One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization.

Internationally recognized Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor presents the basic tenets and teachings of the Buddha through a selection of essential texts from the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist scriptures.

In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil, drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources to suggest that evil is a real phenomenon with palpable force in our contemporary world.

In a path-breaking argument on the role of design in our daily lives, Pulitzer Prize nominee Robert Grudin analyzes the ways in which political and economic powers impress themselves on us through the built environment.

An eminent scholar offers new ways to understand the relation between science and religion by examining current efforts by scientists to explain religious belief naturalistically and current efforts by theologians to reconcile scientific and religious accounts of nature.

In this pathbreaking book one of America’s most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks’s Red River and John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Searchers.

In this debut, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the “lost circulations” of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.

In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light.

In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth century France as primarily the incubator of the Revolution.  Instead, Kavanagh demonstrates how the art and literature of the era put the experience of pleasure at the center of the cultural agenda, leading to advances in both ethics and esthetics.

This engaging book presents a full account of the tragic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, the two most important thinkers of the eighteenth century. The authors explore the relation between the men’s quarrel and their philosophical thought and discuss how their incompatible ideas reverberate in thinking today.

In this provocative book, David Bentley Hart dismantles distorted religious “histories” offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion. He counters their polemics with a brilliant account of Christianity and its message of human charity as the most revolutionary movement in all of Western history.

A renowned critic demolishes the insistent claims of atheists and others who assert that science has rendered God and faith obsolete. Seasoning his serious book with humor, Terry Eagleton reexamines God, Jesus, free will, scientific thought, and liberalism to arrive at the conclusion that reason and faith are by no means mutually exclusive.

This provocative book draws on the thinking of three great political philosophers to diagnose the malady of today’s liberal democracies: soft despotism. A condition that occurs as paternalistic state power expands, soft despotism may be nonviolent, but it seriously undermines the spirit of self-government, says historian Paul Rahe.

This book brings together two classic texts of American cultural criticism and philosophy by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century.

Averroes (1126-1198), a Muslim philosopher, physician, and jurist, is most famous for his commentaries on the surviving works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers a central work of medieval philosophy.

Averroes (1126-1198), a Muslim philosopher, physician, and jurist, is most famous for his commentaries on the surviving works of Aristotle. This translation of Averroes’ Long Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima brings to English-language readers a central work of medieval philosophy.

In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heidegger’s Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to paint a damning picture of Nazism’s influence on the philosopher’s thought and politics.

This ground-breaking book, the first to examine Milton’s thinking about matter and substance throughout his entire poetic career, seeks to alter the prevailing critical view pertaining to Milton’s philosophy.

This breath-taking record of Sartre’s spirited conversations with his godson are an essential companion to the works of one of the 20th-century’s most important thinkers.

The distinguished scholar David Gelernter presents a highly original guide to Judaism as a way of life and the fundamentals of Jewish belief.

This book is the first full-scale appraisal of the life and work of Jacques Derrida, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth-century.

In this accessible book, a biologist reflects on the question “What is life?” and looks at the answers provided by an array of recent scientific advances. Michel Morange describes different approaches to the perennially unresolved question through history, then clearly explains today’s new answers.

In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned authority on the subject, presents a controversial new view of the origins of Fascism.

In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain’s most interesting thinkers takes us on an exuberant tour of the human head. Blending science, philosophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis discusses the head, the astonishing range of processes and phenomena that go on within in it, and how it is connected to our sense of identity and consciousness.

In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit, culture vanishes. Yet in the early twenty-first century, a time when human dignity and freedom are imperiled, the concept of nobility of spirit is scarcely co...

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