Is Your Work Worth It?

Christopher Wong Michaelson , Jennifer Tosti-Kharas

What is work that’s worth doing in a life worth living? A revealing exploration of the questions we ask and the stories we tell about our work. According to recent studies, barely a third of American workers feel “engaged” at work, and for many people...

The Virtue of Solidarity

Andrea Sangiovanni , Juri Viehoff

Many today are worried about the global spread of divisive politics, rampant inequality, social alienation, and political apathy. They are hungry for meaningful action that will bring about change, yet they are uncertain of how to achieve this. It is often repeated that...

Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala

Luis Ruben Diaz Cepeda , Ernesto Rosen Velasquez

Presents struggles for liberation in the Americas from the perspectives of structural victims Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala explores the ways people occupying different positionalities respond to various catastrophes while discussing how collective processes of...

Sad Planets

Dominic Pettman , Eugene Thacker

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations,...

Reason, Religion and Modernity

Anil Kumar Vaddiraju

This book deals with the question of understanding religion and its relationship with politics in the context of developing countries. It reviews specific theories, such as modernisation theory, marxism, liberalism, hermeneutics and critical approach to explain...

Uncivilised

Subhadra Das

Die Wirtschaft des Subjekts

Raphael Beer

Mit dem Subjektbegriff wird auf eine logisch nicht hintergehbare Entität verwiesen, die sich aus den Überlegungen einer konstruktivistischen Erkenntnistheorie ableiten lässt. Gewonnen wird damit aber zunächst nur die Idee einer reinen Subjektivität, die nicht...

The Emancipatory Power of the Body in Everyday Life

Leszek Koczanowicz

The COVID-19 pandemic has powerfully highlighted the tight knot of bodiliness and politics. This relationship lies at the heart of this book.The author explores how events in everyday life take on a deeply political dimension, and how the body becomes a site of...

Debt Slavery

Jean-Clet Martin

Isn't debt ultimately more of a philosophical concept than a financial one? Indeed, it is seen as a moral fault whose unbridled demands cannot be met. It is repaid by a submission that has become infinite and a vision of work that has been totally deregulated. We are...

Gandhi for the 21st Century

Mrinal Miri , Bindu Puri

This book examines the centrality of ideas such as satya (truth), ahimsa (non-violence), humility, and respect for understanding moral life in the complex milieu of human existence. It provides a comprehensive view of how Gandhian ideas have both a temporal and spatial...

All Desire is a Desire for Being

René Girard

A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified...

The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

Jon Douglas Solomon

This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperialism and agency, unipolarity and multipolarity, dominate the intellectual agenda of the day. Pursuing a parallel...

The Death of Death

José Cordeiro , David Wood

Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and...

Arguing for a Better World

Arianne Shahvisi

Democracy

Jason Brennan

How did “democracy” go from a pejorative label for mob rule to the widely shared ideal of enlightened self-rule?How has it evolved as an idea and a set of practices?How have the ways democracy has been practiced impacted the idea of democracy itself? In this...

Rational Sentimentalism

Daniel Jacobson

Rational Sentimentalism develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are profoundly important because they set standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature. Yet...

Bioethics

Paul T. Menzel , Bonnie Steinbock

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any? Should women be...

Rational Sentimentalism

Daniel Jacobson

Rational Sentimentalism develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are profoundly important because they set standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature. Yet...

Identity, Reasonableness and Being One Among Others

Laurance Joseph Splitter

This book brings the tools and ideas of Anglo-American analytic philosophy to bear on how we think about issues of contemporary significance, in a way that is accessible to a broad audience. While acknowledging empirical findings within the social sciences, it takes on...

Else Voigtländer: Self, Emotion, and Sociality

Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

This book is the first to offer a full account of the philosophical work of Else Voigtländer. Locating the sources of her thought in the philosophy and psychology of the nineteenth and twentieth19th and 20th centuries in figures such as Nietzsche and Lipps, the volume...