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ŽIŽEK’S ESSAYS Short, punchy books showcasing the best of Slavoj Žižek’s thought and writing on the most urgent issues of today.
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Liberal Fascisms Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, ‘Liberal Fascisms’, Slavoj Žižek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is to expose liberalism and fascism as two sides of the same coin. The concept offers a glimpse into the murky landscape of half-lies and double-truths that Žižek enters in this latest collection of urgent essays. From the economy and politics to ideology, these short texts work through the different faces of liberal fascisms, structured Žižek's Essays UK April 2026 • US April 2026 200 Pages PB 9781350573161 • £9.99 / $12.95 ePDF 9781350573178 • £8.99 / $11.65 ePub 9781350573185 • £8.99 / $11.65 Bloomsbury Academic
around a trio of the universal, the particular, and the singular: our global predicament; Europe and the Middle East; Trump’s America. Peeling back the inadequate labels we hasten to pin on the phenomena that terrify us – like ‘post-truth'– to peer at the seeping wounds beneath them, these writings reveal the uneasy mixture of hypocrisy, self-deception and what is real that have always been stacked, matryoshka like, inside of one another. Liberal Fascisms is also available in audiobook format from audiobook retailers.
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Crisis
A Critique Miguel de Beistegui, University of Warwick, UK and ICREA, Spain The ‘end of history’ in the form of the triumph of liberalism has given way to a proliferation of crises internal to liberal, and especially neoliberal democracies: our economies and ecosystems, democracies, social and labour relations, constitutions, cultures, identities, and bodies are subjected to repeated and increasingly severe shocks. Unsurprisingly, the vocabulary of crisis is ubiquitous. Ours, we are told, is an age of chronic, multiple, and mutually reinforcing cataclysms. But what exactly do we mean when we speak of crisis? Deceptively simple, the term has become a repository for a mass of fears, hopes and assumptions, bound up with the very institutions and techniques of government it so often claims to address. Overused and emptied out, it leads to either indecision and paralysis, or, at the other extreme, its UK February 2026 • US February 2026 344 Pages HB 9781350588820 • £65.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350588868 • £21.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350588837 • £19.79 / $31.45 ePub 9781350588844 • £19.79 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic
cynical instrumentalization. To counter this, we need a philosophy, specifically a critique, of crisis. Crisis: A Critique presents crisis as a construction through which we understand, experience and order the world; as a discursive event, producing a range of effects. Drawing on a range of examples (from economic crises to social uprisings, pandemics, genocides, and ecological devastation) and discourses (from ancient medicine to legal theory, political economy, philosophy, the earth sciences, and eco-criticism), this ambitious work of conceptual archaeology and typology engages with a range of authors who have questioned the nature of the connection between crisis and critique.
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Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism Michael Wayne, Brunel University, UK With its authoritarian distortions, the Marxism of the 20th century sundered the connections between the practice of Communism, and its essentially democratic ethos. This book reconstructs those vital threads by turning to the work of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. In the wake of the rise of neoliberalism and the new global order that it ushered in, Gramsci and the Struggle for Democratic Communism asks: what form of political rule can facilitate the transition away from capitalism’s increasingly apocalyptic end game? To answer this question, Wayne puts Gramsci into dialogue with key thinkers from his own historical period, from Marx, Lenin and Trotsky through to John Dewey and Walter Lippmann. Wayne argues that Gramsci’s contribution to Marxism helps UK April 2026 • US April 2026 328 Pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781350447103 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350447097 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350447110 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350447127 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
clarify the political inheritance that class democracies bequeath a revolutionary transition. Wayne then puts Gramsci into a critical dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Stuart Hall, Ernesto Laclau and Antonio Negri, analysing such crisis situations as Britain and Venezuela under neoliberalism. In the final chapter he develops the concept of ‘elongated dual power’ to explore how revolutionary change can be reconciled with democratic principles as the old choice between barbarism or revolutionary change looms once more on the horizon.
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Sovereignty in the 21st Century
Political Theology in an Age of Neoliberalism and Populism Carl Raschke, University of Denver, USA When God is “dead” and governments themselves are increasingly subject to the power of global corporations, massive movements of peoples, transnational political upheavals, and ecological disasters, what does sovereignty mean for the 21st century? Sovereignty in the 21st Century is Carl Raschke’s deep theoretical dive into the meaning of sovereignty in both its historical and contemporary settings, showing how the idea can be expanded beyond politics and offer emancipatory strategies for previously marginalized peoples. Picking up Carl Schmitt’s idea of sovereignty’s ‘divine’ associations making it an implicitly theological concern, Raschke explains how political and religious thought have always been intertwined. These intertwined strands find their relevance Political Theologies
today in debates around class, race and domination, making the question of sovereignty not just a political but a social and
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economic one. Bringing to light the ways in which great transnational conflicts today are not between authoritarianism and democracy but between neoliberalism and populism, this book brings us closer to a profound understanding of what we truly mean by democracy, or ‘popular’ sovereignty in the 21st-century.
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Problems in Applied Ethics
An Introduction to Contemporary Debates Edited by Steven B. Cowan, Louisiana College, USA Problems in Applied Ethics takes a pro and con approach to both perennial and contemporary topics in applied ethics. Each chapter addresses a crucial moral issue such as: Abortion, capital punishment, animal rights, human genome editing, reparations, and same-sex marriage. Contemporary philosophers with opposing viewpoints are then paired together to argue their position and raise problems with conflicting standpoints. Alongside an up-to-date introduction to a core ethical stance, each contributor provides a critical response to their opponent and clear explanation of their view. Discussion questions are included at the beginning of each essay and the end of each chapter to guide further reflection. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 560 Pages HB 9781350452169 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350452176 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350452183 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9781350452190 • £22.49 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic
With chapters ranging from why euthanasia is right or wrong to what obligations we have to animals and should drugs be legalized, this introduction covers questions lying at the heart of debates about what is and is not morally permissible.
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The Code of the Warrior
Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present Shannon E. French, Case Western Reserve University Combining ethics, history, and psychology, this book examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that today’s warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldier and killer. Exploring the roots of military ethics, this third edition furthers author Shannon French's argument that modern troops need a code to shield their humanity as they endure the horrors of war, including updated first and last chapters addressing the need for warrior codes throughout history and in today's military climate. Stories of ancient Greek and Roman soldiers, Chinese warrior monks, Vikings, Celts, Japanese samurai, medieval European knights, Islamic warriors, and Zulu warriors combine with contemporary perspectives on modern day warfare's latest technologies and power structures to present a UK August 2025 • US August 2025 360 Pages HB 9781538186183 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781538186688 • £26.99 / $40.00 ePDF 9798881863470 • £24.29 / $36.00 ePub 9781538186695 • £24.29 / $36.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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truly global and timeless case for the exercise of restraint in warfare—primarily for the benefit of those doing the fighting. A new chapter on the famous Zulu warrior Chief Shaka makes the important distinction between a warrior and a strongman. Incorporating philosophy with history, religion, anthropology, sociology, and moral psychology, French addresses concepts which resonate within and beyond military service.
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Requests as Reasons A Philosophical Account Peter Schaber Requests can sometimes create reasons for action and sometimes obligations. Request norms explain their reason-giving force, as being able to create reasons for others is valuable for us. In this book Peter Schaber explores the normative force of requests. The epistemic view holds that by informing the requestees of what the requester desires, the requester may draw the requestee’s attention to an already existing reason to comply with the request. In contrast, Schaber argues that requests themselves possess normative force if certain conditions are met. Requests create reasons for the requestee to honor if and only if the requested act is good or at least not sufficiently bad, and if it is good to take the request as a reason for action. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 144 Pages PB 9781666955385 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666955361 • £80.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216260639 • £72.00 / $103.50 ePub 9781978763685 • £72.00 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
In some cases, requests do not merely create reasons but impose obligations. Requests can create obligations even though the requester does not intend to impose an obligation on the requestee, unlike in the case of an order, where the prescriber communicates the intention to impose an obligation on the addressee of the order. Whether a request creates reasons or obligations is determined by request norms, which can be framed as follows: “If and because A asks B to do x, B has a reason to do x”. The request might trigger an obligation, thus imposing an obligation on B to honor the request. Alternatively, the reason might not trigger an obligation, and thus B is not obliged to honor the request.
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Relational Agents and Autonomy A Lesson from Anorexia Jacopo Condò Reconsidering autonomy through the experiences of individuals with anorexia nervosa, Relational Agents and Autonomy challenges our current perspectives on personal agency, especially in medical settings. The central question this book poses revolves around the "value-neutral" conception of autonomy. Value-neutral perspectives claim to have an objective view of individual decisions by considering them as purely private and isolated matters, without recognizing the broader frameworks – moral, social, historical, and cultural – encompassing the decision-maker. The heart of this book lies in the powerful narratives of individuals grappling with anorexia that invite readers to reconsider their deeply held understandings of personal autonomy. It offers an exploration of self-respect, self-worth, self-trust, relational Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and responsibility, and dialogical accountability as these intersect with the autonomy of individuals in a healthcare setting. Society UK May 2026 • US May 2026 216 Pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350611702 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350611665 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350611672 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350611689 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Challenging the traditionally accepted view of the human agent as an independent, private entity, this book contends that autonomy is not a mere characteristic of an isolated individual, but is dynamically shaped and constituted by a broad range of factors, from interpersonal relationships, societal norms, and dialogical capacities, to cultural contexts, personal histories and wider narratives.
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Undoing the Moral Empire
Moral Philosophy in Post-War Britain Lesley Chamberlain After 1945, Britain wanted to be a new country. The authority of state and church were giving way, the Empire was dismantled, and it was no longer clear who was leading whom in matters of morals. Individuals were left to reinvent their ethical lives anew. The lives and works of the philosophers discussed in this book were caught up this sea-change. Bernard Williams, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, Richard Wollheim, Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre were all characters in search of a moral England, with a particular vision of the good society. From communitarianism to swinging Sixties’ individualism, and radical UK June 2026 • US June 2026 272 Pages HB 9781350457737 • £70.00 / $95.00 PB 9781350457744 • £22.99 / $30.95 ePDF 9781350457751 • £20.69 / $27.85 ePub 9781350457768 • £20.69 / $27.85 Bloomsbury Academic
theories of art – which understood questions of ambiguity, error and forgiveness more than the state ever could – this is the story of their sometimes convergent but often discrepant ideas on ethical life in the second half of the twentieth century. Undoing the Moral Empire is a work of biography, social history and the history of ideas that masterfully reconstructs the shifting sentiments of the post-war era, reconfiguring enduringly relevant questions of freedom, virtue, and society.
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The Power of Love and Democracy in the Philosophies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cornel West Timothy L. Lake This book locates an ethic of love as central to the democratic philosophies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cornel West. While much has been written about King’s moral vision, social activism, and theology, there has been no book-length treatment of the implications of his thinking to democratic theory. Additionally, Cornel West is the leading African American public intellectual of our time, but the range of his cultural criticism and academic scholarship obscures his intellectual and social projects. This project synthesizes West’s vast corpus and places him within the modern African American intellectual tradition he shares with Du Bois, King, Maulana Karenga (the creator of Kwanza) and others. Deeply grounded in the African American intellectual and philosophical traditions in which King and West are rooted, as well as the Western mainstream political philosophical traditions in which they were educated, this book offers a penetrating interpretation and comparative Philosophy of Race
analysis of their thought on the ideals of democracy and of their critiques of American democracy. It also reflects on the
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nature and values of democracy, exploring how love is inseparable from justice in a democratic society.
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Justified Unforgiveness
A Moral Case Against Silence, Neglect, and Forgetfulness Jennifer Mei Sze Ang Justified Unforgiveness: A Moral Case Against Silence, Neglect, and Forgetfulness corrects the overemphasis on the benefits of forgiveness and shows how unforgiveness is a morally appropriate – and at times morally necessary – response towards unremorseful and unrepentant wrongdoers, grave wrongs brought about by absolute evil, and situations where justice is not served. In advancing an argument for unforgiveness, Jennifer M.S. Ang deals with three dimensions of forgiveness – forgiveness as the letting go of resentment, forgiveness as reparation of damaged moral relations with the community, and forgiveness as letting the past remain in the past. Ang examines these arguments using cases of mass atrocities that are not often discussed in the forgiveness literature, such as the Nanking massacre, the Japanese military comfort women system, and the Khmer Rouge genocide, to reflect on the paradigm example of the Holocaust as absolute UK August 2025 • US August 2025 168 Pages PB 9781666942194 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666942170 • £80.00 / $105.00 ePDF 9781666942187 • £72.00 / $94.50 ePub 9781978761803 • £72.00 / $94.50 Bloomsbury Academic
evil. These discussions also clarify the relationship between time, forgiveness, and justice– how time can affect the willingness to forgive; how the carrying out of justice over time remains vulnerable to politicization; and how memory of mass atrocities enables victims to let go without forgiving.
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The Philosophy of Fear
Historical and Interdisciplinary Approaches Edited by Ami Harbin Philosophers reflect on the significance of fear both in the history of Eastern and Western Philosophy and at the intersections of contemporary philosophy and other disciplines. The collection, edited by Ami Harbin, is divided into two parts. Part I begins with reflections on the centrality of fear in Confucian ethical-political thought and in the ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle, before turning to the reflections on fear in medieval and twentieth-century philosophy. Part II presents contemporary philosophical work that expands the variety of approaches to fear, building connections with work in cognitive science, neuroscience, psychiatry, developmental psychology, and U. S. history. Fear as an emotion—though always present in the history of philosophy, and one of the key points of contact between UK September 2025 • US September 2025 256 Pages • 5 tables; 1 bw illus PB 9781666945706 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666945683 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765165102 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978749344 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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philosophy and other empirically-informed disciplines—has received surprisingly little concerted attention within philosophy. This is the first collection from contemporary philosophers with the express goal of reflecting on fear in the history of philosophy and collecting perspectives on fear from philosophers engaged in interdisciplinary research.
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The Golden Mean and the Nature of the Good Glen Koehn What is it to say that a thing is good or valuable? To answer this question, The Golden Mean and the Nature of the Good engages in conversation with ancient and recent thinkers, including Aristotle, the Cynics, and Immanuel Kant. Glen Koehn rejects several widely held ideas about value, instead offering a thoroughly end-relative theory in the spirit of modern pragmatism. Koehn suggests that certain dilemmas such as whether value is “subjective” or “objective” and whether things are good “instrumentally” or “as ends in themselves” are defective and discusses some consequences for aesthetic criticism and the relativity of taste in the final chapters. An often-overlooked case of goal-oriented goodness is the virtuous Mean, understood along roughly Aristotelian lines. This ambitious and clearly written book explores Aristotle’s idea of an intermediate between deficiency and excess and argues UK July 2025 • US July 2025 232 Pages • 5 tables PB 9781666948165 • £17.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666948141 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765155165 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666948158 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
that, suitably reinterpreted, it has an important place in contemporary moral and aesthetic debates.
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Care of the Sexual Self
Áskesis as a Route to Sex Education Shaun Miller In response to the limitations of traditional US sex education models, this book presents a groundbreaking approach rooted in ancient practices of self-cultivation. Shaun Miller critiques existing frameworks—paternalistic, liberal-consequentialist, and liberal-deontological—arguing that they focus narrowly on behavior, outcomes, and consent while neglecting the deeper development of sexual identity and character.
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The áskesis model, in contrast, offers a transformative method that emphasizes self-discipline, emotional awareness, and critical engagement with societal norms. By applying áskesis to modern sex education, the book proposes a curriculum that encourages students to explore their authentic sexual selves and question heteronormative assumptions. The áskesis model moves beyond risk avoidance and simply giving or receiving consent: it empowers individuals to embrace diverse sexual and gender identities while fostering moral and emotional growth.
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The Identities of Action
How the Normative Valence of Consequences Matters for Act Evaluation Joseph Ulatowski Individuating action depends upon how people comprehend value judgements about the consequences of an action to distinguish—or not to distinguish—between them. The question “what is action?” cannot be fully addressed until it is established whether two action descriptions—whether in law, business, insurance policies, or ordinary conversation—refer to the same or different actions. This book approaches the problem of action individuation by arguing for a variantist account, where the moral valence of the consequences of an action plays a foundational role in distinguishing between actions. Actions with bad consequences are associated with the UK March 2026 • US March 2026 232 Pages • 14 B&W PB 9781666955057 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666955033 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216269397 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978767720 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
originating act from which the action arises; actions with positive consequences are separate from their originating act. When we consider whether a bad or good consequence is identical to an originating action, the normative valence of the consequences of the action matter. Drawing from an empirical assessment that tests non-philosophers’ intuitions about individuating actions, along with real-world examples, Joseph Ulatowski explores the practical and philosophical significance of how we distinguish between actions.
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The Moral Psychology of Fear Edited by Ami Harbin The Moral Psychology of Fear brings together contemporary philosophers to consider how fear can shape or compromise moral motivation, and in particular the ways in which fear might motivate morally and politically troubling actions for individuals and communities. While the topics addressed by the chapters vary widely, the contributors share a commitment to analyzing the moral significance of fear for motivation, action, and responsibility in novel and creative ways. Edited by Ami Harbin, the volume is divided into four parts: In Part I, authors lay the groundwork for new philosophical analyses of fear by establishing some theoretical considerations about the connection of fear to injustice and the scope of what kinds of experiences count as fear. Part II turns to everyday experiences of fear—like fear of missing out and fear of Moral Psychology of the Emotions UK September 2025 • US September 2025 304 Pages PB 9781666958171 • £21.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666958157 • £81.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9781666958164 • £72.90 / $108.00 ePub 9781978762930 • £72.90 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
one’s own death—that can have surprising moral implications. Part III delves into the way fears have been present in contexts of climate and public health crisis. Part IV offers reflections on the complex position of fear in some of the most charged political issues facing communities: migration, political polarization, violence, and oppressive ideologies more broadly.
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Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing
On Karl Marx's Proletarian Ethics of Human Flourishing Sam Badger How did Karl Marx’s moral views inform his views on capitalism? This book argues that Marx developed an ethic of character development and human flourishing that resembles but also diverges from Aristotle’s, taking a critical attitude toward reified hierarchies. Marx’s derisive writings about “moralism” and “moralists” have often been read as a rejection of the value of moral and ethical reasoning, but Karl Marx’s Ethics of Human Flourishing shows how the ethical problems Marx mentions function as a totality. Unlike Aristotle, for whom human flourishing was reserved for the elite, Marx draws from Hegel and later Darwin to UK February 2026 • US February 2026 312 Pages PB 9798216375388 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966145 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216251026 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978767171 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
argue that the function of human nature is influenced by historical context and class status: humans remake their world and themselves through their labor. His early work focuses on alienation and its deleterious effect on individual development, freedom, and wellbeing, while his later works elaborate on this through his theory of exploitation. This leads Marx to endorse the moral position of the working class in favor of shortening the working day, increasing wages, and improving labor conditions with an eye to abolishing capitalist labor relations altogether. Marx’s approach to ethics can provide a useful basis for current social movements that are concerned with overcoming economic and social inequalities and alienated social conditions.
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French Ethics and the Economics of Freedom From Politics to Moral Obligation Nathalie Nya This book discusses the ethics of freedom in the context of race and argues that the question of injustice must be resolved not from a political angle, but from an ethical one. Drawing on the ideas expressed in Naomi Zack’s The Ethics and Mores of Race, Nathalie Nya explores the topic of race and its connections to morality and ethics. Building on Zack’s argument that what is ethical or good for White people may not be the same for historically colonized groups, showing the problem with cultural relativism, Nya develops a moral ethics of injustice around the history of race, politics, and colonialism. Justice historically occurs at the intersection of politics and ethics; for justice to occur in a society, politics and ethics must coexist. However, for the oppressed living in the modern age, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 128 Pages PB 9798216389965 • £17.99 / $24.95 HB 9781793639790 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216255260 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781978771482 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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this ideal has never been achievable. Oppressed groups recognize their human rights as almost non-existent simply because their political freedom is not aligned with their ontological freedom, and ontological freedom cannot be respected without political freedom. Nya refers to this concept as the “economics of freedom,” which creates problems in the conceptualization of real freedom as a form of moral obligation.
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The Pitfalls of Virtue Ethics Husain Sarkar, Louisiana State University, USA In this book, Husain Sarkar offers a remarkable look into the groundwork of virtue ethics. Especially focusing on theories proposed by Julia Annas and Rosalind Hursthouse, he examines a multiplicity of cardinal tenets of virtue ethics by bringing five cardinal objections – namely, the self-defeating objection, the circularity objection, the moral relativism objection, the explanatory poverty objection, and the inconsistent advice objection – to bear upon them. These objections define the shape, scope, and substance of the book. Collectively, they unveil several fault lines, a few hitherto unsuspected. Sarkar argues that notwithstanding the novel, intriguing answers to old, familiar ethical questions, the answers are so fraught with difficulties, that virtue ethics – as a philosophical moral tradition – is best seen as badly in need of repair and reformation. Perhaps, this book may provoke a Renaissance in the field of virtue ethics. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 352 Pages • 1 line drawing PB 9798765144503 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765144466 • £95.00 / $125.00 ePDF 9798765144473 • £85.50 / $112.50 ePub 9798765144480 • £85.50 / $112.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Awareness of Suffering Andrea Veltman Do we have responsibilities to inform ourselves of suffering and injustice? If so, what kinds of suffering and injustice are we responsible for perceiving? What are the foundations of these responsibilities, and what does it mean to fulfill them? This book examines these questions and argues that awareness of suffering is an essential but indeterminate moral responsibility of the mind. It is not merely an epistemic excellence or a professional activity to be left to experts, academics, journalists, or activists working to address systemic suffering; it is a moral, civic and epistemic responsibility of all people with mature, functioning minds. Cultivating awareness of suffering means exposing ourselves to a range of documentaries, news programs, narratives, and photography that bring suffering into public view. This practice of gaining awareness is UK February 2026 • US February 2026 264 Pages PB 9798765153642 • £21.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765153635 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798765153666 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9798765153659 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
foundational in a caring ethical life and in movements for social justice. It is a catalyst for moral progress, a part of responsible citizenship, and a source of knowledge that is valuable in itself. It also engages with the politics of sight in arguing for a social transformation in moral perception of human and animal suffering. Awareness of suffering represents an act of epistemic resistance and a rejection of widespread willful ignorance of systemic suffering.
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Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology MacIntyre on Practical Reason and Virtue
Egidijus Mardosas, Vilnius University, Lithuania How does ideology function and, more importantly, how can we resist ideological subjugation? Egidijus Mardosas answers these questions by applying the philosophical resources of Revolutionary Aristotelianism: a recent approach in social philosophy that takes inspiration from the Aristotelian works of Alasdair MacIntyre. In particular, Mardosas focuses on the Aristotelian and Macintyrian notions of practical reason and virtue. To be a successful practical agent, he explains, is to reach for genuine human goods and resist all forms of ideological subjection. And our virtues are the intellectual and moral powers that can help us in this task. Considering which virtues to practise, this book UK June 2026 • US June 2026 168 Pages HB 9781350429864 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350429901 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350429871 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350429888 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
examines the qualities of hope, truthfulness, comradeship, courage, and justice and uncovers how all the virtues are key, in differing ways, to sustaining our practical agency in the face of ideological manipulation. Bringing together ethics, social philosophy, and Aristotle via MacIntyre, as well as key thinkers from Gramsci to Rehmann, Revolutionary Aristotelianism and Ideology provides an urgent investigation into the necessity and virtues of social struggle.
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The Meaning of Mourning
Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode Grief is a universal human response to death and loss. Mourning is an equally universally observable practice that enables the bereaved to express their grief and come to terms with the reality of loss. Yet, despite their prevalence, there is no unified understanding of the nature and meaning of grief and mourning. The Meaning of Mourning: Perspectives on Death, Loss, and Grief brings together fifteen essays from diverse disciplines addressing the topics of death, grief, and mourning. The collection moves from general questions concerning the putative badness of death and the meaning of loss through the phenomenology and psychology of grief, to personal and cultural aspects of mourning. Contributors examine topics such as theodicy and grief, reproductive loss, mourning as a form of recognition of value, the roots of grief in early childhood, grief in COVID-times, hope, phenomenology of loss, public commemoration and mourning rituals, mourning for a devastated UK November 2025 • US November 2025 264 Pages • 5 b/w photos; 3 tables; HB 9781666908923 • £85.00 / $110.00 PB 9781666908947 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978751446 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781666908930 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
culture, the Necropolis of Glasgow, and the “art of outliving.” Edited by Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode, the volume provides a survey of the rich topography of methodologies, problems, approaches, and disciplines that are involved in the study of issues surrounding loss and our responses to it and guides the reader through a spectrum of perspectives, highlighting the connections and discontinuities between them.
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The Path of Philosophy
Truth, Wonder, and Distress John Marmysz, College of Marin, USA Illustrated by Juneko J. Robinson Tracing the history of philosophy from ancient Greece to the Postmodern world, this introductory textbook introduces students to Western thought while also highlighting the contributions of marginalized people, groups, and non-Western traditions. The Path of Philosophy characterizes the discipline of philosophy as a never-ending quest, driven both by wondrous curiosity and by a distressing realization that ultimate truth always evades our grasp. Threads running through the text demonstrate how philosophy is distinct from, and yet interrelated with, religion, science, and art. The second edition includes a new chapter on Postmodern philosophy to introduce students to key debates in twenty-first century thought. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 544 Pages • 73 b/w illustrations HB 9798881806675 • £130.00 / $170.00 PB 9798881806682 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9798765165225 • £35.99 / $49.45 ePub 9798881806699 • £35.99 / $49.45 Bloomsbury Academic
Written in a lively, accessible style, and featuring original, eye-catching artwork, this book offers a clear introduction to the essential concepts, themes, and debates in philosophy, while also emphasizing its relationship to other disciplines, practices, and to our everyday lives.
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Problems from Philosophy An Introductory Text
James Rachels, University of Alabama, USA & Stuart Rachels, University of Alabama, USA This introduction to philosophy guides students through great philosophical problems, such as the existence of God, the nature of the mind, human freedom, the limits of knowledge, and the truth about ethics. The book begins by reflecting on the life of the first great philosopher, Socrates. Then it takes up the fundamental question of whether God exists. Next comes a discussion of death and the soul, which leads to a chapter about persons. The later chapters consider whether objective knowledge is possible in science and ethics. Problems from Philosophy represents the final work of philosopher James Rachels. In it, he brings the same liveliness and clarity to the introduction of philosophy present in his other best-selling books. Problems from Philosophy has been revised UK January 2026 • US January 2026 232 Pages HB 9798216366980 • £95.00 / $140.00 PB 9798216366973 • £44.99 / $60.95 ePDF 9798216367000 • £40.49 / $54.85 ePub 9798216366997 • £40.49 / $54.85 Bloomsbury Academic
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by James Rachels’ son Stuart, who has carefully refined his father’s work to further strengthen its clarity and accessibility. The fifth edition features a new chapter on government and new content on AI and large language models in the chapter "Can a Machine Think?"
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Žižek Country
Mapping Speculative Thought Sean Sheehan, Independent Scholar, UK Uncompromisingly radical, hypercerebral but also down to earth and irreverent, Slavoj Žižek is a philosopher whose thought is sometimes hard to plot a route through. Charting its innumerable hairpins and circuitous diversions, this cognitive map of Žižek country is a guide to its philosophical, psychoanalytic and political landscapes. Žižek’s prodigious output comprises a dense and layered critique of contemporary thought. Taking its lead from his web-like approach, Žižek Country is an A to Z of cross-referenced entries that covers the range of his preoccupations - from Terminator to the transcendental and Marx to the möbius strip. Each topic is explored both as a direct subject of Žižek’s focus and as a component of his broader philosophy. Every entry is fully referenced, UK May 2026 • US May 2026 248 Pages HB 9781350468993 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350468986 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePDF 9781350469006 • £17.99 / $24.25 ePub 9781350469013 • £17.99 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic
pointing readers to the key points in his books and articles, as well as his many interviews, talks and panel discussions. Together, these ideas, threads, and repeated motifs give shape to a challenging, sometimes difficult philosophy that defies ready assimilation into academia and easy thinking.
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Consumer Cacophony
The Catastrophe of Modern Abundance Justin Pack, California State University, Stanislaus, USA There is too much. Too much to read, too much to watch, too much to try, too much to buy. For the modern consumer, it’s hard to hear and hard to think amid all of this noise. This book argues such that cacophony is a nihilistic abundance, threatening not only the physical environment that we live in, but also the coherence of our spiritual and cultural worlds. While we wrestle with the economic, political and environmental impact of too much, we do so in the midst of a crisis in the culture of thinking and feeling. Understanding that contemporary philosophy often fail to engage with these challenges, Justin Pack turns to thinkers UK March 2026 • US March 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350500921 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350500938 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePDF 9781350500945 • £17.99 / $24.25 ePub 9781350500952 • £17.99 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic
including Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Arendt, Zygmunt Bauman and Charles Taylor to explore the various threats of overproduction. Drawing together what are often seen as separate problems requiring different solutions – material abundance, environmental crisis, the decline of thoughtfulness – Consumer Cacophony’s case studies are drawn from across society and culture, but particularly the phenomena of academic overproduction and social media. This is a thoughtful, incisive account of that global overproduction and its devastating consequences.
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Why Camus Matters Matthew Sharpe, Deakin University, Australia Albert Camus is a thinker who matters deeply for the 21st century. Camus was a man of the Left, without believing in inevitable progress; he wrestled with nihilism but only in order to seek paths beyond it; he repudiated belief in God yet wrestled profoundly with religious questions; he defended “Western civilization” and adored the ancient Greeks, whilst denouncing reactionary politics; he explored the darkest human experiences, yet defended moderation, love and dialogue. He matters today, firstly, because the problems he addressed remain ours: widespread cynicism and despair, democratic Why Philosophy Matters UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages HB 9781350512498 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350512481 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350512504 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350512511 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
collapse, the rise of authoritarianisms, alienation from nature and a fascination with extremes. Secondly, because the solutions he explored to these problems were so highly original and balanced, relative to more widely-credited schools of thought: whether liberalism, Marxism, or fascism, or existentialism, postmodernism, or postcolonialism. This book, written by an established expert on Camus’ work, can serve for new readers as an introduction to Camus’ philosophical ideas. More than another critical commentary. Why Camus Matters engages Camus in our contemporary debates, seeking in his thinking a thread out of the labyrinth of the global culture wars, and sources of democratic renewal.
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Human Flourishing Across Cultures and Disciplines Paradigms of Well-Being and Development
Edited by Andrej Zwitter, University of Groningen, the Netherlands This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all. An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together to construct alternative visions of what a flourishing life could encompass. Their inclusive approach integrates indigenous wisdom, happiness, care, and storytelling and broadens our ideas of what it means to flourish. Where Western perspectives often emphasize individuality and wealth, here contributors look beyond individual achievement and material success as benchmarks of a successful life. Instead they foreground the intrinsic value of interpersonal relationships, community bonds, and spiritual fulfilment. Interweaving the threads of philosophical, scientific, indigenous, and UK May 2026 • US April 2026 392 Pages HB 9781350547803 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350547810 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350547834 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350547827 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
political thought, they build a holistic understanding of human well-being and flourishing. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The New Institute.
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Open Casket
Philosophical Meditations on the Lynching of Emmett Till Edited by George Yancy, Emory University, USA & A. Todd Franklin, Hamilton University, USA The open casket is a central motif, a political and ethical focal point, for thinking about Mamie Till-Mobley’s pain and suffering and her profound act of truth-telling as she wanted the world to bear witness to the gratuitous, despicable, and atrocious dimensions of anti-Blackness. The critical and powerful essays within this book capture both the horror of Emmett Till's murder/lynching and the powerful agency and the indomitable Black maternal love and courage that Mamie Till-Mobley demonstrated. Through the open casket, Mamie Till-Mobley reclaimed her son's body, and re-signified his dignity and familial-relational meaning to white America, Black America, and the world. It was her agency—in spite of the horror of his disfigured body and the unbearable affective weight that she experienced by such a site/sight—that forced white America to witness the terror of anti-Blackness, to tarry with its own egregious systemic racism. UK August 2025 • US August 2025 328 Pages HB 9798881806378 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9798881806385 • £26.99 / $40.00 ePDF 9798765165218 • £24.29 / $36.00 ePub 9798881806392 • £24.29 / $36.00 Bloomsbury Academic
In solemn recognition of the 70th anniversary of Till's murder, George Yancy and A. Todd Franklin gather interdisciplinary voices to articulate the political, spiritual, and existential significance of Black hope in the face of seeming hopelessness.
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To Exist as a Problem
Being Black, Being Palestinian Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA In the first pages of The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?” In this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialized as a problem. Zalloua argues that today’s anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society. Black being stands for the anti-human, its being is barred and degraded. And while Black being denotes criminality, Palestinian being denotes terrorism – a problematic being produced by Orientalism and used to legitimize oppression. Both the Black UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages HB 9781350559011 • £60.00 / $80.00 PB 9781350559028 • £18.99 / $25.95 ePDF 9781350559035 • £17.09 / $23.35 ePub 9781350559042 • £17.09 / $23.35 Bloomsbury Academic
and Palestinian are framed as existential threats that undermine the very structures of white and Zionist dominance. To Exist as a Problem provides a searing critique of such assumptions, arguing that Blacks and Palestinians do exist as a problem, but a different problem than the one dictated by the petrifying white and settler gaze. In asking how a politics can be constructed in the face of this hegemony, Zalloua constructs a model of solidarity that places Black lives and Palestinian liberation at the forefront of the anti-racist struggle.
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A Hopeful Political Imagination
Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown Oscar Guardiola-Rivera Bringing political criticism, a variety of theoretical approaches, and the author’s concrete experiences together, this book offers a political definition of hope as a utopian signifier, rooted in concrete processes of historical differentiation. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera addresses the problem of current limitations to the exercise of political imagination which severely contain, encrypt, and obscure our vision of social alternatives and normative possibilities? While grounding ethical and political stances on liberation philosophy and the anthropology of visual systems, A Hopeful Political Imagination: Courage and Fantastic Critique in the Age of Meltdown engages in dialogue with theories of encryption, a-legality, and the critique of anthropological absolutism coming from decolonial and ecological approaches. It allows us to understand 'decryption' as reversing encrypting linguistic and spatial processes in modernity, and proposes a new approach called 'fantastic critique' to Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South UK September 2025 • US September 2025 280 Pages PB 9781666974478 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974454 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216201281 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978760288 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
reinvent the dynamics of power, judgement, time and the imagination, based on historical, literary, and philosophical examples. This book recovers and reimagines principles of hope and courage as republican, ethical virtues of revelation of what is figured and made in movement together, for practical action.
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Decrypting Sovereignty as Archism Moving Toward a New Democracy
Edited by James R. Martel & Ricardo Sanín- Restrepo Archism is that prevailing form of power that seeks to go nameless insofar as it claims to be ubiquitous and just how politics is. The theory of encryption of power explains how the use of language monopolizes and hides power, preventing access to it through the denial and neutralization of differences based on class, race, and gender. Archism and the theory of encryption of power are intimately linked: one potentializes and sharpens the other to bring together a novel form and especially pernicious form of sovereignty and its role in our world. Coloniality exists because it encrypts power. The encryption of power hides the ubiquity of archism and, in this way, preserves and enhances its power. A transcendent model, one that poses as ordinary, dictates from a vanishing point of invisibility—outside language and any relation—the conditions to which every and any form of beingness must abide in order to be and thus to exercise power. Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South UK March 2026 • US March 2026 232 Pages PB 9781666978735 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666978711 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216253594 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978768826 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
This collection explores these questions in parallel with decolonial theory and critical and subaltern studies, using conceptual tools that allow us to think difference without the interference of the void of normality, a position from where the possible may come to be.
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Marx’s Democratic Idea
An Alternative to the Neoliberal Slide into Fascism Morgan Horowitz Emphasizing Marx’s commitment to the “democratic idea” from the time of his early work through his later writings, including his reflections on the Paris Commune, this book connects Marx’s democratic, political critique and his economic theory. Morgan Horowitz argues that the communist project should be viewed as inseparable from a concern about both just social relations and the maintaining and empowering of democratic, political procedures. Marx’s early works show that his critique of the state and capitalist, private property relations led to a demand to develop communal, discursively empowered agency UK January 2026 • US January 2026 272 Pages PB 9798216375456 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666912432 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216266365 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978767812 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
over economic relations. Critically deploying the work of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, Horowitz develops a normative theory that clarifies structural requirements of economic equality and articulates “socialist right and rights,” which would be better placed to realize the normative ideals of liberty and equality that have traditionally been espoused by liberal theorists. Horowitz evaluates Marx’s theoretic developments to constructively connect to liberal, normative projects dedicated to democratic publics guiding and maintaining welfare-based societies. The book then applies the framework to the contemporary context of spiraling inequalities and inequity, fears of autocracy and oligarchic power, and the persistence of political figures such as Bernie Sanders, with the resurgence of public support for democratic socialist alternatives.
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Political Knowledge and Democracy at Scale A Systems Defense Against Democratic Skepticism Philipa Friedman Many philosophical defenses of democracy are moral ones, appealing to ethical principles of inclusion or right or justice; this book argues – against an increasingly visible trend of democratic skepticism – for democracy as a goal on epistemic grounds. The argument that ignorance causes bad political outcomes is the impetus for both arguments for epistocracy at the level of political theory and actual political efforts to limit access to collective political self-determination. This book responds by arguing for the epistemic value of democracy and clarifying a definition of political knowledge beyond formal expertise. The embedded model of political knowledge understands political knowledge (including expertise) to be situated, incomplete, and fallible in ways that necessitate maximal political inclusion and opportunities for productive UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages • 5 tables PB 9781666950717 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666950694 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216251255 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978767362 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
epistemic sharing among the polity. Deliberative systems can facilitate these opportunities at scale by relying on formal and informal institutions as sites for epistemic expression and engagement. In centering the epistemic role of deliberative systems over the epistemic responsibilities of the individual in a democratic context, we can examine the ways in which political knowledge forms and is expressed in mass democracies. This book suggests that poor political outcomes result when our epistemic institutions fail to ensure that policy is responsive to public knowledge.
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Radical Natural Law
The Critical Standpoint of Animals and Nature Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, USA Eschewing anthropocentric framings, Radical Natural Law proposes a reconception of natural law that locates it in the critical standpoints of animals and other life forms in the natural world. Engaging an impressively diverse range of thinkers and intellectual traditions, from conceptions of natural law in ancient Stoic and scholastic writings, to theoretical discussions about natural-world critical subjectivity in modern schools of thought, this book is an original and timely discussion that draws from within the Western philosophical tradition to make a case for the extension of natural law to non-human life. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 120 Pages • PB 9781350563049 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350563032 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350563056 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350563063 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Josephine Donovan identifies a common premise that she uses as the foundation for radical natural law: the fact that there are in all living organisms both an innate design or dynamic order and a centre of awareness or ‘self’, who knows what the imperatives of that order are and seeks to satisfy the needs essential to survival as such.
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Aristotle's Biosphere
Substance, Design, Politics, and Culture Jeremy Kirby Aristotle displays a keen interest in life and living beings, but he doesn’t separate the biological from the artificial, and he describes organisms as skillfully constructed phenomena that extend beyond their individual bodies. The questions that proliferate around our ideas of the living and the artificial are perennial, and this book explores how Aristotle’s framing of matters can shed light on them. Textual evidence does not require a reading of living and nonliving—or substance and artifact—as procrustean discrete classes, but as contraries that admit of intermediaries, and the artifact can provide some analogical explanation of the natural substance. If a beaver dam, for instance, occupies an intersection UK February 2026 • US February 2026 168 Pages • 10 tables PB 9781666937039 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666937015 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216251538 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978766600 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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between the two, then Aristotle may countenance a similar phenomenon in the realms of politics, art, and ethics. Jeremy Kirby argues that the state would satisfy Aristotle’s criteria associated with both the artificial and the natural. The book also draws connections between what Aristotle calls natural virtue to virtue obtained via habituation and training.
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Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity Edited by Catherine M. Robb, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, Alfred Archer, Tilburg University, the Netherlands & Matthew Dennis, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands In an era of cancel culture, digital identities and thriving conversation surrounding parasocial relationships, we question today the nature of the celebrity, the scope of their power and influence, as well as the ethical issues these implicate. It is a wonder, then, that philosophy is a discipline that has, as of yet, contributed surprisingly little to this debate despite the growing philosophical literature on connected philosophical topics that serve as a starting point for the philosophical inquiry into the nature and value of fame and celebrity. Offering the first introductory overview of the key philosophical issues involved in the nature and value of fame and celebrity, this edited collection provides a new perspective and voice to the conversation. Divided into four parts, its first focuses on UK May 2026 • US May 2026 280 Pages HB 9781350401297 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350401334 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350401303 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350401310 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
conceptual differences between fame and celebrity, the experience of being famous, how celebrities interact with the public, and what motivates people to desire or pursue fame. The second part of the volume explores fame and virtue as well as the ways in which ethical issues intertwine with fame, concluding with an examination of the nature of fame in relation to contemporary online culture.
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Technics of Existence
Sartre, Foucault and Stiegler Amelie Berger-Soraruff, University of Dundee, UK How ought we to live with new technologies? What future do we want in light of the many changes they bring to human existence? At a time when responsible innovation is on everyone’s lips and academics turn to applied ethics to tackle these issues, this book questions the lack of a strong and coherent ethics of the self within the current discipline of the philosophy of technology. Drawing on Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential phenomenology, Michel Foucault’s biopolitics, and Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of the amateur, Amélie Berger-Soraruff examines the crucial importance of developing a politics of the self in contemporary technoculture. Refreshingly original, this work frames Stiegler as a philosopher of the human and situates his contributions in UK June 2026 • US June 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350416178 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350416215 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350416185 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350416192 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
continuity with those of Sartre and Foucault, while reasserting their relevance in a field of research that often prioritizes technological enhancement over individual emancipation. It presents Stiegler’s thought as a contemporary echo of Sartrean existentialism and reflects on the Foucauldian elements of his philosophy. Extending Stiegler’s views to the fields of media studies and STS, this book brilliantly nuances his portrayal of technoculture, which he perceived as increasingly alienating, yet not devoid of alternatives.
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Freedom, in Context
Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel Borna Radnik, Kingston University London, UK G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel’s ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries in the political, economic and social contexts of the 21st century. Examining the concept of freedom from a Hegelian Marxist perspective, Freedom, in Context argues that the essential relation between self-determination and causal necessity is a multifaceted process to be viewed through historical, temporal, logical and ontological lenses. Using examples from the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental justice, economic inequality, and democratic uprisings in Iran, the value of Hegel’s philosophy is emphasised in contexts beyond the colonial, UK May 2026 • US May 2026 256 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350430044 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350430082 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350430051 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350430068 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Eurocentric tendencies of his worldview. Emphasising the central role of temporality and history in the conception of free will gives this new reading of Hegel real practical import for the pressing political issues of our time.
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Equality and Freedom in Rancière and Foucault Stuart Blaney, Staffordshire University, UK Responding to the increasing need for new and peaceful forms of emancipation, Stuart Blaney offers a unique solution in the synergy between two pioneering strands of continental philosophy: Michael Foucault’s ideas on freedom and Jacques Rancière’s ideas on equality. Building a dialogue between these two thinkers, Blaney presents new perspectives on their work and a clear picture that emancipation comes from everyday practices rather than any particular movement or revolution. In exploring these combined views of equality and freedom, Blaney draws on some of the central facets of both concepts, including revolution, disagreement, care for the self, free speech and stoicism. To put these ideas into a practical framework UK June 2026 • US June 2026 264 Pages HB 9781350498877 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350498914 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350498884 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350498891 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
of real, lived experience, we are introduced to the figure of Louis-Gabriel Gauny the 19th-century worker-poet and self confessed plebeian philosopher. Gauny is a nexus for Rancière’s and Foucault’s ideas; his life exemplifying a dual mode of existence in-between conformity and political revolution. This lived philosophy of equality and freedom shows the strong synergy between the two concepts, with one reinforcing the other and strengthening their efficacy as forms of emancipatory practice.
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I Think of You Constantly with Love
The Letters of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards Edited by Alfred Schmidt & Gabriel Citron, Princeton University, USA Often defined by his arrogance, difficulty and critical nature of others, Wittgenstein writes letters to Richards which give us another window into his character. Their letters manifest an emotional closeness which is remarkable and unparalleled in Wittgenstein’s voluminous correspondence. They leave no doubt that Ben Richards was Wittgenstein's closest friend in these last years of his life – indeed, perhaps the greatest love of his life. Now available for the first time, the letters between Wittgenstein and Richards provide a new perspective on the last years of Wittgenstein’s life: teaching in Cambridge, the resignation of his chair in Cambridge at the end of 1947, and the restless years spent trying to find a quiet place to do philosophy and complete his magnum opus, the Philosophical Investigations. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 432 Pages • 120 bw illus PB 9781350442450 • £0.00 / $0.00 HB 9781350026469 • £25.00 / $35.00 ePDF 9781350026483 • £22.50 / $31.50 ePub 9781350026476 • £22.50 / $31.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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On Mathematics, Unity, and the Good Plato, Whitehead, Aristotle David A. White This book demonstrates that mathematical positions are based on metaphysical elements, which in turn provide schemata for evaluating and expanding metaphysical positions. The argument is grounded in the Platonic notion of the good, Whitehead’s late essay on mathematics and the good, and Aristotle’s sustained criticisms of Platonic philosophy of mathematics. Bridging ancient and modern thought, from Phaedo to the modern notion of Abelian groups in mathematics, it demonstrates that both mathematics and metaphysics incorporate contrast-rich experience and context-independent formalism and—at their best—can be partners in helping to discern fundamental features of the fullness of reality. David A. White explores how developments in mathematics and mathematical understanding can indicate, illustrate, and contribute to assessing metaphysical considerations when accounts of reality are approached from the standpoint of an articulated UK January 2026 • US January 2026 248 Pages PB 9781666963335 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666963311 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216258131 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978765566 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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The Influence of Averroes on European Thought
The Disappearance of Latin Averroism from the History of Philosophy Koert Debeuf, Brussels School of Governance, Belgium By exploring the influence of the Andalusian philosopher, Averroes or Ibn Rushd (1126-1198 AD) on European philosophy from the 13th to the 18th century, Koert Debeuf sheds light on a neglected side of the history of philosophy: the influence of Arabic thought on European philosophy. In this book Debeuf reveals the true extent of Averroes’s role, showing it as much larger than we read about in popular histories of philosophy. His ideas have been followed, fought and discussed in Europe for centuries, deeply influencing generations of thinkers. Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies UK May 2026 • US May 2026 208 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350460584 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350460621 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350460591 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350460607 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Why has Averroes’ role been forgotten? By focusing on histories of philosophy written from the 17th to the 21st century, Debeuf provides a chronological overview that shows that Arabic philosophy was not just forgotten, but purposefully written out of the history of philosophy. This much-needed study encourages us to challenge and reassess our existing ideas about the history of philosophy and Eurocentric interpretations of one of philosophy's major figures.
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Defending Materialism
The Uneasy History of the Atom in Science and Philosophy Katerina Kolozova, University American College Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, William Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, UK & Greg Michaelson, Heriot Watt University, UK Nobody doubted that atoms were real once atomic energy was developed, but in the early 20th-century and before their existence was widely doubted. Defending Materialism follows the political and theoretical background of this intense philosophical controversy, defending atomistic and mechanical materialism against idealist paradigms. These accounts range from the explicit idealism criticised by Lenin and Einstein to the implicit Hegelian idealism that influenced Soviet dialectical materialism. Following several key threads, the authors trace how the idea of atoms has changed over the centuries, how ideology has influenced both sides of the idealism/materialism divide, and how the nature of time in physics, biology and human society UK June 2026 • US June 2026 296 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350447325 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350447332 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350447349 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350447356 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
can give a fresh view of historical materialism. Starting from the origins of materialism in ancient Greek thought and moving through its revival in Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin gives a full picture of the links between the Marxist tradition and the ‘coarse materiality’ to which the worlds of science and philosophy have found themselves both subscribed and averse.
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The Reception of John Philoponus’ Natural Philosophy Aristotelian Science From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
Edited by Emmanuele Vimercati, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c. 490-570 CE) confronts numerous aspects of Aristotle’s philosophy and science. Yet the influence of these reinterpretations and critiques remains under-examined. This volume fills this gap by uncovering the considerable impact of Philoponus’ natural philosophy in both the medieval and Renaissance periods. Highlighting the areas of crossover as well as of disagreement with Aristotle, chapters dedicate specific attention to Philoponus’ theories of place, matter and vacuum; his ideas of motion; his discussion of the heavens and the fifth element; and his anthropology. This is followed, in parts two and three, by a focus on Philoponus’ reception in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance respectively. Shedding light on the scientific ideas circulating in these periods, international experts explore Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition UK June 2026 • US June 2026 264 Pages HB 9781350416277 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350416314 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350416284 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350416291 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
a range of topics from the renewal of Aristotelianism in the Arab world, through the medieval Byzantine and Latin traditions, to Philoponus’ appearance in the early works of Galileo. The Reception of John Philoponus’ Natural Philosophy is both a much-needed study of Philoponus’ influence and a revealing analysis of how Aristotelian science was received, adapted, critiqued and mediated throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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On Mabogo P. More’s Extended Thought Tendayi Sithole Mabogo P. More’s understanding of philosophical anthropology as the project that is concerned about the human question profoundly impacted how he accounted for the very idea of a black point of view. This book investigates how More’s extended thought generatively engages in themes like the name, principle, antiblackness, blackness, and Azania. With a Black and decolonial intertextuality, it explores ways in which More viewed philosophy not as an abstraction, but as a concrete and material project, one he sought to turn toward calls for justice, for challenging the antiblackness that pervaded post-1994 South Africa, and for a liberated Azania. Demonstrating just how much the South African experience can contribute to the often North-American-centered field of Black studies, the book shows how a politics centered on Black social interests must navigate between the temptations of Marxism and liberalism in order to find its own way towards African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
liberation. At the long arc of the human question, which is at the core of philosophical anthropology, More’s extended thought makes a case for being-black-in-the-world as opposed to being-black-in-an-antiblack-world.
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Japanese Philosophies of Education Watsuji Tetsuro and Mori Akira
Anton Sevilla-Liu, Kyushu University, Japan Anton Sevilla-Liu uses the thought of ethicist Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) and philosopher of education Mori Akira (19151976) to address the dangers of self-centeredness and conformism in a competitive education system. When individual performance is encouraged, is there a way to stress relationality without losing the sense of individuality and uniqueness? We are introduced to Watsuji and Mori’s enlightening views of education, deeply rooted in spiritual insights that originate in Buddhism and Confucianism while engaging human sciences. By applying their theories to educational practices, Sevilla-Liu shows how to connect students' creative potential with a dynamic sense of community. Importantly, alongside this active philosophy, he introduces Watsuji and Mori’s central concept of letting go of our self-centeredness, fixed roles, attachments Bloomsbury Introductions to World to sensations, and rigid ideas. We see how the philosophy of emptiness can positively impact educational practices. Philosophies UK January 2026 • US January 2026 248 Pages HB 9781350572768 • £55.00 / $75.00 PB 9781350572775 • £17.99 / $24.95 ePDF 9781350572799 • £16.19 / $22.45 ePub 9781350572782 • £16.19 / $22.45 Bloomsbury Academic
This engaging book outlines a vision of education that balances individual creativity with a sense of community, responding to real challenges in educational systems around the world.
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Qi as Lived Experience
Breath, Wind, Potency and Mind in Chinese Thought Adam D. Frank, Stephen L. Field & Nancy N. Chen In this exploration of the central Chinese concept of qi, a team of authors trace its role in early texts and contemporary neuroscience to show how it continues to be relevant beyond China. As life-long scholars of qi related practices, Adam Frank, Nancy Chen, and Stephen Field offer new insights into the significance of qi in the current Anthropocene. They connect Daoist studies, Chinese medicine, martial arts, popular culture, and historical phenomenology to examine the experience of qi as part of the natural world, as breathwork, as mind-body connections, and as an increasingly frequent referent in film, comic books, and medicinal products. Daoism and the Human Experience This interdisciplinary conversation includes explorations of qi in the context of ancient texts, performing arts, medical UK June 2026 • US June 2026 224 Pages PB 9781350575844 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350575806 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350575813 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350575820 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
anthropology, and consciousness studies. Their approach allows them to reveal the fundamental role qi plays in our shared experience of being human–in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the fractured identities with which many of us contend. Covering its earliest inception in the minds of Chinese proto-scientists to its function in our transglobal world, this coauthored work opens up novel ways of studying brains, minds and the spaces we now inhabit.
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Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology Christopher B. Barnett, Villanova University, USA Influenced by the backdrop of the contemporary issues facing Christianity and a trend toward ’political theology’, Christopher Barnett explores Kierkegaard’s relation to politics and the modern state. By tracing the birth and development of the modern secular state, he argues that Søren Kierkegaard’s repudiation of “politics” in the nineteenth century should be read as early resistance to the totalizing claims of the nation-state. For Kierkegaard, a modern preoccupation with politics is a symptom of the deification of the state: the more the state grows, the less God matters - a problem that would lead to the demoralization of Western culture. Barnett places Kierkegaard’s analysis in dialogue with authors such as Jacques Ellul, Eric Voeglin, René Girard, and Wendell Berry, to explore how politics in the modern state is not marked by liberation but by bureaucracy, propaganda, technocracy, and disenchantment. Kierkegaard's UK June 2026 • US June 2026 232 Pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350408562 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350408531 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350408548 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350408555 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
critiques of state power are startlingly relevant to contemporary debates in political theology. Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology allows Kierkegaard’s political thought to speak for itself, pulling out overlaps with twentieth-century thinkers who bear a “family resemblance” to his political philosophy. By applying his thought actively to the challenges facing Christianity today, this book explores the politization of theology in all its complexity.
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The Singular Politics of Jean-Luc Nancy Joanna Hodge, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK The Singular Politics of Jean-Luc Nancy identifies the French philosopher as linking a theory of innovation and meaning to a theory of a contestation of worlds, within which the structures basic to politics and political analysis themselves mutate. The book focuses on the inventions in Nancy’s writing itself, alongside the more familiar themes, retreating the political, being singular plural, and a deconstructing of Christianity, the strategies of interruption and fragmentation. His distinctive notions of comparution, and partage, of ecotechnics and excription, of sexistence and concealed thinking are introduced, his reception and re-formulations of key Christian phrases are made pivotal: ecce homo, noli me tangere, vox clamans in deserto; behold the man, do not touch me, a voice crying in the wilderness. Connections between western political theorising, a fraught religious inheritance and a relative autonomy of art practice form UK April 2026 • US April 2026 320 Pages PB 9781350608214 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781474252799 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781474252812 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781474252829 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
a context for assessing what comes after a disruption of sovereignty and subjectivity, as governing terms delineating a domain of political thinking. Joanna Hodge shows how Nancy rethinks time and history, examining his disruptive relation to a time of inheritance, a time of current contestation and a time of anticipated futures, through his focus on time as insurrection and birth to presence.
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R.G. Collingwood and Christianity Faith, Philosophy and Politics
Peter Johnson, University of Southampton, UK Drawing on his writing on philosophy, history, religion and politics, this is the first in-depth analysis of R.G. Collingwood’s relation to Christian thought. Peter Johnson’s original study sheds new and important light on Collingwood’s views on emotion, civilisation and key political events such as the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of his religious beliefs. Here Collingwood’s Christianity takes centre stage. Johnson considers Collingwood’s relationship to prominent philosophers of the 20th century like Wittgenstein and Rawls, and examines the connection between Collingwood’s views on Christianity and thinkers such as Norman Malcolm and D. Z. Phillips. Chapters also cover Collingwood’s discussion of the Augustine and Pelagius debate, the impact of Collingwood’s Anglicanism on his liberalism and his idea of Christian historiography as a UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages HB 9781350465411 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350465459 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350465428 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350465435 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Beyond the Facts
Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times James W. Cortada This book describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how it used and its role in our current data driven world. It argues that fuzzy, hard-to describe information is greater and more, important than just hard facts. What is tacit knowledge? It is what we might consider knowledge that is unable to be fully communicated: knowledge that we understand implicitly, but it is a bit hard to explain. For example, it is the kind of knowledge one needs to ride a bicycle, but that cannot be described precisely on paper in the way one might be able to explain how to cook a dish. Tacit knowledge is the least understood type of information and one of the most difficult to communicate. Yet there is more tacit knowledge in our lives than the specific facts one can find in a book, on the Internet or in the simple form of a fact. This book is designed UK September 2025 • US September 2025 232 Pages • 1 bw illus PB 9798216196006 • £29.99 / $39.95 HB 9798216196013 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePDF 9798216196037 • £63.00 / $85.50 ePub 9798216196020 • £63.00 / $85.50 Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
to introduce the reader to the concept of tacit knowledge and how to recognize and use it. This book offers definitions of tacit knowledge and compares the topic to explicit knowledge, then describes how the former is used today. The author argues that both types are used today and explains how one can use both types of knowledge in their lives.
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Over-Measure in Kant, Hegel, and Shakespeare Putting the Principles Into Play Jennifer Ann Bates In Over-Measure in Kant, Hegel, and Shakespeare: Putting the Principles Into Play, four Shakespeare plays become the experiential-dramatic playground where operations of “principled virtues” and their informing categories are meticulously tested. Jennifer Ann Bates begins with Hegel’s logic of measure and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, showing essential measure is indeterminable. She then combines Kant’s Pure Principles of the Understanding with Shakespearean Roman tragedy, exploring principles of measure through over-measure. Bookended by Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, she investigates over-measures of quantity in Antony and Cleopatra, quality in Titus Andronicus, and relation and modality in Contemporary Studies in Idealism UK November 2025 • US November 2025 320 Pages PB 9781666932713 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666932690 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216201434 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978769199 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Julius Caesar. She turns to Kant for epistemic measures that make experience possible, highlighting his warnings against exceeding those limits. Putting Kant’s Principles into play produces “principled virtues,” which are epistemic principles made practical and differ from Kant’s Doctrine of Virtues, not just from Aristotle’s virtues. Read through Shakespeare’s plays, principled virtues are tragic: they miss the mark, and they are executed in both senses.
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Kant's Modern Debates An Intellectual History
Catalina González Quintero Catalina González embeds essential aspects of Kant’s epistemology, metaphysics, morals, and aesthetics into their broader historical contexts, that is, into philosophical debates and discussions that were central to modernity but have not been explored in sufficient detail by Kantian scholarship. These contexts include disputes between skeptics and anti-skeptics, debates around deism and natural theology, controversies on animal minds, discussions about the foundations of morality, and aesthetic conversations around the notion of the sublime. The book’s historical perspective is further supplied by a set of methodological reflections drawn from the heterogeneous field of studies of “intellectual history.” Specifically, this book profits from historiographical tools from different approaches to Contemporary Studies in Idealism
intellectual history, such as the perspective of the Cambridge School of Political Thought or that of German
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Begriffsfgeschichte, and from a wide variety of historians of philosophy such as Quentin Skinner, J. G. A. Pocock, Reinhart Koselleck, Leo Strauss, Hans Blumenberg, and Hannah Arendt, who, with different emphases and preoccupations, have reflected on the best historical methods by which to approach philosophical authors, concepts, and issues from the past. The author also uses analytical tools from rhetorical studies to understand the language and persuasive aims of the relevant 18th-century discussions.
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Form and Matter in Early German Idealism
The Development of Post-Kantian Philosophy in Reinhold, Maimon and Fichte David Sommer A pioneering book that sheds crucial light on the distinctions between Kant’s philosophical project and German Idealism as a whole, resolving problems that are as relevant to scholars today as they were to Kant’s immediate successors. This ground-breaking study is the first detailed exploration of ‘hylomorphism’, or the division of all mental faculties and acts into form and matter. Identifying hylomorphism as the fundamental unifying dynamic in post-Kantian philosophy, David Sommer explores how Kant’s idealist successors in the early 1790s—specifically Reinhold, Maimon and Fichte— mapped this dualism in the realm of cognition onto the physical world. Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy UK June 2026 • US June 2026 264 Pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350559639 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350559592 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350559608 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350559615 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Proceeding through close analyses of primary texts, Sommer addresses an important gap in the existing scholarship while opening up new avenues of research into the works of Kant and his successors. He illuminates key yet understudied philosophical concepts within their historical contexts, notably providing an in-depth examination of the complex and innovative early works of Maimon and Fichte. This is an essential contribution to our understanding of the origins of German idealism and Romanticism in general.
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Kant Machine
Critical Philosophy after AI Yuk Hui Rethinking the philosophy of Immanuel Kant in the age of artificial intelligence. What could be called an intelligent machine? Are machines capable of being moral? Does an algorithm for perpetual peace exist? In this groundbreaking new work, Yuk Hui considers how current debates on artificial intelligence echo historical philosophical discussions about the workings of the mind, with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant emerging as a lens through which to consider the ethical and political implications of AI and robotics in a new light. Addressing fundamental questions around machine intelligence and morality, transcendental idealism and learning, and the Political Theory and Contemporary metaphysics of machines, the history of AI and Kantian ideas are expertly woven together alongside an array of figures in Philosophy the histories of technology and philosophy: from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alan Turing to Hubert Dreyfus and Jacques UK January 2026 • US January 2026 144 Pages HB 9781350563209 • £55.00 / $75.00 PB 9781350602502 • £17.99 / $24.95 ePDF 9781350563216 • £16.19 / $22.45 ePub 9781350563223 • £16.19 / $22.45 Bloomsbury Academic
de Vaucanson. In asking how we can understand AI in light of the challenges Kant posed to both rationalism and empiricism, and how revisiting Kant can help us better comprehend the nature and limitations of contemporary technologies, Kant Machine is an essential critical contribution both to Kant studies and to the philosophy of digital technology.
