Ethics and moral philosophy Books

Book SynopsisAs a broad critique and invitation to reframe the study of ethics, Problem-Based Ethics welcomes scholars and students across disciplines to engage with ethics as a way to explore pervasive questions of our society and human existence. Stepping back from the intricacies of theory and from heated political debates, Samuel Kahn's synthesis of the study of ethics asks readers to consider even the most contentious of topics like abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia from their most basic questions. This approach reveals opportunities for more nuanced and evolving ethical positions. It also promotes a culture of civility too often destroyed in politicized debates in scholarly and popular forums. The book covers standard issues in metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics, such as the objectivism/subjectivism debate, the consequentialism/deontology/virtue ethics/ethics of care debate, and the abortion debate. It also introduces more advanced issues such as distributive justice and environmental ethics, as well as less standard questions often of interest to laypeople and students, such as whether crime can be eliminated.

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Book Synopsis Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarship of many of the academic contributors is informed by their participation in oral storytelling, whether as poets, singers, or visual artists. Its contributions address the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualizing orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral. Trade Review"Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is a compelling read will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of literature and orature, life- writing and historiography, mixed-media writing and performance poetry." - Milena Marinkova, University of Huddersfield, British Journal for Canadian Studies, Vol.27 No.1 2014``The essays in Susan Gingell's and Wendy Roy's Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond shake [the] simplistic binary [of the oral/written divide] to its very core, theorizing the inevitable interdependency of sound, sign, sight, and site.... Often employing language alive with poetic energy, what I will term the essays within Listening Up trouble the sensory depletion expected of standard academic prose while exploring âthree thematic arcs: performance poetics, print textualizations of the oral, and the place of visual culture at the oral-written interfaceâ.... Multimodal movement ... occurs with disarming and delightful frequency in the essays that coalesce to make Listening Up an extraordinarily valuable addition to the study of orality, performance poetry, textualization, and multisensory embodied experience.'' -- Sam McKegney, Queen's University -- Chimo, #64, Fall 2012``This collection breaks important new ground in the use of âorality and literacyâ approaches to discourse and poetics. Particularly valuable is its constant integration of scholarly criticism and theory with creative practice, theoretical reflection with lived experiences of performance and artifact. The Introduction offers a memorable set of clarifications, highly sympathetic to the demands of creative practice, around the theory of orality and literacy, while the chapters bring Gingell and Roy's exposition of the themes to an extremely rich and varied range of applications.'' -- Tom Clark, Victoria University (Melbourne), author of Stay onMessage: Poetry and Truthfulness in Political Speech (2012)Table of Contents Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond, edited by Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy Acknowledgements Introduction Opening the Door to Transdisciplinary, Multimodal Communication Susan Gingell with Wendy Roy Listening Up: Performance Poetics Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d'bi young and Oni Joseph George Elliott Clarke the storyteller's integrity (only at http://drc.usask.ca/projects/oral only) d'bi.young.anitafrika Poetry Performances on the Page and Stage: Insights from Slam Helen Gregory Poetry and Overturned Cars: Why Performance Poetry Can't Be Studied (and Why We Should Study It Anyway) Hugh Hodges Echohomonymy: A Poetics of Ethos, Eros, and Erasure Adeena Karasick Dialect Poetry and the Need for Performance: The Case of William Barnes T.L. Burton The Speech-Music Continuum Paul Dutton Writing Down: Textualized Orature and Orality Writing and Rapping for a New South Africa: The Poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng Gugu Hlongwane The Ballad as Site of Rebellion: Orality, Gender, and the Granuaile Aislingi Naomi Foyle ""pleasure for our sense, health for our hearts"": Inferring Pronuntiatio and Actio from the Text of John Donne's Second Prebend Sermon Brent Nelson ""The Power and the Paradox"" of the Spoken Story: Challenges to the Tyranny of the Written in Contemporary Canadian Fiction Wendy Roy What's In a Frame?: The Significance of Relational Word Bundles in Louise Bernice Halfe's Blue Marrow Mareike Neuhaus Towards an ""Open Field"": The Ethics of the Encounter in Life Lived Like a Story Emily Blacker Looking Beyond: Reintegrating the Visual Becoming the Storyteller: Meaning Making in Our Age of Resistance Waziyatawin Re-si(gh)ting the Storyteller in Textualized Orature: Photographs in The Days of Augusta Cara DeHaan Traditionalizing Modernity and Sound Identity in Neal McLeod's Writing of the Oral⁺ Susan Gingell A Nexus of Connections: Acts of Recovery, Acts of Resistance in Native Palimpsest Kimberly Blaeser Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of eminently practical advice from the likes of Socrates, Plato, Diogenes, Pythagoras, and Aristotle covers subjects as diverse as money, child-raising, politics, philosophy, law, and relationships—all aspects of life and how to live it. Thomas Cleary has translated these sayings and aphorisms from the Arabic sources that preserved Greek thought throughout the Middle Ages. Many of the texts no longer exist in the original Greek. Included in the book is an appendix that presents resonant sayings and fragments from Buddhist, Taoist, and Muslim sources, demonstrating the universal quality of the teachings of the Greek sages and hinting at the interaction between Western and Eastern cultures.

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Book SynopsisIt is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before. In the rapidly changing context of post-Cold War political realities, there is no better guide than Marcuse to where we have been and to what we might expect. As he well understood, turbulent and spectacular political events always ran within channels earlier set by political theory; and he equally understood that it was Hegel's often unappreciated and misunderstood theory which actually set a fundamental path of modern political life. It is a fortunate combination to have a scholar of Marcuse's brilliance and lucid honesty addressing the sources and consequences of Hegel's social theory.

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Book SynopsisSometimes it's fun to share, and sometimes it's hard. This book offers toddlers simple choices (take turns, use the toy together, wait for another time) to make sharing easier, and shows them where to turn for help when sharing is difficult. Little ones learn that sharing can mean double the fun--and sharing a while can make someone smile! Includes tips for parents and caregivers.Trade Review"There is no such thing as a quick fix. However, if you're beleaguered by the baby battles, these books could serve as a life preserver."-- "The Post & Courier" "It's important for children to understand they can't take something away from another person without permission. It's important they understand they have the right to say no when asked to share but can offer up a compromise for later. This book is a great way to lay that foundation." --Andrea Coventry, Montessori educator, Andi's Kids Books Blog

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