Edward G. Ballard & Richard L. Barber 
Studies in American Philosophy [PDF ebook] 

What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book …

In this study of an important aspect of political theory, Christos Yannaras argues that the concept of the right of the individual (since Hegel”s Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical an …

Playwright, novelist, political theorist, literary critic and philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80) remains an iconic figure. This book examines his philosophical ideas and methods. It is an introd …

First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of 6 from the Ethics and Political Philosophy series. It includes a study in contemporary political theory looking at political pluralism or the pluralistic …

First published in 2003. This is volume VII in the IX-volume set titled Studies in Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion. The series is meant to provide an opportunity for philosophical discussions o …

While it is gaining in academic prominence, discussion of the imagination is too often neglected. Society is dangerously unaware of the intimate relationship between culture and politics, ethics and …

Postmarxism is often depicted as a point of intersection for a set of inter-disciplinary theories that are in themselves complex and dense. Bringing the postmarxist theory of Ernesto Laclau into the …

This book asks specific philosophical questions about the underlying structure of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche”s thoughts on atheism and agnosticism; thoughts that represent one of the most conc …

William of Ockham (c.1287-1347) is known to be one of the major figures of the late Middle Ages. The scope and significance of his doctrine of human thought, however, has been a controversial issue a …

To claim to believe in God without accepting that God exists independently of human minds would mean reducing God to merely a human construct, thus not real enough for being the object of religious w …