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By Heidi Maibom

Empathy is one of the most talked about and widely studied concepts of recent years. Some argue it can help create a more just society, improve medical care and even avert global catastrophe. Others object that it is morally problematic. Who is right? And what is empathy anyway? Is it a way of…

Paperback – 2020-02-24 
Routledge
New Problems of Philosophy

By Aaron Smuts

Paperback – 2020-02-15 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy

By Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. The Philosophy of Symbolic…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

By Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. The Philosophy of Symbolic…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

By Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. The Philosophy of Symbolic…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

By Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in Twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist, his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, intellectual history, aesthetics, epistemology, the study of language and myth, and more. Cassirer’s thought also…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms

Edited by Andrea Scarantino

Research on the emotions is proliferating in philosophy and the hard cognitive sciences and has cognate, areas of interest in sociology, anthropology, and other disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory brings together advances on foundational issues from this widespread field,…

Hardback – 2019-12-31 
Routledge
Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy

Edited by Matthew Eshleman, Constance Mui

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His influence extends beyond academic philosophy to areas as diverse as anti-colonial movements, youth culture, literary criticism, and artistic developments around the world. Beginning with an introduction and…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Routledge Philosophical Minds

By Michael Symonds

This book explores the place of art in the modern world, but instead of asking what art is, it begins with the question of art’s appeal in modernity. Why is the appellation ‘art’ so desired for movies, food and fashion, for example? Why is there the assumption of esteem when someone calls…

Hardback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge
Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

By Taylor Worley

This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts

By Michael J. Shapiro

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text’s…

Paperback – 2019-12-13 
Routledge

Edited by Hans Maes

Despite its huge popularity, portraiture hasn’t received much philosophical attention. While there are countless art historical studies of portraiture, including self-portraiture and group-portraiture, contemporary philosophy has largely remained silent on the subject. This book brings together…

Hardback – 2019-12-05 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Aesthetics