Philosophy New Books January-March 2026

JANUARY - MARCH 2026

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Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies

UK January 2026

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• 30 bw illus

368 Pages

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Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies

UK February 2026 • US February 2026

240 Pages

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Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies

UK February 2026

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Phenomenology of Tea

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Dialogue on Japanese Aesthetics

Adam Loughnane, University College Cork, Ireland

An ideal introduction for students new to Japanese philosophy and aesthetics, Phenomenology of Tea invites readers into a dialogue throughout the fascinating aesthetic worlds of the Japanese tea ceremony, delving into its rich history, its philosophical influences and religious backgrounds all synthesized into a ritual, which brings Japanese culture to one of its highest expressions

Tea guests begin their tour by discussing the deep intercultural challenges with foreign intellectual and artistic traditions, considering phenomenology and Kyoto School philosophy as means for bridging Eastern and Western worlds Throughout the journey, the astonishing elements of the ceremony provoke discussion on the aesthetics of landscape gardening, of stone, vegetation, and water, and their philosophical significance in Buddhism, Daoism and Shintoism Once inside the hut, the profound beauty of tea is revealed through traditional aesthetic practices of calligraphy, poetry, architecture, flower arranging, and pottery As the plenitude of philosophic and aesthetic experience culminates in the first sip of matcha, readers are transported by way of Buddhist ideas into the world of Japanese cinema, where all ideas about the ceremony dissolve into emptiness

Doing African Philosophy Beyond Textuality and Individual Authorship

Elvis Imafidon, SOAS University, UK

What defines a philosophical tradition? The primacy of the written text and individual authorship are two major defining and interwoven credentials that have been used to deny African philosophical thought prior to the postcolonial phase In this significant contribution to the search for identity and authenticity of African philosophy, Elvis Imafidon questions the relevance of authorship and textuality in the production, storage and transmission of knowledge Drawing from the rich and robust philosophical heritages of sub-Saharan African traditions, he showcases the many non-textual and textual ways philosophy is collaboratively and intersubjectively done and critiqued

His focus is on two major repositories of philosophical knowledges: orality and symbolism Storytelling, adages, names and naming, folklores, proverbs and forms of symbolically encoded knowledges found in artefacts, symbols, textile patterns, motifs and corporeal and performative arts contest dominant narratives They ask us to rethink the logic of binaries between literacy and illiteracy, text and non-text, and speech and writing Paying close attention to the Binis and Esans in Southern Nigeria, the Akans and Gas in Ghana, the Shonas in Zimbabwe, and the Zulu people in South Africa, Imafidon affirms the place of orality, symbolic art and different indigenous methods for philosophising

232 Pages

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Environmental Equity in China and Beyond Past, Present, and Future

Michael Nylan, University of California at Berkeley, USA & Thomas Hahn

Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China

Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice Nylan’s analysis of lesser known texts from ancient China changes our thinking of Chinese political philosophy and legal antiquity codes Hahn’s comprehensive overview of recent data from China offers a response to the present crisis Their original approach underscores why environmentalism is always more than a Western issue

By applying ancient ideas to an urgent topic with a unique emphasis on East Asia, this one-of-a-kind guide to environmental thought challenges standard narratives It is essential reading for anyone looking to understand how classical Chinese concepts can provide the necessary tools to improve how we think about the world we live in

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African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue

UK January 2026

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144 Pages

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Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

UK February 2026

200 Pages

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On Mabogo P. More’s Extended Thought Tendayi Sithole

Mabogo P More’s understanding of philosophical anthropology as the project that is concerned about the human question profoundly impacted how he accounted for the very idea of a black point of view This book investigates how More’s extended thought generatively engages in themes like the name, principle, antiblackness, blackness, and Azania With a Black and decolonial intertextuality, it explores ways in which More viewed philosophy not as an abstraction, but as a concrete and material project, one he sought to turn toward calls for justice, for challenging the antiblackness that pervaded post-1994 South Africa, and for a liberated Azania Demonstrating just how much the South African experience can contribute to the often North-American-centered field of Black studies, the book shows how a politics centered on Black social interests must navigate between the temptations of Marxism and liberalism in order to find its own way towards liberation At the long arc of the human question, which is at the core of philosophical anthropology, More’s extended thought makes a case for being-black-in-the-world as opposed to being-black-in-an-antiblack-world

Nishidian Philosophy and The Body

Unraveling the Difficulty of Living

Itabashi Yu jin, Rissho University, Japan

Translated by Takeshi Morisato, KU Leuven, Belgium & Cody Staton, Kennesaw State University, USA

An English translation of Itabashi Yu jin's reading of Nishida Kitaro's philosophy of the body that connects to problems in everyday life

Using the major Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro as a guide, Itabashi Yu jin thinks through what it means to be and have a tensed-up body under conditions of societal control, be it during the pandemic or due to certain aesthetic regimes that declare what an optimal body should be

Yu jin unravells the bodily tensing response to such conditions This systematic exploration into how aspects of Nishidian philosophy, including the relationship between the self and the other, is set in relation to being embodied in a certain time and place

By reflecting on the difficulty of living well, Yu jin offers a fresh interpretation of Nishida and a timely investigation of the role of the body in modern Japanese society This exploration of the relationship between the self and the world reveals the lasting impact of Nishida’s philosophy

Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language Mohist Concepts, Practices, and Texts Season Blake, Occidental College, USA

Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language characterizes early Chinese philosophy of language through a focus on standards (‘fa’) It argues that standards are understood by early Chinese philosophies to provide the groundwork for language, not only in the Mohist and so-called “Legalist” schools of Zhuangzi and Xunzi, but more widely in syncretic, Confucian, and Daoist texts from the Warring States and early Han This book demonstrates that standards act as the Chinese counterpart of reference, classifying judgments, linguistic competence, class membership, and concepts found in contemporary analytic texts In particular, Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language provides a way to account for the reference of our words, and can account for error in a way that characterizes it in a very different way to the analytic tradition

Providing new insights into ancient Chinese thought, this book will be of interest to those working in comparative philosophy, Chinese philosophy and East Asian studies

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Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought

UK January 2026 • US November 2025

280 Pages • 1 bw illus

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Rethinking Political Crisis and Collapse

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil

Edited by Antonio Calcagno, King's University College, Western University, Canada & Mark Yenson

Responses, both critical and constructive, to changing realities in modern politics and society

In gathering these essays, Antonio Calcagno and Mark Yenson have chosen the conceptual lens of crisis and collapse, not in the spirit of lamenting or decrying the death of a once-enjoyed, but now lost, state of affairs Rather, they seek to understand what the concepts of crisis and collapse mean, how they are deployed in various situations, and how they are used to explain shifts in politics and society The contributing scholars featured in this volume demonstrate how two important political thinkers imagined new worlds and social orders that could arise from significant change brought on by forms of crisis and collapse Through their work, Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil offer new generative visions of what it is to be human in a time when our very understanding of humanity is changing

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The Works of Emanuele Severino

UK January 2026 • US January 2026

200 Pages

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The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time On the Technological Destiny of the West Emanuele Severino Translated by Antimo Lucarelli, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK

The Fundamental Tendency of Our Times (Tendenza) is the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino’s crucial reflection on modern technology and science, in which he articulates his major contribution to the analysis of Western modernity: the claim that, beginning with Greek civilization, a nihilistic spirit of domination informs our conceptual and social systems.

In this book Severino applies his framework to the geopolitical situation before the fall of the Berlin Wall; yet his insights have continuing relevance in light of the current threat of ecological collapse accelerated by an orientation to the world as an object of exploitation

Significant for its parallels with, and differences from, Heidegger's discussion of technology, this book's explicit discussion of politics gives essential clarification to Severino's notoriously complex philosophical discourse With a foreword contextualizing the historical moment of its publication, this first English translation will be invaluable for those interested in understanding the thought of one of the most remarkable Italian theorists of the 20th century

Published with the kind support of SEPS (Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche)

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248 Pages

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An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought From Posthumanism to Cyberfascism

Tim Christiaens, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Joost de Bloois, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands & Stijn De Cauwer, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy But what are the latest developments since Italian theory rose to a peak of popularity in the 2000s? This book offers an accessible and incisive introduction to contemporary Italian thought, revealing above all its continued relevance to some of the most pressing political, social and ethical conflicts today

Broadening the idea of Italian thought beyond biopolitics, An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought engages with a number of leading and upcoming philosophers, including Silvia Federici, Rosi Braidotti, Donatella di Cesare, Emanuele Coccia, Sandro Mezzadra, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi and Federico Luisetti It demonstrates how Italian theory resonates in a wide variety of current debates, from digital technology, pandemics and populism to cyberfascism, environmentalism and decolonization This not only uncovers the fruitfulness of Italian philosophy but further allows for fresh perspectives on debates dominated by well-trodden arguments In consideration of populism, this book does not so much examine Donald Trump but rather turns to Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgia Meloni, just as its discussions of the digitization of work look beyond Silicon Valley to working conditions in EU and Global South from the perspective of Italian (post)workerism, and the Anthropocene is considered in light of radical zoological egalitarianism as it emerges in contemporary Italian thought

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280 Pages

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Gabriel Marcel and F H Bradley

Enemies of Abstraction

Joseph Gamache

The first sustained scholarly treatment of the influence of F H Bradley on the work of Gabriel Marcel

This book argues that studying the philosophical work of Gabriel Marcel together with that of F H Bradley is mutually illuminating for our understanding of each philosopher Marcel’s more dramatic, existential, and phenomenological work illustrates the significance and relevance of what seems, at first glance, to be the dry metaphysics of Bradley Bradley’s philosophy helps explain the metaphysical relevance of Marcel’s thought, as well as supply the needed theoretical elaboration of key concepts that Marcel left underdeveloped The author takes the reader through a series of fundamental metaphysical issues, including truth, the nature of immediate experience, abstraction, identity, personhood, and God The book concludes by suggesting that a synthesis of the insights of Marcel and Bradley yields a novel version of philosophical personalism the view that humans are the most metaphysically fundamental and morally valuable beings that exist

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Edith Stein Studies

UK January 2026 • US January 2026

176 Pages • 4 bw illus

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Edith Stein Studies

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Edith Stein Studies

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256 Pages

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Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities A Companion

Edited by Valentina Gaudiano

This book offers tools for a deeper reading and understanding of Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities

Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities is a pioneering exploration of the intersection between psychology, philosophy, and human sciences Written in the aftermath of World War I, the book delves into the interplay between individual and collective experience, examining how empathy, motivation, and causality shape our understanding of human behaviour Through a meticulous phenomenological approach, Stein analyses prevailing psychological theories and highlights the necessity of integrating the spiritual and material dimensions of human existence In this timeless contribution to philosophy, psychology, and social thought, Stein challenges disciplinary boundaries and anticipates debates on interdisciplinary research, offering a unique framework for understanding the human person not only as an individual but also as a participant in societal structures This companion emphasizes the ways in which Stein’s analysis persists as a call for a holistic approach to the complexities of human experience

Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue

Edited by Timothy A Burns, Travis Lacy & Eric Mohr

The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation

This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler ’s respective work Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological resources in their philosophical explorations, and maintained a lifelong interest in the human person It examines key themes such as the human person, spirit (Geist), education (Bildung), and social ontology, demonstrating their historical importance and contemporary relevance The authors argue that reading these philosophers together is essential for understanding their historical significance and for illuminating contemporary concerns both within and beyond academia The volume also features the first English translation of Edith Stein’s seminal essay, “The Meaning of Phenomenology as Worldview ”

Value Phenomenology

Taking Account of Edith Stein’s Contributions

Mette Lebech

Explores Edith Stein’s phenomenology of values as found in her early work specifically her Contributions to a Philosophical Foundation for Psychology and the Humanities (1922)

Mette Lebech makes a constructive exposition of Stein’s phenomenology of values by discussing the experience of value and motivation (Part I), that which is constituted in value-response (Part II), and how certain later approximations of valuephenomenology can be completed by means of it (Part III) Stein’s synthesis of Husserl’s project of founding the sciences with Scheler ’s phenomenological discussion of values, emotion, and sociality carries Stein’s specific contributions These are 1) the distinction between psychic causality and motivation, which allows for a clear interpretation of how emotion relates to values (Part I) and 2) the understanding of how the experience of value and preference leads us to constitute the personal “I,” the basis for the value hierarchy, the psyche, the structure of intersubjectivity (with its three modalities, mass, association and community), the world, and the real world (Part II) Finally, a Steinian discussion of the vestiges of value phenomenology found in Heidegger, Levinas, and de Beauvoir contextualises the investigation (Part III)

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320 Pages

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Emotions and Community

An

Ontological Account

Daniel Rueda Garrido

Emotions are intrinsically linked to our forms of life the unique, shared ways of being and acting that shape our identity

This book redefines emotions as embodied actions, rather than mere internal states Through an ontological approach, Daniel Rueda Garrido explores how fundamental emotions like joy, fear, love, and anger are woven into the fabric of our communities, influencing who we are and how we interact with one another Moving beyond traditional psychology and naturalism, this approach reveals that these emotions are not just internal experiences, but essential expressions of our collective, self-imposed ways of living within a community Rueda’s exploration offers a deeper understanding of selfconsciousness and challenges traditional ways of thinking about emotional existence It reveals the profound connection between feeling, action, and belonging

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280 Pages

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A Phenomenology of Love as Event

Bultmann Beyond Heidegger

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere, KU Leuven, Belgium

Rescuing Rudolf Bultmann from Heidegger ’s shadow, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere presents a philosophical reading of his theology, which reveals his unique phenomenology of love as an event.

