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Deleuze and the Postcolonial by Simone Bignall
RRP: £31.00£28.69This is the first collection of essays bringing together Deleuzian philosophy and postcolonial theory. Bignall and Patton assemble some of the world's leading figures in these fields - including Reda Bensmaia, Timothy Bewes, Rey Chow, Philip Leonard,... -
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethnics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio
RRP: £55.00£47.73In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the twentieth century, the essays in this volume develop some... -
Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life by Arthur Isak Applbaum
RRP: £40.00£31.53The adversary professions--law, business, and government, among others--typically claim a moral permission to violate persons in ways that, if not for the professional role, would be morally wrong. Lawyers advance bad ends and deceive, business managers... -
A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics: Biocentric Ethics by Lawrence E. Johnson
RRP: £26.99£22.80Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of controversial issues in bioethics including euthanasia,... -
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport? by Verner Moller
RRP: £47.99£41.81With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Moller argues that the fight against doping - promoted as an... -
Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis by Simona Giordano
RRP: £47.99£41.81Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is... -
Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries by Nuha Al-Shaar
RRP: £41.99£36.75Offering a new reading of Islamic ethical and political thought in the Buyid period (334-440/946-1048), this book focuses particularly on the philosopher Abu Hayyan al-Tawhidi who lived in Baghdad and what is now western Iran. Ethics in Islam provides... -
Violence and Messianism: Jewish Philosophy and the Great Conflicts of the Twentieth Century by Petar Bojanic
RRP: £39.99£35.06Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and... -
The Rational Foundations of Ethics by T. L. S. Sprigge
£106.61Originally published in 1988, this landmark study develops its own positive account of the nature and foundations of moral judgement, while at the same time serving as a guide to the range of views on the matter which have been given in modern western... -
Death: A Reader by Mary Ann G. Cutter
£34.80Despite the fact that we all die, humans do not share the same view of death. In Death: A Reader, Mary Ann G. Cutter explores prominent themes that emerge and reemerge in the history of ideas regarding the nature of death from prominent global... -
Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council by Adam Briggle
RRP: £23.99£20.84Several presidents have created bioethics councils to advise their administrations on the importance, meaning and possible implementation or regulation of rapidly developing biomedical technologies. From 2001 to 2005, the President's Council on... -
Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship by John T. Lysaker
RRP: £17.99£9.01This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a... -
Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility: The Ethical Significance of Time by Cynthia D. Coe
RRP: £27.99£24.14Levinas's account of responsibility challenges dominant notions of time, autonomy, and subjectivity according to Cynthia D. Coe. Employing the concept of trauma in Levinas's late writings, Coe draws together his understanding of time and his claim that... -
What's Wrong With Morality?: A Social-Psychological Perspective by C. Daniel Batson
RRP: £125.00£118.50Most works on moral psychology direct our attention to the positive role morality plays for us as individuals, as a society, even as a species. In What's Wrong with Morality?, C. Daniel Batson takes a different approach: he looks at morality as a problem... -
Evaluating Parental Power: An Exercise in Pluralist Political Theory by Allyn Fives
RRP: £85.00£12.95Is parents' power over their children legitimate? And what role does theoretical analysis play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the state, it does so by focusing... -
Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading by Nicholas Austin
RRP: £89.00£78.91Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading is an original interpretation of one of the most compelling accounts of virtue in the Western tradition, that of the great theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274). Taking as its starting point Aquinas's... -
The Psychology of Religion by Vassilis Saroglou
RRP: £130.00£112.11Does religion positively affect well-being? What leads to fundamentalism? Do religious beliefs make us more moral? The Psychology of Religion explores the often contradictory ideas people have about religion and religious faiths, spirituality,... -
Ethical Excellence: Philosophers, Psychologists, and Real-Life Exemplars Show Us How to Achieve It by Heidi M. Giebel
RRP: £34.95£31.43Why do some people achieve ethical excellence while others fail? For example, how did Gloria Lewis overcome a lifetime of difficulty and go on to found a non-profit focused on feeding the homeless while Danny Starrett, despite a seemingly ideal... -
Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition by Gavin Rae
RRP: £27.99£26.01Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism,... -
Problems in Value Theory: An Introduction to Contemporary Debates by Steven B. Cowan
RRP: £27.99£24.44Problems in Value Theory takes a pro and con approach to central topics in aesthetics, ethics and political theory. Each chapter begins with a question: What Makes Actions Right or Wrong? Does Morality Depend on God? Do We Need Government?... -
