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A heated debate
Maria M. Sojka analyzes the importance of tacit knowledge in scientific practice and the question of what defines an expert.
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A hedonist manifesto
The provocative French intellectual promotes a radical body politics that shows us how we must think and act to live well.
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After christianity
What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of ...
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Arguing science
An in-depth dialogue on the nature of science between post-materialist biologist Rupert Sheldrake and renowned skeptic Michael Shermer
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Artificial you
A guide to AI’s thorniest implications that asks: How shall we navigate our brave new world?We are at a monumental turning point in human history. AI is taking intelligence in new directions. The strongest human competitors in chess, go, and Jeopardy! have been beaten by AIs, and AI is getting mo...
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Atheism
Atheism is an erudite and open-ended exploration of profound questions of estrangement, death, suicide, and the infinite that demonstrates the range and the provocative power of Alexandre Kojève’s thought.
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Bedeviled
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entities—demons—to test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible Science may be known for banishing the demons of superstition from the modern world. Yet just as the demon-haunted world was bei...
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Beyond the postcolony
An in-depth exploration of Achille Mbembe’s philosophy and his call for justice in a planetary age.
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Circling round explicitness
With characteristic erudition and acuity across a breathtaking range of subjects, Ray Tallis explores how explicitness connects with fundamental ontological, metaphysical and epistemological questions that takes us closer to understanding what it is to be, to be human, and our connection with the...
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Form and event
Diano’s Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situat...
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Freedom and the self
Contemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.
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Freedom, resentment, and the metaphysics of morals
An innovative reassessment of philosopher P. F. Strawson’s influential “Freedom and Resentment”P. F. Strawson was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his 1962 paper “Freedom and Resentment” is one of the most influential in modern moral philosophy, prompting respo...
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George berkeley
A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity C...
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Gianni vattimo
Gianni Vattimo (1936–2023) was among the most significant Italian philosophers of the last fifty years. In this book, Thomas Jared Farmer provides a groundbreaking examination of Vattimo’s life and work.
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Hermeneutic communism
Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still...
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Ibn sina’s remarks and admonitions: physics and metaphysics
Grounded in an exploration of logic and happiness (the ultimate human goal), the text illuminates the divine, the human being, and the nature of things through a wide-ranging discussion of topics.
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Iron filings or scribblings
As iron filings configure themselves around a magnet, so in these essays Eva Brann displays her oppositional, or polar, thinking.
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Killing and other dastardly deeds
A powerful and probing critique of the ethical permissibility of serious harmsIn Killing and Other Dastardly Deeds, eminent philosopher John Hawthorne rigorously probes the commonsense morality of killing and other serious harms, exposing troubling issues at the foundations of ethical thought.The...
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Leibniz in his world
A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thoughtDescribed by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often po...
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Living with concepts
An interdisciplinary collaboration that explores what it means to live with concepts, rather than think of them as mere tools for analysis.
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Local gods
Leah Kalmanson offers a new approach to understanding the world’s varied religious traditions, foregrounding the numinous, subtle, and supernormal factors that pervade many aspects of everyday life but slip through the cracks of philosophical discourse.
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Nietzsche as philosopher
Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offer...
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Of reality
A defense of the critical faculties that keep us from settling for the status quo. Drawing on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Vattimo develops a philosophy to combat the newest enemy of freedom and democracy: complacency toward reality. Resistance to reality becomes our best hope for countering the ongo...
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Of time and lamentation
Raymond Tallis explores the nature and meaning of time and how best to understand it. A bold, original, and thought-provoking work, Of Time and Lamentation is for anyone who has puzzled over the nature of becoming, wondered whether time is inseparable from change, whether time is punctuate or con...
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Ontological relativity and other essays
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Parmenides
Alain Badiou’s 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including Being and Event.
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Philosophical self-knowledge
Donald Philip Verene invites readers to take up the question of self-knowledge, to pursue it further in their own terms and sources.
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Philosophy of physics
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world’s leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world’s leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechani...
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Plato and the invention of life
Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is common...
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Pursuits of happiness
Thirty-eight illuminating essays, reviews, and lectures by a legendary teacher in the Great Books program at St. John’s College
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Quarks to culture
Quarks to Culture explores the rhythm within what Tyler Volk calls the “grand sequence,” a series of levels of sizes and innovations building from elementary quanta to globalized human civilization. The key is “combogenesis,” the building-up from combination and integration to produce new things ...
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Reference and contemporaneity in architecture
An interdisciplinary approach to the complicated history of the relationship between contemporaneity and reference in architecture.
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Seeing ourselves
In Seeing Ourselves, philosopher and neuroscientist Raymond Tallis goes in search of what kind of beings we are, and where we might find meaning in our lives. Showcasing a remarkably detailed engagement with a huge range of disciplines, Tallis shows the unique nature of human consciousness.
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Self-consciousness and the critique of the subject
Revisiting the philosopher’s key texts, Lumsden calls attention to Hegel’s reformulation of liberal and Cartesian conceptions of subjectivity, identifying a critical though unrecognized continuity between poststructuralism and German idealism
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Senses of the subject
This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and F...
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Sensible life
This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fas...
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Spinoza's religion
A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretat...
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The fate of wonder
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world. Following the philosopher's spiritual and cultural criticism and tying it more tightly to the overall evol...
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The moral nexus
A new way of understanding the essence of moral obligationThe Moral Nexus develops and defends a new interpretation of morality—namely, as a set of requirements that connect agents normatively to other persons in a nexus of moral relations. According to this relational interpretation, moral deman...
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The night in gethsemane
Highly regarded philosopher and psychoanalyst, Massimo Recalcati has penned a gripping, erudite meditation on suffering, doubt, betrayal, and the potential for renewal that dwells in our most painful moments. For Recalcati, Jesus’s reckoning in the Garden of Gethsemane is at once an instance of h...
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The one
Alain Badiou’s 1983–1984 lecture series focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple.
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The rediscovery of bioethics
What will the future of bioethics look like amid challenges posed by biotechnologies and ecological crises? Key insights from the discpline, marking 25 years of DRZE.
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The remains of being
In Basic Concepts, Heidegger claims that "Being is the most worn-out" and yet also that Being "remains constantly available." Santiago Zabala radicalizes the consequences of these little known but significant affirmations. Revisiting the work of Jacques Derrida, Reiner Schürmann, Jean-Luc Nancy, ...
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