PHILOSOPHY

This book shows how the different forms of sensory, discursive, and theoretical mediation that characterize human cognition are conducive to a realist epistemological framework that explains how the possibility of knowledge about a mind‑independent reality is conceivable.

Overturning our assumptions about the nature and value of reality, The Matter of Evil presents a provocative new model of ethical responsibility that is both logically justifiable and scientifically sound.

Philosopher and physician Drew Leder shows how a phenomenology of lived embodiment reveals a series of healing strategies available in the face of the bodily breakdowns and challenges that are a part of the human condition.

A bold new conception of Heidegger’s model of Destrucktion as a method of interpreting history that enables us to reorient and indeed transform its own most troubling legacies.

A philosophical work that exposes the systemic logic by which environmental destruction and gender oppression are jointly rooted in capitalism, establishing the theoretical foundations on which an effective political alliance can be built today.

In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era...

This thorough study offers a lucid analysis of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka’s thought, from the influences on his phenomenology to the impact of his politics. The book provides a nuanced grounding for current and future Patočka scholars.

Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This is the thesis underlying So What, a collection of essays on filmmakers and artists, including Luchino Visconti, Orson Welles, Marguerite Duras, Hollis Frampton, and Agnes Martin.

Renowned psychoanalytic philosopher Richard Boothby puts forward a novel theory of religion inspired by Jacques Lacan’s theory of das Ding. The book offers the theoretical tools for interpreting religious belief and analyzes several faith traditions.