Lester Embree & Wendy O’Brien 
Existential Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir [PDF ebook] 

There is increasing academic interest in how Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology can be applied to management and organization studies (MOS). In a context of increasing complexity faced by organizations and …

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 …

First published in 2000. Starting with Kripke”s quotation on intuitive content being philosophic evidence, in this essay, the author aims to demonstrate how contemporary philosophy relies on intuiti …

This is a new guide to reading the Confessions, Augustine”s most important work, and what is widely known as the first Western Christian autobiography ever written. The Confessions consists of thirt …

Responses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially a …

Above and Beyond Philosophy is a book of critical metaphilosophy which scans philosophy’s main branches and demolishes most of their content. The author salvages what relatively little is left. …

"First Love: A Novel Vol. II" is an ancient romance story book written by Mrs. Loudon. "First Love: A Novel Vol. II" brings readers to the genteel worldwide of Victorian England, …

What is the self? Is it the impregnable cogito of Descartes or the shattered self of Nietzsche? Or has it become serendipitously constituted from pieces of fairy tales and novels, childhood comics an …

Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely known for his emphasis on embodied perceptual experience. This emphasis initially relied heavily on the positive results of Gestalt psychology in addressing issues in …

Over the last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition have increasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn to immanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of …