Ethics & Moral Philosophy

How the Mind’s Original Joy Is Revolutionary

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University, USA Illustrated by Misty Morrison In an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary imagination of its readers, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explores how wonder is central to Martha Nussbaum’s normative project Taking issue with understandings of wonder viewing it as an emotion of surprise or delight, he develops an alternate tradition finding wonder in concert with the freedom of imagination found by degrees within much of human understanding Accompanied by Misty Morrison’s visual inquiry creating space for the reader to wonder, Nussbaum’s Politics of Wonder is an important contribution to the philosophy of wonder and is crucial for understanding the work of a leading philosopher

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350076075 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350076099 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350076082 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic

On the Nature, Limits, Meaning, and End of Work

Zachary Thomas Settle, Vanderbilt University, USA Drawing on Augustine's understanding of work and its value, this book develops and articulates a unified theology of work. Zachary Settle sets out the ways in which St Augustine offers us—in piecemeal fashion—elements with which we can counter the prevailing cultural idea that our life’s meaning is bound up in our work

UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 152 pages PB 9781350299771 • £2499 / $3495 • HB 9781350299788 • £7500 / $10000 ePub 9781350299801 • £2249 / $3159 ePdf 9781350299795 • £2249 / $3159 Series: Reading Augustine • Bloomsbury Academic

Nietzsche's Renewal of Ancient Ethics

Friendship as Contest

Neil Durrant, Macquarie University, Australia Nietzsche’s atypical ethics are explored through the influence of ancient Greek ideals through which he rejected commonly held values of love and compassion in favor of contest and conflict. Revealing how Nietzsche saw the great individuals of the Homeric era as people whose relationships were characterized by difference and contest, Neil Durrant highlights the benefits of such friendship for notions of the common good and ethical behavior Durrant shows how Nietzsche rejected the Christian ideals of love and compassion to build an ethics which incorporated aspects of evolutionary biology into the ancient Homeric ideals he was himself wedded to

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781350298873 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350298897 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350298880 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Tom Angier, University of Cape Town, South Africa Ethics: The Key Thinkers introduces the individuals who have wrestled with core moral questions and shaped how we understand ethics today Chapters are organised chronologically and cover figures from a wide range of traditions in ancient, modern and contemporary philosophy Alongside chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Marx and Nietzsche, this fully updated 2nd edition now provides a global approach to the history of ethics, featuring new chapters on Confucian, Buddhist and African thinkers, further reading guides to the latest writing on each thinker and a conclusion that looks ahead to new directions in contemporary ethical research

UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 304 pages PB 9781350107793 • £1999 / $2695 • HB 9781350107809 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9781350107823 • £1799 / $2472 ePdf 9781350107816 • £1799 / $2472 Series: Key Thinkers • Bloomsbury Academic

Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History

A Cross-Cultural Approach

Edited by Bennett Gilbert, Portland State University, USA & Natan Elgabsi, Åbo Akademi University, Sweden This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy, with a unique focus on temporality through topics that range across intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, to provide a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, and history Speaking to contemporary analytical and hermeneutic philosophy of history, cultural theory, meta-ethical theory and normative ethics, the book’s breadth resists the methodological underpinnings of any one philosophical school, with contributors writing on life and death in Tanabe’s philosophy, historical catastrophe in Heidegger, Islamic phenomenology, ethics and time in Maori philosophy, and chronological inconsistency

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages HB 9781350279094 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350279117 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350279100 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic

Reframing Ethics Through Dialectics

A New Understanding of the Moral Good

Michael Steinmann A provocative approach to the possibility of philosophical ethics, this study argues that all moral positions and theories are bound to fail Using dialectical tensions inherent to competing moral claims, Michael Steinmann explains what he terms the 'failure of morality' to substantiate specific claims and shows how we can capture the limitations of moral theories in a more holistic way Without embracing skepticism about moral claims, a non-naturalistic and non-relativistic understanding of the good emerges, allowing us to take non-traditional theories seriously, to acknowledge, and even embrace, the contradictions that all moral positions incur

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages HB 9781350286887 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350286900 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350286894 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic