Being Amongst Others
Philosophical reflection helps us understand our world. This volume presents a variety of phenomenological views on everyday life, granting precedent to the first-person perspective to explore consciousness, friendship, and religious or political experiences.
Religion After Kant
After Kant, idealist thinkers like Hegel and Schelling transformed the conceptual framework for considering religion. This volume explores their reconsideration of religion’s place within human self-fashioning, which shaped later thinkers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.
This collection explores the relationship between computing and philosophy, from AI and ethics to how computers relate to human lives within specific cultures. It breaks new ground by highlighting the cultural dimensions of these issues, particularly in Asia.
Experience, Interpretation, and Community
John Edwin Smith recovered the voice of philosophy, showing its relevance to contemporary life. He not only anticipated key philosophical developments but also pointed the way beyond intellectual impasses. The essays in this volume reveal his wisdom for our world.
In the West, philosophy is confined to the intellect and music to emotion. This book shows how African musical aesthetics makes either domain the location for the other, affirming a unified sense of being human and registering us as members of nature.
I More than Others
How responsible are we for the world’s suffering? Inspired by Dostoyevsky, philosophers and theologians confront the nature of evil, our shared guilt, and the difficult struggle for hope.
Rethinking Kant
The Rethinking Kant series bears witness to the richness of Kantian studies. This unique collection garners papers from a whole generation of thinkers, from new PhDs to established scholars. This third volume takes the pulse of current Kantian scholarship.
Rethinking Kant
This collection of essays offers a sample of a whole generation of Kantian thought. Covering controversial themes like freedom, morality, and radical evil, these essays rethink Kant and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
How do we see and write about perception? The act of vision is profoundly impure, entangled with other senses, memory, and dreams. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between seer and seen and the core concepts of visual perception theory.
Is democracy in decay? This book offers a pragmatist meditation on the question, combining practical politics with the history of ideas. It explores arguments from both critics and supporters, covering corruption, theory, community, and art.
Did Somebody Say Ideology?
This volume explores the foundations of Slavoj Žižek’s work, focusing on his theory of ideology. Essays investigate key aspects of the philosopher’s thought and employ his theories in new contexts, demonstrating how his critique fosters innovative research.
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.
Shifting the Geography of Reason
In a world offering few options, this courageous celebration of thinking asserts the value of intelligence and the urgent need to build new intellectual homes.
Confessions
This collection explores the central place of narrative in social inquiry and the ethical life. Through examples from art to politics, it illuminates the link between telling stories to create meaning and the ethical engagement critical for a good life.
From Question to Quest
The quest for answers to life’s challenges is a human task. This book offers literary-philosophical enquiries into the search for meaning, wisdom, morality, community, suffering, and the longing for immortality.
Greatness of Soul
From a Nietzschean Hume evoking Milton’s Satan, to Aristotle’s “claws and teeth” and a deeper challenge from Hobbes, these pages mix poets and philosophers to offer a glimpse of what a classical education might look like.
This analysis of values within Husserlian phenomenology describes our experience of intersubjective values and explores ethics as a practical matter, offering a third phenomenological way beyond the common positivistic and deontological dichotomy.
This volume discusses pluralism and the interplay between religion and politics. As competing religious truths have historically produced violent conflict, and since religion is constitutive of identity, its influence on politics is extremely significant.
This collection of essays explores the connection between Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Leading international scholars uncover surprising new connections and profound differences, offering significant insights that broaden our understanding of both.
A distinguished team of philosophers addresses the internalism/externalism debate in language and mind. This volume demonstrates the debate’s significance on a wide range of issues, in a manner that is sophisticated yet accessible to non-specialists.