Philosophy New Books October-December 2025

PHILOSOPHY

New Books

October-December 2025

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ŽIŽEK’S ESSAYS

Against Progress

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

'Sublime moments from history might be remembered but that story is over, everything should be re-thought, one should begin from the zero-point '

How do we start from a zero-point? We forget the notion of progress or things always getting better Revolution isn't gradual progress but, rather, a repetitive movement where we start from the beginning again and again In a whirlwind tour touching upon everything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gentrification, Mary Poppins, Einstein's theory of relativity and Taylor Swift, Žižek argues that the forward thrust of history is but an illusion

UK October 2024 • US January 2025 • 136 pages

PB 9781350515857 • £9 99 / $12 95

ePub 9781350515871 • £8 99 / $12 14

ePdf 9781350515864 • £8 99 / $12 14

Series: Žižek's Essays • Bloomsbury Academic

Multi/Race/Less/Ness

A Theopoetic Humanistic Alternative to Category

Jon Ivan Gill, Gustavus Adolphus College, USA

It is not new, or radical, to suggest that ‘race’ is a social construct The bold challenge put forward by Jon Ivan Gill is that this idea is just a halfway house – questioning the fixity of race while doing nothing to lessen the trauma caused by its continued presence as a category of human identity Showing the role that philosophy of religion has played in reifying ideas of race and racial categories, Gill looks beyond that legacy to a world after those ideas If race as a category is impermanent, then it can be undone

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350435483 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350435476 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350435506 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350435490 £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Felix Guattari and the Ancients Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy

Edited by Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Canada & Carlos A. Segovia, Saint Louis University Missouri, Spain

Félix Guattari’s Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis, semiotics, the history of philosophy, and contemporary post-theatre This volume includes the facsimile edition of the original manuscript followed by its transcription and its annotated translations into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian Accompanying commentaries, diagrams, and studies of the text give an incredibly in-depth analysis of Guattari’s theatrical work and its significance to his wider body of thought

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 200 pages

PB 9781350468887 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350468894 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350468917 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350468900 • £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Theories of Ugliness

An Unseemly Aesthetic History

Mark William Roche, University of Notre Dame, USA

Taking in ancient, medieval and early modern concepts, all the way through to more recent Anglo-American conceptions, this book reveals the extraordinary preoccupation with ugliness exhibited across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing Fascinating insights from dialectical, categorical or purely aesthetic perspectives are found in thinkers such as Hegel, Lessing, Schlegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Julia Kristeva and most notably Karl Rosenkranz

As a counterpoint to beauty, a target of negation, a literary device, or a victim of humour, this book offers a new way of thinking about the ugly

UK October 2025 US October 2025 304 pages

PB 9781350425606 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350425590 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350425620 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350425613 • £17

Bloomsbury Academic

The Red Years

Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, France

Translated by Steven Corcoran

The Red Years (Les Années Rouges) features three key texts by renowned and controversial contemporary French philosopher, Alain Badiou: Theory of Contradiction, Of Ideology, and The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic Hitherto unavailable in English, these three texts elucidate the formative role of Badiou’s Maoist ‘phase’ – an essential moment in his political and philosophical trajectory Furthermore, these texts are vital to any understanding of radical French thought and politics in the 1970s, and in the wake of the Cultural Revolution

The Red Years also features original essays from leading commentators Tzuchien Tho, and a concluding essay by Bruno Bosteels, which argues for the presence of Maoism in Badiou’s mature thought Badiou has also written a wholly new preface for this edition

UK November 2025 • 208 pages

HB 9781472596079

£65 00

ePub 9781472596086

£18 00

ePdf 9781472596093 £18 00

Bloomsbury Academic

World English (excluding Central/North/South Americas)

New Perspectives on Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Edited by Andrew Alexander Davis, Belmont University, USA & Sebastian Rand, Georgia State University, US

This collection of new perspectives on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right breaks down some of the most stubborn barriers between the book and its readers

From its polemical Preface to its closing ruminations the state and world history, Hegel’s seminal text can often appear antiquated and conservative to even the most motivated reader These essays remove those obstacles by demonstrating how radical many of his reflections on politics and ethics remain some 200 years after its publication Maintaining this focus on how Hegel’s work speaks to us today offers readers an invaluable set of launchpoints to explore his lasting contribution to both the new and perennial concerns of philosophy

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350476059 £85 00 / $115 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350476073 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350476066 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood

Jela Krecic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture – modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.

Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood pursues this topic on several levels It explores the philosophical implications of ‘being in the know’ and the fear of deception within the theoretical frame of Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis . Meanwhile, a Marxist theoretical tradition – from Theodor Adorno to Fredric Jameson and Louis Althusser – is used to conceptualize the broader historical, social and political implications of these ideas

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this exciting text takes psychoanalytic and Marxist theory to classic Hollywood themes of appearance, mediation, indirection and deception It presents a novel understanding of our ongoing, entangled affair with moving images, and the emancipatory messages that they may contain

UK August 2025 US August 2025 224 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350515086 • £85 00 / $115 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350515109 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350515093 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Biopolitics as a System of Thought

Serene Richards, New York University London, UK

Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living is always at stake and directed to survival Armed with this concept, this book examines how we arrived at this mode of being and asks how it could be that, while the material conditions of our lives have increasingly worsened, our capacities for effective political action, understood as the capacity for transforming our existing social relations, appear to be diminishing

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 224 pages • 1 bw illustration

PB 9781350412125 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350412088

ePub 9781350412101 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350412095 • £76 50 / $103 94 Bloomsbury Academic

Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices

Saul Newman, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK & Tihomir Topuzovski, The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Macedonia

Engaging with contemporary debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, this book shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism, police violence, right-wing populism, ‘post-truth’ discourse, economic inequality, pandemics, and the environmental crisis, transforming the public sphere in new and unexpected ways It argues that the best way to understand these new critical discourses and practices is through an updated political theory of anarchism - or what we call postanarchism - where the insurrection against power and the politics of singularity are central

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 200 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350410381 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350410343

ePub 9781350410367 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350410350 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

The Adventures of the Commodity

For a Critique of Value

Anselm Jappe, Fine Arts Academy, Italy

The Adventures of the Commodity explores critical conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour

A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, the book highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages

PB 9781350381186 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350381193

ePub 9781350381216 £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350381209 • £26 09 / $36 44

Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Environmental Affectivity Aesthetics of Inhabiting

Omar Felipe Giraldo, University of Mexico, Mexico & Ingrid Fernanda Toro, ECOSUR, Mexico

Following Spinoza’s lead, this book imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections, sensibility, the senses, and contact. Engaging embodied, cognitive, phenomenological, and psychoanalytic aspects of affectivity, Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro help us understand how places inhabit us, and therefore, how places transformed lovingly have the immense capacity to modify the body, to redirect desire, to clarify our sensibility – in order to create an affectivity in a direction opposite to the regime imposed by this ecocidal society

UK October 2025 US October 2025 176 pages

PB 9781350345140 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350345102

ePub 9781350345126 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350345119 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Hannah Arendt’s Ambiguous Storytelling

Temporality, Judgment, and the

Philosophy of History

Marcin Moskalewicz, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s historiography, Marcin Moscalewicz reveals an underacknowledged philosophy of history in her vast and variegated oeuvre Moskalewicz situates Arendt’s own position via her engagement with idealistic and materialistic philosophies of history via Kant and Marx Teasing out the distinction between theory and philosophy of history in her historiography, this book casts Arendt’s philosophy of history as an aesthetic project, a ‘fragmentary historiography’ and the only credible methodological response to the existence of totalitarianism, making a thoughtful departure from current Arendt scholarship

UK November 2025 US November 2025 272 pages

PB 9781350295919 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350295872

ePub 9781350295896 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350295889 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Noticing

How we Attend to the World and Each Other

Ziyad Marar, Deputy Managing Director and Executive Vice President Global Publishing at Sage Publications

In his exhilarating quest to help us notice better, Ziyad Marar poses a deceptively simple question: ‘what are you good at noticing?’ In a triple corkscrew of philosophy, psychology and literature, Marar unwinds the impenetrable tangles of noticing Invisible gorillas, child murderers and magicians are among the unlikely assistants enlisted in the task of trying to work out not just what noticing is, but what it could be In the end, our noticing is tied up with the very core of our humanity – the capacity to connect, to care, to attend to others and the world

Noticing looks at what it means to engage with care, consideration and meaning without becoming overwhelmed The elusive balance between having to ignore some things whilst truly noticing others

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 264 pages

HB 9781350376236

• £20 00 / $27 00

ePub 9781350376250 • £18 00 / $25 64

ePdf 9781350376243 • £18 00 / $25 64

Bloomsbury Academic

In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff

Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship

Edited by Pamela Sue Anderson & Michele Le Doeuff

The work of Michèle Le Dœuff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple and a hierarchy of knowledge, Le Dœuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted

UK June 2025 US June 2025 264 pages 2 colour photographs

PB 9781350269972 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350134997

ePub 9781350135017 • £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350135000 • £26 09 / $36 44

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Enduramorphosis

Performance as Transformation through Endurance

Chelsea Coon

This book unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when the body is pushed to its limit and reacts Artist Chelsea Coon works across performance and lens-based extensions in photography, video, livestream, digital arts, and new media Through her work, Coon explores how enduramorphosis is manifested differently across divergent performances. Written from a first-person perspective, this book presents an accessible intellectual exploration of the process and conceptualization of provocative and profound performances Chelsea Coon combines powerful emotional resonance with physical and psychological extremes, giving the reader insights into the phenomenon of enduramorphosis and a rare glimpse into the motivations, feelings, desires and visceral excesses experienced by the performing body as it undergoes a transformation that lasts

UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages • 10 b/w photos

HB 9781538190173 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781538190197 • £87 01 / $108 00

ePdf 9798881865481 • £87 01 / $108 00

Series: Performance Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

Luxury Philosophy

John Armitage, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK

Providing an original and authoritative historical guide to modern and contemporary responses to luxury, John Armitage encapsulates within this book the philosophy of major thinkers who have explored the term since the 18th century Finding alternative modes of understanding it, and further enriching its concept, he argues that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century continental philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction or as an evil enjoyed by the idle rich gave way in the 20th century and beyond to more positive, even potentially revolutionary, continental philosophies of luxury as voluptuousity, squander, uselessness, and abundance

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 216 pages

PB 9781350414846 £19 99 / $26 95 HB 9781350414839 £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350414877 £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350414853 £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Architecture Exchange: Engagements with Contemporary Theory and Philosophy

Joseph Bedford, Virginia Tech University, USA

How Does Architecture Distribute the Sensible?

Engaging Jacques Rancière

Edited by Joseph Bedford, Virginia Tech University, USA

This book brings Jacques Rancière’s demand for equality and his reformulation of aesthetics into direct dialogue with architecture In doing so, it inquires into the role that architecture plays in distributing the sensible, in creating aesthetic experiences, in creating order or dissensus, in serving as a mode of critique, and in emancipating or stultifying its users and subjects

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 20 bw photos

HB 9781350342804 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350342828 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350342811 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Architecture Exchange: Engagements with Contemporary Theory and Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

How is Architecture Political?

Engaging Chantal Mouffe

Edited by Joseph Bedford, Virginia Tech University, USA

Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy—based on Saussure’s linguistics, Freud’s psychoanalysis and Derrida’s deconstruction

This book brings Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic model of politics into direct dialogue with architecture and inquiries into the role that architecture plays constructing the political order of society In doing so, it asks in what ways architecture operates politically; whether institutionally, in terms of its spaces and its part in forming cities, or as an aesthetic object with mediatic agency

UK October 2025 US October 2025 192 pages 20 bw photos

PB 9781350263109 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350263062

ePub 9781350263086 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350263079 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Architecture Exchange: Engagements with Contemporary Theory and Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

The Originary Structure

Emanuele Severino

Translated by Damiano Sacco, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany

The Originary Structure is the first book written by Emanuele Severino It lays out the logical structure that underlies the philosophical development of his thought for the next six decades According to Severino himself, this book constitutes ‘the ground as part of which all his subsequent writings receive their own meaning’ – first and foremost because it aims to articulate the structure of the appearing and meaning of everything that is and appears, according to a logic that should prove itself to be unable to be refuted by any (non-) philosophical discourse

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 528 pages

PB 9781350498778 £29 99 / $40 95 HB 9781350498785 £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9781350498792 £26 99 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350498808 £26 99 / $36 44

Series: The Works of Emanuele Severino • Bloomsbury Academic World English

A World Not of this World The Reality of Images and Imagination

Alfredo Ferrarin, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Breaking classical assumptions that images are exclusively reproductions and imagination is a secondary faculty, this book explores what images really are and what imagination can do Ferrarin begins by charting a history of the philosophy of imagination, from Aristotle and Kant to Freud and Sendak He then examines the twofold nature of every image, the image itself and what it depicts, before distinguishing between natural, artificial, mental and memory images. The final chapters probe imagination’s cognitive functions Ferrarin contends that imagination is not always a flight from reality, but is instead also a way of figuring out what is real.

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 416 pages

HB 9781350544789 • £110 00 / $150 00

ePub 9781350544802 • £99 00 / $134 99

ePdf 9781350544796 • £99 00 / $134 99

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Phenomenologies of Incarnation in Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque

Saving Flesh, Redeeming Body

Mark Novak, University of Calgary, Canada

Bringing Michel Henry and Emmanuel Falque into dialogue, Mark Novak explores how they both articulate a phenomenology of the body and flesh in relation to incarnation and resurrection Beginning with an overview of phenomenology’s origins and the shift towards embodiment, Novak surveys numerous theories from Husserl’s foundational distinction between flesh and body to Merleau-Ponty and Maine de Biran. With this, focus turns to Henry and Falque’s writings This volume illustrates how phenomenological foundations inform both thinkers' theological views and uncovers the differences and, in some cases, unexpected similarities between their positions on the central Christian tenets of resurrection and incarnation

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages

HB 9781350421318 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350421332 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350421325 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Postcolonial Historical Materialism

The Heritage of Critical Theory

Filippo Menozzi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Through a reappraisal of the work of Bloch, Lukács, Adorno, and Benjamin, Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies Revealing these authors’ continued relevance to urgent issues in the 21st century, Menozzi reimagines them as central to an alternative genealogy of critical theory that moves beyond “Western Marxism” In doing so, this book challenges, more broadly, the view of critical theory as steeped in Eurocentrism, culturally conservative, and politically defeatist Contesting this in four chapters, Menozzi inserts Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and Benjamin into key contemporary debates, from orientalism to immigration

UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 216 pages

HB 9781350410138 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350410152 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350410145 £76 50 / $103 94 Bloomsbury Academic

Jean-Luc Nancy after the Theological Turn A Phenomenology of Kenosis

Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere, KU Leuven, Belgium

A novel and profound reading of Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstruction of Christianity in the context of French phenomenology’s ‘theological turn’, this is an important contribution to continental philosophy of religion Following Derrida’s treatment of Nancy, Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere thinks ‘after’ the theological turn by achieving a deconstruction of phenomenology’s inherent theological structure which made that turn possible: starting from the theological turn phenomenology was structurally inclined to produce, this book seeks to move beyond it (i e , to ‘de-theologise’ phenomenology) .