Bultmann (1884-1976) is often regarded as a mere footnote to Heidegger ’s philosophy: a theologian whose thought was principally built on the Heideggerian analytic of human finitude Yet, by reading Bultmann anew, this book rejects that idea as a misunderstanding

Guiding the reader through his argument in a clear and compelling style, Cassidy-Deketelaere reveals how Bultmann understands the experience of love as not being limited to an empirical occurrence but rather having a truly transcendental scope: what phenomenologists would now call ‘event’ With this, Bultmann’s theology not only resolves the critique of Heidegger ’s method as precluding a dynamic between the empirical and transcendental, but provides a new alternative paradigm of human finitude based on love

Through his theological writings, Bultmann shows us that love is the central experience of human existence, one that transforms the being of Dasein, despite Heidegger never allowing for it

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Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence Freedom, Nature and Agency

Christopher Falzon, Newcastle University, UK

In an original approach to Foucault’s philosophy, Christopher Falzon argues for a reading of Foucault as a philosopher of finite transcendence, and explores its implications for ethics

In order to distinguish Foucault’s position, Falzon charts the historical trajectory of transcendence as a philosophical concept, starting with the radical notion of transcendence that was introduced by Plato, and which reappears in various forms in subsequent thinkers from the Stoics to Descartes, and from Kant to Sartre He argues that Foucault’s critique of the transcendent subject of humanism is a rejection not of transcendence per se but of radical transcendence in its distinctively modern form As such, he shows how Foucault’s conceptualisation of transcendence as finite enables a picture of the human being as neither fully determined nor a creature of infinite possibilities, but as both subject and object, affected by but also able to affect the world

With the notion of finite transcendence Falzon captures the essence of Foucault’s unique philosophy and provides a new insight into his contribution to ethics Demonstrating its contemporary relevance, Foucault and the History of Philosophical Transcendence further explores the potential application of Foucault’s approach to the current ecological crisis

Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought

Critique, Politics, Philosophy

Edited by Jussi Palmusaari, King's College London, UK & Nicolas Schneider, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany

Exploring the critical potential of place in continental philosophy, Possibilities of Place in Continental Thought tests the political and ontological valences of this concept to go beyond the limits of existing geographical and phenomenological approaches

Considering place as emergent, relational and enveloping, or in connection to passage, becoming or redemption, the contributions to this volume point to the possibilities inherent in philosophical uses of place By rejecting a singular and homogenous theory of place, this collection collapses the dichotomies that tend to characterize the discourse on place in favour of a plural conceptualization It draws attention to the spatial and temporal dynamics within varying theoretical and historical contexts and moves the field forward in significant and vital ways

The Philosophy of Emmanuel Falque Finitude and Incarnation

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere, KU Leuven, Belgium

This volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of key contemporary French thinker, Emmanuel Falque Dedicating each chapter to the main themes in his thought, this book unpacks Falque’s methodology, anthropology, phenomenology, Christian philosophy, and notions of embodiment, and further demonstrates how the concept of ‘incarnation’ is Falque’s guiding thread throughout

Following Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion, continental philosophy of religion has to a large extent become a philosophy of religious experience Emmanuel Falque, however, leads a new generation of philosophers urging a more careful consideration of human finitude, the interaction between philosophy and theology, and the position of atheism Offering not just an alternative way of doing philosophy and theology, Falque argues that thinking itself exists in the transformation of one by the other

This book presupposes no detailed knowledge of Falque or topics animating contemporary French philosophy and Catholicism Rather, in a clear and accessible style, Deketelaere contextualises the development of Falque’s philosophy in the French intellectual landscape and showcases the originality and internal coherence of his distinct philosophical approach

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Schizoanalytic Applications

UK February 2026 • US February 2026

192 Pages

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Agamben's Ethics of the Happy Life Beyond Nihilism and Morality

Ype de Boer, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Ype de Boer invites you to rethink what you know about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben

In a compelling and original argument, De Boer contends that, in the work of Agamben, ethics takes primacy over politics Presenting a careful evaluation of Agamben’s overlooked contribution to ethics, this book explores his enigmatic yet central concept of the ‘happy life’

By reading Agamben’s philosophy in terms of a ‘poetico-philosophical experiment’ – a term coined by the Italian philosopher himself, and one through which he questions our very mode of existence – De Boer assesses the variety of ethical paradigms that Agamben’s work offers This not only challenges the widespread misconception of Agamben as the ‘dark prophet’ known for his pessimistic, even nihilistic political critiques, but reveals how understanding the various facets of the ‘happy life’ allows for a better appreciation of his attacks on the ethico-political condition Agamben's Ethics and the Happy Life demonstrates that ultimately Agamben seeks to formulate an alternative notion of ethics, politics and ontology that will lead us out of nihilism

Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime Idea and Individuation

Louis Schreel, Ghent University, Belgium

What becomes of the sublime today, in a philosophy that discards the old oppositions between body and mind and embeds human reason in the creative evolution of life? In this book, Louis Schreel shows how Gilles Deleuze’s life-long engagement with the Kantian sublime grappled with just this question Its core argument centres on Deleuze’s understanding of the sublime in terms of psychic individuation – a creative, self-organizing process that animates cognitive systems from within

Exploring Deleuze’s transcendental philosophy through central concepts of self-organization, psychic individuation, passibility and infinity, this book shows how a new notion of the sublime emerges in a timely and novel way In this way, Deleuze and the Immanent Sublime opens up an innovative perspective on transcendental philosophy, shedding new light on Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism both in relation to Kant and to contemporary cognitive science Engagement with previously untranslated writings from thinkers including Jean Petitot, Gilbert Simondon, Henri Maldiney and Erwin Straus adds further breadth to the development of Deleuze’s ideas on the sublime in this systematic study

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism

Edited by Ananya Roy Pratihar, Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India, Saswat Samay Das, Indian Institute of Technology, India & Emine Gorgul, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey

Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capitalist scholarship. It maps the critical new assemblages emerging out of decades of neoliberalism to diagnose contemporary and future discontent

Working alongside other forms of inquiry into the post-neoliberal era, the volume proposes a novel combination of ethics and Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy to understand the post-neoliberal era Contributors argue that current critiques of neoliberalism ignore the determining role of colonialism and the accelerated threat of climate breakdown They highlight the precariousness of our planetary existence and propose new forms of inquiry into Deleuzo-Guattarian becoming Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism considers new modes of capitalism, societies built on exhaustion, digital power, education, agroforestry, as well as literary texts that characterise the post-neoliberal era Alongside these critical positions, the volume uses an ethical framework to challenge dialectical divisions in neoliberal critique In the process, the essays remap the antagonisms, discontents and tensions of current post-neoliberal becoming

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American Philosophy Series

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Bloomsbury Handbooks

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The Reinvention of Idealism

John William Miller and Other Navigators of the Critical Turn in American Philosophy

Katie Terezakis

To understand the role Kant’s critical idealism has played in the development of American philosophies, one must understand why the classical American pragmatists, different realists, and other anti-ideal theorists reject Kant’s critical project, no less than how idealism has been evolving in transcendental linguistics, in philosophies of history and of technology, and in ethics This book reconstructs the little-known system of twentieth-century American philosopher John William Miller (1895–1978), who contributed to the reinvention of critical idealism in ways that might have been too radical for his own moment, but which bear importance for ours American philosophies tend to first fix their positions by the lodestar of Kantianism, even if their goal is to move away from it The book tracks encounters with critical idealism among the classical American pragmatists, and in more recent expressions of anti-ideal theory and object-oriented ontology It assesses Sellars’ transcendental linguistics and Korsgaard’s philosophy of agency as well as pragmatist feminist reconsiderations of the source of normative commitments Along the way, the work finds the critical project to be evolving still, albeit in ways not anticipated by Kant

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Existentialism

Edited by Jack Reynolds, Deakin University, Australia, Ashley Woodward, Dundee University, UK & Felicity Joseph, University of New England, Australia

This fully revised and updated 2nd edition provides a comprehensive reference guide to existentialism, featuring key chapters on key existentialist thinkers, as well as chapters applying existentialism to subject areas ranging across politics, literature, feminism, religion, the emotions, cognitive science, and poststructuralism

Contemporary developments in the field of existentialism that speak to issues of identity and exclusion are explored in 4 new chapters on race, gender, disability, and technology, whilst the 5th new chapter new chapter outlines analytic philosophy’s complicated relationship to existentialism Presenting the field of existentialism beyond the European tradition, this edition also includes a new key thinker chapter on Frantz Fanon, alongside Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir, as well as new engagement with the work of scholars on race and existentialism, including Lewis R Gordon, George Yancy, and Richard Wright

The resources section at the end of the book includes an updated A to Z glossary, and timeline of key events, texts and thinkers in existentialism, as well as a list of relevant organisations, and an annotated guide to further reading, making this 2nd edition an invaluable text for scholars and students alike

Interfaces

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Why Plato Matters Now

Angie Hobbs

Does Plato matter? An ancient philosopher whose work inspired and informed countless thinkers and poets across the centuries, his ideas are no longer taught so widely as they once were But, as Angie Hobbs argues in this clear-sighted book, that is a mistake

If we want to understand the world we live in – from AI to politics, cancel culture and beauty – there is no place better to start than with Plato Exploring the intersection between the ancient and the modern, Professor Hobbs examines women’s rights, healthcare, happiness, elitism, death, love and reality using Plato’s wisdom She also shows us how we can use the Socratic method that Plato taught to better understand his own philosophy, and how it relates to our lives today

All of Plato’s major works and ideas are explained with clarity suitable for readers familiar with his work as well as those approaching Plato for the first time This book shows us why Plato matters, now more than ever

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Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood

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by

Ugo Zilioli,

University of Oxford, UK & Jan Westerhoff, Oxford University, UK

Key areas and aspects of ancient philosophy in Greek and Indian Buddhist traditions are illuminated in this collection

Covering an extended period of time, from early (5th century BC), through Hellenism, to post-Hellenistic times (up to the 7th century AD) it begins by focusing on historical themes and methods in ancient Greece and India This sketch of historical and philosophical connections between the regions, from Classical times to post-Hellenism, sets the ground for deeper exploration between these two traditions

Attention is placed on reality and selfhood An international team of contributors deal with topics including consciousness, personal identity and personhood They tackle metaphysical questions about composition and material constitution of things, shedding light on the challenges Greek and Buddhist thinkers faced

Converging analyses and shared themes are identified in a substantive introduction to the collection This is an important contribution to the growing literature in ancient comparative philosophy

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Aristotle's Biosphere Substance, Design, Politics, and Culture

Jeremy Kirby

Aristotle displays a keen interest in life and living beings, but he doesn’t separate the biological from the artificial, and he describes organisms as skillfully constructed phenomena that extend beyond their individual bodies

The questions that proliferate around our ideas of the living and the artificial are perennial, and this book explores how Aristotle’s framing of matters can shed light on them Textual evidence does not require a reading of living and nonliving or substance and artifact as procrustean discrete classes, but as contraries that admit of intermediaries, and the artifact can provide some analogical explanation of the natural substance If a beaver dam, for instance, occupies an intersection between the two, then Aristotle may countenance a similar phenomenon in the realms of politics, art, and ethics

Jeremy Kirby argues that the state would satisfy Aristotle’s criteria associated with both the artificial and the natural The book also draws connections between what Aristotle calls natural virtue to virtue obtained via habituation and training

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Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism Democracy in Early Modern Philosophy Alessandro Mulieri, CNRS Lyon, France

Machiavelli, Aristotle, and Popular Republicanism offers the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Machiavelli, Aristotle, and the Aristotelian tradition Alessandro Mulieri shows that the conceptual language of Aristotelianism not only shaped some of Machiavelli’s most radical ideas but also played a key role in the development of his popular republican thought and his critique of classical republicanism

Employing an interdisciplinary approach that blends the history of political thought, political theory, and the history of philosophy, the book presents an original interpretation of Machiavelli’s engagement with five Aristotelian themes: the nature of political science, the relationship between virtue and fortune, the preservation of tyranny, the premodern notion of democracy as “the rule of the poor”, and the prudence of the multitude

By analysing a wide range of Latin and vernacular Aristotelian texts circulating in Machiavelli’s time, alongside works by several Renaissance thinkers, the book addresses longstanding challenges in interpreting Machiavelli’s relationship with ancient, medieval, and early modern sources, revealing the selective and profoundly strategic nature of his engagement with the premodern tradition

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Prehistoric Philosophy

The Neolithic Revolution, Indigenous Critique, and the Myths of Civilization

Justin Pack, California State University, Stanislaus, USA

Prehistoric Philosophy challenges the narrative of progress and other civilizational myths by looking at their origins in the neolithic revolution

Once we reject the simplistic and often racist stereotyping of hunter-gatherers, the agricultural revolution no longer appears as the first step of human progress, but rather as a messy, brutal shift that unleashed a host of evils into the world: inequality, hierarchy, disease, empire, warfare, patriarchy, slavery, and environmental destruction

Building on the success of Graeber and Wengrow’s ground-breaking The Dawn of Everything, Justin Pack reads the neolithic revolution together with indigenous critiques, using each to strengthen our understanding of the other In doing so, he helps us to understand the concerns of many indigenous communities, and forces us to recognize our role in the death of the cosmos Building on this, the book illuminates the rise of the world’s major religious and philosophical traditions in the axial age as different attempts to make sense of, justify, or escape the evils of inequality, disease, empire, and the loss of cosmic civility By advancing the notion of a ‘prehistoric philosophy,’ this volume simultaneously interrogates the colonialism inherent in the Western philosophy canon

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I Think of You Constantly with Love

The Letters of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards

Edited by Alfred Schmidt & Gabriel Citron, Princeton University, USA

Ludwig Wittgenstein met Ben Richards, a medical student, in autumn 1945 It was the beginning of a deep and tempestuous relationship which lasted until Wittgenstein’s death Their correspondence starts in the summer of 1946 and consists of more than 370 letters, notes, telegrams and photographs The final letter was sent a week before Wittgenstein died in April 1951

Often defined by his arrogance, difficulty and critical nature of others, Wittgenstein writes letters to Richards which give us another window into his character Their letters manifest an emotional closeness which is remarkable and unparalleled in Wittgenstein’s voluminous correspondence They leave no doubt that Ben Richards was Wittgenstein's closest friend in these last years of his life – indeed, perhaps the greatest love of his life

Now available for the first time, the letters between Wittgenstein and Richards provide a wholly new perspective on the last years of Wittgenstein’s life: his last years teaching in Cambridge, the resignation of his chair in Cambridge at the end of 1947, and the ensuing restless years spent trying to find a quiet place to do philosophy and complete his magnum opus, the Philosophical Investigations

Their letters are further proof of the extent to which Wittgenstein’s life was inseparable from his philosophy They are an opportunity to come closer to understanding the work of this intellectual giant, telling us more about the values and beliefs of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers

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A History of Philosophy

The Condensed Copleston

Anthony Carroll & Frederick Copleston

A history of philosophy from the origins of reason in Ancient Greece to the most influential philosophers working today, this long-awaited single volume companion to Frederick Copleston's historic 11-volume series is a musthave for any aspiring philosopher

Frederick Copleston’s 11-volume A History of Philosophy has been the go-to reference for philosophers and students for decades It is universally recognized as a classic and sits on the shelf of countless leading thinkers today This companion to Copleston’s landmark work contains clear and succinct analyses of the major events and texts in philosophy, exploring the foundational principles and ideals that drove the development of Western thought It grapples with the sometimes complex views and teachings of the greatest minds in philosophy, explaining their work with clarity and elegance

An accessible journey through this epic and deeply human history, Carroll succinctly condenses Copleston’s thought while expanding on contemporary and world philosophy From the early teachings of Socrates to the medieval philosophies of Christian Europe, the Enlightenment and the radical arguments of the Existentialists, Carroll adeptly explores the common threads and themes that have united all rational enquiries into the fundamental nature of reality

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Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society

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Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek

Edited by Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy,

Germany

Judgements about the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme

Critics accuse him of charlatanism, whilst others laude his genius But beyond these antipodes of veneration and disdain, there is a third Žižek – a subtle and nuanced thinker who, like none other of his generation, has stimulated philosophical debates that radiate far beyond philosophy’s borders into all disciplines of the humanities Žižek has achieved this through both his radical materialist reinterpretation of German idealism, especially Hegel’s legacy, and through a combination of Marxist critique with the philosophy of psychoanalysis as developed by Freud and Lacan With this theoretical background, he has produced more than 50 books focused on classical questions of ontology, epistemology, the philosophy of subjectivity and cultural theory

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Slavoj Žižek brings together internationally renowned philosophers whose work over the past three decades has engaged with, and been informed by, Žižek’s philosophy Its chapters introduce readers to his life, his works, and his theories

Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education

Edited by Brandon Absher

In this edited collection, philosophers and critical theorists develop theoretical tools to conceptualize and evaluate the neoliberal university, working together both to interrogate how it reproduces systems of oppression and exploitation and to identify more liberatory and egalitarian alternatives

Acting and organizing within and against neoliberalized higher education in the Western capitalist world, the international group of scholars included in this volume experience the contradictions and possibilities of the contemporary configuration of the university daily And yet the crisis in higher education is only one aspect of a much broader social crisis in which neoliberalism and related social inequalities, rapid climate change, de-democratization, rising authoritarianism, war, and genocide interconnect Edited by Brandon Absher, this volume critiques and intervenes in higher education in the midst of this unprecedented social and natural crisis; at once to expose its structure and inadequacies and to envision an alternative based on the principle of the commons

What can higher education be, and how might it contribute to a more just, egalitarian, and liberated world?

Veritocracy

Truth, Science, and How to Preserve Democracy

Harry Collins & Robert Evans

Western democracies are suffering from populism, verging on fascism, because of the erosion of truth. This book argues that truth can grow out of citizenship education in how science really works, allied with an explicit culture of truth among politicians

While science operates outside the timescale of politics, it can serve as an object lesson for political decision-making under democracy Using the examples of disease prevention and climate change, Harry Collins and Robert Evans show why citizens would be wise to trust the substantive findings of science as well as its moral culture They also present demarcation criteria for distinguishing between real expertise and populist claims and also for distinguishing between real science and contenders for that title that do not deserve the moniker

The solution the authors propose – veritocracy, a democracy with truth at its heart – is incompatible with either left or right totalitarianism and with meaningless slogans To establish veritocracies we must start with a new approach to science education

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The Politics of the Wretched Race, Reason, and Ressentiment

Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA

The Politics of the Wretched argues for ressentiment's generative negativity, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective “No”. Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche's philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying ressentiment – private and public use – by substituting ressentiment for reason This reinterpretation argues for a public use of ressentiment, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause

A public use of ressentiment rails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists on ressentiment's generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective “No Reframing ressentiment as a tool to oppose the evils of capitalism, anti-Blackness, and neocolonialism, it both alarms the liberal gatekeepers of the status quo and promises to energize the anti-racist Left in its ongoing struggles for universal justice and emancipation

Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

30th Anniversary Edition

Lewis R Gordon

In this contemporary classic, Lewis Gordon presents his iconic, detailed existential phenomenological investigation of antiblack racism as a form of Sartrean bad faith Bad faith, the attitude in which human beings attempt to evade freedom and responsibility, is treated as a constant possibility of human existence Antiblack racism, the attitude and practice that involves the construction of black people as fundamentally inferior and subhuman, is examined as an effort to evade the responsibilities of a human and humane world Gordon argues that the concept of bad faith militates against any human science that is built upon a theory of human nature and as such offers an analysis of antiblack racism that stands as a challenge to our ordinary assumptions of what it means to be human

A foundational text in black existentialism, this 30th anniversary edition includes a substantial introduction by Mabogo Moreto address the ongoing importance of Gordon’s thought in critiquing and resisting racist bad faith in our contemporary moment

Punk Anarchism

An Anti-Politics of Resistance

Sean Parson, Northern Arizona University, USA

Punk Anarchism is a radical critique of contemporary politics, offering an alternative framework rooted in anarchism, punk rock, dadaism, situationism and political nihilism

Arguing that traditional approaches to political change are ineffective in the face of the climate crisis and the failures of liberal institutions, the book advocates for rejecting the possibility of meaningful political change within the existing political system

Drawing on historical cultural movements like the Russian and Japanese nihilists of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Sean Parson calls for a politics of pure negation, centered on the destruction of the current social order, rather than its reform –advocating for a revolutionary politics that embraces resentment against the wealthy and rejects hierarchical power dynamics Punk Anarchism asks: what if resistance were motivated by a sense of playfulness and enjoyment, rather than hope for a better future? Ultimately, Parson proposes an anti-theory of negation as a way to imagine political agency beyond traditional frameworks

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Writings on Art and Politics

Boris Groys Edited by Marcus Hurwitz, Individual philosopher

To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories – it’s art, or it's garbage Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that simply lie there The difference between them comes when we immunize art from the destructive power of time to which we devoutly deliver our garbage

In this collection of essays and interviews, Groys expounds on these paradoxes, taking in art, the dialectic of work, the afterlife, politics, utopia, philosophy, faith, revolution, the avant-garde and digitalization His philosophical writings critique the political economy of heterotopia, whereas his writings on art concern the things of the afterlife: only the politics of immortality promises salvation from the garbage pit

Groys sees the history of class struggle as a history of aestheticization - defined by the forms spectators recognize as valuable enough to preserve, which they will fight to the death to preserve from disappearance and nonexistence Western civilization's tendency to aestheticize politicizes everything If we can design ourselves as artworks worthy of admiration and care, then can we too survive the ravages of time?

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Futures Theory

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Future's Theory

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Future's Theory

Philosophies of the World to Come

Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Babson College, USA

What are the most radical transformations on the horizon of our world? And how are they irreversibly altering our experience of time, movement, language, mind, body, virtuality, power, and nature?

Cloaked in relative obscurity, future eras compel the invention of new techniques of visionary speculation Future’s Theory provides many, shining a light on the infinity of possible futurities from multiple astonishing perspectives Exploring how we imagine new ages in the 21st century, the book examines how alternate future dimensions will affect everything from our culture to our politics, our bodies to our minds

Filled with original work from over 20 prominent thinkers in the domains of literature, philosophy, visual art, architecture, design, media studies, ecology, anthropology, it features immersive entries on phenomena including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, mass migration, speed, climate, geo-engineering, and automation Contemplating the variables that will expand and distort these fields, Future’s Theory opens up a new atmosphere for thought itself in the epochs to come

Spectral Futures

Fabulations of Worlds to Come

Edited by Bernd Herzogenrath, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

What colour is the future – or rather, what colors are the futures? Broad and enlightening in its coverage, this collection explores the notion that there is not just one visualization of the future, but many, stretching across and beyond shades of utopian brightness and dystopian darks Visiting futures that belong to the realm of ghosts, it calls for a hauntology that deals not only with spectres of the past but also the of future, offering a fascinating engagement with both colonial history and hyper-accelerated societies

Guided by a diversity of colours, contributors speculate on non-anthropogenic futurities, theorising on the richness of an essentially complex and disordered material universe The volume’s critical approaches range from speculative realism, oceanic biology, and philosophy and politics, to posthumanism and queer theory What all these offerings have in common is a strong focus on materiality, the inhuman, and the innovative possibilities that are brought into light by this ‘fabulated spectrum’ They combine the potentialities of philosophy, art, and science, in that they all forge a relation to chaos, or, an undeterminable ‘new ’ Powerful and thought-provoking, this book illuminates different possibilities of gazing upon futures in nuanced and novel ways

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Decrypting Power and Coloniality:

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Political Theologies

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Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy

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Decrypting Political Theology

Genealogy, Tendencies, Antagonisms

Andityas Matos

This book presents a genealogy of the concept of political theology through the theory of encryption of power

The legitimacy of political power, largely overlooked in traditional political theory and philosophy, is largely rooted in what has come to be known as political theology, although the current state may be formally secular This concept is essential for philosophical interpretations that can unveil and address the complex interconnections between religion and politics, as well as faith and power This book employs the theory of the encryption of power and the ontological idea of an-anarchy that is, a practice of thought without foundations and centered on flow, potency, and contingency to provide a brief genealogy of the idea of political theology, exploring its key authors, both classical (such as Schmitt, Benjamin, and Taubes) and contemporary, including feminist, black, and decolonial perspectives These contemporary approaches emerge from processes that decrypt power and, by moving beyond the sovereign framework, antagonize political-economic authority The book also examines phenomena such as Christofascism, prosperity theology, and neo-Pentecostalism in politics, alongside other significant themes relevant to today’s world

Political

Theology and its Discontents

K Daniel Cho, Otterbein University, USA & Boštjan Nedoh, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana

The essays in this collection revitalise political theology through the lens of psychoanalysis, unlocking its emancipatory potential and providing new ways to think about the political

They are united by a conviction that there is something in political theology worth fighting for Banishing the misconception of political theology as reactionary or paradoxical, they push the discipline forward by drawing on the insights of psychoanalysis and a re-engagement with theology

While Sigmund Freud was at times dismissive of religion, he also used his inquiry into it to completely re-theorize the political in a way that this book’s team of leading scholars bring to the fore Each chapter uses psychoanalysis as a point of departure for serious engagement with political theology, eliciting the radical potential at the nexus of the political and the theological This powerfully productive approach unearths new strands of political theology and refreshing perspectives on established concepts like universality, ideology, law, authority, the neighbor Covering ideas from libidinal politics to the political economy of laziness, Political Theology and its Discontents demonstrates that a deep and sincere engagement with theology can give us a new view of the political

The Philosophical Militant

Alain Badiou's Logical Revolts

Andrey Gordienko, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Approaching Alain Badiou as a militant thinker who wages theoretical battles to advance the communist hypothesis, this book explores the central ambiguity of his project: the enigmatic relationship between philosophy and politics

On the one hand, Badiou’s mature texts maintain a strict line of separation between the two thought-practices On the other, he consistently links the philosophical pursuit of true life to a political revolt against injustice and domination

By making a case for the French philosopher as a combative polemicist rather than a builder of grand ontological systems, The Philosophical Militant advances a new imperative for philosophy – to privilege active engagement with the present Tracing Badiou’s engagement with canonical philosophers, putting him in dialogue with contemporary theorists, and exploring the relevance of his ideas to the politics of Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic, this text foregrounds the actuality of Badiou’s work Not limiting itself to commentary on the philosopher ’s canonical texts, Gordienko aspires to think the contemporary moment with Badiou

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Marx’s Democratic Idea

An Alternative to the Neoliberal Slide into Fascism

Morgan Horowitz

Emphasizing Marx’s commitment to the “democratic idea” from the time of his early work through his later writings, including his reflections on the Paris Commune, this book connects Marx’s democratic, political critique and his economic theory

Morgan Horowitz argues that the communist project should be viewed as inseparable from a concern about both just social relations and the maintaining and empowering of democratic, political procedures Marx’s early works show that his critique of the state and capitalist, private property relations led to a demand to develop communal, discursively empowered agency over economic relations Critically deploying the work of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, Horowitz develops a normative theory that clarifies structural requirements of economic equality and articulates “socialist right and rights, which would be better placed to realize the normative ideals of liberty and equality that have traditionally been espoused by liberal theorists Horowitz evaluates Marx’s theoretic developments to constructively connect to liberal, normative projects dedicated to democratic publics guiding and maintaining welfare-based societies The book then applies the framework to the contemporary context of spiraling inequalities and inequity, fears of autocracy and oligarchic power, and the persistence of political figures such as Bernie Sanders, with the resurgence of public support for democratic socialist alternatives

A Social Enactive Theory of Perception

Perceptual Practices, Direct Perception, and a World of Aspects

Alejandro Arango

The social dimension of human life shapes or constitutes what perception is for us, that is, how we perceptually relate to the world

This book offers a unified study, in the enactivist tradition, of perception and its connection to sociality Alejandro Arango finds that perception is at home in perceptual practices, socially structured ways of relating to the perceptible world These practices are attuned to different dimensions of human life, such as the cultural worlds of customs that mark our everyday lives The book argues that although the perceiver is situated in relation to the world in many ways that influence perception, this does not entail a radical subjectivism Rather, it shows that the world appears to perceivers in aspects, and that they can perceive the same world even if that same world appears differently to them The framework of perceptual practices that helps enrich the notion of perceptual situatedness can also be applied to our perception of others The book argues that we understand others in part, but fundamentally, through perception

With influences from Wittgensteinian pragmatism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy of perception, as well as engagement with social psychology, social cognition studies, and work in neuroscience, the book synthesizes different layers at work in perception, with a particular focus on non-visual senses

Political Knowledge and Democracy at Scale A Systems Defense Against Democratic Skepticism

Philipa Friedman

Many philosophical defenses of democracy are moral ones, appealing to ethical principles of inclusion or right or justice; this book argues – against an increasingly visible trend of democratic skepticism – for democracy as a goal on epistemic grounds As part of a growing dissatisfaction with political outcomes, both political theorists and colloquial political discourse decry the seeming ignorance of democratic publics and seek to limit their influence on policy outcomes The argument that ignorance causes bad political outcomes is the impetus for both arguments for epistocracy at the level of political theory and, more recently, actual political efforts to limit access to collective political self-determination

This book responds by arguing for the epistemic value of democracy and clarifying a definition of political knowledge beyond formal expertise The embedded model of political knowledge understands political knowledge (including expertise) to be situated, incomplete, and fallible in ways that necessitate maximal political inclusion and opportunities for productive epistemic sharing among the polity Deliberative systems can facilitate these opportunities at scale by relying on formal and informal institutions as sites for epistemic expression and engagement

This book suggests that poor political outcomes result when our epistemic institutions fail to ensure that policy is responsive to public knowledge

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Economics, Philosophy and the Neglect

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Labour Economics and Philosophy

Geoffrey Kay, City University, UK & James Mott, City University, UK

Economics, Philosophy and the Neglect of Labour reasserts the significance of labour in economics and philosophy, both within and beyond the Marxist tradition

It explores how labour has been systematically neglected and misunderstood in Western thought – from its reductive treatment in biblical and classical texts, through its displacement during the scholastic period and the Enlightenment, to its marginalisation in modern political economy and law By tracing this long history of neglect, Geoffrey Kay and James Mott challenge the assumption that labour is merely instrumental, a view rooted in the British moralists and perpetuated by Adam Smith and his followers

The book presents a critical examination of Heidegger ’s attempt to undermine this perspective While Heidegger ’s ontology of Being excludes labour and creativity, Kay and Mott position labour as the vital site of creative activity, drawing on Lukács’s integration of Aristotelian concepts of teleology and social praxis This not only challenges Heidegger ’s appropriation of techne but also affirms the enduring relevance of Aristotelianism in Marx’s thought Revisiting the labour theory of value in light of technological transformation, financialisation and the expansion of consumption, this book argues that labour remains central to understanding the dynamics and contradictions of the contemporary world

Marx and the Critique of Humanism

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by Andres Saenz de Sicilia, Northeastern University London, UK

Does Marx’s critical project rest upon ‘humanist’ commitments? If so, what are these and how do they shift across his writings and inform his critical theory of capitalist society?

Marx and the Critique of Humanism addresses these questions through a diverse collection of critical interventions from leading Marxist scholars These contributions offer both a renewed appraisal and contextualisation of the notion of ‘the human’ across Marx’s oeuvre, as well as a range of critical perspectives on the status of humanism within critical social theory today

The book revaluates Marx’s relation to humanism by examining the intellectual context, influences and interlocutors which shaped his theoretical commitments and critical methodology; the concept of ‘Gattungswesen’ in Marx’s early writings; the ways in which 'the human' informs and is transformed by Marx's critique of political economy; the ecological dimensions of Marx’s thought; the reception of Marx’s humanism by anti-colonial thinkers; and the relation of Marx’s thought to poststructuralist and post-humanist critiques of enlightenment humanism Moving beyond the simplistic picture of a humanistic’ early Marx and a ‘scientific’ late Marx, this volume shows instead how a sustained concern with the human evolves in tandem with Marx’s broader intellectual development

Finance, Sustainability, and the Climate Crisis

An Incommensurable Alliance

Cengizhan Kaptan, Sofia University, Bulgaria

Achieving true sustainability in a capitalist economy is a process that must by necessity involve the financial industry

But is that industry, and the structures and systems that surround it, equipped to usher in a sustainable society? Or is it calibrated to do the exact opposite? Finance, Sustainability, and the Climate Crisis explores this dilemma through a Marxian framework, demonstrating how current financial systems and their regulatory safeguards are fundamentally incompatible with the task of tackling the challenges posed by climate change

Drawing on 25 years of experience in the finance industry, Cengizhan Kaptan offers an in-depth analysis of the structures of sustainable finance, the Paris Agreement, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and 2050 net-zero targets With the dialectical logic of Marx and Hegel, he exposes out the push and pull of regulation and deregulation in our financial systems Diagnosing the failings of the capitalist era as terminal, he proposes a new model of collaboration between philosophy and the social sciences, vital in the fight to secure sustainability in a post-capitalist world

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy 2nd Edition

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This is the definitive guide to the central issues in political philosophy

Returning to the book in light of the tumultuous events of the last decade, its contributors have revised their chapters in a 2nd edition, offering a fascinating insight into the development of philosophical thought in the crucible of contemporary politics Five original works have also been commissioned, on authoritarianism, political economy, racial justice, retributive justice, and global health and environment

Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources, and a fully annotated bibliography, this new edition also adds introductory abstracts and study questions for each chapter The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy is the essential reference tool for anyone researching or working in this vital and dynamic field

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Embodiment Theory and Chinese Philosophy

Contextualization and Decontextualization of Thought Margus Ott, Tallinn University, Estonia

This book analyses some of the seminal texts of the Chinese tradition in light of the embodied tradition: the Analects of Confucius, the Zhuangzi, and the Treatise on Music Margus Ott's study shows how they exemplify aspects of embodiment theory while highlighting others that have been neglected in contemporary work Ott also develops farreaching possibilities of an embodied philosophy

The embodied understanding did not go unchallenged in Ancient China There were important counter-currents, most notably the Mohists and the so-called Legalists It has been argued that this challenge set the Chinese philosophical tradition in motion By using embodiment theory Ott demonstrates how these ideas can be seen as a decontextualizing tendency of thought that plays an important role in human affairs

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The Right Thing to Do

Readings in Moral Philosophy

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The ninth edition of James Rachels' and Stuart Rachels' moral philosophy reader continues its legacy of providing students with foundational moral philosophy texts and a diverse collection of contemporary, thought-provoking essays

Introductory essays by James Rachels supplement foundational readings in moral theory to provide students with a framework to engage with ethical issues From discussions of right and wrong and duty and virtue, the book proceeds to contemporary themes so students may apply foundational concepts to current events and controversies

Eight new readings from Elizabeth Kolbert, Nicholas Kristof, David Frum, and Stuart Rachels engage students on topics of climate change, immigration, childcare and education, gun violence, and government authority

Moral Philosophy and De-colonialism

The Irrationality of Oppression

Shyam Ranganathan, York University, Canada

This groundbreaking book, Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression, argues that colonialism is fundamentally irrational and incompatible with the public practice of moral philosophy the reasonbased exploration of right choices and good outcomes

Moral Philosophy allows participants to make their own ethical decisions, which colonialism denies Drawing on South Asian moral philosophy, Ranganathan argues that all irrationality and oppression stems from interpretation: a confusion of thought with attitudes toward thoughts that imposes perspectives as explanations Indigenous traditions use explication: explanation in terms of thought itself (not attitudes toward thoughts) The historical origins of interpretation lie in the Linguistic Account of Thought (LAT), which confuses what can be thought with culturally encoded attitudes Rejected in ancient South Asia and controversial in ancient China but acclaimed in the West (Eurocentric thinking with ancient Greek origins), the West becomes a global colonizing tradition Indigenous thinking follows Linguistic Externalism (LE): thought as the disciplinary use of semantic expression While LAT promotes anthropocentric, communitarian ethics, LE allows Indigenous people to acknowledge diverse persons including the Earth, treating learning as logic-based inquiry rather than cultural competence

The book explores LAT's basis for genocide and White Supremacy's 2000-year institutionalization of Secularism2 (defining the Western as secular, the BIPOC as religious)

Awareness of Suffering

Andrea Veltman

Do we have responsibilities to inform ourselves of suffering and injustice? If so, what kinds of suffering and injustice are we responsible for perceiving? What are the foundations of these responsibilities, and what does it mean to fulfill them?

This book examines these questions and argues that awareness of suffering is an essential but indeterminate moral responsibility of the mind It is not merely an epistemic excellence or a professional activity to be left to experts, academics, journalists, or activists working to address systemic suffering; it is a moral, civic and epistemic responsibility of all people with mature, functioning minds Cultivating awareness of suffering means exposing ourselves to a range of documentaries, news programs, narratives, and photography that bring suffering into public view This practice of gaining awareness is foundational in a caring ethical life and in movements for social justice Yet awareness of suffering can be difficult, uncomfortable, saddening, and perplexing, and this book wrestles with difficulties

It also engages with the politics of sight in arguing for a social transformation in moral perception of human and animal suffering Awareness of suffering represents an act of epistemic resistance and a rejection of widespread willful ignorance of systemic suffering It advances our thinking about what we owe others by highlighting how moral and civic responsibilities pertain not only to our actions but also to our own minds

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French Ethics and the Economics of Freedom From Politics to Moral Obligation

Nathalie Nya

This book discusses the ethics of freedom in the context of race and argues that the question of injustice must be resolved not from a political angle, but from an ethical one.

Drawing on the ideas expressed in Naomi Zack’s The Ethics and Mores of Race, Nathalie Nya explores the topic of race and its connections to morality and ethics Building on Zack’s argument that what is ethical or good for White people may not be the same for historically colonized groups, showing the problem with cultural relativism, Nya develops a moral ethics of injustice around the history of race, politics, and colonialism Justice historically occurs at the intersection of politics and ethics; for justice to occur in a society, politics and ethics must coexist However, for the oppressed living in the modern age, this ideal has never been achievable Oppressed groups recognize their human rights as almost non-existent simply because their political freedom is not aligned with their ontological freedom, and ontological freedom cannot be respected without political freedom Nya refers to this concept as the “economics of freedom,” which creates problems in the conceptualization of real freedom as a form of moral obligation

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Care of the Sexual Self Áskesis as a Route to Sex Education

Shaun Miller

In response to the limitations of traditional US sex education models, this book presents a groundbreaking approach rooted in ancient practices of self-cultivation

Shaun Miller critiques existing frameworks paternalistic, liberal-consequentialist, and liberal-deontological arguing that they focus narrowly on behavior, outcomes, and consent while neglecting the deeper development of sexual identity and character

The áskesis model, in contrast, offers a transformative method that emphasizes self-discipline, emotional awareness, and critical engagement with societal norms By applying this áskesis to modern sex education, the book proposes a curriculum that encourages students to explore their authentic sexual selves and question heteronormative assumptions The áskesis model moves beyond risk avoidance and simply giving or receiving consent: it empowers individuals to embrace diverse sexual and gender identities while fostering moral and emotional growth

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Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing

On Karl Marx's Proletarian Ethics of Human Flourishing

Sam Badger

How did Karl Marx’s moral views inform his views on capitalism? This book argues that Marx developed an ethic of character development and human flourishing that resembles but also diverges from Aristotle’s, taking a critical attitude toward reified hierarchies

Marx’s derisive writings about “moralism” and “moralists” have often been read as a rejection of the value of moral and ethical reasoning, but Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing shows how the ethical problems Marx mentions function as a totality Unlike Aristotle, for whom human flourishing was reserved for the elite, Marx draws from Hegel and later Darwin to argue that the function of human nature is influenced by historical context and class status: humans remake their world and themselves through their labor His early work focuses on alienation and its deleterious effect on individual development, freedom, and wellbeing, while his later works elaborate on this through his theory of exploitation This leads Marx to endorse the moral position of the working class in favor of shortening the working day, increasing wages, and improving labor conditions with an eye to abolishing capitalist labor relations altogether Marx’s approach to ethics can provide a useful basis for current social movements that are concerned with overcoming economic and social inequalities and alienated social conditions

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The Identities of Action

How the Normative Valence of Consequences Matters for Act Evaluation

Joseph Ulatowski

Individuating action depends upon how people comprehend value judgements about the consequences of an action to distinguish or not to distinguish between them

The question “what is action?” cannot be fully addressed until it is established whether two action descriptions whether in law, business, insurance policies, or ordinary conversation refer to the same or different actions This book approaches the problem of action individuation by arguing for a variantist account, where the moral valence of the consequences of an action plays a foundational role in distinguishing between actions Actions with bad consequences are associated with the originating act from which the action arises; actions with positive consequences are separate from their originating act When we consider whether a bad or good consequence is identical to an originating action, the normative valence of the consequences of the action matter Drawing from an empirical assessment that tests non-philosophers’ intuitions about individuating actions, along with real-world examples, Joseph Ulatowski explores the practical and philosophical significance of how we distinguish between actions

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The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics On Nature and Normativity

Jessy Jordan, St Mary’s University, USA

The re-emergence of virtue ethics in the 20th century revolutionized moral philosophy This is the first book-length introduction to elaborate and defend its complex philosophical framework, natural normativity.

