Product DescriptionContemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scope of ethics and moral...

This broad interdisciplinary and comparative study of the ways in which we discursively "make" the world and its things aims to go beyond the "poetic thinking" of Heidegger toward a more pragmatic...

Reactions to Derrida vary dramatically: some regard him as a charlatan, as simply nihilistic and irrationalist; others as an extraordinarily clear and patient thinker, concerned with the affirmation...

This book, like the post-Heideggerian reception of Nietzsche, rides out the splits and frays of the text offering an up-to-date look at international Nietzsche scholarship. Included are topics such...

This book is divided into five parts and covers: representation; subjectivity; form, structure and system; history and society; morality, class and ideology. Each part contains several thematic...

Hans Reiss. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [208]-216.

A beautifully designed new edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most famous essay, “Self-Reliance,” bringing his timeless classic to a contemporary audience.It is the once-in-a-generation events that...

Deftly blending politics and philosophy, Graham presents a systematic examination of some of the central ideologies of politics. He begins with a clear account of the place of ideology in politics,...

This book is about self-deception and lack of self-control or wishful thinking and acting against one's own better judgement. Steering a course between the skepticism of philosophers, who find the...

Examines all the important fundamental questions of criminal liability and presents a systematic theory of criminal justice. Punishment and responsibility are given fresh and comprehensive treatment.

The early 16th century was a time of intense intellectual activity during which ideas central to the disputes between traditionalists and reformers were being refined. This is the first full-length...

The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of...

From Romanticism to Critical Theory explores the philosophical origins of literary theory via the tradition of German philosophy that began with the Romantic reaction to Kant. It traces the...

Attempts to analyze and interpret Kant's metaphysic of transcendental idealism, with its distinction between those aspects of objects which have a meaning of knowledge, and involve empirical...

In addition to its interest as one of Plato's most brilliant dramatic masterpieces, the Protagoras presents a vivid picture of the crisis of fifth century Greek thought, in which traditional values...

Law often purports to require people, including government officials, to act in ways they think are morally wrong or harmful. What is it about law that can justify such a claim? In A Matter of...

This assessment, undertaken for the ILO, is based on a broader and sounder set of data than any previous attempt to appraise the Tanzanian experience. Winner of the 1988 Edgar Graham Book Prize...

Although there are many books on Samuel Johnson's moral and religious thought, none have provided a detailed analysis of his relationship with the ethics and theology of the 18th century. This major...

The concepts of freedom and equality lie at the heart of much contemporary political debate. But how, exactly, are these concepts to be understood? And do they really represent desirable political...

The mismating of paradigm to subject has resulted in an increasing number of problems for social psychologists in their investigations and a subsequent lack of progress in the discipline. Rosnow...