Forthcoming Philosophy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Studies in Jaina History and Culture

   Disputes and Dialogues

   Edited by Peter Flügel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies

   The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies. Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy

   By Christopher G. Framarin

   Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series

   Desireless action is typically cited as a criterion of the liberated person in classical Indian texts. Contemporary authors argue with near unanimity that since all action is motivated by desire, desireless action is a contradiction. They conclude that desireless action is action performed without...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. meta-Reality

   Creativity, Love and Freedom

   By Roy Bhaskar

   First published in 2002 as The Philosophy of meta-Reality, Volume 1, this is the definitive volume in which Roy Bhaskar, originator of the influential philosophy of critical realism, systematically expounds the principles of his new philosophy of meta-Reality. meta-Reality demonstrates how...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
4. British Empirical Philosophers (Routledge Revivals)

   Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J. S. Mill. [An anthology.]

   Edited by A J Ayer, Donald Winch

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1952, British Empirical Philosophers is a comprehensive picture of one of the most important movements in the history of philosophic thought. In his introduction, Professor A. J. Ayer distinguishes the main problems of empiricism and gives a critical account of the ways in...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. Contrastivism in Philosophy

   Edited by Martijn Blaauw

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will,...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Foundations of Freedom

   Welfare-Based Arguments Against Paternalism

   By Simon R. Clarke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   What makes individual freedom valuable? People have always believed in freedom, have sought it, and have sometimes fought and died for it. The belief that it is something to be valued is widespread. But does this belief have a rational foundation? This book examines answers to these questions that...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Governmentality

   Critical Encounters

   By William Walters

   Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics

   First developed by Michel Foucault more than thirty years ago, "governmentality" has become an essential set of tools for many researchers in the social and political sciences today. What is "governmentality"? How does this perspective challenge the way we understand political power and its...

   To Be Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
8. Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts

   Edited by Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell, James Robert Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

   From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical...

   To Be Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality

   From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard

   By John J. Davenport

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and...

   To Be Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
10. Aesthetics After Metaphysics

    From Mimesis to Metaphor

    By Miguel Beistegui

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment – explicit or implicit – to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds...

    To Be Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge