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Book SynopsisTradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Tradition and Iconographic Types Chapter 3: Iconicity and Eschatology Chapter 4: Ascetics in Prison Chapter 5: Sinaitic and Franciscan Theophanies Chapter 6: Byzantine Encounters with the Dead Christ Chapter 7: The Penitential Imagination Chapter 8: The King of Glory in Italy Chapter 9: Missionary Masses Chapter 10: The Mystical Colony Chapter 11: New Mexican Acheiropoietai Chapter 12: The Greek Icon Epilogue Bibliography

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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.

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Book SynopsisKierkegaard's Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard's writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development of the concept over the course of the authorship, and explains how it functions in the wider context of Kierkegaard's thought. Concepts have been selected on the basis of their importance for Kierkegaard's contributions to philosophy, theology, the social sciences, literature and aesthetics, thereby making this volume an ideal reference work for students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Individual, Lydia B. Amir; Inner/outer, Philipp Schwab; Intensity/extensity, Noreen Khawaja; Interesting, the, K. Brian Soderquist; Inwardness/inward deepening, Christian Fink Tolstrup; Irony, Nassim Bravo Jordán; Irrational, Sean Anthony Turchin; Joy, Benjamin Miguel Olivares Bøgeskov; Judaism, Tamar Aylat-Yaguri; Language, Steven Shakespeare; Law, David Coe; Leap, Gerhard Schreiber; Legends, Matthew Brake; Leveling, Leo Stan; Life-view, Lee C. Barrett; Logic, Gabriel Ferreira da Silva; Love, William McDonald; Lyric, Nassim Bravo Jordán; Marriage, Deidre Nicole Green; Martyrdom/persecution, Jack Mulder, Jr.; Mediation/sublation, Jamie Turnbull; Melancholy, Steven M. Emmanuel; Metaphor, Frances Maughan-Brown; Metaphysics, Corey Benjamin Tutewiler; Middle Ages, Diego Giordano; Miracles, Heiko Schulz; Mohammedanism, Diego Giordano; Moment, William McDonald; Monasticism, Curtis L. Thompson; Money, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Mood/emotion/feeling, Sara Carvalhais de Oliveira; Movement, motion, Shannon M. Nason; Music, William McDonald; Myth, Diego Giordano and William McDonald; Nature, Thomas Posch; Necessity, Gabriel Ferreira da Silva; Negation, Archie Graham; Novel, Gabriel Guedes Rossatti; Index of persons; Index of subjects.

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Book SynopsisEthical Musicality addresses the crossroads between music and ethics, combining philosophical knowledge, theoretical reflection, and practical understanding. When tied together, music and ethics link profoundly, offering real-life perspectives that would otherwise be inaccessible to us. The first part elucidates music and ethics through some influential and selected scholars ranging from Antiquity via modern philosophy to contemporary voices. In the second part, different roles and arenas are illustrated and explored through various music practices in real-life encounters for the musician, the music educator, the music therapist, the musicologist, the lay' musician, and the music researcher. The third part unfolds an ethical musicality focusing on the body, relationship, time, and space. Following these fundamental existentials, ethical musicality expands our lifeworld, including context, involvement, power, responsibility, sustainability, and hope. Such an ethical mus

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Book SynopsisThis book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR presence to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The author provides compelling evidence that VR simulations are capable of producing virtually real experiences in people. He also provides a framework for understanding when and how simulations induce virtually real experiences. From these insights, the book shows that virtually real experiences are responsible for several unaddressed ethical issues in VR research and design. Experimental philosophers, moral psychologists, and institutional review boards must become sensitive to the ethical issues involved between designing realistic virtual dilemmas, for good data collection, and avoiding virtually real trauma. Ethicists and game designers must do more to ensure that their simulations don't inculcate harmful character traits. VirtTable of Contents1. Exploring Strange New Worlds2. Imagination and the Limits of Empathy3. When Being There is Not Enough4. Virtual Experience, Real Harm5. Why It's Unethical to Use VR and AR as "Empathy" Machines6. Putting It All Together: A Code of Ethics for VR/AR7. AR and the Future of Selves

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Book SynopsisFood Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most prominent ethical questions relating to food and agriculture, including: Should we eat animals? Are locally produced foods ethically superior to globally sourced foods? Do people in affluent nations have a responsibility to help reduce global hunger? Should we embrace bioengineered foods? What should be the role of government in promoting food safety and public health? This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, not only to take in the latest empirical and policy information, but also to address the impact of major issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, AI and machine learning, and the rapid growth of the gig economy.Using extensive data and real-world examples, as well as providing suggestions for further reading, Food Ethics: The Basics is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in the ethics of food.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"The book provides a balanced perspective for each contemporary issue as well as arguments supporting and opposing debatable benefits and risks of food production and consumption issues. The philosophical perspectives are clearly written, the technical details are jargon free, and the science is accurate... A useful resource for public policy and agricultural libraries...Summing Up: Recommended." - B. R. Shmaefsky, CHOICE"Sandler makes a good job introducing the topic of food ethics to the reader, offering a broad range of information and describing key underlying ethical enquiries and particular views on each of the topics presented. (...) Reading this book was helpful in the sense that it provided insight into a topic that has not been widely studied or discussed. Thus, it can be a valuable introduction to food ethics, while encouraging the reader to explore more about this project." - Natalie Herdoiza Castro, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Food systems 2. Food security and the ethics of assistance 3. Should we eat animals? 4. Technology: Bioengineering and big data 5. Food and Health 6. Food and Culture. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe downsides of monogamy are felt by most people engaged in long-term relationships, including restrictions on self-discovery, limits on friendship, sexual boredom, and a circumscribed understanding of intimacy. Yet, a happily ever after monogamy is assumed to be the ideal form of romantic love in many modern societies: a relationship that is morally ideal and will bring the most happiness to its two partners. In Why It's OK to Not Be Monogamous, Justin L. Clardy deeply questions these assumptions. He rejects the claim that non-monogamy among honest, informed and consenting adults is morally impermissible. He shows instead how polyamorous relationships can actually be exemplars of moral virtue. The book discusses how social and political forces sustain and reward monogamous relationships. The book defines non-monogamy as a privative concept; a negation of monogamy. Looking at its prevalence in the United States, the book explains how common criticisms of non-Trade Review"This book leads the reader through the strongest arguments on both sides of the debate in a highly accessible and engaging way. It will make even the skeptical reader think deeply about these timely questions."Elizabeth Brake, Rice UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Elizabeth Brake Introduction 1. What is Non-Monogamy? 2. Why It’s OK to NOT be Monogamous 3. Monogamous and Non-Monogamous Identity 4. Why It’s NOT OK for Liberal States to be Monogamous Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and its feeling of social belonging to the highest abstractions of mathematics, logic and theoretical physics. Cassirer engages with the most sophisticated and cutting-edge work in fields ranging from ethnology to classics, egyptology and assyriology to ethology, brain science and psychology to logic, mathematics and theoretical physics. His command of philosophy, literature, and the arts is superb.Echoing his work on Kant, Cassirer begins The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms with the problem posed by the meaning of being for philosophy since Plato. But Cassirer also shows that this problem gains new significance with Kant and with the development of modern culture. Cassirer weaves his conception of the development of knowledge into a broadly Kantian and German ideaTrade Review'The three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms focus on language, myth, and science respectively, offering fascinating, if necessarily fragmentary and speculative, accounts of how each develops in the direction of increasing freedom and universality… the basic insight of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one that continues to inform the humanities today. The categories we use to understand the world aren’t a passive reflection of the way things really are; rather, we actively create systems of meaning that evolve over time.' - Adam Kirsch, New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword Peter E. Gordon Translator’s Preface Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Introduction: A Phenomenology of Symbolic Creative Cognition: the Unfolding of the Symbolic Function and the Construction of a Pure Theory of the Symbolic Steve G. Lofts Translator’s Acknowledgements Steve G. Lofts. Preface Introduction Part 1: The Expressive Function and the World of Expression 1. Subjective and Objective Analysis 2. The Expressive Phenomenon as the Basic Element of Perceptual Consciousness 3. The Expressive Function and the Mind-Body-Problem [Leib-Seelen-Problem] Part 2: The Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] and the Construction of the Intuitive World 1. The Concept and the Problem of Representation [Repräsentation] 2. Thing and Property 3. Space 4. The Intuition of Time 5. Symbolic Pregnance 6. On the Pathology of Symbolic Consciousness Part 3: The Function of Signification and the Construction of Scientific Cognition 1. Toward a Theory of the Concept 2. Concept and Object 3. Language and Science: Thing Signs and Ordinal Signs 4. The Object of Mathematics 5. The Foundations of Natural-Scientific Cognition Appendix: "'Spirit' and 'Life' in Contemporary Philosophy" (1930). Glossary of German Terms Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theological power of film and seeks to render a properly theological account of cinematic art. It considers: What theology and theological practice does cinematic art give rise to? What are the perceptual and affective potentials of film for theology, and what, if anything, is theological about the cinematic medium itself? The author argues that film is a fundamentally embodied art form, a haptic and somatic medium of perception-cum-expression. This, combined with the distinct temporal aesthetic of film, invests cinema with profound theological potentials. The chapters explore these potentials through theological-cinematic analysis, emphasising the themes of encounter, embodiment, time, and contemplation, as well as three intimately connected doctrines of Christian theology: creation, incarnation, and eschatology. Throughout the book, the films and writings of the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky emerge as a singular illustration of the theological power of f

