Ethics and moral philosophy Books

Book SynopsisThis collection explores a wide variety of questions, both of a theoretical and a practical nature, raised by teaching environmental ethics. The essays consider general issues, such as the place of environmental advocacy in the environmental ethics classroom; using outdoor environments to prompt reflection on environmental ethics; and handling student responses, such as pessimism that may emerge from teaching environmental ethics. The essays also consider practical issues, including successfully teaching environmental ethics to students without a background in philosophy; promoting the development of interdisciplinarity; useful ways to structure syllabi; and teaching and learning techniques. This book will be particularly useful to anyone teaching environmental ethics or environmental studies, or interested in the theoretical issues that teaching environmental ethics raises.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is a unique joint venture of teachers in, and practitioners of military ethics. Representatives of each branch of the Armed Forces, i.e. the Navy, the Army, the Air Force and the Military Police, discuss their branch-specific experiences with moral questions and dilemma’s. The moral questions and dilemma’s which arise in their work are also discussed by certain professional groups within the Armed Forces, such as the Military Medical Service and the Military Psychological Service. Detailed attention is given to how junior commanders can enhance morally responsible behaviour within their unit. A substantial part of the book focuses on teaching military ethics. It includes the Socratic dialogue, decision-making skills, and a chapter containing fictitious moral dilemmas that can be used as exercises. The book is aimed at those responsible for training at military training centres as well as at cadets, midshipmen and young officers. It will also be an important tool for commanders preparing for a mission. And it will be of use for all those concerned with the subject of military ethics at policy and management level, both in the armed forces and outside it. Military Ethics: The Dutch Approach – A Practical Guide is an adapted translation of the main chapters of the Dutch-language volume Praktijkboek Militaire Ethiek (Practitioner's Guide Military Ethics).Trade Review'...plausible and usually persuasive...' Patrick Nold, English Historical Review, 2002. 'Friedlander [...] succeeds admirably in his task of recovering Bernard Francisan and giving us a firmly grounded picture of what it could mean to follow the ideals of the saint of Assisi in the turbulent context of the late 1200s and early 1300s.' James B. Given, Speculum, 2001.Table of ContentsForeword by Mr. C. van der Knaap, State Secretary for Defence of the Netherlands; Introduction; Chapter 1 Military Ethics – Its Nature and Pedagogy by Th.A. van Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij; Chapter 2 Leadership in Practice by C. van Egmond; Chapter 3 Ethics, Command Responsibility and Dilemmas in Military Operations by Th.A. van Baarda; Chapter 4 Ethics in the Royal Netherlands Navy by Th.A. van Baarda; Chapter 5 Ethics in the Royal Netherlands Army: The Development of Morally Competent Military Personnel, from Recruit to Veteran by C.E. van den Berg and D.E.M. Verweij; Chapter 6 Teaching Ethics to NCOs in the Royal Netherlands Army by J.P.M. Schoenmakers and D.E.M. Verweij; Chapter 7 Ethics and Dilemmas in the Royal Netherlands Air Force by Th.A. van Baarda and P.J.M. van der Heijden; Chapter 8 ‘Without Fear or Blame’: Moral Dilemmas in the Royal Marechausse (Royal Netherlands Constabulary) by H. Hovens; Chapter 9 Moral Dilemmas in Military Health Care by A.J. van Leusden (MD) and (MD) M.J.J. Hoejenbos; Chapter 10 Walking a Tightrope? Ethics and Conflicts of Interest in Psychological Support to Missions by Ambaum and L. Horstman; Chapter 11 Moral Dilemmas of the Social Workers in the Defence Social Service by M. Meijer; Chapter 12 The Confidential Counsellor by H.H. Horlings and E.J. Overbeke; Chapter 13 Forming a Moral Judgement Using a Dynamic Model by Th.A. van Baarda; Chapter 14 Manual for Instructors: Forming a Moral Judgement Using a Dynamic Model by Th.A. van Baarda; Chapter 15 Socrates in the Armed Forces: The Role of the Socratic Dialogue in Military Training by D.E.M. Verweij and M. Becker; Chapter 16 Dilemmas for Use During Instruction by S.H. Springer; Annex: Different Ethical Approaches; Index; Bibliography; About the authors.

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Book SynopsisRational exercise of our responsibility requires us to relate the globalization process to the ends and purposes that properly befit human life and human community. Economic 'ends' are merely the 'means' to ends of a higher order, which can only be specified in terms of moral duty and ethical purpose. The contributors to this book explore political-ethical issues of globalization, including terrorism, institutional change and distribution in the world economy, the role of the United Nations and international financial institutions, the regimes of international trade and technology transfer, the effects of regionalism in the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the failure of Russia, human rights enforcement in Africa, and the prospects for global governance. This book was originally published as Volume 4 no. 3-4 (2005) of Brill's journal Perspectives on Global Development and Technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Globalization, Markets and Ethics R.B. Day 2. Society and Market in the Era of Globalization D. Pokorny 3. The Moral Politics of IMF Reforms: Universal Economics, Particular Ethics J. Best 4. Global Trade and Technology Regimes: The South's Asymmetrical Struggle R. Patterson 5. Russia and Globalization M.A. Molchanov 6. Regionalism and Globalization: The Case of the European Union M.A. Molchanov 7. The Community of Europe and Globalization Waldemar A. Skrobacki 8. Humanitarian Intervention and the Question of Sovereignty: The Case of ASEAN S. Narine 9. Genocide and State-Induced Famine: Global Ethics and Western Responsibility for Mass Atrocities in Africa R.E. Howard-Hassmann 10. The United Nations and International Security in the New Millennium W.A. Knight 11. Terrorism and Globalization B. Cooper 12. The "Relative Universality" of Human Rights: An assessment (Donnelly) Steve On 13. Morality, Ethics and Globalization: Lessons from Kant, Hegel, Rawls, and Habermas E. Lachapelle 14. Globalization and the Requirements of "Good" Environmental Governance S. Bernstein 15. Governing a Global Community of Shared Risks J. Mascuilli& R.B. Day Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker’s philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville’s anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability. By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville’s theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville’s studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 Chastity and Courage  2 Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London  1 Mandeville’s Continental Background 1 Mandeville’s Female Voices  1 The Century of Sex  2 The Virgin Unmask’d  3 Female Education. “What Girls Should Do with Latin?” 2 The Oxford Gentleman and Philopirio  1 Living Dead and Public Benefactors  2 The Duel of Honour  3 Medicine and Philosophy: The Hypp’d Nation 3 The Political Offspring of Pride  1 Powerful Persuasions  2 Men of Fashion, Bullies in Morality  3 Natural and Artificial Courage 3 Politeness and Virtue  1 Mandeville’s Rise to Fame  2 Hypocrisy and Self-deception  3 The Ticklish Foundation of Female Virtue 4 Cleomenes and Horatio  1 Portrait of a Complete Gentleman  2 Self-liking and the Origin of Politeness  3 A Conjectural History of Sociability 6 Modern Honour and the Cult of the Self  1 Martial Virtue  2 The History of Pride  3 Mandeville’s Challenge Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume exposes the contested history of a virtue so central to modern disciplines and public discourse that it can seem universal. The essays gathered here, however, demonstrate the emergence of impartiality. From the early seventeenth century, the new epithet ‘impartial’ appears prominently in a wide range of publications. Contributors trace impartiality in various fields: from news publications and polemical pamphlets to moral philosophy and historical dictionaries, from poetry and drama to natural history, in a broad European context and against the backdrop of religious and civil conflicts. Cumulatively, the volume suggests that the emergence of impartiality is implicated in the period’s epochal shifts in epistemology and science, religious and political discourse, print culture, and scholarship. Contributors include: Jörg Jochen Berns, Tamás Demeter, Derek Dunne, Anne Eusterschulte, Christine Gerrard, Rainer Godel, N.J.S. Hardy, Rhodri Lewis, Hanns-Peter Neumann, Joad Raymond, Bernd Roling, Bastian Ronge, Richard Scholar, Nathaniel Stogdill, Anita Traninger, and Anja Zimmermann.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Instances of Impartiality KATHRYN MURPHY AND ANITA TRANINGER 1. PREHISTORIES OF IMPARTIALITY Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality ANITA TRANINGER Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne RICHARD SCHOLAR 2. NEWS AND IMPARTIALITY Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press JÖRG JOCHEN BERNS Exporting Impartiality JOAD RAYMOND 3. LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND THE LAW ‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude’: Partial Judges and Impartial Revengers in Early Modern English Drama DEREK DUNNE ‘Out of Books and Out of Themselves’: Invigorating Impartiality in Early Modern England NATHAN STOGDILL The Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in England, 1680–1745 CHRISTINE GERRARD 4. IMPARTIALITY IN CONTROVERSY Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion RHODRI LEWIS The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in the Early Eighteenth Century RAINER GODEL Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics in the Leibnizian-Wolffian Debates between 1720 and 1750 HANNS-PETER NEUMANN 5. IMPARTIALITY AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP Impartiality and the Early Modern ars critica: The Case of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes (1618) NICK HARDY Pierre Bayle’s Dictionaire historique et critique: Historical Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement ANNE EUSTERSCHULTE 6. A VIEW FROM NOWHERE: IMPARTIALITY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY Morals Before Objectivity: On the Relation of Moral Cognition and Moral Philosophy in Hume TAMÁS DEMETER Between Impartiality and Parrhesia: Adam Smith’s Figure of the Impartial Spectator BASTIAN RONGE 7. IMPARTIALITY AND THE ART OF OBSERVATION Impartiality in the Matrix of Taxonomy: Carl von Linné and Folklore BERND ROLING Truth Rather Than Elegance: A Paradoxical Case of Impartiality in Alexander Cozens’s Principles of Beauty (1778) ANJA ZIMMERMANN Index

