“The Subject of Politics” provides a new study of Slavoj Zizek's political philosophy. Focusing on the combination of psychoanalytic theory and philosophy, the book offers an overview of Zizek's analysis of contemporary society.

A critical guide to Adorno's books on Aesthetic Theory, The Culture Industry, Negative Dialectics and Philosophy of New Music.

This audiobook provides background for an understanding of Plato's philosophy in both ancient and contemporary contexts.

This Audiobook will familiarize the reader with the basics of critical thinking and informal logic - deductive and inductive arguments, form and content, fallacies, and complex arguments.

An audiobook study of the social, political and literary thought underlying Blake's Songs and the Prophetic Books, culminating in Milton.

The audiobook explains and discusses some key approaches in metaethics, and suggests that an account which is naturalist and objectivist might have more to commend it than is popularly allowed.

Comic novelist and critic Paul McDonald explores the philosophy of humour in a audiobook that will appeal to both philosophers and creative writers alike.

The aim of this study is to set Methodism in its historical context - theological, social and political. It examines the intellectual and ecclesiastical climate in which Methodism grew up, throws light on the motivation of John Wesley himself and illustrates the social impact of the movement under his leadership - and after his death.

Contents: What is the Philosophy of Religion?Three Competing Paradigms in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion. Deductivism (Neo-Thomism, Analytic Philosophy, Analytic Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Religious Language, Atheistic Deductivism). Inductivism (Mitchell's Inductivist Proposal, Swinburne's Bayesian Theism, Swinburne on the Prior Probability of Theism, Swinburne's Positive Case for Theism, Swinburne's Theodicy, the Future of Inductivism. Post-Deductivism (Deductivism and the Ethics of Belief, The Post-Deductivists on Evil, Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology, Plantinga and Wolterstorff: Christian Philosophy). Recent Work on the Traditional Arguments for God's Existence.

This study guide gives students a handy reference to the background knowledge of rhetorical terms demanded of them by critical and theoretical texts in the humanities.

An explication of the major contributions to feminist theory in the late Twentieth Century. The audiobook covers Initial Articulations of the ‘Woman’ Problem (Virginia Woolf; Simone de Beauvoir), Radical Feminism (Kate Millett; Shulamith Firestone; Radicalesbians; Mary Daly), Black Feminism (Audre Lorde; Alice Walker; Patricia Hill Collins), French Feminism (Luce Irigaray; Hélène Cixous; Monique Wittig; Julia Kristeva), Materialist Feminism (Gayle Rubin; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), Queer Theory (Adrienne Rich; Judith Butler; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Wayne Koestenbaum).

After an Introduction examining the historical moment of Existentialism, as a product of wartime discipline and consciousness, this audiobook sets out the thinking of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers on the broad questions of What is Man?

This comprehensive presentation of Roland Barthes’s work tracks his intellectual evolution, with particular emphasis on those areas where his influence is felt most strongly today.

This book discusses the pragmatic positions of Charles Sanders Pierce, William James and John Dewey, explaining their agreements and disagreements.