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Book SynopsisSÃren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) remains one of the most enigmatic, captivating, and elusive thinkers in the history of European thought. The Kierkegaardian Mind provides a comprehensive survey of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its contemporary significance. Comprising thirty-eight chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is divided into eight parts covering the following themes: Methodology Ethics Aesthetics Philosophy of Religion and Theology Philosophy of Mind Anthropology Epistemology Politics. Essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, Kierkegaardâs work is central to the study of political philosophy, literature, existentialist thought, and theology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kierkegaard’s Life, Context, and Legacy Adam Buben, Eleanor Helms, and Patrick Stokes Part 1: Methodology 1. The Passion of Kierkegaard’s Existential Method Lee C. Barrett 2. Johannes Climacus and the Dialectical Method: From Dialectics Back to Existence Claudine Davidshofer 3. Kierkegaard’s Experimenting Psychology William McDonald 4. Methodology and the Kierkegaardian Mind Jamie Turnbull Part 2: Ethics 5. Ethical Reflection as Evasion Rob Compaijen and Pieter Vos 6. Kierkegaard and Moral Particularism and Exemplarism Karl Aho 7. Beyond Worry? On Learning Humility from the Lilies and the Birds John Lippitt 8. Did Napoleon Teleologically Suspend the Ethical? A Dilemma for some ‘Hegelian’ Readings of Fear and Trembling Ryan S. Kemp 9. An Ethics of Home and Hope: Kierkegaard’s Exile and Heidegger’s Emigrant Megan Altman 10. Love for Humans: Morality as the Heart of Kierkegaard’s Religious Philosophy Sharon Krishek Part 3: Aesthetics 11. The Ethical Life of Aesthetes Ulrika Carlsson 12. Kierkegaard on Nature and Natural Beauty Anthony Rudd 13. Kierkegaard's Transfigurations of the Sublime Samuel Cuff Snow 14. Kierkegaard on the Value of Art: An Indirect Method of Communication Antony Aumann 15. Deleuze on Kierkegaard Andrew Jampol-Petzinger Part 4: Philosophy of Religion and Theology 16. Kierkegaard’s Existential Mimesis Wojciech Kaftanski 17. Becoming a Subject: Kierkegaard’s Theological Art of Existence Peder Jothen 18. Engendering Atonement: Kierkegaard on the Cross Deidre Nicole Green 19. On Faith and Reason(s): Kierkegaard’s Logic of Conviction K. Brian Söderquist 20. Coming to an Understanding with the Paradox Mark A. Wrathall 21. Kierkegaard’s Defense of Nature and Theology against Natural Theology Will Williams Part 5: Philosophy of Mind 22. Consciousness, Self, and Reflection Patrick Stokes 23. Conscience, Self-Deception, and the Question of Authenticity in Kierkegaard Claudia Welz 24. Imagination and Belief Eleanor Helms 25. Agency, Identity, and Alienation in The Sickness unto Death Justin White Part 6: Anthropology 26. Kierkegaard’s Post-Kantian Approach to Anthropology and Selfhood Roe Fremstedal 27. Images of the Closed Self in The Sickness unto Death Anna Strelis Söderquist 28. The Kierkegaardian Self: Convergences and Divergences Jack Mulder, Jr. 29. Kierkegaard and the Desirability of Immortality Adam Buben Part 7: Epistemology 30. Christian Epistemology and the Anthropology of Sin: Kierkegaard on Natural Theology and the Concept of ‘Offense’ Karen L. Carr 31. Varieties of Existential Uncertainty Rick Anthony Furtak 32. Irony and the Conversion Experience Walter Wietzke 33. Logic, Language, and Existential Knowledge Mélissa Fox-Muraton 34. The Incognito of a Thief: Johannes Climacus and the Poetics of Self-incrimination Martijn Boven Part 8: Politics 35. Lukacs, Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Political Alison Assiter 36. Kierkegaard: The Dialectical Self and the Political Shoni Rancher 37. Kierkegaard, Hegel, and Augustine on Love Thomas J. Millay 38. The Covetous Canary: Kierkegaard on the Problem of Social Comparison and the Cultivation of Social Courage Paul Carron. Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays, collected by Berleant in this volume all express the impulse to reject the received wisdom of modern aesthetics: that art demands a mode of experience sharply different from others and unique to the aesthetic situation, and that the identity of the aesthetic lies in keeping it distinct from other kinds of human experience, such as the moral, the practical, and the social. Berleant shows, on the contrary, that the value, the insight, the force of art and the aesthetic are all enhanced and enlarged by recognizing their social and human role, and that this recognition contributes both to the significance of art and to its humanizing influence on what we like to call civilization.Trade Review'This collection is the culmination of Arnold Berleant's pioneering journey, spanning over four decades, in pursuit of an aesthetics consistently informed by our experience and firmly grounded in a phenomenological outlook. These essays issue a challenge to mainstream Western aesthetics dominated by the characterization of art as an object of disinterested attention. Our journey with these essays will reward us immeasurably by redirecting the course of aesthetic investigation and inviting us to explore heretofore uncharted domains of our aesthetic life.' Yuriko Saito, Professor of Philosophy at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 'Really worthwhile writing in aesthetics must draw upon a lively participation in the arts and appreciation of nature, together with a no less lively delight in philosophizing clearly about the aesthetic, exploring its place in human life as a whole. Arnold Berleant's love of that range of perspectives, from the highly particular to the highly abstract, comes through in his many studies in aesthetics: his readers can count on their own engagement with art-works and their own theorizing about aesthetic experience gaining in zest and assurance, both where they are persuaded by his arguments and where they resist them also also. Historically, too, Arnold Berleant's range is large. While seeing aesthetics as necessarily involved in the arts of one's own day, he reflects also on the historical emergence of the concepts through which we try---with more or less success---to grasp their distinctive nature and value.' Ronald W. Hepburn, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh, UK ’This book is fine work by a truly significant and insightful philosopher. It is clearly and colorfully written, and I recommend it for anyone interested in aesthetics.’ Philosophy in ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface. Introduction: art and the future of aesthetics. The Focus of Aesthetics: Re-thinking aesthetics; The historicity of aesthetics; Beyond disinterestedness; Aesthetics and the contemporary arts. Iconoclastic Implications: The sensuous and the sensual in aesthetics; Aesthetic embodiment; Intuition in art, or Pygmalion rediscovered; Art without object; The art of the unseen. Re-Thinking The Arts: Death in image, word, and idea; Brancusi and the phenomenology of sculptural space; The verbal presence: an aesthetics of literary performance; The intuitive impulse in literary performance; A phenomenology of musical performance; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection sets forth a new understanding of aesthetic-moral judgment organized around three key concepts: pleasure, reflection, and accountability. The overarching theme is that art is not merely a representation or expression like any other, but that it promotes shared moral understanding and helps us engage in meaning-making. This volume offers an alternative to brain-centric and realist approaches to aesthetics. It features original essays from a number of leading philosophers of art, aesthetics, ethics, and perception, including Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Garrett Cullity, Cynthia A. Freeland, Ivan Gaskell, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Keith Lehrer, Mohan Matthen, Jennifer A. McMahon, Bence Nanay, Nancy Sherman, and Robert Sinnerbrink.Part I of the book analyses the elements of aesthetic experiencepleasure, preference, and imaginationwith the individual conceived as part of a particular cultural context and network of other minds. The&nbsTable of ContentsIntroduction: From Pleasures to Principles Jennifer A. McMahon Part I: Aesthetic Elements: Pleasure, Preference, and Imagination 1. New Prospects for Aesthetic Hedonism Mohan Matthen 2. From Colour to Meaning in Contemporary Art Cynthia A. Freeland 3. Against Aesthetic Judgments Bence Nanay 4. Imagination Jennifer A. McMahon Part II: Aesthetic Experience: Critique, Expression, and Reflection 5. Art, Exemplars and Consensus Keith Lehrer 6. Objectivity and Shared Experience: Art and Morality Garrett Cullity 7. Dancers and Soldiers Sharing the Dance Floor: Emotional Expression in Dance Nancy Sherman 8. Twofoldness, Threefoldness and Aesthetic Pluralism Paul Guyer Part III: Aesthetic Judgment: Dissonance, Difference, and Diversity 9. Aesthetic Judgment and the Transcultural Apprehension of Material Things Ivan Gaskell 10. Cross-Cultural Aesthetics and Etiquette Elizabeth Burns Coleman 11. Emotional Engagement and Moral Evaluation: Exploring Cinematic Ethics Robert Sinnerbrink 12. Aesthetics and Communication Jane Kneller