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Book SynopsisMorality is often defined in opposition to the natural "instincts," or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behavior, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian position that moral behavior is continuous with the social behavior of animals, and most likely evolved to enhance the cooperativeness of society. In this view, morality is part of human nature rather than its opposite. This interdisciplinary volume debates the origin and working of human morality within the context of science as well as religion and philosophy.Trade Review'Because this collection represents some of the most cutting edge research questions being addressed in the field of animal studies right now, for anyone interested in the nature and development of morality in humans and animals and the relations between the two, this book is well worth considering.' Ben Mulvey in Metapsychology Online Reviews, Feb 3rd 2015 (Volume 19, Issue 6) 'Overall, this is a very well-written and thought-provoking text. Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience covers such a plethora of meaningful philosophical ideas, it is difficult to do it justice with a brief book review. It would be an excellent text for all social science students. It is sufficiently easy to read but covers a dearth of complex ideas, and therefore, it may help both undergraduate and graduate students learn to critically assess these important philosophical issues. This is a book that promotes critical reasoning about the concept of morality and human nature. Robert Perna in PsycCRITIQUES, June 22, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 25, Article 8Table of ContentsTable of Contents 1. Evolution A history of the altruism-morality debate in biology Oren Harman The moral consequences of social selection Christopher Boehm Natural normativity: The “is” and “ought” of animal behavior Frans de Waal 2. Meta-ethics Empiricism and normative ethics: What do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics? Owen Flanagan, Aaron Ancell, Stephen Martin and Gordon Steenbergen Human nature and science Simon Blackburn Is a naturalized ethics possible? Philip Kitcher The origins of moral judgment Richard Joyce 3. Neuroscience and Development The neurobiological platform for moral values Patricia Smith Churchland The neuroscience of social relations. A comparative-based approach to empathy and to the capacity of evaluating others’ action value Pier Francesco Ferrari A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment Larisa Heiphetz and Liane Young Morality, intentionality, and intergroup attitudes Melanie Killen and Michael T. Rizzo 4. Religion Does religion make people moral? Ara Norenzayan Supernatural beliefs: Adaptations for social life or byproducts of cognitive adaptations? Vittorio Girotto, Telmo Pievani, Giorgio Vallortigara

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Faith: Belief, Morality and Memory in a Fifteenth-Century Judeo-Iberian Manuscript, Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a lens, Hamilton explores how its compiler or compilers were forging a particular form of personal, individual religious belief, based not only on the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition of medieval Iberia, but also on the Latinate humanism of late 14th and early 15th-century Europe. The form/s such expressions take reveal the contingent and specific engagement of learned Iberian Jews and conversos with the larger Iberian, European and Arab Mediterranean cultures of the 15th-century.Trade Review"...Along with the contemporary scholars whom Hamilton frequently cites, her book provides a wide and deep understanding of the figures on whom the discussion touches. Her intention and execution are excellent... Hamilton has restored to Iberian history a distinctive group of influential scholars whom biographical study long missed." Arthur M. Lesley (Independant Scholar), Renaissance Quarterly, Volume LXIX, No. 1Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction xii 1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable 1 2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and “Nuestro Padre” Abraham 58 3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism 88 4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions 136 5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews 166 6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages 205 Conclusion: Textual Truths 249 Bibliography 255 Index 289

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Book SynopsisIn Vulnerability and Critical Theory, Estelle Ferrarese identifies contemporary developments on the theme of vulnerability within critical theory while also seeking to reconstruct an idea of vulnerability that enables an articulation of the political and demonstrates how it is socially produced. Philosophies that take vulnerability as a moral object contribute to rendering the political, as the site of a specific power and action, foreign to vulnerability and the notion of recognition offered by critical theory does not correct this deficit. Instead, Ferrarese argues that vulnerability, as susceptibility to a harmful event, is above all a breach of normative expectations. She demonstrates that these expectations are not mental phenomena but are situated between subjects and must even be conceived as institutions. On this basis she argues that the link between the political and vulnerability cannot be reduced to the institutional implementation of moral principles. Rather she seeks to rethink the political by taking vulnerability as the starting point and thereby understands the political as simultaneously referring to the advent of a world, the emergence of a relation, and the appearance of a political subject.

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Book SynopsisBased on the philosophy of Michel Henry, the contributions of the anthology “Immanenz und Einheit” give different phenomenological and metaphysical foundations of the relation between immanence and unity, examine its perspectives for philosophy of religion and analyse its ethical consequences. Ausgehend vom Werk Michel Henrys geben die in der Festschrift „Immanenz und Einheit“ gesammelten Beiträge phänomenologische und metaphysische Grundlegegungen für das Verhältnis zwischen Immanenz und Einheit und untersuchen die religionsphilosophischen Perspektiven und ethischen Konsequenzen, die sich aus diesem Verhältnis ergeben.Table of ContentsGrußwort Vorwort I.METAPHYSISCHE UND PHÄNOMENOLOGISCHE GRUNDLAGEN Immanenz und Transzendenz einer absoluten Einheit im Raum der abendländischen Metaphysik Markus Enders Le monisme ontologique selon Michael Henry Jean-François Lavigne Autoaffection et passion primordiale Miguel García-Baró Attention et subjectivation. D’une réduction «contre-pathétique» Marc Maesschalck II.RELIGIONSPHILOSOPHISCHE KONSEQUENZEN Maître Eckhart, phénoménologue de l’unité Jean Reaidy Das Absolute als Einheit bei Fichte und Henry Frédéric Seyler Christianisme et christologie immanente. De la phénoménologie de la vie à la théologie Antoine Vidalin Östliche Leere. śūnyatā im Hinduismus und im indischen Buddhismus Adrian Navigante III.ETHISCHE PERSPEKTIVEN „Lebensführung” und „Lebensethos”- zur Frage ethischer Vermittlung bei Trutz Rendtorff und Michel Henry Francine Charoy Unité esthétique de l’existence vivante Jean Leclercq „Unmittelbare Selbstgebung“ und „immanente Narrativität“ als Einheit des Erscheinens von Leben und Welt Rolf Kühn Index

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Book SynopsisNew Perspectives on Power and Political Representation from Ancient History to the Present Day offers a unique perspective on political communication between rulers and ruled from antiquity to the present day by putting the concept of representation center stage. It explores the dynamic relationship between elites and the people as it was shaped by constructions of self-representation and representative claims. The contributors to this volume – specialists in ancient, medieval, early-modern and modern history – move away from reductionist associations of political representation with formal aspects of modern, democratic, electoral, and parliamentarian politics. Instead, they contend that the construction of political representation involves a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms that, although they have been applied and appropriated in various ways in a range of historical contexts, has stood the test of time.Trade Review"The strengths of the individual contributions, which are well-informed and erudite, as well as the guiding hands of the volume’s editors deserve praise. The task of clearly and cogently demonstrating, in barely 200 pages, that across a wide chronological and geographic span a set of discourses, practices, and mechanisms operating as politically representative is discernable is surely an unenviable one. The collected essays are generally written in a very approachable manner and one need not be well versed in contemporary political theory to grasp the overarching arguments." Corey J. Ellithorpe in BMCR 2020.06.24Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Contributors  1 Introduction: Repertoires of Representation  Harm Kaal and Daniëlle Slootjes  2 Emperors and Councillors: Imperial Representation between Republic and Empire  Olivier Hekster  3 Politics of Access at the Court of the Caliph  Maaike van Berkel  4 Representative Bodies in Medieval Religious Orders: A Discarded Legacy?  Bert Roest  5 The Political Rhetoric of Capitals: Rome and Versailles in the Baroque Period, or the “Power of Place”  Peter Rietbergen  6 Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts, 1400-1750  Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks  7 The Image of Prime Minister Colijn: Public Visualisation of Political Leadership in the 1930s  Marij Leenders and Joris Gijsenbergh  8 Postwar Popular Politics: Integrating the Voice of the People in Postwar Political History  Harm Kaal and Vincent van de Griend  9 Majdan: Presence and Political Representation in Post-Communist Ukraine  Wim van Meurs and Olga Morozova  10 Regulation without Representation? Independent Regulatory Authorities and Representative Claim-Making in the Netherlands, 1997-now  Adriejan van Veen Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is also available in paperback. What is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why are sloth bears trained to dance? How is traditional Chinese medicine implicated in the deaths of black bears in North America? Bear Necessities answers all of these questions, and many more. Through the voices of activists, scientists, and educators, readers walk alongside those who pull sun bears from Vietnamese bile farms, track Andean bears in the rugged hills of Ecuador, work to protect Montana’s grizzlies in the courtroom, and gently heal the many wounded bears who live in sanctuaries around the world. Though almost every bear species is endangered or severely threatened, Bear Necessities offers hope through knowledge and understanding, which reside at the heart of change.Trade Review"Lisa Kemmerer's book reveals not only the tragedy and cruelty being imposed upon bears internationally, but also the successes in combating it...Equally thought provoking, sad, joyful, inspiring, the reader will experience all these emotions as the pages reveal realities rarely known before. This book commands a treasured space on any bear-lover's bookshelf." -Mick W., North Shore Black Bear NetworkTable of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction, Lisa Kemmerer PART I: Bear Basics 1.Bear Basics, Lisa Kemmerer 2.Bear-Aware for Twenty Years, Victor Watkins 3.Making a Difference for Bears in Asia, Amy Corrigan 4.Polar Bears: Watching Extinction in Real Time, Kassie Siegel and Brendan Cummings PART II: A World of Problems 5.Franzi: Beloved Ambassador for Bears on Bile Farms, Jill Robinson 6.Little Bears, Big Trees, Tiny Insects: Protecting Sun Bears and their Rainforest, Lisa Kemmerer and Siew Te Wong 7.Libearty Sanctuary Zarnesti: Sharing Love and Sheltering Life in Eastern Europe, Cristina Lapis 8.9,540,000 Square Miles, 800,000 American Black Bears, 3 Rescues, Charlotte Lorraine Cressey 9.Failing Giant Pandas: Captive Breeding and Conservation, Sarah M. Bexell 10.Bear Baiting in Pakistan, Fakhar -i- Abbas 11.Dirty Dancing: Caring for Sloth Bears in India, Lisa Kemmerer 12.Sliding Down Mountainsides on My Butt in Search of the Elusive Andean Bear, Dalma Zsalakó 13.Finding Enrico: Protecting Andean Bears and their Habitat, Lisa Kemmerer, Kerry Fugett, and Simona Kobel PART III: Policy 14.Brown Bears, Salmon, People: Traveling Upstream to a Sustainable Future, Chris Darimont, et al 15.Cleaning up a Community for Black Bears, Mick Webb 16.U.S. Wildlife Agencies: Outdated, Misguided, and Destructive, Lisa Kemmerer 17.The Assignment: Breaking Laws to Build Laws on behalf of Lake Tahoe’s Black Bears, Ann Bryant 18.A Grizzly Battle: Government Agencies, Endangered Species, and the U.S. Legal System, Tara Zuardo 19.Panda Preservation 2.0: Shifting Gears to Save a Species, Anna Beech and Marc Brody PART IV: Bears and Beyond 20.Canary in the Arctic, Lisa Kemmerer 21.Bears, Birds, and Human Hubris: Imagining Bears in the Andes, Tom Regele 22.The Damage and Hope of Total Institutions: Visiting a Bear Sanctuary in Cambodia, Lisa Kemmerer and Daniel Kirjner 23.Bear Naked: Compassion and Wilderness, Dana Medoro Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Simone de Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It reveals previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir's work by exposing her as a significant and inspiring humanist thinker. These essays argue that her works and influence testify to the transformative potential of humanistic research.Trade Review"Rather than dispute Beauvoir's claim that she was an author rather than a philosopher, the ten essays Pettersen (Univ. of Oslo, Norway) and Bjørsnøs (Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology) have collected variously contend that Beauvoir’s work effectively blurs the boundary between literature and philosophy. Four of the essays deal specifically with philosophical themes Beauvoir explores in fiction (in particular in Les Belles images, Les Mandarins, Pyrrhus et Cineas, and Tous les hommes sont mortels); the other essays take up various aspects of her interdisciplinary approach in exploring philosophical questions. Among the more interesting contributions are Stève Bessac-Vaure’s account of Beauvoir’s influence as editor of Les Temps modernes, Erika Ruonakoski’s critique of the attempt to combine existential phenomenology and psychoanalysis in Le Deuxième sexe, and especially Pettersen’s extended discussion of Beauvoir’s concept of moral freedom. For the most part the essays are accessible to a broad range of readers, but the book will be of particular interest to those seeking to link Beauvoir’s philosophical and literary endeavors." Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. CHOICE - October 2015Table of ContentsMARK LETTERI: EDITORIAL FOREWORD MARGARET A. SIMONS: GUEST FOREWORD PREFACE TOVE PETTERSEN AND ANNLAUG BJØRSNØS: INTRODUCTION Part One: CRITICAL THINKING AND METHODOLOGY CHRISTINE DAIGLE: Making the Humanities Meaningful: Beauvoir’s Philosophy and Literature of the Appeal LOUISE RENÉE: Existential Awakening in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les belles images ERIKA RUONAKOSKI : Interdisciplinarity in The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis STÈVE BESSAC-VAURE: Simone de Beauvoir as Mediator for Foreign Literature in Les Temps Modernes Part Two: FREEDOM, DEPENDENCE, AND AMBIGUITY TOVE PETTERSEN: FIVE Existential Humanism and Moral Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics SAMANTHA BANKSTON: Becoming-Ambiguous: Beauvoir, Deleuze, and the Future of the Humanities GWENDOLYN DOLSKE: Embodiment and Contemplation of Death: A Beauvoirian Analysis Part Three: LITERATURE AS LABORATORY JULIANA DE ALBUQUERQUE KATZ: The Relevance of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethic/Aesthetic Project to the Humanities ANNLAUG BJØRSNØS: Representing Time: On the Experience of Temporality in The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir BARBARA KLAW: The Relevance of Woolf’s Orlando and Beauvoir’s Tous les hommes sont mortels WORKS CITED ABOUT THE AUTHORS NAME INDEX SUBJECT INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli’s thought by analyzing his classical background, taking into particular consideration the influence of Xenophon, and his view of the ideal ruler as someone who creates the conditions for a flourishing human life. In addition, Bárcenas explains why Machiavelli defends a republican political order that encourages citizens to live according to their own laws while serving a common good and revises his legacy through the writings of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and Maurizio Viroli.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part 1 Machiavelli’s Background 1.1 Machiavellism 1.2 Why Xenophon matters 1.3 Advising the ruler 1.4 In search of virtue Part 2 Machiavelli’s Ruler 2.1 Against Augustinianism 2.2 Politics and morals 2.3 The political artist Part 3 Machiavelli’s Republic 3.1 Imperium et libertas 3.2 The Prince or the Discourses? 3.3 Liberty and the laws 3.4 Imperialism and violence Part 4 Machiavelli’s Legacy 4.1 Strauss: Machiavelli as the root of tyranny 4.2 Voegelin: Machiavelli in his context 4.3 Viroli: Machiavelli’s civic and religious reformation Appendix I The Prince (selections) Appendix II The Discourses (selections) Bibliography of works cited

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the field of peace studies, pacifism, and nonviolence, including Michael Allen Fox, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, Bill Gay, and others. Topics include: ecological consciousness and nonviolence, environmental activism and peace activism, the environmental impact of militarism, native and indigenous peoples and peace, food ethics and nonviolence, and other topics. The book should be of interest to scholars, students, and activists who are interested in the relationship between peace movements and environmentalism.Table of Contents00 Preface, Andrew Fiala 1. Introduction: Violence and Nonviolence in the Environmental Movement, Andrew Fiala, Fresno State University 2. Return to Earth, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland 3. Reflections on Violence, Michael Fox, Queens University/University of New England 4. On War and the Environment, Lloyd Steffen, Lehigh University 5. Negative Impacts of Militarism, Bill Gay, University of North Carolina, Charlotte 6. Nature and Human Dwelling, Wendy Hamblet, North Carolina A&T 7. Moral Extensionism and Nonviolence, Sanjay Lal, Clayton State University 8. Anthropocentrism, Conservatism and Green Political Thought, Michael Hemmingsen, McMaster University 9. Guerrilla Gardening for Peace: Existentialist Ethics in Food Deserts, Damon Boria, Purdue University 10. Slow Violence and Agriculture, Jonathan McConnell, Purdue University 11. Kant’s Duty Ethics as a complement for resolving socio-political conflict in Africa, Solomon Laleye, Adekunle Ajasin University (Nigeria) 12. Sequoyah and Seattle: Chief World Systems, Dave Boersema, Pacific University 13. The Beloved Community, Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, SUNY Cortland

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Book SynopsisIn Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá’í Faith Mikhail Sergeev offers a new interpretation of the Soviet period of Russian history as a phase within the religious evolution of humankind by developing a theory of religious cycles, which he applies to modernity and to all the major world faiths of Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Sergeev argues that in the course of its evolution religion passes through six common phases—formative, orthodox, classical, reformist, critical, and post-critical. Modernity, which was started by the European Enlightenment, represents the critical phase of Christianity, a systemic crisis that could be overcome with the appearance of new religious movements such as the Bahá’í Faith, which offers a spiritual extension of the modern worldview.Trade Review"There is no doubt that Sergeev’s theory of religious cycles and his philosophical, sociological and political analysis of the evolution of religion, presents a significant scholarly value, not only in theological but also in philosophical and sociological contexts, because ... it sets the landmarks of understanding and reinterpretation of pressing problems of modern humanity." - Natalya Shelkovaya "It should be acknowledged that Mikhail Sergeev’s book is undoubtedly a profound and thorough scholarly work, based on a wide range of sources. Not only is it a valuable contribution to studies in the evolution of human religious and social consciousness, but it also outlines possible perspectives for that evolution in the future." - Youli A. Loannesyan "[T]his is an extremely important book in understand that religions change or evolve according to a precise system of phases. Sergeev has argued clearly, too, that this evolution comes not from a simplistic "decline in faith", but from a highly complex series of interactions between texts, traditions, and believers, and the forces of modernity and cultural change." - Benjamin B. Olshin, The University of the Arts "In this insightful and provocative book, Sergeev creatively takes the reader through the world religions, with a remarkable and easy-to-understand table of comparisons at the end. It shows not only his deep interest in religions but also a fair and accurate understanding of the Bahá’i Faith, which takes up a major part of this book. ... In my opinion this book provides the best bridging of religious changes I have read. It is more relevant now than any time since the Enlightenment, so is highly recommended." - Gity Banan Etemad, Temple University, Philadelphia, PATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Preface Part I 1. Cycles of Religion: Theory and Application 1.1. Model of Religious Cycle 1.2. The Cycle of Judaism 1.3. The Cycle of Buddhism 1.4. The Cycle of Christianity 1.5. The Cycle of Islam 2. The Project of Modernity: Pro et Contra 2.1. Defining Modern Times 2.2. The Project of the Enlightenment 2.3. Critics of Modernity Part II 3. The Bahá’í Faith: A New Paradigm 3.1. Modernity as a Point of Departure 3.2. Traditional vs. Bahá’í Religion 3.3. The Enlightenment vs. Bahá’í Teachings 4. Principles of Bahá’í Organization 4.1. Interpretation vs. Administration 4.2. Approaches to Unity and Dissent 4.3. Conflation of Religion and State Conclusions Postscript: Theses on Modernity and the Bahá’í Faith Appendices Charts Structure of Religious cycle Religious Cycles of Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam World Religions: A Comprehensive Chart Comparative Tables Phases of Religion: A Comparative Table Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Tradition in World Religions Three Main Trends of the Enlightenment Thought Piotr Chaadaev and Two Main Ideological Trends in Modern Russia Theory of Religious Cycles vs. Classical Westernism and Slavophilism Comparative Table of New Religious Movements The Enlightenment Ideology / Soviet Marxism vs. the Bahá’í Faith Christianity vs. the Bahá’í Faith: A Doctrinal Summary Traditional Religions vs. the Enlightenment: Controversial Issues The Bahá’í Faith vs. Catholicism: Organizational Principles / Practices Religion and State: Comparative Table of Possible Bahá’í Models Timelines Timeline of World Religions Self-Governance, Parliamentarism and Democracy: A Timeline Bibliography Works Cited Additional Reading Index

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Book SynopsisAre C. S. Lewis’s major arguments in defense of Christian belief sound? In C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, defenders and critics of Lewis’s apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis’s arguments from desire, from reason, from morality, the “trilemma” argument for the divinity of Christ, as well as Lewis’s response to the problem of evil. By means of these lively, in-depth debates, readers will emerge with a deeper understanding and appreciation of today’s most influential Christian apologist.Table of ContentsEDITORIAL FOREWORD KENNETH A. BRYSON PREFACE INTRODUCTION: OXFORD'S BONNY APOLOGIST GREGORY BASSHAM Part One: THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIRE ONE Pro: A Defense of C. S. Lewis’s Argument from Desire PETER S. WILLIAMS TWO Con: Quenching the Argument from Desire GREGORY BASSHAM THREE Reply to Gregory Bassham PETER S. WILLIAMS FOUR Reply to Peter Williams GREGORY BASSHAM Part Two: THE ARGUMENT FROM REASON FIVE Pro: The Argument from Reason Defended VICTOR REPPERT SIX Con: Naturalism Undefeated DAVID KYLE JOHNSON SEVEN Reply to David Kyle Johnson VICTOR REPPERT EIGHT Reply to Victor Reppert DAVID KYLE JOHNSON Part Three: THE MORAL ARGUMENT NINE Pro: The Moral Argument is Convincing DAVID BAGGETT TEN Con: A Critique of the Moral Argument ERIK J. WIELENBERG ELEVEN: Reply to Erik Wielenberg DAVID BAGGETT TWELVE Reply to David Baggett ERIK J. WIELENBERG Part Four: THE TRILEMMA ARGUMENT THIRTEEN Pro: A Defense of C. S. Lewis’s “Trilemma” DONALD S. WILLIAMS FOURTEEN Con: Lewis’s Trilemma: Case Not Proven ADAM BARKMAN FIFTEEN Reply to Adam Barkman DONALD S. WILLIAMS SIXTEEN Reply to Donald Williams ADAM BARKMAN Part Five: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL SEVENTEEN Pro: The Problem of Pain Defended PHILIP TALLON EIGHTEEN Con: C. S. Lewis on Evil: At Best a Likely Story DAVID L. O’HARA NINETEEN Reply to David L. O’Hara PHILIP TALLON TWENTY Reply to Philip Tallon DAVID L. O’HARA WORKS CITED THE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX

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Book SynopsisPracticing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism is a collection of texts written by top international experts on American philosophy. They consider various strands of American pragmatism from the viewpoint of practical philosophy, and provide the historical background and an outline of the international encounter with other philosophical traditions. Many key figures of American thought and pragmatist philosophy are discussed. The volume combines a panorama of approaches and gives a wide scope of problems: ethical, religious, social, political, cultural, ontological, cognitive, anthropological, and others, so as to show that pragmatism can be seen as a philosophy of life and as such it focuses on the life problems of contemporary humans in particular and of humanity in general. Contributors are: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, John Lachs, Sami Pihlström , Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, Kenneth W. Stikkers, and Emil VišňovskýTable of ContentsAKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE by Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński John Lachs: The Obligations of Philosophers Emil Višňovský: Prolegomena to Pragmatist Conception of the Good Life Kenneth W. Stikkers: Practicing Philosophy in the Experience of Living: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the American Philosophical Tradition Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley: Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing and Improving Life Sami Pihlström: Problem of Evil and Pragmatic Recognition Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński: Richard Rorty's Neopragmatist Philosophy as a Kind of Humanism INDEX ABOUT CONTRIBUTORS

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Book SynopsisEvolution and Human Culture argues that values, beliefs, and practices are expressions of individual and shared moral sentiments. Much of our cultural production stems from what in early hominins was a caring tendency, both the care to share and a self-care to challenge others. Topics cover prehistory, mind, biology, morality, comparative primatology, art, and aesthetics. The book is valuable to students and scholars in the arts, including moral philosophers, who would benefit from reading about scientific developments that impact their fields. For biologists and social scientists the book provides a window into how scientific research contributes to understanding the arts and humanities. The take-home point is that culture does not transcend nature; rather, culture is an evolved moral behavior.Trade Review"Evolution and Human Culture is a milestone piece bringing together philosophy, the sciences and the arts in an original and stimulating read. Culture, art, morality and evolution – a striking unification that is unique to this work." – Kathryn Francis, Fellow, CogNovo Institute, Plymouth University, UK "Evolution and Human Culture provides a very well written account of evolutionary theory across the spectrum of relevant disciplines ... addressing ... the most challenging questions that face humankind." – Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Ph.D., Professor of drama and consciousness studies, University of Lincoln, UK "Between the age-old outposts maintained by the humanities and the biological sciences lies a vast wilderness where culture and biology form a dense and inter-tangled forest. If you’ve had the feeling that you need to leave your safe and comfortable outpost and venture into this forest in order to truly understand the unique role that culture has played in the evolution of the human species, Gregory F. Tague’s Evolution & Human Culture is your map of that wilderness. A native of the humanities but also a frequent envoy to the biological sciences, Professor Tague has mapped out the paths taken by anthropologists, primatologists, evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who have traveled where human culture and human biology intersect. Different disciplines have discovered different areas of this biocultural landscape and have returned with different ideas; Evolution & Human Culture provides an impressively-complete account of these diverse explorations. An intrepid explorer himself, Professor Tague provides his own take on the importance of culture to human evolution — that culture emerged as a means of creating and maintaining the norms that enable us to be so highly cooperative — but only after laying out the full spectrum of perspectives so clearly that he enables his reader to entertain interpretations differing from his own." – Christopher X J. Jensen, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolution, Pratt InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One. Prehistory and Mind Chapter Two. Biology and Morality as Interrelated Chapter Three. Culture and Evolution Chapter Four. Art and Aesthetics as Moral Cognition Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGenetic Transparency? tackles the question of who has, or should have access to personal genomic information. Genomic science is revolutionary in how it changes the way we live, individually and together, and how it changes the shape of society. If this is so, then – the authors of this volume claim – the rules that regulate genetic transparency should be debated carefully, openly and critically. It is important to see that the social and cultural meanings of DNA and genetic sequences are much richer than can be accounted for by purely biomedical knowledge. In this book, an international group of leading genomics experts and scholars from the humanities and social sciences discuss how the new accessibility of genomic information affects interpersonal relationships, our self-understandings, ethics, law, and healthcare systems. Contributors are: Kirsten Brukamp, Gabrielle Christenhusz, Lorraine Cowley, Malte Dreyer, Jeanette Erdmann, Andrei Famenka, Teresa Finlay, Caroline Fündling, Shannon Gibson, Cathy Herbrand, Angeliki Kerasidou, Lene Koch, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor, Tim Ohnhäuser, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Benedikt Reiz, Vasilja Rolfes, Sara TocchettiTrade Review"Well worth reading!" – in: Making Science Public (University of Nottingham Blogs)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christoph Rehmann-Sutter, Malte Dreyer and Jeanette Erdmann 1. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter and Malte Dreyer: The Idea of ‘Genes’ and Their ‘Transparency’ 2. Benedikt Reiz, Jeanette Erdmann and Christoph Rehmann-Sutter: Making Genomes Visible 3. Angeliki Kerasiou, Cathy Herbrand and Malte Dreyer: Who is the Subject of Genetic Responsibility? 4. Teresa Finlay, Shannon Gibson, Lene Koch and Sara Toccheti: Personal Genomics: Transparent to Whom? 5. Kirsten Brukamp, Gabrielle M. Christenhusz and Caroline Fündling: Genetic Transparency versus Genetic Privacy – The Complex Ethics of Genetic Testing in Humans 6. Andrei Famenka, Shannon Gibson and Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor: Understanding the Complexity of Regulation in an Evolving Health Technology Landscape 7. Gabrielle M. Christenhusz, Lorraine Cowley, Tim Ohnhäuser and Vasilija Rolfes: Genetic Transparency – Transparency of Communication About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisMost white philosophers of religion generally presume that philosophy of religion is based on what is a false universality; whereby the white/Western experience is paradigmatic of humanity at-large. The fact remains that Howard Thurman, James H. Cone and William R. Jones, among others, have produced a substantial amount of theological work quite worthy of consideration by philosophers of religion. Yet this corpus of thought is not reflected in the scholarly literature that constitutes the main body of philosophy of religion. Neglect and ignorance of African American Studies is widespread in the academy. By including chapters on Thurman, Cone and Jones, the present book functions as a corrective to this scholarly lacuna.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Conversation on African Americans and Christianity 1 Can a Philosopher Spoil a Good Christian? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion and the African American Experience 2 Philosophy of Religion: The Social Basis of Theology and the Secular Character of Philosophy 3 Howard Thurman as Historical Investigator: On Jesus—The Man—As Jew and the Meaning of Christianity 4 James Cone and the Old Testament as History Book: A Philosophical Assessment 5 Biblical Scripture is a History Book: An African American Tradition 6 Constructing Noah as Black: A Contemporary Myth about ‘Historical’ Origins of a Biblical Character 7 William R. Jones and Philosophical Theology: Transgressing and Transforming Conventional Boundaries of Black Liberation Theology 8 Divine Racism and the Matter of Internal Criticism: Theology, Theodicy, and Ideology Conclusion: Social Outlook and Sacred Text Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world. The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds—solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.Table of ContentsEditorial Foreword  Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place  Carla Risseeuw and Marlein van Raalte SECTION : Classical Asian Sources and Traditions 1 The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China  Ping Wang 2 The Concept of Friendship in the Jātaka Tales  Ranjini Obeyesekere SECTION : Western/European Traditions 3 Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece  Tazuko van Berkel 4 The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth-Century bce Athens  Albert Joosse 5 Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David & Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith  Allan Silver 6 Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy?  Adam Sutcliffe SECTION 3: Friendship in Contemporary East and West 7 The Utility of ‘Translated’ Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present  Wei-cheng Chu 8 Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan  Kanako Akaeda 9 Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition  Andrew Lambert 10 The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India  Nita Kumar 11 Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands  Panitee Brown Suksomboon 12 On Family, Friendship and the Need for ‘Cultural Fuss’: Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands  Carla Risseeuw 13 Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care  Natascha Gruver Index Nominum General Index

