Opdebeeck Hendrik Opdebeeck & Abicht Ludo Abicht 
Point of Philosophy [PDF ebook] 
An Introduction for the Human Sciences

Bringing together a number of case studies, this book shows how from early on Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. Narrowing …

The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells is a visionary exploration of the future of humanity, emphasizing the need for global governance and international cooperation in the post-war world. Writ …

The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal »s sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and Wa …

Michel Serres captures the urgencies of our time; from the digital revolution to the ecological crisis to the future of the university, the crises that code the world today are addressed in an access …

Hannah Arendt »s (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound re …

Virtually every figure in the climate justice literature agrees that states are presently failing to discharge their duties to take action on climate change. Few, however, have attempted to think thr …

Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital so …

In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an over …

Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy argues that organic elements seen as incompatible with rational homo economicus have been left out of, or dow …

Barbarism represents a critique, from the perspective of Michel Henry »s unique philosophy of life, of the increasing potential of science and technology to destroy the roots of culture and the value …