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by Lily Silver
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Was Grandma a flower child? Did Grandpa run off to join a commune? They'll never tell!
The decade of the 1960's brought us the Summer of Love, the Beatles and the Civil Rights movement. It was a time of communes and drug experimentation. Take a peek back into this exciting era to discover...
Exhausting Modernity
Grounds for a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Exhausting Modernity is a bold new work on the exhaustion of our resources, both natural and human. Drawing on the insights of Marx and Freud, it provides a compelling analysis of the exhaustion pervading modern capitalism: environmental collapse, rising poverty levels and increasing global economic...
The I in We
Studies in the Theory of Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation.
Drawing on his...
Against Orthodoxy
Social Theory and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The book contains groundbreaking and immersive essays on crucial 20th Century scholars on social theory, discussed and analyzed from a radical, critical theory perspective. Aronowitz provides his unique and lauded critical eye toward the leading thinkers of our age, crafting an immersive set of essays on radical thought.
The Problem of Critical Ontology
Bhaskar Contra Kant
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Dustin McWherter defends the possibility of critical ontology by pitting Roy Bhaskar's attempt to rehabilitate ontology in the philosophy of science against Kant's attempt to replace traditional ontology with an account of cognitive experience.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This volume explores Andrew Feenberg’s work in critical theory. Feenberg is considered one of the key ‘second generation’ critical theorists, with a keen interest in philosophy of technology. He has made a vital contribution to critical theory in ways that remain of interest given the pressing...
by Jürgen Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
‘There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking’: this statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance. Postmetaphysical thinking is, in the first place, the historical answer to the crisis of metaphysics following Hegel, when the central metaphysical figures...
by Jürgen Habermas
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and law, in this new work Habermas returns to the traditional philosophical questions of truth, objectivity and reality which...
An Awareness of What is Missing
Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more dangerous than the refusal to communicate that we encounter...
The Second Sexism
Discrimination Against Men and Boys
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously
This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking,...
On What Matters
Volume Three
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their...
Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture
Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such religious...
This Is Ethics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This is Ethics presents an accessible and engaging introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary moral philosophy.
Covers a wide range of topics which are actively debated in contemporary moral philosophy
Addresses the nature of happiness, well-being, and the meaning of life, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical...