Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Tensions of Modernity

   Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

   By Daniel R. Brunstetter

   Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

   Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Human Health and Ecological Integrity

   Ethics, Law and Human Rights

   Edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne, Donald W. Spady

   The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization. It is now being included in some legal instruments, although for the most part caselaw does not explicitly make that connection. Neither the right to life nor the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. Social Humanism

   A New Metaphysics

   By Brian Ellis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Social humanism is a moral and political philosophy that does just this. As a political philosophy, it justifies the implementation and maintenance of many of the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Deconstructing Habermas

   By Lasse Thomassen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the book applies deconstruction to key issues in Habermas’s work: rational discourse and rational consensus, constitutional democracy, tolerance and civil...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Needs and Moral Necessity

   By Soran Reader

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation

   By Christopher Woodard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled or pragmatic they are. It clarifies this contrast and then uses it to shed light on old debates in ethics, such as debates about the rival...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Immanent Word

   The Turn to Language in German Philosophy, 1759-1801

   By Katie Terezakis

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   The Immanent Word establishes that the philosophical study of language inaugurated in the 1759 works of Hamann and Lessing marks a paradigm shift in modern philosophy; it analyzes the transformation of that shift in works of Herder, Kant, Fichte, Novalis and Schlegel. It contends that recent...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Mythological State and its Empire

    By David Grant

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge