Studies in Philosophy
The Rights of Woman as Chimera: The Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft
1st Edition
By Natalie Taylor
April 27, 2015
The Rights of Woman as Chimera examines Mary Wollstonecraft's intellectual relationship to Rousseau, Locke, and Aristotle. Although she learned much from each philosopher, her own thought cannot be said to be simply derivative of these thinkers. In considering "the woman question," ...
Time, Space, and Ethics in the Thought of Martin Heidegger, Watsuji Tetsuro, and Kuki Shuzo
1st Edition
By Graham Mayeda
March 04, 2015
In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian philosophy, articulating traditional Japanese ethics in a modern idiom....
Dialectics of the Body: Corporeality in the Philosophy of Theodor Adorno
1st Edition
By Lisa Yun Lee
August 15, 2014
The study of Theodor Adorno has largely ignored or dismissed the enigmatic and provocative moments in his writing on the body. Dialectics of the Body corrects this gap by arguing that Adorno's analysis of reified society emanates and returns to the body and that hope and desire are present ...
Sartre and the Moral Limits of War and Terrorism
1st Edition
By Jennifer Ang Mei Sze
August 15, 2014
Reinterpreting Sartre’s main methodologies and removing Hegelian dialectics from his notion of violence, this book demolishes the supposed hostile intersubjective relations that characterizes all concrete relations. Furthering this stance, it reconstructs an interpretation of the "violent Sartre" ...
Understanding the Many
1st Edition
By Byeong Uk Yi
August 15, 2014
This book presents a mathematically and logically sophisticated analysis of the many, or the more than one. Covering issues of natural numbers, facts and their proper analysis, properties and their instantiation, as well as the logic of sets, this book elucidates one of the most debated concepts ...
Hegel's Critique of Essence: A Reading of the Wesenlogic
1st Edition
By Franco Cirulli
July 17, 2014
This volume shows how The Doctrine of Essence intersects with perennial philosophical questions including above all, the relationship between freedom and determinism. The Doctrine of Essence is of central importance, since it is a critical description of traditional categories which also ...
The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Huemer
July 17, 2014
Through the work of philosophers like Sellars, Davidson, and McDowell, the question of how the mind is related to the world has gained new importance in contemporary analytic philosophy. This book demonstrates that Husserl's phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness can provide ...
Logic and Language in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
1st Edition
By Ian Proops
May 19, 2014
This historical study investigates Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of logic and language, as it is presented in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The study makes a case for the Tractatus as an insightful critique of the philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege-the Founding ...
Bioregionalism and Global Ethics: A Transactional Approach to Achieving Ecological Sustainability, Social Justice, and Human Well-being
1st Edition
By Richard Evanoff
April 28, 2014
Bioregionalism and Global Ethics suggests that current trends towards globalization are creating entirely new social and environmental problems which require cross-cultural dialogue towards the creation of a new "global ethic." Current models of development are based on an implicit global ethic ...
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation
1st Edition
By Sarah Clark Miller
April 10, 2014
The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation argues for the philosophical importance of the notion of need and for an ethical framework through which we can determine which needs have moral significance. In the volume, Sarah Clark Miller synthesizes insights from Kantian and feminist care ...
Violence and Phenomenology
1st Edition
By James Dodd
December 12, 2013
This book pursues the problem of whether violence can be understood to be constitutive of its own sense or meaning, as opposed to being merely instrumental. Dodd draws on the resources of phenomenological philosophy, and takes the form of a series of dialogues between figures both inside and ...
The German Mittelweg: Garden Theory and Philosophy in the Time of Kant
1st Edition
By Michael G. Lee
May 14, 2013
In the 1790s, a close-knit group of German philosophers published several garden theory texts. These works are unique in that a close-knit group of philosophers had never before--and has not since--produced so many works on the topic of garden design. In essence, this cohort sought to imbue ...