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The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity

Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle’s account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the...
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Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction

A comprehensive introduction to formal logic, Logic and Philosophy: A Modern Introduction is a rigorous yet accessible text, appropriate for students encountering the subject for the first time. Abundant, carefully crafted exercise sets accompanied by a clear, engaging exposition build to an exploration of sentential logic, first-order predicate...
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Tracking the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Journey

What intelligent person has never pondered the meaning of life? For Yuval Lurie, this is more than a puzzling philosophical question; it is a journey, and in this book he takes readers on a search that ranges from ancient quests for the purpose of life to the ruminations...
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The Badiou Dictionary (2015)

English | 2015 | ISBN: 0748640967, 0748640975 | 426 Pages | PDF | 28,5 MB The first dictionary dedicated to Badiou’s work, bringing together over 35 leading scholars in the field From Antiphilosophy to Worlds and from Beckett to Wittgenstein, over 90 entries in this dictionary provide detailed...
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Birth and Death in Nineteenth-Century French Culture (2007)

English, French | July 28, 2007 | ISBN: 9042022604 | 264 Pages | PDF | 1.31 MB This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme...
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Trust in Epistemology (2019)

English | ISBN: 1138570036 | 2019 | 304 Pages | PDF | 2 MB Trust is fundamental to epistemology. It features as theoretical bedrock in a broad cross-section of areas including social epistemology, the epistemology of self-trust, feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of science. Yet epistemology has seen...
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Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Art (2014)

English | 2014 | ISBN: 1472524624 | 320 Pages | PDF | 15,6 MB The concept of schizoanalysis is Deleuze and Guattari’s fusion of psychoanalytic-inspired theories of the self, the libido and desire with Marx-inspired theories of the economy, history and society. Schizoanalysis holds that art’s function is...
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