Taylor Carman & Mark B. N. Hansen 
Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty [EPUB ebook] 

Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou”s Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions that …

A broadly liberal politics requires political compassion, not simply in the sense of compassion for the victims of injustice but also for opponents confronted through political protest and (more broa …

In The Concept of Justice, Patrick Burke explores and argues for a return to traditional ideas of ordinary justice in opposition to conceptions of ”social justice” that came to dominate political t …

Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter. Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, …

Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convi …

The theme of the philosopher as therapist dominates Nietzsche”s entire opus, from his earliest writings to the Zarathustra period and beyond. Nietzsche wishes to hasten the coming and future sanctif …

In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle’s philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much …

In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Žižek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy. Yet despite his ima …

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. …

Patrick Riordan takes a different approach to the questions of global ethics by following the direction of questioning initially pioneered by Aristotle; for him the most basic question of ethics is ‘ …