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Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in his academic work and in connection with a number of particular building projects around the world. He en …

Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each essay considers the central question (Why Philosophy?) from d …

Salomo Friedlaender was a prolific German-Jewish philosopher, poet, and satirist. His Kant for Children is intended to help young people learn about Immanuel Kant’s philosophy. Friedlaender writes, “ …

Whispers of Womb and Wilderness is a journey through the cyclic nature of women and the four female archetypes they embody-the maiden, the mother, the wild woman/witch and the wise woman/crone.  …

Deeply informed by jazz, Billie’s Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical t …

A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and critical theory. Overwijk examines h …

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as ‘mad’ or ‘bad.’ Maternal love is a co …

Even though important developments within 20th and 21st century philosophy have widened the scope of epistemology, this has not yet resulted in a systematic meta-epistemological debate about epistemo …

Rationality and Cross-Cultural Understanding explores in what sense rationality secures the ground for the possibility of cross-cultural understanding and questions what kind of understanding, if any …

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann’s final book, published in 1953. It will be of value to graduate students in philosophy, scholars concerned with 20th century Continental …