UK November 2025 US November 2025 272 pages

HB 9781350512078 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350512092 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350512085 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Jean-Francois Lyotard

The Later Interviews and Debates

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Edited by Kiff Bamford, Leeds Beckett University, UK

With contributions selected from the last fifteen years of his life, this second volume of Jean-François Lyotard’s interviews and debates includes hard-to-find and previously untranslated material. Discussions in Paris and London include contributions from thinkers such as Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Alain Badiou whilst significant interviews elsewhere in Europe, North and South America elucidate the consequences of the varied reception given to his work These interviews and debates record an evident delight in the activity of thinking which is not about rhetorical flourish or rehashing staid assumptions but of grappling with some of the most important questions confronting thought today

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 304 pages

HB 9781350357419 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350357440 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350357433 £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic World English

Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance

Fifteenth-Century Sources on the Immortality of the Soul

Joanna Papiernik, University of Lodz, Poland

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. Yet, by engaging with old prints, manuscripts and other archival material, Joanna Papiernik reveals just how much interest there already was in the afterlife debate in 15th-century Italy Through examination of four neglected but central figures – Agostino Dati, Leonardo Nogarola, Antonio degli Agli and Giovanni Canali – and with two editions of unpublished primary texts, this book investigates the rich and varied nature of these writers’ scholarship and the important impact it had on later philosophical thinking

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350345829 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350345836

ePub 9781350345850 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350345843 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophy of the Medium

The Age of McLuhan in

Question

John Lechte, Macquarie University, Sydney

Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and technical qualities It offers a deeper understanding of what we mean by the term ‘media’: it is that which comes ‘between’ and which facilitates the transmission of content, essentially a creator of possibilities, yet never present as such in the light of its success as a vehicle for meaning

UK May 2025 US May 2025 240 pages

PB 9781350299221 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350299184

ePub 9781350299207 • £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350299191 • £26 09 / $36 44

Bloomsbury Academic

The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson

Andy Amato, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Explaining the “tragic imagination” as a creative faculty employed to answer the perennial Riddle of the Sphinx – a theory of the world that advances human freedom and dignity in spite of historical injustice – Amato seeks to retrieve and rehabilitate this concept. Exploring how Emersonian transcendentalism affirms rather than denies the tragic sense of life, “tragic idealism”, Amato further employs Emerson’s theoretical lens to reframe the central themes of Shakespeare’s tragedy, King Lear, towards achieving liberation Uncovering the tragic imagination in literature and philosophy, this book argues for its renewed deployment, in creative redress, to our current social-political situation .

UK October 2025 US October 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350373617 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350373570

ePub 9781350373594 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350373587 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Walter Benjamin and Political Theology

Edited by Brendan Moran, University of Calgary, Canada & Paula Schwebel, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Tracing Walter Benjamin's convergences with, and divergences from, influential German theorist Carl Schmitt, this edited collection places his thinking in the context of broader 20th century political philosophy of his time, and examines the question of whether Benjamin presents the possibility for a distinctive political theology, mapping the coordinates of this question without collapsing the tensions internal to Benjamin’s thought This volume brings together a host of multifaceted contributions that explore why Benjamin has been a fertile source for thinking about political theology and the possibilities that this new perspective brings to light

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350284388 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350284340

ePub 9781350284364 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350284357 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Walter Benjamin Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi

A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis

Alice Gibson, Kingston University, UK

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of poet-philosopher, Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy of nature offer a means for understanding and taking responsibility for the environmental crisis Through examination of his entire oeuvre, from the Zibaldone to his later poems, this book disrupts the common image of Leopardi as a pessimistic, nihilist poet Bringing his thought into dialogue with contemporary ecological theorists such as Donna Haraway and Timothy Morton, Gibson instead uncovers how Leopardi advances the ethics we need today to reframe our relationship with nature

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages

PB 9781350298637 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350298644

ePub 9781350298668 • £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350298651 • £26 09 / $36 44

Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art

Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood

Keren Moscovitch, School of Visual Arts, USA and The New School, USA

Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art examines practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions Using psychoanalysis and objectoriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O’Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, Moscovitch situates these artists in the emerging lineage of feminist new materialism

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages

PB 9781350298224 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350298187

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American Philosophies

From Wounded Knee to the Present: 2nd Edition

Erin McKenna, University of Oregon, USA & Scott L. Pratt

American Philosophies offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world The 2nd edition of this book presents a survey of the historical development of American philosophy, as well as coverage of key contemporary issues in America including race theory, feminism, gender, indigenous peoples, philosophies of disability and environmentalism It also takes seriously the dramatic political and social machinations since 2017 and engages with emerging voices and traditions A substantial and provocative introduction to the work of the major American thinkers and their contemporary interlocuters

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 448 pages

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Socrates

Edited by Russell E. Jones, University of Oklahoma, USA, Ravi Sharma, Clark University, USA & Nicholas D. Smith, Lewis & Clark College, USA

A detailed philosophical analysis of Socrates' life and thought, this handbook provides a broad range of perspectives on Socrates across 15 in-depth chapters, which cover and expand upon the influential tradition of interpretation outlined in the work of Gregory Vlastos Fully updated to take Socratic studies in a new direction, this 2nd edition includes new chapters on topics such as Socratic thought in Xenophon, extensively revised chapters, and a new format

UK November 2025 US November 2025 424 pages

PB 9781350415973 £39 99 / $54 95

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A Concise History of Western Philosophy

From Platonism to Nihilism

Mark Anderson, Belmont University, USA

Mark Anderson tells the compelling story of the history of western thought through the conflict between the order of Being and the change of Becoming In Anderson's retelling Plato is the premier philosopher of Being, Nietzsche the peerless advocate of the philosophy of Becoming He relates the west’s transition from a realist worldview to the world of skepticism, relativism, and nihilism that we inhabit today, offering novel and thought-provoking interpretations of major figures from western philosophy. This is essential reading for anyone interested in Platonism and its power to help us understand the ethical crisis of our postmodern world

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 160 pages

PB 9781350555990 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350555983 • £45 00 / $61 00

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The Function Argument in Aristotle's Ethics

Happiness and the Human Good Jakub Jirsa, Charles University, Czech Republic

This book gives a systematic account of the development of the “function argument” from Plato’s Republic to the Nicomachean Ethics, with an explication of the interdependence between different versions of the argument which appear in Aristotle's ethical writings In close readings of Aristotle’s ethical writings in the Proptrepticus, the Eudemian Ethics and the Nicomachean Ethics, Jirsa makes the case that the function (ergon) argument serves to differentiate between happiness (eudaimonia) and the happy life (eudaimon bios) The book then evaluates Aristotle’s function argument against contemporary critiques

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages

HB 9781350511750 £85 00 / $115 00

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Revisions and Reconstructions in the Thought of R.G. Collingwood

From Pre-History to Economics

Peter Johnson, University of Southampton, UK

Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R G Collingwood’s philosophy, Johnson presents essays on Collingwood’s distinctive account of pre-history, the relationship between his last great works The Principles of History and The New Leviathan, and his views on money in comparison to those of J M Keynes Chapters also consider his assessment of Edward Gibbon as a historian and his use of biblical citation in relation to the work of Thomas Hobbes. Johnson’s insightful reflections and in-depth analysis of a range of areas in Collingwood’s thinking connect them through historical and conceptual themes relevant to contemporary debates about his philosophy

UK February 2025 US February 2025 232 pages

HB 9781350498457 £85 00 / $115 00

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Philosophy of the History of Philosophy

Nathaniel Goldberg

Philosophy of the History of Philosophy answers three urgent questions that all philosophers face: How do philosophy and the history of philosophy relate? How should philosophers generally approach the history of philosophy? For what reasons should philosophers who are not historians of philosophy study the history of philosophy? How philosophy and the history of philosophy relate informs how—if at all—philosophers generally should approach the history of philosophy, which serves as an organizing principle for what fail, and what succeed, as reasons that non-historically focused philosophers should study it

UK January 2026 US October 2025 224 pages

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Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism

AI, Automation and Alienation

Edited by Andrius Bielskis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania

With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how the forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions The volume contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, specializing in the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will appeal to those in philosophy, politics, literary and cultural studies interested in new technologies both from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages

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"The

Unthinkable" in Ethics, History and Philosophical Anthropology

A Pragmatic-Transcendental View

Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki, Finland

Combining a pragmatist approach with a Kantian-inspired transcendental strategy, Sami Pihlström distinguishes between what is ‘unthinkable’ and what is merely ethically wrong He demonstrates how issues concerning the unthinkable vs the thinkable, from the ethical response to the Holocaust to philosophical considerations of monstrous characters in gothic fiction, challenge the categories we use to structure the world. Turning our attention to the ethically and ontologically constitutive character of the boundaries we draw, while utilizing conceptual and argumentative resources from the Wittgensteinian tradition in moral philosophy, it will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the fundamental ethical issues of human life

UK February 2025 US February 2025 232 pages

HB 9781350506527 • £85 00 / $115 00

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The Pursuit of Success

A Philosophical Examination of Happiness, Well-Being, and Meaning in Life

Christine Vitrano

This book examines the concept of a successful life, which is an important ideal that most people desire, though they have the wrong ideas about how to attain it . Christine Vitrano argues that outward achievements—such as wealth, material possessions, or professional status—are not necessary for success and that it need not involve the pursuit of objectively valuable, worthwhile, or meaningful activities Borrowing key insights from ancient philosophers such as the Stoics and Epicurus, the author argues that the successful life requires nothing more than achieving happiness in a morally good life

UK January 2026 • US November 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9781666924923 • £80 00 / $110 00

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The Ethics of Behaviour Change Technologies

Beyond Nudging and Persuasion

Edited by Joel Anderson, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Lily E. Frank, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands & Andreas Spahn, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

This book investigates behaviour change technologies (BCTs) from an ethical perspective, examining the broader societal and philosophical implications of these types of technologies These technologies—ranging from fitness trackers and smart home systems to digital nudging and persuasive AI—are increasingly shaping our choices, habits, and lifestyles This book moves beyond nudging and persuasion to explore a broader spectrum of ethical concerns, including autonomy, privacy, trust, responsibility, and social justice Contributors from leading scholars do not merely critique BCTs but also offer constructive ethical frameworks and ethical analysis for their responsible design and implementation

UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 276 pages • 3 bw illus

HB 9781786613264 • £95 00 / $130 00

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Practical Kantian Ethics

A Commonsense Account of Moral Life

Donald Wilson, Kansas State University, USA

By reversing the usual order of Kantian interpretation, Donald Wilson begins with Kant’s applied moral philosophy and uses this later work to offer a radically new account of his views Through an “inner freedom” model, Wilson explains diverse threads in Kant’s moral theory informing obscure aspects of the Groundwork and presents a different and comprehensive vision of Kantian moral life This new account transcends the narrow rational asceticism often associated with Kant’s view, embedding morality in our humanity Focused on the integration of diverse norms and the lived experience of morality, this nuanced account is essential reading for anyone working on Kant’s moral philosophy today

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350501270 • £85 00 / $115 00

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E. M. Cioran and the Human Condition

Karl White, King's College London, UK

This masterful account puts E.M. Cioran into his rightful place as one of the key figures in postwar French thought. Acknowledged for decades as a pillar of European culture, the Romanian émigré to Paris has been overlooked by Anglophone scholarship, but by placing him into conversation with acclaimed mainstream thinkers like Martha Nussbaum, Hannah Arendt and Samuel Beckett this book finally redresses that balance. Framing its discussions with enduring theological themes like guilt, original sin, salvation and apocalypse, the true value of Cioran’s work for Western thought is brought to the fore These ideas often go unnoticed in the work of other more conventional thinkers, making Cioran an essential figure in confronting the apocalyptic nature of our own age.

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350498549 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Global Ethics in a Time of Crises

Edited by Göran Collste, Linköping University, Sweden & Torbjörn Lodén, Stockholm University, Sweden

A thought-provoking and essential collection for anyone seeking insight into how we can build a more just and sustainable world This book brings together leading international scholars in philosophy, social sciences, and religious studies to reflect on how global problems can be understood and addressed through an ethical lens As the original scholarship in this volume reveals, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East; the tensions in East and Southeast Asia and growing global insecurity; the climate crisis and environmental destruction; and the risk for global pandemics and global inequalities all call for action based on globally shared ethical principles and values

UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus

HB 9798881800444 • £80 00 / $120 00

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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics

Edited by Ezio Di Nucci, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Ji-Young Lee, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Isaac A. Wagner, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This bioethics handbook offers chapters on a broad range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and the environment The handbook also serves as a one-stop starting resource for multi- and interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners who engage with bioethics in their work

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 432 pages • 3 b/w illustrations; 1 table

PB 9798216366102 £32 99 / $44 95

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Playing God with Emerging Technologies

How to Avoid the Traps of TechnoOptimism and Techno-Pessimism

Moti Mizrahi

Public debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies tend to devolve into false dichotomies of optimism versus pessimism This book provides a conceptual framework for engaging in such debates in a critical manner through the lens of “playing God” arguments, which allow us to assume an intermediate attitude between the extremes of hype and panic and to approach the governance of new or emerging technologies in ways that might help to increase our control over, improve our understanding of, and prevent our misuse or abuse of such technologies

UK December 2025 US October 2025 176 pages

HB 9781666964523 £80 00 / $110 00

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics

Edited by Matilda Carter, University of Leeds, UK

Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependency of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in moral theory Bringing together the theoretical and applied dimensions of care ethics, this volume provides an authoritative overview of what care ethics is, internal debates within the field, and the contributions it can make to contemporary issues, from disability and care to public administration With an international team of experts providing interdisciplinary approaches to care, this is the place to start to gain an in-depth insight into care ethics and its role in addressing worldwide vulnerabilities

UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 448 pages

HB 9781350428379 • £140 00 / $190 00

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ethics

Edited by Christian B. Miller, Wake Forest University, USA

Expanded to represent the fundamental questions at the heart of philosophical ethics today, this 2nd edition of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ethics covers key topics in metaethics and normative ethical theory With 12 fully revised chapters, and 3 new chapters on moral relativism, moral responsibility, and Confucian ethics, this volume provides a one-stop resource for students of ethics Updates include introductory overviews of the field and methodological issues, as well as an appendix of additional resources, including technical terms in ethics

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 464 pages

PB 9781350415706 • £39 99 / $54 95

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Ethics in a Capitalist Economy

Why

Markets Needs Virtues

Robert CB Miller, Independent Researcher, UK

In a novel application of the work of neoAristotelian virtue ethics to the philosophy of business, Robert CB Miller argues that free market capitalism requires virtues to mitigate its flaws and to enhance its strengths This book outlines modern virtue ethics, deriving from Aristotle and Aquinas and reinvigorated by writers including Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot It sets out 3 types of virtue specific to economic activity: contractual, behavioural and entrepreneurial In each of these domains, it shows how flaws in the market economy can be mitigated by the application of particular virtues in order to encourage human flourishing.

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages • 4 bw illustrations

HB 9781350515383 • £85 00 / $115 00

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The Aesthetic Question Experience, Judgement, Value

Jane Forsey, University of Winnipeg, Canada

The nature and meaning of the ‘aesthetic’ animates Jane Forsey’s provocative dive into the foundations of philosophical aesthetics We liberally apply ‘aesthetic’ to a wealth of experiences from horror movies to fine art, but underlying our use is a long-standing commitment to the centrality of pleasure Forsey questions why traditional aesthetic theories find it difficult to include experiences of the negative—the ugly, the fearsome, the grotesque, the banal Through an analysis of major themes and debates in aesthetics, Forsey argues that this connection to positive valuation severely restricts the kinds of objects and experiences that are counted as justifiably aesthetic.

UK November 2025 US November 2025 224 pages

PB 9781350552319 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350552302 • £65 00 / $90 00

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African American Film Noir and Philosophy

Racing Shadow and Light

Dan Flory, Montana State University, USA

In this book Dan Flory relies on recent advances in philosophy of film, philosophy of emotion, cognitive film theory, and critical philosophy of race to guide his analyses of Film Noir Making sense of techniques, themes, and characterizations filmmakers have used in order to structure movies into films noirs, Flory focuses on those viewer responses that are not consciously registered by higher-level forms of cognition He argues that embodied, affective, and implicit reactions are key to understanding how film noir typically conveys ideas, feelings, and perspectives concerning race . His approach is provides an opportunity to both diagnose and seek ways to overcome this vexing sociopolitical problem

UK November 2025

• US November 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350496828 • £85 00 / $115 00

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The Hysterical Sublime

Humanism in the Age of Posthuman Capitalism

Matthew Flisfeder, University of Winnipeg, Canada

Developing the concept of the hysterical sublime, first theorised by Fredric Jameson, to challenge posthumanist perspectives on the Anthropocene, this book facilitates the rethinking of universal and dialectical humanism as concepts for grappling with 21st-century capitalism Through the concept of the hysterical sublime, this book argues that, not only is anthropocentrism and humanism the unconscious core of posthumanist theory; emancipatory politics must take ownership of this perspective and renew universalist and dialectical humanism as the core of the political project resistant to capitalism and the Capitalocene .

UK July 2025 US July 2025 264 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350536104 £85 00 / $115 00

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The Arts in Philosophical Practice

Prospects, Perspectives and Practices

Edited by Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox

This edited collection explores the question: How can the arts enrich philosophical practice and help us better investigate the complexities of human existence? It delves into the interplay between philosophy and the arts, showcasing how their combination can inspire new ways of thinking, connecting, reflecting, and understanding. By discussing ways in which art forms—literature, music, drama, visual arts, and more—can be integrated into philosophical practice, the book reveals how abstract ideas can be made tangible and illuminates how the arts and philosophy can jointly enhance professional fields and contribute to the art of living

UK March 2026 • US January 2026 • 1 pages • 10 tables

HB 9781666947007 £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781978760851 £79 83 / $99 00

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Technics and Enaction

A Philosophy of Imagination

Émilien Dereclenne, Independent Researcher, France

Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers a new theory of imagination linked to technical, social and embodied factors Challenging the dominant internalist and representationalist theories, this book combines enacted, embodied, ecological, extended, embedded cognitive theories with material anthropology and the French philosophy of technics and imagination to shine a light on the role of technical and socio-material engagement in imaginative and creative processes . Engaging with both enactive and French philosophers of technics, Émilien Dereclenne showcases how French philosophers of technics can help 5E cognitive sciences achieve their own theoretical goals about imagination

UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350507593 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350507616 • £76 50 / $103 94

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The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games

Art, Inquiry, and Ritual

Albert R. Spencer

The Philosophy of Role-Playing Games: Art, Inquiry, and Ritual explores how RPGs serve as immersive laboratories for exploring identity, ideology, and self-discovery: the agency of the players and the authority of the Gamemaster (GM) cooperatively interact with the rules and dice to simulate the immersive worlds that they build and explore Combining insights from RPG scholars and philosophical giants, it examines the unique aesthetics of RPGs and their potential for philosophical and spiritual reflection through collaborative play.

UK December 2025 US October 2025 224 pages

PB 9781666942798 • • HB 9781666942774 • / $115 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781978762640 • £28 73 / $35 95

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The Phenomenology of Paint Between

Materiality and Illusion

Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia

Analyzing the different modes of appearance and application of the most ubiquitous medium in art and ritual, this book examines paint from anthropological, ethnographic, aesthetic, historical and chemical viewpoints The result is a clearly articulated account of both the materiality and phenomenology of paint, as substance and idea It discusses the provenance, politics and chemistry of pigments, the role of concealment and beautification as paint is applied to bodies, the stories and practices of hiding paint by artists, and efforts to isolate paint as an essential quantity, ending on the philosophical question as to whether paint is separable from colour From bodily substances to chemical engineering, this study provides a history of ritual and representation through the “lens” of paint, the medium that reveals through covering

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Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art • Bloomsbury Academic

Imaginative Experience in the Arts

Promoting Liberal Education

Charles Altieri

Carefully argued with exemplary readings of poems, paintings and fiction, Imaginative Experience in the Arts outlines a new impetus for criticism and liberal education grounded in the way art stimulates our powers of imagination and enriches our experience of the world In contrast to literary critics and philosophers who argue for the importance of aesthetic experience by subordinating it to knowledge and practical concerns, Altieri defends a view of subjective imaginative experience as important in itself, and already socially oriented Chapters test Altieri’s concepts about the nature of aesthetic experience against readings of canonical poems, novels and paintings, by Langston Hughes, Giorgione, Cézanne, Silvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams and Mina Loy Two appendices cover the limitations of AI poetry, and review other important arguments for the powers of imagination

£76 50 / $103 94

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry Bloomsbury Academic

Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel

Why Literature Is Not Philosophy

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck

Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch’s work to make a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch’s philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy This book differs by deepening her insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 240 pages

PB 9781350332959 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry Bloomsbury Academic

World English

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry

James D. Reid, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA & Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA

Deception

Mind, Metaphor, Memes, and Mimicry Machines

Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Deception challenges readers to think about their own lies – from their first lies in childhood to the clever, provocative ones they told just recently Scouring a number of texts in philosophy, poetics, literature and theory, both western and eastern, the book urges that, at a time when phrases like ‘fake news’ ‘gaslighting’ and ‘false narratives’ have become an intrinsic part of global vocabulary, an interdisciplinary discussion on the intertwined future of the twins ‘lying’ and ‘truthtelling’ is an urgent imperative

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 304 pages • 15 bw illus

HB 9781350466579 • £85 00 / $115 00 / $115 00

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry Bloomsbury Academic

Kierkegaard and the Poetry of the Gospel

Essays on the Lily Discourses

Edited by Frances Maughan-Brown, College of the Holy Cross, USA & Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA

This book is a collection of essays that respond to Kierkegaard’s beautiful and vital Lily Discourses Long branded as “merely” devotional writings, Kierkegaard’s texts dealing with the lilies and birds spoken of in Matthew’s gospel are rich with poetic nuance and philosophical significance. In this volume emerging and established interpreters address Kierkegaard's religious, literary and dramatic aspirations in these discourses. With the fields and approaches of each contribution ranging from analytic aesthetics to eco-theology, this is the go-to text for anyone looking to teach or write about the Lily Discourses across the disciplines of philosophy, literary studies and religion

UK October 2025 US October 2025 256 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350476523 £85 00 / $115 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350476554 • £76 50 / $103 94

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy

Meaning and Imagination

Jeffrey Hipolito, Independent Scholar, USA

Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy: Meaning and Imagination is the first book to offer an overview, at once introductory and comprehensive, of the philosophical thought of Owen Barfield. Beginning by placing Barfield’s early poetics in the context of the critical hurly-burly of modernist London of the 1920s, it shows how Barfield’s subsequent development of a philosophy of history, metaphysics, and ethics culminates in his development of a poetic cosmology The book itself culminates in an analysis of the Burgeon trilogy, in which Barfield recapitulates the themes and arguments of his poetic philosophy by exemplifying them in three genre-defying works of fiction.

UK October 2025 US October 2025 264 pages

PB 9781350420328 £28 99 / $39 95

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic

The Temptation of Non-Being

Negativity in Aesthetics

Artemy Magun

Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? This book uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory of art as a medium of complex negativity Artemy Magun shows through examples from Lars von Trier, Jacek Malczewski, Andrei Platonov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, how these negative practices become progressively more complex and explicit

UK November 2025 US November 2025 288 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350430020 £28 99 / $39 95

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ePub 9781350430006 • £76 50 / $103 94

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Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic

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Daoist Phenomenology

A Vertical Reading

Jay Goulding, York University, Canada

Jay Goulding’s Daoist Phenomenology represents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen Illustrating styles of reading complex texts from Europe and East Asia, Goulding moves away from horizontal reading of simple comparisons on a single plain to vertical reading as a deep dive of ideas into ancient worlds Vertical Reading is hermeneutic strategy that captures the depth of connection between phenomenology and Daoism, especially Heidegger and classical Daoists Laozi and Zhuangzi His method, drawng on writing and ideas from popular culture including Jules Verne, George Lucas and Bruce Lee, promotes further intercultural dialogues between two great traditions in world philosophies

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages

HB 9781350470477 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Series: Daoism and the Human Experience • Bloomsbury Academic

Considering, Questioning and Re-Imagining Harmony

Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections

Edited by Karyn Lai, University of New South Wales, Australia, Rick Benitez, University of Sydney, Australia & Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Are harmony and disruption mutually exclusive? This collection critically examines the concept of harmony and its association with perfection. Harmony is pursued by individuals, families, societies and nations as a fundamental value Yet it often comes at the cost of freedom, creativity and individuality This book explores ways in which it may be misleading to regard harmony as opposed to difference or to think that harmony and disruption are independent Featuring examples of historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony, an international line-up of contributors reflect on ideas from ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian and Japanese thought By including historically and culturally diverse perspectives of harmony to widen the horizons of consideration, this collection present a more inclusive understanding of this major philosophical and political concept .

