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Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice
The book sets out to address and answer three questions from the point of view of Christian theology. The first is, from where does theology speak?...
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The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–1969) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation...
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The Cambridge Companion to Saussure
Ferdinand de Saussure is widely considered to be the founder of both modern linguistics and structuralism. The first to establish the structural...
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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid
Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scottish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest...
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The Ascetic Self
This book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be...
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Agency and Action
One of the most exciting developments in philosophy in the last fifty years is the resurgence in the philosophy of action. The concept of action now...
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Christianity and Roman Society
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This...
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The Ascetic Self
This book is about the ascetic self in the scriptural religions of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. The author claims that asceticism can be...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509–49 BC. The key development of the...
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Modern Moral Philosophy
Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe’s famous article of the same title, in which she criticised...
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Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
In this new introduction to a classic philosophical text, David Stern examines Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. He gives particular...
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Women, Modernism, and Performance
Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the...
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Durkheim’s Philosophy Lectures
Moving back and forth between the history of philosophy and the contributions of philosophers in his own day, Durkheim takes up topics as diverse as...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 32)
Throughout the centuries of its existence, Anglo-Saxon society was highly, if not widely, literate: it was a society the functioning of which...
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Faith, Reason and the Existence of God
The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by...
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Homer: The Odyssey
This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be...
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Faith, Reason and the Existence of God
The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by...
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Spinoza’s Revelation
Nancy Levene reinterprets a major early-modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza - a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose...
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The Creativity of God
We have, as a theological community, generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence, our discourses...
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The Acquisition of Complex Sentences
This book presents the first comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking...
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The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now...
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Relevance and Linguistic Meaning
The importance of discourse markers (words like so, however, and well) lies in the theoretical questions they raise about the nature of discourse and...
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The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now...
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Morphology and Lexical Semantics
Morphology and Lexical Semantics explores the meanings of morphemes and how they combine to form the meanings of complex words, including derived...
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