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University of Minnesota Press Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic
Book SynopsisA powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force.Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this “performative force” to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative’s mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been deployed by key writers in the past sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the “conceptual poetry” of Kenneth Goldsmith.Ultimately, Nealon’s inquiry is animated by one powerful question: what’s living and what’s dead in performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities. Nealon’s stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the performative’s continued power and relevance at a time of neoliberal ascendancy.Trade Review "What is 'the performative,' and why is it everywhere in contemporary thought? Jeffrey T. Nealon answers that question in this enlightening and witty book. In search of appropriate responses to our fact-free politics, Nealon offers sharp diagnoses of ‘post-critique’ and the ‘new materialism’ on the way to describing a resistant rhetoric to meet the challenges we face."—John McGowan, University of North Carolina "Fates of the Performative is a major intervention in the theory of the performative. Although performativity is not severed from language, in Jeffrey T. Nealon's view it is persuasively linked to the biopolitical. No theorist invested in the question of the biopolitical has gone down the path Nealon is following by proposing that we understand the embodied and the material, or the agency of the material, as a version of the performative. The idea that life doesn't adapt but performs—that it is distanced from itself by staging what it is—is a novel proposition, which means that this book will reorient theoretical debate about what the performative is and productively complicate our understanding of it."—Branka Arsić, Columbia University "Irreverent, funny and fast-paced, combative without being crabby, this book recycles its basic claims in a way that, against all odds, makes the book cohere."—American Literary History Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Why the Performative?Part I. Genealogy of the Performative1. The Truth Is a Joke? Performatives in Austin and Derrida2. Two Paths You Can Go By: Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick3. The Bodacious Era: Thoreau and New Materialism; or, What’s Wrong with the Anthropocene?Part II. Performativity and/as/into Biopolitics4. Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century5. What Is a Lecturer? Performative, Parrhesia, and the Author-Function in Foucault’s Lecture Courses6. Literary RealFeel: Banality, Fatality, and Meaning in Kenneth Goldsmith’s The WeatherConclusion: On the Returns of Realism and the (Supposed) Exhaustion of CritiqueNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Fates of the Performative: From the Linguistic
Book SynopsisA powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn concept From its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the performative will remain vital in the twenty-first century, arguing that it was never merely concerned with linguistic meaning but rather constitutes an insight into the workings of immaterial force.Fates of the Performative takes a deep dive into this “performative force” to think about the continued power and relevance of this wide-ranging concept. Offering both a history of the performative’s mutations and a diagnosis of its present state, Nealon traces how it has been deployed by key writers in the past sixty years, including foundational thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick, and Judith Butler; contemporary theorists such as Thomas Piketty and Antonio Negri; and the “conceptual poetry” of Kenneth Goldsmith.Ultimately, Nealon’s inquiry is animated by one powerful question: what’s living and what’s dead in performative theory? In deconstructing the reaction against the performative in current humanist thought, Fates of the Performative opens up important conversations about systems theory, animal studies, object-oriented ontology, and the digital humanities. Nealon’s stirring appeal makes a necessary declaration of the performative’s continued power and relevance at a time of neoliberal ascendancy.Trade Review "What is 'the performative,' and why is it everywhere in contemporary thought? Jeffrey T. Nealon answers that question in this enlightening and witty book. In search of appropriate responses to our fact-free politics, Nealon offers sharp diagnoses of ‘post-critique’ and the ‘new materialism’ on the way to describing a resistant rhetoric to meet the challenges we face."—John McGowan, University of North Carolina "Fates of the Performative is a major intervention in the theory of the performative. Although performativity is not severed from language, in Jeffrey T. Nealon's view it is persuasively linked to the biopolitical. No theorist invested in the question of the biopolitical has gone down the path Nealon is following by proposing that we understand the embodied and the material, or the agency of the material, as a version of the performative. The idea that life doesn't adapt but performs—that it is distanced from itself by staging what it is—is a novel proposition, which means that this book will reorient theoretical debate about what the performative is and productively complicate our understanding of it."—Branka Arsić, Columbia University "Irreverent, funny and fast-paced, combative without being crabby, this book recycles its basic claims in a way that, against all odds, makes the book cohere."—American Literary History Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Why the Performative?Part I. Genealogy of the Performative1. The Truth Is a Joke? Performatives in Austin and Derrida2. Two Paths You Can Go By: Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick3. The Bodacious Era: Thoreau and New Materialism; or, What’s Wrong with the Anthropocene?Part II. Performativity and/as/into Biopolitics4. Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century5. What Is a Lecturer? Performative, Parrhesia, and the Author-Function in Foucault’s Lecture Courses6. Literary RealFeel: Banality, Fatality, and Meaning in Kenneth Goldsmith’s The WeatherConclusion: On the Returns of Realism and the (Supposed) Exhaustion of CritiqueNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry
Book SynopsisA pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities How is it possible that you are—simultaneously—cells, atoms, a body, quarks, a component in an ecological network, a moment in the thermodynamic dispersal of the sun, and an element in the gravitational whirl of galaxies? In this way, we routinely transform reality into things already outside of direct human experience, things we hardly comprehend even as we speak of DNA, climate effects, toxic molecules, and viruses. How do we find ourselves with these disorienting layers of scale? Enter Scale Theory, which provides a foundational theory of scale that explains how scale works, the parameters of scalar thinking, and how scale refigures reality—that teaches us how to think in terms of scale, no matter where our interests may lie. Joshua DiCaglio takes us on a fascinating journey through six thought experiments that provide clarifying yet provocative definitions for scale and new ways of thinking about classic concepts ranging from unity to identity. Because our worldviews and philosophies are largely built on nonscalar experience, he then takes us slowly through the ways scale challenges and reconfigures objects, subjects, and relations. Scale Theory is, in a sense, nondisciplinary—weaving together a dizzying array of sciences (from nanoscience to ecology) with discussions from the humanities (from philosophy to rhetoric). In the process, a curious pattern emerges: attempts to face the significance of scale inevitably enter terrain closer to mysticism than science. Rather than dismiss this connection, DiCaglio examines the reasons for it, redefining mysticism in terms of scale and integrating contemplative philosophies into the discussion. The result is a powerful account of the implications and challenges of scale, attuned to the way scale transforms both reality and ourselves.Trade Review "Scale Theory is an exceptionally astute and lucid remapping of the concept of scale. Working through a lively set of thought experiments, Joshua DiCaglio invents a scalar theory to move beyond conventional—often reductive and parochial—understandings of scale. From the not-so-simple conceptual and material status of objects, to questions of process, relations, and consciousness, to the scalar repercussions for subjects, experience, and the very practices of interpretation, DiCaglio delineates and performs a far-reaching scale theory for the predicaments of the present."—Peter C. van Wyck, Concordia University, Montréal "There are few more important, and few more difficult topics to study, than the role of scale in society and nature. This is why I’m so damn thankful for Joshua DiCaglio’s, Scale Theory. He assembles a clear and systematic theory of scale and then demonstrates how its practice can transform our understanding of ourselves and our perceptions of the world. It’s really more than a book; it’s a vision, a guide, and a provocation to help us better navigate a world that exceeds our capacity to understand it."—Phillip Thurtle, author of Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life "Enthralling."—Leonardo "DiCaglio’s evidence disrupts the frame of situated knowledge."—Science as Culture Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Learning to ScalePart I. Algorithms for a Theory of Scale1. Distance and Resolution: The First Experiential Origin of Scale2. Measurement and Perspective: The Second Experiential Origin of Scale3. Scope and Accumulation: The Third Experiential Origin of Scale4. To the Bottom: The First Thought Experiment in Scale5. From the Top: The Second Thought Experiment in Scale6. In the Scalar Simulation: The Third Thought Experiment in ScalePart II. Configurations for a Theory of Scale7. In-formations of the Whole: Scalar Configurations of Objects8. I Am the Transhuman Cosmos: Scalar Configurations of Subjects9. Cutting and Claiming Everything: Scalar Configurations of RelationsPart III. Rhetorical Technologies for a Theory of Scale10. Mapping the Vast Unknowing: The Science of Scale, the Scale of Science11. The Cosmos Seeing Itself: Representations of Scale, Scales of Representation12. Transformations by Involution: The Contemplative Practices of Scale, Scaling ContemplationAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential
Book SynopsisWhat are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse? A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk analysis, and, controversially, a transhuman advocacy that would aim to supersede almost all extinction scenarios. The proponents of existential risk thinking, led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, have seen their work gain immense popularity, attracting endorsement from Bill Gates and Elon Musk, millions of dollars, and millions of views. Calamity Theory is the first book to examine the rise of this thinking and its failures to acknowledge the ways some communities and lifeways are more at risk than others and what it implies about human extinction.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Is Existential Risk?1. Endgame Philosophy2. Probability and Speculation3. The Existential Roots of Existential RiskConclusion: Opening the “Letter from Utopia”Acknowledgments
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University of Minnesota Press Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun
Book SynopsisWho’s worse, the Young-Girl or the Man-Child? Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl is a controversial work of anticapitalist philosophy that has attracted musicians, playwrights, feminist theorists, and men's-rights activists since its publication in 1999. More than twenty years after its publication the international reverberation of Young-Girls shows no signs of weakening. Young-Girls in Echoland: #Theorizing Tiqqun is a guide to this ongoing postdigital conversation, engaging with artworks and textual criticism provoked by Tiqqun’s audacious, arguably misogynistic textual voice. Heather Warren-Crow and Andrea Jonsson show how Tiqqun’s polarizing figure has grown and matured but also stayed unapologetically girly in the works of artists and scholars discussed here. Rethinking the myth of Echo and Narcissus by performing a different kind of listening, they take us on a journey from VSCO girls to basic bitches to vampires.With an ear for the sound of Tiqqun’s polemic and its ensemble of Anglophone and Francophone rejoinders, Young-Girls in Echoland offers a model for analyzing the call-and-response of pop philosophy and for hearing the affective rhythms of communicative capitalism.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Garbage-Core Is My Favorite Kind of Music1. Iteration2. Orality3. Conclusion, or Fucking UpAcknowledgments
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University of Minnesota Press The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the
Book SynopsisExploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditationsPart personal memoir, part philosophical reflection and written in the midst of the pandemic in 2021, The World Is Gone employs the Robinson Crusoe fable to launch an existential investigation of the effects of extreme isolation, profound boredom, nightly insomnia, and the fear of madness associated with the loss of a world populated by others.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Table of ContentsPreface: To My Fellow CastawaysFirst Day: The Darkening of the World (Heidegger)Second Day: Existence without Existents (Levinas)Third Day: The Two Ecstasies of Extreme Solitude (Heidegger and Levinas)Fourth Day: A World without Others (Tournier)Fifth Day: The Schizoid and the Depressive (Deleuze)Sixth Day: The Worst-Case Scenario Lullaby (Bonaparte)Seventh Day: Robinson? C’est Moi!The Complete Desert Island Library
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University of Minnesota Press Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking book that combines the environmental humanities and social sciences to study the impact of environmental stories There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities perspective with empirical methods derived from the social sciences to study the influence of environmental stories on our affects, attitudes, and actions. Empirical Ecocriticism provides an approachable introduction to this growing field’s main methods and demonstrates their potential through case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers’ willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater. Part manifesto, part toolkit, part proof of concept, and part dialogue, this introductory volume is divided into three sections: methods, case studies, and reflections. International in scope, it points toward a novel and fruitful synthesis of the environmental humanities and social sciences. Contributors: Matthew Ballew, Yale U; Helena Bilandzic, U of Augsburg; Rebecca Dirksen, Indiana U; Greg Garrard, UBC Okanagan; Matthew H. Goldberg, Yale U; Abel Gustafson, U of Cincinnati; David I. Hanauer, Indiana U of Pennsylvania; Ursula K. Heise, UCLA; Jeremy Jimenez, SUNY Cortland; Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale U; David M. Markowitz, U of Oregon; Marcus Mayorga; Jessica Gall Myrick, Penn State U; Mary Beth Oliver, Penn State U; Yan Pang, Point Park U; Mark Pedelty, U of Minnesota; Seth A. Rosenthal, Yale U; Elja Roy, U of Memphis; Nicolai Skiveren, Aarhus U; Paul Slovic, U of Oregon; Scott Slovic, U of Idaho; Nicolette Sopcak, U of Alberta; Paul Sopcak, MacEwan U; Sara Warner, Cornell U. Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder Part I. Methods 1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects W. P. Malecki 2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes Paul Sopcak and Nicolette Sopcak 3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production Rebecca Dirksen, Mark Pedelty, Yan Pang, and Elja Roy Part II. Case Studies 4. Does Climate Fiction Work? An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Abel Gustafson, Anthony Leiserowitz, Matthew H. Goldberg, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Matthew Ballew 5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives Jessica Gall Myrick and Mary Beth Oliver 6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker’s “Am I Blue?” Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Marcus Mayorga, and Paul Slovic 7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China Nicolai Skiveren 8. All the World’s a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments Sara Warner and Jeremy Jimenez 9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Scott Slovic and David M. Markowitz Part III. Reflections 10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology Ursula K. Heise 11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism Greg Garrard 12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion David I. Hanauer 13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication Helena Bilandzic Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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Bristol University Press Theorising Justice: A Primer for Social
Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Bringing together divergent approaches to justice theorising, this volume connects normative and philosophical theories with the more empirically focused approaches emerging today in the social and political sciences and policy scholarship. The chapters overview a variety of mainstream approaches and radical critiques of justice to illustrate their value in addressing the pressing problems of climate change and economic development. Stressing the value of assessing justice theories in light of the material conditions of our changing world, the book concludes with an in-depth synthesis of how these wide ranging approaches to justice will be useful for students, scholars and practitioners concerned with realising justice.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Johanna Ohlsson and Stephen Przybylinski Part I: Politico-philosophical and Normative Traditions of Justice 1. Liberal Theories of Justice - Stephen Przybylinski 2. Libertarian Theories of Justice - Darren McCauley and Corine Wood-Donnelly 3. Cosmopolitan Theories of Justice - Tracey Skillington 4. Feminist Theories of Justice - Don Mitchell 5. Radical Justice: Anarchism, Utopian Socialism, Marxism and Critical Theory - Don Mitchell and Johanna Ohlsson 6. Radical Justice Through Injustice: Postcolonial Approaches - Johanna Ohlsson and Don Mitchell 7. Indigenous Approaches to Justice - Stephen Przybylinski and Johanna Ohlsson 8. The Capabilities Approach - Stephen Przybylinski and Roman Sidortsov Part II: Applied Justice Theories Preface to Part II - Stephen Przybylinski and Johanna Ohlsson 9. Environmental Justice - Corrine Wood-Donnelly 10. Climate Justice - Tracey Skillington 11. Energy Justice - Roman Sidortsov and Darren McCauley 12. Spatial Justice - Stephen Przybylinski 13. Landscape Justice - Don Mitchell 14. Intergenerational Justice - Johanna Ohlsson and Tracey Skillington 15. Just Transitions - Darren McCauley Conclusion - Johanna Ohlsson, Stephen Przybylinski and Don Mitchell,
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Lukacs Reader
Book SynopsisOne of the greatest Marxist theorists of his generation, Georg Lukacs was a prolific writer of remarkably catholic, if moralistic, tastes. In The Lukacs Reader , his biographer Arpad Kadarkay represents the great range and variety of Lukacs's output. The reader includes, in original translations, and with introductory essays, Lukacs on: Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Ford, Strindberg, Ibsen, Wilde, Shaw, Gaughin, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Also collected are: the autobiographical essay 'On the Poverty of Spirit', material from Lukacs's diary, and such key articles as: 'Aesthetic Culture', 'The Ideology of Modernism', 'Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem', and 'Class Consciousness'. What emerges is a figure very much at the centre of European thought whose value to modern culture and philosophy differs markedly from that which received opinion generally admits.Trade Review"This collection of essays emphasizes the romantic. It includes an early essay in which Lukacs compares the strangest of his own love affairs with Kerkegaard's, as well as essays on Stridberg, Ibsen, Wilde and Shaw." Leslie Armour, Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Essays in Autobiography:. 1. Kierkegaard. 2. Diary. 3. On the Poverty of Spirit. 4. My Socratic Mask. Part II: Drama and Tragedy:. 5. Shakespeare and Modern Drama. 6. John Ford. 7. August Strindberg. 8. Henrik Ibsen. 9. Peer Gynt. 10. Oscar Wilde. 11. Bernard Shaw. Part III: Art and Literature:. 12. Aesthetic Culture. 13. Paul Gaughin. 14. The Parting of the Ways. 15. Stavrogin's Confessions. 16. Integrated Civilisations. 17. The Ideology of Modernism. Part IV: Philosophy and Politics:. 18. Bolshevism as an Ethical Problem. 19. Class Consciousness. 20. Friedrich Nietzsche. 21. Martin Heidegger. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy Then and Now: An Introductory Text
Book SynopsisPhilosophy Then and Now provides an innovative and engaging blend of introductory text with classic and contemporary readings. Each of the eight parts begins with an introductory section on the major ideas associated with a seminal figure from the history of philosophy. This is followed by key selections from the essential writings of that philosopher, as well as influential selections from contemporary figures. Key figures covered include: Socrates, Aquinas, Locke, Descartes, Mill, Nietzsche, Marx, and Sartre. By focusing on the core themes, issues and problems of philosophy, the volume motivates student interest in the subject, and represents a distinctive text for all introductory courses in philosophy.Trade Review"Philosophy Then and Now is a tasty blend of classic and contemporary philosophical essays on basic problems in philosophy. Each entree is preceded by a scrumptious appetizer: a substantial new essay to whet the students' philosophical palates." Hugh LaFollette, East Tennessee State University "Distinguished and gifted members of the Philosophy Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have put together a splendid introductory text. Not only are the best and most absorbing writings of the western tradition on philosophy aptly chosen, but the substantial introductions by each of these collegues broach the issues deftly and carry the discussion to the frontier of the subject. The result is more than an effective teaching tool, it is a distinctive approach to out philosophical tradition." Alex Rosenberg, University of Georgia "This is an outstanding new introductory philosophy text. Students will be drawn into the ongoing philosophical conversations and the historical material will give them much to talk about. Helpful discussion questions and suggestions for further reading are provided and the book is suitable for variety of introductory courses." Hugh Wilder, College of Charleston Table of ContentsEditors and Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Mind, Body, and Death. Introductory text: "Socrates and the Soul of Death": George Graham. Selected Readings: Plato, Phaedo (selections). Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Correspondence, Passions of the Soul. Thomas Nagel, "Death". Gareth Matthews, "Life and Death as the Arrival and Departure of Psyche". Jerry Fodor, "The Mind-Body Problem". 2. Freedom and Determinism. Introductory Text: "Sartre on Being Free": George Graham and Harold Kincaid. Selected Readings: Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (selections). Pierre Simone de Laplace, Philosophical Essays on Determinism (selections). Daniel Dennett, "On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want". Robert Kane, "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal". 3. Philosophical Theology. Introductory Text: "Aquinas and the Rationality of Belief in God": Gregory Pence. Selected Readings: Thomas Aquinas, "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God", from Summa Theologica. William Paley, "The Evidence of Design". John L. Mackie, "Arguments for Design". William L. Rowe, "The Cosmological Argument." R. M. Adams, "Kierkegaard's Arguments Against Objective Reasoning...". Fydor Dostoevsky, "Why Does God Permit Evil?" from The Brothers Karamazov. 4. Knowledge and Scepticism. Introductory Text: "Descartes and Our Knowledge of the External World": G. Lynn Stephens. Selected Readings: Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (selections). Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (selections). W. V. O. Quine, "Posits and Reality". Bruce Aune, Knowledge, Mind and Nature (selections). 5. The Scientific Method. Introductory Text: "Mill and the Nature of Science": Harold Kincaid. Selected Readings: John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic (selections). Carl Hempel, Philosophy of Natural Science (selections). Karl Popper, "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report". Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (selections). J. J. C. Smart, "Physics and Reality". 6. The Nature of Morality. Introductory Text: "Nietzsche and the Objectivity of Morals": James Rachels. Selected Readings: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (selections); Genology of Morals (selections). David Hume, "Morality, Sentiment, and Reason" (selections from the Treatise ). A. J. Ayer, "A Defence of Emotivism". Renford Bambrough, "A Proof of the Objectivity of Morals". Ronald Dworkin, "The Concept of a Moral Position". 7. Government. Introductory Text: "Locke: The Individual, the Public, the State" (selections). Selected Readings: Plato, The Republic (selections). Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections). John Locke, 2nd Treatise (selections). John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (selections). George Dargo, "Private Property and Legal Takings" (selections). Charles A. Reich, "The New Property" (selections). Michael Sandel, "Morality and the Liberal Ideal". Iris Marion Young, "Impartiality and the Civic Public" (selections). 8. Distributive Justice. Introductory Text: "Marx and the Problem of Justice": N. Scott Arnold. Selected Readings: Karl Marx, Preface to Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (selections). Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (selections). Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program (selections). John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (selections). Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (selections). Index.
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic: New Essays on
Book SynopsisBertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic brings together ten new essays on Russell's best-known work, The Problems of Philosophy. These essays, by some of the foremost scholars of his life and works, reexamine Russell's famous distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance" and "knowledge by description," his developing views about our knowledge of physical reality, and his views about our knowledge of logic, mathematics, and other abstract matters. In addition, this volume includes an editors' introduction, which summarizes Russell's influential book, presents new biographical details about how and why Russell wrote it, and highlights its continued significance for contemporary philosophy.
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St Augustine's Press Aristotle`s Gradations of Being In Metaphysics
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St Augustine's Press The Kingdom Suffereth Violence – The Machiavelli
Book SynopsisFor five centuries, literary treasures had lain dormant in the archives of the Palazzo Tuttofare in Florence. Through a fortunate coincidence they have been recently discovered, and the present work is the result of this find. Contained herein, in fact, is the unedited correspondence – or presented as such – exchanged between Desiderius Erasmus, Thomas More, and Niccolo Machiavelli in 1517–1518. To these letters are added texts which serve, as it were, as annexes of the Prince and of the Utopia.Between these three illustrious writers the discussion, or the quarrel, bears chiefly on two themes: the art of governing on the one hand, and the art of writing on the other. As was to be expected, they battle over the best manner of governing: Erasmus and More on one side, Machiavelli on the other. The confrontation occurs on two terrains in particular: morality and necessity in politics, and the political forms of necessity. In the background of the quarrel is raised the problem of Christianity’s political power, perhaps that of its truth.The second theme is not unrelated to the first. Erasmus, More, and Machiavelli are accomplished writers. Each has several styles at his command, each knows and practices the resources of the art of writing, each intends to read as he should. And so in the margins of their discussion about substance, they argue about the significance of their respective works; they interpret, rightly or wrongly, the others’ manners of writing; they explain their own writing or dodge explanation, they deliver their secret or lead into error. What is at stake is the meaning of these enigmatic works, which are the Prince (1513), the Utopia (1516), and, to a lesser extent, the Praise of Folly (1511). Any lifting of the veil necessitates a golden rule: we cannot grasp the meaning of a work unless we grasp the manner in which it was written. In the case of Erasmus, More, and Machiavelli, cunning has a role to play. The author has taken a leaf from their book. “And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence,and the violent bear it away.” – Matthew 11:12 Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSPrologue1PreliminariesSection 1. The Readers, The Readings 6Section 2. The Authors, The Strategic Context 15Section 3. The Authors, The Historical Contexts 31Section 4. The Texts, The Writing 426Book I. Morality and NecessityCh. 1. The Tender Commerce of Friendship 51Ch. 2.Ch. 3.(July 1517–March 1518) 51Institutio Tyranni 60Liber Necessitatis 85Book II. Realism and UtopiaCh. 4. Prince Atecratos’s Island 101Ch. 5. Nowhere and Elsewhere 125(April–November 1518) 101Book III. The Hidden PrinceCh. 6.Ch. 7.Ch. 8. Addenda 176(1519–1525) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (1) 149Quia Nominor Princeps (2) 168Book IV. The Registers of WritingCh. 9. The Languages of Friendship 182Ch. 10.(1535–1536) 182Apte dicere, apte tacere 201Epilogue227Appendices232Acknowledgments252Index253
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St Augustine's Press The Legitimacy of the Human
Book SynopsisThe Legitimacy of the Human presents itself as a satellite work to a more voluminous effort by Rémi Brague, The Kingdom of Man. The larger book argues the thesis of the increasingly visible failure of the modern project, founded upon a view of man as thoroughly emancipated and autonomous, his own sovereign and the world’s. This is most visible in our technological powers and predicaments, with their ever-growing capacity to destroy or fundamentally transform our humanity, but understandings of freedom and equality unable to justify themselves before the bar of reason, but willfully asserting themselves, complement the picture. If modernity’s precious gains are to be preserved, and with them their beneficiaries, modern human beings, then the founding thoughts of the modern world need to be revisited and revised, often in terms of a creative reengagement with premodern ones. A new, truly humanistic, culture needs to be sought. The Legitimacy of the Human drives home that basic argument, surveying contemporary challenges to the very existence of humanity, then interrogating modern thought and philosophy for reasons it might have for the continuation of the human adventure. Brague finds the self-proclaimed advocates of the modern strikingly silent or even negative about the proposition. To be sure, in many instances modern philosophy has helped humanity organize itself better in terms of justice, peaceful coexistence, and prosperity. But on the basic question whether it is good that humans exist, it is strangely tongue-tied. Other authorities must be consulted, other sources drawn from, to credibly answer that fundamental existential question. The last two chapters of the book hearken to the answer of the biblical God, as expressed in Genesis 1 and recapitulated by the Word Incarnate of the Gospels.
