Neel Burton 
Meaning of Madness [EPUB 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 …

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 …

A central component of justice is how the economic goods are distributed in a society. Philosophers contribute to distributive justice debates by providing arguments for principles to guide and evalu …

Law“s Judgement elucidates and defends a feature of contemporary law that is currently either overlooked or too glibly dismissed as morally troublesome or historically anachronistic. That feature is …

A discussion of the rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of technology and the humanities, this is a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary dev …

The history of the human world has reached a stage where no philosophical community can any longer philosophize in isolation from other philosophical communities. The African philosophical community …

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle “does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain“. Phantasia in Aristotle“s Ethics investigat …

Critically examining conceptions of freedom of some of the leading contemporary philosophers from Isaiah Berlin to Charles Taylor, Hans Blokland explores the value and significance that freedom has a …