A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating
subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon the human race.
What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes ......
This post-colonial and feminist reading of the Enlightenment explores the proto-postmodernist practice of examining ones conclusions through the eyes of the Other. Self-estrangement to gain critical distance from ones taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the Enlightenment, and remains vital for critical sociopolitical thinking today.
Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
Explores the ideas and influences behind a man who draws on ideas from anthroposophy and other spiritual traditions and applies them in challenging social contexts to remarkable effect.
Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth
Justice is a cultural and historical constant, characterized by plurality and incommensurate theories. This book identifies regulative and critical dimensions in the works of Kant, Hegel, Heller, and Honneth. The significance of the categorical imperative mediating plurality leads to a dynamic idea of justice that resists relativism.
War is Hell is a study of the philosophy of war and peace, ranging critically from ancient peace thinking to today. The author uses a Socratic method, focused on political philosophy rather than on cultural or psychological aspects of war and peace making. The book is not a treatise on ethics, but rather an analysis of some aspects of the nature ......
This book offers the first edited volume to thematically foreground Heidegger's complex relation to "the life of reason" and its relation to normativity. Authored by world-class phenomenologists and Heidegger scholars, it presents cutting-edge, convention-challenging scholarship on Heidegger's relationship to the phenomenological traditions.
In one of the most charming works to survive from classical antiquity, Xenophon's Symposium depicts an amiable evening of wine, entertainment, and conversation shared by Socrates, and a few of his associates, with certain Athenian gentlemen who are gathered to honor a young man for his recent victory in the Panathenaic games. The subtle ......
Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
This volume offers a transnational perspective on two centuries of historical experiences in the Americas, providing comparative analysis of different states and societies in the Americas from a perspective consistent with the Social Imaginaries movement.
