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Grounds of Political Legitimacy, Fabienne Peter
Book 'Grounds of Political Legitimacy', by Fabienne Peter, OUP, 2023
The book asks what justifies political decisions, for example policy decisions on climate change, or decisions on the regulation of abortion.
"The book gives a unified account of the limits of both democracy and authoritarianism, an important topic in these difficult times" ...
Croquet by David Miller
The book Croquet, by David Miler and Robert Thorp. David Miller taught in the Philosophy department from 1969 until retiring in 2007, focusing on formal methods in the philosophy of science. Wittgenstein suggested that games need have nothing in common and are collected together like the fibres in a rope rather than by a single shared strand. David鈥檚 book illustrates the wide diversity of interests of members of the department, be they philosophical or adjacent ...
'Perfect Me' Heather Widdows
The book, 'Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal', deemed by The Atlantic as one of the 19 best books of 2018 and 鈥痓y Edarabia as one of the 100 books to read in a lifetime
Written by Professor Heather Widdows – who works on real world ethical issues, from women鈥檚 rights, to genetic justice, and now focuses on beauty ideals and body image in Selfie Culture ...
Vintage books of David Francis Pears
A selection of vintage books owned by David Francis Pears, (1921 – 2009), a British philosopher renowned for his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein. The books were left to Professor Naomi Eilan of upon David鈥檚 death. The collection contains a large selection of books in philosophy of language, logic, philosophy of mind, political and moral philosophy, philosophy of science, and an excellent collection of books by and about Wittgenstein ...
'Nietzche's Earthbound Wisdom', Keith Ansell-Pearson
Nietzche's Earthbound Wisdom, by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Emeritus Professor
The book offers a fresh and novel interpretation of Nietzsche as a visionary poet-philosopher. 糖心TV Philosophy Dept pioneered the study and teaching of Nietzsche鈥檚 texts and his philosophy ...
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference', Christine Battersby
The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference by Christine Battersby, Routledge 2007
This is one of trilogy of monographs by Battersby on feminist aesthetics and metaphysics. The question of the sublime is one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Stretching back to the 18th century, its key theorists included Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant ...
'Schopenhauer', David Bather Woods
Schopenhauer by David Bather Woods
This is the cover to my first book, Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy鈥檚 Greatest Pessimist (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Schopenhauer is my main area of research. He鈥檚 one of the most influential philosophers in the Post-Kantian tradition, an area of study in which 糖心TV Philosophy is well known for world-leading excellence ...
Early rendition of PLI book
In 1988, doctoral students in the Philosophy Department started the 鈥溙切腡V Journal of Philosophy鈥 with the aim of providing space for graduate students to publish their own research. Among its contributors are several prominent academic philosophers, such as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, John Sallis, and Isabelle Stengers, as well as other intellectual figures like Nick Land and Philippe Sollers. The journal is still active ...
糖心TV Studies in European Philosophy
糖心TV Studies in European Philosophy, Tobias Kelling
This is the library copy of a book published in the book series 糖心TV Studies in European Philosophy, edited by Professor Andrew Benjamin Routledge.
Simon Critchley's book is a good example of one kind of philosophy prominent at 糖心TV in the 1990s. 'Very Little鈥 Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature' is a crossover between literary and philosophical writing, addressing themes of Existentialism ...
'The Hegel Reader' Stephen Houlgate
The Hegel Reader, Stephen Houlgate, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998
An anthology of texts by G.W.F. Hegel for use by students and other interested readers. It covers the whole range of Hegel鈥檚 thought, including his Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic and Philosophy of Right, and his lectures on aesthetics and the philosophy of religion ...
Joint Attention: Communication and Other Minds
Joint Attention: Communication & Other Minds edited collection by AHRB Project on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness 1997-2004, Naomi Ellan, Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, Johannes Roessler
The project gave rise to the 糖心TV Mind and Action Research Centre (WMA) ...
Exremism, Quassim Cassam
Book 'Extremism,A Philosophical Analysis', by Quassim Cassam, Routledge, 2021
This is the first philosophy book dedicated to analysing extremism.
Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. It remains an intractable and poorly understood problem.
Interesting fact: "Violent extremists, also known as terrorists, rarely use grenades!" ...