Philosophy / Movements / Humanism

Listening

von Jean-Luc Nancy

In this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what...

Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior

von Donald Calne

It has long been a central conviction of western humanistic thought that reason is the most godlike of human traits, and that it makes us unique among animals. Yet if reason directs what we do, why is human...

Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical Journey Through Your Ordinary Day

von Robert Rowland Smith

Ever want to have a bagel with Hegel? Eggs with Bacon? Or spend a day with Socrates, Mill, Herodotus, or Kant, able to pick their brains about the most mundane moments of your life? Former Oxford Philosophy...

Philosophy and Kafka

von Brendan Moran & Carlo Salzani

Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider...

A Genealogy of Cyborgothic: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism

von Dongshin Yi

A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin...

The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt

von Michael H. McCarthy

This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It...

The Consolations of Philosophy

von Alain De Botton

From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems.

Perhaps only Alain de...

Breakfast With Socrates: The philosophy of everyday life

von Robert Rowland Smith

What does it mean to be awake? What exactly is therapeutic about retail therapy? And what are you really working on when you're at your desk, in the gym, or having dinner? From getting ready in the morning,...

Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium

von Jason D. Hill

In this highly original book, Jason Hill defends a strong form of moral cosmopolitanism and lays the groundwork for a new view of the self. To achieve a radical cosmopolitan identity, he argues it may be necessary...

Posthuman Suffering and the Technological Embrace

von Anthony Miccoli

Posthuman Suffering investigates the core assumptions of posthumanist discourse via philosophy, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and close textual and filmic readings of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of...

Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights

von James V. Parker

This book explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights. The special contribution of the book is a presentation of Bernard Lonergan's...

Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity: Rethinking the Enlightenment

von Harvey Mitchell

Harvey Mitchell's book argues that a reassessment of Voltaire's treatment of traditional Judaism will sharpen discussion of the origins of, and responses to, the Enlightenment. His study shows how Voltaire's...

Humanism

von Tony Davies

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes - literary, cultural and political - and reactions against humanism have contributed to...

Grounds for Respect: Particularism, Universalism, and Communal Accountability

von Kristi Giselsson

Grounds for Respect broaches a question that is of vital importance to all; namely, what grounds do we need in order to justify respect for others? In exploring this question the author provides not only a critical...

The faces of origins: A historical survey of the underlying assumptions from the early church to the twenty-first century

von David Herbert

Contemporary scientists, such as Richard Dawkins, have loudly proclaimed that evolutionism is an undeniable fact. They seem oblivious to the historical reality that the naturalistic underlying assumptions of...

Oration on the Dignity of Man

von Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola & A. Robert Gaponigri

This translation of Pico della Mirandola's famed "Oration," hitherto hidden away in anthologies, was prepared especially for Gateway Editions, making it available for the first time in a single volume.

The youngest...

On Humanism second edition

von Richard Norman

What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any doctrine every humanist must hold? If it rejects religion, what does it offer in its place? Have the twentieth century's crimes against humanity spelled...

Listen: A History of Our Ears

von Jean-Luc Nancy

In this intimate meditation on listening, Peter Szendy examines what the role of the listener is, and has been, through the centuries. The role of the composer is clear, as is the role of the musician, but where...

Nietzsche's Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics, and the Animality of the Human Being

von Vanessa Lemm

This book explores the significance of human animality in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and provides the first systematic treatment of the animal theme in Nietzsche's corpus as a whole Lemm argues that...

Who Am I?: And If So, How Many?

von Richard David Precht & Shelley Frisch

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What is truth? What is love? Does life have meaning? Bestselling author Richard David Precht, “the Mick Jagger...