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Book SynopsisThe Iron Curtain fell over a quarter of a century ago. With it fell also the relatively straightforward Western assumption that war was going to be a bi-polar, symmetrical affair, albeit one with nuclear overtones - an assumption around which the training and education of military officers had hitherto been built. The immediate post Cold War period showed officers wearing a blue, rather than a green helmet, negotiating with opponents whom they ought not to call enemies and keeping the peace in situations where there was no peace to keep. Added to this was the phenomenon of international terrorism, which manifested itself on the strategic, rather than merely the tactical level. Counter-insurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan demonstrate how difficult it is to win the hearts and minds of the local population while subduing the enemy at the same time. With the distinction between what is morally right and wrong becoming ever more blurred, the moral dilemmas of officers and men have begun to multiply and the need to reconsider the basic assumptions and practices of military ethics education in this highly unpredictable world has become ever more urgent. This volume, arising out of a conference held at the Centre for Leadership Development and Civic Education of the German Armed Forces, attempts to address that need. It offers the insights both of officers with combat experience and academics closely familiar with military training, and uniquely bridges the gap between theory and practice in the teaching of military ethics.Table of ContentsFrom Theory to Practice: The Short Long Path Thomas R. Elßner and Reinhold Janke; Discours d’introduction de la 4ème conférence annuelle d’Euro-isme Benoit Royal; Introduction to the 4th Annual Conference Euro-isme Benoit Royal; List of Contributors; 1 Responsibility Towards Myself and My Conscience: Leadership Responsibility between Ethics and Purpose Jürgen Weigt; 2 Didactics of Military Ethics: From Theory to Practice Thomas R. Elßner; 3 ‘What I Have Learned’ George Lober; 4 Ethics and the Changing Character of War Martin L. Cook; 5 Why Address the ‘E’-Word in Military Ethics Education?: The Role of Emotions in Moral Judgement and Decision-Making Desiree Verweij; 6 Values - Attitude - Education: Military Ethics Education Formats at zebis Veronika Bock and Kristina Tonn; 7 Menschengerechte Soldaten – Soldatengerechte Ethikausbildung: Am Beispiel der Unteroffiziersausbildung im Österreichischen Bundesheer Stefan Gugerel; 8 Moral Judgement in War and Peacekeeping Operations: An Empirical Review Femke D.A. den Besten, Ellen Giebels, Miriam C. de Graaff and Desiree E.M. Verweij ; 9 Explaining Military Ethics to Young People: Role and Teaching Methods of Youth Information Officers Moritz Brake; 10 Ethics of War as a Part of Military Ethics Jovan Babic; 11 Leadership for Mere Mortals Timothy T. Lupfer; 12 Less Lethal Weapons in Military Operations Patrice Mompeyssin; 13 A Dichotomy of Conflicting Duties Jeff Montrose; 14 Conveying Ideas and Values in Education! Challenges in Teaching Military Ethics Edwin R. Micewski; 15 Sound Moral Psychology behind Ethics Education Florian Demont; 16 Legitimacy of Military Deployments Especially in Asymmetric Conflicts Hartwig von Schubert; 17 Attitudes of Military Academy Cadets on Code of Honour of the Serbian Army Zoran Jeftic, Vanja Rokvić and Svetlana Stanarevic; Index of Names; Index of Subjects.

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on ‘meat culture’, which refers to all the tangible and practical forms through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring new work from leading Australasian, European and North American scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and experiences of meat in the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1. What is Meat Culture?, Annie Potts 2. Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco 3. Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal, Nik Taylor and Jordan McKenzie 4. Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’, Jacqueline Dalziell and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 5. The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Hamburger Advertising, Vasile Stanescu 6. With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies, Tobias Linné and Helena Pedersen 7. “Peace and quiet and open air”: The Old Cow Project, Melissa Boyde 8. “Do You Know Where the Light Is?” Factory Farming and Industrial Slaughter in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, Kirsty Dunn 9. Down on the Farm: Why do Artists Avoid ‘Farm’ Animals as Subject Matter?, Yvette Watt 10. The Provocative Elitism of ‘Personhood’ for Nonhuman Creatures in Animal Advocacy Parlance and Polemics, Karen Davis 11. “I Need Fish Fingers and Custard”: The Irruption and Suppression of Vegan Ethics in Doctor Who, Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart 12. Ambivalence and Resistance: Carnism and Diet in Multi-species Households, Erika Cudworth 13. Negotiating Social Relationships in the Transition to Vegan Eating Practices, Richard Twine 14. Critical Ecofeminism: Interrogating ‘Meat,’ ‘Species,’ and ‘Plant’, Greta Gaard Index

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Book SynopsisThe analysis of meat and its place in Western culture has been central to Human-Animal Studies as a field. It is even more urgent now as global meat and dairy production are projected to rise dramatically by 2050. While the term ‘carnism’ denotes the invisible belief system (or ideology) that naturalizes and normalizes meat consumption, in this volume we focus on ‘meat culture’, which refers to all the tangible and practical forms through which carnist ideology is expressed and lived. Featuring new work from leading Australasian, European and North American scholars, Meat Culture, edited by Annie Potts, interrogates the representations and discourses, practices and behaviours, diets and tastes that generate shared beliefs about, perspectives on and experiences of meat in the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1. What is Meat Culture?, Annie Potts 2. Derrida and The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and Matthew Calarco 3. Rotten to the Bone: Discourses of Contamination and Purity in the European Horsemeat Scandal, Nik Taylor and Jordan McKenzie 4. Live Exports, Animal Advocacy, Race and ‘Animal Nationalism’, Jacqueline Dalziell and Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 5. The Whopper Virgins: Hamburgers, Gender, and Xenophobia in Burger King’s Hamburger Advertising, Vasile Stanescu 6. With Care for Cows and a Love for Milk: Affect and Performance in Swedish Dairy Industry Marketing Strategies, Tobias Linné and Helena Pedersen 7. “Peace and quiet and open air”: The Old Cow Project, Melissa Boyde 8. “Do You Know Where the Light Is?” Factory Farming and Industrial Slaughter in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin, Kirsty Dunn 9. Down on the Farm: Why do Artists Avoid ‘Farm’ Animals as Subject Matter?, Yvette Watt 10. The Provocative Elitism of ‘Personhood’ for Nonhuman Creatures in Animal Advocacy Parlance and Polemics, Karen Davis 11. “I Need Fish Fingers and Custard”: The Irruption and Suppression of Vegan Ethics in Doctor Who, Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart 12. Ambivalence and Resistance: Carnism and Diet in Multi-species Households, Erika Cudworth 13. Negotiating Social Relationships in the Transition to Vegan Eating Practices, Richard Twine 14. Critical Ecofeminism: Interrogating ‘Meat,’ ‘Species,’ and ‘Plant’, Greta Gaard Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to rehabilitate sun bears in the rainforests of Malaysia? Why are sloth bears trained to dance? How is traditional Chinese medicine implicated in the deaths of black bears in North America? Bear Necessities answers all of these questions, and many more. Through the voices of activists, scientists, and educators, readers walk alongside those who pull sun bears from Vietnamese bile farms, track Andean bears in the rugged hills of Ecuador, work to protect Montana’s grizzlies in the courtroom, and gently heal the many wounded bears who live in sanctuaries around the world. Though almost every bear species is endangered or severely threatened, Bear Necessities offers hope through knowledge and understanding, which reside at the heart of change.Trade Review"Lisa Kemmerer's book reveals not only the tragedy and cruelty being imposed upon bears internationally, but also the successes in combating it...Equally thought provoking, sad, joyful, inspiring, the reader will experience all these emotions as the pages reveal realities rarely known before. This book commands a treasured space on any bear-lover's bookshelf." -Mick W., North Shore Black Bear NetworkTable of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction, Lisa Kemmerer PART I: Bear Basics 1.Bear Basics, Lisa Kemmerer 2.Bear-Aware for Twenty Years, Victor Watkins 3.Making a Difference for Bears in Asia, Amy Corrigan 4.Polar Bears: Watching Extinction in Real Time, Kassie Siegel and Brendan Cummings PART II: A World of Problems 5.Franzi: Beloved Ambassador for Bears on Bile Farms, Jill Robinson 6.Little Bears, Big Trees, Tiny Insects: Protecting Sun Bears and their Rainforest, Lisa Kemmerer and Siew Te Wong 7.Libearty Sanctuary Zarnesti: Sharing Love and Sheltering Life in Eastern Europe, Cristina Lapis 8.9,540,000 Square Miles, 800,000 American Black Bears, 3 Rescues, Charlotte Lorraine Cressey 9.Failing Giant Pandas: Captive Breeding and Conservation, Sarah M. Bexell 10.Bear Baiting in Pakistan, Fakhar -i- Abbas 11.Dirty Dancing: Caring for Sloth Bears in India, Lisa Kemmerer 12.Sliding Down Mountainsides on My Butt in Search of the Elusive Andean Bear, Dalma Zsalakó 13.Finding Enrico: Protecting Andean Bears and their Habitat, Lisa Kemmerer, Kerry Fugett, and Simona Kobel PART III: Policy 14.Brown Bears, Salmon, People: Traveling Upstream to a Sustainable Future, Chris Darimont, et al 15.Cleaning up a Community for Black Bears, Mick Webb 16.U.S. Wildlife Agencies: Outdated, Misguided, and Destructive, Lisa Kemmerer 17.The Assignment: Breaking Laws to Build Laws on behalf of Lake Tahoe’s Black Bears, Ann Bryant 18.A Grizzly Battle: Government Agencies, Endangered Species, and the U.S. Legal System, Tara Zuardo 19.Panda Preservation 2.0: Shifting Gears to Save a Species, Anna Beech and Marc Brody PART IV: Bears and Beyond 20.Canary in the Arctic, Lisa Kemmerer 21.Bears, Birds, and Human Hubris: Imagining Bears in the Andes, Tom Regele 22.The Damage and Hope of Total Institutions: Visiting a Bear Sanctuary in Cambodia, Lisa Kemmerer and Daniel Kirjner 23.Bear Naked: Compassion and Wilderness, Dana Medoro Index

