Nicholas D. Smith 
Socrates on Self-Improvement [PDF ebook] 
Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness

This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan o …

Recent electoral success of the Freedom Party in Austria, List Pim Fortuyn in The Netherlands, the People”s Party in Denmark and the National Front in France have demonstrated the appeal of parties …

The Feminist Perspectives Series seeks to provide concise, accessible and engaging introductions to key feminist topics and debates. The texts in the series are designed to be used on a wide range of …

This book presents the case for belief in both creation and evolution at the same time as rejecting creationism. Issues of meaning supply the context of inquiry; the book defends the meaningfulness o …

There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature. There aren’t many introductions to the practice of doing animal ethics. Bob Fischer’s Animal Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction fills th …

First published in 1985, The Place of Ideology in Political Life explores the concept of ‘ideology’ in terms of its philosophical and intellectual underpinnings. Ideology is a term much bandied about …

The book assesses the development of the Orbán regime in Hungary after 2010 through analyzing the polity-politics-policy impacts from a perspective of populism as an ideology focusing on discourse an …

In this study of an important aspect of political theory, Christos Yannaras argues that the concept of the right of the individual (since Hegel”s Philosophy of Right) summarizes the philosophical an …

Throughout its history, the United States has struggled with the inevitable tensions of a highly diverse society. With the opening of higher education to women, ethnic minorities, and members of othe …