Books in the Ideas series

A comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. The author offers an analysis of the concept of identity, arguing that we are now in a position to envisage the end of nationalism.

This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.

This book argues that the modern world calls into existence certain concepts of morality, but destroys the grounds for taking them seriously. In tackling this dichotomy and promoting the need to take account of social context, the book assesses a number of philosophical concepts and writers.

Explores the emotional aspects of the human experience of time, commonly neglected in philosophical investigation, by looking at how narrative creates and treats the experience of the self as fragmented and the past as "lost".