The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes. The handbook fully and critically engages with recent exciting changes, contextualizes them within longer-...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

- Follows the evolution of environmental history from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies. - Authors both review past developments in environmental history and project future trends. - Original articles by 27 authors. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches ...(展开全部)

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides...(展开全部)

The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault’s genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into a broader interdisciplinary orientation, addressing the rationalities of power over living beings in diverse spati...(展开全部)

This handbook attempts to name a field of philosophy by gathering new work across different traditional fields of philosophy (metaethics, normative ethics, epistemology, action theory, philosophy of mind and moral psychology) belonging to what the editors suggest should be known as the philosophy of practical reason. The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason provides a history...(展开全部)

Some of philosophy’s biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong? In virtue of what am I the same person my mother bore? In virtue of what is an artwork beautiful? Philosophers attempt to answers many of these types of in-virtue-of questions, but philosophers are also increasingly focusing on what an ...(展开全部)

The philosophical inquiry of responsibility is a major and fast-growing field. It not only features questions around free will and moral agency but also addresses various challenges in the social, institutional, and legal contexts in which people are being held responsible. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility is an outstanding survey and exploration of these ...(展开全部)

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Friendship is a superb compilation of chapters that explore the history, major topics, and controversies in philosophical work on friendship. It gives both the advanced scholar and the novice in the field an overview and also an in-depth exploration of the connections between friendship and the history of philosophy, morality, practic...(展开全部)