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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

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...

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...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...