Philosophy of Religion / Philosophy of Science

The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg

Theology and Resistance Between 19141945

Mårten Björk, Oxford University, UK Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth, and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. By exposing the identification of life with material facts, and the break between life and death as insufficient, Björk makes important connections between the theological and ecological considerations of the posthuman, both creaturely and spiritual, situating the direct political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781350228221 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350228245 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350228238 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

The Absolute and the Event

Schelling after Heidegger

Emilio Carlo Corriero, University of Turin, Italy What does Heidegger’s controversial notion of the Event mean? Is it a historical prophecy connected to his political affinity with Nazism? And how does this concept relate to a new beginning for Western philosophy after Schelling and Nietzsche? Here, Emilio Carlo Correiro highlights the theoretical link between Schelling’s speculations and Heidegger’s later theories. He shows students and scholars of Heidegger, European and German philosophy and idealism how, thanks to the concept of being’s intimate link to time, Heidegger’s later theories culminated in a historical philosophy and a definition of the post-metaphysical Absolute that is beyond any form of ontotheology.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 192 pages PB 9781350279155 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350111431 ePub 9781350111691 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9781350111684 • £26.09 / $35.17 Bloomsbury Academic

Biopolitics After Neuroscience

Morality and the Economy of Virtue

Edited by Jeffrey Bishop, Saint University, USA, M. Therese Lysaught, Loyola University Chicago, USA & Andrew Michel, Vanderbilt University, USA Challenging the contemporary neuroscience of morality, this provocative analysis connects moral philosophy to neoclassical economics and criticises the assumptions made about human behavior via contemporary neuroscientific claims. This rigorous new take by leading bioethicists argues that neuroscience does not discover the source of morality in the brain, as it claims to, but instead participates in an understanding of human behavior that serves the vested interests of contemporary political economy.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781350288447 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350288461 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350288454 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Arguing from Cognitive Science of Religion

Is Religious Belief Debunked?

Hans Van Eyghen, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands This book considers whether recent ideas in cognitive science of religion (CSR) imply a negative verdict on the epistemic status of religious belief. After introducing the key theories in this area, Hans Van Eyghen explores some of the questions surrounding CSR, including: is CSR is incompatible with the truth of religious belief? How might CSR show that religious belief is unreliably formed? And, finally, does CSR undermine the justification of religious belief by religious experiences? In asking these questions, Van Eyghen argues that CSR does not undermine the epistemic bases for religious belief.

UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 208 pages PB 9781350290181 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350100299 ePub 9781350100312 • £26.09 / $35.17 ePdf 9781350100305 • £26.09 / $35.17 Bloomsbury Academic

In Exile

Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought

Jessica Dubow, University of Sheffield, UK In this book, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition, but also makes secular claims out of Judaism’s theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, Jessica Dubow makes an argument for viewing exile as a form of thought and action and for reconceiving the attachments of identity, history, time and territory.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781350191778 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350154254 ePub 9781350154285 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350154278 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophy in a Technological World

Gods and Titans

James Tartaglia, Keele University, UK As the largely unreflected belief-system it has now become, materialism continues to steer the direction of technological development, while making us think this direction is inevitable. By drawing on neglected idealist traditions of philosophy, Tartaglia argues for a new way of looking at reality which asserts our freedom to choose, reaffirms and builds upon our ordinary, everyday understanding, and motivates us to convert technological innovation into a process driven by public rationality and consent.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781350185012 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350070103 ePub 9781350070127 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350070110 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic