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John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist tra...

John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist tra...

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pur...

Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not su...

Love seems like the most personal experience, one that touches each of us in a unique way that is more personal than social, and hence it is not su...

Since the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of 'true love' has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pur...

We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For lov...

Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of “talk” – and ultimately the meaning of “being human...

Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of “talk” – and ultimately the meaning of “being human...

People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is affronted or disturbed...

People care a great deal about justice. They protest and engage in confrontations with others when their sense of justice is affronted or disturbed...

In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ‘love' as the basis...

Love’s memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous’s writer-narrator advances here far into a...

Love’s memories, love recalling itself in letters lost and found over an interval of forty years: Cixous’s writer-narrator advances here far into a...

The internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand...

The internet is changing the rules of the game of love. In a world where anything is possible, a potential date - whether it be a one-night stand...

In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to...

In 2022, left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented third term in Brazil, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsona...

In 2022, left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva won an unprecedented third term in Brazil, defeating far-right incumbent Jair Bolsona...

We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggpl...

Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-moder...

Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-moder...

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longe...

We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longe...