Social and political philosophy Books
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to the New European
Book SynopsisAssesses the rise of the 'New' Humanities alongside the traditional disciplines and inter-disciplinary 'studies' areas, stressing the positive impact of the Humanities and confronting the threats facing them today.
£112.50
Edinburgh University Press Martha Nussbaum and Politics
Book SynopsisProviding an overview of the political and ethical philosophy of Martha Nussbaum, this book presents the ideas of this significant philosopher and shows how her thought, while rooted in the traditions of classical philosophy, illuminates a number of current, controversial issues. The book takes a chronological approach and aims to show how Nussbaum?s thought has continually grown and developed. It takes the reader through her views on ethics, political philosophy, feminism and women?s rights, LGBT issues, animal rights, religious tolerance and accommodation, contemporary politics, and global justice. It also explores contested areas of her thought, such as the extent to which she is a perfectionist liberal, challenges to her view that religion merits special accommodations, utilitarian objections to the capabilities approach, criticisms of her brand of liberal feminism, and cosmopolitan objections to her nation-state-based liberal conception of global justice. Each chapter focuses on a book from a different stage of her career, starting with her first book, The Fragility of Goodness and ending with her most recent, The Cosmopolitan Tradition.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Revolutionaries and Global Politics
Book SynopsisThis is a book about discontents of the global order. Building on the innovative reading of ISIS as an international revolutionary actor, it explores the movement?s everyday political practices and confronts them with other global revolutionaries to arrive at a novel understanding of revolutionary agency in global politics. Benefiting in particular from Deleuze and Guattari?s notion of war machine and understanding of hybridity, the book shows how modern revolutionaries seek to disrupt the existing Westphalian order of modern states, yet are inevitably entangled with it and even reproduce in their conduct its founding principles. Including discussions on movements ranging from the Bolsheviks and Palestinian revolutionary groups to Khomeinists, to insurgents in Iraq and ISIS, the book pushes forward debates informed by critical social theory of revolution, violence, resistance and global order.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Modern Philosopher Kings
Book SynopsisExplores modern attempts to resolve the enduring question of the philosopher king whether it is possible to combine wisdom and power to secure justiceTrade Review"Haig Patapan's book proposes a learned and original approach to the notion of power analysed in conjunction with wisdom, and adds ground-breaking scholarship to the fields of both political theory and comparative philosophy." -Franseco Borghesi, Universit di Modena e Reggio Emilia
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press The Informational Logic of Human Rights
Book SynopsisShows how digital capitalism has shaped human rights practices.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Machiavelli in the SpanishSpeaking Atlantic World
Book SynopsisExplores the reception of Machiavelli's works in modern Latin America and Spanish-speaking political thought between 1880 and 1940Trade Review"This brilliant book restores the influence Machiavelli had on the modern Spanish-speaking Atlantic world. Avoiding clich , this book reveals the debts of Liberals, Catholics and Republicans to the notions conceived from the radical autonomy of the political. By both revisiting old and posing new questions, Losada offers renewed answers, and forces us to think again about the Hispanic world's reading of Machiavelli. " - ngel Duarte, Universidad de C rdoba
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality
Book SynopsisAnalyses the resurgence of the radical Right and the psychodynamic basis of authoritarian politics.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press China and the Wireless Undertow
Book SynopsisAnna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Violence Image and Victim in Bataille Agamben and
Book SynopsisA study of violence and the image in the work of Bataille, Agamben and Girard, thinkers who aim to explain the basis of society and culture in the context of power and the sacred.Trade Review"One of the great undisclosed threads in contemporary theory lies in the connection between thinkers seemingly as diverse as Bataille, Agamben and Girard. Though each deals in their writing with sacrifice, victimization and violence, rarely do we find these thinkers conjoined in a study of their shared and divergent perspectives. What Lechte delivers in these pages is a highly original presentation of how a critical analysis of these thinkers might assist us in finding the truth behind the images routinely presented in our world. This is an insight, he successfully argues, which can only be illuminated by addressing how the mechanisms of sacrifice and violence ceaselessly continue to function behind nearly everything we see." -Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish
Book SynopsisExamines how Montesquieu, Hume, Smith, and Ferguson's foundational liberal theories responded to the moral and civic challenges of early capitalismTrade Review"Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish Enlightenment is an extremely ambitious book. On the one hand, it weaves together, in intriguing ways, thoughts gathered from Montesquieu and the central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment; on the other hand, it slyly juxtaposes those thoughts with recent concerns about the practical and theoretical status of liberalism and its critics. This is a needed study for the times in which we live. " -Stuart D. Warner, Roosevelt University
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Moderate Liberalism and the Scottish
Book SynopsisExamines how Montesquieu, Hume, Smith, and Ferguson's foundational liberal theories responded to the moral and civic challenges of early capitalism
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Theopolitical Figures
Book SynopsisExamines the meaning of five theopolitical figures scripture, prophecy, oath, charisma and hospitality in contemporary philosophical-political discourseTrade Review"The relationship between the sacred and the civil defines the stakes of a postsecular era. Montserrat Herrero's new book is a significant contribution to rethinking the political as a figure of the divine and the divine as the apophatic engine of the political. The booming literature on political theology is enriched with an indispensable volume." -Vassilios Paipais, University of St Andrews
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Ancient Greek Democracy and American
Book SynopsisTraces the remnants of Ancient Greek democratic thought in American Republicanism.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical
Book SynopsisA pioneering excavation of Adorno's geography which engages fascism and antifascism in the terrain of geographical theorising.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Planetary Politics
Book SynopsisExplores the connection between ecological crisis and Arendtian politics of the earth.
£81.00
Edinburgh University Press The Agonistic Condition
Book SynopsisPolitical theory influenced by philosophy examines the political as the sphere of human interaction that is distinct from politics, the sphere of political institutions and parties. The political is usually described in conflictual terms, such as Marx?s class struggle, Heidegger?s polemos, Rancière?s dissensus, or the discourse of agonistic democracy.This book challenges the premise of such constructions of agonism, namely, that the political is essentially distinct from means and ends calculations. He argues that this premise is derived from the critique of instrumental reason, which assumes that utilitarianism is correct that instrumental ends are measurable. This forgets an ancient tradition that describes phronesis as the primary ethical and political virtue because it calculates the good, which is however impossible to measure with any certainty.The Agonistic Condition shows that a new consideration of phronesis can help political philosophy and theory to develop more robust conceptions of power that better describe the world we live in.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead 1925 1927
£31.50
Orion Publishing Co Slow Down
Book SynopsisWill green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying?Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth''s life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in this astonishing international bestseller.Drawing on cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Saito shows how nothing but a transformation of our economic life can save us from climate collapse. Karl Marx himself reached this breakthrough at theend of his life, long before climate change had even begun. It radically altered his vision of proletarian revolution. Now that we are entering our own end-game, we must grasp Marx''s final lesson before it is too late.If we are to avoid the most terrible political prospects of of climate change, the future must belong to degrowth communism, a fair and humane existence within the limits of nature. There is no alternative: the endlessacceleration of capital has run out of road. We muTrade ReviewSLOW DOWN has an almost magic ability to formulate complex thoughts in clear language, as well as to combine strict conceptual thinking with passionate personal engagement. What this means is that Saito's book is not just for anyone interested in ecology or in the problems of today's global capitalism, it is simply indispensable for those of us who want to SURVIVE in short, to all of us -- Slavoj Žižek, author * The Sublime Object of Ideology *Kohei Saito is one of the most important scholars in the world. In SLOW DOWN, he delivers a Karl Marx for the climate crisis and a vision of communism for the 21st century. No work could be more vital today -- Malcolm Harris, author * Palo Alto *Saito unites Marxism with ecology and lights a path out of our present crisis. A powerful book from one of the most compelling young thinkers of our time -- Jason Hickel, author * Less Is More *This necessary and energizing 21st Century manifesto is a truth mirror inviting us to see ourselves and our place in the metastatic growth engine that is our current economic system. Saito is a well-read soothsayer -- one who loves this world, who has done his homework, and who is eager to share a viable way forward -- John Vaillant, author * Fire Weather *A masterpiece -- Ryuichi Sakamoto, composer and music pioneerSaito's clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone-even when describing the most alarming aspects of the climate crisis-are sure to win over open-minded readers who understand the dire nature of our global situation and that 'green capitalism is a myth.' A cogently structured anti-capitalist approach to the climate crisis * Kirkus (starred review) *In a stagnant world where it is difficult to formulate visions for the future, the liberation of imagination offered by Capital in the Anthropocene . . . is a much-needed antidote * Asia Book Awards 2021 *Saito has tapped into what he describes as a growing disillusionment in Japan with capitalism's ability to solve the problems people see around them, whether caring for the country's growing older population, stemming rising inequality or mitigating climate change . . . His vision for the future is one in which people - less consumed by their endless pursuit of growth for growth's sake - have the leisure time to spend a workday pursuing new interests * New York Times *A glimmer of hope shining through otherwise dark times . . . Saito challenges us not to just think in terms of numbers, but for a new way of life in a different civilisation . . . SLOW DOWN is a major contribution to the fields of degrowth, Marxist ecology, and ecosocialism -- Andrew Ahern * Resilience *Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito calls us to reject the logic of economic growth and embrace a different kind of plenty . . . The key insight, or provocation, of Slow Down is to give the lie to we-can-have-it-all green capitalism . . . In place of a command economy, Saito puts forth a model based on local experimentation -- E. Tammy Kim * New Yorker *
£999.99
Union Square & Co. The Prince Barnes Noble Collectible Editions
Book Synopsis"It is safer to be feared than loved." These words embody the spirit of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues to be relevant to contemporary readers more than five centuries after it was first published.
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Libertarian Anarchy
Book SynopsisPresents a perspective on political philosophy, arguing against the conventional political philosophy pieties and defending a specific political position, which is identified as libertarian anarchy. This book includes a history of the concept of anarchy, and an examination of the possibility of anarchic societies.Trade Review‘In Libertarian Anarchy Gerard Casey presents a modern, clear and compelling case for anarcho-capitalism. Any lover of human freedom should read this book that very probably will set the agenda of the philosophical and political discussions of the next decades.' -- Jesús Huerta de Soto, Professor of Political Economy at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain‘Gerard Casey has written a truly astonishing book, one that relentlessly dismantles some of the most deeply embedded presuppositions in political philosophy. From now on, this will be the first book I use to persuade someone who insists on the vast benefits the state provides. A lasting and vastly significant addition to the literature.' -- Thomas Woods, Senior Fellow at Ludwig von Mises Institute, USA and New York Times bestselling authorCasey does an admirable job of representing the philosophical case for libertarian anarchism. -- Alex Sager * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *Table of Contents1. Death and Taxes: Liberty under attack; 2. Forms of anarchism: Liberty regained; 3. Law without Orders; 4. Why hasn't it been done before?; 5. Making the world safe from democracy; 6. Constitutions of no authority; Further Reading; Index.
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Marx Dictionary 6 Continuum Philosophy Dictionaries
Book SynopsisIan Fraser is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University, UK. He is the author of Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor (Imprint Academic, 2007), Hegel and Marx: The Concept of Need (Edinburgh UP, 1998) and co-editor, with Tony Burns, of The Hegel-Marx Connection (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).Lawrence Wilde is Professor of Political Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Erich Fromm and the Quest for Solidarity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Ethical Marxism and its Radical Critics (Palgrave Macmillan, 1998), Modern European Socialism (Dartmouth, 1994) and Marx and Contradiction (Avebury, 1989), editor of Marxism's Ethical Thinkers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), and co-editor, with Mark Cowling, of Approaches to Marx (Open UP, 1989).Trade ReviewFeatured on the website A Piece of Monologue.This dictionary will be invaluable for anyone interested in Marx's ideas. The research is thorough, the ground covered is comprehensive, and the careful organisation of the book means that its contents are unusually accessible. Highly recommended. -- David McLellan, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, University of Kent, UKThis Dictionary by Fraser and Wilde is an impressive achievement. Based on up-to-date scholarship and executed with scrupulous scholarly standards, it offers an excellent introduction to Marx's work and major ideas. Many of the entries are developmental, taking the reader through Marx's thinking as he sharpened his attack on capitalism. All topics in Marx lead to political controversy and intellectual debate. This even-handed work of reference will get anyone off to a good start. -- Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Chronology; The Marx Dictionary; Bibliography.
