We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t...
Recently there has been an extraordinary international revival of interest in Hannah Arendt. She was extremely perceptive about the dark tendencies in...
"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of...
Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious...
In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years...
In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate. Bernstein argues that...
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book...