From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
Amidst rising tensions affecting democracy, capitalism and planetary life, this book discusses the multiple crises, processes and conflicts reconfiguring modernity. Tracking the political, social and ecological dynamics at play, it offers a critical...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses the directional and irreversible nature of time, its relationship to information and entropy, the deep time history of communication and the extent to which we occupy time through our communication. It will appeal to researchers...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s....Lasīt vairāk
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy is the first edited volume to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal female figure in the male-dominated tradition of early analytic philosophy...Lasīt vairāk
From Plato to the present day, political theorists have used models of idealistic societies to think about politics. In this thought-provoking book, David Wiens argues that these models cannot provide the normative guidance many theorists have hoped...Lasīt vairāk
Susan Stebbing: Analysis, Common Sense, and Public Philosophy is the first edited volume to be dedicated exclusively to the philosophy of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)-a pivotal female figure in the male-dominated tradition of early analytic philosophy...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198929444)
What is attention? How do we use it? And why does it matter? In an age of distraction-in which we feel overrun by attention-diverting devices-these questions are as important as ever. While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions in...Lasīt vairāk
The fascinating untold story of one scientists pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Dont Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Lasīt vairāk
The fascinating untold story of one scientists pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Dont Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Lasīt vairāk
This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparat...Lasīt vairāk
An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features never-before-published teachings to abandon the idea there is an other, bridging differences and cherishing the beautiful Earth that is our home,...Lasīt vairāk
An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features never-before-published teachings to abandon the idea there is an other, bridging differences and cherishing the beautiful Earth that is our home,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Random House Trade Paperbacks, ISBN-13: 9780593230077)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our livesfrom the author of The Road to Character and The Secon...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a sustained defense of Lockes religious epistemology. It puts Locke into conversation with leading figures in contemporary religious epistemology and shows that Lockes views are more plausible than many philosophers of religion and...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests the first open resistance against Siad Barres regime in northern Somalia helping to pave the way for Somalilands self-declaration...Lasīt vairāk
Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human life? What is the ontology of a game? And could gam...Lasīt vairāk
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Lasīt vairāk
The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503644151)
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Lasīt vairāk
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217168941)
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in au...Lasīt vairāk
This volume provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the many ways in which pragmatism has influenced contemporary debates in philosophy of science.Pragmatism has been undergoing a considerable revival in philosophical debates for the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus magnum opus, and the high status of...Lasīt vairāk
Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects. Providing a multi-disciplinary framework for the practice of psychotherapy and philosophy, this book...Lasīt vairāk
Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects.This book explores and embraces this multiplicity within the human psyche and challenges the reader to...Lasīt vairāk
Distrust is in the airof politicians, corporations, and the institutions that claim to protect us. Trust is often seen as the foundation of a better societybut better for whom? While some forms of radical certainty can foster survival, resist...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845654)
A reflection on the role of suffering in human existence. Its right there in the Book of Job: Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward. Suffering is an inescapable part of the human conditionwhich leads to a question...Lasīt vairāk
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derridas framing of hauntologyin an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping...Lasīt vairāk
Mara-Johanna Kölmel explores the profound impact of digital technologies on the field of sculpture since the 1950s. When artists create their works using AI, custom software, or prototyping technologies, how should we be rethinking the concept of sc...Lasīt vairāk
Hegels Jena Moment remains the undiscovered continent of his thought. This book explores this continent by examining the Logic and Metaphysics from Hegels 1804-5 Jena System-Project, and it is the first book-length treatment of these works in E...Lasīt vairāk
Pokémon is one of the most amazing pop culture phenomena of our epoch, with deep metaphysical roots and profound philosophical implications. Pokémon and Philosophy celebrates this cultural icon while helping its readers unpack the hidden secrets of...Lasīt vairāk
Justified Unforgiveness: A Moral Case Against Silence, Neglect, and Forgetfulness corrects the overemphasis on the benefits of forgiveness and show how unforgiveness is a morally appropriate and at times morally necessary response towards...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928405)
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as the hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less real or true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the concept of slowness in Gilles Deleuzes philosophy, this book diverges from the conventional interpretation of Deleuze as a philosopher of speed or even accelerationism, instead delving into the minor but critical themes in his...Lasīt vairāk
A major reconsideration of contemporary French philosophys encounter with the question of God, with contributions from leading scholars intervening in recent anglophone reception of the new phenomenology....Lasīt vairāk
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Lasīt vairāk
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day. Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly compreh...Lasīt vairāk
A concise history of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche narrating its gradual decline into nihilism. Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche, Mark Anderson presents a series of through-provokin...Lasīt vairāk
Telling the compelling story of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche, Mark Anderson presents a series of through-provoking interpretations of its major figures. Anderson traces western thought through the conflict between the...Lasīt vairāk
This book gives a systematic account of the development of the function argument from Platos Republic to the Nicomachean Ethics, with an explication of the interdependence between different versions of the argument which appear in Aristotles eth...Lasīt vairāk
In this significant contribution to aesthetic philosophy from one of the foremost writers on American poetry, Charles Altieri champions the neglected, non-cognitive, aspects of our encounters with works of art....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores linguistic representations and cultural conceptualizations of the relationship between time and space in ancient China, as expressed by the YiChing. The YiChing, an ancient Chinese divination manual...Lasīt vairāk
Brings together the views of architects, artists, critics, historians, and philosophers to explore how beauty can again become an integral part of discussions about architecture. Beauty in Architecture brings...Lasīt vairāk
This is the first book in any language to collect scholarly essays on Kierkegaards extraordinary series of Lily Discourses. Long considered merely devotional writings, the Lily Discourses constitute a sustained and repeated attempt to respond t...Lasīt vairāk
