Philosophy
Ethics and International Affairs
Examines the extent and limits of contemporary international ethics and looks at the ways in which the international community has responded to conflicts. The contributors explore how an understanding of the ethical may be developed from the articulation of dilemmas encountered.
Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing On Religion
This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies.
Aging, Death, and Human Longevity
A discussion of the philosophical and cultural issues surrounding the emotionally charged issue of human life span and longevity, this text evaluates arguments both for and against prolonging life.
Alef, Mem, Tau
This highly original, provocative, and poetic work explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah
Gadamer's Repercussions
German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts and medicine. This volume brings together many prominent scholars to assess, re-evaluate and question Gadamer's works, as well as his place in intellectual history.
Plato's Parmenides
Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter.
Rethinking Evil
This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another.
Songs of Experience
Few words in both everyday parlance and theoretical discourse have been as rhapsodically defended or as fervently resisted as "experience.
Thinking From Things
In this compendium of essays, Alsion Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know.
