Orthodox Mysticism and Asceticism
This volume explores the cultural, social and ethical dimensions of St Gregory Palamas’ works, relating his mystical theology to contemporary debates in philosophy, politics, and art. Topics include church-state relations and hesychast influences on Byzantine iconography.
What is noise and what is it doing to our world? This book is a philosophical investigation of its obnoxious movements. Starting from the statement that ‘noise is nature’, it explores how we try to order it and what happens when it remains in the realm of the obscure or obscene.
Human annihilation has never been so easy. AI is our most transformative revolution, yet we lack a common moral language to prevent an apocalypse. This book provides the first global bioethical analysis of AI, creating a compelling framework for our shared survival.
The Idea and Values of Europe
From Sophocles’ Antigone to the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, this book charts the 2500-year evolution of human rights. It explores the origins of European shared values and assesses their compatibility with a non-European culture and religion such as Islam.
The legitimacy of the university in Africa is questioned due to its exclusionary and colonial legacy. This volume reimagines the decolonial African university as a site of multilingualism and cognitive justice, centering indigenous languages and knowledge systems.
A new identity is emerging among Haitian-American youth. Forged by the consciousness of the black American underclass and its street culture, it now challenges the traditional bourgeois values and the Vodou Ethic of their Haitian heritage.
This book collects essays on Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy, pointing to its relevance for our time. The essays highlight a range of issues to which process philosophy speaks, including aesthetics, the notion of life, political science, and neuroscience.
Humans are natural philosophizers. This book introduces a novel theory that we function at our best when confidence, motivation, familiarity, and expectation are at their peak. This provides a new key for understanding the universal economics of human behaviour.
This book provides a scientific formula for social justice. Synthesizing the thinking of Darwin and Marx through a new interpretation of Hegelian thought, it details a law of the development of society, using world history, particularly the collapse of the USSR, to verify it.
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.
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.
This book’s focus is on philosophical topics—ethics, metaethics, social and political philosophy, and religion. It offers distinctive and original arguments addressing both theory and practical life, sometimes adopting a personal, or Joycean, perspective.
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.
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.
The Disembodied Mind
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
On Being True or False
What sort of thing is true or false? This book argues that the main answers—sentences, beliefs, propositions—are mistaken. The chief truth-bearer is what someone says or writes. Being true or false is rooted in human talk. This broad examination also criticizes linguistics.
Voting in Context
Candidates campaign on economic miracles, but it’s hard to distinguish good ideas from bad. This concise, non-partisan guide deciphers their proposals by explaining how the US economy functions, placing theories in historical context to help you make an informed vote.
This scholarly edition of Lincoln Steffens’ muck-raking classic dissects Gilded Age corruption in America’s cities. With new analysis and historical context, it reveals the timeless moral and social-political phenomenon of corruption and the nature of reform.
This volume places Martin Luther King Jr and Mahatma Gandhi within the tradition of nonviolence, from Tolstoy to Mandela. This collection of essays explores the concept of nonviolence in a philosophical and religious context, highlighting its application in the 21st century.
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.