Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition
A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.
God and the Financial Crisis
This volume of essays brings together contributions by theologians and social scientists to explore the theological, economic, and moral implications of the financial crisis of 2008 and the years that followed.
Whiteheadian Ethics
These papers explore the ethical and meta-ethical implications of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy. From a major international conference, contributions cover the metaphysics of morals, evaluating moral practices, and ethics and aesthetic values.
Postcolonial Artist
Irish Travellers have had little input into how they are represented. This book redresses this imbalance, exploring the Traveller experience through the musical oeuvre of artist Johnny Doran to outline the importance of cultural hybridity in postcolonial Ireland.
Is democracy in decay? This book offers a pragmatist meditation on the question, combining practical politics with the history of ideas. It explores arguments from both critics and supporters, covering corruption, theory, community, and art.
Back and Forth
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
In the Jaws of the Leviathan
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
A realist polemic against nominalism, relativism, and nihilism. This volume formulates Husserl’s dependence ontology of experience, contrasting realist and nominalist views. It also explores Kant’s and Husserl’s concepts of time and how empirical facts arise from experience.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
Antiquity and Social Reform
Why would someone join a new religion? Dawn Hutchinson argues that followers of movements in the 1960s–1980s found legitimacy in religions that offered a personal experience, a connection to ancient tradition, and agency in improving their world.
Re-Reading Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
Visions and Revisions
Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.
Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is massively contaminated by landmines used by the Baathist government to de-populate the area. This work investigates the landmine problem’s devastating social, health, and economic impacts and the actions taken to rebuild.
Informed by Indigenous researchers and daily walks, this volume links scientific findings on deep time evolution to embodied interactions with rocks, trees, and weather. It explores ancient Gondwana, the first songbirds, and brings hope to young people facing climate change.
Social Issues presents the social problems confronting Romanian society after the fall of Communism. Essays analyse national and international migration, the construction of identity in physical and virtual spaces, and the health of vulnerable populations.
The warrior Messiah of the Old Testament matches Jesus in the New, fighting cosmic evil. This struggle takes place in a heavenly dimension, using the word from his mouth as the only weapon, revealing a strong continuity between the Testaments.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East
Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, Seu explores the changes in the Italian leftist perception of Israel from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight.
The Metaphysics of Personal Identity
What makes a person distinct, and how does identity persist over time? This volume explores medieval debates on the metaphysics of personhood, from Aristotle and Muslim philosophers to Aquinas and Locke, covering the soul’s fate after death and persistence through non-existence.