This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
Political correctness cripples public debate, limits knowledge, and threatens democracy. This book shows how meritocracies have become contaminated by the propaganda of cultural wars. Why are media and teachers still following old instructions to control damage?
The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
The Value of Life
Research on the monetary value of saving life has produced nonsensical results, yet the field thrives. An almost forgotten theory of science explains why researchers persist and how scientific theories can be upheld even when the evidence against them seems massive.
The World as Analogy of Absolute Mind
Can evolved thought grasp evolution itself? This book explores the Augustinian-Thomist heritage through Hegel, considering sacramental theology, original sin, grace, and linguistic representation, culminating in an examination of real presence in unreal nature.
What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.
Theory and Practice of Logic-Based Therapy
We upset ourselves by deducing destructive conclusions from irrational premises. This book presents Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), a guide to using logic and philosophy to refute these fallacies, overcome anxiety, depression, and anger, and attain happiness.
Thinking in Constellations
This collection of provocative essays demonstrates how Walter Benjamin’s “constellation” method provides a new understanding of the Humanities. It challenges assumptions of linearity and progression, going beyond disciplinary boundaries.
In provocative essays, scholars from Asia explore the dynamic relationship between animation and philosophy. Using thinkers like Deleuze and Guattari, they see animation not as a representation of an idea, but as a philosophical thinking-device in itself.
Thomas Aquinas
John Paul II called Thomas Aquinas a “Doctor of Humanity” for affirming human dignity. This collection of papers explores the philosophical and theological thought of both men, applying their wisdom to challenges from political praxis to transhumanism.
This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
For Thomas Aquinas, ethics is not a set of moral precepts but the cultivation of virtues for human flourishing. Natural law, reflecting the eternal, is awakened within us. Crowned by faith, hope, and love, this vision is summed up in the Beatitudes.
Thought Experiments between Nature and Society
What is a thought experiment, and is it useful for philosophy? This collection tackles this hot topic, analyzing classics from The Ring of Gyges to Brain-in-a-Vat. Colleagues of Nenad Miščević share their thoughts, followed by his own comments on their work.
This volume addresses the serious shortage of thinking on love. Essays from international scholars explore desire, friendship, obsession, and loss, bringing a shared commitment to love in the face of its denial, for all readers who wish to think about it.
Toward a New Foundationalism
Contemporary philosophy is breached. Its dominant Anglo-American and Continental branches both deny that philosophy has a central foundation. This book proposes a new foundationalism, discovering a hidden “ruling image” that animates the thought of major figures on both sides.
Toward New Philosophical Explorations of the Epistemic Desire to Know
This collection explores curiosity from many philosophical perspectives of relevance to various fields and disciplines. It offers unique engagements with what motivates us to ask questions and how this motivation operates from an ethical, cultural and political point of view.
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.
For Friedrich Nietzsche, scepticism is not mere nihilism. His philosophy takes us beyond the ‘death of God’ to a new spiritualization of life, holding out an affirmative spirit of joy in the renewal of our ‘god-creating’ power and will to honour the higher Whole.
In an age of terror, this essay collection explores trauma’s renewed relevance, examining 9/11, the Shoah, and tyranny through the thought of Derrida, Zizek, Lacan, and Freud.
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.