Oxford University Press

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Barry Dainton presents a fascinating new account of the self, grounded in the continuity we find in our streams of consciousness: this is the key to explaining how we can undergo changes but remain the same person. He has original things to say about personal identity, the conditions of our existence and survival, and our relation to our bodies....

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This book consists of multiple studies of the creation of an "e;Empire of Love"e; in the Pacific and the interconnections between culture and imperial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the European presence in such contested territories as Tahiti, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna, and encounter and conflict in...

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Athens in Paris explores the influence of ancient Greece on a group of seminal post-war French thinkers (including Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault) writing about modern politics. Miriam Leonard demonstrates the ways in which ancient debates about democracy and citizenship continue to be relevant to modern political and philosophical preoccupations....