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.
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.
Slivers of Life
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.
Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. The papers collected here analyse different aspects of ordinary knowledge and of its epistemology.
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’.
Edmund Burke, the Imperatives of Empire and the American Revolution
Edmund Burke advocated for America’s rights yet fiercely criticized the French Revolution. This volume presents his writings on the American Crisis, exploring the core paradox: Was this defender of colonial liberty a friend or a foe of revolution?
Truth and Experience
This title meets contemporary challenges posed by experience and truth with a critical openness that allows for the full complexity of these concepts to be investigated through the perspectives of phenomenology and hermeneutics.
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.
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
In dialogue with Plato, Hegel, and Marx, this book forges a 21st communism based on the dance with death—a politics of mortality, responsibility, and love.
Dante and Heterodoxy
This volume explores Dante’s “temptations” by the radical thought of the 13th century. Spurred by new Aristotelian and Greek-Arabic learning, Dante interrogated heterodox ideas, revealing a poet deeply involved in the intellectual debates of his culture.
Conversations in Philosophy
This collection of thoughtful and challenging essays offers a careful examination of knowledge and freedom. It interrogates the social dimensions of knowledge, the relationship between knowledge and truth, and the nature of personal and social liberty.
Varieties of Liberalism
Varieties of Liberalism presents an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary challenges. An international array of scholars addresses pressing questions of free speech, citizenship, justice, and migration through critical perspectives on liberalism.
What are our ethical commitments to our family and the broader community? These essays provide ethical analyses of issues from same-sex marriage to licensing parents, covering love, sex, marriage, and the influence of technology on family life.
From Narrative to Necessity
This book presents religion as intelligible metaphysics, reconciling faith and reason. It explores the philosophical implications of the Trinity, Creation, and Incarnation, correcting false views of divine transcendence where God is “all in all.”
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
News from the Raven
This volume offers a celebration of Medieval and Renaissance culture. Essays drawing from philosophy, literature, music, art, and history include studies of Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, Beowulf, and the influence of rhetoric on musical composition.
Movements in Time
In a time of global protest, this book brings together essays to reinterpret time and bring about social change. Breaking from traditional linear notions, it suggests new conceptions of time can have a major influence on creating a more just, tolerant world.
This book explores the silenced link between reason and madness. Reading Plato through Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida, it forges a new logic to reclaim the human need for a meaningful life in a world that denies it.