Transpersonal Psychology to Transcendental Evolution.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Empowerment and Fragility
The book discusses how biopolitics and ethics influence the fields of international relations and strategic studies, critically questioning how international policies in areas like terrorism, health, and are being built through global policy regimes and global discursive regimes.
Destroying Idols
Confusion over the meaning of ‘God’ in biblical texts is at the heart of the divorce between Judaism and Christianity. This book offers a new understanding by re-examining the “two powers in heaven” doctrine, allowing for a renewed messianic interpretation of both faiths.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
Philosophy and Human Revolution
This book offers a philosophical study of Daisaku Ikeda. Not a religious analysis, it examines his intercultural work, which interfaces Japanese tradition with Western rationality. The author adopts an agnostic suspension to leave a place for philosophy and its arguments.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment
This book connects human suffering with morality. It explores our condition through the moral requirements of not harming or manipulating, and questions the ethics of responsible procreation and the moral quality of abstention.
Radical Neo-Enlightenment
This monograph represents a spirited response to the multiple and accelerating crises we face today. contending that we require a “radical neo-Enlightenment” to counter these systemic problems.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy II
Providing a phenomenology of the Western mind, this second of three volumes maps philosophy’s re-emergence in scholasticism and early modern science, up to its peak in the great metaphysical systems of 19th century German philosophy.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy III
A 3000-year journey into the Western mind. This book explores how ideas emerge from the interplay of philosophy, culture, and science. In a conversational style, it powerfully challenges scientific reductionism, appealing to historians and all deep thinkers.
The Metamorphoses of Philosophy I
Charting 3000 years of Western thought, this book explores how philosophical ideas emerge from the interplay of culture, cognition, and values. This first volume traces philosophy’s origins to its peak in ancient Greece, with a compelling contrast to classical Chinese thought.
Teilhard’s Proposition for Peace
Teilhard de Chardin sowed the seeds of peace throughout his writings. This book distills the essence of his case for peace, navigating the complexity of his thought and inviting the reader to confidently “see” the basic unity which underlies all that is.
Humanistic Philosophizing
Philosophy is the project of seeking for answers to “the big questions” regarding the condition of man, the nature of Reality, and man’s place within its scheme of things. Against this background, Rescher considers some major areas of philosophical concern.