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Book SynopsisContesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Steven Hartman: Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment Part 1: Re-contextualizing Nature Klaus Benesch: Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s Narrative Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: James Schuyler’s Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic Øyunn Hestetun: Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres Mark Luccarelli: Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse Part 2: Challenging Nature and Envisioning Counternatures Lawrence Buell: Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory Ursula K. Heise: Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation Torben Huus Larsen: A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Marcus Nordlund: Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View Part 3: Applying Counternatures Henrik Otterberg: Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Torsten Pettersson: Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche Karen Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll Adriana Méndez Rodenas: “Picturing Eden”: Contesting Fredrika Bremer’s Tropics Håkan Sandgren: Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures David E. Nye: Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume investigates com-munity in postcolonial language situations, texts, and media. In actual and imagined communities, membership assumes shared features – values, linguistic codes, geographical origin, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, professional interests and practices. How is membership in such communities constructed, manifested, tested or contested? What new forms have emerged in the wake of globalization, translocation, and digital media? Contributions in linguistic, literary, and cultural studies explore the role of communication, narratives, memory, and trauma in processes of (un)belonging. One section treats communication and the speech community. Here, linguistic contribu-tions investigate the concept of the native speaker in World Englishes, in socio-cultural communities identified by styles of verbal duelling, in diaspora communities, physical and digital, where identification with formerly stigmatized linguistic codes acquires new currency. Divisions and alignments in digital communities are at stake in postcolonial African countries like Cameroon where identification with ex-colonizer and ex-colonized is a hot issue. Finally, discourse communities also exist in such traditional media as newspapers (e.g., the Indian tabloid in English). In a section devoted to narrative and narration, the focus is on literary perspectives – post-colonial memory, trauma, and identity in Caribbean literary works by David Chariandy and Pauline Melville and in Australian Aboriginal fiction; narratives of banditry in colonial India; xenophobia and urban space in South Africa; human–animal community crossings and anthropomorphism in Life of Pi. A third section, on linguistic crossings in transnational music styles in global and Ugandan music industries, examines language, style, and belonging in music cultures. The volume closes with a controversial debate on the agendas of academic/non-academic and postcolonial/Western communities with regard to homophobia in Jamaican dancehall culture. CONTRIBUTORS Eric A. Anchimbe, Susan Arndt, Roman Bartosch, Carolyn Cooper, Daria Dayter, Dagmar Deuber, Tobias Döring, Stephanie Hackert, Caroline Koegler, Stephan Laqué, Andrea Moll, Susanne Mühleisen, Jochen Petzold, Katja Sarkowsky, Britta Schneider, Anne Schröder, Jude Ssempuuma, Robert JC YoungTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures I: ON COMMUNITY Introduction: On Community Formation, Manifestation, and Contestation: Acts of Membership and Exclusion  SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN Community and the Common  ROBERT JC YOUNG II: COMMUNICATION AND THE SPEECH COMMUNITY The Native Speaker in World Englishes: A Historical Perspective  STEPHANIE HACKERT Orality and Literacy in Verbal Duelling: Playing the Dozens in the Twenty-First Century  DARIA DAYTER Prestige Change in Contact Varieties of English in Urban Diaspora Communities  SUSANNE MÜHLEISEN & ANNE SCHRÖDER Diasporic Cyber-Jamaican: Stylized Dialect of an Imagined Community  ANDREA MOLL ’Africa is not a Game’: Constructions of Ex-Colonized and Ex-Colonizer Entities Online  ERIC A. ANCHIMBE The Indian Tabloid in English: What Type of Community Does It Speak To, and How?  DAGMAR DEUBER III: NARRATING ACROSS THE NATION Thuggee: Thornton, Taylor and the Literature of Banditry in Colonial India  TOBIAS DÖRING Haunting Conflicts: Memory, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Community in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant  KATJA SARKOWSKY Whose Hillbrow? Xenophobia and the Urban Space in the ‘New’ South Africa  JOCHEN PETZOLD Orientation and Narration: Aboriginal Identity in Nugi Garimara’s Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence  STEPHAN LAQUÉ A ‘furry subjunctive case’ of Empathy: Human–Animal Communities in Life of Pi and the Question of Literary Anthropomorphism  ROMAN BARTOSCH Migration, Rhizomic Identities, and the Black Atlantic in Postcolonial Literary Studies: The Trans-Space as Home in Pauline Melville’s Short Story “Eat Labba and Drink Creek Water”  SUSAN ARNDT IV: LANGUAGE,STYLE, AND BELONGING INMUSIC CULTURES Community and Language in Transnational Music Styles: Symbolic Meanings of Spanish in Salsa and Reggaetón  BRITTA SCHNEIDER Language Crossings in Transnational Music Cultures: Bottom-Up Promotion of Kiswahili Through the Music Industry in Uganda  JUDE SSEMPUUMA V: COUNTER-ARGUMENT Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation  CAROLYN COOPER At Whose Cost? A Critical Reading of Carolyn Cooper’s Keynote Lecture “Cross Talk: Jamaican Popular Music and the Politics of Translation”  CAROLINE KOEGLER Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook, Dale Murray presents fifty-one actual, unique, and compelling case studies. The book covers a wide variety of environmental topics from those as global as overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and e-waste, to those topics as local as whether we should place salt on the driveway during winter, construct rain gardens, or believe we have a duty to hunt. The book also features an easy to read, yet rigorous introductory section exposing readers to ethical theories and approaches to environmental ethics. By interweaving these theoretical considerations into long and short case studies, Murray illuminates a comprehensive range of the most pressing environmental issues facing our biosphere both today and in the future.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1 – Theory and Applied Theory Chapter 1 – General Moral Theories Utilitarianism Kantian Deontology Virtue Ethics Value Chapter 2 – Applications and Approaches to Environmental Ethics Applied Ethics Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics Biocentrism vs. Ecocentrism Deep Ecology Social Ecology Ecofeminism Leopold’s Land Ethic Extensions of Utilitarianism Extensions of Deontology Extensions of Virtue Ethics Part 2 – The Cases Chapter 3 – What is Natural? Does it Matter? Chapter 4 – Business Vs. Environmental Protection Chapter 5 – The Environment, Global Challenges, and Global Economies Chapter 6 – The Greening of Institutions Chapter 7 – Recreation and Environmental Ethics Chapter 8 – Environmental Reform and Unintended Consequences Chapter 9 – Relations between Human and Non-Human Animals Chapter 10 – Think Globally, Act Locally Chapter 11 – Are These Really Environmental Problems? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPopular interest in empathy has surged in the past two decades. Research on its origins, uses and development is on the rise, and empathy is increasingly referenced across a wide range of sectors – from business to education. While there is widespread consensus about the value of empathy, however, its supposed stable nature and offerings remain insufficiently examined. By critically exploring different perspectives and aspects of empathy in distinct contexts, Exploring Empathy aims to generate deeper reflection about what is at stake in discussions and practices of empathy in the 21st century. Ten contributors representing seven disciplines and five world regions contribute to this dialogical volume about empathy, its offerings, limitations and potentialities for society. By deepening our understanding of empathy in all its complexity, this volume broadens the debate about both the role of empathy in society, and effective ways to invoke it for the benefit of all.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Exploring Empathy   Rebeccah J. Nelems and LJ (Nic) Theo Part I: Exploring Empathy’s ‘Goods’ and Limits   Empathy as Orientation Rather than Feeling: Why Empathy Is Ethically Complex   Steve Larocco   What Is This Thing Called Empathy?   Rebeccah J. Nelems Part II: Exploring the Affective and Cognitive Workings of Empathy   Empathy, Complex Thinking and Their Interconnections   Camilla Pagani   Reflecting on Empathy   Gavin J. Fairbairn   Empathy with the Enemy: Can the Intellectually Gifted Experience Empathy with the Intellectually Impaired?   Veronica Wain   Cognitive Milestones on Mutual Paths towards Empathy: A Four-Step Model   Nurit Sahar Part III: Exploring Empathy in the Media, Arts and Culture   Empathic New(s) Orientations in Narratives about Sexuality   LJ (Nic) Theo   Art or Science? Formulating Empathy in Vince Gilligan’s Breaking Bad   Abby Bentham   ‘Gays Are the New Jews’: Homophobic Representations in African Media versus Twitterverse Empathy   Charles King   Seeing the Loop: Examining Empathy through Art Practice   Fiona Larkin

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Book SynopsisDemands for forgiveness, even in the face of horrific crimes, were common to the late twentieth century and remain critical aspirations for persons and communities in the early twenty-first century. Research on forgiveness and revenge has nevertheless revealed that many people hold divergent moral and pragmatic beliefs about forgiving, and most survivors express longstanding skepticism about when forgiveness is appropriate and when it is not. By taking an interdisciplinary approach to these issues, the current volume considers the complexities of forgiveness and revenge in the modern world. The chapters address some of the most critical inquiries today: How is forgiveness facilitated or obstructed? What is the role of truth, restitution, reparation or retribution? When is forgiveness without restitution appropriate? Is forgiveness in the true sense of the term even possible? Through empirical, theoretical and literary analyses, this volume addresses the power of revenge and forgiveness in human affairs and offers a unique outlook on the benefits of interdisciplinary discussions for enhancing forgiveness and deterring revenge in multiple aspects of human life.

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Book SynopsisProgressive theorists and activists insist that contemporary capitalism is deeply flawed from a normative point of view. However, most accept the liberal egalitarian thesis that the serious shortcomings of market societies (financial excess, inequality, and so on) could be overcome with proper political regulation. Building on Marx's legacy, Tony Smith argues in Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism that advocates of this thesis (Rawls, Habermas, Stiglitz, et al.) lack an adequate concept of capital and the state. These theorists also fail to comprehend new developments in world history ensuring that the 'destructive' aspects of capitalism increasingly outweigh whatever 'creative' elements it might continue to possess. Smith concludes that a normative social theory adequate to the twenty-first century must explicitly and unequivocally embrace socialism.Trade Review"The appearance of this book, especially in the current era of the dominance of normative social and political theory in departments of analytic philosophy, is most welcome." - Arash Abazari, Sharif University of Technology, in: Journal of Moral Philosophy 18/2 (2021)Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures 1 Liberal Egalitarianism  Introduction  Well-being  Autonomous Agency  Access to Resources  The Development of Essential Capabilities  Democratic Will-Formation 2 Towards a Liberal Egalitarian Normative Theory of Institutions  The Household  Market Production and Distribution  The State  Civil Society: The Public Sphere and Voluntary Associations  The Regime of Global Governance 3 Misunderstandings, False Starts, Further Questions  Some Marxian Objections to Liberal Egalitarianism  Liberal Egalitarian Criticisms of Marx  Conclusion 4 The Beginning Level of Marxian Theory  The Beginning Level of Theoretical Abstraction (1): The Commodity, Value, Abstract Labour  The Beginning Level of Theoretical Abstraction (2): Money  Normative Considerations  Conclusion 5 Marx’s Concept of Capital  Marx’s Concept of Capital (1): Capital as a ‘Dominant Subject’  Ontological and Normative Implications of the General Formula of Capital  Normative Implications  Marx’s Concept of Capital (2): Capital as a ‘Pseudo-Subject’ 6 Human Flourishing and the Structural Tendencies of Capitalism  The Capital/Wage Labour Relationship  Overaccumulation Crises  Financial Crises  Environmental Crises  Severe Global Inequality and Poverty  Conclusion 7 A Liberal Egalitarian Response to the Marxian Challenge  The Critique of Economism  A Reform Agenda 8 Towards A Marxian Theory of ‘The Political’  Five Theses on the Capitalist State  A Critical Examination of Liberal Egalitarian Proposals  Conclusion 9 Competing Perspectives on Neoliberalism  A Liberal Egalitarian Narrative  Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: A Marxian Critique of Neoliberalism  Conclusion 10 Two Modified Versions of Liberal Egalitarianism  ‘Neo-Schumpeterian’ Liberal Egalitarianism  The Normative Promise of ‘Commons-Based Peer Production’ 11 Modified Liberal Egalitarianism and the Present Moment in World History  Prospects for a New ‘Golden Age’  The Prospects of Commons-Based Peer Production  Conclusion 12 Property-Owning Democracy: A Liberal Egalitarianism Beyond Capitalism?  Property-Owning Democracy (1)  Property-Owning Democracy (2)  Property-Owning Democracy (3) 13 Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism  The Argument Thus Far  Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Freedom of Religion and Its Regulation in Nigeria: Analysis of Preaching Board Laws in Some States of Northern Nigeria, Ahmed Salisu Garba provides an account of how states in Northern Nigeria have enacted laws to regulate religious preaching in the spheres of influence. The work examines the debates surrounding the laws and how the state in collaboration with dominant religious groups persecuted members of minority religious in the states. The author applied an argumentative approach to raise and analyse issues relating to the reasonability of the laws in Nigeria, reasons for their enactment, judicial review mechanisms employed in the determination of the reasonability of the laws in democracies, and how they accord with the freedom of religion clause in the Nigerian Constitution.

