Raimond Gaita 
Value and Understanding [PDF ebook] 
Essays for Peter Winch

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 …

The book assesses the development of the Orbán regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse an …

An Introduction to Human–Animal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the field of human–animal interaction from a psychological perspective across a wide range of themes. Hollin examines …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. For Hannah Arendt, friendship had political relevance and importa …

Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll »s paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in …

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 …

In this thought-provoking book, David Weiss Halivni asserts that the act of acknowledging and accounting for inconsistencies in the Pentateuchal text is not alien to the Biblical or Rabbinic traditio …

First published in 1999, this study begins with a review of basic biological functions, stressing the importance to the organism of various kinds of information. The  »biology of information » must c …

Both contemporary philosophy and commonsense morality presuppose a personal autonomy and integrity that an unjust social system may make impossible for some people. Babbitt examines the implications …