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Ancient Women Philosophers
Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives
Katharine R. O'Reilly | Toronto Metropolitan University
This volume of essays retrieves the largely unresearched thought and the original ideas of ancient women philosophers and carves out a space for them in the canon. The broad focus includes women thinkers in ancient Indian, Chinese, and Arabic philosophy as well as in the Greek and Roman philosophical traditions. 290pp
May 2025 9781009013895 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009028769
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Aristotle on Happiness, Virtue, and Wisdom
Bryan C. Reece | University of Arkansas
This book seeks to understand Aristotle's influential answers to the questions: What is happiness? What is the relationship between intellectual and practical activity? How do wise people behave? It offers a fundamentally new approach to determining what kind of activity Aristotle thinks happiness is.
174pp
May 2025 9781108708234 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108762403
Aristotle on Justice
The Virtues of Citizenship and Constitutions
Thornton, Lockwood | Quinnipiac University
Aristotle's account of justice has inspired thinkers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas and Martha Nussbaum. But although Aristotle's account remains philosophically relevant, its fourth-century BCE intellectual and institutional origins have been neglected. This book places Aristotle's notion of justice in its intellectual context. 288pp
Feb. 2026 9781009491426 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009491389
Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception
Robert, Roreitner | Charles University, Prague
This book provides a fresh interpretation of Aristotle's account of perception, refocusing the debate and emphasising what remains philosophically relevant. It will engage experts on Aristotle and help those who work in ancient philosophy, including advanced students, while inviting contemporary philosophers to engage with Aristotle's thought. 284pp
Augustine's 'Confessions'
A Critical Guide
Thomas, Williams | Georgetown University, Washington DC
Represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: philosophy, historical and systematic theology, biblical studies, and the history of late antiquity. Readers will gain an overview of current work on the Confessions and new insights into this classic text.
Cambridge Critical Guides
280pp
Nov. 2025 9781316511107 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009036597
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Cicero's 'De Officiis'
A Critical Guide
Raphael, Woolf | King's College London
Cicero's De Officiis is perhaps his most influential philosophical work. This Critical Guide, the first collection of essays devoted to the work, explores its richness and variety and will be valuable for a range of readers in fields including philosophy, classics and political theory.
Cambridge Critical Guides
270pp
May 2025 9781009048774 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009049375
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Epicurean Justice
Nature, Agreement, and Virtue
Jan Maximilian, Robitzsch | Universität Greifswald
In this book, the first English-language monograph on the topic, Jan Maximilian Robitzsch draws on a range of sources including papyrological evidence to give a comprehensive account of the theory of justice advanced by the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus and his followers.
209pp
Aug. 2025 9781009429443 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009429436
Galen on Human Physiology
Taking the Body Apart and Putting it Back Together Again
Aistė Čelkytė | Universiteit Leiden
May 2025 9781009533812 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009533829
Galen of Pergamum, 'the prince of medicine', plays a significant role in the history of medicine, philosophy, and cultural history. This book presents a study of his physiology, looking both at Galen's solutions to a number of puzzles concerning human bodily functions, and at his theorisation of human nature.
294pp
Sep. 2025 9781009435819 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009435833
Justice in Plato's Republic
The Lessons of Book 1
Roslyn, Weiss | Lehigh University, Pennsylvania
Though it is thought that for Plato in the Republic justice is internal, a matter of relations among the parts of a city or soul, this book contends that in Book 1, justice –both political and personal – is external and other-regarding.
218pp
Jan. 2025 9781009466523 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009466530
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Medicine and Practical Ethics in Galen
Sophia, Xenophontos | Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen's role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now.
318pp
Aug. 2025 9781009247788 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009247795
Plato on Comedy and Tragedy
The Role of Drama in the Pursuit of Happiness
Franco V. Trivigno | University of Oslo
This book reconstructs, on Plato's behalf, an original philosophical account of tragedy and comedy, provides a theoretical framework for understanding key passages in Plato's dialogues, and illustrates the interpretive value of reading his dialogues from this perspective. It will be valuable for readers interested in Plato and in Greek drama.
307pp
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
Volume 5: Community
Bradley K. Storin | Louisiana State University
This final volume focuses on the theme of community within early Christian writings-how Christians joined, managed, conceptualized and policed the community. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academic researchers in early Christian studies, history of Christianity, theology and religious studies, and late antique Roman history.
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings
608pp
Jun. 2025 9781107062160 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781107449657
Early modern philosophy
Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations
A Critical Guide
Shane, Duarte
Nov. 2025 9781009360135 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009360128
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Plato's Gorgias
A Critical Guide
J. Clerk, Shaw | University of Tennessee
This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric and injustice.
Cambridge Critical Guides
240pp
Aug. 2025 9781108729123 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108679176
A collection of new essays on Suárez's Metaphysical Disputations, one of the most detailed, comprehensive elaborations of an Aristotelian metaphysics ever published. The volume will be welcomed by scholars and students of early modern scholasticism, and also by those working on early modern philosophy more generally.
Cambridge Critical Guides
300pp
Oct. 2025 9781009336727 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009336741
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution
David Marshall, Miller | Iowa State University
This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed in the period from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century.
550pp
Jun. 2025 9781108413671 Paperback GBP 36.99 / USD 47.99
eISBN 9781108333108
The
Philosophy
of Antoine Arnauld
Eric, Stencil | Utah Valley University
Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694) was one of the most important philosophical and theological figures of his time. His life and thought are of importance to scholars in an array of fields including philosophy, history, theology, and religious studies. This is the first book-length systematic study of his philosophical thought in English.
288pp
Jan. 2026 9781009426770 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Vico and
the
Maker's Knowledge Tradition
Praxis and History
Maurizio, Esposito | University of Milan
Explores the possibility that Vico envisioned a non-Cartesian version of modernity, where praxis, rather than reason, drives human history. This alternative modernity has directly or indirectly influenced some of the most significant philosophical traditions of the past two centuries and is still relevant today.
276pp
Jul. 2025 9781009436021 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009436007
Eighteenth-century philosophy
Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature
A Critical Guide
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe | College of William and Mary, Virginia
A collection of fourteen new essays by leading scholars on Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, a classic text in the history of western thought. Includes discussions of Hume's theories of human knowledge, of the emotions and passions, and of moral thinking and justice.
Cambridge Critical Guides
300pp
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Interpreting Adam Smith
Critical Essays
Paul, Sagar | King's College London 2023 is the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth. This collection of original essays offers a chance to reappraise his legacy not just as economist, but as political and moral philosopher, one of the leading lights of the Scottish Enlightenment.
298pp
Feb. 2026 9781009218092 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009218047
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
A Critical Guide
Paul, Russell | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of religion. This volume offers essays by leading scholars working in this area, and covers topics including the argument from intelligent design, the problem of evil, miracles, and religion and morality.
Cambridge Critical Guides
300pp
May 2025 9781009296304 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009296335
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Intuition in Kant
The Boundlessness of Sense
Daniel, Smyth | Wesleyan University, Connecticut
This is the first monograph on Kant's theory of intuition to appear in several decades. It will appeal to scholars of Kant, Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism and Romanticism, as well as those with a general interest in the theory of knowledge.
273pp
Aug. 2025 9781009330282 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009330305
Johann Gottfried Herder: Letters for the Advancement of Humanity
Volume 4
Herder
Dec. 2025 9781009214094 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009214049
Hume's Essays
A Critical Guide
Max, Skjönsberg | University of Florida
In this volume thirteen essays offer new research on key areas of Hume's Essays, including political theory, philosophy, political economy, and aesthetics, providing scholars and students with a wide-ranging, accessible, and in-depth guide to what remains one of the mostread works among Hume's writings.
Cambridge Critical Guides
306pp
Jan. 2025 9781316517727 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009047227
Writing in the wake of the French Revolution, Johann Gottfried Herder attempted to develop a political philosophy that would do justice to all humanity. His Letters for the Advancement of Humanity provides his mature statement on this project, available to English readers now for the first time in its entirety.
Cambridge Herder Translations
790pp
Dec. 2025 9781009356862 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00
eISBN 9781009356848
Kant and Environmental Philosophy
The Climate Crisis and the Imperative of Sustainability
Zachary, Vereb | University of Mississippi
Zach Vereb analyses Kant's writings, arguing that the views we find in his ethical, political, and aesthetic theory are helpful for making sense of ecological challenges like climate change. His book offers positive, unique insights for understanding ethical problems with sustainability, as well as uniquely Kantian solutions to those problems.
250pp
Nov. 2025 9781009664936 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009664905
Kant and Stoic Ethics
Melissa, Merritt | University of New South Wales, Sydney
The kinship between Stoic and Kantian thought, particularly in ethics, is often observed. Yet there has been rather little dedicated scholarship on the significance of Stoic ethics for the development of Kant's philosophy. The volume brings leading Kant scholars and ancient philosophy specialists together to tackle the question.
