Gavin Flood 
Ascetic Self [PDF ebook] 
Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition

The Principles of Secularism by George Jacob Holyoake is a foundational text advocating for the separation of church and state and promoting secularism as a guiding principle for public policy and so …

This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of milit …

What do we mean by ”assemblage” in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept”s range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection …

For centuries, philosophers have addressed the ontological question of whether God exists. Most recently, philosophers have begun to explore the axiological question of what value impact, if any, God …

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high de …

This collection is the first book-length examination of the various epistemological issues underlying legal trials. Trials are centrally concerned with determining truth: whether a criminal defendant …

This book contextualizes David Hume”s philosophy of physical science, exploring both Hume”s background in the history of early modern natural philosophy and its subsequent impact on the scientific …

Bringing together a number of case studies, this book shows how from early on Chinese philosophical discourses unfolded through innovation and the subversion of dominant forms of thinking. Narrowing …

This book investigates how we should form ourselves in a world saturated with technologies that are profoundly intruding in the very fabric of our selfhood.　 New and emerging technologies, such as sm …

Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE– …