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ACTION, EMOTION AND WILL
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 31.95Action, Emotion and Will was first published in 1963, when it was one of the first books to provoke serious interest in the emotions and philosophy of human action. Almost forty years on, Anthony Kenny's account of action and emotion is still essential reading for anyone interested in these topics. The first part of the book takes an historical look... more...
Agency and Answerability
Clarendon Press 2004; US$ 49.99Since the 1970s Gary Watson has published a series of brilliant and highly influential essays on human action, examining such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do? Moral philosophers and philosophers of action will welcome this collection, representing one of the most important... more...
Alienation After Derrida
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Alienation After Derrida rearticulates the Hegelian-Marxist theory of alienation in the light of Derrida’s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Simon Skempton aims to demonstrate in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation. In so doing, he argues that the acceptance of Derrida’s deconstructive... more...
Are We Hardwired?
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 23.00This edition of Are We Hardwired addresses the role of genes in governing behaviour. It explains the genetic and molecular basis of human behaviour within the broader context of animal behaviour generally. Behaviour is treated as a complex interaction of nature and nurture; to understand ourselves fully, neither can be dismissed out of hand. more...
Authenticity and Learning
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 49.95David E. Cooper elucidates Nietzsche's educational views in detail, in a form that will be of value to educationalists as well as philosophers. In this title, first published in 1983, he shows how these views relate to the rest of Nietzsche's work, and to modern European and Anglo-Saxon philosophical concerns. For Nietzsche, the purpose of true... more...
Beyond Humanism
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book seeks to set humanism on a new footing. No longer Enlightenment intuitions of an autonomous, disconnected, and rational self but a philosophy oriented towards the relationship between self and other. With this, it seeks to provide an escape from present egotism and narcissism in society. It discusses altruism as well as its limitations. more...
Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 23.00Murphy addresses human uniqueness, religious experience, and personal identity before and after bodily resurrection. more...
Break-Out from the Crystal Palace
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 110.00Before Marcuse and Laing, before Heidegger and Sartre, even before Freud, the way was prepared for the anarcho-psychological critique of economic man, of all codes of ideology or absolute morality, and of scientific habits of mind. First published in 1974, this title traces this philosophical tradition to its roots in the nineteenth century, to the... more...
Catastrophe
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 25.00It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought... more...
Choice Theory
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 9.99This title explores what it means to be rational in a variety of contexts, from personal decisions to those affecting large groups of people. It introduces ideas from economics, philosophy, and other areas, showing how the theory applies to particular situations such as gambling and the allocation of resources. more...









