Filosofia – Generale

In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard”s writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impa …

What constitutes personhood? How are persons and their bodies related? What is the relationship between personhood and value? The Unity of a Person: Philosophical Perspectives explores the current de …

Contemporary esoteric systems almost always play on the desire of mankind to seek or acquire knowledge. All but universally neglected in such systems are the aa often unrecognized aa barriers which p …

Žižek and Heidegger offers a radical new interpretation of the work of Slavoj Žižek, one of the world”s leading contemporary thinkers, through a study of his relationship with the work of Martin Hei …

This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by try …

Badiou”s Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou”s summary interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gil …

Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though m …

Translated by Henrik Rosenmeier, A History of Ancient Philosophy charts the origins and development of ancient philosophical thought. For easy reference, the book is divided chronologically into six …

Gerald Allan Cohen was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford for 23 years and is considered one of the most influential political philosophers of the past qua …

”I have lost interest …in all that I have written prior to The Philosophy of Money . This one is really my book, the others appear to me colourless and seem as if they could have been written by a …