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Think Philosophy, think Bloomsbury! Our books bring you food for (philosophical) thought and authors like Žižek, Badiou, Fanon, Midgley, Weil & more.
Book launch alert! Join an online discussion with Evie Kendal about 'Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs'.

While not yet reality, artificial wombs may be in our future. How can science fiction help tackle the ethics?

📍 https://bit.ly/4oZzMNk
🗓️ 1 Dec: 1pm GMT
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 AM
New release!

In the Philosophy of Fear, edited by Ami Harbin, Philosophers reflect on the significance of fear both in the history of Eastern and Western Philosophy and across disciplines.

Preview: https://bit.ly/482z8Y2
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4oGFNyj
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Now in paperback!

Engaging with debates about the political role of art in an era of total market subsumption, Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices shows how artists respond to the challenges of political authoritarianism.

Preview: https://bit.ly/3XmA6d7
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oQCIvU
November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics presents a range of bioethical topics in the following categories: foundational concepts, theory and method, healthcare ethics, research ethics, public health, technology, and more.

Preview: https://bit.ly/3XEDHTC
Available now: https://bit.ly/4nT8wyF
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When is the right time to speak?

In Zero Point, Slavoj Žižek asks how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it.

Now available as an audiobook!
Listen now on Spotify (https://bit.ly/4i7BsBV) & more!
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Now available in paperback!

Owen Barfield’s Poetic Philosophy, by Jeffrey Hipolito, paints a much-needed picture of the major thinker and poet, who was entirely engaged with his times and who remains crucially relevant to our own.

Preview: https://bit.ly/3K0c98e
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4p9drww
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Did you see that #Parasocial is the #WordOfTheYear from @CambridgeWords?

Discover how this phenomenon is transforming the ethics of internet users across the world in 'The Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity' -> bit.ly/3LYyRhv

Preview -> bit.ly/3LKwhMf
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
What is the “tragic imagination,” and how does it shape King Lear and Emerson’s Nature?

Andy Amato explores this question in The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson. Now in paperback!

Preview: https://bit.ly/47XBwzu
Learn more: https://bit.ly/43CABTQ
November 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Are you attending the Annual Meetings, hosted by AAR & @sblsite.bsky.social? Why not attend the launch of Multi/Race/Less/Ness by Jon Ivan Gill?

📍 Vinyl Index, 1 Bow Mkt Wy #25, Somerville, MA
📅 Nov 22nd
🕢 7:30 PM

More info: https://bit.ly/4pgyOfw
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
📚 We’re excited to be at the 2025 Annual Meetings, hosted by AAR & SBL!
📍 Visit us at Stand #804 to explore some of our latest books.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LW1ziZ
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Now in paperback!

Joanna Papiernik’s Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance examines the 15th-century Italian debates on the afterlife, which paved the way for 16th-century thinkers like Pietro Pomponazzi.

Preview: https://bit.ly/3WZ6wKr
Learn more: https://bit.ly/47YXKkt
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be?

Slavoj Žižek tackles these urgent questions in Against Progress. Now available as an audiobook.

Listen today on Spotify (https://bit.ly/4oTQxJR) & more!
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Jean-Luc Nancy After the Theological Turn by Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere is...

"Erudite, insightful, lucid... Deketelaere is one of the best thinkers of his generation." (Robyn Horner, Australian Catholic University)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LFSj2q
Preview: https://bit.ly/4p5B2OG
#philsky
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Code of the Warrior by Shannon E. French is out now!

"Worthwhile reading for military personnel and individuals interested in ethics. Highly recommended." (Library Journal)

Order now: https://bit.ly/3WR4jkc
Preview: https://bit.ly/4lSriWb
Inspection/Exam copies available!
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Have you read Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path?
Will you be attending the Annual Meeting 2025 hosted by AAR and @SBL?

Stop by a roundtable on the book!

📆 Tuesday 25th
🕘 9-11 AM
📍 Hynes Convention Center, 203

More info: https://bit.ly/485AhPX
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Did you know... Slavoj Žižek's Quantum History is also available as an audiobook!

Listen now on your preferred platform:

Spotify: https://bit.ly/3JWRu4O
Audible US: https://adbl.co/4p47rFk
Audible UK: https://adbl.co/4p832RS
& many more!
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Interested in philosophy of religion? Our religion team will be at the Annual Meetings 2025, hosted by AAR and @SBLsite!

Stop by the Bloomsbury stand to check out some of our recent religious studies, biblical studies, and theology books!

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LW1ziZ
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Can insights from Quantum Physics re-invent how we think about history? Rethink history, reality and political possibility with Quantum History - a new book by Slavoj Žižek.

Available now!

Get your copy: https://bit.ly/488zhdN
Read a preview: https://bit.ly/4oD3qIe
#philosophy #philsci
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
➡️ 'Jean-Francois Lyotard' is out now!

Learn more about French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard through a collection of interviews and debates, focusing on his later work and the period from 1984 to 1997.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JvNlop
Preview: https://bit.ly/47Zx2cO
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Discover how leading architectural theorists exchange ideas with the ground-breaking Belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe.

👉 'How is Architecture Political?', edited by Joseph Bedford, is now in paperback!

Order now: https://bit.ly/47Jyteg
Preview: https://bit.ly/4p1VO1P
November 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Reimagining Philosophy of Religion, by Amber L. Griffioen, looks beyond the limitations of analytic philosophy of religion to develop alternative and inclusive perspectives.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JwMbJl
Preview the book: https://bit.ly/3WKDJsS
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
'The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita' presents a comparative study of the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita, considering what unites and divides them.

Start reading open access: https://bit.ly/4oVMRH8
Now in paperback: https://bit.ly/4hPbcMv
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Can insights from Quantum Physics re-invent how we think about history?

Coming soon from Slavoj Žižek 👉 Quantum History

In this latest work, Slavoj Žižek traces a path from the primordial void through quantum oscillations to our ordinary reality.

Pre-order now: https://bit.ly/47qNuTh
#philosophy
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Environmental Affectivity by Omar Felipe Giraldo and Ingrid Fernanda Toro is now in paperback!

Imagines an embodied environmental ethics based on the relations between sentient beings and sustained by affections.

👉 Order now: https://bit.ly/49sErCy
👉 Preview: https://bit.ly/4qB1XDE
#Envhum
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Out now 👉 God and the Liberation of Reason in French Philosophy

"A fresh perspective on recent philosophical developments in France" (Christina M. Gschwandtner, Fordham University)

Order now: https://bit.ly/47Kd8lX
Preview: https://bit.ly/47PDOSk
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM