Product Description: This is one of the first textbooks to try to set the entire discipline of Jewish philosophy in its proper cultural and historical contexts. In so doing, it introduces the vibrant Jewish philosophical tradition to students while also making a significant contribution to inter-religious dialogue...read more

Explores what it means to be a young man in a globalized world.

Product Description: Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, there is a diversity of theoretical traditions...read more

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: La identificación de la masculinidad con la razón ha influido de manera determinante en los conceptos característicos de la modernidad y en las filosofías y teorías sociales dominantes en Occidente. La razón se ha definido en oposición a las emociones, así como la mente se ha contrapuesto al cuerpo y la cultura a la natura...read more

Product Description: "How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this book, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about men, masculinities and sexual politics, Victor J Seidler, criticizes the Enlightenment coupling of white, heterosexual masculinity with `reason′. He argues that in modern society masculinity can never be taken for granted...read more

Product Description: This important book seeks to place questions of morality and justice at the heart of social theory.  By exploring the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber it shows the hidden complexities of a modernity too often identified with a unified vision of the rational self later to fall apart into fragments within postmodernity...read more

Product Description: Seidler argues that the identification of masculinity with reason has played a central role in Western social theory and philosophy. Reason is defined in opposition to nature, and mind set against body, as men have learnt to take their reason for granted...read more

Product Description: Men, Sex and Relationships follows on the success of The Achilles Heel Reader also edited by Vic Seidler in being a judicious mix between he academic and the personal. Drawn from contributins to Achilles Heel it provides the reader with helpful and insightful material on the men's relationships with others...read more

Founded in 1978, "Achilles Heel" explored positive conceptions of masculinity and the ways in which men can change. It sought to persuade men to take responsibility for the power they share as men in relation to women - and to use this responsibility both in their personal relationships and in challenging the political and social institutions and practices that embody such power. This selection covers crucial issues in men's lives - work, sexuality, violence, relationships, family, class, sharing the experience of different masculinities - and brilliantly catches the tensions and anxieties of men trying to cope with the interplay between their sexuality and their political commitments. Founded in 1978, "Achilles Heel" explored positive conceptions of masculinity and the ways that men can change, refusing to reject masculinity itself as essentially oppressive. It sought to persuade men to take responsibility for the power they share as men in relation to women - and to use this responsibility both in their personal relationships and in challenging the political and social institutions and practices that embody such power.

Product Description: Designed for students of sociology, philosophy and women's studies, this study by the author of Rediscovering Masculinity examines sexual politics in a world which has been indelibly shaped by feminism.

Product Description: Shows how Simone Weil developed a penetrating critique of Marxism and a powerful political philosophy which serves as an alternative to liberalism and Marxism.

Product Description: In this work, originally published in 1986, Victor Seidler explores the different notions of respect, equality and dependency in Kant’s moral writings. He illuminates central tensions and contradictions not only within Kant’s moral philosophy, but within the thinking and feeling about human dignity and social inequality which we take very much for granted within a liberal moral culture...read more