Theron presents what Hegel calls “the vital spirit of the actual world”, the truth, namely, of logic’s form and content as one concrete whole. He operates from the view that thinking is necessarily free and unbounded, if we escape a performative contradiction in evaluating it.
Recent Advances in the Creation of a Process-Based Worldview
This collection investigates the cutting edge in the creation of a process worldview, an important component of contemporary philosophy. It explores how process thinking can inspire us to rethink our lives, representing a bold move from academic philosophy to actual human lives.
The Philosophy Clinic
Highlighting the modern movement of ‘philosophical practice’, this collection shows philosophers’ return to the ancient understanding of philosophy as consolation and contemplation. It argues philosophy is a path and issues a living praxis devoted to daily spiritual exercises.
Gathering the theoretical grounds for research in Gestalt therapy, this work introduces useful research methods and presents relevant research projects. It fills a void in an area that requires more information by sharing some of the Gestalt research that is emerging.
Metaphorical Imagination
Abdullah tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor in this book. He revisits the epistemology and ontology of evidence and challenges the dualist norms of social research, points to the failings, and flags up directions for researchers who take evidence seriously.
Nietzsche’s Will to Power
Belliotti’s text adds to Nietzschean scholarship in its analysis of the concept of power as preliminary to addressing Nietzsche’s psychological notion of will to power. He argues that it cannot be understood as merely a first-order drive to attain and exert power.
Deriving from the “European Summer School for Process Thought”, this volume explores A.N. Whitehead’s thinking in different fields of science. The first part concerns Whitehead’s philosophical methodology and the second discusses applications for concepts of Whitehead’s thinking.
The Crisis in the Humanities
This volume advances transdisciplinarity in order to study the place of the humanities in our society, and challenges the ways that issues which form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses.
Review Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12
Containing articles from a Joseph Fishkin symposium on Bottlenecks, this journal brings together essays and discussions in moral and political philosophy, broadly-construed. This edition includes R.D. Emerick’s “‘Torture’ and Metaphor,” published for the first time.
Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past
This volume celebrates the ways the Middle Ages and Renaissance are represented in our own age. The contributions bear witness to the importance of representation to our understanding of ourselves, each other, and our shared past.
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.
Essays on the Condition of Inwardness
Will deals with inwardness in two different senses, the first as the center of existence, and the second as a quest for the meaning of the center of one’s existence. The text culminates with tales of searching for the meaning of interiority, as it self-characterises.
Lovasz deals primarily with absentology, an ontological and social-scientific epistemological mode, dedicated to the analysis of absence. His monograph is drawn by manifestations of absence and deals with three terms, ‘the shadow economy’, ‘corruption’ and ‘pollution’.
On Time
Originally presented at a colloquium, the papers in this publication deal with a number of key presentations of time in the history of philosophy. They attend to the problems and questions of temporality as they appear in works of the Western philosophical tradition.
The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity
Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.
In this book, central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language are introduced. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language, raising an awareness of language as a distinctive human capacity.
Will explores polarities through a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of moral and emotional life. He studies the operational energy at play, which is partly prayer or mantra and partly half-completed logical conundrum.
This title discusses the relevance of the work of Hegel and Marx in today’s world, providing the historical context necessary to understand the relation between them, and putting their relevance for the contemporary reader into perspective.
The Metaphysics of Personal Identity
What makes a person distinct, and how does identity persist over time? This volume explores medieval debates on the metaphysics of personhood, from Aristotle and Muslim philosophers to Aquinas and Locke, covering the soul’s fate after death and persistence through non-existence.
Why does a psychopath like the Joker seem to have a sense of higher truths? This is the role of the Fool. This book explores how, as culture fragments, artists reveal darkness and show how expressions of meaninglessness are rites-of-passage, not a final destination.
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