Dignity, Justice, and the Nazi Data Debate: On Violating the Violated Anew by Carol V. A. Quinn
RRP: £35.00£32.49In this work, Carol V.A. Quinn (re)constructs the survivors’ arguments in the debate concerning the ethics of using Nazi medical data, showing what it would mean to take their claims seriously. She begins with a historical case and presents arguments... -
Ethics and the Media: An Introduction by Stephen J. A. Ward
RRP: £82.99£74.81Now revised and containing several new chapters, this book provides a comprehensive set of ethical principles and methods of reasoning for a new era of digital, global media. It describes the turbulent state of media ethics in ordinary language and... -
The Multidisciplinary Nature of Morality and Applied Ethics by David Steinberg
RRP: £109.99£34.61Most people intuitively understand the nature of morality; this tends to belie the fact that morality is more complex, controversial and interesting than generally appreciated. This book provides a comprehensive overview of morality from various... -
Affirmative Action and the University: A Philosophical Inquiry by Steven Cahn
RRP: £39.00£34.12Philosophical debates on equality in the universityBook InformationISBN 9781566393997Author Steven CahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
A Theory of Value and Obligation by Robin Attfield
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1987 and re-issued in 2020 with a new Preface, this book presents and elaborates interrelated solutions to a number of problems in moral philosophy, from the location of intrinsic value and the nature of a worthwhile life, via the... -
Morality for Humans: Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science by Mark Johnson
RRP: £80.00£76.61What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority... -
The Human Paradox: Rediscovering the Nature of the Human by Ralph Heintzman
RRP: £90.00£74.81What is a human being? What does it mean to be human? How can you lead your life in ways that best fulfil your own nature? In The Human Paradox, Ralph Heintzman explores these vital questions and offers an exciting new vision of the nature of the human... -
Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law by Peter Goodrich
RRP: £34.00£30.87Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich... -
Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future by Robert Atkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE 2020 GOLD NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD * 2021 SILVER COVR VISIONARY AWARD * 2021 NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD * 2021 GOLD LIVING NOW AWARD "This innovative and revolutionary message of hope and wisdom from many of the greatest visionaries" (Anita... -
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics by James Stacey Taylor
RRP: £53.99£46.87Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the... -
Environmental Skill: Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
RRP: £43.99£38.44Today it is widely recognized that we face urgent and serious environmental problems and we know much about them, yet we do very little. What explains this lack of motivation and change? Why is it so hard to change our lives? This book addresses this... -
Kant and Education: Interpretations and Commentary by Klas Roth
RRP: £53.99£46.87Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going... -
Norms and Practices by James D. Wallace
RRP: £49.00£42.57We spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, participate in home life, and take part in civic activities and politics. In doing so, we engage in practices that consist of complex bodies of norms. These practices... -
The Art of Life by John Kekes
RRP: £27.99£24.14"That the art of life is creative, imaginative, and individual does not mean... that it cannot be taught and learned or that individuals cannot improve their mastery of it. Teaching it proceeds by way of exemplary lives, and learning it consists in... -
Ethics A-Z by Jonathan Jacobs
RRP: £23.99£21.85Jacobs introduces the issues, language, concepts and positions central to ethical theorizing. Entries range from antiquity to the present and basic to advance. Cross-referencing allows readers to explore topics in depth. Items explain complex issues of... -
Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation by Tzachi Zamir
RRP: £52.00£40.63Many people think that animal liberation would require a fundamental transformation of basic beliefs. We would have to give up "speciesism" and start viewing animals as our equals, with rights and moral status. And we would have to apply these beliefs in... -
Freedom and Fulfillment: Philosophical Essays by Joel Feinberg
RRP: £65.00£50.51Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in the field of legal philosophy. With a clarity and humor that will be... -
In Defense of Human Dignity: Essays for Our Times by Robert P. Kraynak
RRP: £23.99£20.84Robert Kraynak and Glenn Tinder contend that the major challenge of our time is to recover a true and authentic understanding of human dignity and to defend it against threats from modern civilization. In Defense of Human Dignity wrestles with the... -
Tolkien among the Moderns by Ralph C. Wood
RRP: £24.99£21.67It has long been recognized that J. R. R. Tolkien's work is animated by a profound moral and religious vision. It is less clear that Tolkien's vision confronts the leading philosophical and literary concerns addressed by modern writers and thinkers. This... -
Love and Forgiveness for a More Just World by Hent de Vries
RRP: £30.00£23.29One can love and not forgive or out of love decide not to forgive. Or one can forgive but not love, or choose to forgive but not love the ones forgiven. Love and forgiveness follow parallel and largely independent paths, a truth we fail to acknowledge...