Книги по философии

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony…

Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau's reputation as a thinker has steadily grown both in France and throughout the English-speaking world. His …

In this new collection of lectures and essays Jurgen Habermas engages with a wide range of figures in twentieth-century thought. The book displays onc…

Food & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Wine & Philosophy and Beer & P…

Although Islamic philosophy represents one of the leading philosophical traditions in the world, it has only recently begun to receive the attention i…

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics …

This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit d…

All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to …

Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned…

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed poli…

In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on …

What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins…

Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogen…

This new book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Frege's remarkable philosophical work, examining the main areas of his writings an…

In this wide-ranging work, now available in paperback, Habermas presents his views on the nature of the social sciences and their distinctive methodol…

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s letter…

The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the go…

This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several…

This fully revised and updated edition of Nicholas Bunnin and E.P. Tsui-James’ popular introductory philosophy textbook brings together specially-comm…

This highly regarded volume features a modern translation of all ten books of The Republic along with a synoptic table of contents, a prefatory essay,…

The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today …

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, phil…

In this ground-breaking new text, Patrick Baert analyses the central perspectives in the philosophy of social science, critically investigating the wo…

Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer …

The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to s…

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movemen…

This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker’s definitive reference work on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. T…

As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of e…

This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian an…

What would you do if you suddenly became rich? Michael O’Meara had never asked himself this question. A high school history teacher in Maryland, Micha…

The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive treatment of the principal figures and movements of philosophy from its origins bef…

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rig…

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in conte…

This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, partic…

What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal 'know-how' or 'objective facts'? Can science claim special authority based on the obje…

It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what…

“We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, …

In The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social change implicit in the writings…

Focusing on contemporary debates in moral and political theory, Situating the Self argues that a non-relative ethics, binding on us in virtue of out h…

A compelling exploration of the convergence of Jane Austen’s literary themes and characters with David Hume’s views on morality and human nature. Argu…

Adorno was twenty-one years old when he traveled to Vienna in March 1925 to study musical composition with Alban Berg. Twenty years later, Adorno wrot…

What’s the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel’s critically acclaimed seri…

The definitive exploration of C.S. Lewis’s philosophical thought, and its connection with his theological and literary work Arguably one of the most i…

In this important and engaging volume, international scholars present opposing viewpoints to debate ten of the most important issues in contemporary s…

The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno …