Dr Andrew O’Shea 
Selfhood and Sacrifice [PDF ebook] 
RenA Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Western confessional writings, this book challenges the transhistorical and commonsense views of confession as an innate impulse resulting in the psychological lib …

This book examines the relationships between democratic government and political terrorism. Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States and many of its allies have declared a ‘war on terrorism’. This s …

Though often invoked by pro-life supporters, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But in following the twists and turns of Aquinas thinking …

Originally published in 1963.This volume provides a rigorous interpretation that portrays science and religion in their actualities as personal, communal and cultural phenomena involving different co …

Summary: ‘Topics in Programming Languages’ explores the arch from the formation of alphabet and classical philosophy to artificial programming languages in the structure of one argumentative topics l …

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 …

This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism. The Doctrine of Essence is of ce …

Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty”s reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges met …

Skepticism remains a central and defining issue in epistemology, and in the wider tradition of Western philosophy. To better understand the contemporary position of this important philosophical subje …

The Ecological Community offers important and previously unexplored responses to the environmental crisis. The premise of this volume, writes editor Roger Gottlieb, is that the environmental crisis c …