UK November 2025 US November 2025 320 pages

HB 9781350453210 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350453234 • £76 50 / $103 94

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Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts

Exploring Land and Depth

Michael Charlesworth, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Michael Charlesworth sheds light on the varied ramifications of Jarman's artistic practice from his years at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness, and provides the first book-length study of his interest in depth psychology He draws on Jarman's paintings, including his landscapes from the 1960s and 70s and his 'black' and 'broken glass' series from the 1980s, showcases Jarman's excellence as a writer, and emphasizes themes and artistry rather than narrative in his films. Exploring the ways in which Jungian and post-Jungian psychology were absorbed into Jarman's varied works, Derek Jarman’s Visionary Arts celebrates him as one of the major British artists of the late 20th century

Communitarianism, Confucianism and the Self

Andrew Tsz Wan Hung, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

While the challenges facing the East and West can seem particular and mutually exacerbating, this enriching study creates a new platform for philosophical dialogue between the two As Confucian thought wrestles with the push for modernization, and liberal democracy finds new cracks in its political consensus that undermine the communitarian ethos of solidarity, the opportunity for mutual understanding that this vital book offers has never been more pressing Andrew Hung draws a comparison between the communitarianism of Charles Taylor and the Confucian teachings that still guide modern day China, finding potential for mutual inspiration through similar understandings of the self

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350430181 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Bong Joon Ho

Philosopher and Filmmaker

Anthony Curtis Adler, Yonsei University’s Underwood International College, South Korea

With the release of Parasite (2019), South Korean director, Bong Joon Ho, secured his place as one of his generation’s leading filmmakers. Yet while scholars and critics have long appreciated his penetrating critique of Korean society and global capitalism, his ouevre has not been considered from a philosophical perspective In Anthony Adler’s fascinating interpretation, however, Bong asserts that Western philosophy is itself a “cinematic apparatus” and claims philosophy anticipates cinema’s technical and expressive means . As such, cinema in turn possesses an extraordinary capacity to criticize philosophy from within

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 240 pages

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The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy

Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period

Richard Stone, Waseda University, Japan

Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida’s relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them He argues that ideas starting from early Meiji philosophers were gradually given more rigorous treatment over the course of the era, eventually culminating in Nishida’s early philosophy The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers an engaging insight into the Meiji period, bringing Nishida’s work into dialogue with his predecessors

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 200 pages

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies • Bloomsbury Academic

Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)

Themes, Imagery, Expressions, and Rhetoric

Geoffrey Redmond, Independent Scholar

Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes) includes the interlinear Chinese text, and a glossary of key words in English, Chinese, and pinyin These features make it essential reading for students taking courses in Chinese philosophy, Chinese religion, and early Chinese history, as well as readers looking for a clear and accessible gloss of this text

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages

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Otherworlds

Mediterranean Lessons On Escaping History

Federico Campagna, Independent Scholar, UK

In this lyrical and expansive work, Federico Campagna creates a philosophical portrait of attempts to reimagine the world, as they have emerged at the most dramatic junctures in Mediterranean history Each chapter is dedicated to an existential challenge posed by history, and to the daring responses that were dreamed up by the peoples of the Mediterranean Although a book of intellectual history, this is also a unique form of philosophizing, Mediterranean philosophizing, and a sourcebook for preparing ourselves for the otherworlds to come

UK June 2025 US September 2025 392 pages

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Consciousness Mattering A Buddhist Synthesis

Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, USA

In this volume, Peter D Hershock presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, he demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibilities for machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potential of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock advances our understanding of consciousness to invite us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

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The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita

Knowledge, Happiness, and Freedom Roopen Majithia, Mount Allison University, Canada

This open access book presents the first comparative study of Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita Roopen Majithia demonstrates how the Gita stresses the objectivity of knowledge and freedom from being a subject, while the Ethics emphasizes the knower Reading them together, Majithaia enriches our understanding of two cornerstone texts in the Greek and Indian philosophical traditions

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fund and The Hart Almerrin Massey Endowment.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 264 pages

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Philosophy as Orientation

Giving a New Meaning to the Earth

Emilio Carlo Corriero, University of Turin, Italy

Translated by Vanessa Di Stefano, Translator, UK

This book makes a radical philosophical intervention on the question of the Anthropocene, proposing that to rethink our relationship with nature also requires the rediscovery of philosophy understood as orientation The book draws on Anglophone philosophical traditions and philosophers and puts them into a generative dialogue with continental philosophers, in particular Schelling and Nietzsche, providing a novel framework for understanding ecological crisis It is an significant addition to the environmental thought recently revitalized by Timothy Morton and Bruno Latour, and will be essential reading not only for philosophers but for those in environmental humanities and science studies .

UK November 2025 US November 2025 224 pages 10 bw illus

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Identity in Science Fiction

Brain Transplants and Other Misadventures

Edited by Tom Cochrane, Flinders University, Australia

In the first science fiction and philosophy anthology to focus on identity, a set of exemplary stories raise deep questions about who and what we are Each story is accompanied by an introductory overview and narrative explaining the ideas and the principal philosophical arguments behind it We gain a deeper appreciation of stories by Roald Dahl, John Varly and Ursula Le Guin as we are seamlessly introduced to the philosophy of personal identity Thought-provoking and highly entertaining, this one-of-a-kind anthology challenges traditional beliefs around how we see ourselves and allows us to understand what it means to be human

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 320 pages

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Badiou's Ontology of the Present

Society, Economy and Culture in Transition

Michael Hauser, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th century culture Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, and answering some of the contradictions at the heart of Alain Badiou’s most influential works, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the 20th century and the ideologies that replaced them

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus

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Being and Nothing

The Primordial Question of Philosophy

Lorenz B. Puntel

Translated by Alan White

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why at all is there Being and not absolutely nothing?" Considering the history of philosophy from Parmenides through to Heidegger and beyond, he charges philosophy with persistently failing to adequately confront the question of Being In response, Puntel sets out a systematic philosophy to rival Hegel's Science of Logic and Whitehead's Process and Reality. This volume first critically analyses all of the major stages in the “forgetfulness of Being” in Western philosophy, situating a vast range of historical philosophers within Puntel's theoretical framework, Structural-Systematic Philosophy (SSP), which unites continental philosophy's comprehensiveness with the precision and linguistic rigor of the analytic tradition The second part develops the methodical question of a systematic theory of Being Being and Nothing is the third in Puntel's trilogy comprising Structure and Being (2008) and Being and God (2011)

UK June 2025 US June 2025 544 pages 0

HB 9781350503458 £140 00 / $160 00

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World English

Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics

Christopher Gauker & Johannes L. Brandl & Mark Textor & Max Kölbel

The Growing-Block View

Philosophy of Time, Change, and the Open Future

Graeme A. Forbes, University of Kent, UK

Graeme A Forbes presents a compelling argument for the Growing-Block view He explores ontological questions central to the metaphysics of time, addressing why time does something space does not and why the past differs from the future Forbes argues for the view that the past exists, the future doesn’t, and that the passage of time is causation bringing about events according to the laws of nature From the armchair to philosophy of physics to the human world, he offers a comprehensive examination of these issues

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350504288 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781350504301 • £81 00 / $110 69

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Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics • Bloomsbury Academic

Unreal Beliefs

An Anti-Realist Approach in the Metaphysics of Mind

Krzysztof Poslajko, Jagellonian University, Poland

Krzysztof Poslajko offers a novel version of an antirealist view about beliefs, rejecting the extreme proposal of eliminativism that claims beliefs do not exist He argues we should rather say that beliefs exist, but they are not real By arguing for the antirealist view as a revision of our common-sense view about the nature of mind, Poslajko makes the case for adopting a pragmatic metaphilosophy when we deal with philosophical questions about belief

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350355002 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Innovations in Teaching Philosophy

A Toolkit for the 21st-Century Classroom

Edited by Brynn F. Welch,

University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

This essential companion tackles the current challenges in higher education with bite-size chapters offering practical advice on a variety of issues, from the role of technology to inclusive classrooms

Here you will find guidance from award-winning teachers about what they have tried in the classroom, how it worked, and why they did it Motivated by a recognition of the ever-changing landscape philosophy teachers face, the conversational tone of the short chapters emphasize accessibility and practicality. A final section written exclusively by students considers the wonders and woes of the various styles of teaching they have encountered Here is a chance to understand more about the immensely rewarding experience of teaching philosophy

UK December 2025 US December 2025 400 pages

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Wittgenstein Versus Anscombe on How to Live Linked Philosophical Lives

Duncan Richter

Part biography of two of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, part guide to how we can and should live our lives, this book is a unique exploration of philosophical ethics, drawing from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Elizabeth Anscombe’s different beliefs about killing in war, about sexuality, about politics, about God, and about the meaning of life. It contrasts the writings, influences, and lives of these two notoriously eccentric and difficult thinkers, inviting the reader to decide which, if either, is the better role model

UK January 2026 • US November 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781666981506 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Eco-Freud From A to Z

Michael Marder, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

An unprecedented conceptual portrait of Freud as an ecological thinker, this book analyzes our current approaches to ecology and the environmental crisis through the lens of psychoanalysis Conceived as a theoretical tool-kit, the alphabetically arranged entries—from “Geo-psycho-analysis” to “Trauma extensions” and from “Fetishism and the Climate” to “Obsessive Self-Blaming”— guide the reader toward a deeper appreciation of the unconscious forces at work in our green dreams and nightmares

UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350538436 • £19 99 / $27 95 • HB 9781350538429 • £65 00 / $90 00

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World All Languages (except French/German/Italian/Portuguese/Spanish)

The Principles of Philosophy A Defense of Reason

Mohammad M. Tajdini

The Principles of Philosophy: A Defense of Reason presents an absolute and universal defense of the rational moral law, and a strong and uncompromising criticism of skepticism and relativism. Using clear and simplified language, the author discusses the views of both Eastern and Western thinkers, regarding a significant philosophical issue.

