This book explores the influences on the thought of Václav Havel and how Havel develops a unique political philosophy from these. This is informed from the phenomenological tradition. The book situate
In Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Barcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolo Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and
In C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, ten articulate defenders and critics of Lewis’s apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis’s central arguments for Christian belief.
While scholars frequently discuss different types of value separately, this book approaches values of literature in the plural. It shows how and why the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, affective, socia
This volume treats the evolution of the object of metaphysics from being to the concept of being to, finally, the object. It examines metaphysics and ontology, and the history of these terms. It is re
Phenomenology of Perception: Theories and Experimental Evidence presents an interpretation of phenomenology as a set of commitments to discover the immanent grammar of perception by reviewing argument
Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization provides essays in English by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. Their essays articulate Russian p
In this book, Mikhail Epstein offers a systematic theory of modalities (possible, actual, necessary) and their impact on the philosophy and culture of modernity and postmodernity, focusing on the crea
Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the au
Machiavelliana is the first comprehensive study of the uses and abuses made of Niccolò Machiavelli’s name in management, primatology, leadership, power, as well as in novels, plays, commercial enterpr
The Life of Reason in An Age of Terrorism brings together seventeen original essays that discuss George Santayana’s (1863-1952) social and political thought within the context of contemporary consider
Peace, Culture, and Violence is a collection of essays that examine the forms of violence that permeate everyday life and explore sources of non-violence by considering topics such as thug culture, la
In Death in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary memento mori; that is, documentaries offer tra
Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus' philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like “the One” and “the intelligible” in a cinematic context,
In Roman Ingarden’s Philosophy of Literature Wojciech Chojna makes Ingarden’s philosophy of literature more consistent with Husserl’s phenomenology and more immune to both absolutism and relativism. T
In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philo
African American theologians tend not to find philosophy as a meaningful tool to advance their theological positions. African Americans and Christianity offers an engaging and thorough bridge between
The trial of Dmitri Karamazov embodies Dostoevsky’s general legal and moral philosophy. This book explains and critically analyses such notions as the rule of law, the adversary system of adjudication
In Encountering Ability, Scott DeShong considers the philosophical and political implications of how ability and its correlative, disability, come into being in thought, culture, and literature, revea
Scholars of philosophy consider the five proofs of God that theologian Thomas Aquinas (1225-74) set out in his Summa Theologica in the context of today's world of science, technology, atheism, and agn
In Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Baha’i Faith Mikhail Sergeev offers a new interpretation of the Soviet period of Russian history by developing a theory of religious cycles,
Integrated Truth and Existential Phenomenology: A Thomistic Response to Iconic Anti-Realists in Science relates existential phenomenology to a modal reasoning for establishing a Thomistic integration
Members of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace present 13 essays on aspects of peace and the environment. Among the topics are violence and nonviolence in the environmental movement, negative impacts
