Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Wealth and Power: Philosophical Perspectives
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By Michael Bennett, Huub Brouwer, Rutger Claassen
August 26, 2024
Is political equality viable when a capitalist economy unequally distributes private property? This book examines the nexus between wealth and politics and asks how institutions and citizens should respond to it. Theories of democracy and property have often ignored the ways in which the rich ...
Autonomy, Enactivism, and Mental Disorder: A Philosophical Account
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By Michelle Maiese
May 27, 2024
This book brings together insights from the enactivist approach in philosophy of mind and existing work on autonomous agency from both philosophy of action and feminist philosophy. It then utilizes this proposed account of autonomous agency to make sense of the impairments in agency that commonly ...
Contractarianism, Role Obligations, and Political Morality
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By Benjamin Sachs
May 27, 2024
This book argues that contractarianism is well suited as a political morality and explores the implications of deploying it in this way. It promises to revive contractarianism as a viable political theory, breaking it free from its Rawlsian moorings while taking seriously the long-standing ...
Existentialism and the Desirability of Immortality
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By Adam Buben
May 27, 2024
This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality, and tackles related issues such as boredom, personal identity, technological progress, and the meaning of ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination
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By Anja Berninger, Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
May 27, 2024
This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of ...
The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions
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By Leo Townsend, Ruth Rebecca Tietjen, Hans Bernhard Schmid, Michael Staudigl
May 27, 2024
The essays in this volume explore some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism, by analyzing its unique dynamics, and considering how it can be productively confronted. The book features both analytic and continental philosophical approaches to fanaticism. Working at the intersections of ...
Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition
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By Gabriele M. Mras, Michael Schmitz
January 29, 2024
This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem. The force-content dichotomy has shaped the philosophy of language and mind since the time of Frege and ...
John Rawls and the Common Good
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By Roberto Luppi
January 29, 2024
The chapters in this book analyze the relationship between core concepts of the common good and the work of American political philosopher John Rawls.One of the main criticisms that has been made of Rawls is his supposed neglect of central aspects of collective life. The contributors to ...
Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future
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By André Grahle, Natasha McKeever, Joe Saunders
January 29, 2024
This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love. In Part I, the contributors explore what we can learn from the history of philosophical thinking about love. The chapters ...
Political Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective: Power Relations in a Global World
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By Bianca Boteva-Richter, Sarhan Dhouib, James Garrison
January 29, 2024
The objective of the following collected volume is to encourage a critical reflection on the relationship between "power" and "non-power" in our contemporary "world" and, proceeding from various philosophical traditions, to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this relationship. The authors’ ...
Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and Difference
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By Heikki Ikäheimo
January 29, 2024
What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts. The book begins with a clarification of...
Time in Action: The Temporal Structure of Rational Agency and Practical Thought
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By Carla Bagnoli
January 29, 2024
This book explores the role of time in rational agency and practical reasoning. Agents are finite and often operate under severe time constraints. Action takes time and unfolds in time. While time is an ineliminable constituent of our experience of agency, it is both a theoretical and a practical ...