£19.95
St Augustine's Press Moderately Modern
Book SynopsisModerately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity’s ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort zone. Implicit in this claim, of course, is a slew of topics, claims, and an argument. What is modernity? What’s lacking in it? Where should its adherents look outside and beyond it? What would they find? And what would a conjunction of a chastened modernity and a newly respected outside look like? It would be difficult to find someone more equipped to raise and pursue these questions than Rémi Brague. Le règne de l’homme: l’echec du projet modern (The kingdom of man: the failure of the modern project) already laid out his basic views: modernity is the project of radical anthropocentrism, of man construed as the sovereign of the world and of his very humanity. If the traditional order of the West located man within a wider scheme of God/world/man, with the former two providing models of excellence for the latter, then modern thought reverses the order, expelling God and the divine from public centrality and, by means of technological science, aiming to make man, in Descartes’ famous phrase, “master and possessor of Nature”. The Legitimacy of the Human picks up the theme and surveys the results. Birth dearths, looming ecological disasters, and the threat of destruction on enormous scales testify to something having gone terribly awry. Its concluding chapters advise a reconsideration of the rejected premodern option: the biblical God and his providential care. Moderately Modern brings all of the foregoing together, mixing cultural critique with cultural restoration. It does so in characteristically Braguean ways: attention to the meaning and history of important terms; brilliant aperçus of the contemporary scene; enormous learning worn lightly and brought to bear deftly; a personal tone with intellectual and spiritual gravitas. His theme being the current condition of the West, this son of the West brings to bear all that she has made available to her children to live thoughtful and genuinely human lives. Let us hope that he is not a Cassandra, but more akin to Isaiah, albeit in a philosophical mode.Table of Contents Translator’s Introduction Foreword I Modernity as a Problem Introduction: On Modernitis 1 Can Europe Survive Modernity? 2 From One Transcendental to Another II Sacred Cows or Mad Cows? 3 To Ground Reason 4 Atheism or Superstition? 5 Is Secularization Modern? 6 Democracy and Theocracy 7 Reaction to Progress III Culture 8 Are There Really Two Cultures? 9 Does Culture Support the Idea of Truth? 10 Heirs Without a Will? IV To Temporize 11 From Time to Time 12 How One Writes History 13 The Conditions of a Future 14 Reconstruction 15 An Educational Dream 16 Not to Betray: The Tradition Index
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St Augustine's Press The Story of Western Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book was born of the paperback boom, and it is meant as an aid in the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. It is designed especially for use in a course in the history of philosophy, but I hope that it may also prove useful for other purposes, such as an historical introduction to philosophy or a comprehensive review of the history of philosophy or just as a help to the general reader trying to make some sense out of the history of Western philosophy. Opening of the Preface This book is a guide to the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. Is there,as the word “history” suggests, a story or plot in the history of Western philosophy, or in any of its parts? We shall see that there is a story in the whole of the history of Western philosophy (although its end still lies in the future), a story in each of the major parts of that story, and a story in each of the main subdivisions of those parts. Thus, the story of Western philosophy has stories within stories, wheels within wheels. Moreover, the stories we shall follow in this book are doubtless not the only stories in the history of Western philosophy, and they may also not be the most important ones. Our task as students both of the history of philosophy and of philosophy itself, therefore, should to try to discover these most important stories or plots, to reflect upon them, and thereby to advance our own philosophizing. Opening of the Prologue
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St Augustine's Press True Love
Book SynopsisFrom Plato and Aristotle and on to the present, many great philosophers have dealt with the nature of love, which is the most central and profound act of the person. Particularly the philosophy of the twentieth century excelled in this regard, most often inspired by the methods of essential (eidetic) analysis developed and practiced by phenomenology, particularly by realist phenomenology as represented by Max Scheler, by Dietrich von Hildebrand, whose masterwork, The Nature of Love (St. Augustine’s Press, 2009), was recently published in an excellent English translation, and by Karol Wojtyìa in his profound analysis of love in Love and Responsibility and in Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body (1987 in Italian, 2006 in a recent translation). One of the key topics of a philosophy of love regards the question whether love is a self-centered act in the service of what Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas regarded as the supreme goal of human life, happiness, to which the beloved person and love would be means, or whether true love is verily an other-centered and other-directed act motivated by the intrinsic value of a person, such that love can truly be called a “value response” – a response to the beloved person for her own sake. According to this last understanding of true love defended in the present work, any hedonistic interpretation of love as springing from a mere desire for pleasure, and also any eudemonistic interpretation of love according to which love would be a mere means to true self-fulfillment and happiness, turn out to be serious misunderstandings of true love. Instead, happiness, however ardently desired by man, is a superabundant fruit of a true love that first turns to the beloved person for her own sake (propter seipsam), and only through a sincere self-donation can reach authentic happiness. The book answers many objections that have been and could be raised against this central thesis about the self-giving and value responding gesture of true love, for example some profound objections raised by Nygren and by Josef Pieper. The book shows the multiple and complex mysterious root of that value and intrinsic goodness of the person that motivates love. He shows that the genuinely self-transcending and self-sacrificing gesture of love is fully compatible with a motivating role, but only with a subordinated and co-motivating role, of happiness in love, while happiness always remains principally and primarily a fruit of true love and self-donation, rather than its motive.
£13.94
University of Scranton Press,U.S. Creating a Human World: A New Psychological and
Book SynopsisIn "Creating a Human World", Trappist monk and scholar Ernest Daniel Carrere explores what it means to be fully human, to live in a shared world, and to resist the easy tendency to flee reality and seek pleasure in material pursuits. To do so he examines the writings of three great modern thinkers - Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, and Soren Kierkegaard - and proposes a new reading of their work in light of his own understanding of New Testament teachings. Carrere elucidates the paradoxical spiritual truth that salvation lies not in an escape from humanity, but in embracing it. An interdisciplinary tour de force, this book will appeal to anyone interested in philosophy, psychology, religion, or cultural anthropology.Trade Review"This timely and insightful work provides a cogent diagnosis of our spiritual predicament and makes an urgent plea for the only kind of remedy that might help us to live well as contingent beings." - Rick A. Furtak, Colorado College"
£17.66
Temple University Press,U.S. Forms in the Abyss: A Philosophical Bridge
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking effort to find the "common language" between two of the most important philosophical thinkers of the twentieth century, Forms in the Abyss promises to be one of the most significant contribution to our critical understanding of western thought in recent memory.Trade Review"The project of transcoding Sartrean language into the Derridean coordinates, and vice-versa, is an unseasonable one whose reward lies in the defamiliarization of both. Martinot's minute, technical readings avoid all facile ideological generalizations and send us back to the original texts with new eyes." -Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction 1 History and Writing The Metaphysics of a Common Language The Narrative of Metaphysics The Historical Dimension A Common Uncommonality Chapter 2: The Form of Uncommon Logic 37 Invention Différance Néantisation On HeideggerChapter 3 - The Parameters of Homology 73 Extensions of the Double Non-negation Sartre's Use of the Skew Relation as a Formalism Derrida's Use of the Skew Relation in his Thematics The Middle Voice Always Already Chapter 4: Form and Structure 103 On Form On Structure The Derridean Circle Mediation The Triadic Circle in its Historical Moment Conclusion: The Structures of Ethnocentrism Chapter 5: The Look and its Inner Narrativizations 150 The Look The other-as-object The Look The Meta-narrativity of the Look A Critique and Extension of the NMN-structure The Form of Form Chapter 6: The Sartre-Derrida Homology 180 The Inside of the Outside, the Supplement A Note on "Infrastructure" Separation in Immediacy, the Hymen The Role of Narrative The Social Text of the Glyph Dissemination Reading the Imagination as Reading Conclusion Chapter 7: Circularities and Foundations 238 Bringing the Incommensurable into Dialogue The Reader The Circle Derrida's Deconstruction of the Subject Sartre's Deconstruction of the Subject Chapter 8: A Theory of Dialogue 270 An Elementary Particle of the Social Being for Others as a Micro-socius The Boundary between Subjectivities The Ontological Structure of Dialogue The Semiotic Structure of Dialogue The Derridean Moment of the Social Listening and (Re)Construction Conclusions Chapter 9: A theory of language 314 Shifts in Social Semiosis The Circle and the Social The Colonial Principle Chauvinism and the Sundering of the Circle. On Metaphysics A Third Domain? The Circle as Analysand Endnotes 357Bibliography 427
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University Press of Mississippi Comics as Philosophy
Book SynopsisThrough the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics. Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel Ghost World, ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running Concrete series, and political philosophies in Hergé's perennially popular The Adventures of Tintin. Modern political concerns inform Terry Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responded to 9/11 and how the genre reflects the anxieties of the contemporary world. Essayists also explore the issues surrounding the development and appreciation of comics. Amy Kiste Nyberg examines the rise of the Comics Code, using it as a springboard for discussing the ethics of censorship and child protection in America. Stanford W. Carpenter uses interviews to analyze how a team of Marvel artists and writers reimagined the origin of one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, Captain America. Throughout, essayists in Comics as Philosophy show how well the form can be used by its artists and its interpreters as a means of philosophical inquiry. Jeff McLaughlin is assistant professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
£27.96
Brandeis University Press Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany 17891848
Book SynopsisA provocative look at how Jewish intellectuals thought about Jewish religion and existence within a German philosophical tradition
£36.10
Michigan State University Press Giving Life, Giving Death: Psychoanalysis,
Book SynopsisAlthough women alone have the ability to bring children into the world, modern Western thought tends to discount this female prerogative. In Giving Life, Giving Death, Lucien Scubla argues that structural anthropology sees women as objects of exchange that facilitate alliance-building rather than as vectors of continuity between generations.Examining the work of Lévi-Strauss, Freud, and Girard, as well as ethnographic and clinical data, Giving Life, Giving Death seeks to explain why, in constructing their master theories, our greatest thinkers have consistently marginalized the cultural and biological fact of maternity. In the spirit of Freud’s Totem and Taboo, Scubla constructs an anthropology that posits a common source for family and religion. His wide-ranging study explores how rituals unite violence and the sacred and intertwine the giving of death and the giving of life.