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Emotions and Community An Ontological Account Daniel Rueda Garrido Emotions are intrinsically linked to our forms of life—the unique, shared ways of being and acting that shape our identity. This book redefines emotions as embodied actions, rather than mere internal states. By taking an ontological approach, Daniel Rueda Garrido explores how fundamental emotions like joy, fear, love, and anger are woven into the fabric of our communities, influencing who we are and how we interact with one another. Moving beyond traditional psychology and naturalism, this approach reveals that these emotions are not just internal experiences, but essential expressions of our UK February 2026 • US February 2026 280 Pages PB 9781666974119 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974096 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216254287 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978772120 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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collective, self-imposed ways of living within a community. Rueda’s exploration offers a deeper understanding of selfconsciousness and challenges traditional ways of thinking about emotional existence. It reveals the profound connection between feeling, action, and belonging.
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The Inimitable Philosophy of Vladimir Jankélévitch Edited by Andrew Kelley Where most English-language works on Jankélévitch have almost exclusively centered around the topic of forgiveness, this book fills a gap by bringing to light other aspects of Jankélévitch’s oeuvre that deserve attention. Although Jankélévitch is increasingly considered an important French moral theorist, there remains relatively little Englishlanguage scholarship on his thought. Jankélévitch’s writing, especially on ethics and forgiveness, served as touchstones for works by Jacques Derrida, Paul Ricoeur, and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. Jankélévitch is known for the novelty of his style of writing and lecturing, as well as his analyses of subjects and topics that were not necessarily “in style” at the time. Having been forced into hiding during the German occupation of France because of his Jewish heritage, the Shoah and its Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
aftermath made Jankélévitch reexamine, and largely renounce, the role of German thought and ideas in his own work,
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and ‘60’s. Many of the contributors to this volume were, themselves, students of Jankélévitch and, as such, can bring
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Constructing Nietzsche's Politics Ethical Libertarianism
Andrew Duclos Edited by Ashley Woodward, Dundee University, UK A timely new interpretation of Nietzsche’s politics which reconciles the apparent contradictions in Nietzsche’s texts by defining his politics as “ethical libertarianism.” Nietzsche’s politics has been the subject of much debate, with the existing scholarship largely divided between aristocratic and anti-democratic readings on the one hand, and democratic readings on the other. This book takes its place in the emerging trend of trying to find a “third way” by arguing that Nietzsche's philosophy implies a form of libertarianism. This interpretation emphasizes individual self-transformation and the need to organize society in a way which best facilitates this for its members. While libertarianism is closest to Nietzsche’s requirements, it needs to be reformulated to be made fully Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought UK November 2025 • US November 2025 256 Pages PB 9781666938081 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666938067 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798881866693 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978768475 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
consistent with his philosophy. This requires a rejection of any grounding of the natural rights of the individual, presumed to be equal for all, in a metaphysical conception of the self. A Nietzschean “ethical libertarianism” would be based on protecting equal access of individuals to conditions which promote self-cultivation. It is thus democratic, but also meritocratic, as rights will be seen to accrue on the basis of individual development.
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Heidegger in Dialogue Robert E. Wood Edited by William McNeill Comparative readings offer an accessible introduction and shed light on Heidegger’s thought by examining it in the context of the work of other philosophers. This collection of comparative essays by the late Robert E. Wood puts Martin Heidegger in dialogue with a number of other thinkers, such as Martin Buber, Max Scheler, Edith Stein, John Dewey, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as thinkers whose relation to Heidegger has been more commonly examined (Plato, Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre). A number of recurrent themes stand out, indicative of the issues that anchor the author’s general interpretation of Heidegger. These include: the distinction between meditative and calculative thinking; Heidegger as a thinker of the heart; releasement (Gelassenheit); the UK April 2026 • US April 2026 184 Pages PB 9798765153628 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765153529 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798765153543 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9798765153536 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
prominence of concealment (lethe) and the mystery of Being; the importance of art and poetic thinking; the relation to the Other; mortals and the divine; and the significance of attunements or dispositions, ranging from shock and horror to wonder and awe. Wood’s perspective emerges as a distinctively Catholic reading of Heidegger, emphasizing common ground and a relation to the whole throughout.
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Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
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Digital Poetics
Ricoeur's Early Ethical Philosophy
Fernando Nascimento, Bowdoin College
Leovino Madriaga Garcia, Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University
Drawing on Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory and ethics, Fernando Nascimento argues for a new approach to integrating ethics into digital technology development, use, and regulation.
Using the themes of responsibility and hope, this introduction to the thought of Paul Ricoeur addresses both the beginner and the specialist.
A Ricoeurian Approach to Digital Technologies
Explorations of Responsibility and Hope
This book introduces the concept of "digital poetics" to address the unprecedented ethical challenges posed by ubiquitous, intimate, and plastic digital technologies. Nascimento proposes narrative deliberation as a framework for ethical decision-making, contextualizing moral principles, encouraging public debate, intertwining technique with ethics, and employing narrative imagination to overcome practical dilemmas. By examining three spheres of deliberation— developers, users, and institutions—Digital Poetics offers a multidimensional analysis of ethical considerations in the digital realm. This book presents digital poetics as both a utopian ideal and an ethical imperative which can respond to the rapid pace of technological change and the complexity of implementing ethical frameworks in digital contexts
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By focusing on the early essays and early mature works—including the Philosophy of the Will volumes: Freedom and Nature, Fallible Man, and The Symbolism of Evil—Leovino Garcia shows that Ricoeur’s entire orientation is primarily ethical in that it awakens in us the power to exist creatively. Ricoeur brings the Joy of the Yes to the sadness of the finite, the passion for the possible to the resignation to necessity, and the vehemence of the primary affirmation to the radical negation.
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A Dialogue Between Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
The Symbolism of Holiness
Holy Being and Holy Living Interpreted Through Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology
Edited by Jeffrey Sacks & Pascal Sauvayre
Curtis Lee Jr.
Taking elements of Ricoeur’s thought, practicing psychoanalysts shed light on the psychoanalytic tradition and enrich clinical reflection.
Through a reading of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, this book explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both being and doing in the lives of human persons in a postmodern world.
Beginning with Sigmund Freud, the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has been complicated, falling short of its mutually enriching potential. In his entire oeuvre, Paul Ricoeur made a sustained effort to construct an innovative bridge of linguistic-based alignment and connection between the two disciplines. This volume builds on that bridge and contributes to a longoverdue dialogue. Ricoeur both embraced and challenged the Freudian legacy. His engagement with the Freudian opus was a vehicle for his philosophical anthropology, emphasizing the future orientation of imagination and the power of the possible. Over the last sixty years, psychoanalysis has slowly moved in the direction of broadening analytic theory, but the impact of Ricoeur’s challenging commentary has continued to evolve. The contributors to this volume explore this evolution, clarifying the connections between philosophy and psychoanalysis and finally bringing the two into fruitful conversation.
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Both the Old and New Testament testify that God requires holiness, yet the topic remains elusive in both understanding and actuality. Ricoeur offers a solution to this dilemma; he believed that experiences of evil and the sacred cannot be communicated directly, but only through symbols and myth. In the same way that Ricoeur interpreted the human experience of evil in relation to the Fall story in Genesis, this book interprets holiness through the symbolism communicated in the Genesis Creation narrative. When interpreted through Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, the symbols of holiness in this story offer tools to understand how to be holy and live a holy life. What results is holiness as holy being, holy doing, and holy being-in-the-world in front of the biblical texts. Holiness emerges “like God,” a holy identity, ethic, and lifestyle in human beings that reflects the trifold holiness of the Triune God.
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Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time and Logic
Kant, Bergson, and the Labyrinth of the Continuum Charles John Paetsch, Penn State University, Abington, USA Drawing on the work of philosophers and mathematicians, from Kant and Peirce to Bergson and Brandom, this book plots an original path through Deleuze’s thought and transcendental empiricism. Divided into 2 parts, each with a transcendental and a logical focus respectively, Part I introduces the concept of time in Deleuze’s philosophy. Having dismissed all previous philosophies of time as deficient, with the notable exception of Bergson, Paetsch reveals how, in critiquing theories of temporality, Deleuze turns in particular to Kant. In doing so, Deleuze innovatively reconsiders transcendental philosophy in light of Bergson’s theses on durée (lived duration). Building on the first part, Part II then investigates Deleuze’s understanding of logic and its relation to time. Both Deleuze and Bergson claimed UK April 2026 • US April 2026 248 Pages PB 9781350577473 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350577435 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350577442 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350577459 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
that time undermines the central principles of every logical system. And yet, this book examines how Deleuze steps beyond logic, contending that a mathematical expression of ‘durative continuity’ could inaugurate a novel philosophy of physics. Engaging with key Deleuzian texts, including Logic of Sense, Difference and Repetition, and A Thousand Plateaus, this book provides a bold new interpretation of fundamental questions concerning time, how we understand it, and how it affects what we think.
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Kant and Technics
From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Opus Postumum Franziska Aigner Martin Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, and Bernard Stiegler each argued in their own way that, ever since its inception in ancient Greece, western philosophy is incapable of thinking technics, which reaches its clearest expression in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. According to Heidegger, Kant articulated the essence of modern technics as enframing (Gestell) without understanding the nature of his own insight, while Simondon claimed that transcendental philosophy is structurally incapable of thinking technics as its answer to the question of technics either comes too early (a priori) or too later (a posteriori). Stiegler synthesized both positions in his claim that Kant was incapable of acknowledging the technical constitution of his own consciousness. All three thinkers thus argue, in one way or another, that Kant was essentially incapable of seeing, understanding, let alone thinking, technics. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 280 Pages HB 9781350299030 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350299078 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350299047 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350299054 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
The intention of this book is two-fold. On the one hand, it argues that, despite Heidegger, Simondon, and Stiegler’s inability of recognizing it, there is an explicit concept of technics at work in Kant’s philosophy. This technics is however not a technics that was overlooked by Heidegger, Simondon, and Stiegler. Instead, this book shows that, from the Critique of Pure Reason (1780) until the posthumously published Opus Postumum (1796-1803), transcendental philosophy is at once constituted against, while at the same time relying upon, and proceeding from technics. On the other hand, this book engages with the broader relation between philosophy and technics.
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Ecological Reasonings Kilian Jörg, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany What role does ‘reason’ have in tackling the catastrophic ecological situation of the early 21st-century? Can the concept shrug off its problematic role in Western epistemology and find a new place and function in dealing with the Anthropocene? In Ecological Reasonings, Kilian Jörg argues that we ignore reason at our peril. This book revolves around the idea that in order to salvage reason, we must include it in the current move to pluralize the key concepts of Western philosophy – where we once talked of nature, science and technology, we now talk about natures, sciences, and technologies. In the same way, it is time to reconceptualize reason as reasonings – a diverse and multiperspectival wealth of interactions that can create a vital alternative to the mainstream academic thought. Drawing on a UK June 2026 • US June 2026 344 Pages HB 9781350372115 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350372153 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350372122 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350372139 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
broad span of theoretical traditions including new materialism, eco-feminism, embodied performance and speculative philosophy, Jörg weaves countless voices and aspects together to demonstrate the rich texture of his pluralized vision. The impact of these new reasonings on the pressing challenges of our time can be seen in the sheer scope of these elements, from the role of artificial intelligence to the post-truth society and how science can shape our own self-understanding.
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The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy From Ancient Aesthetics to 20th-Century Film Edited by Gina Zavota, Kent State University, USA Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics? And what impact has Neoplatonic philosophy had on the arts since the 3rd century CE? Organized into three parts, in part I four authors examine the theory behind Neoplatonic aesthetics, including in particular the philosophy of beauty, ornament, and the artistic imagination. Based on the thought of Plato, Neoplatonism incorporated influences from Aristotle, Stoicism, and a variety of other philosophical traditions to create a unique school of thought within the Western canon. The second part explores the influence of Neoplatonic thought on the painting, architecture, and music UK June 2026 • US June 2026 312 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350379114 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350379152 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350379121 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350379138 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
of classical, medieval, and Renaissance Europe. With chapters on Byzantine hymns, the birth of the Gothic, and Vasari's Saint Michael, the authors bring to life the Neoplatonic influence on European culture and thinking. Finally, part III uncovers the impact of Neoplatonism right up to the modern day through a range of 19th- and 20th-century artistic case studies, from Kandinsky and Malevich to literature, music and world cinema.
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The Militant Historian
The Concept of History in the Work of Alain Badiou Kerry William Purcell, University of Hertfordshire, UK This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badiou’s use, development and transformation of the concept of history. Despite the wealth of perspectives now available on how social and cultural practices take shape, historicism still appears to be the most dominant. The Militant Historian examines this primacy and reveals how Badiou’s work offers a radical riposte. Exploring key texts in Badiou’s oeuvre and how his philosophical ideas disrupt dominant conceptions of history and the role of the historian, Kerry William Purcell addresses how these ideas could transform our approaches to the historical and what it means to ‘do history’ as a meaningful endeavour. Adopting a chronological approach to Badiou’s work, each chapter explores specific conceptual developments in his writing and how they lend themselves to a reconsideration of the subject who speaks history. From these new and disruptive modes of doing emerges the figure of the militant historian – a role with UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages HB 9781350381056 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350381049 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350381063 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350381070 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
the potential to impact how we practice history outside the narrow strictures of academic life.
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Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism State, Community, Worlds in Common
Angela Taraborrelli, Cagliari University, Italy Hannah Arendt and Cosmopolitanism presents the first comprehensive study of Hannah Arendt’s cosmopolitanism. Challenging the common belief that cosmopolitanism is a negligible or incompatible element of Arendt’s thought, it unpacks various key elements of her philosophy such as her critique of human rights, the defence of the “right to have rights” as a right to belong to a particular political community, the scepticism towards the establishment of a world government as a solution to the problem of statelessness, and the importance she attached to the passport. Through this the text argues that Arendt is a theorist of cosmopolitanism in her own right, by reconstructing as systematically as possible an issue that is relatively neglected in the secondary literature. Taraborrelli shows how Arendt anticipates and develops cosmopolitanism in four main forms - moral, political-institutional, UK May 2026 • US May 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350422766 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350422797 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350422773 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350422780 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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judicial, cultural - and how in her thought there is no insuperable contradiction between cosmopolitanism and belonging to a political community, or between cosmopolitanism and the conditions of political action.
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Memory Assemblages
Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition Hilan Bensusan, University of Brasilia, Brazil In Memory Assemblages, Hilan Bensusan combines elements of continental and analytic philosophy to advance a theory of realism which insists on the reality of spectres, an ultrametaphysical approach departing from metaphysics while attending to the problems that triggered metaphysical investigation. In doing so, Bensusan builds on the reception of Derrida’s hauntology, particularly by Latin American scholars in disciplines such as media studies, history, and political theory, and engages with currents of speculative realism as well as contemporary work on idealism and logic. Challenging the correlationist view in which being and time cannot be considered independently of subjectivity, Bensusan gives an account of exteriority where thought and reality share a common logic of addition. Central to the book is this UK April 2026 • US April 2026 264 Pages HB 9781350460300 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350461239 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350460317 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350460324 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
philosophy of addition, where addition structures the insufficiency and incompleteness of whatever seems to be present: it is an operation that dismantles what has been before in a way that depends on that past consigned to memory. Addition is explored in light of the Derridian supplement, the Epicurean Swerve, Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion of struction and the Marxist notion of forces of production. A coda further elaborates the notion of production in this context, arguing for a spectral Marxism and drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus.
