Acumen
Acumen is an independent publisher of academic books and journals in philosophy, classical studies and history of ideas for students, lecturers and researchers in institutions of higher education worldwide.
In keeping with the best practices of academic publishing, each of our titles goes through a rigorous process of peer review prior to publication. Standards of production are similarly high. Our titles are reasonably priced and almost all are available in paperback.
Acumen draws its authors from the UK, North America and throughout the world and aims to publish books that, without any compromise to scholarship, are accessible to the widest of academic readerships.
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WILLIAMS, James. Understanding Poststructuralism. Acumen. 2005.
£15.00Paperback, 192pp., NEW, Understanding Poststructuralism is a lucid guide to some of the most exciting and controversial ideas in contemporary thought. Structured around the key works of the movement's most important theorists, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Learn More -
WILLIAMS, James. Understanding Poststructuralism. Acumen. 2005.
£45.00Hardback, 192pp., NEW, Understanding Poststructuralism is a lucid guide to some of the most exciting and controversial ideas in contemporary thought. Structured around the key works of the movement's most important theorists, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Learn More -
WELBOURNE, Michael. Knowledge. Acumen. 2001.
£45.00Hardback, 160pp., NEW, What is it about knowledge that makes us value it more highly than mere true belief? This question lies at the heart of epistemology and has challenged philosophers ever since it was first posed by Plato. Michael Welbourne's examina Learn More -
WELBOURNE, Michael. Knowledge. Acumen. 2001.
£15.00Paperback, 160pp., NEW, What is it about knowledge that makes us value it more highly than mere true belief? This question lies at the heart of epistemology and has challenged philosophers ever since it was first posed by Plato. Michael Welbourne's examin Learn More -
WARREN, James. Presocratics. Acumen. 2007.
£16.00Paperback, 240pp., NEW, This general account of the Presocratics introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle of the fifth century BC. It explores how we might go about reconstructing their views and understanding the mot Learn More -
WARREN, James. Presocratics. Acumen. 2007.
£45.00Hardback, 240pp., NEW, This general account of the Presocratics introduces the major Greek philosophical thinkers from the sixth to the middle of the fifth century BC. It explores how we might go about reconstructing their views and understanding the moti Learn More -
VERNON, Mark. Wellbeing. Acumen. 2008.
£10.00Paperback, 160pp., NEW, The politics of wellbeing and the new science of happiness have shot up the agenda since Martin Seligman coined the phrase “positive psychology”. After all, who does not want to live the good life? So ten years on, why is it that m Learn More -
VAN HOOFT, Stan. Understanding Virtue Ethics. Acumen. 2005.
£45.00Hardback, 192pp., NEW, More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, which Learn More -
VAN HOOFT, Stan. Understanding Virtue Ethics. Acumen. 2005.
£15.00Paperback, 192pp., NEW, More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given situations. Virtue ethics, whic Learn More -
VAN HOOFT, Stan. Cosmopolitanism. Acumen. 2009.
£17.00Paperback, 224pp., NEW, Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of nationality, race, religion or Learn More -
VAN HOOFT, Stan. Cosmopolitanism. Acumen. 2009.
£50.00Hardback, 224pp., NEW, Cosmopolitanism is a demanding and contentious moral position. It urges us to embrace the whole world into our moral concerns and to apply the standards of impartiality and equity across boundaries of nationality, race, religion or Learn More -
TUOMINEN, Miira. The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle. Acumen. 2008.
£50.00Hardback, 336pp., NEW, This book provides the first systematic introduction to the “philosophy” of the commentators: their way of doing philosophy and the kind of philosophical problems they found interesting. The book begins with an examination of the co Learn More -
TUOMINEN, Miira. The Ancient Commentators on Plato and Aristotle. Acumen. 2008.
£17.00Paperback, 336pp., NEW, This book provides the first systematic introduction to the “philosophy” of the commentators: their way of doing philosophy and the kind of philosophical problems they found interesting. The book begins with an examination of the c Learn More -
THORSRUD, Harald. Ancient Scepticism. Acumen. 2008.
£15.00Paperback, 264pp., NEW, Although sceptical attitudes can be traced back to various Presocratic philosophers, Scepticism became a school of philosophy principally in the Hellenistic period and as a philosophical tradition has been influential ever since. H Learn More -
THORSRUD, Harald. Ancient Scepticism. Acumen. 2008.
£45.00Hardback, 264pp., NEW, Although sceptical attitudes can be traced back to various Presocratic philosophers, Scepticism became a school of philosophy principally in the Hellenistic period and as a philosophical tradition has been influential ever since. Ha Learn More -
THOMPSON, Mel. Me. Acumen. 2009.
£10.00Paperback, 160pp., NEW, “Who am I?” In a world where randomness and chance make life transient and unpredictable, religion, psychology and philosophy have all tried, in their different ways, to answer this question and to give meaning and coherence to the Learn More -
THOMAS, Janice. Minds of the Moderns. Acumen. 2009.
£50.00Hardback, 304pp., NEW, Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers’ views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosop Learn More -
THOMAS, Janice. Minds of the Moderns. Acumen. 2009.
£17.00Paperback, 304pp., NEW, Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers’ views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philoso Learn More -
TALLIS, Raymond. Hunger. Acumen. 2008.
£10.00Paperback, 160pp., NEW, Understanding hunger is the key to understanding ourselves. While they seem the most obvious things about us, our hungers are also deeply mysterious, arising out of, and casting light on, the unique character of human consciousness Learn More -
SVENDSEN, Lars. Work. Acumen. 2008.
£10.00Paperback, 160pp., NEW, Work is one of the most universal features of human life; virtually everybody spends some part of their life at work. It is often associated with tedium and boredom; in conflict with the things we would otherwise love to do. Thinki Learn More -
STOUT, Rowland. Action. Acumen. 2005.
£15.00Paperback, 172pp., NEW, The traditional focus of debate in philosophy of action has been the causal theory of action and metaphysical questions about the nature of actions as events. This lucid and lively introduction to philosophy of action shows how the Learn More -
STOUT, Rowland. Action. Acumen. 2005.
£45.00Hardback, 172pp., NEW, The traditional focus of debate in philosophy of action has been the causal theory of action and metaphysical questions about the nature of actions as events. This lucid and lively introduction to philosophy of action shows how thes Learn More -
SINNERBRINK, Robert. Understanding Hegelianism. Acumen. 2007.
£15.00Paperback, 200pp., NEW, Understanding Hegelianism explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critica Learn More -
SINNERBRINK, Robert. Understanding Hegelianism. Acumen. 2007.
£45.00Hardback, 200pp., NEW, Understanding Hegelianism explores the ways in which Hegelian and anti-Hegelian currents of thought have shaped some of the most significant movements in twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly the traditions of critical Learn More -
SHARPE, R.A. Philosophy of Music. Acumen. 2004.
£45.00Hardback, 196pp., NEW, Philosophy of Music is for anyone who has ever wondered whether or not music means anything or why some music is thought to be more significant than other music. It is a lively and lucid introduction to the aesthetics of music and t Learn More
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