£22.73
Michigan State University Press Philosophy's Violent Sacred: Heidegger and
Book SynopsisContinental and postmodern thinking has misidentified the source of violence as originating from Western metaphysics. It has further failed to acknowledge the Judeo-Christian source of its ethic-the ethic of concern for victims.In this volume Duane Armitage attempts a critique of continental philosophy and postmodernism through the lens of Rene Girard's mimetic theory. This critique is directed primarily at the philosophies of Nietzsche and Heidegger, both among the foremost representatives of continental and postmodern thought. Armitage argues that Girard's engagement with Heidegger and Nietzsche radically alters many of the axioms of current postmodern continental philosophy, in particular the overcoming of metaphysics on the theoretical level and continental philosophy's tacit commitments to (neo-)Marxism on the practical level.Detailed attention to the implications of Girard's philosophical thought results in a paradigm shift that deals perhaps a deadly blow to continental and postmodern thinking. Armitage further argues that Girard's thinking solves the very problems that continental and postmodern thinking sought (but failed) to solve, namely the problems of violence and victimization, particularly within the context of the aftermath of the Second World War. Ultimately, this volume shows that at the heart of postmodern thinking lies an entanglement with the violent sacred.Trade ReviewDuane Armitage masterfully deploys Girard to show that Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the continental and postmodern philosophy that are based on their ideas are rooted in an unacknowledged celebration of ritual violence, one explicitly formulated in terms of power in Nietzsche and less transparently in Heidegger’s critique of reason, metaphysics, and theology." —David H. Calhoun, professor of philosophy, Gonzaga University
£27.92
New Village Press We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons
Book SynopsisDescribes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding of its commons. Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark. We Built a Village describes the process of planning and building of an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the way the people involved simultaneously built their homes and their social structure. As both a memoir and a sociological analysis that probes the differences between commons and markets, it is unique among books about cohousing. When this group of people began in the late 1990s to construct their cohousing community, they set in motion a counterpoint between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would guide their lives together, even up to creative responses to the recent pandemic.Trade Review“The Diane Margolis’ rendition of cohousing is a very human one, and overdue. Putting together a custom high-functioning neighborhood is never simple, and this book does not shy away from the complexities. But getting these communities together is getting easier—the foibles are fewer because of stories like this—and one day cohousing will be the norm, not the exception.” -- Charles Durrett * architect, AIA, and cofounder of cohousing in North America *“With a background as an author and sociologist, Diane Margolis has been an early pioneer and leader in the cohousing movement in America. She has a deep understanding of the social process critical to the creative and successful development and evolution of cohousing communities. I definitely recommend We Built a Village.” -- James W Leach * President, Wonderland Hill Development Company *“This book takes us back to the formation of the first cohousing communities in the United States, when ordinary people (not just architects, developers, and planners) decided they wanted a different kind of neighborhood where they collaborate with their neighbors on a daily basis. That Cambridge Cohousing, along with hundreds of other communities, is still thriving shows that Americans are looking for something the housing market is still not providing—authentic community. The book illustrates how people without “a leader” or shared spiritual practice can create strong enduring communities that attract their next generations of residents and stand the test of time. I am particularly intrigued by Diane’s discussions of how Americans struggle with private property rights vs the commons, conflicting values deeply embedded in most of us.” -- Kathryn McCamant * President, CoHousing Solutions; cofounder of cohousing in North America *
£15.29
New Village Press We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons
Book SynopsisDescribes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding of its commons. Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark. We Built a Village describes the process of planning and building of an early cohousing community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the way the people involved simultaneously built their homes and their social structure. As both a memoir and a sociological analysis that probes the differences between commons and markets, it is unique among books about cohousing. When this group of people began in the late 1990s to construct their cohousing community, they set in motion a counterpoint between the physical spaces and the social configurations that would guide their lives together, even up to creative responses to the recent pandemic.Trade Review"“The Diane Margolis’ rendition of cohousing is a very human one, and overdue. Putting together a custom high-functioning neighborhood is never simple, and this book does not shy away from the complexities. But getting these communities together is getting easier—the foibles are fewer because of stories like this—and one day cohousing will be the norm, not the exception.” " -- Charles Durrett * architect, AIA, and cofounder of cohousing in North America *"“With a background as an author and sociologist, Diane Margolis has been an early pioneer and leader in the cohousing movement in America. She has a deep understanding of the social process critical to the creative and successful development and evolution of cohousing communities. I definitely recommend We Built a Village.” " -- James W Leach * President, Wonderland Hill Development Company *"“This book takes us back to the formation of the first cohousing communities in the United States, when ordinary people (not just architects, developers, and planners) decided they wanted a different kind of neighborhood where they collaborate with their neighbors on a daily basis. That Cambridge Cohousing, along with hundreds of other communities, is still thriving shows that Americans are looking for something the housing market is still not providing—authentic community. The book illustrates how people without “a leader” or shared spiritual practice can create strong enduring communities that attract their next generations of residents and stand the test of time. I am particularly intrigued by Diane’s discussions of how Americans struggle with private property rights vs the commons, conflicting values deeply embedded in most of us.” " -- Kathryn McCamant * President, CoHousing Solutions; cofounder of cohousing in North America *
£64.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of
Book SynopsisA history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism. German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western culture. Nicholas Germana identifiesa different impetus for orientalism in German thought, seeing it as an effort to come to grips with the Other within German society at the turn of the nineteenth century and within the dynamics of subjectivity itself. Drawing largely on work by feminist scholars, the book uncovers an anxiety at the core of Kantian and post-Kantian thought, thus shedding light on its derogation (or elevation) of Oriental cultures. Kant's philosophy of freedom is a construction of modern, Western masculinity. Reason, which alone can make freedom possible, subverts and orders chaotic nature and protects the rational subject from the enervating influences of the senses and the imagination. The feminized, sexually charged Orient is a threat to the historical achievement of Western male rationality. Germana's book emphasizes aesthetics in the German orientalist discourse, a subject that has received little attention todate. In this tradition of German thought, aesthetics became a form of spiritual anthropology, ordering and classifying societies, races, and genders in terms of their ability to master the senses and the imagination, forces thatundermine rational autonomy, the very source of human (i.e., masculine) dignity. Nicholas A. Germana is Professor of History at Keene State College, New Hampshire.Trade Review[T]he merits of this well-researched volume lie in its dense argument and close attention to and analysis of its complex source materials, and Germana is sensitive to how philosophical and aesthetic interests interact. Equally laudable is the author's careful balance between philosophical and historical approaches to the period. -- Joanna Raisbeck * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *A new history of Kantian and post-Kantian German philosophy. This is an important book...Nicholas Germana [breaks] new ground by illuminating the buried history of orientalism in German philosophy between Kant and Hegel. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction What Is Enlightenment? Moral Feeling The Philosophy of Art The Poetic State The Life of the Notion The End of Art Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language,
Book SynopsisThis book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature’s greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a “new narrative,” one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his “new narrative.” Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the “outsider” or “marginal,” the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of “eccentric.” Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *"Earl E. Fitz advances the question of language as key to innovation and modernity in the mature works of Machado de Assis. Fitz attributes his departure from realism to a new awareness of the mutability, instability, self-referentiality and inescapable ambiguity of language in relation to meaning. What the novels are really about is not what they seem." -- K. David Jackson * Yale University *Is Machado de Assis a theoretician of the novel? Earl Fitz’s book is a fascinating response to such a question. In this exciting journey through the writer’s late novels, we learn that Machado didn’t tell us what he was thinking; differently, he showed us the very act of thinking through language. It’s worth reading: Fitz’s passion for Machado is contagious. -- Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese * Princeton University *"A masterwork of original and seminal scholarship that rescues a critically important Latin American writer from an undeserved obscurity." * Midwest Book Review *"Earl Fitz’s book should be appreciated as a complement to the many other excellent studies of Machado’s relation to a plentiful external landscape. Lest we become overly confident about our ability to know these realities, we should pause and, considering perspectives like those of this book, clean our glasses." * Journal of Lusophone Studies *"Fitz’s study provides a strong argument for why scholars interested in narrative theory and form should give, if not renewed, then new attention to the work of Machado de Assis." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"[A] passionate and convincingly argued monograph...Fitz’s study makes a vital contribution to Machadoan criticism in that it highlights, perhaps more clearly, more forcefully, and in more detail than previously offered, the holistic view Machado came to embrace of narrative as a dynamic confluence of unstable signs capable of creating seemingly stable realities." * Hispania *"Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, otherwise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia." * Hispanic Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations .. ivA Note on Translations... v Introduction ... 1 One - The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas ... 95 Two - The Psychiatrist ... 132 Three - Quincas Borba ... 169 Four - Dom Casmurro ... 196 Five - Esau and Jacob ... 235 Six - Counselor Ayres Memorial ... 260 Conclusion ... 283Acknowledgements ... 310Bibliography ... 311Index ... 324About the Author ... 325
£26.99
Collective Ink In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory
Book SynopsisThe five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked. Classical and scholastic philosophy up to the time of the European Enlightenment relegated their operations to its margins, viewing them as at best a distraction from higher thinking, and at worst a positive deception. Paradoxically, what one could not objectively know, the products of the mind, were accorded precedence over the concrete. From the Romantic era onwards, the senses moved to the centre of speculative thought, and the various dialectical currents of philosophy after Hegel made them interdependent with the intellectual function, which was held to derive most or all of its authority from them. This tendency has continued down to the sensualist, hedonist and anti-intellectual currents of our own day. In this theoretical consideration of what has been done to the senses in modern experience, Stuart Walton subjects the life of the senses to a further materialist turn, one that refuses a spiritualisation of the material realm, to which contemporary discourses of the body have often fallen prey, while at the same time preserving sensuality from being delivered once again to a sterile idealism.
£18.04
Collective Ink Befuddled: The Lives & Legends of Ancient
Book SynopsisA book for thinkers young and old, Befuddled is a journey back in time to explore the lives, legends and ideas of ancient philosophers. Theories on the origin of the universe, the nature of the mind, and much more are presented alongside bizarre stories of mad emperors and talking skulls. Featuring an array of iconic figures, including Socrates, Pythagoras and the Buddha, Befuddled superbly illustrates how lives devoted to confusion and wonder not only give rise to fascinating ideas about reality, they also brim with wild moments and remarkable tales. Author David Birch invites you to add your own life to the collection. With questions and activities designed to start you on your own extraordinary explorations, Befuddled will help you discover your own powers of thought while you experience for yourself the freaky thrills of befuddlement.
£14.99
John Hunt Offbeat Philosophers
Book SynopsisPhilosophical perspectives that challenge our unexamined norms.
£10.16
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in
Book SynopsisExamines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous influence over the twentieth century. All the more fascinating, then, is Mahler's intellectual engagement with the writings of Nietzsche. Given the limited and frequently cryptic nature of the composer's own comments on Nietzsche, Mahler's specific understanding of the elusive thinker is achieved through the examination of Nietzsche's reception amongst the people who introduced composer to philosopher: members of the Pernerstorfer Circle at the University of Vienna. Mahler's Nietzsche draws on a variety of primary sources to answer two key questions. The first is hermeneutic: what do Mahler's allusions to Nietzsche mean? The second is creative: how can Mahler's own characterization of Nietzsche as an "epoch-making influence" be identified in his compositional techniques? By answering these two questions, the book paints a more accurate picture of the intersections of the arts, philosophy and politics in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Mahler's Nietzsche will be required reading for scholars and students of nineteenth and early twentieth century German music and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Epoch-Making Influence 1 The Case of Wagner 2 The Crown of Laughter 3 The Gay Science 4 The Übermensch 5 Ecce Homo Epilogue Appendix I: Original Symphony Programs Appendix II: Song Texts Bibliography Index
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Collective Ink New Philosophy of Universalism, The – The
Book SynopsisIn "The New Philosophy of Universalism", Nicholas Hagger presents a new philosophy focusing on an up-to-date view of the universe and its bio-friendly, orderly rather than random, structure. At the origin of Western civilization, philosophy reflected the One universe and man's position in it. The last 350 years of increasing materialism and reductionism have fragmented the universe. In the 20th century philosophy preferred to focus on logic and language and has become increasingly irrelevant. Now a new philosophy, Universalism, takes philosophy back to its original aim: focus on the universe - the universe known to contemporary cosmologists, astrophysicists, physicists, biologists and geologists, who identify systems of order as well as randomness.Reflecting the most up-to-date scientific evidence for what the universe is, "Universalism" focuses on cosmological bio-friendliness and the universal principle of order, and reconnects philosophy to the metaphysical tradition rejected by the Vienna Circle. A systematic philosophy of the expanding universe, Nature and man, "Universalism" identifies a Law of Order that counterbalances a Law of Randomness and offers a new philosophy that has global applications.Trade ReviewThe scope of Hagger's book is immense. Universalism is a call to a philosopher to abandon the specialisms (in particular logic and language) and to attempt, once again, the kind of Grand Unified Theory of Everything that has marked the discipline from the beginning. Universalism has the potentiality to be as potent a movement in the 21st century as Existentialism was in the post-war world. Christopher Macann, Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Bordeaux, author of Being and Becoming
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Collective Ink Many–Sided Wisdom – A New Politics of the Spirit
Book SynopsisAnekant is a new political philosophy with ancient spiritual roots. It derives from the teachings of the Jains in India, but is relevant to all cultures and all times, especially our present interconnected yet dangerously divided world. Anekant literally means 'Many-Sidedness'. It recognises that there are an infinite variety of paths towards the same truth and so the search for truth must be undertaken with humility. All beings - including humans - are on the same journey. Those who are certain that they have grasped the truth are likely to be the furthest from it. "Many-Sided Wisdom" teaches us that human supremacy is a delusion - leading to ecological destruction, the oppression of other species and exploitation of human by human. Practising Many-Sidedness is about realising that 'society' means more than just humans, because it embraces all forms of life. We should learn to co-operate instead of competing with each other - and work with nature rather than pointlessly attempting to 'conquer' it.Trade ReviewAidan Rankin presents the philosophy of Jainism with clarity, insight and relevance to our current global crisis. In so doing he connects us with a spiritual view of pluralism that is as multifaceted as life itself, through which we can bring the cosmic existence into our minds and hearts to widen our vision and let go of all biases. (Dr David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri), Director, American Institute of Vedic Studies.) This lucid commentary on Indic wisdom , especially the concept of Anekant, goes a long way in emphasizing the interconnectedness of life as the foundation for an integral environmental ethic. (Dr Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Editor, Indian Journal of Ecocriticism.) An exceptional book - timely and lucidly written. A unique and wise philosophy of healing for an age of intolerance. (Dr Atul K. Shah, CEO Diverse Ethics.)
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Reaktion Books Michel Foucault CRITICAL LIVES
Book SynopsisThroughout most of his career, Michel Foucault consistently refused to say much about himself and was reluctant to be defined in either professional or personal terms. His stance was 'Do not ask who I am, and do not ask me to remain the same'. This title argues that these contradictory views make it possible to relate Foucault's work to his life.
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University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Persuasion and Rhetoric
Book SynopsisCarlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) committed suicide at the age of 23, days after completing this devastating treatise on the human condition and the course of Western civilisation. This work was deemed to be so radically nihilistic, or so radically idealistic, that publishers shied away from it for decades. This new English translation brings to life the heartfelt text of the precocious Italian-Jewish writer, poet and painter, who - refusing to compromise with life - remained loyal to his ideal of a perfect world. Keenly aware of the inevitable catastrophe that the values of his time held in store for humanity, Carlo Michelstaedter, with ""Persuasion and Rhetoric"", also provides a pithy - albeit idiosyncratic - synthesis of the major currents of philosophical thought that held sway at the beginning of the twentieth century. Its searing honesty and mordant critique have lost none of their immediacy, almost a century after the work was completed as a university thesis. The reader is challenged to re-examine the dull norms, conventions and patterns of thought all too readily adopted as humanity willingly, pathetically, courts its own demise. And yet, amidst this gloomy vision, Michelstaedter forces the reader to re-appraise the here-and-now, to summon the courage to live 'a life worthy of being lived'.
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Zone Books The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation
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Liverpool University Press Perspectives of Reality: An Introdution to the Philosophy of Hinduism
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Liverpool University Press Dugald Stewart: The Pride and Ornament of
Book SynopsisThis book tells the personal story of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), whose circular memorial monument on Calton Hill is one of Edinburgh's best known landmarks. Originally a mathematician like his father, Stewart held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University for 25 years and became the most distinguished philosopher in Britain. He was a gifted teacher whose character and eloquence influenced students who were to become famous in many walks of life. Two of them became Prime Minister. A lifelong Whig, Stewart was in France at the outbreak of the French Revolution, and there knew Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. He wrote biographical memoirs of Adam Smith and two other contemporaries. He gave Britain's first course on economics, attended by all four founder members of the 'Edinburgh Review', and his political, as well as his philosophical influence extended well into the 19th century. His wife was a generous hostess whose lively and amusing letters are quoted extensively in the book, and she and Stewart are shown to have been significant figures in the cultural life of the time.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Who was Dugald Stewart?; Family Background and Infancy; At School and University (1761-1772); The Young Stewart, Mathematician (1772-1780); Boarders, Travels, Marriage and Change (1780-1785); The Young Stewart, Philosopher (1785-1787); Stewart and Robert Burns; Revolutionary France and Remarriage (1787-1790); Liberal Philosopher in a Harsh Climate (1790-96); Students and Travels (1796-1800); The Stewarts and the Palmerstons (1800-1803); Social Life and the Leslie and Ashburton Affairs (1803-1805); Towards Retirement (1806-1810); The Teacher and the Man; The Early Years of Retirement (1810-1815); Deaths of Friends and the Final Break (1815-1820); The Last Years (1820-1828); Epilogue; Index.
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Liverpool University Press Greek Tyranny
Book SynopsisThe tyrants of Greece are some of the most colourful figures in antiquity, notorious for their luxury, excess and violence, and provoking heated debates among political thinkers. Greek Tyranny examines the phenomenon of autocratic rule outside the law in archaic and classical Greece, offering a new interpretation of the nature of tyranny. The development of tyrannical government is examined in theory and in practice, embracing lesser-known rulers such as the tagoi of Thessaly and the Hecatomnids of Halicarnassus, as well as canonical figures like the Pisistratid rulers of Athens and the Dionysii at Syracuse. The book considers the different forms which sole rulership took – the violent usurper, the appointed magistrate, the general and the Hellenistic king – and the responses which tyranny evoked, both from the citizens of the polis and from intellectuals such as Plato and Aristotle. Lewis replaces the longstanding theory of an ‘age of tyranny’ in Greece with powerful new arguments, suggesting tyranny was a positive choice for many Greek states.Trade ReviewIn this short book, written in a lively and accessible style, Sian Lewis presents ancient Greek tyranny as a phenomenon much more varied and interesting than negative Aristotelian (and modern) notions of tyranny imply. * Polis, Vol. 27, No. 2, *What is novel and very valuable about this study is its broad chronological and geographical perspective on tyranny. By examining fourth and third century tyrannies, and by including Magna Graecia and the Asia Minor in her analysis, Lewis destabilizes our vision of Greek tyranny. * Polis, Vol. 27, No. 2 *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Map of the Greek world Abbreviations Introduction 1. Archaic tyrants 2. The end of tyranny? 3. Tyranny remade? 4. Philosophers and tyrants 5. Tyrants and kings Conclusion Notes Further reading Index
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Liverpool University Press Greek Tyranny
Book SynopsisThe tyrants of Greece are some of the most colourful figures in antiquity, notorious for their luxury, excess and violence, and provoking heated debates among political thinkers. Greek Tyranny examines the phenomenon of autocratic rule outside the law in archaic and classical Greece, offering a new interpretation of the nature of tyranny. The development of tyrannical government is examined in theory and in practice, embracing lesser-known rulers such as the tagoi of Thessaly and the Hecatomnids of Halicarnassus, as well as canonical figures like the Pisistratid rulers of Athens and the Dionysii at Syracuse. The book considers the different forms which sole rulership took – the violent usurper, the appointed magistrate, the general and the Hellenistic king – and the responses which tyranny evoked, both from the citizens of the polis and from intellectuals such as Plato and Aristotle. Lewis replaces the longstanding theory of an ‘age of tyranny’ in Greece with powerful new arguments, suggesting tyranny was a positive choice for many Greek states.Trade ReviewIn this short book, written in a lively and accessible style, Sian Lewis presents ancient Greek tyranny as a phenomenon much more varied and interesting than negative Aristotelian (and modern) notions of tyranny imply. * Polis, Vol. 27, No. 2 *What is novel and very valuable about this study is its broad chronological and geographical perspective on tyranny. By examining fourth and third century tyrannies, and by including Magna Graecia and the Asia Minor in her analysis, Lewis destabilizes our vision of Greek tyranny. * Polis, Vol. 27, No. 2 *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Map of the Greek world Abbreviations Introduction 1. Archaic tyrants 2. The end of tyranny? 3. Tyranny remade? 4. Philosophers and tyrants 5. Tyrants and kings Conclusion Notes Further reading Index
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Ave Maria University Press Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology
Book SynopsisBut who do you say that I am?"" asks Jesus at the decisive turning point in the Gospel. Simon Peter answers correctly at first but is soon corrected when he protests the revelation of the Cross. Christians in every age are called to confess the right faith in Jesus, who suffered, died, and rose for our salvation. Our own period is beset by a crisis of faith in Jesus, which has had manifold deleterious effects on our lives, our Christian communities, and our world.For the sake of addressing this crisis, the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies cosponsored an international conference that took place at Ave Maria University under the title Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology. Beginning with a gripping foreword by Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, this volume gathers together several of the excellent conference presentations given by scholars working in North America, South America, Europe, and Western Asia. These studies consider both formulations of who Christ is and of how we are under his judgement. With help from Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition, this work engages today's crisis of Christology as seen in multiple theological topics and offers models of faith to answer Jesus' question for ourselves, ""But who do you say that I am?
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Ave Maria University Press Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher
Book SynopsisSt. Thomas Aquinas preaches in his sermon Puer Iesus, "Just as your father begot you bodily, your teacher begot you spiritually." St. Thomas himself has been blessed with prodigious fecundity through the centuries for his teaching in the Holy Spirit. Always, he leads us to think of the Blessed Trinity and all things from God's own view.With new insights into St. Thomas's spiritual teaching in its sources, context, breadth, wisdom, and influences, Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher presents chapters inspired by an international conference cosponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Dominican House of Studies. The volume, like its conference, honors Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, OP, adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, for his dedication to the spiritual teaching of St. Thomas in several decades of service to the Church and the academy. Luis F. Cardinal Ladaria, SJ, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, contributed the volume's foreword.
