This work is a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa by Africans with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice. The voices are overwhelming African and the locus of contributors includes Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Malawi. Some of the contributors, as well as the editors, have experienced war first hand and have played honorable roles in rebuilding or re-energizing intellectual communities in Africa that have been affected by atrocities, destruction and inter-tribal hatreds.

Dr. Karimova addresses current issues within the theory of interactivity. Such problems as defining interactivity and measuring level of interactivity have recently attracted a great interest among researchers. In spite of attempts of previous research to solve these problems, the field has not moved far from its preliminary phase. This book is an attempt to move away from this preliminary phase by applying Bakhtinian concepts of ‘dialogic relationships,’ ‘polyphony,’ ‘carnival,’ and ‘chronotope’.

“There is,to my knowledge, no work in English that covers the field historically and across disciplines as this one does. It gives researchers in many disciplines the full picture of the range of memory studies and once more shows us the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.”
Ray Hanna, North American Book Reviews

In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving—that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving & shy;--manifests itself all too often in the

Our new release by Professor Andrew N. Woznicki, The Transcendent Mystery in Man: A Global Approach to Ecumenism (Academica Press,2007,ISBN 193314615X) explores man as a being who is endowed not only with immanent but also with transcendent virtual power as well, and through both of them man is capax Dei. The author states that the twofold virtual power enables man to participate in divinity either in a form of an act of believing in the factually existing God, and/or in a form of self discovering of one’s own being as divine.

Robert McCartney’s trenchant and lucid expositions have been one of the few means by which the people of Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland have been able to appreciate the true nature of contemporary politics. His principled stand against terrorism by both extremes in Northern Ireland has been lauded by including Conor Cruise O’Brien, Lady Thatcher, John Major and Bertie Ahearn, the Irish Prime Minister. These essays on political liberty and the future of Ireland have never before been published in a single volume.

An original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science.

Table of contents:

Chapter1: Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and Cyberspace
Chapter2: Body Doubles

This monograph (translated from French) is the first attempt to reconcile Camus’s deep-seated identity as an Algerian and his ideas of a multiconfessional, multicultural, non-colonial Algeria. The authors discuss the identity of Camus, his philosophy and politics, including his sexual politics, in light of a southern Mediterranean cultural nexus that stamped Camus as an Algerian rather than French (pied-noir). Camus’s cosmopolitan and radical Algiers of the 30’s is described vibrantly reflecting his extraordinary understanding of the people and landscape that evolved from his journalism.

This ambitious and complex monograph by one of Africa’s emerging literary critics and philosophers is focused on the ways that both Nietzsche and Wilde sought aesthetic solutions to the moralistic problems generated by what Nietzsche identified as “the will to truth”. The author examines the inadequacy of the Romantic demand for an “undivided” subject both in their era as well as our own.

Dr Lovatt's book is a comprehensive look at the relevance of the teachings and philosophy of Plato and the pedagogical methods open to the teaching of the Platonic canon. The author invites his readers to enter into a collegial discourse and view the modern world through Plato's eyes and question their own beliefs, as he relates Plato's words to various contemporary issues including bioethics, politics, education and the process of scientific discovery. Lovatt is also interested in rehabilitating Plato’s methodologies from heterodox misinterpretations and frambold orthodoxies.