English | May 4, 2018 | ISBN: 022640708X | PDF | 272 Pages | 0.9 MB It’s right there in the Book of Job: “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition-which leads to a question that...

English | Apr 7, 2020 | ISBN: 0367331519 | 286 Pages | PDF | 4,8 MB This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca’s interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his prose works, offering interpretative...

English | Jan 19, 2017 | ISBN: 3515114823 | 124 Pages | PDF | 1 MB Central to G.W. Leibniz’s (1646-1716) contention that we live in “the best of all possible worlds” is the thesis that we inhabit a harmoniously ordered universe. However, despite Leibniz’s numerous remarks on...

English | 2018 | ISBN: 1474420435, 1474455875 | 192 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Discover Spinoza’s philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architecture From his geometrical method to his geometrical examples; from his doctrine of reason to his explanation of bodies in...

English | 2018 | ISBN: 1786606852 | 228 Pages | PDF | 3 MB Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ‘apolitical age’, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and...

English | June 1, 2018 | ISBN: 1474425038, 1474425062 | EPUB | 200 Pages | 0.8 MB This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden...

English | 2015 | 562 Pages | ISBN: 9004291385 | PDF | 2.2 MB More than 130 years after Karl Marx’s death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist...

English | September 22, 2017 | ISBN: 1138535435, 1412818494 | EPUB | 126 Pages | 0.7 MB This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...

English | ISBN: 0802038662 | 2006 | 400 Pages | PDF | 4 MB Over a distinguished academic career, the Canadian philosopher and scholar John Woods has written on a rich variety of topics central to contemporary philosophy. These include the history and philosophy of logic, deviant logics,...