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.
The Progress of Philosophy
This book offers selections from seven philosophers, with commentary connecting their ideas to their social and scientific milieu—Plato to geometry, Hobbes to the English civil war, Peirce to Darwin. See how they organized their beliefs into a coherent picture of the world.
How do we respond to the big questions of our time in our daily lives? By exploring power relations and the climate crisis, this book translates the abstract into the concrete and the political into the personal. It offers conceptual beginnings for showing up differently.
The Recognition Principle
This book explores recognition across psychology, sociology, and politics. It argues that no philosophy of recognition can be built without deep psychological and anthropological foundations, ultimately exploring recognition as a general ‘recognition principle’.
The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson
While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.
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.
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.
An assistant for students of Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This volume places Whitehead in historical context, presents an exposition of his philosophy, and explores his influential doctrine of God in comparison with traditional Christian thought.
World Governance
Do we need a world government to ensure peace and well-being? While security and sustainability are strong arguments for it, many fear it would become tyrannical. This book explores the necessary components of an effective and just global order.