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
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
(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? While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions, and the Christian theological tradition contains many rich resources for pursuing answers to these questions. Theological A...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, helping to pave the way for Somalilands self-declaration in 1991. Drawing on over 100 oral histories and archival materials, this book w...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
(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 that has pro...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
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 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
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
