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The Body in Mind
In this book, Mark Rowlands challenges the Cartesian view of the mind as a self-contained monadic entity, and offers in its place a radical...
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Aggression and Crimes Against Peace
In this volume, the third in his trilogy on the philosophical and legal aspects of war and conflict, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the...
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My View of the World
A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Sebrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here...
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Ethics and the Environment
What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this...
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Darwinism and its Discontents
Presenting an ardent defence of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, this book offers a clear and comprehensive exposition of Darwin’s thinking....
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The Nature of Fiction
This important book provides a theory about the nature of fiction, and about the relation between the author, the reader and the fictional text. The...
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Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony
Anthony Parel affords a novel perspective on the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. He explores how Gandhi connected the spiritual with the temporal. As...
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An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an...
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The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies
Since the turn of the century, Performance Studies has emerged as an increasingly vibrant discipline. Its concerns – embodiment, ethical research...
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Ethics and the Environment
What is the environment, and how does it figure in an ethical life? This book is an introduction to the philosophical issues involved in this...
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Euripides: Helen
This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides’ Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and...
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Conflict of Interest and Public Life
This volume features a distinguished, international group of scholars and practitioners who provide a comparative account of ethics regulations...
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The Turnings of Darkness and Light
This collection of essays, written between 1975 and 1987, covers the doctrine of analogy; the Trinity; ‘theological realism’; the problems of...
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Euripides: Helen
This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis of Euripides’ Helen, a work which arguably embodies the variety and...
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Venice and the Veneto
This volume provides an account of the art and architecture of Venice and the principal cities of the Venetian mainland empire in the Renaissance,...
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Wittgenstein's Metaphysics
Wittgenstein’s Metaphysics offers an interpretation of the fundamental ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It takes issue with the conventional view that...
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The Apology Ritual
Christopher Bennett presents a theory of punishment grounded in the practice of apology, and in particular in reactions such as feeling sorry and...
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A History of German Theatre
Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in...
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The Construction of Reality
In this book, Michael Arbib, a researcher in artificial intelligence and brain theory, joins forces with Mary Hesse, a philosopher of science, to...
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Never Sang for Hitler
Lotte Lehmann ranks among the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century. She was a favorite of Richard Strauss, and also had a famous...
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Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint
In Bach’s Germany musical counterpoint was an art involving much more than the sophisticated use of advanced compositional techniques. A range of...
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The Philosophy of F. P. Ramsey
F. P. Ramsey was a remarkably creative and subtle philosopher who in the briefest of academic careers (he died tragically in 1930 aged 26) made...
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Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Focusing on Verdi’s French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French...
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Early American Women Critics
Early American Women Critics demonstrates that performances of various kinds - religious, political and cultural - enabled women to enter the human...
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