272pp
Aug. 2025 9781009321334 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009321365
Kant and the Power of Perception
Frode, Kjosavik | Norwegian University of Life Sciences
This book presents a richly detailed account of Kant's notion of intuition and his philosophy of perception. It addresses the nature of intuition and the role it plays in Kant's epistemology, and shows how it connects to present-day philosophical debates about the nature and status of human and animal perception.
320pp
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Kant on Pleasure and Judgment
A Developmental and Interpretive Account
Alexander, Rueger | University of Alberta
A novel interpretation of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, based on an exploration of eighteenth-century theories of pleasure and a reconstruction of Kant's own view. Illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant's thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment.
233pp
Nov. 2025 9781009596206 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781009596213
Kant and the Supposed Right to Lie
Jens, Timmermann | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Jens Timmermann provides a detailed philosophical, developmental and historical analysis of Immanuel Kant's 1797 essay 'On a Supposed Right to Lie from Love of Humanity', in which Kant argues that it is criminally wrong to lie to protect a friend from being murdered.
240pp
Aug. 2025 9781108834216 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108992435
Kant on Language
Luigi, Filieri | Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
This collection of new essays addresses the linguistic ramifications of Kant's thought and investigates his views on language from unique perspectives. It will nourish new debates in both Kant studies and current research on linguistics and language-formation.
320pp
Aug. 2025 9781009380379 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009380362
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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics
Gabriele, Gava | Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
In two often neglected passages of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant submits that the Critique is a 'treatise' or a 'doctrine of method'. Gabriele Gava argues that these passages point out that the Critique is the doctrine of method of metaphysics, with the task of showing that metaphysics can become a science.
300pp
May 2025 9781009172110 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009172127
Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy
A Critical Guide
Frederick, Rauscher | Michigan State University Kant's influential political philosophy is here examined in its early stage a full decade prior to his publications on right. The essays cover the range of topics as presented by Kant in the only surviving transcript of his course lectures on natural law from 1784.
Oct. 2025 9781009239172 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009239196
Cambridge Critical Guides
314pp
Aug. 2025 9781009215084 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009215091
Kant's Metaphysics of the Will
Freedom, Reason, and the Moral Law
Jaqueline, Mariña | Purdue University, Indiana
A groundbreaking study which explores how Kant's ethics intersect with metaphysical questions and demonstrates how Kant was concerned with two distinct deductions in Groundwork and in the second Critique, one successful, the other one impossible. This book will be valuable for scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in philosophy.
272pp
Oct. 2025 9781009574747 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Law and Morality in Kant
Martin, Brecher | Universität Mannheim, Germany
A comprehensive treatment of law and morality in Kant which sheds new light on Kant's practical philosophy more broadly. It will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working on Kant's moral and legal philosophy.
340pp
Dec. 2025 9781009291996 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009292030
Reason and the Good in Leibniz, Kant and Hegel
Theodicies of Freedom
Alex, Englander | Universitat Bonn
An innovative reading of the philosophies of Kant and Hegel as continuing Leibniz's project of theodicy: of proving that the world is a hospitable environment for free, rational beings. It will be of value to students and scholars of German philosophy, theology and the history of ideas.
310pp
The
Life of Freedom in Kant and Hegel
Thomas, Khurana | Universität Potsdam, Germany
This book develops comprehensive new accounts of both Kant's and Hegel's mature theories of freedom and their interrelation, providing a better understanding of both authors in general and the first comprehensive account of their original concepts of 'life' in particular.
400pp
Feb. 2026 9781009442596 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009442558
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The Critique of Judgment and the Unity of Kant's Critical System
Lara, Ostaric | Temple University, Philadelphia
A novel approach which relates Kant's seminal work, Critique of Judgment, to issues in his moral philosophy, but also art, history, culture, and religion. It will be of interest not only to specialists and graduate students of Kant studies but also to those working in other areas of the humanities.
298pp
Mar. 2026 9781009542449 Hardback Price To Be Advised
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Epistemology and metaphysics
A Metaphysics and Science of our Agency
Jason D. Runyan | Indiana Wesleyan University
By using clear language and concrete examples, this book is an integrative work of philosophy and science which offers new insight into a topic of central importance to metaphysics, moral philosophy, and philosophy of science and action, as well as to psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroscience: our agency.
220pp
May 2025 9781009336864 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009336833
The Aristotelian Kant
Wolfram, Gobsch | Universität Zürich
This book presents a powerful new approach to interpreting the works of Immanuel Kant, which emphasizes continuities with Aristotle's thought. The essays represent state-of-the-art scholarship and are aimed at specialists and advanced students wishing to familiarize themselves with this approach.
320pp
Jan. 2026 9781009581783 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009581745
Doing, Knowing, and Getting it Right
Methodologism as Pragmatism
Jouni-Matti, Kuukkanen | University of Oulu, Finland
Jan. 2026 9781009530484 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009530453
This book introduces a fresh approach to knowledge and meaning in a pragmatist framework—methodologism. It is an essential resource for students and scholars of epistemology, language, and the philosophy of science, as well as readers across the humanities and social sciences interested in language, rationality, and their role in communities.
288pp
Feb. 2026 9781009626590 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009626613
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Personal Ontology
Mystery and Its Consequences
Andrew, Brenner | Hong Kong Baptist University
What are we? Are we, for example, souls, organisms, brains, or something else? This book discusses the main competing accounts of personal ontology that we are either souls, or we are composite physical objects of some sort, and includes a detailed discussion of the metaphysics of several afterlife scenarios.
249pp
Aug. 2025 9781009367066 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009367059
Resistance to Evidence
Mona, Simion | University of Glasgow
Explores the phenomenon of distrusting evidence coming from reliable sources with current examples including climate change and vaccine scepticism. The book argues that evidence resistance relates to a type of cognitive malfunction and distinguishes it from justified evidence rejection occurring in environments polluted with disinformation.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
230pp
Aug. 2025 9781009298513 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009298537
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The Attitude of Agnosticism
Avery, Archer | George Washington University, Washington DC
We often describe ourselves as agnostic on a wide range of questions, such as does God exist, is String Theory true, or will the President win reelection? But what does it mean to be agnostic and when is agnosticism justified? This monograph addresses these and related questions.
228pp
Ethics
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An Introduction to Ethics
Second edition
John, Deigh | University of Texas, Austin
A clear, comprehensive presentation of the most important theories of ethics in Western philosophy, including extensive coverage of John Rawls's theory. Students will find this book to be a helpful guide to how philosophical inquiry is undertaken as well as to what the major theories of ethics hold.
Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
318pp
Aug. 2025 9781009214728 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009214759
The Practical Mind
Skill, Knowledge, and Intelligence
Carlotta, Pavese | University of Oxford
Throughout our lifetimes, we acquire a vast number of skills. Children work on skills from infancy and throughout development; adults continue to refine their skills through old age. This book is the first systematic discussion of skills: of their nature, and of their relation to knowledge and reasoning.
288pp
Jan. 2025 9781009060967 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Jan. 2025 9781316512234 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009058032
Attention to Virtues
An Affective Grammar
Robert C. Roberts | Baylor University, Texas
This book explores the virtues of good character, and includes well-illustrated accounts of generosity, gratitude, compassion, forgivingness, truthfulness, patience, courage, justice, and a sense of duty -- relating these traits to human concerns and the emotions that express them in the circumstances of life.
340pp
Feb. 2026 9781009336925 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009336895
Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?
The Fundamental Problem of Ontology
Andrew, Brenner | Hong Kong Baptist University
The question 'why is there something rather than nothing?' is of perennial philosophical, scientific, and religious interest, and is of broad interest both inside and outside academia. This book provides the definitive overview of the topic, including a new and innovative answer to the question.
220pp
Aug. 2025 9781009570954 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009570916
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Ethics in the Gray Area
A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong
Martin, Peterson | Texas A & M University
Mar. 2026 9781009666688 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009666701
This first book-length discussion of the 'gray area' in ethics challenges the assumption that rightness and wrongness are binary properties. Including discussions of white lies and the permissibility of abortion, it introduces gradualist notions of right and wrong designed to answer practical questions about the gray area in ethics.
228pp
May 2025 9781009336796 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009336772
Human Nature, Human Goods
A Theory of Natural Perfectionism
Tom, Angier | University of Cape Town
Is there a human nature? Can knowledge of it help us live better lives? This book presents a ground-breaking theory of human nature and its relevance to ethics, whilst bringing ancient ideas into dialogue with cutting-edge science and philosophy, to answer both these questions.
250pp
Jan. 2026 9781009375603 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009375573
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MacIntyre's After Virtue at
Tom, Angier | University of Cape Town
40
Since its publication in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has made a significant impact throughout the humanities disciplines. This new collection unpacks the influence of After Virtue on ethical and political theory, sociology and theology, and offers a multi-faceted exploration of its significance.
Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries
286pp
May 2025 9781009074759 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009076036
Modern Moral Philosophy
From Grotius to Kant
Stephen, Darwall | Yale University, Connecticut
This magisterial study tells the story of a new way of doing ethics, starting in the seventeenth century, that was based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. It also shows that this modern approach remains relevant to us today and that it has a vibrant future.
400pp
The Concept and Ethics of Manipulation
Shlomo, Cohen | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Everyone is exposed to manipulation daily, and everyone manipulates too. The impact of manipulations in personal, social, and political life is enormous. But which influences count as manipulations, and how should they be assessed morally? This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of the meaning and moral status of manipulation.
254pp
Jul. 2025 9780521677790 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781139025065
Modern Moral Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century
Stephen, Darwall | Yale University, Connecticut
Stephen Darwall's philosophical history of ethics is a benchmark contribution to the history of ideas. It offers illuminating new perspectives on the founding members of the 'continental' tradition – Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche – revealing what was novel in the period and what remains relevant to contemporary moral philosophy.
320pp
Apr. 2025 9781009443449 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009443432
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The
Ethics of Special Ops
Raids, Recoveries, Reconnaissance, and Rebels
Deane-Peter, Baker | University of New South Wales, Canberra
Oct. 2025 9781009543873 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009543835
Moral Heroism without Virtue
Kyle, Fruh | Duke Kunshan University, China
What is moral heroism? The book criticizes virtue-centric answers to this question and builds an alternative view in their place. The book is for anyone interested in moral excellence, the long philosophical traditions which examine it, and contemporary discussions of morally outstanding actions and agents.
220pp
This book addresses one largely overlooked trend in the field of military ethics, the emergence of special operations as a prominent instrument of statecraft. The authors' analysis calls attention to qualities inherent in special operations that challenge the moral framework which informs conventional military operations.
246pp
Jun. 2025 9781009665094 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009292061
The Underdetermination of Moral Theories
Marius, Baumann | Universität Munchen
The first extended treatment and defence of the idea of moral underdetermination, this book challenges the view of the relationship between the moral traditions and develops a new sceptical argument and a new position in metaethics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Nov. 2025 9781009571500 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009571487
248pp
Mar. 2025 9781009492447 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009492454
Legal philosophy
Intellectual Property
Moral
and Legal Foundations
Adam D. Moore | University of Washington
A philosophical examination and defence of intellectual property rights which considers various issues related to generative AI. Valuable for readers in philosophy, law, political science, information science, and media studies, especially those working in the areas of intellectual property, free speech, privacy, and information technologies.
220pp
Feb. 2026 9781009619868 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009619875
The Logic of Precedent
Constraint, Freedom, and Common Law
Reasoning
John, Horty | University of Maryland, College Park
Drawing on recent work in legal theory, AI and law, this book develops a new account of precedential constraint as well as the balance achieved in the common law between constraint and freedom and applies a theory grounded in defeasible logic to legal reasoning and legal decisionmaking.
276pp
Feb. 2025 9781009356503 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009356480
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Argumentation
in Complex Communication
Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue
Marcin, Lewiński | NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Medieval philosophy
Aquinas and the Ethics of Happiness
Joseph, Stenberg | Colgate University, New York Argues that common happiness, with a novel understanding of individual happiness built into it, stands at the core of Aquinas's ethics, including at the core of law, virtue, and grace. This book will be of special interest to anyone with antecedent interest in Aquinas or the history of ethics.
334pp
A pervasive aspect of human communication and sociality is argumentation: making and criticizing reasons in the context of doubt and disagreement. This book offers an innovative theoretical framework for analyzing, evaluating, and designing polylogues, understood as practices of managing disagreements among multiple positions, players, and places.
278pp
Aug. 2025 9781009274395 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009274364
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Logical
Pluralism and Logical Consequence
Erik, Stei | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This book defends logical monism, provides a detailed analysis of different possible formulations of logical pluralism, and offers an original account of the plurality of correct logics that incorporates the benefits of both pluralist and monist approaches to logical consequence. It will appeal to researchers in the philosophy of logic.
228pp
Aug. 2025 9781108478434 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108777728
Aquinas on Metaphysics as a Science
Philip-Neri, Reese, O.P. | Pontifical University of St Thomas
Aquinas's conception of metaphysics is one of the most ambitious in the history of philosophy. This book approaches his metaphysics from the perspective of his theory of science and knowledge. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval philosophy, the Aristotelian tradition, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical methodology.
280pp
Mar. 2026 9781009668668 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009668637
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Boethius' 'Consolation of Philosophy'
A Critical Guide
Michael, Wiitala | Cleveland State University
May 2025 9781108796835 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108859585
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The Logic of Entailment and its History
Edwin, Mares | Victoria University of Wellington
This book provides a new philosophical, semantical and historical analysis of and justification for the relevant logic of entailment. Its fresh and original perspective on the logic of entailment will be valuable for all who want to know more about the historical and philosophical origins of modern symbolic logic.
280pp
Aug. 2025 9781009375276 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009375283
The first collection of philosophical essays devoted to Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, one of the most widely read and influential texts in medieval Europe. Thirteen essays, reflecting the diverse approaches taken in contemporary scholarship, attend to its literary features and philosophical content, and demonstrate its ongoing vitality.
Cambridge Critical Guides
267pp
Aug. 2025 9781009288248 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009288279
Dante's Political Philosophy
Rethinking Paradiso
Paul, Stern | Ursinus College, Pennsylvania
Paul Stern shows the contribution Dante's reflection on political life makes to his theoretical defense of the philosophic life, a life whose character and goodness is conveyed by his intensely selfreflective poetry.
320pp
Feb. 2026 9781009687256 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009687232
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Interpreting Buridan
Critical Essays
Spencer, Johnston | University of Cambridge
A collection of new essays on the influential medieval philosopher John Buridan, written by leading Buridan scholars. The volume places Buridan in his philosophical context and examines his writings on topics including logic, modal logic, paradoxes, metaphysics, epistemology, theory of knowledge, moral philosophy, and natural philosophy.
263pp
Aug. 2025 9781108994729 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108992497
Medieval Philosophical Writings on the Powers of the Soul
From Aquinas to Ockham
Russell L. Friedman | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
This volume presents a rich selection of key medieval Aristotelian texts debating the relation between the soul and its powers, most of them previously untranslated. An introduction situates the debate in its broader medieval context, and the volume also includes detailed explanatory notes and a glossary of terms and arguments.
295pp
Emerson, the Philosopher of Oppositions
Russell B. Goodman | University of New Mexico Goodman shows how Emerson's essays embody sets of oppositions or 'contrary tendencies,' and argues that we miss the living nature of Emerson's philosophy if we fail to register the motions within his essays and the ways in which he dramatizes instability, spontaneity, and inconsistency within them.
240pp
Apr. 2025 9781009211710 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009211741
Ockham's Summa Logicae
A Critical Guide
Claude, Panaccio | Université du Québec à Montréal
This Critical Guide to Ockham's seminal philosophical masterpiece on logic, language, and ontology is the first collection of essays devoted to the work. It covers a range of topics, providing both fresh perspectives on existing debates and new contributions on topics that have not yet entered mainstream scholarship on Ockham.
Cambridge Critical Guides
328pp
Nov. 2025 9781009604550 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009604598
Hegel Beyond Liberalism
The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy
Bernardo, Ferro | Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
This book offers an original and accessible interpretation of Hegel's social and political philosophy, which will be of interest to academics, students and a wider non-specialized audience interested in the history of political thought and in its relevance for contemporary debates about capitalism, democracy and social justice.
245pp
Sep. 2025 9781009288767 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009288743
Nineteenth-century philosophy
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A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century Confrontations with Nothingness
Jon, Stewart | Slovak Academy of Sciences
This rich, expansive book reaches beyond philosophy to literature and the history of ideas. Nihilism is associated most frequently with twentieth-century movements, but Jon Stewart shows that a tradition of nineteenth-century nihilism actually predated and anticipated developments like existentialism and postmodernism.
334pp
Oct. 2025 9781009584746 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Hegel's Inversion of Philosophy
The Metaphysics of the Made
W.Clark, Wolf | Marquette University, Wisconsin Provides an interpretation of Hegel's philosophy as being oriented by the logical structure of artifacts and argues that the key to understanding Hegel's idealism is the view that concepts are realized in the humanly made world. It will be valuable to students and scholars interested in Hegel's philosophy and in contemporary metaphysics.
288pp
Jan. 2026 9781009621458 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Karl Marx and the Actualization of
Philosophy
Christoph, Schuringa | Northeastern University, London
Jun. 2025 9781009266710 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
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This book is for all those-across philosophy, political theory, sociology, geography, and literature—interested in Marx's overall intellectual project. It explains the development of Marx's project, culminating in his mature magnum opus, Capital, in terms of the demand issued in his earliest works for the 'actualization of philosophy'.
