Roger E. Backhouse 
Puzzle of Modern Economics [PDF ebook] 
Science or Ideology?

Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing tog …

The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such. This debate is advanced by particularising it to the expe …

Value pluralism is the idea, most prominently endorsed by Isaiah Berlin, that fundamental human values are universal, plural, conflicting, and incommensurable with one another. Incommensurability is …

This book outlines a new conception of political aesthetics based on the notion of order as an aesthetic category pertaining to human perception. Engaging with the thought of a range of figures, incl …

This volume explores Nietzsche”s decisive encounter with the ancient philosopher, Epicurus. The collected essays examine many previously unexplored and underappreciated convergences, and investigate …

This carefully selected and integrated series of discourses on the central issues of political life presents Robert M. Mac Iver”s views on ethics and politics, society and the state, government and …

In this first English translation of the prize-winning Dutch title Leven is Een Kunst, Paul van Tongeren creates a new kind of virtue ethics, one that centres on how to ”live well” in our contempor …

Debates about whether the Wahhabist practice of face-veiling for women should be banned in modern liberal states tend to generate more heat than light. This book brings clarity to what can be a confu …

Shedding new light on the theme of ‘crisis’ in Husserl”s phenomenology, this book reflects on the experience of awakening to one”s own naïveté. Beginning from everyday examples, Knies examines how …

What do we mean by ”assemblage” in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept”s range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection …