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About the Book Series
The Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy series brings high quality research monograph publishing into focus for authors, the international library market, and student, academic and research readers. Headed by an international editorial advisory board of acclaimed scholars from across the philosophical spectrum, this monograph series presents cutting-edge research from established as well as exciting new authors in the field. Spanning the breadth of philosophy and related disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy takes contemporary philosophical research into new directions and debate.
Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy: The Return to Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Dieter Freundlieb
October 27, 2017
Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter ...
Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel: Escaping the Malign Influence of Kant
1st Edition
By Gary Pendlebury
May 16, 2017
Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human...
Hume's Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature
1st Edition
By Paul Stanistreet
May 16, 2017
This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the ...
Liberty, Property and Markets: A Critique of Libertarianism
1st Edition
By Daniel Attas
May 16, 2017
Libertarianism attempts to establish a set of property rights as a complete political morality, its argument proceeding from liberty tout court, as the unique foundational aspect of well being that grounds rights. In this book, Attas presents a sympathetic reconstruction of the libertarian argument...
Negotiating the Good Life: Aristotle and the Civil Society
1st Edition
By Mark A. Young
May 16, 2017
For centuries philosophers have wrestled with the dichotomy between individual freedom on the one hand and collective solidarity on the other. Yet today there is a growing realization that this template is fundamentally flawed. In this book, Mark Young embraces and advocates a more holistic concept...
On Thinking and the World: John McDowell's Mind and World
1st Edition
By Sandra M. Dingli
May 16, 2017
John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. Yet McDowell's ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book Sandra Dingli both elaborates and ...
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge: Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas
1st Edition
By R. Scott Smith
May 16, 2017
We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through ...
Slavoj Žižek: A Little Piece of the Real
1st Edition
By Matthew Sharpe
March 29, 2017
Slavoj Zizek has emerged as the pre-eminent European cultural theorist of the last decade and has been described as the ultimate Marxist/Lacanian cultural studies scholar. His large and growing body of work has generated considerable controversy, yet his texts are not structured as standard ...
Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication
1st Edition
By Xinli Wang
December 07, 2016
A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them ...
Identity Politics in Deconstruction: Calculating with the Incalculable
1st Edition
By Carolyn D'Cruz
November 28, 2016
Identity politics dominates the organisation of liberation movements today. This is the case whether fighting over one's birthright to a nation, such as in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict; lobbying for civil rights, such as in gay and lesbian campaigns for marriage; or struggling for citizenry ...
Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia
1st Edition
By Samuel Clark
November 28, 2016
Living Without Domination defends the bold claim that humans can organise themselves to live peacefully and prosperously together in an anarchist utopia. Clark refutes errors about what anarchism is, about utopianism, and about human sociability and its history. He then develops an analysis of ...
A Phenomenology of Love and Hate
1st Edition
By Peter Hadreas
November 23, 2016
Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for some of the worst outbreaks of violence and hatred in modern times. Topics discussed include the ...