This book provides a philosophical analysis of the notion of selfhood that underlies identity politics. It offers a uniq......more

This edited volume reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from m......more

The two issues around which this collection revolves are that it is impossible to address biopolitics without taking the......more

This volume brings Bergson’s key ideas from Matter and Memory into dialogue with contemporary themes on memory and time ......more

"In the midst of a frantic and busy life, an award-winning writer invites you to journey into what it means to pursue an......more

What does it mean to be human? And, more precisely, what does it mean to be human now, with both humanism and the humani......more

The worldly culture of northern Europe in the two centuries between the end of the Carolingian Empire and the "renaissan......more

Pathologizing Black Bodies reconsiders the black body as a site of cultural and corporeal interchange. This volume aims ......more

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenome......more

Marc Thomas, in his second volume of poetry since Surviving Fragments, takes on the machines -- how artificial intellige......more

Embodied Reception investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religi......more

In today’s contentious climate-in which a seemingly unbridgeable gap between religious and secular worldviews persists-t......more

Embodied Reception investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religi......more

To what extent is autonomy under threat today and how should these threats to autonomy be analysed? The essays in this b......more

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable ......more

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm’s theory and practice in politics and......more

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the......more

A philosopher’s personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly human Unde......more

Silence isn’t just the absence of noise. It’s a presence that brings us energy, clarity, and deeper connection. Justin Z......more

An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics and debates in this exciting subject and essential reading f......more

What does it mean to be a self, and a self which lives? At first, we would seek to alter the "which" into a "who," givin......more

Uniting analytic philosophy with Buddhist, Indian, and Chinese traditions, this collection marks the first systematic cr......more

Essays prepared,1976 to 2020, some previously published, some published for the first time....more

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support s......more

Using classic texts in African philosophy, Bruce B. Janz applies the strand of cognitive science known as enactivism to ......more

This book brings together insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and existing work on autonomous ag......more

As the concept of recognition shifts from philosophical theory to other fields of the humanities and social sciences, th......more

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of ema......more

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of ema......more

This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China t......more

Peter L. Berger on Religion provides an overview and critical assessment of the work of one of the most influential soci......more

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practic......more

While social work theory tends to emphasise helping individuals and challenging social injustice, the reality of practic......more

This book tells what we know of man, how he first lived, how he worked with other men, what kinds of houses he built, wh......more

Zarathustra is a sage and a prophet who has a great love of humanity. Because of this love, he desires to leave the soli......more

DAVID HUME AND IMMANUEL KANT PHILOSOPHY TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME ’One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering......more

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Using the example of various representatives of the Frankfurt School, the book works out a normative orientation that is......more

Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ’the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims kn......more

This Collection includes 4 most notable works of David Hume - A Treatise of Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Un......more

The New York Times bestseller - One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2023 - A New York Times Notable Book "A book of ......more

People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if state......more

If the predictions are correct, climate change will force millions of people from their homes, threatening a future of h......more

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Sometimes generally referred to as "the nones," agnostics, atheists, humanists, freethinkers, secularists and skeptics c......more

"Guild Court: A London Story" by George Macdonald is a Victorian urban fiction exploring societal complexities and human......more

Describing Jesus as an "agent" of divine actions, or as one who possesses human "agency," is commonplace in christologic......more

Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil were two of the most compelling political thinkers of the 20th century who, despite having......more

Essays on the role of the body in self-consciousness, showing that full-fledged, linguistic self-consciousness is built ......more

Drawing on current research in psychology, a new philosophical account of remembering as imagining the past. In this boo......more

This book explores both scientific and humanistic theoretical traditions in anthropology through the lens of ontology. S......more

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the Ame......more

This is the first book dedicated to exploring mental fictionalism. Featuring contributions from established authors as w......more

This is a collection of pithy and accessible essays on the nature and implications of human embodiment which explore the......more

An outstanding reference source to the key issues, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising 42 chapter......more

Analyzing the importance of joy, laughter, and cheerfulness in Nietzsche’s thought, this volume addresses an under-exami......more

Containing all of the key writings leading up to the publication of his Philosophical Essays in 1777, this volume presen......more

Our contemporary civilization is in distress. Society is unraveling, with rampant individualism, moral dissipation, iden......more

"The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known" is a historical work by Joseph Jacobs that explores th......more

Assembling a series of voices from across the field, this book demonstrates how posthuman theory can be employed to bett......more

A devout believer in the supremacy of will over intellect, Arthur Schopenhauer developed a metaphysical theory that infl......more

This is the twenty-first volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The series aims to provide authorit......more

An interdisciplinary archive of generative methods of writing, fabulation, and world-making, the contributors to this vo......more

Posthumanism is the key to interpreting the twenty-first century and represents an international research program on the......more

This edition offers the first English translation of Amalia Holst’s daring book, On the Vocation of Woman to Higher Inte......more

"Furred, Feathered, and Finned Friends: The Essence of Human-Animal Kinship" is a captivating exploration of the deep an......more

"The Essence of Humanity: Revealing the Basic Rules of Being Human" is an interesting look at what it means to be human ......more

A new, annotated reader, The Philosophy of Love and Sex, presents not only classic readings on love and sex from a diver......more

This book explores the notion of well-being in African and intercultural philosophy and draw insights into global ethics......more

A singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism In The Substance of Consciousness: A Co......more

"There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a ......more

This book builds the foundation of a methodology for the quantitative analysis of the folk narrative system. Just as ant......more

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of ......more

What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or so......more

The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that ran......more