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New books – Modern History, Religion, Philosophy

Published March 22, 2012 History , new title updates , Philosophy , Religion and Theology Leave a Comment

Modern History

Beyond Foucault: New Perspectives on Bentham’s Panopticon    Edited by Anne Brunon-Ernst, University of Paris 2 and Centre Bentham, France

The Eclipse of ‘Elegant Economy’: The Impact of the Second World War on Attitudes to Personal Finance in Britain    Martin Cohen, Queen Mary University of London, UK

National Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas and Policies, 1930–1944    Debbie Lackerstein, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia

Religion

Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines    Edited by Douglas Davies, Durham University, UK; Chang-Won Park, Durham University, UK and Sogang University, South Korea

The Last Judgment: Christian Ethics in a Legal Culture    Andrew Skotnicki, Manhattan College, USA

African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa: Emerging Trends, Indigenous Spirituality and the Interface with other World Religions    Edited by Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Ezra Chitando, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe and Bolaji Bateye, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

New in paperback Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination    Malcolm Guite, Girton College, Cambridge, UK

Philosophy

Volume 11, Tome III: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy – Anglophone Philosophy    Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

New books – Religion, Philosophy

Published February 18, 2012 new title updates , Philosophy , Religion and Theology Leave a Comment

Religion

The East African Revival: History and Legacies    Edited by Kevin Ward, Leeds University, UK; Emma Wild-Wood, Henry Martyn Centre, Cambridge Theological Federation, UK

Islam, Europe and Emerging Legal Issues    Edited by W. Cole Durham Jr., Brigham Young University, Utah, USA, Rik Torfs, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, David M. Kirkham, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA and Christine Scott, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA

The Spirit of Augustine’s Early Theology: Contextualizing Augustine’s Pneumatology   Chad Tyler Gerber, Walsh University, USA

Philosophy

Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy – German and Scandinavian Philosophy   Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

New books – Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Modern History

Published December 15, 2011 History , new title updates , Philosophy , Politics and International Relations Leave a Comment

Philosophy

Volume 13: Kierkegaard’s Influence on the Social Sciences    Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Volume 14: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thought    Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Politics

Australia’s Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Contentious Export    Edited by Michael Clarke, Griffith University, Australia; Stephan Fruhling, Australian National University, Australia and Andrew O’Neil, Griffith Asia Institute, Australia

The Ashgate Research Companion to Secession    Edited by Aleksandar Pavkovic, Macquarie University, Australia and Peter Radan, Macquarie University, Australia

The Commonwealth Brand: Global Voice, Local Action    Victoria te Velde, Independent Consultant

Turkey in the 21st Century: Quest for a New Foreign Policy    Edited by Özden Zeynep Oktav, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey

Modern History

Commerce and Culture: Nineteenth-Century Business Elites   Edited by Robert Lee, University of Liverpool, UK

The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929    Paul Halpern is retired from the Department of History, Florida State University, USA

New books – Law, Philosophy, Geography, Environment and Planning

Published August 5, 2011 Geography , Law , new title updates , Philosophy Leave a Comment
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Law

The Public Nature of Private Property    Edited by Robin Paul Malloy, Syracuse University College of Law and Michael Diamond, Georgetown University Law Center, USA

Law and the Market Economy in China    Edited by Perry Keller, King’s College London, UK

Philosophy

Augustine and Modern Law    Edited by Richard O. Brooks, Vermont Law School, USA and James Bernard Murphy, Dartmouth College, USA

Jürgen Habermas, Volumes I and II    Edited by Camil Ungureanu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, Klaus Günther, University of Frankfurt, Germany and Christian Joerges, University of Bremen, Germany

Geography, Environment and Planning

The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform: National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reforms     Edited by Alessandro Sorrentino, Università della Tuscia, Italy, Roberto Henke, National Institute of Agricultural Economics, Italy, and Simone Severini, Università della Tuscia, Italy

Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe    Edited by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA, Rachel Duffett, University of Essex, UK & Alain Drouard, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France and President of ICREFH

Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?    Edited by Catherine Aubertin and Estienne Rodary, both at the Institut de recherche pour le développement, France

Upwave: City Dynamics and the Coming Capitalist Revival    John Montgomery, Urban Cultures Ltd, UK and Australia

New books – Literary Studies, Philosophy

Published May 25, 2011 Literary Studies , new title updates , Philosophy Leave a Comment

Literary Studies

Conduct Books for Girls in Enlightenment France   Nadine Berenguier, University of New Hampshire, USA

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561–1633    Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Ecocritical Shakespeare   Edited by Lynne Bruckner, Chatham University, USA and Daniel Brayton, Middlebury College, USA

English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500–1625   Edited by Micheline White, Carleton University, Canada.

John Armstrong’s The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-Century Sensibility in Practice   Adam Budd, University of Edinburgh, UK

Modernist Short Fiction by Women: The Liminal in Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf    Claire Drewery, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century: Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins    Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, Trinity University, Texas, USA

Religion and Drama in Early Modern England: The Performance of Religion on the Renaissance Stage    Edited by Jane Hwang Degenhardt, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA; Elizabeth Williamson, The Evergreen State College, USA.

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature: Estate, Blood, and Body    Cheryl L. Nixon, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Walsingham and the English Imagination   Gary Waller, State University of New York, USA

Philosophy

Volume 9: Kierkegaard and Existentialism   Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Is it Rape? On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women’s Consent Seriously

Published May 24, 2011 Law , Philosophy , Sociology Leave a Comment
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This is a topic which remains very relevant, and Joan MacGregor’s book Is it Rape? On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women’s Consent Seriously analyses the ethical and legal problems that arise in connection with acquaintance rape cases.

Is it Rape?

The author discusses with great clarity and precision the complexities involved in notions such as consent, force, autonomy, power, intention and the impairment of responsibility through drugs, alcohol and mental illness.

Read the first chapter on our website

 ‘…an informative, lucid book…In explaining why acquaintance rape is often fraught with ambiguity and confusion, she displays a reasoned and substantial knowledge of the relevant philosophical literature on rape and the legal scholarship…. Recommended.’ Choice

‘The layout of McGregor’s book makes it an accessible and stimulating read… Is it rape? deserves to be read by theologians, lawyers, sociologists, and anyone interested in the ethical and legal questions surrounding rape… This is an admirable contribution, not only to the Lives Questions in Ethics and Moral Philosophy series, but also to the all too often neglected victims of rape, whose story needs to be told in a new light… Is it Rape? is a book that few would dare to write but even fewer would succeed. Neither can be said of Joan McGregor.’ Ethical Perspectives

‘This is an intelligent and insightful book. It reflects a contemporary perspective on sexuality. It is directly and engagingly written, and will inform a wide audience with interests in legal reform, sexual offences, and greater equality for women.’ Philosophy in Review

5 Outstanding Academic Title awards from Choice. 5: Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance

Published January 14, 2011 Philosophy , prizes , Religion and Theology Leave a Comment
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Five of Ashgate’s 2010 books have received Outstanding Academic Title awards from Choice magazine this year. We’re Thrilled!

This week we’ve been profiling one of the five award-winning titles each day, and today’s book is Paul Richard Blum’s Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance.

Philosophy of Religion in the Renaissance

What Choice said:

Blum offers a meticulous yet invigorating study… arguably the finest book-length treatment of its subject currently available

About the Author: Paul Richard Blum is T. J. Higgins, S.J., Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, USA

About the book: explores the continuity of philosophy of religion from late medieval thinkers through humanists to late Renaissance philosophers, explaining the growth of the tensions between the philosophical and theological views. Covering the work of Renaissance authors, including Lull, Salutati, Raimundus Sabundus, Plethon, Cusanus, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Bruno, Suárez, and Campanella, this book offers an important understanding of the current philosophy/religion and faith/reason debates and fills the gap between medieval and early modern philosophy and theology.

Philosophy and Theory of Law – new books for 2010-2011

Published September 28, 2010 Law , Philosophy Leave a Comment

Our new leaflet featuring books on the Philosophy and Theory of Law is available as a pdf on our website. It includes recently published books as well as looking ahead to what’s coming out over the next few months.

New books – Law, Philosophy and Reference

Published July 30, 2010 Law , new title updates , Philosophy , Reference Leave a Comment

Law

Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases: A Challenge to Classical Health Research Ethics?    Bernice Elger, University of Geneva, Switzerland

International Criminal Justice: Law and Practice from the Rome Statute to Its Review    Edited by Roberto Bellelli

Reappraisals in the Law of Property    John V. Orth, University of North Carolina School of Law, USA

The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics    Edited by Jon Yorke, Birmingham City University, UK

The Supreme Court and Benign Elite Democracy in Japan    Hiroshi Itoh, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA

Philosophy

Volume 1, Tome II: Kierkegaard and the Bible – The New Testament    Edited by Lee C. Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary, USA

Reference

A Criminological Imagination: Essays on Justice, Punishment, Discourse    Pat Carlen, Kent University, UK

Effective Interventions for Children in Need    Edited by Michael Little, Social Research Unit at Dartington, UK/University of Chicago, USA and Barbara Maughan, University of London, UK

The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought
5-Volume Set    Edited by Neil Levy, Florey Neuroscience Institutes, Australia and Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, UK

Available as a 5 volume set

Individual volumes:

Evolutionary Ethics    Edited by Neil Levy

Evolutionary Psychology    Edited by Stefan Linquist, University of Guelph, Canada and Neil Levy

Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon    Edited by John S. Wilkins, University of Sydney, Australia

Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology    Edited by Stefan Linquist

The Evolution of Culture    Edited by Stefan Linquist

A collection of Essays on Evolutionary Thought

Published July 15, 2010 Philosophy , Reference Leave a Comment

We’ve recently published a five volume set bringing together a wide range of essays on the theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution is one of science’s great achievements and it plays a pivotal role in guiding new research. But could the theory also be capable of illuminating phenomena outside the scope of biology?

The volumes in the series explore this question by bringing together some of the seminal writings of the past two decades which explore the relevance of evolution and evolutionarily-inspired thought to arenas of human life beyond the merely biological.

The volume editors are experts in the philosophy of biology and they focus the volumes on particular controversies within each field:

  • To what extent are the processes of selection and reproduction that explain changes in gene frequencies also at work in explaining the reproduction of ideas?
  • Is the content of moral systems explained by evolution?
  • Can evolution shed light on why we think as we do, perceive as we do, even feel as we do? 

The essays are wide-ranging, and relevant to the philosophy of science, the history of ideas, applied philosophy, ethics and philosophy and theology.

The International Library of Essays on Evolutionary Thought is edited by Neil Levy, from the Florey Neurosciences Institute, Australia and Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, UK. Editors of the individual volumes are Neil Levy, Stefan Linquist and John S. Wilkins.

Full information about the series is available on our website, and you can also download an information leaflet for the series

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