The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics is the first book-length account of the philosophical framework underpinning the neoAristotelian revival of virtue ethics by philosophers including Elizabeth Anscombe, P T Geach, Phillipa Foot, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Rosalind Hursthouse: an approach in metaethics known as natural normativity

The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics contextualizes neo-Aristotelian natural normativity against the backdrop of the broader history of ethics The first two sections are structured around two central questions in metaethics: 1) What is a moral judgment? and 2) Whether one has reason to be moral? These chapters explain and defend natural normativity’s distinctive answer to these foundational questions in metaethics The third section, “Answering the Critics,” deals with several important objections to natural normativity that have emerged as the tradition has developed

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Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs Reproductive Futures

Evie Kendal, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Ectogenesis, or artificial wombs, is not yet a reality. But is it the future? In this revolutionary book, Evie Kendal explores the potential that ectogenesis has to promote sexual equality in human reproduction, and the role science fiction plays in imagining possible futures where this technology is realised

Fictional representations of ectogenesis are typically used in bioethics to support techno-conservative views of reproduction, conflating the potential issues associated with this technology with other controversial practices, such as human cloning and genetic engineering Arguing against this dominant trend from a liberal feminist perspective, and placing ectogestation within the rich history of debate in the area, this interdisciplinary volume examines the numerous benefits that growing a foetus in an artificial environment could bring in saving women from the sole burden of reproduction

Further considering the complex dynamic between ectogenesis and science fiction, Kendal not only applies bioethical reasoning to ectogenesis but to its representation in literature and film, and the subsequent use of such media in the bioethical discourse As a result, she highlights several problems with the current methods of engagement with science fiction in bioethics Proposing alternatives, Kendal argues that new methods should capitalise on science fiction’s ability to both communicate biotechnical change and explore how to infiltrate emerging technologies into society

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Nietzsche and Kant as Thinkers of Antagonism

Towards a Philosophy of Conflict

Herman Siemens, Leiden University, Netherlands

The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories in recent years and remains the main source of the impasse between them This open access book seeks to break this impasse by going back to their sources in Kant (for deliberative theories) and Nietzsche (for agonisms) and reframing them as philosophers of conflict For both philosophers, conflict is part of the ‘deep structure’ of reality at all levels, and their reflections on its constitutive, constructive and destructive potentials raise fundamental questions that democratic theories can ill afford to ignore

Through a series of text-based comparative studies of Kant’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of conflict, Herman Siemens addresses the central question of the book: What does it take to think of conflict, real opposition or contradiction as an intrinsic dimension of reality? Drawing on Kant’s pre-critical writings and his historical-philosophical texts and Nietzsche’s philosophical physiology and the will to power, chapters examine topics such as logical opposition (contradiction) versus real opposition (Realrepugnanz); idealism as philosophical warfare; the relation between war and peace; destructive versus constructive forms of conflict; resistance as a stimulant; Kant’s ‘unsociable sociability’ and Nietzsche’s ‘fine, well-planned, thoughtful egoism’; hatred, revenge and the ‘slave revolt in morality’

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Happiness, Unhappiness, and Chance in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

Anné Hendrik Verhoef

An alternative philosophical understanding of happiness can serve as a corrective to the accounts of happiness offered by modern sciences, religion, and consumerism

This book argues that the notions of happiness, unhappiness, and chance in the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur offer an overarching conceptualization of happiness that has significant implications for contemporary philosophical accounts of happiness By analyzing Ricoeur ’s philosophy, and specifically his two articles on happiness, “Le Bonheur Hors Lieu” (1994) and “L’optatif du bonheur” (2001), Anné H Verhoef argues that a significant alternative mode of understanding happiness is found in the dialectical thinking of Ricoeur Ricoeur ’s dialectic of happiness and unhappiness entails that one cannot exist without the other; unhappiness is not something to be overcome, but something to be embraced Furthermore, Ricoeur ’s recognition of chance in relation to happiness opens a recognition for happiness as something received without any effort, while simultaneously preserving the Aristotelian idea that one should strive for goodness There is a fragile dialectic of receiving and striving for happiness within the simultaneous dialectic of happiness and unhappiness

The Symbolism of Holiness

Holy Being and Holy Living Interpreted Through Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology

Curtis Lee Jr

Through a reading of Paul Ricoeur ’s hermeneutics, this book explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both being and doing in the lives of human persons in a postmodern world

Both the Old and New Testament testify that God requires holiness, yet the topic remains elusive in both understanding and actuality Ricoeur offers a solution to this dilemma; he believed that experiences of evil and the sacred cannot be communicated directly, but only through symbols and myth In the same way that Ricoeur interpreted the human experience of evil in relation to the Fall story in Genesis, this book interprets holiness through the symbolism communicated in the Genesis Creation narrative When interpreted through Ricoeur ’s hermeneutics, the symbols of holiness in this story offer tools to understand how to be holy and live a holy life What results is holiness as holy being, holy doing, and holy being-inthe-world in front of the biblical texts Holiness emerges “like God,” a holy identity, ethic, and lifestyle in human beings that reflects the trifold holiness of the Triune God

A Dialogue Between Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Paul Ricoeur ’s Philosophical Anthropology

Edited by Jeffrey Sacks & Pascal Sauvayre

Taking elements of Ricoeur ’s thought, practicing psychoanalysts shed light on the psychoanalytic tradition and enrich clinical reflection

Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has been complicated, falling short of its mutually enriching potential In his entire oeuvre, Paul Ricoeur made a sustained effort to construct an innovative bridge of linguistic-based alignment and connection between the two disciplines This volume builds on that bridge and contributes to a long-overdue dialogue

Ricoeur both embraced and challenged the Freudian legacy His engagement with the Freudian opus was a vehicle for his philosophical anthropology, emphasizing the future orientation of imagination and the power of the possible Over the last sixty years, psychoanalysis has slowly moved in the direction of broadening analytic theory, but the impact of Ricoeur ’s challenging commentary has continued to evolve The contributors to this volume explore this evolution, clarifying the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis and finally bringing the two into fruitful conversation

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Precarity,

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Ross Channing Reed

Addiction, and Love in Philosophical Counseling

Language around trauma, anxiety, and burnout is pervasive in our current climate, where it seems like we need superhuman powers just to make it through the day This book argues that the expectations and living conditions of our society are uniquely destabilizing, producing a “techno-precarious performance self” that markets itself as a product, gets addicted to almost anything, and drives itself to exhaustion Navigating our way out of this zero-sum game, Ross Channing Reed maintains, will require nothing less than an exploration of our beliefs, values, goals, and the very meanings we attach to life itself The dismantling of “techno-precarious performance society,” a society rooted in systemic precarity and philosophical nihilism, is absolutely necessary to effectively address our epidemic of trauma and addiction

The Principles of Philosophy A Defense of Reason

Mohammad M Tajdini

Presenting an absolute and universal defense of the rational moral law, this work delves into the principle of justice: don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you

The Principles of Philosophy provides an intellectual platform to advocate universal human rights and to present a strong and uncompromising criticism of skepticism and relativism It analyzes several modern currents of thought with skeptical or relativistic implications, including a detailed criticism of Descartes, Hume, Schopenhauer, Marx, James, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, and Heidegger

Contrary to what skepticism and relativism claim, truth is absolute, and human reason can know at least some truths, including the truth of the principle of justice Bridging the arguments of Eastern and Western thinkers from ancient times to the postmodern era, this book presents an academic and thorough investigation of the problem, written in clear and simple language

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Quantum History

A New Materialist Philosophy

Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK

A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History, Slavoj Žižek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics to rethink history, reality and political possibility

Taking up Lenin’s challenge to radically reconsider materialism in the wake of each big scientific discovery, and rejecting the recent vogue for giving a vague spiritualist spin to wave mechanics, Žižek embraces the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics with characteristic erudition and verve Drawing on the central themes of the holographic universe, noncommutativity and the collapse of superpositions, Žižek evolves a quantum-inspired ontology which reinvents the historical materialism of Hegel and Heidegger – and compels a brutal, often darkly funny, inquisition into the chances of radical emancipatory acts today

Quantum History takes the reader from the absolute contradiction of the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality, weaving in Lacan and Deleuze, Rovelli and Schelling, opera, cinema, sex and war Žižek is at his sharpest, saddest, most provocative best as he demonstrates that there is no way of extracting ourselves from the texture of history –we must act from a contingent, complex and inscrutable political moment, in sadness and in doubt, but defiantly

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Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics

Ethics, Politics, and the Art of Living

Edited by Valentina Antoniol, University of Bari, Italy & Stefano Marino, University of Bologna, Italy

Bringing together Michel Foucault’s aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries

Introduced by a comprehensive overview of both concepts by editors Stefano Marino and Valentina Antoniol, the ensuing chapters interrogate the affinities and variances between Foucault’s and Shusterman’s philosophies Building on the interdisciplinary character of somaesthetics and aesthetics of existence, international scholars explore these ideas through a wide range of topics ranging from care of the self and of the social self to the ethical and political challenges posed by themes as white ignorance, construction of resistances, and production of subjectivities Given the central role played by the body in both concepts, this volume also affords particular attention to the philosophy of sexuality

Demonstrating the value of reading these two thinkers together through the adoption of radical interpretive perspectives, Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman’s Somaesthetics highlights the potentialities and the relevance of Foucault’s and Shusterman’s theories, even with respect to our actualité

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Philosophizing Contestation

Refusal, Disobedience, Resistance, Decolonization

Edited by Adam Burgos

This collection elaborates contemporary possibilities for, and evaluates the concept of, contestation, highlighting tensions that emerge with thinking about the concept itself, various modes of contestation, and the terminology that surrounds the concept of contestation

Contestation often carries with it the air of liberation or emancipation of an egalitarian struggle pushing back against forces of domination, subjugation, and hierarchy Coming from across the critical humanities and social sciences, the contributors focus on conceiving of contestation in such a way that those struggles do not in the end reduce themselves, theoretically or practically, to further exclusion Must fighting on behalf of one cause or population necessarily involve the exclusion of another? Is a horizon of universal emancipation conceivable for contestation? What distinguishes critique from criticism? To flesh out the notion of contestation in this light, the contributors consider the different potential modes of contestation, the domains of analysis within which contestation can occur, and the productiveness of understanding contestation as a form of engagement

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Aesthetics and Contemporary Art

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The Trouble with Space in Painting

A Critical History

James Hyde

James Hyde, a practicing painter, presents a radical and historically detailed investigation into how the concept of pictorial space in art emerged Using primary documents and a selection of images, Hyde exposes what many will find surprising that space only becomes part of the descriptive apparatus of art and architecture at the turn of the 20th century, not earlier Remarkably, this is the first critical study of pictorial space as a historical construction In this retelling of art history, Hyde presents it as a concept bound to historical circumstance, developing often contentiously in philosophy, mathematics and science, to finally become common in 20th century theorizations of art

Hyde investigates and identifies the historical moments when space first enters discussions about art and how it originally developed in religion, philosophy, mathematics and science He shows that only after several key controversies were stabilized that space finally emerged as a topic for visual art at the turn of the 20th century The stories of these debuts introduce Kant, Poincare and Panofsky, thinkers who provided theories of space that were taken up by artists They reveal the creative and imaginative ideas that forged the belief that space is essential to understanding art

Assemblage Theory and Affect

Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong, Australia

In Assemblage Theory and Affect, Ian Buchanan continues the project he began in Assemblage Theory and Method, of demystifying the critical elements of the work of Deleuze and Guattari. He argues that the concepts of assemblage and affect, which were separated at birth, need to be reunited if we are to fully understand what Deleuze and Guattari meant by these pivotal concepts To this end, Assemblage Theory and Affect proposes three agenda-setting arguments that will change how we see the concepts of the assemblage and affect

1 Affect is a function of desire – its powers are the powers we attribute to desire As such, like desire it should be considered a psychical agency The assemblage, the body without organs and the abstract machine are all components of this psychical agency

2 Affect is a capacitating power – it empowers us to meet life Affect is not the measure of our response to a given stimulus, it is rather the capacity we have to respond to a stimulus in the way that we do This is the essential argument of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalytic project which is a kind of survivor ’s guide to late capitalism

3 The capacitating power of affect depends upon the combinations of bodies without organs and abstract machines that we have been able to put together by means of the assemblages available to us This is what Deleuze means by an ethics of desire

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Alone with Nature

The Psychology of Environmental Attunement

Eugene Hughes

What happens when you are alone in nature and why does it matter? By looking at exceptional experiences of solitude in nature, Eugene Hughes offers a clear articulation of the phenomenon that greatly enhances our comprehension of the human-nature relationship

Through interviews with people around the world, including land artists living in caves, wilderness rites of passage guides in the Sahara Desert, and ancestral healers in Amazonian rain forests, Hughes discovers that alone with nature, under certain conditions, people experience an embodied state of connection to their environment that has an extraordinary effect on their sense of self

Hughes names this state environmental attunement, identifies its defining characteristics, the conditions it occurs under, and what effect it has on people’s sense of self provides

This is a powerful framework for interdisciplinary discourse, inspiring fresh ways for our relationship with nature to be used in treating mental health, improving contact with nature in cities, and reevaluating the quality of everyday modern life

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A Wandering Dance through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes

Comparative Perspectives on Art and Nature

Edited by David Jones, Kennesaw State University, USA

Inspired by the philosopher Graham Parkes, this collection provides a distinctive study of aesthetics and the climate crisis Engaging with continental European and East Asian traditions, it challenges our definition of self in the West and asks us to re-evaluate our conventional perspectives

Expert authors present a timely reflection on contemporary issues, explicating the relationship between the human species and the natural world through its connection to the arts, dance and music Showcasing Parkes’s cross-cultural views on Japanese rock gardens, Buddhism, Daoist dance and musical ecology, while drawing on the philosophies of Nietzsche, Heidegger and the Zhuangzi, they demonstrate a diversity of comparative perspectives ranging from the structure of consciousness to discourses of climate change

Through a valuable and systematic treatment of the thought of Parkes, A Wandering Dance through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes makes the case that a restoration of the intimate relation of self and nature is indispensable in understanding our place in the order of things and achieving balance in the world

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Death and the Aesthetic Sublime

The Enigma of Time in La Jetée

Jung Kwon

Employing the modern aesthetics of Burke and Kant, as well as Lyotard’s postmodern interpretation, this book delineates the elements of sublime experience through exploring the enigmatic cinematic design of Chris Marker ’s film La Jetée

There is a striking similarity between remembrance and the sublime in psychological structures and processes When we remember, we sort out the images of the past in a way to evoke the idea of the irreversible time, and when we experience the sublime, we reflect on the distance from the threat of life in a way to remind us of our vulnerability to death To scrutinize the sublime as an aesthetic concept, Jung Kwon draws on literature from modern and postmodern philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and Zhuangzi

Through La Jetée’s experimental cinematic design, which consists of a masterful arrangement of still frames, the empathic and imaginative audience cannot help but ponder on what it is to remember Through deliberately eliminating the illusion of movement, the film presents the profound space of timeless moments, ubiquitous and yet ungraspable, the unpresentable and yet viscerally felt

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(In)aesthetic Theory

An Essay on Adorno, Badiou and Aesthetic Modernism

Vangelis Giannakakis, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

A reckoning with the radicalisation of modernist aesthetics that took hold in the mid-twentieth century, (In)aesthetic Theory illuminates the limits of aesthetic presentation by bringing Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou’s divergent philosophies of art into critical proximity

Both theorists uncover moments in which art ceases to represent and begins to insist – where its truth is not stated outright but intimated in a gesture beyond the world as given Their respective frameworks suggest that aesthetic experience can open an affective breach in which the reifying impulse of cognition is negated, and that which otherwise eludes the regime of established appearances is encountered obliquely This shared structural insight anchors this book’s central hypothesis: that art’s power to produce truth lies precisely in this zone of interruption, of failure, of withdrawal, and vanishing intensity

Combining original theory with historically grounded comparative commentary, the text reflects on presence and absence, history and memory, politics and art, entropy and decay With it, Vangelis Giannakakis offers a vitally current interpretation of aesthetic modernism

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In Defense of Indoctrination

The Liberal Arts and the Myth of Thinking for Yourself

Simon Feldman

Considering charges that liberal arts institutions indoctrinate their students, this book investigates the conceptual connections between critical thinking and intellectual independence and between epistemic values and social-political values

It argues that neither charges of indoctrination from political conservatives nor boasts of teaching critical thinking recognize the full range of values embedded in liberal arts education; most faculty want both to teach certain values and to nurture students’ intellectual independence Yet the indoctrination charges do raise deep epistemological questions about the ethics of teaching and learning and take place amidst growing concerns about the social, political, and economic viability of liberal arts institutions themselves

In conversation with defenses of the liberal arts, In Defense of Indoctrination instead asks whether and how the transmission of the various values that undergird the liberal arts comports with the aim of cultivating students’ independent critical thinking Simon Feldman explores how inquiry is intrinsically value-laden and suggests that the cultivation of students’ ability to “think for themselves” is neither a coherent nor desirable pedagogical ideal Defining indoctrination as “the transmission of beliefs or values by nonrational means,” the book argues that there are forms of indoctrination that are unobjectively employed in the context of higher education, as teaching is an intrinsically value laden enterprise

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Material Spirituality

A Transcendental Phenomenology of Religion

Neal DeRoo, The Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada

Challenging monotheistic and cognitive assumptions in philosophy of religion, Neal DeRoo sets out a novel theory grounded in a transcendental phenomenological understanding of spirituality. DeRoo applies transcendental phenomenology to questions and methods in the empirical study of religion and considers the way religion shapes our experience and interaction with the world

Accounting for this transcendental dimension enables us to clarify how religion – as both a concept and as various material practices – is generated out of Husserl’s notion of ‘material spiritual’ conditions Shedding light on the four-fold distinction between transcendental and empirical levels, emphasizing the transcendental dimension of religion via an account of spiritual expression reveals that rigorous analysis of religion requires us to distinguish between spirituality, religiosity and religious phenomena

Investigating current methodological approaches to religion, spirituality, and the religious, DeRoo provides an essential toolbox for the cross-cultural study of religion, drawing on key concepts such as materiality, flesh, spirituality and phenomena

The Trinitarian Mysticism of Jules Monchanin

The Indian Years (1939-1957)

Yann Vagneux, Paris Foreign Missions, India Translated by Roderick Campbell Guion, Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland, Ireland

The authoritative account of the pioneering philosophical encounter between Christian and Hindu mysticism in the work of Jules Monchanin, a luminary of early 20th century religious thought in France whose missionary work in India led to the formulation of a novel religious philosophy Before leaving for India in 1939, Jules Monchanin (18951957) was one of the beacons of the theological, philosophical and missiological renewal that filled the French city of Lyon during the 1930s His thinking developed further in dialogue with Hindu mysticism For the first time, this book examines the philosophical basis of the interreligious encounter that spurred Monchanin's system of thought

Now available in an English edition, Yann Vagneux’s text undertakes a thorough synthesis of Monchanin’s thought based on his unpublished notebooks and letters, and at the same time raises theological questions and conundrums that few thinkers involved in Hindu-Christian studies dare to tackle This volume shows how, during his time in India from 1939-1952, Monchanin's development of a Trinitarian Ontology and his study of Hindu mysticism were mutually illuminating, driven by problems of the One and the Many in both traditions It follows on from the companion volume, The Trinitarian Philosophy Of Jules Monchanin, which sets out his foundation of a Trinitarian Ontology

The Trinitarian Philosophy Of Jules Monchanin

The French Years (1922-1939)

Yann Vagneux, Paris Foreign Missions, India Translated by Roderick Campbell Guion, Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland, Ireland

The definitive work on the mystical theology of Jules Monchanin, a luminary of early 20th century religious thought and an integral part of the dialogue between the Catholic Church and Hinduism

Before leaving for India in 1939, Jules Monchanin (1895-1957) was one of the beacons of the theological, philosophical and missiological renewal that filled the French city of Lyon during the 1930s His thinking has remained largely in the shadows For the first time, this book reveals Monchanin as a key thinker of the Mystery of Trinity who was a central influence on philosophers and theologians including Henri de Lubac and Hans Urs von Balthasar

Now available in an English edition, Yann Vagneux’s text undertakes a thorough synthesis of Monchanin’s thought based on his unpublished notebooks and letters, and at the same time raises theological questions and conundrums that few thinkers involved in Hindu-Christian studies dare to tackle This volume first reveals Monchanin's contribution to the intensity of intellectual life in Lyon in the 1930’s and sets out his foundation of a Trinitarian Ontology; the companion second volume, Jules Monchanin’s Interreligious Philosophy: The Encounter of Christian and Hindu Mysticism (1939-1957), outlines how his thought was influenced by dialogue with Hinduism during his time in India

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The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory

Reading René Girard, Texts and the World

Edited by Benoît Chantre, Mimetic Research Association, France & Paul Dumouchel, University of Québec-Montréal, Canada

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications, a century after René Girard's birth. Bringing together a team of established scholars from different disciplines, this collection assesses how much the theory has developed over Girard's lifetime and beyond Literary texts and myths are analysed through a mimetic lens, revealing the underlying patterns of rivalry, violence, and sacrifice Mimetic theory is then applied to real-world phenomena, such as terrorism, social conflict, and ecological crises, demonstrating its relevance in the 21st century

Girard argued that texts, whether religious, literary, or anthropological reveal fundamental aspects of the world Inspired by this chapters drawing on a rich selection of works and authors including DH Lawrence, Oedipus Rex, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Houellebecq to reveal innovative uses of his theory

By illustrating how Girard's ideas are being used by specialists and practitioners across diverse fields, this expansive exploration of mimetic theory tackles timely topics from social media and terrorism prevention to toxic masculinity and conspiracy theories It is for anyone interested in understanding human behavior and culture from multiple perspectives

Santideva and the Dynamics of Tradition

Doctrinal, Social, and Interreligious Contexts

Edited by Stephen Harris, Leiden University, the Netherlands & Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Muenster, Germany

This collection analyses the dynamic role of tradition in understanding the thought and impact of the 8th century Mahayana Buddhist thinker Santideva

Organised into three interconnected sections, it highlights Santideva’s Guide to the way of life of a Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryavatara) as a product of and major contributor to the 7th and 8th-century Mahayana Buddhist intellectual tradition

Across a series of cross-cultural case studies, a team of philosophers and scholars of religion demonstrate how the Guide, a religious and philosophical classic, is being taken up into contemporary academic conversations They analyze key Buddhist concepts developed by Santideva, including effort, compassion, wisdom and the spirit of awakening (bodhicitta), explicating the role they play in his thought and the impact they made on the tradition Covering his attitude towards woman, they discuss his use of sarcasm revealing his conception of human beings and examine social hierarchy as reflected in his writings and traditional biography Unique in the attention it gives to social dynamics, this is the first collection to incorporate interreligious dialogue into its framing of the Guide

Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual Polytheism, Animism, and More in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion Travis Dumsday, Concordia University of Edmonton, USA

Analytic philosophy of religion and philosophical theology are known for being focused on issues pertaining specifically to Judeo-Christian theism This volume answers the call for novel work on a broader range of ideas about the spiritual, engaging with key concepts and neglected recent literature from other traditions

Alternative Conceptions of the Spiritual engages with polytheism, animism, panspiritism and theophanism as propounded by recent philosophers and members of lesser-known spiritual traditions and new religious movements Summarizing and assessing their core ideas and arguments with both clarity and sympathy, Dumsday combines respectful dialogue with logical rigour Providing an accessible introduction to a rich and nuanced set of traditions largely overlooked in contemporary philosophical scholarship, the work will be welcomed by philosophers, theologians and students of new religious movements

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Apocalyptic Patience

Mystical Theology / Gnosticism / Ethical Phenomenology

Andrew Shanks, Former Canon Emeritus of

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress

Shanks engages with the philosophy of Jan Patocka; specifically, his Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History, which culminate in the concept of the ‘solidarity of the shaken’ Such solidarity is quite simply that which empowers the most radically thoughtful openness to others, embattled against even the most repressive closure; a solidarity without any other essential qualification

Split into three distinct parts, Shanks begins by discussing Patocka s philosophico-centric grand narrative, and drawing wider reference to the pre-philosophic origins of Abrahamic religious tradition This is followed by an exploration of mystical theology, Christian and Islamic; of its decay into ‘mysticism’, and its influence on Christian and Jewish gnostic traditions The final third presents a discussion on ethical phenomenology Analysing the proponents of a ‘pathos of shakenness’ such as Kierkegaard, Levinas, Løgstrup, he juxtaposes 19th-century thinkers such as Arendt and Hegel with Heidegger and Strauss as he moves through the century, and eventually to the rise of secular public conscience movement

The Appropriation of Islamic Philosophy

Creation in Ricoeur and Avicenna

Selami Varlik, Istanbul 29 Mayis University, Turkiye

Phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics are today deepening their dialogue with ancient and medieval metaphysics

Yet Islamic philosophy typically relegated to a distant past remains strikingly absent, despite its recognized impact on European thought Making the case for a Ricoeurian hermeneutics of appropriation that revitalizes Avicenna’s thinking for contemporary philosophy, The Appropriation of Islamic Philosophy develops a precise approach to the appropriation of Avicenna, exploring the tension between being and non-being at the heart of the notion of creation

Attentive to theological and methodological differences, Selami Varlik brings the two philosophies into dialogue through their shared concern with putting belief in tension with rational discourse The notion of creation, common to both religions, plays a pivotal role in this convergence, particularly through Avicenna’s distinction between ontological creation and temporal creation This duality echoes directly in medieval philosophy and more subtly in Ricoeur s distinction between origin and temporal beginning It also allows Avicenna to articulate a notion of contingency, rooted in the distinction between essence and existence and revealing the ontological indigence of the created

On the Affective Moods of Being

A Philosophical Exploration of Affects in Ibrahim Niasse's Thought Philipp Valentini, Catholic Vocation High School in Strasbourg, France

Placing Senegalese scholar and Sufi Shaykh, Ibrahim Niasse (1900-1975), in dialogue with the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), this book considers meditations on Being through the affects of human experience

At the heart of the divergence between these two philosophers lies a fundamental difference in their conceptions of time: Heidegger views death as the definitive end of existence, whereas Niasse envisions existence as oriented toward apocatastasis a return to divine origin Yet Philipp Valentini moves beyond this contrast to examine how both philosophers root their inquiries into Being in the realm of human affect He draws compelling parallels between their treatments of shared affective states such as dismay, vengeance, relationality (being with another), and the experience of slow, extended time

While previous studies have approached the relationship between Heidegger and the Islamicate intellectual tradition either historically or through speculative hybridization, Valentini offers a more nuanced comparative analysis Through an insightful juxtaposition of modern Sufi and Heideggerian thought, Valentini reveals how both thinkers engage affect under the guidance of overarching metaphysical ideas Ultimately, On the Affective Moods of Being invites readers to reflect on a profound question: what guiding idea should shape our affective experience of Being?

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Kierkegaard's Ontology

The Faith to Be Casey

Spinks

What is it to be? And what is it to be a Christian? Casey Spinks suggests these two questions belong together when readers attend to Kierkegaard’s authorship, and such attention calls for the task of uncovering Kierkegaard’s fundamental ontology

This book argues that the heart of that ontology is to be found in the religious discourses of his Second Authorship Using the devotional discourse The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air as his guide, Spinks argues that Kierkegaard offers a distinct Christian sense of being: faith In particular, in his Second Authorship, he moves from irony to earnestness, and identifies silence, obedience, and joy as ontologically significant categories This Christian ontology fundamentally opposes the rationalist ontology of G W F Hegel as well as any other philosophical ontology based on autonomous reason or human subjectivity As a result, Kierkegaard proves to be a unique Christian figure in the history of Western metaphysics, one with forceful relevance to contemporary questions of first philosophy and first theology

On Mathematics, Unity, and the Good Plato, Whitehead, Aristotle

David A White

This book demonstrates that mathematical positions are based on metaphysical elements, which in turn provide schemata for evaluating and expanding metaphysical positions The argument is grounded in the Platonic notion of the good, Whitehead’s late essay on mathematics and the good, and Aristotle’s sustained criticisms of Platonic philosophy of mathematics Bridging ancient and modern thought, from Phaedo to the modern notion of Abelian groups in mathematics, it demonstrates that both mathematics and metaphysics incorporate contrast-rich experience and context-independent formalism and at their best can be partners in helping to discern fundamental features of the fullness of reality David A White explores how developments in mathematics and mathematical understanding can indicate, illustrate, and contribute to assessing metaphysical considerations when accounts of reality are approached from the standpoint of an articulated representation of the good

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On Quantum Things

A Constructive Guide to the Fundamentals of Quantum Theory

Valia Allori

A realist, particle-based view of quantum theory where the wavefunction no longer plays a central role offers a clear, commonsense alternative to dominant metaphysical views

This book explores the metaphysics of quantum theory through a lens of scientific realism the belief that successful scientific theories describe reality It critically evaluates various interpretations, including structural realism, wave function realism, and the many-worlds view, highlighting their limitations Valia Allori proposes a “spatiotemporal foundational ontology” approach, grounded in particles as fundamental entities evolving in three-dimensional space and time, following uniform, symmetric laws This view is exemplified by Bohmian mechanics (pilot-wave theory), offering a constructive, commonsensical explanation of quantum phenomena The wave function, in this framework, is not a physical object but plays a functional, law-like role in explaining interactions Further, the book advances a radical thesis: fundamental particles lack intrinsic properties like mass or charge and are instead “bare” objects distinguished only by the laws governing them This thesis allows a middle path between traditional object-based metaphysics and eliminative structuralism

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Heidegger's Metaphysics

The Overturning of 'Being and Time'

Aengus Daly

Heidegger ’s Metaphysics explores how Heidegger continued the project of Being and Time, developing a new kind of metaphysics through a critique of Kantian transcendental philosophy Drawing on Heidegger ’s published work, lecture courses, drafts, and correspondence from the late 1920s, it reconstructs the philosophical justification for this project, its implications for Heidegger ’s phenomenology of time, and his understanding of philosophical concept formation

Daly proposes that Heidegger ’s project neither failed nor remained indebted to a Kantian transcendental framework, and challenges the widespread interpretation of Heidegger as a critic of metaphysics This work examines a wide range of themes that have been largely neglected in discussions of Heidegger ’s work, including a phenomenology of the mythical world (in dialogue with Ernst Cassirer ’s work), the origin of religious concepts, the development of a temporality of thrownness, and Heidegger ’s critique of Kantian transcendentalism It finishes by challenging the separation of Heidegger ’s philosophy from his politics and asks what we can retrieve from his project today

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OPEN ACCESS

Metaphysical Hermeneutics

Jean Grondin, University of Montreal, Canada

If in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include striving to understand being and the meaning of being This open access book takes that ambition seriously, arguing that hermeneutics and metaphysics, so central to philosophical thought but so rarely put in tandem, are two complementary fundamentals of human existence

Metaphysical Hermeneutics puts forward the argument for a hermeneutical metaphysics in service of philosophy’s basic aim: to make sense of our experience Jean Grondin builds his argument for this combined discipline around the idea of ‘sense’ – a theme that is both hermeneutical and metaphysical What we seek to glimpse is not just a figment of the mind but always the meaning of something Grondin calls on one of the founding figures of contemporary hermeneutics HansGeorg Gadamer to test his theories, singling out the metaphysical dimension of Gadamer ’s ideas and questioning his seeming embrace and rejection of that dimension Rooting these questions in the human search for meaning is a major contribution to the scope and resources of hermeneutic philosophy

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Wilfrid Sellars's Metaphilosophy

Two Images and the Philosophy in Between

Edited by László Kocsis, University of Pécs, Hungary & Krisztián Pete, University of Pécs, Hungary

Bringing together essays on Wilfrid Sellars’ distinction between the manifest and scientific image and his vision of philosophy’s role in overcoming their clash, this volume elucidates some of the most perplexing and important aspects of his philosophy

An international team of leading and rising scholars provide a systematic treatment of Sellars’ metaphilosophy and its implications, drawing on the concepts presented in his seminal work Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man Essays consider his view that the purpose of the distinction is to transform, rather than constrain, the practice of philosophy Part I examines the relationship between the two images, their differences, and the (im)possibility of reconciling them; Part II explores Sellars distinction between the two images from a broader philosophical perspective and considers other aspects of his philosophy, including his often ambivalent relationship with other traditions such as logical atomism, logical empiricism and American pragmatism

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism

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Pragmatism provides not just a theoretical perspective on science and inquiry, but ways of being in the world, of knowing the reality we inhabit Approaching this philosophical tradition as a diverse set of philosophies that it is, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatism introduces many of the ideas and debates at the centre of the field today

Focusing on issues in different subject areas, this up-to-date handbook covers current research in aesthetics, economics, education, ethics, history, law, metaphysics, politics, race, religion, science and technology, language, and social theory Supported by an introduction to research methods and problems, as well as a guide to past and future directions in the field, chapters are enhanced by a ‘how to use’ guide and glossary Now expanded, this edition includes new chapters on pragmatism and various global and regional philosophical traditions, as well as feminism and environmental philosophy

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Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises

Edited by Elizabeth Lanphier & Larry R Churchill

Bioethical Responsibilities in Twenty-First Century Crises argues for an expanded role and scope for the field of bioethics to tackle the pressing challenges confronting health and healthcare now and on the horizon The diverse chapters in this collection, edited by Elizabeth Lanphier and Larry R Churchill, address the need for new bioethical methods, attention to overlooked difference, responding to climate change, and charting new identities for and within bioethics Taken as a whole, this volume shows how bioethics, with its core commitment to justice, needs to update its tools and attention to realize justice in the twenty-first century This includes better understanding of and responding to the ways that structural inequities and intersectional oppression impact not only individual medical care and healthcare access, health policy, or research priorities and participation, but also individual and community contributions to and vulnerability from climate change, and the impact social and political choices have on health and well-being

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Possibilist Knowledge

A Rigorous Framework for an Indeterminist Science

Gustavo Castañon

Possibilist knowledge is the kind of scientific knowledge about what makes something possible or impossible in a given context, given the satisfaction or absence of a necessary condition, and which is formed by possibilist laws and explanations. Unlike knowledge of physical necessity, which states what must occur, or probabilistic knowledge, which indicates what is likely to occur, possibilist knowledge delineates the boundaries of what can and cannot happen Possibilist laws are strict laws stating necessary conditions for events, and possibilist explanations show how apparently impossible or improbable phenomena could have occurred under specified conditions

Building on new tools such as permissive and preventive conditions, this book rectifies longstanding problems in the philosophy of science, from the “how-possibly” explanations to mechanisms and negative causation, reconsidering the deductive–nomological model of explanation in a renewed light Drawing examples from physics, biology, social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience, it demonstrates that possibilist reasoning is already pervasive, though unacknowledged, and essential for understanding multicausality and constraints in complex systems In psychology, possibilist knowledge provides a methodological basis for unifying the discipline and reconciling scientific rigor with human freedom More broadly, possibilism challenges the modern identification of science with determinism, showing that we can preserve exact science without assuming a deterministic universe

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Émilie Du Châtelet

Edited by Fatema Amijee, University of British Columbia, Canada

The first scholarly volume on Émilie Du Châtelet’s philosophy highlights her novel contributions to metaphysics, philosophy of science, and ethics

As an understudied figure in the history of early modern philosophy, this volume re-positions her thinking alongside philosophical predecessors like Leibniz, Newton, Wolff, and Voltaire, as well as considering her own influence in the decades and centuries after her death

Established and emerging scholars of early modern philosophy cover all aspects of Du Châtelet’s philosophical work including her metaphysical views on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, the Principle of Contradiction, and natural theology, as well as her writings on epistemology, space and time, philosophy of mathematics, freedom, imagination and happiness By positioning Du Châtelet firmly within the history of philosophy and the philosophy of science, Fatema Amijee’s edited volume contributes to the renewed scholarly attention on early modern women philosophers Essential reading for students and scholars of early modern philosophy, history of science, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy, this go-to text on Du Châtelet marks a new era of scholarly attention for a formerly neglected figure

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The Necessities Underlying Reality Connecting Philosophy of Mathematics, Ethics and Probability

Edited by Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, De La Salle University, Philippines & James Franklin, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

This open access book covers four decades of work by the leading Australian philosopher, mathematician and historian of ideas, James Franklin

These interlinking essays are connected by a core theme: the necessary structures in reality that allow certain knowledge of absolute truths Franklin’s Aristotelian realist philosophy of mathematics shows how mathematical truths are directly about physical reality, and at the same time certainly and provably true Ranging from mathematics to evidence evaluation to ethics, his philosophy of probability sees the relation of evidence to hypothesis, such as in science and law, as purely logical, hence necessary

Here is an up-to-date introduction to Franklin’s overall perspective Recalling Western philosophy to its roots, it reveals the way absolute necessities are discoverable across the abstract fields of mathematics, logical evidence and ethics

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Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy

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The Legacy of Kant in Contemporary Philosophy Critical Perspectives and New Responses

Edited by Piotr Kozak, University of Bialystok, Poland, Anna Tomaszewska, Jagiellonian University, Poland & Bartosz Dzialoszynski, University of Warsaw, Poland

A collection of essays examining the topicality of Kant’s thought and its impact on the development of contemporary philosophy.

How can Kant’s philosophy inspire us to search for new solutions to problems in contemporary debates? Which Kantian ideas, if any, are still relevant? Written in the year of his 300th birthday, this collection addresses these questions and examines the topicality of Kant’s thought and its impact on the development of contemporary philosophy With renowned scholars approaching Kant’s philosophy from multiple perspectives spanning across Science and Metaphysics, Perspectives on Mind, Moral Faith and Rational Religion, and Enlightenment, the essays here demonstrate a still-live intertwinement of Kant’s thought and ongoing philosophical debates They shed new light on Kant’s major influence on key thinkers of the 20th century, from Heidegger to Rawls, from Sellars to McDowell, and how his ideas continue to inform issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, political and moral philosophy, and philosophy of religion

Speaking to the enduring relevance of Kant’s legacy, this collection affirms Kant not only holds historical value as a philosopher of the past, but his ideas are still fruitful and offer valuable insights into philosophical problems today

Debates, Controversies, and Prizes

Philosophy in the German Enlightenment

Edited by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, University of Bucharest, Romania & Christian Leduc, University of Montreal, Canada

This volume brings together a series of cutting-edge studies on significant controversies and prize essay contests of the German Enlightenment It sheds new light on the nature and impact of the philosophical debates of the period, while analyzing a range of pressing philosophical questions In doing so, it focuses on controversies and prize competitions as conditions for the advancement of knowledge and the staking out of new philosophical terrain

Chapters address not only the rich content of the questions but also their wider context, including the theoretical framework of the debates and their institutional support and aims Together they demonstrate how these debates created a rallying point and generated momentum for sustained philosophical argument and engagement in the Enlightenment era The collection offers novel perspectives on the major role played by the Berlin Academy both within the German Enlightenment and across Europe more broadly Through the introduction of several understudied but key figures such as Johann Heinrich Abicht, Leonhard Cochius, Pierre Le Guay de Prémontval, and Guillaume Raynal, it deepens our understanding of the richness and complexity of the period

The essays provide new material on areas such as the problem of language, the emergence of psychology, colonialism, and the origins of aesthetics for the wider study of the intellectual milieu in eighteenth-century Germany and beyond

Baumgarten’s Philosophical Ethics

A Critical Translation

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Edited by John Hymers, La Salle University, USA Translated by John Hymers, La Salle University, USA

Alexander Baumgarten’s Ethica Philosophica (1740) served as a chief textbook of philosophical instruction in German universities for several decades, and was used by Immanuel Kant for his lectures on moral philosophy between 1759 and 1794 Now translated into English for the first time, John Hymers explores the extent of Baumgarten's influence on the development of German philosophy

Accompanied by an introduction to Baumgarten and his work, this translation features an explanation of the main themes of the Ethica Philosophica, touching upon its relation to Christian Wolff and G F Meier ’s practical philosophy, but focusing especially on its role in Kant’s lectures First-time translations of elucidatory passages from the writings of Meier, Wolff, and Heinrich Köhler appear together with the relevant transcriptions of Kant’s lectures on ethics

Based on a thorough knowledge of the original text, Hymers' clear translation and supporting material makes it possible to distinguish Kant’s own remarks and insights from his attempts to expound and summarize Baumgarten’s ideas This is a much-needed contribution for anyone working in the history of modern philosophy

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The Linguistic Quandary of Environmental Hermeneutics Applications from Heidegger, Li Zehou, Gadamer, and Zhuangzi

Andrew Fuyarchuk

Within the context of the Age of the Anthropocene, this book outlines the existential preconditions for understanding the language of nature.

Andrew Fuyarchuk uses environmental hermeneutics as an example of a social conundrum, which is traced to the barriers created by Heidegger to understand animals-in-their environment In response to these barriers, the author draws on the anthropological ontology of Li Zehou and Daoist philosophy In contrast to the tradition of metaphysics that overshadows Heidegger, these philosophies think about humans and nature within a “one-world view” and thereby provide the conceptual resources to redefine what it means to be a human being from the domain of “being-in-nature ” This entails a transformation in the meaning of existence that the author develops in terms of three Gadamerian dispositional preconditions for a hermeneutics of nature: empathetic bodily affinity, receptivity to ambient environments, and imitation as a way of knowing

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Towards an Environmental Ethic of Surprise

Adventures in Attention

Justin Simpson

This book argues that paying attention to nonhumans is an environmental virtue, making a case for why it matters and how it can be done well While Western science and philosophy has tended to represent nonhumans as supposedly inert, passive, predictable, and prone to suffering, Justin Simpson highlights ways that nonhumans are surprising and creative subjects that go playful adventures, undergoing and enacting substantial change in the world Given that one can never know completely in advance what a nonhuman is capable of, one must pay attention to nonhumans to not only understand them, but ultimately respect, care for, and reciprocate them Contesting accounts of attention and environmental ethics premised on a self/other dichotomy, sight models, and self-sacrifice, Adventures in Attention: Towards an Environmental Ethic of Surprise advances an account of adventurous attention, which involves travel, chance, and risk In particular, this approach entails affectively immersing oneself in the worlds of nonhumans in a playful and improvisational way Informed in part by posthumanism, the book challenges scientific realism and other accounts of empathy and attention that frame it as a chore rather than a joyful and rewarding process that leads to new agential abilities and subjectivities

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The Environmental Uncanny A Phenomenology of the Loss of the World

Brian A Irwin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA

The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world The modern built environment is exemplary of this forgetfulness, and induces an uncanniness that can help us to understand the nature of our environmental crisis This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the global environmental crisis Ranging from traditional phenomenology, including substantial discussion of both Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, to philosophy of biology, to architectural and urban design theory, to landscape photography, it makes illuminating connections to paint a multifaceted picture Tracing the root causes of dwindling biodiversity, deforestation and suburban sprawl, we can find how might we mark the path back toward a mode of rich inhabitation in a contemporary age In charting out how it is that we are losing our world, Irwin offers a thought as to how we might regain it

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Existential Intelligence

The Ontology of Ambiguity and Education

Sevket Benhür Oral

This book develops an ontological approach to understanding existential intelligence and its connections to democracy and education.

Sevket Benhür Oral examines the concept of existential intelligence hereafter ExistI on an ontological level ExistI is not conceived as a psychological aptitude that one can be good at or not like spatial or bodily-kinesthetic intelligence Rather, it refers to a unitary experience that is riddled with ambiguity All human beings are potentially open to such experience since we all have the capacity to experience the extraordinary, or better put, the extraordinariness of the ordinary Although Howard Gardner later identified existential intelligence among other intelligences, his theory of multiple intelligences, while still widely accepted by educators, did not adequately explore this concept, especially in its political, moral, and philosophical dimensions It is essential that we do since ExistI is ultimately about our capacity for more peaceful ways of co-existing with others, the extraordinariness of living collectively with human and nonhuman beings

The Phenomenology of Play

Encountering Eugen Fink

Steven Stakland, Northern Virginia Community College, USA Edited by Steven Stakland, Northern Virginia Community College, USA

Eugen Fink’s deep engagement with the phenomenon of play saw him transcend his two towering mentors, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, to become a crucial figure in early 20th-century phenomenology The Phenomenology of Play draws on Fink’s concept of play to build a picture of his philosophy, from its foundations to its applications

The book’s three sections focus on the building blocks of Fink’s phenomenology of play, how his work maps onto the broader history of philosophy, and finally how his writing can be applied to contexts from education and care to politics and religion This rich account of Fink’s contribution to theories of play demonstrates its immense value and fundamental importance to human existence Relating Fink’s work to that of his contemporaries and predecessors like Husserl, Heidegger, Schiller, Gadamer, Nietzsche and Sartre shows the range and importance of his ideas to modern European thought The Phenomenology of Play also features newly translated material including notes from conversations between Fink and Heidegger, and Fink’s own essay ‘Mask and Cothurnus’ on ancient theatre – which shed new light on his philosophical enquiries

Existence and Illusion

A Semantic Account of Perception

D E Buckner

Illusion is a longstanding problem in the philosophy of perception: how can it perceptibly appear that something is the case, though nothing corresponds in reality?

A strong intuition – the Common Kind Assumption that the same account must apply to veridical perception as to illusion –seems to commit us to weird” mental items like sense data, but an equally strong intuition is that weird items have no place in a parsimonious account of reality

D E Buckner takes a novel approach to this problem, arguing that perceptual states are propositional Just as the same proposition can be true or false, so the same perceptual state can be veridical or not Sight tells us that the stick in water is bent, even when our understanding says it is not This semantic account of perception satisfies the Common Kind Assumption without committing us to weird items

The book is a fresh approach to the classic problem of illusion, informed by the core topics of philosophical logic: identity, existence, reference and predication

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The Fluidity of Collective Memory

Time, Place, and Meaning-Making in Recalling the Past

Edited by Katerina Králová & Maria-Alina Asavei

In their collective dimension, memories are fluid their form and content constantly adjusted by locations, places, generations, cultures, traditions, politics, epistemic authorities, and historical predictabilities.

Contrary to the notion of memory as a static repository of facts, this volume examines the malleability of collective memory, exploring how memories are constantly adjusted and re-shaped in a temporal and spatial dimension of meaning-making The contributors in this volume do not address memory in its psychological dimension Instead, they explore the mnemonic materializations in cultural and social settings, treating memory as a powerful force that shapes the identity of societies, cultures, and communities It is the tapestry of shared experiences, narratives, and symbols that define how a group remembers its past This volume explores how societies actively construct meanings around these collective recollections and argues that collective memory is often constructed, reconstructed, negotiated, and questioned to serve various ends

The Animate World

Posthuman Ontologies

Sean Watson, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and antihumanisms

Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for posthumanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future

Philosophy of Writing

David Arndt, Saint Mary’s College of California, USA

Why write? Why care about writing well? Most philosophers have seen writing as inferior to speech as a way to move toward truth Just a few thinkers including Epictetus, Nietzsche, Arendt, Foucault, Morrison, and Anzaldúa have said that writing itself can be part of the search for understanding But how can this be true?

In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true He distinguishes several kinds of thought (demonstrative, interpretive, perspectival, and narrative), and explains how they are articulated in different genres of writing (papers, essays, dialogues, and stories) He ends with fifty principles of composition that guide writing at its best Philosophy of Writing is both a philosophical meditation on writing and a practical handbook on how to write

This luminous and illuminating book shows in prose that is clear, graceful, and occasionally witty how writing has been practiced as a kind of meditation conducive to the search for wisdom

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Founding Critical Theory

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The Fractured Subject

Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud

Betty Schulz, University of Sussex, UK

The Fractured Subject investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around the concept of the fractured subject Through a reading of Benjamin’s work on sovereignty and myth, Betty Schulz establishes the emergence of this fractured subject in the Baroque and links these themes to ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ and two of Freud’s case studies, showing that melancholia and possession emerge as two responses to the baroque loss of a cosmological horizon Turning to Benjamin’s work on the nineteenth century in the Arcades Project, Schulz delineates the persistence of this fractured subject, showing how Benjamin conceptualises its development over the course of modernity while analyzing the change of memory and experience in modernity Finally, having introduced the importance of the dream in the Arcades Project and associated work, Schulz examines Benjamin’s dream theory, establishing the ways it draws from Freud, as well as Benjamin’s concept of awakening as a therapeutic, collective, political gesture that points beyond the fractured subject

Psychoanalytic Sociology

A New Theory of the Social Bond

Duane Rousselle

Singularities are isolated social bonds. They lack a common language with one another and express themselves with certainty Strangeness is therefore no longer constitutive to the social bond It has become elevated to the very principle of social order Our social world has become strange

Duane Rousselle explores this new theory of the social bond while accounting for recent developments in the cultural logic of capitalism Each chapter offers a different and compelling perspective on broader phenomena and notions of estrangement within civilization through explorations of the evil empire, rogue states, the master-slave dialectic, and the new status of knowledge that is at stake in the era of singularities

This book offers enriched and novel dialogues across Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxist and anarchist theory, and theoretical sociology with illustrative contemporary examples Psychoanalytic Sociology argues that our current social crises are exemplified by the way social groups project their own inhumanity onto others Written in Russia during the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, it prophesied new uncompromising and aggressive wars, the confluence of ‘foreign agent’ laws and ‘cancel culture The war among singularities runs very deep and exists on every scale (e g , interpersonal, institutional, and cultural) This book navigates this strange new social world and invents a language capable of articulating it

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Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion

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Eastern and Western Conceptions of Human Rights

Reaching a World Consensus

Sanja Ivic

This book explores Western and non-Western conceptions of human dignity and human rights in order to demonstrate the hermeneutical nature of the concepts of human dignity and human rights, discussing examples of violations in Afghanistan, Myanmar, China, the EU, and the Western Balkans While human rights are considered a universal framework for ensuring the dignity, rights, and freedoms of all human beings, their conceptualization and practice vary within different cultural, social, and philosophical traditions While the Western tradition emphasizes the concept of inherent human dignity combined with an individualistic notion of autonomy and rights, in Islamic thought it is underpinned by morality and combined with duties and divine guidance, and the Confucian approach focuses on the harmony of society and relational ethics The concepts of human dignity and human rights are contingent and dynamic categories, which means that they are open to different interpretations Sanja Ivic also highlights the relevance of philosophical hermeneutics for legal and political studies Drawing on the hermeneutical (interpretative) nature of human rights, this book explores different philosophical solutions to achieving a global consensus on human rights, engaging with thinkers such as Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Rawls, Charles Taylor, Gianni Vattimo, Onuma Yasuaki, and Dimitrije Mitrinovic

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Bloomsbury Academic

Thinking without Borders

Essays in Honor of Arindam Chakrabarti

Edited by Matthew MacKenzie, Colorado State University, USA, Amy Donahue, Kennesaw State University, USA & Anand Vaidya, San Jose State University, USA

A major figure in contemporary Indian and comparative philosophy, Arindam Chakrabarti’s work has spanned across disciplines such as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of language and epistemology Bringing together an international list of distinguished philosophers, this collection of essays covers key areas of Chakrabarti’s work, demonstrating the breadth and depth of his philosophical contributions

Each chapter from leading scholars such as Monima Chadha, Stephen Phillips and Timothy Williamson highlights the crosscultural and borderless nature of philosophical engagement with Chakrabarti’s work, concluding with responses from Chakrabarti himself By illuminating the key elements of his thought and examining the variety of sources he draws upon, from Nyaya and Advaita to Shaivism, this volume features cutting-edge contributions that adopts Chakrabarti’s method of synthesizing insights from classical Indian philosophy and contemporary analytic philosophy

The first festschrift dedicated to Chakrabarti, this volume presents his enterprise of bringing Indian and Western philosophical traditions into creative dialogue and celebrates his major contributions in defining the field of cross-cultural philosophy today

A Critical Introduction to Knowledge-First Epistemology

Arturs

Logins, Université Laval, Canada

Presenting the main concepts and key assumptions of knowledge-first theses, Arturs Logins’ authoritative and engaging introduction critically evaluates some of the most debated issues in recent epistemology Initiated by Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and Its Limits, the approach ends attempts to analyse knowledge in terms of justified belief and instead adopts epistemological theorizing from knowledge as a fundamental starting point

Logins assesses arguments for and against the knowledge-first approach, drawing on exciting developments and harsh criticisms put forward during the first quarter of the 21st century Chapters engage with core topics concerning antiluminosity, skepticism, self-knowledge, evidence, belief, norms of assertion and action, and recent innovations including hybrid knowledge-first approaches Following a clear and logical thematic structure and aided by references, study questions and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, this is an essential resource for any student of contemporary epistemology looking to advance their understanding of the knowledge-first program

Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives about Reference

Edited by Ana Clara Polakof

Bringing varied perspectives on problems related to reference from philosophers of language and linguists, this edited collection initiates a dialogue between the two fields The contributors to this volume, both philosophers and linguists, answer four questions: What is reference? Is there reference to the abstract? Is there sentential reference? Is there reference to time? Each chapter is followed by two responses: A linguist will comment on what the philosopher said, and how it can impact the research made in the related linguistic field, while a philosopher will comment on what the linguist said, in a similar sort of fashion

Edited by Ana

Clara

Polakof, Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives about Reference highlights ways that linguistics and philosophy of language are currently closely connected and can mutually benefit from sustained interaction

Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics

UK March 2026 • US March 2026

216 Pages

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Bloomsbury Academic

Language, Cognition, and the Way We Think An Interdisciplinary Approach

Nikola A Kompa, Osnabrück University, Germany

The cognitive potency of the human mind can be fully appreciated only if it is conceived of as a linguistic mind. This is the starting point of Nikola Kompa’s investigation into the relationship between language and cognition

Underpinned by philosophical ideas from Plato to Ockham, and from Locke to Vygotsky, Kompa uses theories within the philosophy of language, mind, and cognitive science and draws on neuro-psychology and psycholinguistic studies to explore core ideas about language and cognition Her study has repercussions for a broad range of questions, from how humans differ from other animals and what a cognitive architecture looks like if it approximates the achievements of the human mind, to questions of education and cross-cultural communication

Theorizing and forming hypotheses about how language and cognition might have coevolved, how the availability of (symbolic) labels enhance various cognitive functions, what the cognitive function of inner speech might be and how inner speech and thought relate to each other, Kompa addresses the perennial philosophical question of what the benefits of having a language might be, and brings into sharper relief the intimate connection between linguistic and other cognitive functions Informed by recent discussions on language evolution, labels, and inner speech, this timely contribution helps us understand more about how language changes the way we think

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