Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general.
This collection explores the connections between the concept of sensibility and the early modern attempt to think of the human being as a special kind..
Technology and animals often function as boundaries against which we define the human. In this collection of essays, internationally known theorists m..
On Humanism is a timely and powerfully argued philosophical defence of humanism and an impassioned plea that we turn to ourselves, not religion, if we..
First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at ..
Arguing About Human Nature covers recent debates--arising from biology, philosophy, psychology, and physical anthropology--that together systematicall..
This book investigates Mill's notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, his belief in imperialism as part of the civilising process and his..
This title, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with gr..
Technology and animals often function as boundaries against which we define the human. In this collection of essays, internationally known theorists m..
Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, ..
Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one..
This book examines underexplored themes concerning morality and our relationship to future generations. Would it be morally wrong to allow humanity to..
Gilles Deleuze wrote that ‘immanence can be said to be the burning issue of all philosophy. It engulfs sages and gods’. This collection assesses the i..