Louis Althusser 
Lessons on Rousseau [EPUB ebook] 

Engaging in existential discourse beyond the European tradition, this book turns to Asian philosophies to reassess vital questions of life“s purpose, death“s imminence, and our capacity for living …

Writtten in an engaging lecture-style format, this 8th edition of Core Questions in Philosophy shows students how philosophy is best used to evaluate many different kinds of arguments and to construc …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Over the past 15 years, Rainer Forst has developed a fundamental …

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 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the-entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical intro …

Aesthetic Order challenges contemporary theories of aesthetics, offering the idea of beauty as quantitative yet different from the traditional discursive order. It will be of importance to all intere …

Previously considered two different strands within continental thought, this book compares and contrasts Hegel“s “phenomenology“ and Foucault“s “genealogy“, contending that in spite of their di …

Why do people harm, injure, torture and kill animals? This book evaluates the reasons why these crimes are committed and outlines the characteristics of the animal offender. It considers ethical and …

As information flows become increasingly ubiquitous in our post digital environment, the challenges to traditional concepts of intellectual property and the practices deriving from them are immense. …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was hailed by Claude Lévi-Strauss as ‚the founder of the sciences of man‘. This collection of fourteen classic papers devoted to his work addresses the points of int …