Classical Phenomenology Applied to Gender Identity
Uncover the gendered human being through Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger. This book offers intellectual tools to grasp our existential reality and details the fierce intellectual clash between former colleagues Husserl and Heidegger.
Rethinking Kant
This text represents a mirror of Kantian studies in North America. It gathers papers presented at the various study groups of the North American Kant Society, along with contributions from hosts, session chairs, and keynote speakers.
These philosophical essays cover a wide range of historical and contemporary topics, from the work of thinkers like Parmenides and Wittgenstein to the nature of knowledge and belief. Written over a long career, they are models of philosophical investigation and argument.
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.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.
This book illuminates the problem of women in Chinese philosophy through the lives of two Taiwanese female philosophers. It links the marginalization of female theorists with the unrecognized contribution of Taiwanese philosophy, revealing both stem from discourses of exclusion.
Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Jacques Maritain in the 21st Century
Rejecting egocentric isolation and totalitarianism, Christian philosopher Jacques Maritain promoted the human person in authentic community. His quest for liberation contributes to our understanding of 21st-century movements for sustainability, human rights, and democracy.
This book opposes the dominant materialist view of the universe, which cannot adequately explain conscious phenomena. Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, it argues for a metaphysical idealism where human nature is more spiritual than material.
Ethical Contexts and Theoretical Issues
This book makes a philosophical contribution to current ethical debates. It moves beyond traditional approaches to present an alternative foundation for decision-making: a philosophically grounded, relational perspective that replaces an individualistic one.
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.
Alasdair MacIntyre’s Views and Biological Ethics
This book addresses fundamental moral questions through a comparative study of Alasdair MacIntyre’s views and biological ethics. It argues that to understand the complex phenomenon of human morality, both the rational and the biological dimensions of humans must be considered.
Amidst a global collapse of confidence in inefficient democracies, this book explores new political possibilities. Cyber-societies use big data and algorithms to challenge expired systems, offering the first e-political models for resolving our global chaos.
Though trapped by the anthropocentrism of the Western tradition, Giorgio Agamben’s work provides conceptual tools to move beyond the limits he himself cannot cross. This book analyzes these limits in his philosophy while exploring the powerful potential that lies within them.
Action, Intersubjectivity and Narrative Identity
Drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s research, this book argues that critical hermeneutics can work as a mediatory inter-discipline. As human sciences like psychoanalysis, sociology, and history grow more fragmented, critical hermeneutics may provide a unified methodological structure.
Shattering the myth of an apolitical Nietzsche, this book reveals him as a 19th-century reactionary. It traces his lifelong war on modernity—from feminism to democracy—in his quest to forge a new, counter-revolutionary politics.
Walter Benjamin and the Actuality of Critique
This book explores the striking actuality of Walter Benjamin’s work. It focuses on his critique of violence, a central topic in contemporary political debate, and his critique of experience, the bedrock upon which his whole philosophy rests.
Insights into Ethical Theory and Practice
Ethical issues are important, but expert accounts are often inaccessible. This volume bridges that gap, presenting innovative essays in a way that is accessible to experts and non-experts alike, giving readers confidence and enthusiasm for this diverse and lively subject.
The Personalist Social Contract
How can we survive with a broken humanity? Our urgent existential threats demonstrate how dangerously divided we are. This book proposes the Personalist Social Contract (PSC) as a common moral language to bring together our sciences and societies for shared survival.
Reflections on Russell
This book offers original interpretations of Bertrand Russell’s thought, moving beyond mathematical logic to his philosophy of science and religion. Countering competing views, it shows Russell developed a philosophy incorporating both atheism and spirituality.