Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.
This collection of essays reflects the richness of Sartre’s vision of the human condition. A multinational team of contributors assesses the relevance of his work in the 21st century.
Science, Mysticism and Psychical Research
Science, mysticism, and psychical research are thought to be irreconcilable. This book reveals the revolutionary synthesis of mathematician Michael Whiteman, who fused modern physics with ancient mystical texts, informed by a lifetime of psychic experience.
Seeds of Liberty, Justice, Peace, and Democracy in Early America
Amid widespread religious and political bigotry, William Penn, a Quaker, dared to bring relief to the suffering. He provided a safe haven in early America where liberty, justice, peace, and democracy ruled, sowing seeds that became the basis for the US Constitution.
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.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
Senses, Affects and Archaeology
Senses and affects are not just physiological tools, but practices that constantly update our position in the world. Understanding how we are educated within these practices is the first step towards decolonizing our worldview and freeing our senses.
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 collection of essays presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Scholars offer surprising new angles, viewing Sartre through Pop-Art, jazz, and dialogues with figures like Dennett, Badiou, and Genet.
Shadowlines
Globalization is transforming life for women in Asia. New opportunities for work and migration can be empowering, but also enslaving. How do women experience these changes? This volume places their testimony at the center.
Shadows of Being
This book studies shadows as symbolic forms, connecting their meaning in philosophy and art with their role in modern science. It considers topics from Ancient Greece to contemporary virtual reality and the internet as our parallel “shadow world.”
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.
Skepticism, Causality and Skepticism about Causality (Volume 10
This volume studies causality and skepticism from medieval to modern philosophy. Essays contrast Aquinas’s idea of a first mover with Hume’s account of successive events, re-evaluating the Aristotelian paradigm against modern science and Cartesian skepticism.
Slivers of Life
This volume explores social constructionism, focusing on reality as a communicative action and a strategy for exercising power. It also proposes a new semiotic strategy, “fractal constructionism,” which analyses the interpretative drift of key social constructs.
Society in its Challenges
To what extent can philosophical thinking address the challenges of living in society? This book answers this question, offering an analysis of fundamental issues and providing a philosophical vision for the creative advance of society.
Socrates
Socrates made human questions central to rational inquiry, a foundation for European identity. But this view has been challenged by history, faith, and art. Can Socratic philosophy survive these critiques and still sustain political life?
Sources of Desire
Though Aristotle’s theoretical works are often thought to be of interest only to historians, the contributions in this book show they are still profound resources for philosophical inquiry, expressing insights that challenge our understanding.
In a world of numerous challenges, the search for meaning and purpose is an important pursuit. This book offers diverse perspectives on the connections between meaning and service, helping readers integrate them into their own personal and professional life.
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.