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Body/Self/Other
(September 2017)
The Phenomenology of Social Encounters
Luna Dolezal - Editor
Danielle Petherbridge - Editor
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Examines the lived experience of social encounters drawing on phenomenological insights.
Body/Self/Other brings together a variety of phenomenological perspectives to examine the complexity of social encounters across a range of social, political, and ethical issues. It investigates the materiality of social encounters and the habitual attitudes that structure lived experience. In particular, the contributors examine ...(Read More) |
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Essays on the Foundations of Ethics
(August 2017)
C. I. Lewis - Author
John Lange - Editor
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2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Presentation of C. I. Lewis’s final book, formulating a cognitivistic ethics.
C. I. Lewis, one of America’s greatest philosophers, was tremendously influential in the fields of logic and epistemology. However, it was to ethics that he devoted the last years of his life. His approach to ethics was not merely as an academic pursuit, but as the deepest...(Read More) |
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Entanglements
(March 2017)
A System of Philosophy
Crispin Sartwell - Author
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Click here to watch Crispin Sartwell discuss his book in nine videos.
Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.
A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglem...(Read More) |
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Just War and Human Rights
(March 2017)
Fighting with Right Intention
Todd Burkhardt - Author
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Discusses how just war theory needs to be revised to better secure and respect human rights.
Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges to the modern state. Serious questions have arisen about the use of drones, target selection, civilian exposure to harm, intervening for humanitarian reasons, and war as a means of forcing regime change. In Just War and Human Rights Todd Burkhardt argues that updat...(Read More) |
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The Good Is One, Its Manifestations Many
(November 2016)
Confucian Essays on Metaphysics, Morals, Rituals, Institutions, and Genders
Robert Cummings Neville - Author
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Presents a twenty-first-century, progressive, liberal Confucianism.
Building on his long-standing work in metaphysics and Asian philosophy, Robert Cummings Neville presents a series of essays that cumulatively articulate a contemporary, progressive Confucian position as a global philosophy. Through analysis of the metaphysical and moral traditions of Confucianism, Neville brings these traditions into the twenty-first century. A...(Read More) |
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International Disaster Management Ethics
(October 2016)
Liza Ireni Saban - Author
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Responds to the demanding political and ethical challenges faced by the international disaster management community.
Today’s international disaster management community faces demanding political and ethical challenges. In International Disaster Management Ethics, Liza Ireni Saban suggests that it is crucial for international aid organizations engaged in disaster management to attempt to lift the mor...(Read More) |
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Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World
(October 2016)
Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology
Glen A. Mazis - Author
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Assesses Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to ethics as calling for a poetic interplay between perception and imagination, and between silence and solidarity, that reveals our place in the world, and our obligations to ourselves and others.
Before his death in 1961, Merleau-Ponty worried about what he saw as humanity’s increasingly self-enclosed and manipulative way of experiencing self, others, and the world—the co...(Read More) |
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Virtue in Being
(October 2016)
Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned
Andrew Benjamin - Author
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A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.
In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he terms anoriginal relationality, demonstrating how this concept can be seen to be at work throughout the history of philosophy. In Virtue in Being, he builds on that project to argue for a new wa...(Read More) |
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The Tragedy of Philosophy
(September 2016)
Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Project of Aesthetics
Andrew Cooper - Author
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Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.
In The Tragedy of Philosophy Andrew Cooper challenges the prevailing idea of the death of tragedy, arguing that this assumption reflects a problematic view of both tragedy and philosophy—one that stifles the profound contribution that tragedy could provide to philosophy today. To build this case, Cooper presents a novel reading of Immanuel Kant&...(Read More) |
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Self-Realization through Confucian Learning
(September 2016)
A Contemporary Reconstruction of Xunzi's Ethics
Siufu Tang - Author
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Confucian philosopher Xunzi’s moral thought is considered in light of the modern focus on self-realization.
Self-Realization through Confucian Learning reconstructs Confucian thinker Xunzi’s moral philosophy in response to the modern focus on self-realization. Xunzi (born around 310 BCE) claims that human xing (“nature” or “native conditions”) is without an ethical framework a...(Read More) |
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