205pp
Apr. 2025 9781009304801 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Kierkegaard and the Structure of Imagination
Rethinking Thought Experiments with Kant and Ørsted
Eleanor, Helms | California Polytechnic State University
This book examines Hans Christian Ørsted's use of thought experiments and his influence on Kierkegaard, arguing that both were inspired by Kant. It is the first book-length study of how Kierkegaard used thought experiments as a method, showing the implications for our contemporary understanding of how thought experiments work.
295pp
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Patrick, Hassan | Cardiff University
On what grounds could life be made worth living given its abundant suffering? Friedrich Nietzsche was one among many who attempted to answer this question. This book attempts to disentangle Nietzsche's various critiques of pessimism, elucidating how familiar Nietzschean themes ought to be assessed against this philosophical backdrop.
292pp
Oct. 2025 9781009594936 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009594929
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Kierkegaard's Either/Or
A Critical Guide
Ryan S. Kemp | Wheaton College, Illinois
Either/Or?is Kierkegaard's first major work and arguably his most virtuosic. This Critical Guide strikes new ground in our understanding of both the work and Kierkegaard's authorship as a whole, with substantial discussions of issues in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, phenomenology, and philosophy of religion.
Cambridge Critical Guides
264pp
May 2025 9781009066945 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781009067713
Kierkegaard's Works of Love
A Critical Guide
Jeffrey, Hanson | Harvard University, Massachusetts
Offering original research by both leading and new scholars, this book revisits the vexed and contested questions of Kierkegaard's Works of Love and demonstrates its continuing relevance and importance to present-day debates. It will be valuable to students of philosophy, theology, ecology, and political theory.
Cambridge Critical Guides
316pp
May 2025 9781009380294 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
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Schopenhauer's Politics
Jakob, Norberg | Duke University, North Carolina By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer's key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical philosopher. Schopenhauer believed that politics could help mitigate conflict and make existence more bearable, but never heal a fundamentally imperfect world.
Modern European Philosophy
295pp
Dec. 2025 9781009416481 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Nietzsche on the Methods and Aims of Philosophy
The Seal of Liberation
Allison, Merrick | California State University, San Marcos
This book focusses on Nietzsche's method of genealogy and shows how Nietzsche uses genealogical methods to render us less obscure to ourselves, to liberate us from value systems that no longer serve our interests, and to demonstrate how we might become less prone to guilt and shame.
198pp
Jan. 2025 9781009491549 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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True Purposes in Hegel's Logic
Edgar, Maraguat | Universidad de Valencia
This book addresses a key issue in Hegel's philosophical legacy - his account of purposiveness and teleology - that has often been wrongly criticised and misunderstood. Its re-examination of the issue has implications for the whole of Hegel's philosophical legacy.
272pp
Aug. 2025 9781009370974 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Philosophy (general)
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A History of Western Philosophy of Music
James O. Young | University of Victoria, British Columbia
This book is a comprehensive, accessible survey of Western philosophy of music from Pythagoras to the present. Five chapters survey philosophy of music in the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and contemporary periods. It will be valuable for undergraduate and advanced students, and scholars, in philosophy and musicology.
396pp
May 2025 9781108721936 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
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Abstractionism
Luca, Zanetti | Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia
The aim of this Element is to provide an overview of abstractionism in the philosophy of mathematics. It distinguishes between mathematical abstractionism and philosophical abstractionism. It also discusses the most recent developments in the debate that pull abstractionism in different directions. Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics
86pp
Feb. 2025 9781009375153 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
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Aesthetic Knowledge
Jon, Robson | University of Nottingham
How do we arrive at aesthetic knowledge? This Element argues that aesthetic knowledge is both valuable and attainable, but canonical philosophical (and folk) views of how we attain it are mistaken. It surveys some recent arguments against the reliability of aesthetic perception and in favour of other, more social, sources of aesthetic knowledge. Elements in Epistemology
75pp
Dec. 2025 9781009358514 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Dec. 2025 9781009571777 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
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The Philosophy of Comedy
Volume 96
Simon, Kirchin | University of Leeds
This volume discusses the philosophy of comedy. The six articles in this volume examine free speech, swearing, selfdeprecating humour, power dynamics and the morality of comedy. Each article is paired with a discussion between author, other philosophers, practising comedians to help further the debate.
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 96 300pp
Jun. 2025 9781009643986 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 39.00
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Philosophy of mind and language
Context-Sensitivity in Language
A Logical Analysis
Brice, Halimi | Université Paris Cité
At the crossroads between philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics, with numerous applications to philosophy of mind, logic and linguistics, this book revives the method of logical analysis which originally defined analytic philosophy. Its unifying theme, contextsensitivity, will be of interest to a wide range of philosophers.
290pp
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A Critique of Common-Sense Theorizing Peter, Carruthers | University of Maryland, College Park
This book critiques so-called 'belief–desire psychology,' which is implicit in commonsense thinking and has been variously elaborated by philosophers. It will be of interest to anyone who relies on assumptions drawn from commonsense psychology in their work, whether in philosophy of mind, epistemology, moral psychology, ethics, or psychology.
232pp
May 2025 9781009585767 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009585781
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Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40 Claudine, Verheggen | York University, Toronto
A major reassessment, by leading philosophers of language and mind, of one of the most celebrated and influential books of the past forty years, Saul Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language.?The volume demonstrates that many of the issues first introduced by Kripke, both exegetical and philosophical, remain urgent and unsettled. Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries 288pp
Aug. 2025 9781009096881 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
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The Neural Structure of Consciousness
Joseph, Mendola | University of Nebraska, Lincoln Consciousness is an intriguing mystery, of which standard accounts all have wellknown difficulties. This book develops a novel account of how consciousness is constituted by our neural structure that avoids these difficulties.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy 270pp
Apr. 2026 9781009636896 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction
A View on Fictionality
Manuel, García-Carpintero | Universitat de Barcelona
A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about it. The book offers tools to address common worries about fictions such as whether they can offer knowledge, by critically engaging with the most insightful contributions from contemporary philosophy.
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy 204pp
Jan. 2026 9781009298452 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Philosophy of science
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Second edition
Kent W. Staley | Saint Louis University, Missouri
Guiding readers through the central philosophical debates within the philosophy of science, this thoroughly updated second edition includes topics such as scientific rationality, objectivity, and progress; the philosophical importance of scientific models; and the impact of feminist ideas on our understanding of science. Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy 412pp
Mental Illness Stigma and the Moral and Social Community
Abigail, Gosselin | Regis University, Colorado
Despite greater mental health awareness, mental illness stigma persists. This book is for any reader interested in understanding what mental illness stigma is, why it persists, what harms it causes to people subject to public stigma or who internalize stigma in themselves, and what can be done about it.
250pp
Mar. 2025 9781009097963 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
Mar. 2025 9781009098250 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
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Compositional Abduction and Scientific Interpretation
A Granular Approach
Kenneth, Aizawa | Rutgers University, New Jersey
The theory of compositional abduction developed in this book provides a theory of confirmation that will be valuable to philosophers of science, those working on hypothetico-deductive confirmation, Peirce's view of abduction, inference to the best explanation, and New Mechanism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 254pp
Dec. 2025 9781009435697 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Darwin's Philosophy of Emotion
Trip, Glazer | University of Dayton, Ohio
This book contributes to two interdisciplinary topics with broad appeal, namely Darwin studies and emotions research. It provides the first comprehensive account of associationist theories of emotion from the 17th-19th centuries, and it offers the first detailed analysis of Charles Darwin's engagement with this philosophical tradition. 220pp
Jan. 2026 9781009538244 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60
K. Brad, Wray | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Since its first edition in 1962, Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions has sold more than one million copies and continues to be read and studied today. This volume of new essays offers a way into Kuhn's philosophy and demonstrates the continuing relevance of Kuhn's ideas for our understanding of science.
Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries
326pp
Feb. 2026 9781009680448 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009680431
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Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic
Markus, Pantsar | Aachen University of Technology
Arithmetic is one of the foundations of our educational systems, but what exactly is it? This book provides a philosophical account of arithmetical knowledge that is based on the state-of-the-art empirical studies of numerical cognition. It explains how humans have developed arithmetic from humble origins to its modern status.
264pp
Aug. 2025 9781009468893 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
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Science and Humanism
Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good Anjan, Chakravartty | University of Miami Addressing approaches to integrating humanism with science, and cases in which science has failed, succeeded, and could do more to promote our collective welfare, this book articulates a conception of the sciences for our times. It will interest a broad audience including philosophers, scientists, historians, and other scholars.
320pp
Aug. 2025 9781009114028 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009122696
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Science, Medicine, and the Aims of Inquiry
A Philosophical Analysis
Somogy, Varga | Aarhus Universitet, Denmark Amid criticism of medicine's scientific rigor and patient care, this book offers a philosophical examination of the nature and aims of medicine, and new perspectives on how these challenges can be addressed. It offers input for rethinking the agenda of medical research, healthcare delivery, and the education of healthcare personnel.
244pp
Aug. 2025 9781009450027 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009449977
Philosophy of social science
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Diagnosing Social Pathology
Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
Frederick, Neuhouser | Barnard College, Columbia University
Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? This thought-provoking book masterfully reveals what is at stake in describing societies as 'ill' and why we are drawn to conceive of many social problems as illnesses.
388pp
Jul. 2025 9781009235006 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009235020
Philosophy texts
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German Philosophy and the First World War
Nicolas, de Warren | Pennsylvania State University
Combining history and biography with astute philosophical analysis, Nicolas de Warren explores and reinterprets the intellectual trajectories of ten German philosophers as they reacted to and experienced the First World War. His book will enhance our understanding of the intimate and invariably complicated relationship between philosophy and war.
436pp
A Philosopher Looks at Clothes
Kate, Moran | Brandeis University, Massachusetts
This accessible and engaging book explores the connection between clothes and philosophy – how clothes can pose philosophical problems, and how philosophical ideas influence clothes. It ranges over all aspects of clothes and what they mean to us, helping us to understand an important and underexplored aspect of our lives.
A Philosopher Looks At 210pp
Jun. 2025 9781009277716 Paperback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.99
eISBN 9781009277686
Glory, Humiliation, and the Drive to War
Nir, Eisikovits | University of Massachusetts, Boston
May 2025 9781108437615 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781108526180
Political philosophy
A New Theory of Sufficientarian Justice
Lasse, Nielsen | University of Southern Denmark
This book is about what justice requires regarding the distribution of goods and opportunities in society. It breaks new ground by defending sufficiency and rejecting that equality is of intrinsic importance. It is of interests to philosophers, political scientists, health care planners, economists and students within all those fields.
240pp
If wars are so bad, why do we keep fighting? Drawing on philosophy, psychology, history, and literature to explain how political leaders exploit old resentments and injuries to fuel new conflicts, this book argues that feelings of political humiliation and promises of glory are central in the drive to war.
214pp
Jan. 2025 9781316515716 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009026451
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How to End a War
Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
Graham, Parsons | United States Military Academy
Feb. 2026 9781009531429 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009531467
In this volume prominent thinkers and practitioners in philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law consider the challenges of moving from war to post-war, offering guidance to theorists and practitioners in order to avoid protracted conflicts and to probe the meanings of peace and justice before, during, and after war.
246pp
May 2025 9781108994859 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108992640
Ideology and Revolution
How the Struggle against Domination Drives the Evolution of Morality and Institutions
Allen, Buchanan | University of Arizona
Provides a systematic theory of the connections between the struggle for liberation from domination, ideology, and why changes in morality and institutions occur. This book will be of interest to a broad readership of students and scholars in philosophy, history, political science, economics, sociology, and law.
250pp
Mar. 2025 9781009542524 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009542494
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Rawls's A Theory of Justice at 50
Paul, Weithman | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
In 1971 John Rawls's A Theory of Justice transformed twentieth-century political philosophy, and it ranks among the most influential works in the history of the subject. This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the book's publication by offering a multifaceted exploration of this important work. Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries 392pp
May 2025 9781009214667 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009214704
Reconceiving Freedom from the Shadows of Slavery
Liberty in a Nonideal World
John, Christman | Pennsylvania State University
A historically-informed examination of the concept of freedom which recognises freedom as a fundamental social value that arose out of fights against slavery and oppression. This book will appeal to social and political philosophers and critical theorists interested in important political ideas and how they arise from historical contexts.
266pp
Vulnerability and Relational Equality
Costanza, Porro | University of Manchester
The first systematic exploration of the relationship between two increasingly central concepts in political philosophy and theory - vulnerability and relational equality. It will be valuable for those interested in political philosophy and theory, questions of justice and equality, applied ethics, public policy, and philosophy of law.
280pp
Jan. 2025 9781009440202 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009440196
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Social Anarchism and the Rejection of
Moral Tyranny
Jesse, Spafford | Victoria University of Wellington
This book presents an argument for egalitarian anarchism (understood as a moral theory) and sheds light on numerous debates in political philosophy. It argues that social anarchism is a coherent philosophical position that follows from a more plausible principle that constrains which moral theories are acceptable.
252pp
Feb. 2026 9781009379854 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009379878
Twentieth-century philosophy
Afro-Brazilian
Religions
José Eduardo, Porcher | Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
This Element introduces Afro-Brazilian religions and underscores the necessity for an expanded methodological framework to encompass these traditions in the philosophy of religion. Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion
82pp
May 2025 9781009375399 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009375429
The Social Contract
Political Equality from Putney to Rawls
William A. Edmundson | Georgia State University
We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. But how is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? This book explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in Rawls.
252pp
Jan. 2025 9781009469012 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009469036 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009469029
Heidegger and German Platonism
The Shadows of Marburg Antoine, Pageau-St Hilaire | Boston University Examining Heidegger's thought in relation to Platonism, this book opens a dialogue between Heidegger and German Platonism that illuminates issues around aesthetics, ethics, political philosophy, and ontology. It will be of interest to scholars of ancient and European philosophy, classicists, intellectual historians, and political theorists.
300pp
Sep. 2025 9781009395267 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009395274
Jan. 2026 9781009564441 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Heidegger's Being and Time
A Critical Guide
Aaron James, Wendland | King's College London Heidegger's Being and Time is widely regarded as his most important work and it has profoundly influenced twentiethcentury philosophy. This Critical Guide examines Being and Time through the lens of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, metaphysics, epistemology, and feminist philosophy. Cambridge Critical Guides
314pp
Jun. 2025 9781108496001 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108865579
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Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant
The Violence and the Charity Morganna, Lambeth | Purdue University, Indiana Heidegger has a reputation for reading himself into the philosophers he interprets, and his interpretation of Kant has therefore had little uptake in anglophone Kant scholarship. This book provides a new and compelling account of Heidegger's method of interpreting Kant, arguing that it is more promising than is typically recognized.
230pp
May 2025 9781009239233 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009239271
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Interpreting Carnap
Critical Essays
Alan, Richardson | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
A comprehensive, systematic, and historical collection of essays on Rudolf Carnap's philosophy and legacy, written by leading international experts. This volume provides a redressing of Carnap's place in the history of analytic philosophy, through his approach to metaphysics, values, politics, epistemology and philosophy of science.
324pp
Aug. 2025 9781009096874 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009099080
Otto Neurath in Britain
Christopher, Burke | University of Reading
This comprehensive and accessible account of Otto Neurath's time in British exile during World War II provides a detailed consideration and a new understanding of Neurath's work in fields as diverse as filmmaking, philosophy and economics, and chronicles his enthusiastic adaptation to British life.
338pp
Jan. 2025 9781009376297 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015
Kelly, Becker | University of New Mexico World-renowned experts explain the most important developments in philosophical thought and practice from 1945 to 2015, covering the analytic, comparative, and Continental schools and exploring major and rising topics of interest. This accessible and authoritative guide to contemporary philosophy will interest students and scholars of all levels.
904pp
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The Philosophical Project of Carnap and Quine
Sean, Morris | Metropolitan State University of Denver
This book re-examines the place of Carnap and Quine in the history of analytic philosophy by presenting them as sharing philosophical motivations despite their notable differences. It will be accessible to professional philosophers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
306pp
Jun. 2025 9781316625613 Paperback GBP 44.99 / USD 54.99
eISBN 9781316779651
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eISBN 9781108664202
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Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
A Critical Guide
José L. Zalabardo | University College London
Wittgenstein's Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus, the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime, continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. This volume of new essays showcases contemporary ideas on how to interpret the Tractatus and throws new light on some of its most challenging passages. Cambridge Critical Guides 246pp
Aug. 2025 9781009066938 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009067690
Religion
Biblical studies - New Testament
2 Peter
A. Chadwick, Thornhill | Liberty University
This commentary on the second epistle of Peter offers a fresh examination of a key New Testament text. Chad Thornhill challenges existing paradigms pertaining to the composition of 2 Peter, asks new questions regarding authorship and genre, and revisits the identification of the text as a pseudonymous testament as it has recently been understood.
