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Hermann Gross: a protean German Expressionist artist who chose to live and work in the north of Scotland

Robin Jackson explores the life and extraordinary range of work of 20th century German artist Hermann Gross

November 11, 2024
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Machiavelli in the twenty-first century

An exploration of the relevance of Machiavellian thought to twenty-first century philosophy

Edinburgh University Press
November 1, 2024

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What is Philosophy? What is Politics? What is Critique?

The editors of Philosophy, Politics and Critique reflect on the contested meanings of the terms which give the journal its name.

Edinburgh University Press
September 25, 2024

EUP 75: Our Publishing in Philosophy

Discover the history of Philosophy publishing at Edinburgh University Press, from our extensive publishing in Deleuze and Guattari Studies, to a ground-breaking new series in World Philosophies.

Edinburgh University Press
September 12, 2024

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Q&A with the author of Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought

Luke O'Sullivan, author of Categories, discusses how his book came to be, and what's next for him.

Edinburgh University Press
August 9, 2024

Fascism at the Limits of Capitalism

Reading Marx’s 'Capital' with Deleuze and Guattari

Edinburgh University Press
July 4, 2024

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Reconceiving ‘Wellbeing’ in AI Governance: Prosperity without Autonomy?

by Theodore Scaltsas We are all accustomed to thinking of wellbeing in Aristotelian terms, assuming the agent’s choice (proairesis) for the preferences and actions that constitute their wellbeing. The agent chooses what is good for them and performs the relevant…

Edinburgh University Press
September 27, 2023

A coloured picture (the colours are mainly black, white, grey and purple) depicting a portrait sketching of Karl Marx and Baruch Spinoza side by side. Marx is on the right hand side looking towards the left and Spinoza is on the left hand side looking ahead and to the left.

Alienation Reconsidered: Fischbach on Marx and Spinoza

How can reading Spinoza help us to understand Marx's concept of alienation under capitalism?

Shakespeare, the Reformation and the Interpreting Self: Q&A with the author

by Roberta Kwan Tell us a bit about your book. My book is about human knowing, or more precisely, humans as knowers. How can we know and be known? What prevents us from knowing? How should we know? The book…