Ethics & Moral Philosophy / History of Western Philosophy

On Christology, Anthropology, Cognitive Science and the Human Body

Martin Claes, Tilburg University, the Netherlands This book reads texts of Augustine on the topic of the human body in the context of contemporary debates in philosophical theology and relevant authors from the cognitive science of religion. Martin Claes focuses particularly on Augustine’s special position in the intellectual discourses of Western philosophy (free will, theodicy), theology (grace, incarnation) and humanities (anthropology, political sciences, law), arguing that his written work is an excellent point of departure for a multidimensional scholarly approach.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781350296084 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350296091 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350296114 • £22.49 / $29.96 ePdf 9781350296107 • £22.49 / $29.96 Series: Reading Augustine • Bloomsbury Academic Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, UK Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. Rupert Read's unflinchingly honest account asks us to face up to the fate of the planet and provides a vital reading for those who want their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity. Read argues that an acceptance of the actual horror of climate change and making space for climate grief gives us the opportunity to create a grounded response that is hopeful without offering shallow optimism.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781350212015 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350212022 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350212046 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781350212039 • £17.99 / $23.44 Series: Why Philosophy Matters • Bloomsbury Academic

The History and Ethics of Authenticity

Meaning, Freedom, and Modernity

Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth, Queen's University Belfast, UK Kyle Michael James Shuttleworth traces the historical development of the ethics of authenticity in relation to the rise of social freedom and individualism. Traversing the German idealists, Habermas, Foucault, and MacIntyre, Shuttleworth proposes a socio-existential account of ethical authenticity, using Taylor and Sartre. Moving beyond virtue ethics, discourse ethics and Foucauldian notions of self-care, The History and Ethics of Authenticity constructs a practical ethics of authenticity which makes use of contemporary reference points, including the rise of social media, capitalist branding, and competing appeals to identity, resulting in a presentation of the ethics of authenticity as an achievable ethical ideal.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781350186408 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350163423 ePub 9781350163454 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350163461 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Philosophies of Work in the Platonic Tradition

A History of Labor and Human Flourishing

Jeffrey Hanson, Harvard University, USA In this historical survey of the Platonic tradition, Jeffrey Hanson draws on the work of its major thinkers to explain why our contemporary vocabulary for appraising labor and its rewards is too narrow. By tracing out the Platonic lineage of work, Hanson argues why we should be explaining the value in appraising it as an element of a happy and flourishing human life, quite apart from its financial rewards. This original study of Plato and his inheritors’ ideas provides practical suggestions for how to approach work in a socially responsible manner in the 21st century and reveals the benefits of linking work and morality.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781350150935 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350150966 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350150959 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Machiavelli and the Problems of Military Force

A War of One’s Own

Sean Erwin, Barry University, USA This book argues that the distinction between arma propriis and arma alienis poses a central problem to Niccolò Machiavelli’s case for why modern political institutions offer modes of political existence that ancient ones did not. Starting from the influence of Lucretius and Aelianus Tacticus on the Arte della guerra, the book examines Machiavelli’s criticism of mercenary, auxiliary and mixed forces. Erwin also engages with Deleuze, Foucault and Spinoza to demonstrate how Machiavelli’s political philosophy continues to have contemporary relevance.

UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350115712 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350115736 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350115729 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Exploring the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood

From History and Method to Art and Politics

Peter Skagestad, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA This study of Collingwood and his work covers the full range and reach of his philosophical thought. Following Collingwood’s education and his Oxford career, Skagestad considers his relationship with prominent Italian philosophers Croce and De Ruggiero and the British idealists. Taking Collingwood’s publications in order, he explains under what circumstances they were produced and the reception of his work by his contemporaries and by posterity. Most importantly, Skagestad reveals Collingwood’s relevance today, through his concept of barbarism as a perceptive diagnosis of totalitarianism and his prescient warning of the rise of populism in the 21st century.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781350189232 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350152908 ePub 9781350152922 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350152915 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic