Value Inquiry Book Series
# Value Inquiry Book Series

The Value Inquiry Book Series (VIBS) is an international scholarly program, that publishes philosophical books in all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, aesthetics, feminism, pragmatism, personalism, religious values, medical and health values, values in education, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, cognitive science, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture.

The book series was founded in 1992 by Robert Ginsberg and is published by Rodopi.

## ISSN

ISSN 0929-8436

## Executive Editor

Leonidas Donskis, Member of the European Parliament, and previously Professor and Dean of Vytautas Magnus University School of Political Science and Diplomacy, Kaunas, Lithuania

## Volumes

recently Published volumes include:

* #275. Practicing Pragmatist Aesthetics: Critical Perspectives on the Arts. Edited by Wojciech Małecki. ISBN 978-90-420-3836-3 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1081-2
* #274. Jewish Thought, Utopia, and Revolution. Edited by Elena Namli, Jayne Svenungsson and Alana M. Vincent. ISBN 978-90-420-3833-2 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1078-2
* #273 Environmental Philosophy: A Revaluation of Cosmopolitan Ethics from an Ecocentric Standpoint. By Hugh P. McDonald. ISBN 978-90-420-3831-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1076-8
* #272 Being in America: Sixty Years of the Metaphysical Society. Edited by Brian G. Henning and David Kovacs. ISBN 978-90-420-3828-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1073-7
* #271 The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time: Some Remarks on the War of Generations. By Piotr Nowak. ISBN 978-90-420-3820-2 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1067-6
* #270 Reality and Culture: Essays on the Philosophy of Bernard Harrison. Edited by Patricia Hanna. ISBN 978-90-420-3819-6 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1066-9
* #269 Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno. By Bartholomew Ryan. ISBN 978-90-420-3813-4 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1060-7
* #268 Peace Philosophy and Public Life: Commitments, Crises, and Concepts for Engaged Thinking. Edited by Greg Moses and Gail Presbey. ISBN 978-90-420-3805-9 E-ISBN 978-94-012-1052-2
* #267 Narrative Ethics: Edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn. ISBN 978-90-420-3728-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0982-3
* #265 Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By David C. Bellusci. ISBN 978-90-420-3686-4 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0945-8
* #264 Beyond Aesthetics and Politics: Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism. By Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński. ISBN 978-90-420-3685-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0944-1
* #263. Trust: Analytic and Applied Perspectives. Edited by Pekka Mäkelä and Cynthia Townley. ISBN 978-90-420-3680-2 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0941-0
* #262. Discussing Modernity: A Dialogue with Martin Jay. Edited by Dorota Koczanowicz, Leszek Koczanowicz, and David Schauffler. ISBN 978-90-420-3664-2 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0930-4
* #261. The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement. Edited by Mechthild E. Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II. ISBN 978-90-420-3656-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0923-6 Textbook-ISBN 978-90-420-3661-1
* #260. The Conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia & G. B. Vico. By Giorgio A. Pinton. Introduction by Paolo Fabiani. ISBN 978-90-420-3643-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0912-0
* #259. Jesus or Nietzsche: How Should We Live Our Lives? By Raymond Angelo Belliotti. HB ISBN 978-90-420-3658-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0925-0
* #258. Oneness and the Displacement of Self: Dialogues on Self-Realization. By Michael Krausz. ISBN 978-90-420-3636-9 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0906-9
* #257. Polyphonic Thinking and the Divine. Edited by Jim Kanaris. ISBN 978-90-420-3621-5 E-ISBN 978-90-420-3621-5
* #256. Shakespeare and Philosophy. Lust, Love, and Law. By Raymond Angelo Belliotti. ISBN 978-90-420-3597-3 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0872-7
* #255. Queer Philosophy. Presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, 1998-2008. Edited by Raja Halwani, Carol V. A. Quinn, and Andy Wible. ISBN 978-90-420-3560-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0835-2
* #254. Giordano Bruno. An Introduction. By Paul Richard Blum. ISBN 978-90-420-3555-3 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0829-1
* #253. The Revolt of Unreason. Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Caso on the Crisis of Modernity. By Michael Candelaria. ISBN 978-90-420-3550-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0821-5
* #252. Yet Another Europe after 1984. Rethinking Milan Kundera and the Idea of Central Europe. Edited by Leonidas Donskis. ISBN 978-90-420-3543-0 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0817-8
* #251. Rethinking Plato. A Cartesian Quest for the Real Plato. By Necip Fikri Alican. ISBN 978-90-420-3537-9 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0812-3