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Book SynopsisAnimal experimentation has been one of the most controversial areas of animal use, mainly due to the intentional harms inflicted upon animals for the sake of hoped-for benefits in humans. Despite this rationale for continued animal experimentation, shortcomings of this practice have become increasingly more apparent and well-documented. However, these limitations are not yet widely known or appreciated, and there is a danger that they may simply be ignored. The 51 experts who have contributed to Animal Experimentation: Working Towards a Paradigm Change critically review current animal use in science, present new and innovative non-animal approaches to address urgent scientific questions, and offer a roadmap towards an animal-free world of science.Table of ContentsForeword  Peter Singer Preface  Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne Acknowledgement Notes on Contributors Introduction  Kathrin Herrmann and Kimberley Jayne Part 1: Why and How to Shift the Paradigm 1 Refinement on the Way Towards Replacement: Are We Doing What We Can?  Kathrin Herrmann 2 How to Evaluate the Science of Non-human Animal Use in Biomedical Research and Testing: A Proposed Format for Debate  Ray Greek and Lisa A. Kramer 3 How Can the Final Goal of Completely Replacing Animal Procedures Successfully be Achieved?  Christiane Baumgartl-Simons and Christiane Hohensee 4 Disease Prevention with a Plant-based Lifestyle  Sabina Vyas Part 2: Politics and Legislation of Animal Experimentation 5 Political Campaigning: Where Scientific and Ethical Arguments Meet Public Policy  Emily McIvor 6 Rethinking the 3Rs: From Whitewashing to Rights  Charlotte E. Blattner 7 Contesting Animal Experiments through Ethics and Epistemology: In Defense of a Political Critique of Animal Experimentation  Arianna Ferrari Part 3: Openness in Animal Experimentation 8 The Moral Status of Animal Research Subjects in Industry: A Stakeholder Analysis  Sarah Kenehan 9 Increasing the Transparency of Animal Experimentation: An Australian Perspective  Monika Merkes and Rob Buttrose 10 Wasted Money in United States Biomedical and Agricultural Animal Research  Jim Keen Part 4: The Ethics and Philosophy of Animal Experimentation 11 Ethics, Efficacy, and Decision-making in Animal Research  Lawrence A. Hansen and Kori Ann Kosberg 12 Beyond Plausibility Checks: A Case for Moral Doubt in Review Processes of Animal Experimentation  Mara-Daria Cojocaru and Philipp von Gall 13 Human Wrongs in Animal Research: A Focus on Moral Injury and Reification  Jane Johnson and Anna Smajdor Part 5: Effectiveness of the Animal Model 14 Critically Evaluating Animal Research  Andrew Knight 15 Extrapolation of Animal Research Data to Humans: An Analysis of the Evidence  Rebecca Ram 16 Is Animal-based Biomedical Research being Used in Its Original Context?  Constança Carvalho, Daniel Alves, Andrew Knight and Luis Vicente 17 The Scientific Problems with Using Non-human Animals to Predict Human Response to Drugs and Disease  Ray Greek and Lisa A. Kramer 18 Replacing Animal Tests to Improve Safety for Humans  Kathy Archibald, Robert Coleman and Tamara Drake 19 Genetic Modification of Animals: Scientific and Ethical Issues  Jarrod Bailey 20 Animal Research for Alzheimer Disease: Failures of Science and Ethics  John J. Pippin, Sarah E. Cavanaugh and Francesca Pistollato 21 Behavioral Research on Captive Animals: Scientific and Ethical Concerns  Kimberley Jayne and Adam See Part 6: Animal-free Education and Training 22 Modernizing Biomedical Training: Replacing Live Animal Laboratories with Human Simulation  John Pawlowski, David Feinstein, Marie L. Crandall and Shalin Gala 23 Humane Education: The Tool for Scientific Revolution in Brazil  Vanessa Carli Bones, Rita de Cassia Maria Garcia, Gutemberg Gomes Alves, Rita Leal Paixão, Alexandro Aluísio Rocha, Karynn Capilé and Róber Bachinski Part 7: The Paradigm Shift: Advanced Animal-free Approaches 24 Recent Developments in Alternatives to Animal Testing  Katy Taylor 25 The Changing Paradigm in Preclinical Toxicology: in vitro and in silico Methods in Liver Toxicity Evaluations  Fozia Noor 26 The Potential of Organ on Chip Technology for Replacing Animal Testing  Malcolm Wilkinson 27 When is an Alternative Not an Alternative? Supporting Progress for Absolute Replacement of Animals in Science  Craig Redmond 28 Research and Testing Without Animals: Where are We Now and Where are We Heading?  Thomas Hartung  Afterword: Evidence Over Interests  John P. Gluck  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Rousseau and Critical Theory, Alessandro Ferrara argues that among the modern philosophers who have shaped the world we inhabit, Rousseau is the one to whom we owe the idea that identity can be a source of normativity (moral and political) and that an identity's potential for playing such a role rests on its capacity for being authentic. This normative idea of authenticity brings unity to Rousseau's reflections on the negative effects of the social order, on the just political order, on education, and more generally, on ethics. It is also shown to contain important teachings for contemporary Critical Theory, contemporary views of self-constitution (Korsgaard, Frankfurt and Larmore), and contemporary political philosophy.

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Book SynopsisGeorg Lukács was one of the most important intellectuals and philosophers of the 20th century. His last great work was an systematic social ontology that was an attempt to ground an ethical and critical form of Marxism. This work has only now begun to attract the interest of critical theorists and philosophers intent on reconstructing a critical theory of society as well as a more sophisticated framework for Marxian philosophy. This collection of essays explores the concept of critical social ontology as it was outlined by Georg Lukács and the ways that his ideas can help us construct a more grounded and socially relevant form of social critique.Trade Review“The concluding essay by the editor, Michael J. Thompson, is lucid and persuasive in praising the late Lukács’ contribution and fidelity to Marx’s ontology”. Sean Sheehan, in Marx & Philosophy Review of books, 2020.Table of Contents Contributors  Introduction Part 1: Fundamental Aspects of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being  1 Ontology and Labor in the Lukács’ Late Thought  Antonino Infranca and Miguel Vedda  2 Lukács and the Reshaping of Marxism: From Hartmann’s to Lukács’Ontology  Endre Kiss  3 Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being and the Material Basis of Intentionality  Matthew J. Smetona Part 2: Hegelian-Marxist Dimensions of Lukács’ Social Ontology  4 György Lukács’ Ontological Interpretation of Marx’s Labor Theory of Value  Murillo van der Laan  5 The Ontology of Alienation: Lukács’ Normative Theory of History  Andreas Giesbert  6 Lukács’ Late Appropriation of Hegel’s Philosophy: The Ontology of Materialist Dialectics and the Complexities of Labor as Teleological Positing  Michalis Skomvoulis Part 3: Lukács’ Social Ontology and Contemporary Philosophy  7 On the “Constitution of Human Society”: Lukács’ versus Searle’s Social Ontology  Claudius Vellay  8 Why Still Reification? Toward a Critical Social Ontology  Thomas Telios  9 Unlikely Affinities: J.L. Borges, Kuhn, Lakatos and Ontological Critique  Mario Duayer  10 The Politics of Nature, Left and Right: Comparing the Ontologies of Georg Lukács and Bruno Latour  Christoph Henning Part 4: Toward a Critical Social Ontology  11 From Critical Theory to Critical Ontology: Back to Lukács!  Michael Morris  12 Normativity and Totality: Lukács’ Contribution to a Critical Social Ontology  Titus Stahl  13 Lukács and the Problem of Knowledge: Critical Ontology as Social Theory  Reha Kadakal  14 Marx, Lukács and the Groundwork for Critical Social Ontology  Michael J. Thompson  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Cognitive Kin, Moral Strangers?, Judith Benz-Schwarzburg reveals the scope and relevance of cognitive kinship between humans and non-human animals. She presents a wide range of empirical studies on culture, language and theory of mind in animals and then leads us to ask why such complex socio-cognitive abilities in animals matter. Her focus is on ethical theory as well as on the practical ways in which we use animals. Are great apes maybe better described as non-human persons? Should we really use dolphins as entertainers or therapists? Benz-Schwarzburg demonstrates how much we know already about animals’ capabilities and needs and how this knowledge should inform the ways in which we treat animals in captivity and in the wild.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1: Introduction  1Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals as the Object of Science—and What Has Been Neglected Thus Far  2Questions and Objectives of the Book Part 2: Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals  3The Concept of Cognition and the Concept of Consciousness  4Culture in Animals?  4.1Animal Tool Use and Tool Production: a Widespread Phenomenon  4.2Theoretical Considerations  4.3Culture in Chimpanzees  4.4Culture in Orangutans, Gorillas, and Dolphins  4.5Culture in New Caledonian Crows  4.6Can We Speak Meaningfully of “Culture” in Animals?  5Language in Animals?  5.1Language: the Ultimate Differentia Specifica?  5.2Concept Possession as Prerequisite for Language  5.3Functional and Intentional Aspects of Natural Animal Communication  5.4Propositional Representations and Basic Grammar: First Notes from Language-Teaching Experiments  5.5Can We Speak Meaningfully of “Language” in Animals?  6Theory of Mind in Animals?  6.1Theory of Mind as Everyday Psychology  6.2Theory of Mind Research in Children  6.3Theory of Mind in Animals: What Do Animals Know about Perceptual States and False Beliefs?  6.4Can We Speak Meaningfully of “Theory of Mind” in Animals?  7Summary and Transition Part 3: The Relevance of Socio-Cognitive Abilities in Animals for Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare  8Kinship and Responsibility: the Moral Status of Animals  8.1Introduction to Basic Concepts in Animal Ethics  8.2Basic Positions in Animal Ethics  8.3“Classical” Arguments in Animal Ethics and Animal Welfare  8.4A “New” Argument: Personhood Rights for Animals  8.5Problems and Limits of Personhood Rights  8.6Opportunities for Personhood Rights: “Cognitive Relatives” as Ambassadors of Species Protection?  9Kinship and Responsibility: the Discrepancy between Ethical Demands and the Status Quo  9.1Case Study: How We Treat Great Apes  9.2Case Study: How We Treat Dolphins  10Summary Part 4: Discussion  11Cognitive Kinship and the Concept of an Evolutionary Self  11.1Animals as Strangers and Kin at the Same Time  11.2On the Way to a Nature Deficit of a Special Kind  12A Comparison of Arguments  12.1Animal Welfare Arguments vs. Species Conservation Arguments  12.2Utilitarian Pathocentrism vs. Personhood Rights  12.3Rights that Go Beyond the Weighing of Goods  12.4Criteria that Go Beyond the Ability to Consciously Suffer  12.5Painless Killing and Production of Insensitive Animals  13Possibilities of Modifying Personhood Rights for Animals  13.1Toward a Consistently Gradual Understanding  13.2Personhood Status Despite Being a “Gradual” Person?  13.3Species-Specific Inalienable Rights?  13.4Differentiation between Clear and Less Clear Cases?  14Alternative: Turn the Focus Back to the Suffering of Animals?  14.1The Relationship between the Ability to Suffer and Socio-Cognitive Abilities  14.2Socio-Cognitive Abilities, Animal Welfare, and Species Conservation  14.3Indicators of Well-being in Captivity  14.4Enrichment as Occupational Therapy  14.5Cognition—Motivation—Frustration: the Need to Gain Information and Engage in Exploratory Behavior  14.6The Difficulty of Assessing Behavioral Disorders, Using Stereotypies as an Example  14.7The Effects of Enrichment  14.8Enrichment in Captivity as an Ethical Necessity  15Final Evaluation of Personhood Rights for Animals  Acknowledgements  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisNietzsche and the Dionysian argues that the shuddering mania of the affect associated with Dionysus in Nietzsche’s early work runs as a thread through his thought and is linked to an originary interruption of self-consciousness articulated by the philosophical companion. In this capacity, the companion can be considered a ‘mask of Dionysus’, or one who assumes the singular role of the transmitter of the most valuable affirmative affect and initiates a compulsion to respond which incorporates the otherness of the companion. In the context of such engagements, Nietzsche envisages ‘Dionysian’ or divine ‘madness’ within an optics of life, through which an affirmative ethics can be thought. The ethical response to the philosophical companion requires an affirmation of the plurality of life, formulated in the imperatives to be ‘true to the earth’ and ‘become who you are’. Such an ethics, compelled by the Dionysian affect, grounds any future for humanity in the affirmation of the earth and life.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Dionysian as an Ethical Sense  1 Shuddering and Ethics  2 The Dionysian Mania  3 Pessimism and Consolation 2 Creature and Creator  1 Satyr and Chorus  2 The Dionysian Companion as Compulsion  3 The Look of Eternity  4 The Dithyrambic Dramatist and Transmissibility 3 The Way of the Wanderers  1 Leaving Bayreuth, Finding Bayreuth  2 The Great Separation  3 Similes of Time and Becoming  4 The Dance with Life  5 The Shadow of Ambivalence 4 The Weight of Affirmation  1 The Twofold Will  2 The Thread of the Body  3 Soul, Self, Spirit  4 The Eternal Recurrence Test  5 Redeeming the Past  6 The Spiritualization of the Passions  7 The Spiritualization of Justice 5 The Possibility of Self-Overcoming  1 Practical Spiritualized Values  2 Evaluation and the Order of Rank  3 Will to Power and Passivity  4 Will to Power Engaging Resistance  5 The Value of Resistance  6 Irresistible Resistance 6 Towards a Practical Ethics of the Earth and Life  1 The Blessed Isles  2 The Gift-Giving Virtues  3 The New Laws  4 Learning to Laugh  5 Nightwandering  6 Advocates of the Future 7 Working for the Future  1 We Hyperboreans  2 An Allegory of Eternity  3 The Human Sublime  4 The Dionysian (Once More)  5 Conversations on Naxos  6 The Satyr Chorus of Humanity Epilogue Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisThe question of evil is one of the oldest and most intensely studied topics in intellectual history. In fiction, legend and mythology the boundary between good and evil is often depicted as clear-cut, at least to the reader or listener, who is supposed to understand such tales as lessons and warnings. Evil is something that must be avoided by the hero in some cases and vanquished in others; it is either the exact opposite of the expected good behaviour, or its complete absence. Even so, for the characters in these didactic fictions, it turns out to be deceptively easy to fall to the infernal, ‘dark’ side. This volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of contributors to chart events and deeds of an ‘evil’ nature that have been lived in the (recent) past and have become part of history, from individual to institutionalised evil.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Kanta Dihal Part 1 The Banality and the Familiarity of Evil 1 From Victims to Perpetrators: the Banality of Evil in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones  Damian Catani 2 Unspeakable Banality: Discourse in Dispute  Cassie Pedersen Part 2 Genocide in Rwanda 3 In Plain Sight: the Ethics of Proximity in the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide  Sarah Gendron 4 On the Role of Nation-States in Regulating Evil: a Case Study on Rwanda  Sally Nadeau 5 Extraordinary Forgiveness  Jennifer Vanderheyden Part 3 Capitalism and the Socio-Psychology of Evil 6 Late Capitalism, Psychopathy and the Ontology of Evil  Helen Patey 7 Psychologising Evil in the Media: a Market-Like Exchange of Political Responsibility for Isolation in the Greek Crisis Environment  Sophia Kanaouti 8 The Fury of ‘Ressentiment’: Binary Codes, Evil and Society  Spiros Gangas 9 On the Usefulness of Being Unrealistic: a Critique of Freud’s Arguments against Neighbour Love  Regan Lance Reitsma Part 4 Dehumanization, the Law and the Prison 10 Socio-Spatial Scripts: Evil and the Contestation of Space and Being  Rallie Murray 11 The Intersection between Evil and Architecture: Environment and Agency  Robert W. Butler 12 Choosing between Two Evils: a Philosophical Consideration of the Defences of Necessity and Duress in English Law  Stephen Banks Index

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Book SynopsisFreedom of speech is a fundamental right in many societies, yet also highly contested. As a right, it can only be appreciated if its historical development is taken into account. Parrhesia offers case studies in freedom of speech, its understanding and exercise throughout history. They enable researchers and policymakers alike to gain an awareness of the complexities, challenges and benefits of freedom of speech. The cases that have been selected are from the field of religion and theology, yet exemplary in character and able to shed light on freedom of speech in other parts of society. Contributors are: Leon van den Broeke, Jan Krans, Silvia Castelli, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Manfred Lang, Bastian Lemitz, Nils Neumann, Kyriakoula Papademetriou, Dirk Jan Schoon, and Peter-Ben Smit.Table of ContentsContents List of ContributorsIi 1 Introduction  Bert-Jan Lietaert Peerbolte Part 1: Parrhesia in Antiquity 2 The Performative Meaning of the Word παρρησία in Ancient Greek and in the Greek Bible  Kyriakoula Papademetriou 3 “Deine Absicht ist es ja, die Freiheit zurückzuholen und neu aufzurichten” (Paneg. 78,3). ‘Freiheit’ in Plinius Secundus’ Panegyricus  Manfred Lang 4 Παρρησία in Erzähltexten: Handlungsschemata bei Lukian und in der Apostelgeschichte  Nils Neumann Part 2: Instances of Parrhesia in the Early Modern Era 5 Empowering Catholics in a Protestant Republic: Life and Works of Apostolic Vicar John van Neercassel (1626–1686)  Dirk Jan Schoon 6 The Pirate of the New Testament: Wettsteins’s Comment on Acts 24.5  Bastian Lemitz 7 The Freedom to Change: The Text of the New Testament? Wettstein’s Treatment of Mark  Jan Krans and Silvia Castelli  Part 3 : Instances of Parrhesia in the Modern Era 8 “To Speak Your Word with All Boldness”: Freedom of Expression in Dutch Reformed Churches  Leon van den Broeke 9 Silence is Golden: Freedom of Speech and the Old Catholic Observer at the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965)  Peter-Ben Smit

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Book SynopsisFish, Justice, and Society is an in-depth look into the fishing industry, fish, and aquatic environments. This book delves past the façade of what may be known by the average fisherman, bringing to the surface new information about numerous species and aquatic habitats. It is the most comprehensive book on the subject of fish, law, and human behavior. It is a standalone work, but complements Cusack’s Fish in the Bible (2017). It is a treatise on the subject of animal law while also serving the common fisherman information on compliance issues.Trade Review"Cusack has made an important analytical and prescriptive contribution to the cause of environmental and social justice. […. Fish, Justice and Society is] a huge success with its fine-grained analysis of the connections between fish and human civilization." - Oyebade Kunle Oyerinde, Clark Atlanta University, in: African and Asian Studies 17 (2018)

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