This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play
This edited volume explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, and provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.
Troubled Legacies
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a “post-racial” society and ask: who shall inherit America?
Conceptualizing our Interpersonal Impressions
Psychoanalysis is rich in theory but poor in evidence. This book breaks the mold, clarifying a 70-year-old problem with the first scientific evidence of psychoanalytic phenomena in everyday life—not from the analyst’s couch.
A Serious Genre
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
Uses and Abuses of Culture
This monograph investigates the impact of the European crisis on perceptions of Greek identity and cultural memory, focusing on the contradictions between intrinsic components of Greek cultural and national identities and the country’s adopted European identity.
This volume brings together, for the first time, essays authored by the influential British existential philosopher Colin Wilson on seventeen other philosophers from across the globe, including some of those he met personally to discuss their ideas.
The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
Departing from Tradition
This book showcases some of the ongoing innovations in the rapidly growing field of English Language Teaching, offering insights into the tremendous changes occurring in secondary and university English language classrooms across Asia.
Christine Brooke-Rose
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Following the Animal
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
Another Black Like Me
This book presents notable scenes from the long history of Blacks in Latin America. It provides a glimpse into their complex struggle to belong in societies where the definition of blackness was flexible, yet full recognition of their rights was denied.
Is There an End of Ideologies?
Is ideology just a political pejorative? Can we be free from it? To clarify misunderstandings about the key concepts of ideology and discourse, this book traces their origins, their appropriation by Marxist theorists, and examines the relationship between them.
Dante and Milton
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
Psychoanalysis
Resulting from a conference on “Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society” held in 2014, this volume offers insights into emerging psychoanalytic thought. The contributions utilise various psychoanalytic concepts to discuss a range of problems in philosophy, art and the clinic.
A New Hope
Modern physics suggests a predictable future, leaving no room for new hope or miracles. To defend God’s freedom, theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg invoked God’s absolute power over time. But does this create an arms race between God and nature?
These essays advance the philosophical understanding of causation, agency, and moral responsibility. The volume investigates important questions: Can causation be perceived? Is a causal relation a necessary condition for moral responsibility?
The Fruits of Madness
This title brings together presentations given at a seminar held in 2014 as part of the Annual International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, and offers fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on the ancient Israelite and early Jewish concern with prophecy.
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
This book reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East. It highlights the interaction between scholars to build a new form of aesthetics from a global perspective, bringing aesthetics to a wider sphere of human life.
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