'Philosophy'

Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political ...

<jats:p>Adorno notoriously asserted that there is no 'right' life in our current social world. This assertion has contributed to the widespread perception that his philosophy has no practical import or coherent ethics, and he is often accused of ...

Habermas and Rawls are two heavyweights of social and political philosophy, and they are undoubtedly the two most written about (and widely read) authors in this field. However, there has not been much informed and interesting work on the points of ...

A wide-ranging survey of the problems and thinkers dominating today's philosophical discourse. In this book Peter Dews explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject after postmodernism, ...

This book fills the void, making a substantial contribution not only to work on Rawls&#39;s thought but to contemporary debates in ethics and justice as well. ...

<jats:p>The exercise of judgement is an aspect of human endeavour from our most mundane acts to our most momentous decisions. In this book Wayne Martin develops a historical survey of theoretical approaches to judgement, focusing on treatments of ...

In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato?s distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and ethical inquiry. In particular, McNeill ...

For post-Kantian philosophy, "life" is a transitory concept that relates the realm of nature to the realm of freedom. From this vantage point, the living seems to have the double character of being both already and not yet free: Compared with the ...