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Chantal Akerman
Filmmaker and Philosopher
Andreja Novakovic, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire In particular, Akerman turns her camera on contexts that had been previously neglected, such as transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners as well as the domestic sphere, revealing their significance in structuring experience
Andreja Novakovic looks at the role of rituals, gestures and habits in Akerman’s (auto)fictional worlds drawing on sources from Hegel to Butler, Beauvoir and Federici Chantal Akerman is a fascinating reinterpretation of one of the most important directors of European cinema
John Armitage, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK
Providing an original and authoritative historical guide to modern and contemporary responses to luxury, John Armitage encapsulates within this book the philosophy of major thinkers who have explored the term since the 18th century Finding alternative modes of understanding it, and further enriching its concept, he argues that the negative characterization by 18th- and 19th-century continental philosophers of luxury as dissatisfaction or as an evil enjoyed by the idle rich gave way in the 20th century and beyond to more positive, even potentially revolutionary, continental philosophies of luxury as voluptuousity, squander, uselessness, and abundance
Filippo Menozzi, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Through a reappraisal of the work of Bloch, Lukács, Adorno, and Benjamin, Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical theory in relation to pressing concerns in postcolonial studies Revealing these authors’ continued relevance to urgent issues in the 21st century, Menozzi reimagines them as central to an alternative genealogy of critical theory that moves beyond “Western Marxism” In doing so, this book challenges, more broadly, the view of critical theory as steeped in Eurocentrism, culturally conservative, and politically defeatist Contesting this in four chapters, Menozzi inserts Adorno, Lukács, Bloch, and Benjamin into key contemporary debates, from orientalism to immigration
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9781350410138 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350410152 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Jacob Taubes
Elettra Stimilli, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy
In the only academic monograph on Jacob Taubes, Elettra Stimilli analyses the Jewish thinker whose work has proved essential to philosophical and theological studies Her assessment holds considerable interest for students and scholars specialising in Saint Paul’s writings, which Taubes brilliantly deconstructed to reveal their more heterodox implications His work ushered in a new realm of political theology that is crucial to modern thinkers engaged with Pauline thought, such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou Appealing to both postgraduate researchers and academics, Stimilli’s incisive treatment of Taubes’ writings will bring him to the attention of an even wider audience
Incomputable Earth Technology and the Anthropocene Hypothesis
Edited by Antonia Majaca, Institute for Contemporary Art, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Looking afresh at the Anthropocene, this volume investigates how the capitalist engineering of earth is not only accelerating, but is doing so in parallel with the expansion of digital technologies, including ‘artificial intelligence’. Through scholarly essays, artistic contributions, and a glossary of emerging concepts, Incomputable Earth tackles a range of urgent topics, from the racialized politics of climate change to planetary financialization. This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections. com. It is funded by The Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 608 pages • 60 bw illus
HB 9781350264977 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Series: Theory in the New Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic
On the Politics of the Living Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms
Federico Testa, University of Bristol, UK
This book examines Foucault's work on the politicization of life and biopolitics through the lens of Canguilhem's notion of norms and in the context of today's global health crisis, which acts as a stark reminder that life itself is at the core of our political debates Extracting from Canguilhem’s philosophy the conceptual tools to reinterpret Foucault’s ideas on power, Federico Testa reconceptualises normativity as a process of the creation of norms that provide tools for political and social analysis and for thinking resistance In so doing, he uncovers new and important possibilities for biopolitical resistance
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 342 pages
HB 9781350299283 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350299306 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Christianity after Christendom
Heretical Perspectives in Philosophical Theology
Martin Koci, Catholic University of Linz, Austria
What comes after the end of Christendom?
Christianity has ceased to function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian faith continues How are we to understand Christianity in this ‘after’? Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or ‘heretical’ continental philosophers, including Jan Patocka, Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo and John D Caputo, Martin Koci boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an existential mode of being-in-the-world As such, he introduces new perspectives on the present and future of Christianity as an embodied religious tradition
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781350322677 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350322639
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Bloomsbury Academic
Philosophy of the Medium
The Age of McLuhan in Question
John Lechte, Macquarie University, Sydney
Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their ‘content’ rather than their formal and technical qualities It offers a deeper understanding of what we mean by the term ‘media’: it is that which comes ‘between’ and which facilitates the transmission of content, essentially a creator of possibilities, yet never present as such in the light of its success as a vehicle for meaning
UK May 2025 US May 2025 240 pages
PB 9781350299221 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350299184
ePub 9781350299207 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Philosophy of Rabbi Shalom Ber Schneersohn
Language, Gender and Mysticism
Reuven Leigh, University of Cambridge, UK
Reuven Leigh provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering philosophy of Rabbi Shalom Schneersohn Bringing him into dialogue with key continental philosophers Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, this book reveals how Schneersohn’s views anticipated many prominent themes in 20th-century thought Beginning by uncovering and contesting the scholarly assumptions that have excluded traditional rabbinic thinkers from contemporary philosophy, Leigh seeks to correct this through a close reading of Schneersohn’s 1898 discourses With the disruption of traditional binary structures being the dominant theme pervading Schneersohn’s work, this volume examines Schneersohn’s forward-thinking ideas on speech, gender and the body
UK April 2025 US April 2025 256 pages
PB 9781350341234 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350341197
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Bloomsbury Academic
For Revolt
Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation
Jussi Palmusaari, King's College London, UK
For Revolt: Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation presents an interpretation of Rancière's uncompromising view of emancipation, drawing on its invariably rational and Kantianmoralist basis Tracing a logic of abstract or empty space in all of Rancière's work, it contrasts the prevailing tendencies to emphasise Rancière's sensitivity to evolving historical forms and changing regimes of sensibility Through a critical discussion of Rancière in relation to other contemporary accounts of revolt and resistance, the book addresses the present predicament of emancipatory politics, its emphasis on the actualities of here and now and its difficulties to envisage programmatic realisations of radically alternative futures
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781350277137 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350274020
ePub 9781350274006 £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi
A Philosophy for the Environmental
Crisis
Alice Gibson, Kingston University, UK
Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of poet-philosopher, Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy of nature offer a means for understanding and taking responsibility for the environmental crisis Through examination of his entire oeuvre, from the Zibaldone to his later poems, this book disrupts the common image of Leopardi as a pessimistic, nihilist poet Bringing his thought into dialogue with contemporary ecological theorists such as Donna Haraway and Timothy Morton, Gibson instead uncovers how Leopardi advances the ethics we need today to reframe our relationship with nature
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages
PB 9781350298637 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350298644
ePub 9781350298668 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350298651 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
The Power of Distraction
Diversion and Reverie from Montaigne to Proust
Alessandra Aloisi, University of Oxford, UK
From Pascal to contemporary anxieties about attention, we have constantly been urged to avoid distraction if we want to live and work better
But Alessandra Aloisi argues that we are missing the point Drawing on a broad range of European philosophy and literature, this book considers distraction not as an expression of human imperfection, but as a creative, subversive, and aesthetic capability Aloisi demonstrates not only the serendipity of distraction through creative case studies, from Manet to Black Mirror, but also its political value, as distraction provides what Bergson called a ‘slight revolt’ from the codes and behaviours that society dictates
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 208 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781350342989 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350342941
ePub 9781350342965 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art
Abjection, Revolt, and Objecthood
Keren Moscovitch, School of Visual Arts, USA and The New School, USA
Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art examines practices that operate at the edges of sexuality and its socially sanctioned expressions Using psychoanalysis and objectoriented feminism, Keren Moscovitch focuses on the work of several contemporary, provocative artists to initiate a dialogue on the role of intimacy in challenging and reimagining ideology She explores the work of Leigh Ledare, Genesis P-Orridge, Ellen Jong, Barbara DeGenevieve, Joseph Maida and Lorraine O’Grady, who, through their radical practices, engage in such consciousness shifting Guided by the feminist psychoanalytic canon of Julia Kristeva throughout, Moscovitch situates these artists in the emerging lineage of feminist new materialism
Contemporary Art from Post-Socialist Central Europe
Denisa Tomková, Charles University, Czech Republic
The artistic strategies explored in this book are essential tools in fostering emancipatory consciousness in marginalised communities Drawn from conservative states in Central-Eastern Europe, these art practices range from short films to guerrilla performance art and community crafts projects Empowering Aesthetics weaves together case studies from Slovakia, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic to show how art can provide critical support to gender, sexual and racial minority groups Exploring the nuances of intersectional layers of these groups’ identities brings with it a wealth of insights that go beyond the Western epistemic tradition
UK April 2025 • US May 2025 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus
HB 9781350447226 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350447257 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350447240 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Radical Aesthetics-Radical Art • Bloomsbury Academic
Technics and Enaction A Philosophy of Imagination
Émilien Dereclenne, Independent Researcher, France
Providing an innovative approach to conceptualising imagination or creativity, this book offers a new theory of imagination linked to technical, social and embodied factors Challenging the dominant internalist and representationalist theories, this book combines enacted, embodied, ecological, extended, embedded cognitive theories with material anthropology and the French philosophy of technics and imagination to shine a light on the role of technical and socio-material engagement in imaginative and creative processes Engaging with both enactive and French philosophers of technics, Émilien Dereclenne showcases how French philosophers of technics can help 5E cognitive sciences achieve their own theoretical goals about imagination
