This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...

One of Hegel's most controversial and confounding claims is that "the real is rational and the rational is real". In this book, one of the world's leading scholars of Hegel, Jean-Francois Kervegan, offers a thorough analysis and explanation of that c...

German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as "The Human Condition", "The Origins of Tot...

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern...

In "Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages", Michelle Karnes revises the history of medieval imagination with a detailed analysis of its role in the period's meditations and theories of cognition. Karnes here understands imaginatio...

Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains – a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, f...

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

"The Religion of Existence" reopens an old debate on an important question: What was existentialism? At the heart of existentialism, Noreen Khawaja argues, is a story about secular thought experimenting with the traditions of European Christianity. T...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "The Philosophy of Living Nature" focuses on the approach of the Western philosophical tradition to physis, or nature. Zdenek Kratochvil reveals, on a philosophical level, the roots of tod...

Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative – how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher construc...