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...

One of the marks of being a philosopher is participating in debates about what counts as "philosophy." Of particular note in such debates is the question of how to distinguish philosophy from theology. Although a variety of answers to this question have been offered in the history of philosophy, in recent decades, the prominence of Christian philosophy has been heralded by many as a genuine triumph over the problematic narrowness of strong foundationalism, positivism, and scientism. For ot...

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...

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...

Republished fifty years later to coincide with the release of the Academy Award–nominated film of the same title written and directed by Aaron Sorkin with an all-star cast, this is the classic account of perhaps the most infamous, and definitely the most entertaining, trial in recent American history.In the fall of 1969 eight prominent anti-Vietnam War activists were put on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One of t...

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...

In this book, Aaron Simmons takes us on a trip to the mountains to reflect on themeaning of life. In a world too often defined by a quest for "success" that leaves usempty, alone, and anxious, Simmons seeks "faithfulness" outdoors with thinkersand artists from Aristotle to Kierkegaard, Sartre to Anne Lamott, and KendrickLamar to Donovan Woods. Simmons invites us to rethink what it means to makechoices, take risks, be alone and silent while cultivatin...

Citadel of the StarsBy: Aaron SimonsIn the spring of 1994, Jim and Tina are nonconformists with the strongest relationship imaginable. They turn eighteen, are about to graduate, go onto college, and have their lives ahead of them. But the next day, Tina goes missing…Five years later, Jim’s life has almost completely fallen apart. Tina’s parents have moved, he lost his family in a car accident, and he feels his life’s about to lose everything. He’s with the dog Tina ...

Point of View takes on a classic fairytale and presents it in a way you've never seen before! New backstory, new suspense, new characters, and many other new elements are added to a beloved story, making it an excellent read.  Point of View remixes the well-known story of The Little Mermaid, and offers a retelling from the villainous Ursula's perspective. Discover where Ursula came from, and what the true tale of Ariel might have been.  Humor, drama, and new perspecti...

In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary philosophy of religion.

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...

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...