Philosophy

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, the 16th-century French philosopher, are an obvious addition to the Notting Hill Editions 'Classic Collection' due to the masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal story-telling conveyed in his writing. He popularised the genre of the essay form, ...

An Introducing Graphic Guide to the father of modern anthropology.

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip.

We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation.

We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or ...

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

Learn how to live from history's grweatest thinkers

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Philosopher, film star, father of 'post truth': the real story of Jacques Derrida

As democracy shows signs of decay, how do we not only arrest its decline but build something better - a state which is democratic in the fullest sense?

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

When your base camp is overrun by zombies, whom do you save if you cannot save everyone? Is it permissible to sacrifice one survivor to an undead horde in order to save a greater number of the living? Do you have obligations to loved ones who have turned?

These are some of the troubling ethical questions ...

Ethical Experience provides a unique phenomenological dialogue between psychology and philosophy. This novel approach focuses on lived experiences that belong to daily practical life, such self-identity and ethical decision-making. This practical focus enables the reader to explore how ethics relates ...

This is a book about a particular moral theory - motivation ethics - and why we should accept it. But it is also a book about moral theorizing, about how we might compare different structures of moral theory.

In principle we might morally evaluate a range of objects: we might, for example, evaluate ...

Awarded an Honourable Mention by the Association for Israeli Studies.

Exploring the politics of the image in the context of Israeli militarized visual culture, Civic Aesthetics examines both the omnipresence of militarism in Israeli culture and society and the way in which this omnipresence is articulated, ...

A colourful map of the current conflict between pessimism and optimism in Western politics and theory, Hope attempts to reveal both the deep history and contemporary necessity of political hopefulness.

Starting in the 17th century with Spinoza, Wortham tells the story of the various fallacies and insights ...

How should we theorize about the social world? How can we integrate theories, models and approaches from seemingly incompatible disciplines? Does theory affect social reality?

This state-of-the-art collection addresses contemporary methodological questions and interdisciplinary developments in the ...