Product Description: The growth of transnational corporations, the dominance of worldwide financial and political institutions, and the extensive influence of media that are nearly monopolized by corporate interests are key factors shaping our global society today...read more

Product Description: Complemented by phenomenology on the one hand and by materialism on the other, this book provides a worldview that reconciles old conflicts between nature and society, objective and subjective, individual and group.

Moral values are real―we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world―it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free―what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation.These are radical claims. But they are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy because they are almost always considered in relative isolation from one another. This book shows that when they are considered in conjunction, they gain mutual support. And it shows this both clearly and concisely.But its systematic approach to philosophy also reveals that various philosophical positions currently widely accepted and defended can appear plausible and perhaps even compelling only when they are considered in relative isolation―as they, too, almost always are. When the issues on which these positions are taken are considered in conjunction, problems come into view and the alternative positions defended in this book emerge as superior.Toward a Philosophical Theory of Everything is a ground-breaking work that shows the importance of systematic thinking, while also defending positions, on central philosophical issues, that are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy.

Product Description: Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek...read more

Product Description: Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary material objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse. She focuses particularly on the question of how the parts of such objects are related to the wholes which they compose...read more

Product Description: Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), père de l''anthropologie structurale, est le plus célèbre des inconnus. Célèbre pour avoir, par sa longévité et l''ampleur de son oeuvre, marqué l''ensemble de la vie intellectuelle du XXe siècle, il nous est devenu inconnu, par l''oubli dans lequel nous sommes tombés des grands axes qui l''ont organisée...read more