Hans Joas & Wolfgang Knobl 
Social Theory [EPUB ebook] 
Twenty Introductory Lectures

"The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus is a philosophical exploration of absurdism, existentialism, and the human condition within French literature. Through the lens of the ancient myth of …

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment …

Hans Vaihinger (1852–1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the bu …

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 …

First published in 2004. This five volume set collects together a series of writings on the role of women in the late-Victorian Era. This final volume of the set, brings together the voices of female …

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 …

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a philosopher and political theorist of astonishing range and originality and one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. A former student of Martin Heidegger …

Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes alm …

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the ”aesthetics” of an artwork or a piece of design. But aes …

First Published in 2008. Now acknowledged as a classic in the philosophy of science, A Realist Theory of Science is one of the very few books which has transformed not only our understanding of scien …