Prominent thinkers from various disciplines engage with Martin Heidegger to critically evaluate his controversial legacy. This volume goes beyond polarized perceptions to present a neo-humanist and post-political reading of what is still “livable” in his work.
Shadowlines
Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.
Psychoanalysis
Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.
Subject to Reading
Recasting Lacanian psychoanalysis and Freirean literacy as an education in responsible subjecthood, this book intervenes against the global double bind of fanatical certainty and capitalist abstraction to forge a new political theology.
This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Beyond Rationality
Scholars explore irrationality in our complex world, examining such puzzles as why citizens support dictatorships, how terrorists “reason,” and why rational people make irrational choices.
Elemental Sensuous
Under the guidance of phenomenological insights, this book presents the sensuous in its elemental sense. It explains how the sensuous, as elemental, irreducibly expresses itself in multiple ways, allowing the reader to become more aware of themselves and the world around them.
The Body Unbound
A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment, and religion confronts notorious contemporary issues, from suicide bombing to biopolitics. Contributors uncover resources to unbind a body which has been doubly bound by history, law, and culture.
The Radicalism of Departure
Spiessens proposes an entirely new reading of Max Stirner’s philosophical magnum opus Der Einzige und sein Eigentum. This exciting interpretation clears the way for a philosophical rehabilitation of Stirner’s ideas.
Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book reconstructs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. It proposes the Reconstructive Normative Simulation (RNS) to examine social pathologies by locating deficiencies in the social spheres of our lives.
This volume addresses the serious shortage of thinking on love. Essays from international scholars explore desire, friendship, obsession, and loss, bringing a shared commitment to love in the face of its denial, for all readers who wish to think about it.
The Value of Life
Research on the monetary value of saving life has produced nonsensical results, yet the field thrives. An almost forgotten theory of science explains why researchers persist and how scientific theories can be upheld even when the evidence against them seems massive.
The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism (Volume 9
These essays explore medieval debates on singular cognition and nominalist epistemology. From Aquinas and Scotus to Ockham and John Buridan, this volume traces how nominalism leads to “Demon Skepticism” and the “weird” implications of Buridan’s metaphysics.
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.
“Revelations of Character”
In the Essais, Montaigne weighs ancient rhetorical and ethical theories as he develops his own paradoxical and dynamic notion of ethos. This collection of essays explores the ramifications of his quest for more human and humane modes of expression.
Religious Emotions
The role of emotions in religion has received little attention. This volume of research explores ‘religious emotions,’ asking what is distinctive about them and how Christianity made use of human emotional potential. The reader is invited to reflect on their interaction.
Arthur Schopenhauer
See Schopenhauer the man through 24 letters to his dedicated apostle, David Asher. They reveal the philosopher’s 30-year struggle for recognition in a Germany dominated by Hegelian thought, and the ultimate triumph of a thinker who had long been ignored.
Sources of Desire
Though Aristotle’s theoretical works are often thought to be of interest only to historians, the contributions in this book show they are still profound resources for philosophical inquiry, expressing insights that challenge our understanding.
This collection reevaluates Descartes’ reputation as the “father of modern philosophy.” Essays attend to the impact of “Cartesianism” from the 17th century to today, addressing the character of his originality and the lasting challenges of his thought.
A philosophical exploration of desire and the divine Ground of being through Eric Voegelin’s ‘flow of presence.’ Learn how anxiety impedes this flow and how living meditatively in the present can restore it, guided by Voegelin, Goethe, and Iris Murdoch.