Philosophy
Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare
This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...
Animal Subjects 2.0
Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the “question of the animal” ricochets across ...
The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought
The essays in The Question of Peace in Modern Political Thought address the contribution that political theories of modern political philosophers have made to our understandings of peace. The discipline ...
The Doctrine of Humanity in the Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr was a twentieth-century American theologian who was known for his commentary on public affairs. One of his most influential ideas was the relating of his Christian faith to realism rather ...
The End(s) of Community
This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law. In this tradition, the character of the “sovereign” or “lawgiver” has provided the solution ...
Democracia Republicana / Republican Democracy
In this essay Charles Taylor defines what is essential to democracy beyond its institutional manifestations—namely, representative institutions, popular suffrage, and political parties. Taylor supports ...
Writing in Dust
Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...
Simone Weil
“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced. ” Simone Weil—the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer—was ...
The Transcendence of the World: Phenomenological Studies
In The Transcendence of the World, Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our experience of the world—the world meant as independent ...
Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought
Florence Nightingale’s Suggestions for Thought has intrigued readers from feminist-philosopher J. S. Mill (who used it in his The Subjection of Women) to the latest generation of women’s activists. ...