Edited by Katerina Bantinaki, University of Crete, Greece, Efi Kyprianidou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus & Fotini Vassiliou, Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Bringing together 15 essays from a team of established and rising philosophers, this volume sheds light on how both representational and non-representational forms of art allow empathic engagement It examines the significance of such engagement for cognition, our emotive life and our moral stance Opening with a historical reconstruction of the origins of empathy, chapters explore our emphatic engagement with fictional characters, with the inanimate in art forms such as film, music and architecture, with the cognitive value of empathy with fiction, and finally our emphatic response to fiction in relation to our moral attitudes
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781350409521 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350409545 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350409538 • £26 09 / $26 09
Bloomsbury Academic
The Phenomenology of Paint Between Materiality and Illusion
Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia
Analyzing the different modes of appearance and application of the most ubiquitous medium in art and ritual, this book examines paint from anthropological, ethnographic, aesthetic, historical and chemical viewpoints The result is a clearly articulated account of both the materiality and phenomenology of paint, as substance and idea It discusses the provenance, politics and chemistry of pigments, the role of concealment and beautification as paint is applied to bodies, the stories and practices of hiding paint by artists, and efforts to isolate paint as an essential quantity, ending on the philosophical question as to whether paint is separable from colour From bodily substances to chemical engineering, this study provides a history of ritual and representation through the “lens” of paint, the medium that reveals through covering
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 256 pages • 25 bw illus
HB 9781350446915 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350446939 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Bloomsbury Academic
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life
Methodologies, History and New Directions
Edited by Lisa Giombini, Roma Tre University, Italy & Adrián Kvokacka, Presov University, Slovakia
Applying Aesthetics to Everyday Life surveys current debates in the field of everyday aesthetics, examining its history, methodology and intersections with cognate research areas Lisa Giombini and Adrián Kvokacka bring together an international team of renowned scholars who are shaping the present and future of the discipline Through fresh explorations of its origins, background and contemporary developments, this collection advances a new definition of everyday aesthetics and provides a cutting edge reflection on the world we inhabit today
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 240 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781350331808 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350331761
ePub 9781350331785 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry
James D. Reid, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA & Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA
Philosophy of Lyric Voice
The Cognitive Value of Page and Performance Poetry
Karen Simecek, Warwick University, UK
Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen Simecek argues that it is only by considering them side by side that the unique cognitive value of each can be realised By reframing lyric poetry as a social artform, she reveals the importance of voice and embodied words to the differing epistemic rewards of engaging with contemporary poetry in both private reading and live performance Through analysis of numerous different poems, Simecek concludes that both page poetry and performance poetry involve appreciating connections with others and realising the limits of our perspectives
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 204 pages
PB 9781350240568 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350240520
ePub 9781350240544 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350240537 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Against Progress
Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK
'Sublime moments from history might be remembered but that story is over, everything should be re-thought, one should begin from the zero-point '
How do we start from a zero-point? We forget the notion of progress or things always getting better Revolution isn't gradual progress but, rather, a repetitive movement where we start from the beginning again and again In a whirlwind tour touching upon everything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, gentrification, Mary Poppins, Einstein's theory of relativity and Taylor Swift, Žižek argues that the forward thrust of history is but an illusion
UK October 2024 • US January 2025 • 136 pages
PB 9781350515857 • £9 99 / $12 95
ePub 9781350515871 • £8 99 / $12 14
ePdf 9781350515864 • £8 99 / $8 99
Series: Žižek's Essays • Bloomsbury Academic
Revisions and Reconstructions in the Thought of R.G. Collingwood
From Pre-History to Economics
Peter Johnson, University of Southampton, UK
Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R G Collingwood’s philosophy, Johnson presents essays on Collingwood’s distinctive account of pre-history, the relationship between his last great works The Principles of History and The New Leviathan, and his views on money in comparison to those of J M Keynes Chapters also consider his assessment of Edward Gibbon as a historian and his use of biblical citation in relation to the work of Thomas Hobbes. Johnson’s insightful reflections and in-depth analysis of a range of areas in Collingwood’s thinking connect them through historical and conceptual themes relevant to contemporary debates about his philosophy
UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages
HB 9781350498457 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350498471 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350498464 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age
New Aesthetics and Technologies
Rachel Coventry, University of Galway, Ireland
Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger’s philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology Coventry considers the possibility of great poetry in the digital age using an approach that takes us beyond conventional literary criticism, with different case studies from contemporary poetry including eco-poetry, digital poetry, and post-internet poetry Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age asks provocative questions to progress the philosophical study of poetry, tracing new lines of thought in Heidegger studies and critical studies of contemporary poetry
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9781350347847 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350347809
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Poetry • Bloomsbury Academic
Felix Guattari and the Ancients
Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy
Edited by Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Canada & Carlos A. Segovia, Saint Louis University Missouri, Spain
Félix Guattari’s Parmenides is a brief but extremely suggestive dialogue that brings life to his concerns about psychoanalysis, semiotics, the history of philosophy, and contemporary post-theatre This volume includes the facsimile edition of the original manuscript followed by its transcription and its annotated translations into English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian Accompanying commentaries, diagrams, and studies of the text give an incredibly in-depth analysis of Guattari’s theatrical work and its significance to his wider body of thought.
The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies
Corporate Capitalism and Black Popular Culture
Stephen C. Ferguson II, North Carolina State University, USA
The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies provides a philosophical examination of Black popular culture for the first time. From extensive discussion of the philosophy and political economy of Hip-Hop music through to a developed exploration of the influence of the postmodernism-poststructuralist ideology on African American studies, Stephen C Ferguson II argues how postmodernism ideology plays a seminal role in justifying the relationship between corporate capitalism and Black popular culture Chapters cover topics such as cultural populism, capitalism and Black liberation, the philosophy of Hip-Hop music and Harold Cruse’s influence on the ‘cultural turn’ in African American studies.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages • 2 bw illus
PB 9781350368989 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350368941
ePub 9781350368965 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350368958 £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
African Democracy
Impediments, Promises, and Prospects
Edited by Jonathan O. Chimakonam, University of Pretoria, South Africa and Eberhard Karls, University of Tubingen, Germany & Isaiah A. Negedu, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
This is the first comprehensive examination of the social and political consequences of democracy in Africa Written from an African philosophical perspective, leading and emerging scholars explore the impact of democracy on the lived experience of the African people Looking in particular at the subSahara, it reveals the influence that the failures of democracy have on fundamental needs, including allocation of primary resources, autonomy, welfare and women’s rights This pioneering volume gives an unflinching insight into the struggles caused by democracy in Africa, whilst also, crucially, pointing to its accomplishments and the future possibilities for African nations
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 376 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350299276 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781350299238
ePub 9781350299252 • £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350299245 £117 00 / $117 00
Bloomsbury Academic
Critical Theory and the Critique of Society
The Adventures of the Commodity For a Critique of Value
Anselm Jappe, Fine Arts Academy, Italy
The Adventures of the Commodity explores critical conceptions of a capitalist society that is ordered entirely around the exigencies of the commodity, money and labour
A distinctive introduction to critiques of capitalism and commodity society, this book illuminates the difficult concept of 'abstract' labour Merging this with the social critique known as the “critique of value”, first developed by Robert Kurz and the German journal, Krisis, in the 1990s, the book highlights in particular a central, and often contested, aspect of this critique: the claim that capitalism has entered into a crisis that is not cyclical, but terminal
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages
PB 9781350381186 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350381193
ePub 9781350381216 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350381209 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic World English
"The Unthinkable" in Ethics, History and Philosophical Anthropology
A Pragmatic-Transcendental View
Sami Pihlström, University of Helsinki, Finland
Combining a pragmatist approach with a Kantian-inspired transcendental strategy, Sami Pihlström distinguishes between what is ‘unthinkable’ and what is merely ethically wrong He demonstrates how issues concerning the unthinkable vs the thinkable, from the ethical response to the Holocaust to philosophical considerations of monstrous characters in gothic fiction, challenge the categories we use to structure the world. The book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the fundamental ethical issues of human life UK
Human Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism
AI, Automation and Alienation
Edited by Andrius Bielskis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how the forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions The volume contains eight essays from scholars in the UK, Europe and USA, specializing in the philosophical and ethical dimensions of technology and political theory This timely and novel intervention in the automation debate will appeal to those in philosophy, politics, literary and cultural studies interested in new technologies both from the perspective of normative ethics and the critique of political economy
This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School’s theory of antisemitism Uncovering how critical theory differs from mainstream socialist or liberal critiques of antisemitism, this book reveals the connections between the Frankfurt School’s writing on antisemitism and other pressing societal issues, including patriarchy and racism more broadly This volume further employs critical theory to scrutinise antisemitism in right- and leftwing politics and develops, in its critique of antisemitism, a critique of capitalism, asking: why does capitalist society seem bound to produce antisemitism? And how do we challenge it?
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 312 pages
PB 9781350281417 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350281370
ePub 9781350281394 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350281387 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Critical Theory and the Critique of Society • Bloomsbury Academic
Practical Kantian Ethics A Commonsense Account of Moral Life
Donald Wilson, Kansas State University, USA By reversing the usual order of Kantian interpretation, Donald Wilson begins with Kant’s applied moral philosophy and uses this later work to offer a radically new account of his views Through an “inner freedom” model, Wilson explains diverse threads in Kant’s moral theory informing obscure aspects of the Groundwork and presents a different and comprehensive vision of Kantian moral life This new account transcends the narrow rational asceticism often associated with Kant’s view, embedding morality in our humanity Focused on the integration of diverse norms and the lived experience of morality, this nuanced account is essential reading for anyone working on Kant’s moral philosophy today
UK April 2025 US April 2025 288 pages
HB 9781350501270 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350501294 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Darrow Schecter & Chris O’Kane, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA & Werner Bonefeld, University of York, UK
Daoism and the Human Experience
David
Daoist Phenomenology
A Vertical Reading
Jay Goulding, York University, Canada
Jay Goulding’s Daoist Phenomenology represents a lifelong project of interpolating the works of Martin Heidegger with the interweavings of Daoism and Zen Illustrating styles of reading complex texts from Europe and East Asia, Goulding moves away from horizontal reading of simple comparisons on a single plain to vertical reading as a deep dive of ideas into ancient worlds Vertical Reading is a hermeneutic strategy that captures the depth of connection between phenomenology and Daoism, especially Heidegger and classical Daoists Laozi and Zhuangzi His method, drawing on writing and ideas from popular culture including Jules Verne, George Lucas and Bruce Lee, promotes further intercultural dialogues between two great traditions in world philosophies
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781350470477 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350470491 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350470484 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Daoism and the Human Experience • Bloomsbury Academic
Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva
A Radically Phenomenal View of Embodiment
Eleni Lorandou, Truro College, UK
Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of MerleauPonty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment In an argument for the transcendence of limiting dualisms in thinking, she explores how western postmodernism and Indian classical thought can speak to one another across centuries, complementing each other in a new and constructive philosophy Bringing the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the Recognition School of Utpaladeva into dialogue, this illuminating study turns our attention to the topics of perception, embodiment, realism, intersubjectivity, and, ultimately, the transformative implications of philosophical inquiry
UK May 2025 US May 2025 224 pages
HB 9781350456501 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350456525 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350456518 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Consciousness Mattering A Buddhist Synthesis
Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, USA
In this volume, Peter D Hershock presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, he demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only in our heads Shedding new light on the co-emergence of subjective awareness and culture, the possibilities for machine consciousness, the risks of algorithmic consciousness hacking, and the potential of intentionally altered states of consciousness, Hershock advances our understanding of consciousness to invite us to consider how freely, wisely, and compassionately consciousness matters
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages
PB 9781350411258 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350411210
ePub 9781350411234 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350411227 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Heidegger and Dao Things, Nothingness, Freedom
Eric S. Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
In this innovative contribution, Eric S Nelson offers a contextualized and systematic exploration of the Chinese sources and German language interpretations that shaped Heidegger's engagement with Daoism and his thinking of the thing, nothingness, and the freedom of releasement (Gelassenheit) Encompassing numerous forgotten and recently published historical sources, including Heidegger’s Daoist related reflections in his recently published lectures and notebooks, Nelson presents a critical intercultural reinterpretation of Heidegger's philosophical journey This critical reinterpretation with and beyond Heidegger of early Daoist and classic Chinese Buddhist sources, provides a reimagining of the thing and nothingness
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9781350411944 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350411906
ePub 9781350411920 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350411913 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Daoism and the Human Experience • Bloomsbury Academic
Dialogue and Decolonization
Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives
Edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
By bringing together philosophers whose work on political philosophy, intellectual history and world philosophies pushes the boundaries of conventional scholarship, this collaborative collection opens up space in political philosophy for new approaches Each contribution responds to the challenges James Tully raises for comparative political thought Arranged around Tully’s opening chapter, contributors demonstrate the value of critical dialogue and point to the different attempts cultures make to understand their experiences Through the use of methods from various disciplines and culture, each interlocutor exemplifies the transformative power of genuine democratic dialogue across philosophical traditions
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Chai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil
Edited by Lissa McCullough, California State University Dominguez Hills, USA
Exploring Simone Weil's thought through 38 short essays, this handbook distills her complex writings into an organic whole Placing Weil's philosophy in context, it maps her intellectual influences, including thinkers like Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Spinoza, Kant and Marx It concludes with a critical consideration of the philosophical terms that tie her thinking together
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 416 pages
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God Is Undead Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers
Lorenzo Chiesa, University of Newcastle, UK & Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico, USA
In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston reassess the contemporary consequences of psychoanalytic perspectives on belief and disbelief Jointly rejecting numerous efforts past and present to render psychoanalysis compatible with faiths, spiritualisms, and religiousity, Chiesa and Johnston debate with each other about just what sort of non-belief, whether one qualified by agnostic sensibilities (Chiesa) or not (Johnston), can and should be extracted from psychoanalysis
Ultimately God is Undead raises and addresses crucial questions about whether and, if so, how human beings might eventually eschew traditional religions and their pseudo-secular permutations and formulate new ways of generating meaning
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Atheism and Love in the Modern Era
Practicing Indifference
Colby Dickinson, Loyola University Chicago, USA
A critique of religious belief which addresses the question of how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches Taking in popular, philosophical and theological discussions of religion, Colby Dickinson argues that theism and atheism taken together can peel back the layers of abstraction, alienation, and disillusionment that always accompany our humanity in order to help us really see how it is to exist in this world Atheism and Faith in the Modern World takes up the notion of love as a cultivation and practice of indifference—a crucial concept that unites both religion and atheism
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus
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Expanding Philosophy of Religion
J. Aaron Simmons, Furman University, USA & Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, USA
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice
Rituals
of Embodied Understanding
Edited by Lexi Eikelboom & David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Australia
This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual significance of art. This innovative volume turns its attention to the role of the artist, and to specific examples of art practices, putting them into conversation with particular ritual practices By creating a web of connections that emerge across multiple disciplines and practices, a team of scholars and artist shed new light on the way art-making and ritual embody non-discursive forms of understanding
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Templeton Religious Trust.
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Reimagining Philosophy of Religion
Understanding, Commitment, and Making-Believe
Amber L. Griffioen, University of Konstanz, Germany, and University of Notre Dame, USA By exploring how analytic philosophy of religion can broaden its horizons to combat old biases, Amber L. Griffioen makes the discipline socially and practically relevant Divided into units on Reorientation, Reformation, and Revolution, she engages with a wide range of religious phenomena, from religious cognition and beliefs to imagination, prayer, religious experiences, mysticism and compassion With each chapter examining one aspect of traditional analytic philosophy of religion, she provides suggestions for how the field can develop in more constructive and inclusive directions.
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Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein
Religious Diversities and Racism
Thomas D. Carroll, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Thomas C Carroll uses Wittgenstein’s thoughts on religion and language to bring a cross-cultural perspective to philosophy of religion Through a focus on Chinese philosophical and religious traditions and the intertwining of racism and religion in the United States, Carroll highlights two related features of Wittgenstein’s philosophy: the relevance of contextual backgrounds to interpreting ways of life and the importance of reflecting on existential purposes in philosophical inquiry. This inclusive and timely study asks us to rethink how we approach philosophy of religion
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 224 pages
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An Apostle for Atheists
Paul and the Quest for Radical Philosophy
Ole Jakob Løland, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Confronting the readings of Freud, Nietzsche and Spinoza with insights not only from the more recent philosophical readings of the letters of Paul but also from historical-critical scholarship on the Bible, this book lifts the veil over a new picture of the apostle as a figure with potential value for non-Christians and atheists
An Apostle for Atheists leaves us with ideas that compel us to reconsider Paul’s negative reputation for secular modernity and appreciate him as a figure of a radically new politics as well as a renewed psychoanalysis
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages
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World All Languages (except Spanish/Norwegian)
Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World
How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures
Edited by Stephen Green, Independent Scholar, UK
In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever
Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish mesoAmerican traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different thought worlds into conversation Crossing cultures, languages, and history, the authors’ inclusive approach liberates the tradition of metaphysics and comparative philosophy from the constraints of a Western or Eurocentric interpretation
Michael Hauser, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Emerging from the twin shadows of neoliberalism and postmodernism, Michael Hauser paints our current historical moment as an interregnum, born of but departing from those two towering modes of late 20th century culture Drawing together a vast range of thinkers and theoretical models, from Gramsci to Jameson, and answering some of the contradictions at the heart of Alain Badiou’s most influential works, Hauser traces the reasons for the decline and demise of the grand narratives of the 20th century and the ideologies that replaced them
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
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By Faith Alone
The Medieval Church and Martin Luther Lev Shestov
Translated by Stephen P. Van Trees, Independent Translator, USA
Lev Shestov’s By Faith Alone confronts Eastern and Western European conceptions of faith through Russian literature, ancient and medieval philosophy, and Christian theology. Written from 1910-1914, this first Englishlanguage translation brings together important early writings on the medieval church and Martin Luther Shestov reconciles the Greek notion of rational truth with Biblical revelation by drawing on a wide range of sources from Plato to Saint Augustine and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to William of Ockam By Faith Alone provides a crucial piece of the puzzle in the genesis of Shestov’s later and better-known writings on medieval philosophy
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 240 pages
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Series: Explorations in Philosophy and Theology • Bloomsbury Academic
The Growing Block View
Philosophy of Time, Change, and the Open Future
Graeme A. Forbes, University of Kent, UK Graeme A Forbes presents a compelling argument for the Growing-Block view He explores ontological questions central to the metaphysics of time, addressing why time does something space does not and why the past differs from the future Forbes argues for the view that the past exists, the future doesn’t, and that the passage of time is causation bringing about events according to the laws of nature From the armchair to philosophy of physics to the human world, he offers a comprehensive examination of these issues
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 336 pages • 10 bw illus
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Series: Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics • Bloomsbury Academic
Being and Nothing
The Primordial Question of Philosophy
Lorenz B. Puntel
Translated by Alan White
In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why at all is there Being and not absolutely nothing?" Considering the history of philosophy from Parmenides through to Heidegger and beyond, he charges philosophy with persistently failing to adequately confront the question of Being In response, Puntel sets out a systematic philosophy to rival Hegel's Science of Logic and Whitehead's Process and Reality. This volume first critically analyses all of the major stages in the “forgetfulness of Being” in Western philosophy, situating a vast range of historical philosophers within Puntel's theoretical framework, Structural-Systematic Philosophy (SSP), which unites continental philosophy's comprehensiveness with the precision and linguistic rigor of the analytic tradition The second part develops the methodical question of a systematic theory of Being Written and translated in collaboration with the author by Alan White, this book is the third in Puntel's trilogy comprising Structure and Being (2008) and Being and God (2011)
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 416 pages
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Benjamin, Deleuze, and the Baroque
The Early Modern Origins of Media Theory
Noa Levin
Benjamin, Deleuze, and the Baroque argues that their media theories were informed by their respective readings of the philosophy and mathematics of G W Leibniz, and how the Baroque can thus be seen as the locus of modern media Providing close critical analyses of Deluze and Benjamin’s works on cinema, which remain understudied in the English language, it explores how, in their dual roles of philosopher and cultural critic, the pair may illuminate our own age of multiple crises through the Baroque
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
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Advances in Experimental Philosophy
Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine
Edited by Kristien Hens, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Andreas De Block, KU Leuven, Belgium
This open access collection brings together a team of renowned scholars to consider what experimental philosophy of medicine is and can be The chapters demonstrate how we can make progress by integrating a variety of methods from experimental philosophy, including experiments, sociological surveys and simulations, in order to yield meaningful results The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 352 pages • 45 bw illus
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The Epistemology of Language Use
Wittgenstein and a Philosophical Pragmatics
Arley Ramos Moreno, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Edited by Cristiane Gottschalk and Paulo Oliveira, University of São Paulo, Brazil & Rafael Lopes Azize, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Arley Ramos Moreno, a pioneering Brazilian philosopher, makes an important contribution to current discussions around meaning, knowledge, and symbolism in the first English translation of his work Connecting philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics, and phenomenology, Moreno builds on Wittgenstein's legacy His focus is on ways of producing meaning that involve the circumstances of enunciation and applications of words
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 192 pages
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Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism
Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century
Edited by Fabrizio Baldassarri & Craig Martin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Shedding new light on Andrea Cesalpino, an understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Fabrizio Baldassarri and Craig Martin’s volume covers the diverse fields he wrote on including logic, epistemology, demonology, natural philosophy, mineralogy, botany, and medicine. By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle’s texts on his work, this book reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas
UK May 2025 US May 2025 264 pages
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Advances in Experimental Political Philosophy
Edited by Matthew Lindauer, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, USA
Introducing experimental political philosophy as a burgeoning field of inquiry, this volume brings together leading scholars using empirical methods to shed light on questions of justice and politics
Chapters cover traditional topics including distributive justice, egalitarianism, property rights, and healthcare justice, as well as the problem of misogynistic extremist movements, the public justification of immigration enforcement, and the relationship between gender norms and support for care labor organizing
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Why Collingwood Matters
A Defence of Humanistic Understanding
Giuseppina D'Oro, Keele University, UK R G Collingwood (1889-1943) was an English philosopher, historian and practicing archaeologist His work, particularly in the philosophy of action and history, has been profoundly influential in the 20th and 21st century thought
Giussepina D'oro considers the importance of Collingwood as a thinker who thinks kaleidoscopically and, unlike lots of contemporary philosophers, refuses to focus on narrow, technical interests but as a whole world of thought Why Collingwood Matters provides a muchneeded examination of a 20th-century polymath
Justin Sytsma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand & James R. Beebe, University at Buffalo, USA
Hegel and the Problem of the History of Philosophy
The Logical Structure of Exemplarity
Thomas Raysmith, Bard College Berlin, Germany
Drawing on the work of major 18th and 19th century philosophers, Thomas Raysmith critically examines Hegel’s justification that philosophy has a history Hegel elaborated a ‘logical structure’ associated with the fundamental nature of thought itself, permitting a history of philosophy Raysmith presents this ‘structure of exemplarity’ as a dynamic reciprocity between universality, particularity and singularity
An engaging historical reconstruction of the shifting understanding of the fundamental nature of human thought from Kant, through Fichte and Schelling, to Hegel’s mature logic, this is a groundbreaking work for students and scholars of German idealism and the history of philosophy more broadly
UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages
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Wittgenstein in Polish Galicia
The Life and Thought Behind the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Delving into Wittgenstein's recently-published private diaries from 1914 to 1917, Urszula IdziakSmoczynska offers unique insight into a pivotal period in Wittgenstein's life, when he completed his ground-breaking work in logic and underwent a profound spiritual transformation that left an indelible mark on his future and his philosophical evolution
This important exploration of Wittgenstein’s formative years not only sheds light on Wittgenstein's philosophical journey but highlights his role in a broader context – as one of the major intellectuals and artists who struggled in the first World War, shaping the postwar scientific and artistic landscape
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In Dialogue with Michèle Le Doeuff
Philosophies, Encounters and Friendship
Edited by Pamela Sue Anderson & Michele Le Doeuff
The work of Michèle Le Dœuff creatively disrupts established notions of what philosophy might be Far from being a discipline about the leader and the disciple and a hierarchy of knowledge, Le Dœuff proposes a philosophy of dialogue and friendship The conversations in this book explore how this philosophy can be enacted and shows how openness and generosity can be the starting point of truly rigorous thinking
Introduced and curated by the late philosopher, Pamela Sue Anderson, In Dialogue with Michèle Le Dœuff explores themes like contemporary feminism, joy in philosophy, memory, the significance of friendship to thinking and a key Le Dœuffian concept, the imaginary
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 264 pages • 2 colour photographs
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Hope and the Kantian Legacy
New Contributions to the History of Optimism
Edited by Katerina Mihaylova, MLU HalleWittenberg, Germany & Anna Ezekiel, University of York, UK
Reconstructing and analysing a variety of approaches to hope in late 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, this collection explores perspectives on hope from Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Beck, Hoffbauer, Kierkegaard and others Drawing on expertise from a diverse group of contributors, chapters consider different aspects of the concept of hope, including the rationality of hope, appropriate and inappropriate applications of hope and the function of hope in relation to religion and society The collection constitutes a valuable resource for exploring the development of this important concept in post-Kantian German philosophy
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 328 pages
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Deleuze and the Problem of Experience
Transcendental Empiricism
Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview By focusing on Deleuze’s theory of the faculties, we can see how he builds a transcendental system of thought that defies the predictability of empirical experience. This new understanding of Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist not only helps to situate his work in the constellation of twentieth century French philosophers but also helps us to understand a philosopher for whom difference and heterogeneity were central to his own philosophical corpus
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Psychoanalytic Sociology
A New Theory of the Social Bond Duane Rousselle
This book offers a new theory of the social bond that accounts for recent developments in the cultural logic of capitalism and paradoxically centers the ‘singularity’ Each chapter offers a different and compelling perspective on broader phenomenons and notions of estrangement within the civilization and rogue state, the master-slave dialectic, and the status of knowledge in the era of singularities . With enriched dialogues between Lacanian, Marxist theory and theoretical sociology as well as illustrative contemporary examples, Psychoanalytic Sociology argues that our current social crises are exemplified by the way in which social groups project their own inhumanity onto others
UK September 2024 • US September 2024 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus
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Portraits of Bertrand Russell
Edited by Gülberk Koç Maclean, Mount Royal University, Canada
This indispensable resource to the life and work of Bertrand Russell contains valuable and hard-to-find portraits from more than 80 figures written between 1872 and 1970. Including writings from G E Moore, Gottlob Frege, Joseph Conrad, T S Eliot, Lloyd George, J M Keynes, D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf and many others
They capture the power of Russell's ideas and the reach of his thought, while his own accounts of these encounters offer a comparison of how he thought he portrayed himself to others and how he was perceived
Special introductory offer (valid up to 3 months after publication): £350 / $475 / Aus$690 (full price £389 / US$532 / AUS$763).
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