£28.99
John Murray Press Philosophy for Life Teach Yourself
Book Synopsis Philosophy For Life is the definitive introduction to the history of Western thought, but more than that, it is a toolkit for using philosophy in your daily life. As you read, you will develop your own critical and creative thinking, exploring the key ideas in Western Philosophy and the arguments that continue to shape our world. You will discover what philosophy is really about, learn to be a sceptic, meet Plato and Aristotle, explore the concept of mind, question free will, use philosophy to be happy, find out about Marx and materialism, see how philosophy relates to everything from comics to coffee in, and ask whether god exists. Philosophy is a life-tool, a set of skills for engaging with any subject, and in Philosphy For Life, you will discover a body of wisdom and a way to develop your own critical and creative thinking.ABOUT THE SERIESPeople have been learning with Teach Yourself since 1938. With a vast range of practi
£12.34
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminist Moments
Book SynopsisKatherine Smits is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Reconstructing Postnationalist Liberal Pluralism (2005) and Applying Political Theory (2009).Susan Bruce is Professor of English at Keele University, UK. She is editor of Three Early Modern Utopias (1999) and Fiction and Economy (2007).Table of ContentsContributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Feminist-Historical Citadel: Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies by Nadia Margolis 2. Anne Bradstreet and the seventeenth-century articulation of ‘the female voice’ by Susan Bruce 3. Mary Astell’s Critique of Marriage by Patricia Springborg. 4. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Women’s Coffee House by Vicki Spencer 5. Justice and Gender in Revolution: Olympe de Gouges Speaks for Women by Joseph Zizek 6. Radical Spirituality and Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Kari Lokke 7. Giving Voice to Feminist Political Theory: The Radical Discourse of Anna Wheeler and William Thompson By Jim Jose 8. 'Supposed to be very calm generally': Anger, Narrative and Unaccountable Sounds in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by Alexandra Lewis 9. ‘Something Akin to Freedom’: Harriet Jacobs and the Feminist Tradition by Susan Hays Bussey 10. On the Enslavement of Women’s Minds: John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women by Katherine Smits 11. German Maternalist Socialism: Clara Zetkin and the 1896 Social Democratic Party Congress by Catherine Dollard 12. ‘How Turn of the Century Feminism Finds Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”’ by Shirley Samuels 13. Ecology and Virtue in Roquia Sakhawat Hussain’s Sultana’s Dream by Maitrayee Chaudhuri 14. Nazira Zeineddine: Pioneer of Islamic Feminism by Miriam Cooke 15. Virginia Woolf, genre-bending, and feminist life-writing: A Room of One’s Own by Amber Regis 16. “Your sister in the ’gator and the ’gator in your sister”: Judgment in Zora Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God by Glenda R. Carpio 17. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’. The Sex-Gender Distinction and Simone de Beauvoir’s Account of Woman: The Second Sex by Céline Leboeuf 18. Betty Friedan’s Feminist Critique of Suburban Domesticity by Rebecca Jo Plant 19. ‘Writing as Re-Vision.’ Female Creative Agency in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck by Claire Hurley 20. Complicity and Resistance: Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse by Helen Pringle 21. Before Her Eyes: On Luisa Valenzuela’s Bedside Manners (Realidad nacional desde la cama) By Valeria Wagner Postscript: Feminist Revisions of Political Thought Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
£27.99
Edinburgh University Press The Afterlives of Georges Perec
Book SynopsisThis collection of 14 essays asks how Georges Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?.
£85.50
Dundee University Press Ltd Lacan Deleuze Badiou
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Edinburgh University Press Ranciere and Literature
Book SynopsisThese 13 essays consolidate and critique Ranciere's work on literature, from his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The PostPolitical and Its Discontents
Book SynopsisWe are told that we live in a post ideological era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy has been reduced to the consensual administration of economic necessity. How can we make sense of this form of depoliticisation? This title examines how the post political has come to dominate governance.Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Seeds of Dystopia: Post Politics and the Return of the Political, Japhy Wilson and Erik Swyngedouw; Part I Spaces of Depoliticisation; 1. The Post Politics of Sustainability Planning: Privatisation and the Demise of Democratic Government, Mike Raco; 2. The Post Political and the End of Nature: The Genetically Modified Organism, Larry Reynolds and Bronislaw Szerszynski; 3. The New Development Architecture and the Post Political in the Global South, Sangeeta Kamat; 4. Opening Up the Post Political Condition: Multiculturalism and the Matrix of Depoliticisation, Nicolas Van Puymbroeck and Stijn Oosterlynck; 5. The Jouissance of Philanthrocapitalism: Enjoyment as a Post Political Factor, Japhy Wilson; 6. Religious Antinomies of Post Politics, Bulent Diken; 7. Post Ecologist Governmentality: Post Democracy, Post Politics and the Politics of Unsustainability, Ingolfur Bluhdorn; Part II Spectres of Radical Politics; 8. Insurgent Architects, Radical Cities and the Promise of the Political, Erik Swyngedouw; 9. The Limits of Post Politics: Rethinking Radical Social Enterprise, Wendy Larner; 10. Neither Cosmopolitanism nor Multipolarity: The Political Beyond Global Governmentality, Hans Martin Jaeger; 11. Against a Speculative Leftism, Alex Loftus; 12. Spatialising Politics: Antagonistic Imaginaries of Indignant Squares, Maria Kaika and Lazaros Karaliotas; 13. After Post Politics: Occupation and the Return of Communism, Jodi Dean; 14. The Enigma of Revolt: Militant Politics in a 'Post Political' Age, Andy Merrifield There Is No Alternative, Erik Swyngedouw and Japhy Wilson; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Whiteheads Metaphysics of Power
Book SynopsisPierfrancesco Basile looks at myths: where they came from and why Whitehead rejects them. In doing so, Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and how it is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Balibar and the Citizen Subject
Book SynopsisEtienne Balibar is a French philosopher and Distinguished Professor of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine. These 10 essays introduce the key concepts in Balibar's thought, particularly his idea of the citizen/subject, through which he reads the political history of Europe.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Political Philosophy of Niccol Machiavelli
Book SynopsisPresents a fresh introduction to Machiavelli's thought for students of politics and philosophy. This volume focuses on Machiavelli's thought, major theories and central ideas. It deals with historical and theoretical context.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I: The Red Dawn of Modernity; 1: The Storm; Part II: A Political Philosophy; 2: The philosopher; 3: The Discourses on Livy; 4: The Prince; 5: History as Politics; 6: War as an art; Part III: Legacy, Reception, and Influence; 7: Authority, conflict, and the origin of the State (16th - 18th centuries),; 8: Nationalism and class conflict (19th-20th centuries); Chronology; Notes; References; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza Beyond Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhat did Spinoza ever do for us? This vtitle shows how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics.It deals with Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Beth Lord; 1. 'Subjectivity Without the Subject': Thinking Beyond the; Subject with / through Spinoza; Caroline Williams; 2. Spinoza's Non Humanist Humanism; Michael Mack; 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza; Towards an Affective Ecology; Anthony Paul Smith; 4. Spinoza's Architectural Passages and Geometric; Comportments; Peg Rawes; 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism; Amy Cimini; Interlude: Lance Brewer, Christina Rawls, Shelley Campbell; 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today; Mateusz Janik; 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology; Dimitris Vardoulakis; 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and; Black Jacobinism; Nick Nesbitt; 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature; Simon Calder; 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza; Nicholas Halmi; Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Untimely Affects
Book SynopsisHow does cinema function as a means of ethical resistance and thought? Focusing on Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's cinemas, this book uses the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to ask how cinema can enable us to see and act in an ethical way. It analyses the cinematic medium itself through concepts of affect, sensation and actual virtual violence.