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The Arts in Philosophical Practice Prospects, Perspectives and Practices
Edited by Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox This interdisciplinary edited collection delves into the interplay between philosophy and the arts, showcasing how their combination can inspire new ways of thinking, connecting, reflecting, imagining, and understanding. By discussing ways in which art forms and arts-based methods can be integrated into philosophical practice, the book reveals how abstract ideas can be made tangible, and dense philosophical concepts can be expressed in accessible and profound ways. In the continual process of human self-examination, the arts have played and still play an important role as reflective, embodied practices in what it means to lead a human life, what it means to be a human being, and how humans relate to each other. Though the arts can be a mere distraction, they can equally engage the human mind and body in pondering the Philosophical Practice
existential paradoxes and puzzles of being. The arts and philosophy share a mutual aim: to question life’s fundamental
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aspects without proposing final answers, embracing creativity, openness, and exploration. From discussing values and virtues to addressing human vulnerabilities, this book illustrates how philosophical practice becomes impactful when it engages with the emotional and sensory world of the arts. Through theoretical insights, practical applications, and creative interventions, it illuminates how the arts and philosophy can enhance professional fields and contribute to the art of living.
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Death and the Aesthetic Sublime The Enigma of Time in La Jetée Jung Kwon There is a striking similarity between remembrance and the sublime in psychological structures and processes. When we remember, we sort out the images of the past in a way to evoke the idea of the irreversible time, and when we experience the sublime, we reflect on the distance from the threat of life in a way to remind us of our vulnerability to death. To scrutinize the sublime as an aesthetic concept, Jung Kwon draws on literature from modern and postmodern philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and Zhuangzi. Through La Jetée’s experimental cinematic design, which consists of a masterful arrangement of still frames, the empathic and imaginative audience cannot help but ponder on what it is to remember. Through deliberately eliminating the illusion of UK January 2026 • US January 2026 104 Pages PB 9781666933529 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666933505 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePDF 9798216253549 • £63.00 / $85.50 ePub 9781978768741 • £63.00 / $85.50 Bloomsbury Academic
movement, the film presents the profound space of timeless moments, ubiquitous and yet ungraspable, the unpresentable and yet viscerally felt. Jung Kwon argues that Marker’s film is a contemplative practice of memory and time, one that takes place simultaneously in the protagonist and the viewer . Memory—in its spiraling loop that defines who we are as experiencing and suffering beings— connects the frozen moments and creates the sense of time passing that inevitably halts at the inescapable barrier of time called death.
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Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking Romanticism and the Living Present
Luke Fischer, University of Sydney, Australia Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poetics. Exploring fragments, both thematically and formally, Luke Fischer situates the form as uniquely positioned between philosophy and poetry. Like poetry, fragments condense insights into few words, employ striking metaphors that draw intuitive connections, and make space for creative interpretation. Contrasting with the logical linearity of much philosophy, fragments disclose rather than prove, intimate more than argue, suggest a whole without elaborating a system, and emphasize the intuitive act of thinking. Fischer readjusts our understanding of philosophical ideas as they originate in moments of illumination, and reveals Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy the fragment as philosophy in process. In a collection of original fragments and an exploratory essay, Fischer sheds light on and Poetry the relation between poetry and philosophy, aesthetics and society, art and the environment, and discusses seminal UK June 2026 • US June 2026 152 Pages HB 9781350270084 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350270121 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350270091 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350270107 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
practitioners of the fragmentary form, including Novalis, F. Schlegel, Nietzsche and Heraclitus. Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking makes an engaging, nonlinear case for the possibility and significance of a poetic transmutation of philosophy.
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Aesthetics of Weather Madalina Diaconu, University of Vienna, Austria In an age of rife consumption and increasing need for consideration of sustainable social practices, an exploration of the aesthetics of weather becomes vital in shedding light on its importance to our experience of the changing world. In response, offering the first in-depth and nuanced examination of the aesthetics of weather, this book underlines the relevance the concept has for scientific communication, for fostering sustainable patterns of behaviour and for rejecting the environmentally-damaging “consumption” of landscapes and fine weather. In addition, it provides examples taken from global, contemporary popular culture whilst calling attention to the socioeconomic and political dimensions of individual experience, demonstrating and analysing our fascination with, and cultural interpretations of, weather phenomena in our everyday lives. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 262 Pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350416659 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781350416666 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350416673 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781350416680 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Within its three sections, the volume reinvents traditional phenomenological methods to create socially, politically and historically embedded ‘phenomenographies’ and explore the importance of aesthetic practices in shaping our experience of weather and climate. It also provides a deeper engagement with general topics, such as the relationship between perception, emotion, imagination, and cognition in our aesthetic experience of the weather, combining these with aesthetic analyses of the so-called “fine weather”.
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Life as Art
Aesthetics and the Creation of Self Zachary Simpson Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists, and existentialists into a coherent view on the artful life, Life as Art shows the ways in which much of contemporary Continental theory has been concerned with alternative ways of constructing one’s own life. Seen as a unified phenomenon, life as art signifies an active attempt to create a life which bears the resistance, openness, and creativity found in artworks.
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Heidegger's Being and Time
Paraphrased and Annotated, Volume 1 Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University, USA This important new book condenses and rephrases, paragraph by paragraph, the entirety of Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time. Leading Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan renders the text in reader-friendly language that avoids the worst of the Heideggerese that persists in the wider scholarship. He helpfully outlines each of the six chapters and, in turn, each of the eighty-three individual sections of the book, providing a critical and insightful commentary that draws on Heidegger’s comments on Being and Time throughout his career. The book also includes commentary and guidance on the terminology, scope, arguments, achievements, and limitations of Being and Time. This reader's guide is an essential resource for New Heidegger Research
students, scholars and anyone engaging with Heidegger's complex work.
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Heidegger and Parmenides Edited by Laurence Hemming, Lancaster University, UK & Aaron Turner, University of London, UK This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger’s quest to bring about the end of philosophy according to its own beginning. While the significance of Plato and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger’s philosophical development in the 1920s and 1930s is well documented, the role of Parmenides remains relatively obscure. From Heidegger’s thinking prior to Being and Time and after it, toward his thought of The Event, Parmenides is a constant presence within Heidegger’s developing concern to overcome metaphysics, and so restore for thinking the original question of being. This book makes the case that, without Parmenides, philosophy could not be philosophy, and Heidegger could not be Heidegger.
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The Mystery of Being
Reconsidering the Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought Edited by Erik Kuravsky, University of Vienna, Austria This book showcases the contributions of esteemed scholars in Heideggerian studies, delving into the inquiry of the mystical essence inherent in Heidegger's thought. Rather than confining "mystery" to the conventional realm of mysticism, separate from philosophy, this volume’s original research investigates how the mystery of being is integral to philosophy itself, shaping its performative and transformative nature. The book’s central inquiry asks whether this mystical element is essential to Heidegger’s thought and how it relates to traditional notions of mysticism. At its core, however, it questions the very essence of philosophy—its transformative potential—engaging with numerous themes in Heidegger’s work while remaining attuned to the centrality and significance of the mystery of being. New Heidegger Research UK September 2025 • US September 2025 320 Pages • 2 bw illus PB 9798216276852 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798881802141 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798881860998 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9798881802165 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Kierkegaard's Ontology The Faith to Be Casey Spinks What is it to be? And what is it to be a Christian? Casey Spinks suggests these two questions belong together when readers attend to Kierkegaard’s authorship, and such attention calls for the task of uncovering Kierkegaard’s fundamental ontology. This book argues that the heart of that ontology is to be found in the religious discourses of his Second Authorship. Using the devotional discourse The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air as his guide, Spinks argues that Kierkegaard offers a distinct Christian sense of being: faith. In particular, in his Second Authorship, he moves from irony to earnestness, and New Kierkegaard Research UK February 2026 • US February 2026 240 Pages PB 9781666981940 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666981926 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216264064 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978762824 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
identifies silence, obedience, and joy as ontologically significant categories. This Christian ontology fundamentally opposes the rationalist ontology of G.W.F. Hegel—as well as any other philosophical ontology based on autonomous reason or human subjectivity. As a result, Kierkegaard proves to be a unique Christian figure in the history of Western metaphysics, one with forceful relevance to contemporary questions of first philosophy and first theology.
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The Impossibility of Time
Hegel and the Antinomies of Pure Reason James Sares In this book, James Sares demonstrates - via his readings of Kant and Hegel - that time cannot be. His approach to the reality of time stresses the irreducibility of the contradictions that confound the conceivability of its very existence. Sares' approach is both exegetical and critical, developing textual analyses of Kant and Hegel's respective claims concerning the antinomies of time while challenging and extending their work in conversation with contemporary debates in metaphysics and the philosophy of time. He rebuts Kant's suggestion that the arguments of his antinomies do not apply to time because of its status as an appearance, drawing on Hegel's dialectical logic to argue for the contradictoriness of this appeal. Yet Hegel, for Sares, fails to clearly articulate the irresolvability of the antimonies. He views the philosopher as denying time's relevance to the being of logical truth and hence his own logical system. He therefore critiques Hegel by returning to Kant, UK June 2026 • US June 2026 288 Pages PB 9781350551251 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350551220 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350551237 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350551244 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
underscoring the importance of the antinomies as problems concerning the very possibility of worldly existence. Offering a rigorous defence of Kant's presentation of the antinomies, this book simultaneously challenges the purported rational closure of Hegel's logical system. As such, it constitutes a novel contribution to the scholarship on Kant, Hegel, and the philosophy of time.
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On Quantum Things
A Constructive Guide to the Fundamentals of Quantum Theory Valia Allori This book explores the metaphysics of quantum theory through a lens of scientific realism—the belief that successful scientific theories describe reality. It critically evaluates various interpretations, including structural realism, wave function realism, and the many-worlds view, highlighting their limitations. Valia Allori proposes a “spatiotemporal foundational ontology” approach, grounded in particles as fundamental entities evolving in three-dimensional space and time, following uniform, symmetric laws. This view is exemplified by Bohmian mechanics (pilot-wave theory), offering a constructive, commonsensical explanation of quantum phenomena. The wave function, in this framework, is not a physical object but plays a functional, law-like role in explaining interactions. Further, the book advances a radical thesis: fundamental particles lack intrinsic properties like mass or charge and are instead “bare” objects distinguished only by the laws governing them. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9798216375470 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781498581684 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216267355 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978764583 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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This thesis allows a middle path between traditional object-based metaphysics and eliminative structuralism. Ultimately, the author argues that had physics developed more rationally, instead of following a historical path shaped by contingent choices, the pilot-wave theory might have been the dominant interpretation, minimizing the proliferation of speculative alternatives.
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New Directions in the Russellian Theory of Time Metaphysical and Ontological Investigations
Emiliano Boccardi, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, L. Nathan Oaklander, University of Michigan-Flint, USA & Erwin Tegtmeier, University of Mannheim, Germany The main debates in the philosophy of time have centred on whether A-theory, with events ordered by pastness, presentness and futurity, or B-theory, ordered by earlier than or later than, are equally fundamental. Emiliano Boccardi, L. Nathan Oaklander and Erwin Tegtmeier instead uphold the Russellian theory, or R-theory, and consider not only the fundamental differences but also its superiority. They argue McTaggart’s misinterpretation of Russell has led to a false dichotomy between the A- and B-theories, while exploring the connection between temporal relations, temporal facts and time. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 264 Pages HB 9781350339842 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350339880 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350339859 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350339866 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
In defence of the R-theory, they argue how it offers a metaphysical explanation of the nature of time, in addition to investigating whether ontological theories of time can be considered from a moral or existential point of view. Using an ontological approach, this volume clarifies what is mistaken about both theories can only be resolved by adopting a Russellian philosophy, reaching beyond the A-theory vs B-theory debate.
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Reviving Intellectual Intuition in Metaphysics Contemplative Philosophies and Being
Kenneth Rose, Christopher Newport University, USA Calling for a revival of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant, Kenneth Rose overcomes the forgetfulness of being through contemplative ontology. Rose argues for the reinstatement of intellectual intuition in metaphysics long after its banning by Kant. His claim is not merely the conclusion of a thought-experiment or of an exercise in conceptual analysis. It is the result of the contemplative recognition of being with a meditatively concentrated intellect: nous in Greek and buddhi in Sanskrit. Recognizing intellectual intuition as a long-neglected faculty of philosophical insight, Rose shows how it can result in an immediate, intuitive discerning of being. He discusses how being parcels itself out into the intellectual forms providing the underlying nonphysical UK June 2026 • US June 2026 240 Pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350375215 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350375253 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350375222 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350375239 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
arrangement of the physical and mental worlds. By reviving the use of intellectual intuition in metaphysics, Rose draws upon historical sources across multiple Asian and Anglo-European philosophical schools. This is a work of contemplative constructive philosophy that breaks down divisions between science, philosophy, and religion and between diverse cultures and divergent worldviews.
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Possibilist Knowledge
A Rigorous Framework for an Indeterminist Science Gustavo Castañon Possibilist knowledge is the kind of scientific knowledge about what makes something possible or impossible in a given context, given the satisfaction or absence of a necessary condition, and which is formed by possibilist laws and explanations. Unlike knowledge of physical necessity, which states what must occur, or probabilistic knowledge, which indicates what is likely to occur, possibilist knowledge delineates the boundaries of what can and cannot happen. Possibilist laws are strict laws stating necessary conditions for events, and possibilist explanations show how apparently impossible or improbable phenomena could have occurred under specified conditions. Building on permissive and preventive conditions, this book rectifies problems in the philosophy of science, from the “howUK March 2026 • US March 2026 272 Pages PB 9781666953985 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666953961 • £80.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216259671 • £72.00 / $103.50 ePub 9781978765474 • £72.00 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
possibly” explanations to mechanisms and negative causation, reconsidering the deductive–nomological model of explanation in a renewed light. Drawing examples from physics, biology, social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience, it demonstrates that possibilist reasoning is already pervasive, though unacknowledged, and essential for understanding multicausality and constraints in complex systems. In psychology, possibilist knowledge provides a methodological basis for unifying the discipline and reconciling scientific rigor with human freedom. By offering a framework that compatibilizes scientific laws with the presumption of agency and responsibility, the book contributes to resolving one of the most enduring cultural conflicts: the tension between determinism, free will, and the authority of science.
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Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence The History and Legacy of the AI Wars
Eric Dietrich, Binghamton University, USA, Chris Fields, Independent Scholar, John P. Sullins, Sonoma State University, USA, Bram Van Heuveln, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA & Robin Zebrowski, Beloit College, USA An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement consciousness, to arguments about cognitive architecture and ChatGPT. Now updated to include the latest developments in AI, this is an exploration of the most famous philosophical arguments against building a machine with human-level intelligence. The arguments are organized into four central AI wars, showing how the debate that played out between the philosophers, AI scientists and engineers building AI systems. UK January 2026 • US January 2026 376 Pages HB 9781350499409 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350499416 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350499430 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9781350499423 • £22.49 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic
Here is your guide to the major philosophical questions and attacks AI has received throughout its history. Packed with fresh insights and supporting material, this second edition features new content on: - Language Learning Models (LLMs) and the existence of generative AI - Sustainable AI and its ability to regulate our climate - The theoretical, ethical and legislative issues around ‘computational creativity’ - The uncanny valley effect and its potential consequences for AI
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A Social Enactive Theory of Perception
Perceptual Practices, Direct Perception, and A World of Aspects Alejandro Arango A Social Enactive Theory of Perception offers a unified study, in the enactivist tradition, of perception and its connection to sociality. Alejandro Arango looks for perception in the middle of everyday life and finds that perception is at home in perceptual practices, socially structured ways of relating to the perceptible world. These practices are attuned to different dimensions of human life, such as the cultural worlds of customs that play a role in our lives’ unique character, aesthetic experience, interpersonal relations, and even social interactions that can be labeled welcoming and accepting, or racist and xenophobic. The book argues that although the perceiver is situated in relation to the world in many ways that influence perception, this does not entail a radical subjectivism. Rather, it shows that the world appears to perceivers in different ways or aspects since we relate differently to the same world The framework of perceptual practices can also be applied to our UK February 2026 • US February 2026 232 Pages • 2 tables PB 9798216375371 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666924329 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216269212 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978767621 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
understanding of others, and the book argues that we understand others in part through perception. This framework allows us to understand others as bearers or social identities. With influences from Wittgensteinian pragmatism, phenomenology, and analytic philosophy of perception, as well as engagement with social psychology, social cognition studies, and work in neuroscience, the book synthesizes different layers at work in perception, paying important attention to the non-visual senses.
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Existence and Illusion
A Semantic Account of Perception D. E. Buckner A strong intuition – the Common Kind Assumption that the same account must apply to veridical perception as to illusion – seems to commit us to “weird” mental items like sense data, but an equally strong intuition is that weird items have no place in a parsimonious account of reality. D.E. Buckner takes a novel approach to this problem, arguing that perceptual states are propositional. Just as the same proposition can be true or false, so the same perceptual state can be veridical or not. Sight tells us that the stick in water is bent, even when our understanding says it is not. This semantic account of perception satisfies the Common Kind Assumption without committing us to weird items. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 248 Pages • 10 tables PB 9781666963366 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666963342 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216254652 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978760271 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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The book is a fresh approach to the classic problem of illusion, informed by the core topics of philosophical logic: identity, existence, reference and predication. It brings together a number of disparate traditions, including twentieth-century sense datum theory and the subsequent reaction to it; Chastain’s anaphoric theory of reference; the Aristotelian notion of a substance (the this of demonstrative reference) and its accidents.
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Philosophies of Self
A Cross-Cultural Introduction Edited by Nathan R. B. Loewen, University of Alabama, USA & Agnieszka Rostalska, Ghent University, Belgium This is a guide to the many different concepts of the self found in traditions around the world. Ideal for independent study or classroom teaching, Philosophies of the Self represents a break with the orientalist problems around the “East-West” dichotomy. By refusing to defer to any religious tradition, it allows you to learn about and evaluate philosophical conceptions of the self from a broad range of cultures. Covering Shinto, Afro-Brazilian, Jain, Nyaya, Daoist, Nguni, as well as specific philosophical paradigms developed by Iqbal, Ifeanyi Menkiti, and Jacques Derrida, each chapter systematically explores conceptions of self that are specific to a philosophical tradition. Bringing together an international team of contributors, each chapter situates the concepts’ definition, Expanding Philosophy of Religion UK April 2026 • US April 2026 360 Pages HB 9781350463660 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350463677 • £19.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350463684 • £17.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350463691 • £17.99 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
philosophical significance, historical context, and the relevant works or cultural locations in which they appear. From broad, high-level comparison to in-depth, close reading, the structure allows you to engage with the different concepts in a variety of ways. You are able to compare foundational ideas, draw on suggestions for further research and choose a combination of chapters for an in-depth cross-cultural study.
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Rethinking Religious Conversion Bodies, People and Processes
Jack Williams, Independent Scholar, UK Drawing on methods from religious studies, philosophy, and cognitive science, Jack Williams develops a unique and interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious conversion. This is the first major philosophical study of conversion to treat the phenomenon as a long-term process, shaped by the convert’s embodiment and immersion in a linguistic, social, and ritual community. Williams’ analysis of the conversion process is rooted in a view of cognition as both embodied and affective, and is informed by the latest research in phenomenology, affect theory, neuroscience, and enactivist cognitive science. In conversation with diverse conversion narratives, he advances a theory of conversion that is not restricted to a modern, Western context but Expanding Philosophy of Religion
that can be applied to experiences of conversion across global history and culture.
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bringing together a diverse array of contemporary and historical scholarship, it revitalizes the study of conversion for both
Rethinking Religious Conversion displays an original approach to the philosophical study of diverse religious practices. By philosophy and religious studies.
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Augustine’s Confessions and Shakespeare’s King Lear Power, Parenthood, and Presence Kim Paffenroth, Iona College, USA Paffenroth returns to two of the most quintessentially commanding yet vulnerable protagonists in the Western canon – Augustine, the real life, fifth century bishop of Hippo, known to us mostly through his own telling of his life in Confessions; and King Lear, the legendary king of Briton, known to us mostly from Shakespeare’s version of his tragic end. Having examined problems addressed in both works of love, language, nature, and reason, Paffenroth here picks up more purely relational matters: both protagonists wield (or have wielded) power over others, yet struggle to learn its right application; both raise children, but have deeply problematic relations with their children, their partners, and (in the case of Augustine at least) their parents; neither has an intuitive or unproblematic relationship with a fully present God or gods – Reading Augustine
Augustine struggles mightily to have such, while Lear cries out to heaven but it is unclear he ever gets a reply. As different as
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the books and men are, how they relate to women and God shows illuminating and complementary points of comparison.
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Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison
Embodied Communities and Models of Religious Tradition Barbara A. Holdrege In Hindus, Jews, and the Politics of Comparison: Embodied Communities and Models of Religious Tradition, Barbara A. Holdrege emphasizes the role of comparative study as a method of critical interrogation that can serve as a means to challenge hegemonic taxonomies and categories in the academy and to reconstitute our scholarly discourse to allow for a multiplicity of epistemologies. Holdrege provides an extended series of reflections on the politics, problematics, and dynamics of comparison in which she explores how certain analytical categories in the study of religion—such as the body, scripture, sacrifice, purity, and food—can be fruitfully reimagined through a comparative analysis of their Hindu and Jewish instantiations. The author argues that this re-visioning of analytical categories through sustained comparative historical studies of a range of Hindu and Jewish traditions can provide the basis for generating alternative imaginaries to the Studies in Comparative Philosophy prevailing Eurocentric and Protestant-based paradigms in the academy that have perpetuated the ideals of Enlightenment and Religion discourse and colonial and neocolonial projects. Such studies can serve as an important corrective to the scholarly practices UK April 2026 • US March 2026 312 Pages • 6 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables PB 9781666932171 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666932157 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9781978778764 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781666932164 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
through which certain categories and models have been privileged over others in the social sciences and humanities and in religious studies more specifically.
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The Linguistic Carnival of Thought
Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language Rein Raud The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative Philosophy and the Dynamics of Language argues that the practice of philosophizing is significantly influenced by linguistic structures. Against the widespread view that all languages are reducible to the same matrix on a deep-structural level, Rein Raud presents ample evidence to the contrary, demonstrating how different strategies of predication, postulation, negation, individuation, and so on vary greatly and present incompatible combinations in natural languages, which are nonetheless suitable for precise and rational argumentation. This book compares the views of language presented by Plato, Kongzi/Xunzi, and Bhartrhari; discusses “pansemioticism,” or the view that reality itself is significant (addressing Yijing, East Asian Buddhism, the Kabbalah, the philosophies of Peirce, Derrida, and others); juxtaposes the set-theoretical ontology of Badiou and the mereological worldview of Huayan Buddhism; Studies in Comparative Philosophy and discusses various critiques of the idea of “truth” (Wittgenstein, Deleuze, Foucault) and a way to accommodate them and Religion through the logic of Dignaga, among other topics. With examples from languages and philosophical traditions across the UK September 2025 • US September 2025 256 Pages PB 9781793646620 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781793646606 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216201564 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781793646613 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
world, the book is an ideal introduction to the problematic for monolingual speakers of English and a scintillating exploration for polyglots.
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Nietzsche and Buddhism
How One Becomes What One Is Sarah Jacob The claim that Nietzsche was aware of Buddhist, Vedic, or Eastern thought more generally is uncontroversial. However, any stronger claims about the sphere of influence remain niche in Nietzsche studies. Any non-Western flavors in Nietzsche’s writings are most often considered ornamental and wholly unnecessary in the quest to interpret what Nietzsche means. To the contrary, in Nietzsche and Buddhism: How One Becomes What One Is, Sarah Jacob argues that Nietzsche’s work is further illuminated when seen as an endeavor that seriously engages with Buddhist ontology, and that Nietzsche’s philosophy marks a paradigm shift in “Western” thought because of this encounter. Though the second half of this book offers a thorough comparative analysis between Nietzsche and Buddhism, its validity rests upon the often understated importance of Indian thought for German intellectuals prior to and during Nietzsche’s life. Indeed, the author argues that Studies in Comparative Philosophy Nietzsche’s “philosophy of the future” should be recognized as a transcultural contribution to the history of ideas, one that and Religion has import for the perplexed global zeitgeist in the twenty-first century. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 272 Pages PB 9781666973242 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666973228 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781666973235 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978765078 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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St Paul and Philosophy
An Introduction to the Essence of Christianity Olivier Boulnois Translated by Andrew Sackin-Poll Olivier Boulnois investigates the relation between Paul, as apostle of Jesus Christ, and the philosophy at work in his letters. Boulnois lays bare the manner in which Paul adapts Greek thought to his own purposes. This sheds light on the work of an entire range of philosophers who have identified themselves with the Pauline effort to hold thinking open to the claims of Christian life and doctrine, from Augustine to Kierkegaard, as well as more recent figures who have engaged Paul from a greater distance, including Heidegger and Ricoeur. Boulnois also draws on modern and contemporary scholarship, and reveals his reservations about the turn to Paul appearing in European philosophy in the work of such thinkers as Agamben and Badiou. Successive chapters take up Paul's logic of the Cross; cosmology; approaches to being in the world, law, evil and good; messianism; salvation and history. Explorations in Philosophy and Theology UK December 2025 • US December 2025 160 Pages PB 9781350470019 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350469976 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350469983 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350469990 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Originally delivered as a series of lectures at Cambridge and at the Institut Catholique de Paris, St Paul and Philosophy is at once a painstaking study of Paul's own thinking and an open exploration of its continued relevance for modern and contemporary reflection on Christian religion. This book is an important demonstration that theology and philosophy are at their best when brought into dialogue with one another around perennial questions and themes.
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Paul Claudel’s “Five Great Odes” A New Translation and Commentary
Paul Claudel Edited by Lauren Butler Bergier, Independent Scholar, USA Translated by Lauren Butler Bergier, Independent Scholar, USA A seminal text in European literature, this long-awaited critical translation makes available Claudel’s beautiful and edifying poems that speak to doubt and to faith, to love, to grief, and to hope. To great effect, Bergier retains Claudel’s innovative verset structure, affording English readers a true sense of the poems which, with corresponding line numbers throughout, can be read alongside the original French folio edition. In this volume’s comprehensive introduction, Bergier presents the historical and scholarly context in which Claudel was writing; the importance of the verset claudelien to the history of French poetics; and the influence Claudel had on Explorations in Philosophy and Theology UK February 2026 • US February 2026 224 Pages PB 9781350434387 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350434349 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350434356 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350434363 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
theologians such as 20th-century Swiss theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar.
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is also accompanied by an essay. These essays not only speak to the main themes of each poem, but also point to Claudel’s key sources of inspiration, from liturgical texts and the Bible to classical literature, philosophy, and 19th-century French poetry. With a preface and postface by distinguished philosophers, Jean-Luc Marion and Rémi Brague, as well as a new translation of Claudel’s essay, ‘Processional to greet the new century’, this volume has everything scholars and students need to enjoy, and moreover, truly understand Claudel’s poetic masterpiece.
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A Phenomenology of the Divine Image Gregory of Nyssa and the Veil of Flesh Thomas Breedlove, Baylor University, USA What does it mean to speak of humans as the image of God when apophatic theology speaks of an infinite God who transcends naming, comprehension, and worldly appearance? Bringing Church Father Gregory of Nyssa into dialogue with French phenomenology in Michel Henry, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean-Louis Chretien, Thomas Breedlove answers this question and explores the importance of embodiment to the doctrine of imago Dei. This book presents the divine image not as merely one aspect of the human creature but rather as that which constitutes human creatureliness itself. Breedlove investigates the relationship between human and divine through three successive approaches. The first, in conversation with Merleau-Ponty, analyses the existential and phenomenological aspects of fleshly Explorations in Philosophy and Theology UK April 2026 • US April 2026 240 Pages PB 9781350569461 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350569423 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350569430 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350569447 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
finitude as the paradigmatic site of the creature’s difference from God. The second takes up Henry’s philosophy of life alongside Gregory’s metaphysics of participation to offer an account of creaturely life in its likeness or identity to divine life. The third, though conversation with Chrétien, examines the christological aspects of Gregory’s anthropology to find the synthesis in which likeness and difference and presence and absence reveal a creaturely nature wounded by divine love. In blending 4th-century theology with 20th-century phenomenology, Breedlove showcases the perspectives they can offer each other and presents a novel theological anthropology and a new theological account of the flesh.
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In Search of Speech
Talking, Reading and Praying in an Age of Words Jean-Yves Lacoste Translated by Oliver O'Donovan Jean-Yves Lacoste is one of the best known French philosophers alive today. Along with Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Louis Chrétien, and Michel Henry, Lacoste is hailed as a leading figure in the revival of French phenomenology in its engagement with Christian theology. In this highly readable and stylish translation by Oliver O'Donovan, Lacoste’s In Search of Speech considers how linguistic events are precisely what enable us to escape the threat of nihilism and to survive in a world now cynically regarded as having entered a phase of 'post-truth.' In recent decades, language has been reduced by various philosophers, both Anglo-American and European, in treatments that render it abstract, flat, or distant from life. In Search of Speech seeks to do justice to speech in the various ways in Explorations in Philosophy and Theology UK May 2026 • US May 2026 208 Pages HB 9781350460423 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350460577 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350460430 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350460447 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
which we perform it and in which it confronts us as one or more events. Speech always occurs in the world: it makes things present to us or it makes them absent from us. Speaking, reading, and even being silent, are never wholly free from anxiety, babble, boredom, humour, and concern for others. Liturgical speech deserves particular attention, and even here speech is in danger; for speech can conceal as well as reveal. Lacoste begins with very weak assumptions and slowly, using many examples, and clarifying as he goes along, builds up a rich picture of human speech and the forces that seek to drain it of meaning.
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Contemplating Divine Simplicity Five Views
Edited by Ross D. Inman, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA Is divine simplicity coherent? Is there adequate theological and philosophical motivation for the doctrine? Does it undermine God’s freedom in creation? Does it help or hinder Trinitarian doctrine? For the first time in a multi-view format, a team of renowned proponents and critics of divine simplicity come together to consider these questions and discuss the intrinsic merits of the doctrine. With contributors presenting Thomistic, Anselmian, Eastern Orthodox and Scotistic views, as well as a sustained and considered critique, this unique structure makes for a genuine discussion and developed exploration of the key issues at stake. Chapters evaluate the coherence and interpretation of divine simplicity, assessing which version is worthy of assent, Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and set out the motivations in favour of the doctrine. Divine freedom, the contingency of creation and the doctrine of the of Religion Trinity are also considered in light of theological arguments against divine simplicity. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 328 Pages PB 9781350321151 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350321113 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350321120 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350321137 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
A valuable resource for any scholar or student of philosophy of religion and theology, Contemplating Divine Simplicity brings into dialogue diverse views of five thinkers, tracing the arguments in favour of divine simplicity from divine aseity.