* #250. Karl Jaspers. From Selfhood to Being. By Ronny Miron. ISBN 978-90-420-3531-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0806-2
* #249. Love as a Guide to Morals. By Andrew Fitz-Gibbon. ISBN 978-90-420-3530-0 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0805-5
* #248. Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit. By Yuval Lurie. ISBN 978-90-420- 3517-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0792-8
* #247. SS Thinking and the Holocaust. By André Mineau. ISBN 978-90-420-3506-5 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0782-9
* #246. Personality Disorders and States of Aloneness. Intimacy and Aloneness. A Multi-Volume Study in Philosophical Psychology. Volume Two. By John G. McGraw. ISBN 978-90-420-3494-5 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0770-6
* #245. Justice for Older People. Edited by Harry Lesser. ISBN 978-90-420-3490-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0767-6
* #244. Shusterman's Pragmatism. Between Literature and Somaesthetics. Edited by Dorota Koczanowicz and Wojciech Małecki. ISBN 978-90-420-3486-0 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0763-8
* #243. Speculative Evaluations. Essays on a Pluralistic Universe. By Hugh P. McDonald. ISBN 978-90-420-3484-6 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0761-4
* #242. Politics Otherwise. Shakespeare as Social and Political Critique. Edited by Leonidas Donskis and J. D. Mininger. ISBN 978-90-420-3464-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0746-1
* #241. Responses to the Enlightenment. An Exchange on Foundations, Faith, and Community. By William Sweet and Hendrik Hart. ISBN 978-90-420-3447-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0733-1
* #240. Identity and Social Transformation. Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Five. ISBN 978-90-420-3442-6 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0729-4
* #239. Friendship. A Central Moral Value. By Michael H. Mitias. ISBN 978-90-420-3438-9 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0725-6
* #238. The Search for a Theory of Cognition. Early Mechanisms and New Ideas. Edited by Stefano Franchi and Francesco Bianchini. ISBN 978-90-420-3427-3 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0715-7
* #237. The Memory of Pain. Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust. By Camila Loew. ISBN 978-90-420-3421-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0706-5
* #236. Tradition in Social Science. By Maurice Hauriou. Translation from French with an Introduction by Christopher Berry Gray. ISBN 978-90-420-3419-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0704-1
* #235. Reconstructing Subjects. A Philosophical Critique of Psychotherapy. By Hakam H. Al-Shawi. ISBN 978-90-420-3404-4 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0691-4
* #234. Social Justice, Poverty and Race. Normative and Empirical Points of View. Edited by Paul Kriese and Randall E. Osborne. ISBN 978-90-420-3394-8 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0681-5
* #233. The Privacy of the Psychical. By Amihud Gilead. ISBN 978-90-420-3391-7 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0085-1
* #232. Sex, Love, and Friendship. Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love: 1993-2003. Edited by Adrianne Leigh McEvoy. ISBN 978-90-420-3368-9 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0068-4
* #231. Reburial of Nonexistents. Reconsidering the Meinong-Russell Debate. By Carolyn Swanson. ISBN 978-90-420-3364-1 E-ISBN 978-94-012-0061-5
* #230. The Philosophy of Viagra. Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World., Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein. ISBN 978-90-420-3336-8
* #229. Communities of Peace. Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice., Edited by Danielle Poe. ISBN 978-90-420-3335-1
* #228. New Perspectives on Pragmatism and Analytic Philosophy., Edited by Rosa M. Calcaterra. ISBN 978-90-420-3321-4
* #227. Postethnophilosophy, by Sanya Osha. ISBN 978-90-420-3317-7
* #226. Niccolò Machiavelli. History, Power, and Virtue., Edited by Leonidas Donskis. ISBN 978-90-420-3277-4
* #225. Remembrance and Reconciliation., Edited by Rob Gildert and Dennis Rothermel. ISBN 978-90-420-3265-1
* #224. Creative Actualization. A Meliorist Theory of Values., Hugh P. McDonald. ISBN 978-90-420-3253-8
* #223. The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey. Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society., Edited by Larry A. Hickman, Matthew Caleb Flamm, Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński and Jennifer A. Rea. ISBN 978-90-420-3232-3
* #222. "Truth" is a Divine Name. Hitherto Unpublished Papers of Edward A. Synan, 1918-1997., Introduction and Edition by Janice L. Schultz-Aldrich. ISBN 978-90-420-3154-8
* #221. Intimacy and Isolation., by John G. McGraw. ISBN 978-90-420-3139-5
* #220. Beyond Metaphysics? Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought., Edited by Roland Faber, Brian G. Henning, and Clinton Combs. ISBN 978-90-420-3121-0
* #219. Containing (Un)American Bodies. Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship., by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo. ISBN 978-90-420-3024-4