UK January 2026 • US January 2026 • 448 pages • 1 bw (Author photo)

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Hamilton Books

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Wittgensteinian Feminism

Edited by Sandra Laugier, Sorbonne University, France, Isabel G. Gamero Cabrera, Complutense University, Spain, Jasmin Trächtler, TU Dortmund, Germany & Camille Braune, Sorbonne University, France

Presenting the first in-depth exploration of the field, this book tracks recent developments in Wittgenstein research, epistemology, feminism and practical philosophy to show the diversity surrounding the connection between Wittgenstein’s ordinary language philosophy and feminism Divided into four thematic parts, it covers the history of ordinary language philosophy, moral and political thought, feminist epistemology and conceptual approaches to gender in languages, bringing together works by feminist philosophers who question the way in which ordinary language philosophy can enrich moral and political thought

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 400 pages

HB 9781350506732 • £140 00 / $190 00

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My Animals & Flowers

Lessons from the Natural World

Theodor Lessing

Edited by Benton Arnovitz, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA

Translated by Peter C. Appelbaum

Translated into English for the first time, My Animals and Flowers bring forth Theodor Lessing’s visionary philosophy of need in an idiosyncratic series of musings on the natural world, which range from light-hearted to darkly shadowed Full of imagination, wit, and insight into the nature and history of living species, they demonstrate Lessing’s brilliant ability to combine biological observation with social, psychological, political, historical, educational, and above all, philosophical thoughts Grimly pessimistic about human society, Lessing found both a mirror and a refuge in the world of animals and flowers. In observing nature and attributing all type of human characteristics to animals and plants, he exposes the fusing of nature and culture, and – in dialogue with the natural world – confronts a whole cluster of political questions from the question of equality for women and marital fidelity to the pollution of cities and man’s destruction of the environment

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 384 pages • 10 bw illus

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The Epistemology of Language Use

Wittgenstein and a Philosophical Pragmatics

Arley Ramos Moreno, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Edited by Cristiane Gottschalk, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Paulo Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Brazil & Rafael Lopes Azize, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil

Arley Ramos Moreno, a pioneering Brazilian philosopher, makes an important contribution to current discussions around meaning, knowledge, and symbolism in the first English translation of his work Connecting philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics, and phenomenology, Moreno builds on Wittgenstein's legacy His focus is on ways of producing meaning that involve the circumstances of enunciation and applications of words He explores interlocutions and the different techniques for assigning names to things Extending Wittgenstein’s therapeutic philosophy and representing a significant step towards integrating the Kantian transcendental into the pragmatic domain, this ambitious project is edited by a team of scholars who worked closely with Moreno

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 176 pages

HB 9781350503656 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350503670 £76 50 / $103 94

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Human Flourishing A Conceptual Analysis

Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley, Bath Spa University, UK

In this first systematic reconstruction of the concept of human flourishing, Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley addresses the central problems with the treatment of the concept in psychology, education, policy and science He develops a sophisticated methodology of conceptual analysis and makes the case for paying closer attention to complex human contexts, purposes and uses Re-humanizing current research on the concept that is technicalized and detached from ordinary uses, this volume takes the ‘human’ in conceptions of human flourishing seriously.

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 280 pages

PB 9781350418929 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Mimetic Theory, AI, and Desiring Machines

Explorations in Technology, Film, Fiction, and Philosophy

Edited by Thomas Ryba, Purdue University, USA & Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University, USA

Thomas Ryba and Sandor Goodhart bring together a team of renowned scholars to theorize artificial intelligence from a Girardian perspective for the first time. Chapters present cutting edge reflections on Girard’s mimetic theory in connection with science, humans, fiction, film, philosophy and God, shedding light on artificial intelligence and the consequences of the implementation of humanoid robots into daily life Drawing on close interpretative readings of films, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Ex Machina and Her, as well as literary productions, philosophic essays and theological concepts, it offers a novel approach to utilize the seminal ideas of Girard

UK December 2025 US November 2025 416 pages 10 bw illus

HB 9781350382732 £130 00 / $175 00

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Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred • Bloomsbury Academic

J. B. Basedow and F.S. Bock on Pedagogy

Translations of Two 18th-Century Textbooks

Johann Bernhard Basedow & Friedrich Samuel Bock

Edited by Robert B. Louden, University of Southern Maine, USA

Translated by Robert B. Louden, University of Southern Maine, USA

Johann Bernhard Basedow’s Method Book for Fathers and Mothers (1773) and Friedrich Samuel Bock’s Textbook of the Art of Education (1780) were key texts used by Kant in his lectures on education. Translated into English for the first time, Robert Louden explores how both works not only served as the basis for Kant’s Lectures on Pedagogy (1803) and related Reflexionen, but also had a broad influence on the practical, anthropological and religious dimensions of his philosophy This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Kant’s thoughts on education, pedagogy and philosophical anthropology, as well as educational reform during the Enlightenment

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 368 pages

HB 9781350360914 • £130 00 / $175 00

ePub 9781350360938 • £117 00 / $159 29

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Series: Kant’s Sources in Translation • Bloomsbury Academic

In Defence of Cosmopsychism

A Fundamental Approach to the Problem of Consciousness

Khai Wager, University of Oxford, UK

In this original study Khai Wager explores cosmopsychism and its relation to cognate views such as panpsychism, panqualityism and perennialism Drawing our attention to the combination and derivation problems, Wager brings a cosmopsychism approach into critical engagement with panpsychism and investigates their respective handling of these challenges Setting out an overall defence of cosmopsychism and attuning to enduring currents of human thought, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophy of religion

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 280 pages

HB 9781350508613 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350508637 • £76 50 / $103 94

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God Is Undead Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers

Lorenzo Chiesa, University of Newcastle, UK & Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico, USA

In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston reassess the contemporary consequences of psychoanalytic perspectives on belief and disbelief Jointly rejecting numerous efforts past and present to render psychoanalysis compatible with faiths, spiritualisms, and religiousity, Chiesa and Johnston debate with each other about just what sort of non-belief, whether one qualified by agnostic sensibilities (Chiesa) or not (Johnston), can and should be extracted from psychoanalysis

UK May 2025 • US February 2025 • 320 pages

PB 9781350516052 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350516045 • £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350516076 • £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350516069 • £22 49 / $31 04

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Expanding Philosophy of Religion

On Order, Authority, and Modern Civil-Military Relations

Lindsay P. Cohn

Lindsay P Cohn reads Augustine from the perspective of modern civil-military relations, analyzing how Augustine’s views on order, authority, war, peace, violence, and public service help illuminate or set off current debates about democratic control of the military, the ideal relationship between the soldier and the wider society, and the role of the military leader in policy and strategic planning While Augustine never wrote a treatise on war or military service, nor indeed on political theory of any kind, his ideas about these topics form part of a centuries-old theoretical and ethical tradition with great contemporary relevance

UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 120 pages

PB 9781350297210 • £18 99 / $25 95 • HB 9781350297227 • £60 00 / $80 00

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Series: Reading Augustine • Bloomsbury Academic

J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA & Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, USA

Reimagining Philosophy of Religion

Understanding, Commitment, and Making-Believe

Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Notre Dame, USA

By exploring how analytic philosophy of religion can broaden its horizons to combat old biases, Amber L. Griffioen makes the discipline socially and practically relevant Divided into units on Reorientation, Reformation, and Revolution, she engages with a wide range of religious phenomena, from religious cognition and beliefs to imagination, prayer, religious experiences, mysticism and compassion With each chapter examining one aspect of traditional analytic philosophy of religion, she provides suggestions for how the field can develop in more constructive and inclusive directions.

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 272 pages

PB 9781350328501 £21 99 / $29 95 HB 9781350328471 £65 00 / $90 00

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Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque

The

Early Modern Origins of

Media Theory

Noa Levin, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

Benjamin, Deleuze, and the Baroque argues that their media theories were informed by their respective readings of the philosophy and mathematics of G W Leibniz, and how the Baroque can thus be seen as the locus of modern media Providing close critical analyses of Deluze and Benjamin’s works on cinema, which remain understudied in the English language, it explores how, in their dual roles of philosopher and cultural critic, the pair may illuminate our own age of multiple crises through the Baroque

UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350414211 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Series: Walter Benjamin Studies Bloomsbury Academic

Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein

Religious Diversities and

Racism

Thomas D. Carroll, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Thomas C Carroll uses Wittgenstein’s thoughts on religion and language to bring a crosscultural perspective to philosophy of religion Through a focus on Chinese philosophical and religious traditions and the intertwining of racism and religion in the United States, Carroll highlights two related features of Wittgenstein’s philosophy: the relevance of contextual backgrounds to interpreting ways of life and the importance of reflecting on existential purposes in philosophical inquiry By demonstrating how Wittgenstein's ideas can enrich our understanding of the complex phenomenon of religion and the place it has in our lives, this inclusive and timely study asks us to rethink how we approach philosophy of religion

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781350471559 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Cosmopsychism and Original Sin

Corruption in a Conscious Universe

Harvey Cawdron, University of St Andrews, UK

This book explores the applications of cosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, to contemporary discussions of original sin in Christian analytic theology There are two issues in scholarship of original sin that the book focuses on. The first is the transmission issue, that of explaining how original sin is transmitted between humans The second is the apparent tension between original sin and moral responsibility Cawdron argues that cosmopsychism can help us resolve both of these issues and develops two models of original sin to address tensions between the doctrine and moral responsibility

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350532427 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy of Religion • Bloomsbury Academic

Atheism and Love in the Modern Era

Practicing Indifference

Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago, USA

A critique of religious belief which addresses the question of how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches Taking in popular, philosophical and theological discussions of religion, Colby Dickinson argues that theism and atheism taken together can peel back the layers of abstraction, alienation, and disillusionment that always accompany our humanity in order to help us really see how it is to exist in this world This book takes up the notion of love as a cultivation and practice of indifference—a crucial concept that unites both religion and atheism

UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350475380 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Defeating the Evil-God Challenge

In Defence of God’s Goodness

Jack Symes, Durham University, UK

The evil-god challenge is one of the most popular topics in contemporary philosophy of religion In this landmark text, Jack Symes offers the most detailed examination of the challenge to date Exploring the nature of god through the leading schools of philosophical theology, Symes argues that it is significantly more reasonable to attribute goodness to god than evil Drawing from a breadth of ground-breaking material – in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and epistemology – Symes claims to defeat the evil-god challenge on behalf of traditional theism

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 224 pages

PB 9781350419322 £28 99 / $39 95

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An Apostle for Atheists

Paul and the Quest for Radical Philosophy

Ole Jakob Løland, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Confronting the readings of Freud, Nietzsche and Spinoza with insights not only from the more recent philosophical readings of the letters of Paul but also from historical-critical scholarship on the Bible, this book lifts the veil over a new picture of the apostle as a figure with potential value for non-Christians and atheists

An Apostle for Atheists leaves us with ideas that compel us to reconsider Paul’s negative reputation for secular modernity and appreciate him as a figure of a radically new politics as well as a renewed psychoanalysis

UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages

PB 9781350420106 £28 99 / $39 95

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God and the Liberation of Reason in French Philosophy

Edited by Stephanie Rumpza, Sorbonne Université, France & M. E. Littlejohn, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Demonstrating that engagement with the question of God in contemporary French philosophy marks a deep awareness of the nature of philosophy and its relation to history, the work collected here offers new perspectives on theological orientations in phenomenology With twelve contributions from leading experts in French philosophy of religion, the essays in this volume use the question of God to deconstruct the metaphysical patterns still carved into our thought, and reconstruct new paths that might be open to philosophy after we abandon them The volume makes available major thinkers seldom translated, promising to deepen the Anglophone reception and understanding of contemporary French philosophy

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages

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Transcending Fictionalism

God, Minimalism and Realism

Jessica Eastwood, University of Lincoln, UK

Exploring alternative conceptions of the divine, Jessica Eastwood considers the ways of believing in God that are authentic and sincere, moving beyond traditional metaphysical structures that many find difficult to accept. She examines a unique branch of religious non-realism known as religious fictionalism, making the case for its ability to resonate on an intellectual and emotional level. Considering the extent to which fictionalism allows us to make sense of the role of religion in our spiritual lives, she also presents its limitations on adhering to what might be an attractive contemporary model for philosophy of religion called ‘the humane turn’

UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 264 pages

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New Heidegger Research

Irish Phenomenology

Thinking with Heidegger and Beyond

Edited by Róisín Lally, Gonzaga University, USA & Daniel O’Dea Bradley, Gonzaga University, USA

This volume brings together leading Irish phenomenologists—many of them internationally renowned—to explore the themes most characteristic of their work and deeply rooted in their experience of Ireland Taking a phenomenological approach, the book weaves together investigations into Ireland’s island geography, traditions of poetry and hospitality, colonial traumas, and even contemporary issues such as autism It also situates Irish thought within a broader philosophical heritage from John Scotus Eriugena to contemporary debates on phenomenology and metaphysics It traces a material history of literary inscription from the ancient Ogham script to the digital age

UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages

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Imagining with Purpose in Childhood

Children as Emerging Agents Envisioning Lives Worth Valuing

Natalie M. Fletcher

Imagining with Purpose in Childhood argues that when conceived as a deliberate, flexible process, moral imagining may contribute to children’s emerging agency by expanding and enriching their envisioned options for what they believe is worth valuing within their current and future circumstances, thereby helping to make their autonomy more responsible . Drawing on neo-Aristotelian virtue theory, the Capabilities Approach and classical pragmatism, this approach is designed to assist children in confronting some important challenges to responsible autonomy: their relation to others, their relation to self and their relation to knowledge

UK January 2026

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HB 9781666918823 • £85 00 / $115 00

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Series: Philosophy of Childhood Bloomsbury Academic

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Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology

Knowing, More or Less

Stephen Hetherington, University of New South Wales, Australia

Edited by Jeremiah Joven Joaquin & Mark Anthony Dacela, De La Salle University, Philippines

Bringing together Hetherington’s unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material that links his approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem. Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington’s thinking, Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology presents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy’s central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and ‘big picture’ proposals

UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages

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Heidegger's Russians

Bibikhin and Dugin on the Other Beginning

Michael Meng, Clemson University, USA & Jeff Love, Northwestern University, USA

This book provides a philosophical account of Martin Heidegger’s significant impact on contemporary Russian philosophy and, in particular, on two central figures, Aleksandr Dugin (1962-) and Vladimir Bibikhin (1938-2004) The focus of this account is the revolutionary in terms of the attempt by these Russian thinkers to imagine a new Russia, an other beginning for Russia, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both these thinkers are important figures in Russian culture, with Dugin having notorious influence on the thinking of Putin’s regime and the contemporary far-right

UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages

HB 9781538146279 • £95 00 / $125 00

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Series: New Heidegger Research Bloomsbury Academic

The Challenge of Lonergan’s Thought

The Reach of Critical Realism

Andrew Beards, Allen Hall Seminary In challenging us to be conscious of our own subjectivity, Bernard Lonergan set out an updated mode of Aristotelian epistemology that took insights from every major philosophical tradition of the modern era This book explains how that unique positioning makes his ideas perfectly placed to bridge the divide between analytic and continental philosophy Andrew Beards uses Lonergan’s approach not only to understand the many connections between analytic and continental traditions, but to engage with them in new and creative ways Throughout, he puts Lonergan into conversation with other leading thinkers like St John Henry Newman, G E Moore, Friedrich Nietszche and L M Chauvet

UK December 2025 US December 2025 256 pages 10 bw illus

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