A first in English,?this book engages with the ways in which Hegel and Sartre answer the difficult questions: What is it to be human? What place do we have in the world? How should we live? What can w
This groundbreaking book engages with the relationship between ontology, metaphysics, and epistemology in Heidegger and Deleuze. Showing that the latter are rooted in their respective ontologies not o
In this book, Gavin Rae analyses the foundationsof political life by undertaking a critical comparative analysis of thepolitical theologies of Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas. In so doing, Raecontri
This work describes attempts to commodify Poland's welfare state--the infrastructure, services, and employees of the public health system, state schools, pension system, public housing and transportat
As the largest and most strategically important country in Central-Eastern Europe, Poland's transformation from socialism to capitalism has brought with it immense political changes. Poland was the fi
Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil - as a conceptual problem - came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae t
Criticises the historically dominant classic-juridical model of sovereign violence and defends a bio-juridical model insteadGavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a
Analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contestedCharting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Ga
Despite, or quite possibly because of, the structuralist, post-structuralist, and deconstructionist critiques of subjectivity, master signifiers, and political foundations, contemporary philosophy has
Violence has long been noted to be a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Traditionally, however, philosophical discussions have tended to approach it through the lens of warfare and/or limit it