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Life After Death Four Views
Steven B. Cowan, Louisiana College, USA, Graham Oppy, Monash University, Australia, David Apolloni, Augsburg University, USA, Shyam Ranganathan, York University, Canada & Joshua R. Farris, University of Bristol, UK All major religions in history have offered hope of some kind of afterlife to answer the perennial interest in the question of life after death. This volume brings together renowned experts in the philosophy of religion, Graham Oppy, David Apolloni, Shyam Ranganathan, Joshua Farris and Steven B. Cowan, to present four key starting points in the life after death debate. Providing a lively and collaborative dialogue between leaders in the field, each thinker defends a particular view of the UK April 2026 • US April 2026 208 Pages PB 9781350460836 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350460799 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350460805 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350460812 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
afterlife and critically interacts with the alternative perspectives. They focus on the positions of No Life After Death, the Immortality of the Soul, Reincarnation and Resurrection, with each chapter drawing on views from naturalism, antiquity, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Yoga. This engagement moves the current debate forward to consider global perspectives whilst the clear and accessible structure allows for a developed exploration of the central issues at stake. Incorporating views spanning secular and religious spheres in both the east and west, this comprehensive guide will be welcomed by students and scholars of contemporary philosophy of religion and comparative philosophy.
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In Defense of Indoctrination
The Liberal Arts and the Myth of Thinking for Yourself Simon Feldman Simon Feldman argues that neither charges of indoctrination from political conservatives nor professorial boasts of teaching critical thinking recognize the full range of values embedded in liberal arts education; most faculty want both to teach certain social values and to nurture students’ intellectual independence. Yet the indoctrination charges do raise deep questions about the ethics of teaching and learning, and they and take place amidst growing concerns about the social, political, and economic viability of liberal arts institutions themselves. In conversation with defenses of the liberal arts, In Defense of Indoctrination asks us to consider whether and how the transmission of the various values that undergird the liberal arts comports with the aim of cultivating students’ independent UK February 2026 • US February 2026 232 Pages PB 9798216383116 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666906653 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216266488 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978768833 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
critical thinking. Balancing the complex intersection between epistemology and ethics, Feldman explores how inquiry is intrinsically value-laden and suggests that the cultivation of students’ ability to “think for themselves” is neither a coherent nor desirable pedagogical ideal. Characterizing indoctrination as “the transmission of beliefs or values by nonrational means,” the book argues that there are forms of indoctrination that are unobjectionably employed in the context of higher education, as teaching is an intrinsically value laden enterprise.
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Philosophical Interventions in Neoliberal Higher Education Edited by Brandon Absher In this edited collection, philosophers and critical theorists develop theoretical tools to conceptualize and evaluate the neoliberal university, working together both to interrogate how it reproduces systems of oppression and exploitation and to identify more liberatory and egalitarian alternatives. Acting and organizing within and against neoliberalized higher education in the Western capitalist world, the international group of scholars included in this volume experience the contradictions and possibilities of the contemporary configuration of the university daily. And yet the crisis in higher education is only one aspect of a much broader social crisis in which neoliberalism and related social inequalities, rapid climate change, de-democratization, rising authoritarianism, war, and Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
genocide interconnect. Edited by Brandon Absher, this volume critiques and intervenes in higher education in the midst of
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Interdisciplinarity and the Art of Human Connection Knowing in a Complex World Sharon Woodill This book examines interdisciplinarity through the lens of complexity theory, arguing for an understanding of interdisciplinarity that embraces the wisdom of complexity and not just the idea. Sharon Woodill critiques current interdisciplinary practices as often falling short of truly embracing complexity, instead grafting complexity theory onto existing reductionist frameworks that lead to disconnection. Drawing on principles of self-organization and emergence, this book re-imagines the interdisciplinary process and integration that results. It advocates for an “epistemology of connection” that prioritizes human relationships, diverse perspectives, and engagement with ambiguity in knowledge practices. It examines the concept of diversity as an example of interdisciplinarity Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society UK August 2025 • US August 2025 144 Pages PB 9781666944358 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666944334 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798765166611 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781978769083 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
grounded in a fully-fledged complexity. Throughout, the book advocates for a shift from capture-and-control approaches to knowledge towards an understanding of knowing as a participatory, emergent process. It emphasizes the facilitation of new insights through deep engagement with the complexity of each other and the worlds we inhabit.
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Black Bodies, White Gazes
The Continuing Significance of Race in America George Yancy, Emory University, USA George Yancy’s third edition of Black Bodies, White Gazes applies a clear and dynamic phenomenological framework of race to the history and most recent headlines in social justice and race relations. Including coverage of police murders and brutality against Black Americans and the rise of white nationalism, this is a timeless introduction to the philosophy of race. The third edition features new chapter introductions and discussion questions from philosopher Taine Duncan; a new chapter giving critical phenomenological attention to contemporary anti-Black violence against individuals such as George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Sonya Massey, and Kayla Moore; and a new coda featuring the author's interview with photographer Daniel UK July 2025 • US July 2025 400 Pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781538169827 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781538169834 • £26.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765154243 • £24.29 / $35.95 ePub 9781538169841 • £24.29 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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A Child's Place in Nature
Toward a New Pedagogy for the Anthropocene Brian Elliott, Portland State University, USA Outlining a transformational pedagogical philosophy that seeks to foster strong and meaningful bonds to the natural environment forged in childhood, this book targets some of the central social challenges entailed by planetary climate disturbance. In recent decades, social scientists have been studying and drawing attention to what has been labelled “nature-deficit disorder,” a psychological condition in which the young child is deprived of meaningful contact with the natural environment and suffers a diminution of well-being. Brian Elliott brings together the ideas of love of place (topophilia) and love of living nature (biophilia) to propose a radically transformed approach to pedagogical theory and practice that would counter the Philosophy of Childhood
widespread nature deficit typically experienced by children in more affluent countries. The need for this transformation is
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especially pressing in the age of the Anthropocene, in which it is confidently predicted that systematic climatic disturbance will begin to become relentlessly severe within the next two decades. The pedagogical approach is also predicated on young learners’ inherent interest in leading happy, meaningful lives, a goal furthered by unsupervised time in the physical world around them, especially in middle childhood. Drawing a wide variety of literary, scientific, ecological, and philosophical sources, Elliott makes a passionate and compelling case to stop confining our childing within the classroom and get them back into the open air of the natural environment.
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Imagining with Purpose in Childhood
Children as Emerging Agents Envisioning Lives Worth Valuing Natalie M. Fletcher Imagining with Purpose in Childhood explores the question: How might moral imagining be conceived to support the cultivation of responsible autonomy in childhood? It argues that when conceived as a conscious, flexible process, moral imagining may contribute to children’s emerging agency by expanding and enriching their envisioned options for what they believe is worth valuing within their current and future circumstances, thereby helping to make their autonomy more responsible. Natalie M. Fletcher proposes the conception of deliberate moral imagining, understood as the purposeful envisioning of a given context from multiple frames of reference in response to a real-world encounter, with the goal of bringing to light possibilities for what seems reasonable to value in order to broaden the moral lens through which lived experiences are approached and assessed. This book explores how deliberate moral imagining may assist children in Philosophy of Childhood UK April 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9781666918847 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666918823 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216266846 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978769922 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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confronting some important challenges to responsible autonomy that risk constricting their envisioning of the overarching contexts most influential in childhood: their relation to others (how they view and treat them), their relation to self (how they perceive and value themselves) and their relation to knowledge (how they learn and what they claim to know about the world). In response to the respective challenges of narrow empathetic scope, conversion inhibition and inaccurate pseudoenvironments, deliberate moral imagining may help enrich children’s “mental landscape” by cultivating relational openness through three crucial autonomy supports: empathic engagement, self-efficacy and reasonableness.
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Existential Intelligence
The Ontology of Ambiguity and Education Sevket Benhür Oral This book develops an ontological approach to understanding existential intelligence and its connections to democracy and education. Sevket Benhür Oral examines the concept of existential intelligence—hereafter ExistI—on an ontological level. ExistI is not conceived as a psychological aptitude that one can be good at or not like spatial or bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. Rather, it refers to a unitary experience that is riddled with ambiguity. All human beings are potentially open to such experience since we all have the capacity to experience the extraordinary, or better put, the extraordinariness of the ordinary. Although UK February 2026 • US February 2026 336 Pages PB 9781666971712 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666971699 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216258995 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978764811 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Howard Gardner later identified existential intelligence among other intelligences, his theory of multiple intelligences, while still widely accepted by educators, did not adequately explore this concept, especially in its political, moral, and philosophical dimensions. It is essential that we do since ExistI is ultimately about our capacity for more peaceful ways of co-existing with others, the extraordinariness of living collectively with human and nonhuman beings.
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Value Phenomenology
Taking Account of Edith Stein’s Contributions Mette Lebech Explores Edith Stein’s phenomenology of values as found in her early work—specifically her Contributions to a Philosophical Foundation for Psychology and the Humanities (1922). Mette Lebech makes a constructive exposition of Stein’s phenomenology of values by discussing the experience of value and motivation (Part I), that which is constituted in value-response (Part II), and how certain later approximations of valuephenomenology can be completed by means of it (Part III). Stein’s synthesis of Husserl’s project of founding the sciences with Scheler’s phenomenological discussion of values, emotion, and sociality carries Stein’s specific contributions. These are Edith Stein Studies UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9798216390749 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666939743 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216259367 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978764415 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
1) the distinction between psychic causality and motivation, which allows for a clear interpretation of how emotion relates to values (Part I) and 2) the understanding of how the experience of value and preference leads us to constitute the personal “I,” the basis for the value hierarchy, the psyche, the structure of intersubjectivity (with its three modalities, mass, association and community), the world, and the real world (Part II). Finally, a Steinian discussion of the vestiges of value phenomenology found in Heidegger, Levinas, and de Beauvoir contextualises the investigation (Part III).
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Edith Stein's Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities A Companion
Edited by Valentina Gaudiano This book offers tools for a deeper reading and understanding of Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities is a pioneering exploration of the intersection between psychology, philosophy, and human sciences. Written in the aftermath of World War I, the book delves into the interplay between individual and collective experience, examining how empathy, motivation, and causality shape our understanding of human behaviour. Through a meticulous phenomenological approach, Stein analyses prevailing psychological theories and Edith Stein Studies UK January 2026 • US January 2026 192 Pages • 4 bw illus PB 9798216387688 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666945119 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216254140 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781978771987 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
highlights the necessity of integrating the spiritual and material dimensions of human existence. In this timeless contribution to philosophy, psychology, and social thought, Stein challenges disciplinary boundaries and anticipates debates on interdisciplinary research, offering a unique framework for understanding the human person not only as an individual but also as a participant in societal structures. This companion emphasizes the ways in which Stein’s analysis persists as a call for a holistic approach to the complexities of human experience.
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Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue Edited by Timothy A. Burns, Travis Lacy & Eric Mohr The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation. This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler’s respective work. Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological resources in their philosophical explorations, and maintained a lifelong interest in the human person. It examines key themes such as the human person, spirit (Geist), education (Bildung), and social ontology, demonstrating their historical importance and contemporary relevance. The authors argue that reading these philosophers together is essential Edith Stein Studies UK February 2026 • US February 2026 266 Pages PB 9798216390589 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666965452 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216254133 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978771970 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
for understanding their historical significance and for illuminating contemporary concerns both within and beyond academia. The volume also features the first English translation of Edith Stein’s seminal essay, “The Meaning of Phenomenology as Worldview.”
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Postphenomenology and Feminist Theory Intersectionality, Gender, and Technology
Edited by Galit Wellner, NB Haifa School of Design, Israel and Tel Aviv University, Israel, Lyat Friedman & Robert Rosenberger A novel theoretical development of the combination of insights into feminist theory and postphenomenology. While there has been growing interest in feminist theory within the philosophy of technology, there remains a lack of works dedicated to this focus. There has been greater success in integrating a focus on issues of gender feminist studies in the related (and larger) fields of philosophy of science and STS. The interdisciplinary and pluralistic nature of postphenomenology contributes to what appears to be, at least informally, a greater focus on gender diversity and greater Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology UK June 2026 • US April 2026 272 Pages • 10 tables PB 9798216440055 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666947243 • £80.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216259756 • £72.00 / $103.50 ePub 9781978765559 • £72.00 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
interest in feminist theory within the postphenomenological community. This volume aims to fill these gaps within the philosophy of technology. The featured chapters include a number of feminist perspectives, including care ethics, feminist standpoint theory, black feminism, and feminist new materialism.
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Technopolitical Mediation
An Arendtian Approach to Political Philosophy of Technology Melis Bas Technologies, by mediating our political interpretations and interactions, inform the way in which political communities are formed. This book investigates technologies and their impact on socio-politics, focusing on Hannah Arendt's political theory. It goes beyond equating power with politics, which inevitably leads to a limited understanding of the political implications of technology. Melis Bas argues that technologies play a much more significant role in politics than just exerting power over individuals. They condition, frame, create, and organize politics. Through the lens of Hannah Arendt's political hermeneutics, Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology UK May 2026 • US April 2026 240 Pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781666957181 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666957167 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9798216259572 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781978765412 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Bas illuminates the interactional relationship between technology and politics, thus enabling an understanding of politics beyond its manifestation as power. Furthermore, Arendt's understanding of intersubjectivity—based as it is on a dynamic relationship between the self, the world, and other people—leaves room to examine the associated role of material conditions. Developing an alternative framework of politics of technology based on Arendt's political theory requires a perspective on technology that can address how the world becomes politically meaningful.
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Cancer Ecologies
A Queer Femme Portal Nina Lykke, Linköping Univesity, Sweden and Aarhus University, Denmark & Camila Marambio, Co-director of Ecological Culture/Curator of New Perspectives at Para la Naturaleza, Borikén (Puerto Rico) Moving between personal accounts and eco-critical reflections, the Nina Lykke and Camila Marambio ask: What if cancer is not just a personal tragedy or monstrous invader, but a symptom of Earth in distress – a message from the planet itself? Challenging the idea of cancer as an isolated enemy to be eradicated, this book sees it as a manifestation of the toxic entanglements of the Anthropocene: capitalist extraction, colonial exploitation, and environmental degradation. Through an eco-ethics of softness, the authors – one living with cancer, the other a carer to a partner who died from it – explore how cancer might be approached as a portal: as a conversation between pain and possibility, between necropolitics Theory in the New Humanities
and vibrantly ongoing life. Encouraging readers to understand themselves not as separate from Earth, but as lovers
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entangled with peatmoss, the microalgae, diatoms, and other humble creatures that sustain us, Cancer Ecologies experiments with a genre-bending methodology: part poetic story-telling and part eco-philosophical analysis. The book offers a transformative rethinking of cancer: less as a battle, more as an invitation to compost grief and cultivate ongoing cycles of life and death, rooted in relationality, shared vulnerability, and practices of joy.
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The Animate World
Posthuman Ontologies Sean Watson, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK The Animate World: Posthuman Ontologies argues for the necessity of a post-humanism grounded in a vital ontology, in contrast to the nihilist ontological positions and assumptions of a range of existing post and antihumanisms. Still, the book affirms both the normative imperative and technological tendency that humanism is unsustainable and that technological developments are cumulatively pointing towards a surpassing of the human, conceptually and physically. Based in process philosophy, the post-human ontology is offered as an alternative philosophical grounding for postReframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political UK January 2026 • US January 2026 338 Pages PB 9798216381211 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781538169773 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798765160480 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781538169797 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
humanism for an ethics and politics of ecological flourishing rather than exploitation of nature. Sean Watson critiques the existing nihilist ontological approaches to the post-human, which he argues are complicit with neoliberal, digital capitalism and its ideological justifications. In doing so, he conceives of an ontology of generative ethics and politics, capable of addressing the overwhelming accumulation of crises that Bernard Stiegler identified as the destruction of the future.
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