Stephen Gaukroger 
Soft Underbelly of Reason [PDF ebook] 
The Passions in the Seventeenth Century

The Salvaging of Civilization by H. G. Wells is a visionary exploration of the future of humanity, emphasizing the need for global governance and international cooperation in the post-war world. Writ …

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 …

In this radical book, Roy Bhaskar expands his philosophy of critical realism with an audacious re-synthesis of many aspects of Western and Eastern thought. Arguing that the existence of God provides …

Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might ha …

Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital so …

This book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points. In our interconnected global bus …

Buddhas, gods, prophets and oracles are often depicted as asking questions. But what are we to understand when Jesus asks “Who do you say that I am?”, or Mazu, the Classical Zen master asks, “Why do …

Can we reach the psychotic subject in their delusion? Psychopathological theorists often try to find a way to characterise this subject”s inner predicament so that their opaque utterances and action …

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection. …

The rhetoric of ”needs” has been used to legitimate all major turns in UK health policy since 1936. This study identifies the ethical, policy and technical issues arising from the concept of needs. …