A collection of essays, which examine the philosophical principles and logical structure underlying Marx's economic theory in Capital . It deals with many methodological issues including: the meaning of dialectic logic, the relation between Marx and Hegel, the historical specificity of Marx's concepts, and, the emphasis on social forms.

Offering an interpretation of Spinoza as a dialectical thinker, this book addresses other commentators' misunderstandings of some of Spinoza's primary principles. It discusses Spinoza's metaphysics and epistemology, the problem of relating finite to infinite in his system, the infinity of the attributes of substance, and the body-mind relation.

Demonstrates the impact on social, ethical, and theological doctrines of the twentieth-century scientific revolution, particularly the Anthropic Principle. This book reviews the main arguments put forward in the Western philosophical tradition for the existence of God.

Explores developments in the sociology of knowledge, and highlights the shift away from traditional - particularly Cartesian - conceptions of person, mind and social behaviour.

Develops a sociological perspective on the logic of personal sales and its moral ethos by examining the training of agents in the life insurance industry. Viewed more broadly, this work evaluates the meaning and consequences of certain features of the commercialisation of American life.

Offers a translation of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's monograph entitled On the Linguistic Capacity and the Origin of Language . This book also explores the role played by the linguistic thought of the German idealists in the emergence of modern scientific linguistics with Wilhelm von Humboldt, as well as its connections with German romanticism.

A collection of readings from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Antonio Gramsci which reflect the experience of the labour, socialist, and communist movements that did so much to shape modern history.

Examines the errors of empiricism, showing that the holistic character of science has been largely overlooked by schools of philosophy, which have spawned the scepticism and relativism of postmodernism. This book develops the basis in physics for the restoration of metaphysics with its main features being holism, anthropomorphism, and theism.

Argues that studies of corporeality are a component of a philosophy of communicative praxis directed toward ethical concerns. This book demonstrates that the communicative disclosure of worldly possibilities arises out of the conjunction of physical and hermeneutical capabilities of bodies and the material potentiality of situations.

Examines the link between Heidegger's theories and his reading of German philosophy - especially idealist and neo-Kantian strains. This title offers the analyses and evaluations of Heidegger's writings that represent a range of views, running from those who agree with Heidegger to those who are critical.

Attempts to resuscitate Simmel's reputation among his contemporaries as 'the philosopher of the avant-garde' by revealing the cultural origins of his sociological thought. This book examines Simmel's impact upon significant movements of the period such as radical feminism, literary Expressionism, and, the homosexual rights movement.

Spanning 3 decades and covering political life in Britain, France, and Mexico and the United States, the author's political journey brought him into intimate contact with the major trends and personalities within American Trotskyism and its other forms throughout the world. Here, he tells that what being a part of the Far Left is really like.

This authoritative volume is encyclopedic in scope, standing as the best resource in the field, with more than 4,000 entries.

Drawing on the literature of existential psychology, this title develops the paradox principle, based on the assumptions that human experience spans a continuum from constriction to expansion.