Ronald Beiner 
Civil Religion [PDF ebook] 
A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy

Encounters in the Arts, Literature, and Philosophy focuses on chance and scripted encounters as sites of tensions and alliances where new forms, ideas, meanings, interpretations, and theories can eme …

With over one thousand entries covering a diverse range of sources including books, articles, unpublished dissertations, taped lectures, devices and software, this is the most comprehensive annotated …

Drawing on a diverse array of thinkers from Plato to Kierkegaard, On the Internet is one of the first books to bring philosophical insight to the debate on how far the internet can and cannot take us …

The global political economy is inescapably cultural. Whether we talk about the economic dimensions of the ’war on terror’, the sub-prime crisis and its aftermath, or the ways in which new informatio …

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

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical und …

It is generally accepted in legal and bioethical discourse that the patient has a right to self-determination. In practice though, this is often not the case. Paternalism is waning and it is increasi …

This edited volume examines concepts of sincerity in politics and international relations in order to discuss what we should expect of politicians, within what parameters they should work, and how th …

This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger”s paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Although Heidegger”s own treatment deliberately refrains from engaging theological pe …

Addressing Merleau-Ponty”s work Phenomenology of Perception, in dialogue with The Visible and the Invisible, his lectures at the Collège de France, and his reading of Proust, this book argues that a …