Non-Fiction Books
by Luis de Miranda
A selection
A Practical Introduction
Bloomsbury 2024
This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense.
MIT Press 2019
For most of us, the word neon conjures images of lights, colors, nightlife, and streets. It evokes the poetry of city nights. In this book, neon is a subject of philosophical curiosity. Being and Neonness is an inspired journey through a century of night, deciphering the halos of the past and the reflections of the present to shed light on the future.
Thinking as a Way of Healing
Bloomsbury 2024
Bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary scholars, this ground-breaking volume examines the theory and practice of philosophical health in contemporary contexts of care broadly understood, care for the self, care for the other, and care for the world.
The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
Edinburgh University Press 2020
Esprit de corps has played a significant role in the cultural and political history of the last 300 years. Through several historical case studies, Luis de Miranda shows how this phrase acts as a combat concept with a clear societal impact. In the end, this is a cautionary analysis of past and current ideologies of ultra-unified human ensembles, a recurrent historical and theoretical fabulation the author calls ‘ensemblance’.
