The Cross and the Star
A conversation between Christian scholar Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Jewish thinker Franz Rosenzweig sparked a stunning dialogue. Confronting Nietzsche’s critiques, their “new thinking” resurrected the redemptive cores of faith for the rejuvenation of society.
The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism (Volume 9
These essays explore medieval debates on singular cognition and nominalist epistemology. From Aquinas and Scotus to Ockham and John Buridan, this volume traces how nominalism leads to “Demon Skepticism” and the “weird” implications of Buridan’s metaphysics.
This work is a brilliant analysis of German thought that played an important role in the formation of British idealism. It scrutinises the fundamental metaphysical positions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, appealing even to readers of today.
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.
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.
David Swift turns to the philosopher Epicurus for a scientific explanation of the mind. Reinterpreting thinkers from Descartes to Freud, he reveals the secrets of love, hate, and behavior as the results of learned experience, not genetic predisposition.
The Ethics of Care in Times of Social and Moral Upheaval
Taking care means tending to our loved ones, ourselves, and the world. But in times of crisis, emergency scenarios and frenetic social changes strain our motivation to care. Do these challenges have the power to undo our sensitivities to caring for someone or something else?
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.
The Flesh of Being
This text is a conversation with Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It is not about Nietzsche, but what it is for someone to read his text, a book for everyone and no one. The text is what the reader has to write through the reading.
This book investigates the discourses on origins, identifying four types: mythical, rational, scientific, and phenomenological. It analyzes the singular structure of each, defining them as ascending or descending to reveal the unique ways we talk about our beginnings.
The Future of Aesthetic Experience
Dr. Baofu argues that postmodernism is an aesthetic fad and the current debate on beauty is obsolete. He reveals the great transformations of aesthetic experience to come, both here on Earth and later in deep space, based on his new transformative theory.
These twelve essays provide a basis for reassessing European traditions of beauty in the arts, literature, and film, as a constructive means of realising the potential of the arts for the 21st century.
The Future of Post-Human Unconsciousness
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the exploration of anomalous phenomena has tremendous implications for the future of intelligent life. This book focuses on the controversial relationship between the nature of unconsciousness and anomalous experience.
The Gift of Logos
The Continental tradition emphasizes the Logos, which these essays celebrate as a gift that overcomes existential alienation. To give a gift is to befriend. This collection argues that true transformation is our greatest gift, and giving it voice is the gift of Logos.
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.
This is the first comparative study of Kant and Herschel. Their model of the world dismissed the idea of a finite, static cosmos and introduced an evolutionary perspective that had a crucial influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy.
This book presents an integral philosophy of human being. Amidst a new anthropological renaissance, scholars from different countries explore how knowledge of what we are, what we can do, and what we must become can guide our political and educational programs.
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 Immateriality of the Human Mind, the Semantics of Analogy, and the Conceivability of God (Volume 1
Experts in medieval philosophy consider the nature of God and the soul. They explore Anselm’s proof for God’s existence, Aquinas and Buridan on the immateriality of the mind, and Cajetan on how we can speak of the divine essence.
The Intellectual Species
This book explores the survival of “the intellectual” in the digital era of soundbites and fake news. Through the lives of contrarian post-WWII thinkers like George Orwell, Albert Camus, and Camille Paglia, it yields insight into the transformation of our cultural life.