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Zone Books Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in
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Zone Books Bizarre–Privileged Items in the Universe – The
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Intellectuals in the Society of Spectacle
Book SynopsisThis book reveals the sense in which our postmodern societies are characterized by the obscene absence of the intellectual. The modern intellectual--who had once been associated with humanism and enlightenment—has in our day been replaced by media stars, talking heads, and technical experts. At issue is the ongoing crisis of democracy, under the aegis of the société du spectacle and its vast networks of politically-induced idiocy, industrially-produced biocide, and militarily-provoked genocide. Spectacle fills the resulting moral and intellectual vacuum with electronic technologies of control, punishment, and destruction. This postmodern tyranny reduces intelligence to mechanistic, positivist, and grammatological models of inquiry, while increasing the segmentation, fragmentation, and dissolution of human existence. The apotheosis of the spectacle explains the intellectual void that lies at the heart of our postmodern decadence; it also accounts for the need to recuperate the humanist values of enlightenment promoted by the modern intellectual tradition.Table of Contents1. Besieged Existence2. Humanism in an Age of Anti-humanism3. Intellectuals & Exiles4. Tyranny of Idiocy
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Theologies from the Pacific
Book SynopsisThis book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika). The essays are grouped into three clusters. The first, Roots, explores the many roots from which theologies in and of Pasifika grow – sea and (is)land, Christian teachings and scriptures, native traditions and island ways. The second, Reads, presents theologies informed and inspired by readings of written and oral texts, missionary traps and propaganda, and teachings and practices of local churches. The final cluster, Routes, places Pasifika theologies upon the waters so that they may navigate and voyage. The ‘amanaki (hope) of this work is in keeping talanoa (dialogue) going, in pushing back tendencies to wedge the theologies in and of Pasifika, and in putting native wisdom upon the waters. As these Christian and native theologies voyage, they chart Pasifika’s sea of theologies.Table of Contents1. Sea of TheologiesPart I Roots2. A Dirtified God: A Dirt Theology from the Pacific Dirt Communities3. Ko e Mana Fakahā ‘Otua ‘o e Fakatupu: Creation as Sacrament4. Jesus Does a Haka Boogie: Tangata Whenua Theology5. Kauafua fātele for Christ’ sake: A Theological Dance for the Changing Climate6. A Pacific Theology of Celebration7. Naming the Spirit A-niu (Anew): Re(is)landing Pneumatology8. Fetuiaga Kerisiano: Church as a Moving UmuPart II Reads9. Scripturalize Indigenous References: An Invitation from Samoa10. Pasifika Churches Trapped in the Missionary Era: A Case in Samoa11. Failed Promise of Abundant Life: Revisiting 200 Years of Christianity in Oceania12. Taulaga in the Samoan Church: Is It Wise Giving?13. Unwrapping Theodicy14. Church as Feagaiga: A Fāiā Reading of Romans 13:1–715. O le pa’u a le popo uli: A Coconut Discipleship Reading of Matthew 12:46–50 and 28:16–20Part III Routes16. Vaa Culture and Theology: A Mäòhinui Moananui Invitation17. From Atutasi to Atulasi: Relational Theologizing and Why Pacific Islanders Think and Theologize Differently18. Mauli Apunamo: A Keakalo Invitation to One-Life19. Ol Woman long Vanuatu oli stap brekem bus! (Vanuatu Women Breaking New Ground!)20. Intercultural and Interfaith Encounters: A Turo’ Kalog Reading of Luke 10:25–3721. Fanua as a Diasporic Concept: Rereading James 1:2122. Weaving Liberation for West Papua23. Sex: Suicide, Shame, Signals
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie
Book Synopsis This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book’s first part contain in-depth examinations of, among other things, Ellis’s family, education, Bacon scholarship and mathematical contributions. The second part consists of annotated transcriptions of a selection of Ellis’s diaries and correspondence. Taken together, A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817–1859 is a rich resource for historians of science, historians of mathematics and Victorian scholars alike. Robert Leslie Ellis was one of the most intriguing and wide-ranging intellectual figures of early Victorian Britain, his contributions ranging from advanced mathematical analysis to profound commentaries on philosophy and classics and a decisive role in the orientation of mid-nineteenth century scholarship. This very welcome collection offers both new and authoritative commentaries on the work, setting it in the context of the mathematical, philosophical and cultural milieux of the period, together with fascinating passages from the wealth of unpublished papers Ellis composed during his brief and brilliant career.- Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Table of ContentsPart I Chapters 1 From Bath to Cambridge: The Early Life and Education of Robert Leslie Ellis Christopher Stray2 “A Senior Wrangler among Senior Wranglers”: The Mathematical Education of Robert Leslie Ellis June Barrow-Green3 Ellis’s Character, John Grote and the Cambridge Network, 1830-1866 John R. Gibbins4 Robert Leslie Ellis as Editor and Contributor to Mathematical Journals Tony Crilly5 Ellis on Mathematical Statistics and Probability Stephen M. Stigler6 Ellis’s Philosophy and Bacon Scholarship Lukas M. Verburgt7 Robert Leslie Ellis: An Almost Perfect Moral Nature Joan L. Richards Part II Manuscripts 8 The Ellis Papers in Trinity College, Cambridge Jonathan Smith Diaries Lukas M. Verburgt & Christopher Stray Letters Lukas M. Verburgt & Christopher StrayBM "Appendix 1: Bibliography of Ellis’s Writings " BM Appendix 2: List of Ellis’s Mathematical Reading BM Appendix 3: List of Ellis’s Diaries BM Bibliography
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Publishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early
Book SynopsisThis open access volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern period. It investigates the rich edition history of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s Tractatus de sphaera, by far the most widely disseminated textbook on geocentric cosmology, from the unique standpoint of the many printers, publishers, and booksellers who steered this text from manuscript to print culture, and in doing so transformed it into an established platform of scientific learning. The corpus, constituted of 359 different editions featuring Sacrobosco’s treatise on cosmology and astronomy printed between 1472 and 1650, represents the scientific European shared knowledge concerned with the cosmological worldview of the early modern period until far after the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The contributions to this volume show how the academic book trade influenced the process of homogenization of scientific knowledge. They also describe the material infrastructure through which such knowledge was disseminated, and thus define the premises for the foundation of modern scientific communities.Trade Review“There is much in this collection that should interest historians of early modern science, as well as historians of early modern print culture and visual culture. This edited volume is part of a multiyear project at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science … . Written in the 13th-century in Paris, this slim text was taught in universities across Europe until the end of the 17th century.” (Kathleen Crowther, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 54 (3), August, 2023)Table of ContentsMatteo Valleriani & Andrea Ottone The Early Modern Academic Book Market Seen Through The ≪ Sphere ≫ of Sacrobosco.- Section 1: Production Dynamics.- Richard Oosterhoff The ≪ Sphere≫ and the Estienne Print Shop in Paris .- Catherine Kikuchi Erhard Ratdolt ’ s Edition of the ≪Sphaera≫ A New Editorial Model in Venice?.- Insa-Christiane Hennen Printers, Publishers and Book Binders in Wittenberg in the Sixteenth Century: Real Estate, Vicinity, Political and Cultural Activities.- Saskia Limbach Publishing the «Sphaera» in Sixteenth-Century Wittenberg.- Section 2: Distribution Dynamics.- Ian Maclean Sacrobosco at the Book Fairs, 1564-1624: The Pedagogical Marketplace.- Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo Exploring the Circulation of Sacrobosco’s ≪Tractatus de sphaera≫ in Early Modern Iberian Peninsula and New World Printing.- Andrea Ottone The Giunti’s Publishing and Distributing Network and Their Supply to the European Academic Market.- Isabelle Pantin Mathematical Books in Paris (1531–1563): The Development of Editorial Policies in a Competitive International Market.- Matteo Valleriani & Christoph Sander Exploring Social Relations Between Early Modern Publishers and Printers by Means of Paratexts.- Section 3: Usage Dynamics.- Paul F. Grendler The «Sphaera» in Jesuit Astronomical and Mathematical Education.- Richard Kremer Printing Sacrobosco in Leipzig, 1488–1520: Local Markets and “ Academic” Publishing.- Alissar Levy Publishing Mathematical Books to «Calculatores» in Paris (1508–1515).- Stefano Gulizia Traces of ≪The Sphere≫ in Early Modern Poland and in the German/Baltic Cultural Region.
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