Continuum imprint: 595 books
Healing Agony
Re-Imagining Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Stephen Cherry's Michael Ramsey Prize shortlisted Healing Agony argues that one of the most profound challenges a human being can ever face is how to forgive in the aftermath of injury, hurt or violation. This bookexplores the theology of forgiveness alongside a number of contemporary forgiveness...
Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil'
A Reader's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Beyond Good and Evil contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it is a notoriously difficult piece of philosophical writing. The authors demonstrate in clear and precise terms why it is to be regarded as Nietzsche's philosophical masterpiece...
by Professor John Cottingham
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Why Believe? sees John Cottingham, a philosopher of searing intellectual honesty, examine our society's struggle with the concept of belief.
Cottingham's carefully reasoned yet impassioned account shows how the religious outlook connects with our deepest human longings, how it links up with...
Transcendental Ontology
Essays in German Idealism
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Transcendental Ontology in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel sheds remarkable light on a question central to post-Kantian philosophy: after the Copernican Revolution in philosophy, what can philosophy say about the world or reality as such? What remains of ontology's task after Kant? This is a...
Brain, Mind and the Signifying Body
An Ecosocial Semiotic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2006
Thought always exaggerates' Hannah Arendt writes. The question of exaggeration becomes a philosophical question when thought endeavours to clarify the ways in which it relates to limits. If its disclosing force depends on exaggeration, so does the;confusion to which it can;fall prey. This book analyses...
Islam Today
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
This new introduction aims to present Islam through the lens of contemporary issues. Informed by research taken from lived religion, each chapter looks at Islam in a modern context, and explores issues relevant to the religion today.
After an initial chapter providing an overview of the Islamic...
Evaluation and Stance in War News
A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond...
by Sean Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2007
How does one start with Derrida?
In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the last century. Derrida claimed that 'However old I am, I am on the threshold of reading...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
With new readings from nineteen internationally renowned scholars, Reading Derrida's Of Grammatology is a significant reassessment and informed discussion of Jacques Derrida's landmark 1967 text.
Since its original publication, Of Grammatology has had a profound impact on philosophy, literary...
Melancholy and the Archive
Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive...
Research for Materials Development in Language Learning
Evidence For Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
This book examines current research in materials development and discussing their implications for the learning and teaching of languages.
by Mark Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts (2007). The book also includes a good number...
by Mark Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an unapologetic conservative in the tradition of Edmund Burke. That conservative instinct was sharpened during the Paris riots of...
Dictators and Dictatorships
Understanding Authoritarian Regimes and Their Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Dictators and Dictatorships is a qualitative enquiry into the politics of authoritarian regimes. It argues that political outcomes in dictatorships are largely a product of leader-elite relations. Differences in the internal structure of dictatorships affect the dynamics of this relationship. This...