Giffin explores how Patrick White and his post-war contemporaries all commented on the consequences of God’s death. He shows how they worked with a shared pattern of tropes to search for the light and dark aspects of western consciousness and the civilization it has produced.
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.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony
These essays argue for the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation. Delving into thinkers from Hegel to Wittgenstein, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being—a concept at odds with the mechanistic doxa under which modern science is compelled to operate.
This work highlights the Haitian Lakou, a form of libertarian communism. To free people from the exploitation and climate change of neoliberal capitalism, it must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level.
This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Gupta studies the Kashmiri practitioner Abhinavagupta’s two commentaries, Locana on Dhvanyāloka and Abhinavabhāratī on Nātyaśāstra. In particular, she discusses Abhinavagupta’s views on Lollata, Saankuka and Bhattanayaka, with each view followed by relevant criticism.
Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology
This author-meets-critics volume evaluates Robert Pasnau’s After Certainty. Pasnau presents the history of epistemology as a gradual lowering of expectations for certain knowledge, concluding that contemporary epistemology is now estranged from its tradition.
The World as Analogy of Absolute Mind
Can evolved thought grasp evolution itself? This book explores the Augustinian-Thomist heritage through Hegel, considering sacramental theology, original sin, grace, and linguistic representation, culminating in an examination of real presence in unreal nature.
A Logician’s Perspective on the Relation Between the Mind and Body
A recognized authority on modal logic examines the supervenience of the mental on the physical—the thesis that any mental difference requires a physical one. From a logician’s point of view, he questions not so much the truth as the significance of the supervenience thesis.
Culture at the Crossroads
This collection explores the interfaces of culture, gender, and power. It moves beyond conventional conceptions to suggest a holistic view of culture that enacts the dynamics of power, nationality, class, gender, and ethnicity in an ever-shifting transnational context.
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
Cyberspace Odyssey
This book deals with the last stage of the human odyssey: the exploration of cyberspace. As new technologies colonize our bodies and minds, the author investigates the implications for our culture and form of life. Winner of the Socrates Prize.
This study unearths the singular concept of “parama-mukhya-vṛtti” from the Dvaita Vedānta philosophy of Madhva. Discover the 12th-century thinker’s unique hermeneutical technique used to establish Viṣṇu as the focus of Vedic writings and its relevance for any sacred text.
The texts of India’s ancient materialist philosophy, Cārvāka/Lokāyata, were all lost after the twelfth century. Based on the most recent research, this book reconstructs the fundamental tenets of this system from available fragments and the works of its opponents.
Philosophy in Ireland
With contributions from leading thinkers, this volume explores philosophical developments in Ireland. It reveals a tradition defined by dialogue—with its past, with global debates, and with society—and argues that this continued engagement is vital for its future.
The Cross and the Star
A conversation between Christian scholar Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig sparked a stunning dialogue. Confronting Nietzsche’s critiques, their “new thinking” resurrected the redemptive cores of faith for the rejuvenation of society.
Movements in Time
In a time of global protest, this book brings together essays to reinterpret time and bring about social change. Breaking from traditional linear notions, it suggests new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world.
While Derrida is often portrayed as a critic of logocentrism, this book’s central premise is that he implicitly affirmed its necessity. It explores this affirmation of logocentrism as a stable foundation for meaning that can be revised to create new possibilities.