About the BookThe Alternative Truth is about the struggle to obtain the promises outlined in the United States Constitution. It depicts the lengths people go through to deny those promises. Misinformation abounds in the course of the story as well as heartbreaking acts of cruelty. The message reflects the climate of today’s political environment. But derives its uniqueness from its authenticity. The reader may feel compassion or the reader could be satisfied that The Alternative Tru...

For the politically-inclined American, Aaron Simmons' newest release delves into the somber truths of the history and atrocities of the world that threaten our rights as humans.For generations, humans have sought to create a better life for themselves and their children. However, history is doomed to repeat itself if we can't learn from our many mistakes.In Aaron Simmons Jr.'s new nonfiction novel The Haters, he takes a sobering look at the history...

Bourgeois Christians: Worldly Evangelicals and the Paradoxes of Paganism is a historical, philosophical, sociological, and theological critique of Evangelicalism. It combines biblical texts with ideas from existentialism and phenomenology, philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor, and theologians like John Calvin and J. I. Packer. It shows how pagan cultural forces divert Evangelicals from serving God in the name of God. This is a paradox. It also deals with Christian ethics...

Collected critical essays analyzing Kierkegaard's work in regards to theology and social-moral thought.Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The contributors then shift to psychology, ...

Academic philosophy confronts heavy metal for the first timePrevious scholarly treatments of heavy metal have originated outside philosophy or targeted popular audiences rather than professional scholars. The Heaviest Ideas in the Universe: A Philosophy of Heavy Metal is the first edited volume applying rigorous philosophical inquiry directly to the genre. Featuring newly written papers by established scholars worldwide, the collection draws on diverse phi...

For the politically-inclined American, Aaron Simmons' newest release delves into the somber truths of the history and atrocities of the world that threaten our rights as humans.For generations, humans have sought to create a better life for themselves and their children. However, history is doomed to repeat itself if we can't learn from our many mistakes.In Aaron Simmons Jr.'s new nonfiction novel The Haters, he takes a sobering look at the history...

Kierkegaardian Phenomenologies, edited by J. Aaron Simmons, Jeffrey Hanson, and Wojciech Kaftanski, offers a substantive, diverse, and timely consideration of phenomenological engagements within the thought of Søren Kierkegaard. Featuring original essays from a distinguished collection of established and emerging global scholars representing different schools of thought, this volume explains how the interest in a phenomenological reading of Kierkegaard is not only vital, but conti...

Mainstream philosophy of religion has primarily focused on the truth and justification of religious beliefs even though belief is only one small facet of religious life. This collection remedies this by taking practice and embodied action seriously as fundamental elements of any philosophy of religion.Emerging and established voices across different philosophical traditions come together to consider religious actions, including public worship, from perspectives such as trauma and s...

In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed Epistemology, Yoon Shin critically builds on James K. A. Smith's postmodern Pentecostal epistemology with the aid of Reformed epistemology. It takes the reader through an interdisciplinary journey that exposits and illumines the relationship among Pentecostal spirituality, continental and analytic philosophy, postliberalism, moral psychology, and philosophy of emotion. This work clarifies misunderstandings of Smith, in Smith, and betw...

Rorty and the Prophetic interrogates and provides a constructive assessment to the American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty’s critiques of Jewish ethics. Rorty dismisses the public applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based on “the will of God” through divine revelation. As a self-described secular philosopher, it comes as no surprise that Rorty does not find public applicability within a divinely-ordered Jewish ethic. Rorty also rejects the French Jewish philoso...

The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes associated with the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary French thought. This book argues that there has not been a 'turn' to theology in recent French phenomenology, but instead a decidedly philosophical reconsideration of phenomenology itself. Engaging the foundational works of Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Henry, as well as later works by...

Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs different ethical lenses, including classical deontology, libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious challenges to the strong animal rights stance, inclu...