New Cambridge Bible Commentary 272pp
Nov. 2025 9781009280921 Paperback GBP 26.00 / USD 33.00
Nov. 2025 9781009280938 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.00
eISBN 9781009280884
Christology
and Ethics in Galatians
Love and the Shared Self
Logan, Williams | University of Exeter
In this study, Logan Williams explores Paul's Christology and ethics beyond the egoism-altruism dichotomy. He provides a fresh evaluation Christological material in Paul to show that Paul's ethics do not idealise self-sacrifice but are oriented towards the construction of a relationship of shared selves.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 256pp
Dec. 2025 9781009373388 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009373432
Early Christianity and the Challenge of Writing History
Insights from Retrospective Approaches
Markus, Vinzent | King's College London
Proposing a contemporary, postpostmodern reading of history that goes far beyond the field of Early Christianity, this study interrogates traditional historical approaches and challenges scholars and students to contradict, engage with, and argue over established interpretations of events. 350pp
Feb. 2026 9781009638203 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009638173
Jesus and the Visibility of God
Sight and Belief in the Fourth Gospel
Luke, Irwin | Covenant College, Georgia
Scholars have often debated the link between empirical senses and belief in the Gospel of John. This study establishes the value of God's physical incarnation for belief, arguing that the theological nature of belief derives from a God who makes himself physically visible in the world.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 185 255pp
Jan. 2025 9781009477048 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009477055
Luke's Unique Parables
Genesis Narratives and Interpretations of Jesus
Calum, Carmichael | Cornell University, New York Calum Carmichael presents a new perspective on how parables unique to Luke's Gospel were composed. Providing literary and linguistic analyses, he demonstrates how Luke, like many of his contemporaries, absorbed the narrative legacy of the Hebrew Bible and used it to express ideas about Jesus. 208pp
Mar. 2025 9781009577885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
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Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
Righteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity
Paul, Moser | Loyola University, Chicago
This book explains how reparative self-sacrificial righteousness is at the heart of Paul's gospel, and how divine self-sacrifice authenticates that gospel via human reciprocity toward God in reconciliation. Paul Moser explores the controversial matters regarding Paul's message in a way that highlights the coherence and profundity of his message.
254pp
Apr. 2025 9781009249157 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009249171
Paul's Letter Openings
An Analysis of High-register Language
Gillian, Asquith | Melbourne School of Theology
In this study, Gillian Asquith offers a fresh perspective on Paul's epistolary practice by?adopting a multidisciplinary method that synthesises sociolinguistics and lexicography. She analyses Paul's letter openings and papyri documents to reveal persuasive writing strategies employing high-register language.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
250pp
Feb. 2026 9781009674188 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009674133
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Paul's Political Strategy in 1 Corinthians 1–4
Constitution and Covenant
Bradley J. Bitner | Oak Hill Theological College Drawing extensively on epigraphical and papyrological evidence, this volume interprets 1 Corinthians 1-4 within the first-century politics of thanksgiving and of construction. Bradley J. Bitner demonstrates that Paul's response incorporated both Corinth's constitution and Jewishbiblical notions of covenant, ultimately redirecting gratitude and glory to God in Christ.
Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, 163 368pp 6 b/w illus. 1 map 2 tables
Jul. 2025 9781107459311 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781316104910
The Epistles of John
Origins, Authorship, Purpose
Hugo, Mendez | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
In this study, Hugo Méndez challenges the established scholarly assumption that the Epistles of John were composed within a single 'Johannine Community.' He meticulously lays out the evidence that the Epistles were written by three different writers in a chain of imitation, creative adaptation, and invention.
300pp
Feb. 2026 9781009689540 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009689519
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The Historical Jesus and the Temple Memory, Methodology, and the Gospel of Matthew Michael Patrick, Barber | Augustine Institute of Theology, Colorado
This volume examines the role of the temple in the historical Jesus's teaching. It explains and responds to recent discussions about methodology in Jesus studies, proposing a fresh approach that draws insights from both memory research and new developments in Gospel of Matthew scholarship. 328pp
NEW IN PAPERBACK Why the Bible Began
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
Jacob L. Wright | Emory University, Atlanta
Demonstrating how the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible represents the first, and one of the most elaborate, projects of 'peoplehood,' Wright tells the dramatic story of the Bible's origins in relation to 1) a longstanding political division between North and South (Israel and Judah) and 2) the traumatic experience of defeat.
500pp
Aug. 2025 9781009210867 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009210843
The Life of Jesus in the Writings of Origen of Alexandria
Samuel B. Johnson | Mount St. Mary's Seminary & School of Theology, Ohio
This study demonstrates that Origen of Alexandria believed the Gospel writers themselves were figurative readers of the life of Jesus. Origen thus found no contradiction between discerning the truth of the Christian Gospels and facing the critical challenges of their literary form and formation. 221pp
Oct. 2025 9781009465601 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009465571
The Narrative Conflict of Traditions in the Late Antique World
Cyril versus Julian Brad, Boswell | Samford University, Alabama
Drawing from philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, this book explores how Against the Galileans by Roman Emperor Julian 'the Apostate' (d.363) and Against Julian by bishop Cyril of Alexandria (d.444) were an exercise in "narrative conflict" whose aim was to demonstrate the superior explanatory power of their respective traditions' narrative.
350pp
May 2025 9781108796682 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.95
eISBN 9781108859240
Wine, Soil, and Salvation in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament
Mark, Scarlata | St Mellitus College, London
Mark Scarlata provides a biblical theology of wine in this volume through exploration of texts in the Hebrew Bible, later Jewish writings, and the New Testament. He shows how wine is intimately connected to soil, humanity, and harmony between humans and the natural world.
262pp
Oct. 2025 9781009493949 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009493901
Biblical studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible
The Feminized Hero in Second
Temple Judaism
Lawrence M. Wills | Boston University School of Theology
The turbulent Second Temple period produced searching biblical texts whose protagonist were more everyday figures who expressed their moral uncertainties more vocally. In this volume, Larry Wills offers a deep interrogation of these stories, uncovering the?psychological aspects of Jewish identity, moral life, and decisions that they explore.
174pp
Jan. 2025 9781009551113 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009551151
Buddhism, Eastern religions
The Philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita
Ithamar, Theodor | Zefat Academic College
The Bhagavad Gita is a world classic. This work by a leading Indologist further develops the works of R. C. Zaehner (1969) and Angelika Malinar (2007).
Exploring the Gita's structure in an innovative fashion, it elucidates key topics and doctrines while arguing that the Gita possesses its own discrete philosophy.
213pp
Jan. 2025 9781009487160 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009487146
Nov. 2025 9781009628457 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009628440
Church history
Christianity at the Crossroads
The Global Church from the Print Revolution to the Digital Era
David N. Hempton | Harvard University
Appreciating how and why Christianity spread throughout the world is vital not only for understanding the past but also for assessing present and future consequences and possibilities. This engaging book, by a preeminent religious historian, is for anyone interested in the connections between religion and other aspects of human culture.
270pp
Jul. 2025 9781009597432 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009597449
Death and the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity
Creating Social Identity and Emotional Communities
Maria E. Doerfler | Yale University, Connecticut
In this book, Maria Doerfler explores a body of literature that has been previously largely ignored: a collection of funerary hymns for Christians, attributed to Ephrem the Syrian. These hymns provide insights not only into Syriac Christian ideas about death and the afterlife, but also into their existence, beliefs, and practices more broadly.
385pp
Feb. 2026 9781009573788 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009573771
Margins and Peripheries in Christian History
Volume 61
David Ceri, Jones |
This volume explores Christianity's past by considering it in relation to, and from the perspective of, a variety of aspects that have been considered marginal or peripheral; these are in many cases geographical margins and peripheries but also include social, cultural or theological marginalization or historiographical neglect.
Studies in Church History
664pp
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Writing the History of Early Christianity
From Reception to Retrospection
Markus, Vinzent | King's College London Brings a new approach to the interpretation of the sources used to study the Early Christian era – reading history backwards. This book will interest teachers and students of New Testament studies from around the world of any denomination, and readers of early Christianity and Patristics.
492pp
Sep. 2025 9781009679404 Hardback GBP 65.00 / USD 105.00
eISBN 9781009679398
The
Cambridge
History of the Papacy 3 Hardback Book Set
Joëlle, Rollo-Koster | University of Rhode Island
The papacy is commonly referred to as the world's oldest surviving institution and its capacity for survival and residual strength have fascinated historians. This Cambridge History explores how and why the papacy has endured across the centuries. It examines its role as an instrument of authority, governance, and social and cultural influence.
2400pp
Mar. 2025 9781108680950 3 Hardback books GBP 310.00 / USD 420.00
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The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Intellectual and Material Transformations
Mark, Letteney | University of Washington Bringing together ancient scholarly works and the manuscripts which carry them, this study presents a new way to answer the old question 'What does it mean for Rome to become Christian?'. It demonstrates that imperial Christianity changed not just what people believe, but how people think.
306pp
Mar. 2025 9781108703215 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108647052
History of religion
God, Slavery, and Early Christianity
Divine Possession and Ethics in the Shepherd of Hermas
Chance E. Bonar | Tufts University, Massachusetts
Ancient Christians understood themselves to be enslaved to God, which affected their ethics, theology, and selfunderstanding. This book analyzes the Shepherd of Hermas, an overlooked early Christian text written by an enslaved person, which was nearly included in the New Testament, to map the effects of divine slavery.
320pp
Oct. 2025 9781009610629 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009610612
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Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination
Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity Wouter J. Hanegraaff Explores the tradition of Hermetic spirituality that flourished in Roman Egypt during the first centuries CE. It was grounded in experiential techniques that had a powerful effect on the consciousness of practitioners. Their goal was to 'heal the soul' of mental delusion and lead it to gnosis, ultimate salvational knowledge.
Jun. 2025 9781009363358 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009363341
456pp
May 2025 9781009124232 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009127936
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Knowledge, Faith, and Early Christian Initiation
Alex, Fogleman | Baylor University, Texas
Presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching. This book focuses on the critical relationship between teaching and epistemology
274pp
Apr. 2025 9781009377447 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009377430
NEW IN PAPERBACK Magic in Merlin's Realm
A History of Occult Politics in Britain
Francis, Young Francis Young boldly argues that magic has throughout the history of the British Isles been at times as culturally and politically significant as religion, when traditions of occult magic guided the hands of monarchs and rebels alike. He seeks to re-establish the connection of such beliefs with major political events.
420pp 2 b/w illus. 13 colour illus.
Jul. 2025 9781009065870 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009067133
Noah and the Flood in Western Thought
Philip C, Almond | University of Queensland
While revealing Noah as a pivotal figure in the history of Western religious thinking, Philip Almond demonstrates how the flood story also had a very significant and forgotten role in the development of secular thought, even as it is now a powerful lightning rod for gathering climatic and environmental anxieties.
396pp
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The Antichrist
A New Biography
Philip C. Almond | University of Queensland
This is the first full history of the Antichrist in twenty-five years. Written for the general reader, it tells of the history of the Antichrist in both Eastern and Western Christianity from his beginnings in the New Testament through to the present.
356pp 16 b/w illus. 16 colour illus.
Apr. 2025 9781009557221 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781009557252
Silence of the Gods
The Untold History of Europe's Last Pagan Peoples
Francis, Young | independent scholar
A masterful new history of Europe's last unchristianised peoples in the period between 1387 and 1900, from the Sámi of northern Fennoscandia to the Balts and the Finno-Ugric peoples of European Russia, exploring the reasons for their late adoption of Christianity and their creative religious responses to encounters with missionaries.
456pp
Jul. 2025 9781108790468 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108855945
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The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East
Tracing the Demographic Shift from East to West Phillip, Lieberman | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Challenges a foundational narrative of medieval Jewish history—that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia (the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam) to move from agriculture into urban crafts and long-distance trade—presenting an alternative revealing the complexity of interfaith relations in early Islam.
336pp
Jun. 2025 9781009586573 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 32.95
eISBN 9781009586559
Some New World
Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age
Peter, Harrison | University of Queensland
What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere becomes an article of faith. This disjuncture forms the basis of Peter Harrison's masterful, expansive intervention in intellectual history, as he challenges misconceptions about modernity in relation to supernaturalism and belief.
482pp
Feb. 2025 9781009060950 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009058018
The Reformation of Liturgy Matter and Time Reconceived
Lee Palmer, Wandel | University of Wisconsin, Madison
Examining churches, altars, vestments, and liturgical time through a medieval liturgist's eyes, this book offers a new understanding of the Reformation and its radical reconception of worship, matter, and time.
350pp
Jul. 2025 9781009477246 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009477215
Dec. 2025 9781009648820 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009648844
Veiling in the Late Antique World
Susanna, Drake | Macalaster College
Early Christian intellectuals used everyday practices of veiling to interpret sacred texts. These writers understood the divine as veiled, and the notion of a veiled spiritual truth informed their interpretation of the bible. This book explores the relation between the social history of the veil and the intellectual history of the concept of truth.
325pp
Nov. 2025 9781009673488 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009673518
Islam
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Fatwa and the Making and Renewal of Islamic Law
From the Classical Period to the Present Omer, Awass | American Islamic College, Chicago Examines the formation, history, and transformation of the Islamic legal discourse and institutions through the lens of a particular legal practice: the issuance of fatwas (legal opinions). Informed lay readers and scholars alike will gain from it an appreciation about the development of the Islamic legal system and its particular legal practices.
306pp
Aug. 2025 9781009260879 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009260923
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Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam
A Study on the Sermon of Fatima Mahjabeen, Dhala | Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
Appealing to individuals interested in the role of women in Islamic theology and their potential for empowering marginalized communities, this volume offers a nuanced perspective on Muslim women's agency and contributions within their cultures and societies, and further demonstrates the intersection of religion, gender studies, and social justice.
224pp
Oct. 2025 9781009423069 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781009423076
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God, Evil, and Suffering in Islam
Salih, Sayilgan | Georgetown University, Washington DC
Examines the Islamic theological approaches to the problem of evil and suffering both in theory and practice. The study does not only engages with the themes of aging, sickness, and death, it also sheds light on contemporary questions such as disability, environmental crisis, and pandemics.
218pp
Apr. 2025 9781009377324 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009377294
Pacifism and NonViolence in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy
Mapping the Paths of Peace
Tom, Woerner-Powell | University of Manchester
Combining historical analysis and contemporary interviews with Muslim peace advocates, this book develops an empirically-grounded survey of Islamic philosophies of nonviolence and a general analysis of the phenomenon. Woerner-Powell sheds light on how Islamic thought might play a larger role in secular and inter-religious debates.
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Scripture People
Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America
Matthew D. Taylor | Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Maryland
Upends narratives about 'Radical Islam' and 'Islamic fundamentalism' for readers who wants to understand the actual human beings behind those characterizations. It introduces Salafi Islam by comparison with American Evangelicalism and shows the important shifts among American Salafis after of 9/11 to integrate themselves into American culture.
358pp
Oct. 2025 9781009352741 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99
eISBN 9781009352727
The Politics of Islamic Ethics
Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition
Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande | University of Chicago Divinity School
This is the first monograph in English devoted to the central Qur'anic idea of the fiṭra: that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. Uncovering the medieval Islamic philosophical tradition's engagement with fiṭra, the author explores important and wider contested questions in contemporary ethics.
New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
348pp
Jul. 2025 9781009566186 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009566162
Judaism
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Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
Simcha, Gross | University of Pennsylvania
Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the Sasanian Empire, the book offers a more direct model of Sasanian rule, within and against which Jews invariably positioned and defined themselves.
360pp
276pp
Mar. 2025 9781009573986 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009573993
Jun. 2025 9781009280501 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009280549
The Evolution of Jewish Monotheism
'God is One,' From Antiquity to Modernity
David Michael, Grossberg | Cornell University, New York
This innovative history demonstrates the remarkable diversity encompassed by the deceptively simple Jewish statement of faith, 'God is one'. Grossberg shows how this diversity is unified in a continuous striving for knowledge of God that has been at the heart of Judaism from its earliest beginnings.
338pp
Feb. 2025 9781009569194 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009569224
Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Alex P. Jassen | New York University
Violence is one of the key themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls. In this volume, Alex P. Jassen explores the intersection of violence and power in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ancient sectarian movement which generated and preserved these texts. He offers insights into the origins and function of violence for the people behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. 279pp
Oct. 2025 9781009609081 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009609128
Philosophy of religion
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Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence
Daniel H. Weiss | University of Cambridge Argues for a fundamental rethinking of Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the Western philosophical tradition. The book uncovers new political and theological dimensions of four modern Jewish philosophers –Mendelssohn, Cohen, Rosenzweig, and Benjamin. 344pp
Religion, Dissonance, and Systems Theory
Comparing Spiritual Traditions
Ariel, Glucklich | Georgetown University, Washington DC
In this study, Ariel Glucklich provides a new approach to understanding how religious actions emerge in the context of belief systems. Providing an innovative psychological and social understanding of the causes that stimulate believers to action, he examines a range of religious phenomena in India, Israel, Austria, Italy, and the United States.
350pp
Nov. 2025 9781009634977 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009634984
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Ricœur at the Limits of Philosophy
God, Creation, and Evil
Barnabas, Aspray | University of Oxford
Introduces Ricœur in his contemporary context and shows new features of the relationship between philosophy and theology in his thought, with human finitude as its focus. Ricœur argues that the human condition is best understood as finite and created, framed between transcendence and evil.
262pp
Mar. 2025 9781009221672 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009221627
NEW IN PAPERBACK Naming God
Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture
Janet, Soskice | University of Cambridge Janet Soskice is one of the leading religious philosophers in the Englishspeaking world. This much- anticipated book deepens her path-breaking work on metaphor and religious language by arguing that we need to reject the notion of 'classical attributes' and return to the venerable theological and philosophical tradition of naming God.
258pp
Sep. 2025 9781009186759 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009186735
Saints as Divine Evidence
The Hagiological Argument for the Existence of God
Jul. 2025 9781108995085 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
eISBN 9781108993319
Qoheleth and the Philosophy of Value
Jesse M. Peterson | George Fox University
The book of Ecclesiastes is the Bible's problem child. Its probing doubts, dark ruminations, self- reflexive dialogues, and unflinching observations have puzzled and fascinated readers. This study offers a coherent portrait of the book and its author, the early Jewish sage known as Qoheleth, examining both through a philosophical lens.
320pp
Robert, MacSwain | The University of the South In this book, Robert MacSwain explores 'the hagiological argument' for God, that is, human holiness as evidence for the divine being. MacSwain surveys sainthood as understood in philosophy of religion, ethics, Christian theology, church history, comparative religion, and cultural studies.
325pp
Jan. 2026 9781009653190 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009653237
The Philosophy of Worship
Divine and Human Aspects
Jul. 2025 9781009513258 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009513227
Aaron, Segal | Hebrew University of Jerusalem This is the first volume to explore the philosophy of worship. It considers the metaphysical, ethical, and psychological issues associated with worship, among them: What, if anything, is the point of worship? What, if anything, makes a being?worthy?of worship? Can worship hold value for atheists? What, if anything, might be wrong with idolatry?
345pp
Jan. 2025 9781009460941 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009460927
What is a Person?
Realities, Constructs, Illusions
John M. Rist | University of Toronto
Explores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing impact of post-Christian culture. This book considers whether we have rights as persons, whether we 'matter', and how we have reached a position where we are not sure whether we do.
298pp
Jul. 2025 9781108746816 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108784160
Religion (general)
Abuse in New Religious Movements
Sarah, Harvey | Inform, King's College London
This Element analyses issues of abuse in new religious movements (NRMs). It argues that certain factors can be intensified in NRM contexts, not least propensities for separation from wider society, teachings on unique legitimacy and exclusivity, and charismatic authority. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in New Religious Movements
75pp
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The Ethics of Tainted
Legacies
Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts
Karen V. Guth | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
This book identifies “tainted legacies” as a pressing moral problem and constructs a typology of responses to compromised thinkers, traditions, and institutions. It is of value to general audiences and scholars in the humanities and social sciences who confront legacies tarnished by the traumas of slavery, racism, and sexual violence. 292pp
Sep. 2025 9781009114875 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009110907
Dec. 2025 9781009660860 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Dec. 2025 9781009660839 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009660853
Angels and Monotheism
Michael D. Hurley | University of Cambridge
This Element argues that angelology has been overlooked in modern theology and studying angels as divinely created beings is crucial for understanding monotheistic religions and theology as a whole. It contends that the spirit of modern science was inspired by medieval scholastics' angelological lucubrations, rather than the Scientific Revolution.
Elements in Religion and Monotheism
78pp
Theology
A Sense of the Divine
An Affective Model of General Revelation from the Reformed Tradition
N. Gray, Sutanto | Reformed Theological Seminary How should one make sense of the Christian confession that God has instilled a 'sense of divinity' in every person? This Element advances an affective model of general revelation, which draws from the writings of the neo-Calvinist branch of the Reformed tradition.
Elements in Christian Doctrine
64pp
Jan. 2025 9781009374620 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009565318 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009374644
Religious ethics
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Lying and Truthfulness
A Thomistic Perspective
Stewart, Clem | Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis
This book draws on the thought of Thomas Aquinas to provide an innovative approach to the ethics of lying and truthfulness. It offers a definitive interpretation of Aquinas's thought on the morality of lying, and it makes a novel contribution to theological ethics.
227pp
May 2025 9781009527897 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
May 2025 9781009527880 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009527910
A Theology of Home in a Time of Homelessness
Siobhán, Garrigan | Trinity College Dublin Homelessness abounds today in various forms of displacement and as a pervasive condition of unbelonging. This Element argues that for theology to play its part in ending homelessness, it must better understand its own concept of 'home'. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Christian Doctrine
74pp
Jun. 2025 9781009261388 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009261418
May 2025 9781009566285 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
May 2025 9781009566292 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99
eISBN 9781009566339
Augustine's Theology of Justification by Faith
Christopher R. Mooney | Augustine Institute, Colorado
Other than Paul, no writer has had greater influence on the theology of justification than Augustine. This study fills an astonishing lacuna in scholarship, offering the first comprehensive study of Augustine's theology of justification. It provides a developmental reading of Augustine, focusing on faith, sacraments, ecumenism, and exegesis.
350pp
Feb. 2026 9781009525534 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009525541
Catholicism: End or Beginning?
Mary, Daly
Has Catholicism reached its end or is there hope for a genuine new beginning?
This remarkably retrieved – hitherto lost and unpublished – work by iconic radical thinker Mary Daly, complemented by reflections from six preeminent feminist writers, raises profound questions that seemingly led to Daly's final break with the Catholic Church.
368pp
Jan. 2026 9781009180634 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009180641
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Constructive Theology and Gender Variance
Transformative Creatures
Susannah, Cornwall | University of Exeter
This book shows how Christian doctrines of creation and personhood respond to and are reframed by variant gender and gender transition. It offers a positive, non-oppositional account of gender transition not framed as deficit. It takes seriously trans people's self-understandings and analyses their implications for Christian theology and ethics.
Current Issues in Theology
432pp
Human Salvation in Early Christianity
Exploring the Theology of Physicalist Soteriology
Ellen, Scully | Seton Hall University, New Jersey Ellen Scully presents the first historical study of Early Christian theology regarding physicalist soteriology, a logic by which Christ's incarnation has universal effects independent of individual belief or consent. She offers an overview of the historical rise and fall of their?theological?logic of physicalist soteriology.
339pp
Feb. 2025 9781108791915 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108866828
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Dante the
Theologian
Denys, Turner | Yale University, Connecticut
This compelling new work argues that appreciation of the Divine Comedy has been hindered by lack of understanding of how Dante used theology to articulate his ideas. He should be understood not just as a poet – indeed the 'Supreme Poet', as Italians call him – but also as a remarkable theologian.
320pp
Jul. 2025 9781009168694 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009168687
Eucharist and Receptive Ecumenism
From Thanksgiving to Communion
Kimberly Hope, Belcher | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Discussions between Christians from different traditions often focus on doctrine, but for many Christians, differences in practice and worship are much more central and important. By looking at the eucharist as thanksgiving, this book bridges Catholic and Protestant practice and theology and shows a new approach to Christian unity.
254pp
Jan. 2025 9781009525336 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009525343
Jewish Theological Realism
Recovering Reference to God in Rabbinic and Modern Thought
Cass, Fisher | University of South Florida Jewish Theological Realism?restores the place of theology in rabbinic Judaism and provides resources for contemporary Jewish theological reflection. Cass Fisher uses the ideas of theological realism and theological reference to diagnose and remedy the marginalization of theology in Judaism.
350pp
Jan. 2026 9781009494915 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009494922
Political Theology and the Conflicts of Democracy
Nicholas, Norman-Krause | Belmont University
This richly textured book helps students and scholars of religion and politics to understand the surprising ways in which conflict and conciliation can renew grassroots democracy. It appraises contemporary discussions of democratic pluralism in religious and ethical theory while advancing a bold new account of conflict's religious significance.
Jun. 2025 9781108813365 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108884464
New Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
373pp
Apr. 2025 9781009603843 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009603829
Reviving Jewish Theology
Metaphysics, Hermeneutics, Ethics
Steven, Kepnes | Colgate University, New York In this study, Steven Kepnes constructs a 'positive' Jewish theology, one that gives expression to God's nature and powers and that opposes 'apophatic' Holocaust and postmodern theologies that deny the ability of language to express God's nature.
350pp
Dec. 2025 9781009399708 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009399685
Salvation in the Block Universe
Time, Tillich, and Transformation
Emily, Qureshi-Hurst | University of Oxford
Bringing together philosophy, religion, and science, this study questions if personal salvation is possible without the reality of change. Emily Qureshi-Hurst focuses on salvation in the block universe, using Paul Tillich's method of correlation to explore a methodology that makes connections between science and religion possible and desirable.
311pp
Jan. 2025 9781009494748 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009494731
The
Humanity of Christ as Instrument of Salvation
A Study in Thomistic Christology
J. David, Moser | Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology
How can God use his own human actions and sufferings to bring about those things that he causes through divine power?
To answer that question, J. David Moser here explores St. Thomas Aquinas's teaching that Christ's humanity is an instrument of the divinity.
266pp
Sep. 2025 9781009664899 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009664875
The Origins of Scholasticism
Theology and Philosophy in Paris, 1150–1250
Lydia, Schumacher | King's College London
The Origins of Scholasticism provides the first systematic account of the theological and philosophical ideas that were debated and developed by the scholars immediately before the founding of the first official university at Paris. This volume shows how earlier scholastic thinkers laid the groundwork for the emergence of theology as a discipline.
574pp
Nov. 2025 9781009323994 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781009323987
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