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Edinburgh University Press Interventions in Contemporary Thought
Book SynopsisWith a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Ranciere.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Practices of Global Ethics
Book SynopsisThis book examines the historical development of global ethics in practice since WWII, looking at its philosophical and historical significance, and the contemporary challenges it faces.Table of ContentsPreface, List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Practices of Global Ethics; PART I: Developing Common Grounds; 1. Human Rights and Globalization; 2. The Earth Charter; 3. Three Visionary Declarations; PART II: Addressing Global Ethical Issues; 4. Practicing Global Environmental Ethics; 5. Religion, Politics, and Genocide; 6. Elements of a Global Ethic with Respect to Armed Conflict; 7. The Practices of Global Ethics with Respect to Poverty; 8. The Globalization of Business Ethics; PART III: Religions, Religious Issues, and The Practices of Global Ethics; 9. The Interfaith Movement: Global and Local Dimensions; 10. The Ethics of Proselytizing and Religious Freedom; 11. Towards a Global Ethics for Education about Religions and Beliefs in Public Schools; Conclusion: The Practices of Global Ethics, History, and Hope; Bibliography, Index.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press DeleuzeS Kantian Ethos
Book SynopsisExplores the potential for an original ethics based on Deleuze's unique interpretation and use of Kantian critique
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Edinburgh University Press Lacan and Deleuze
Book SynopsisThis volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of Deleuze and Lacan's foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan and Deleuze.
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Edinburgh University Press Europe after Derrida
Book SynopsisIs Europe's crisis just a financial one - or is there a deeper problem? Tackling issues ranging from Europe's legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, the contributors to this volume interrogate the various dimensions and contours of the European crisis.
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Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
Book SynopsisAncient metaphysics and contemporary continental realism have a key goal in common: to investigate how beings exists outside of the descriptions placed on them by language, consciousness, texts and society.This volume addresses the encounters between contemporary and antique philosophies.
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Edinburgh University Press SelfLove Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis
Book SynopsisDo people only act out of self-interest? Or is there a less pessimistic explanation for human behaviour? Maurer delves into early-Enlightenment debates on self-love from both famous and lesser known authors, including Lord Shaftesbury, Bernard Mandeville, Francis Hutcheson, Joseph Butler, Archibald Campbell, David Hume and Adam Smith.
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Edinburgh University Press Return Statements
Book SynopsisGregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global 'post-secular' turn since 9/11. He reflects on statements from philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuzes Transcendental Empiricism
Book SynopsisMarc Rlli offers us a detailed examination of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism. He demonstrates that Deleuze takes up and radicalises the empiricist school of thought developing a systematic alternative to the mainstreams of modern continental philosophy.
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Edinburgh University Press Essays on Hume Smith and the Scottish
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together Berry's classic essays some of which are difficult to find with 3 new pieces, which cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation.
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Edinburgh University Press Garcian Meditations
Book SynopsisThe publication of Form and Object: A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia, is a genuine event in the history of philosophy. Situating this event within classical, modern and contemporary dialectical space, Jon Cogburn evaluates Garcia's metaphysics, differential ontology and militant anti-reductionism through a series of incompatible oppositions.
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Edinburgh University Press The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead
Book SynopsisThis second volume in the critical edition reproduces more than 170 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead at Harvard during his second and third years.
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Edinburgh University Press Affirming Divergence
Book SynopsisAn account of Leibniz's influence on Deleuze's philosophyTable of ContentsPart I: Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza; 1. Leibniz, Spinoza and the Anti-Cartesian Reaction; 2. Leibniz and Expression; Part II: Difference and Repetition and Logic of Sense; 3. Deleuze’s Critique of Representation; 4. A Leibnizian World; Part III: The Fold; 5. Material Folds and the Lower Level of the Baroque House; 6. Spiritual folds and the Upper Level of the Baroque House; Conclusion: The New Discord; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press Plastic Sovereignties
Book SynopsisThrough a sustained engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold.
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Edinburgh University Press From Violence to Speaking Out
Book SynopsisDrawing on a career-long exploration of 1960s French philosophy, Leonard Lawlor seeks a solution to 'the problem of the worst violence'. Lawlor argues all violence must itself be reduced to its lowest level. He engages with Foucault, Derrida and Deleuze and Guattari to create new ways of speaking to best achieve the least violence.
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Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major post-1945 works.
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