This work explores the philosophical basis for phenomenological structuralism, giving a hermeneutical approach to understanding and resolving the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences.
This book analyzes major ethical and bioethical issues like euthanasia, suicide, organ commerce, sexual objectification, and abortion from the perspective of Kant’s moral theory. It tackles questions of autonomy, human dignity, and free choice.
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.
On Taste
This innovative collection offers fresh, never-before published approaches to the idea of taste. Scholars explore how aesthetics interpenetrates discussions of food, political conflict, art, and education, representing a key contribution to the latest research in the field.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment
This book connects human suffering with morality. It explores our condition through the moral requirements of not harming or manipulating, and questions the ethics of responsible procreation and the moral quality of abstention.
Van Tongeren offers a thorough study of Nietzsche’s thoughts on nihilism, the history of the concept, the different ways in which he tries to explain his ideas on nihilism, the way these ideas were received in the 20th century, and, ultimately, what these ideas should mean to us.
Caring and Power in Female Leadership
Can philosophical understandings of power and care illuminate roadblocks that disrupt the potential of women in leadership? Borgerson considers leadership challenges by drawing upon debates that pulse through the history of philosophy and into present-day social concerns.
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.
From Marx to Warner
Tittenbrun gives an in-depth analysis of several important theories of social class and stratification, both past and present. The central argument in his monograph is that there are only two classical theories of social class, namely those developed by Marx and Weber.
Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book reconstructs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. It proposes the Reconstructive Normative Simulation (RNS) to examine social pathologies by locating deficiencies in the social spheres of our lives.
The Possibility of the Sublime
After Professor Jane Forsey argued that a theory of the sublime is impossible, this volume gathers international scholars to challenge her claim. In a tightly focused debate, they defend the sublime as an aesthetic category, concluding with a final response from Forsey herself.
Combining philosophy, science, and literature, Toliver examines lingering misconceptions of world history as a continuing source of international tension, showing beliefs incompatible with natural history continue to intensify nationalism and support terrorist movements.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
This volume explores posthumanism’s challenges in artistic expression and the humanities. It asks whether posthumanism is an expansion of humanism or a transcendence. Authors from diverse backgrounds offer a varied perspective on this critical contemporary question.
The Places of God in an Age of Re-Embodiments
Thomas-Pellicer revisits Western ontological and epistemological assumptions, a necessity in today’s age of ecological decay. She offers a critical analysis of sustainable development and problematically situates it within the ecocidal trajectory of Western metaphysics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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