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Book SynopsisWhy ought we concern ourselves with understanding a concept of evil? It is an elusive and politically charged concept which critics argue has no explanatory power and is a relic of a superstitious and primitive religious past. Yet its widespread use persists today: we find it invoked by politicians, judges, journalists, and many others to express the view that certain actions, persons, institutions, or ideologies are not just morally problematic but require a special signifier to mark them out from the ordinary and commonplace. Therefore, the question of what a concept of evil could mean and how it fits into our moral vocabulary remains an important and pressing concern.The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Evil provides an outstanding overview and exploration of these issues and more, bringing together an international team of scholars working on the concept of evil. Its 27 chapters cover the crucial discussions and arguments, both historical and contempoTable of ContentsIntroduction Thomas Nys and Stephen de Wijze Part 1: Historical explorations of Evil 1. Plato on Evil Alina Scudieri 2. Augustine on Evil Philip Cary 3. Aquinas on Evil W. Matthews Grant 4. Machiavelli: The Drama of Politics and Its Inherent Evil Giovanni Giorgini 5. Hobbes on Evil Laurens van Apeldoorn 6. Leibniz On Evil: God’s Justice in the Best of All Possible Worlds Agustín Echavarría 7. Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Origin and Nature of Evil Jason Neidleman 8. Kant: The Evil in All of Us Matthé Scholten 9. Sade: Mushroom Clouds and Silver Linings Thomas Nys 10. Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality and His Effort to Create an Evaluation ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ Paul van Tongeren 11. Hannah Arendt’s Double Account of Evil: Political Superfluousness and Moral Thoughtlessness Peg Birmingham 12. After the Fall: Camus on Evil Matthew Sharpe Part 2: Recent Secular Explorations of Evil 13. Deliver us from Evil: The Case for Scepticism Phillip Cole 14. Does the term ‘evil’ have any explanatory power? Eve Garrard 15. Defining the concept of evil: Insights from our pre-cognitive responses Stephen de Wijze 16. Evil and Wrongdoing Todd Calder 17. Evil Characters Peter Brian Barry 18. Defining evil actions: Different approaches Luke Russell 19. Different Substantive Conceptions of Evil Actions Paul Formosa Part 3: Evil and other Issues 20. Evil and Punishment Leo Zaibert 21. Evil and Forgiveness Kathryn J. Norlock 22. Evil and Freedom Lars Fr. H. Svendsen 23. Evil and Power Simona Forti 24. Evil and Childhood Gideon Calder 25. Evil’s Diachronic Characteristics Zachary J. Goldberg 26. Evil, Genocide, and Mass Atrocities Jonathan Leader Maynard 27. Evil: A Comparative Overview Michiel Leezenberg

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Book SynopsisWhat is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated? These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied philosophers since the time of Plato. Tackling the mood of pessimism about the nature of love that reaches back through Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard, he examines the links between love and grief, love and nature, and between love of others and loving oneself. We love too few things in the world, Milligan concludes, adding that we need to be loved too, to appreciate our own value and the worth of life itself.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Doubts about love 3. Th e depth of love 4. A sense of worth 5. Togetherness and loss 6. Irreplaceability 7. What can we love?

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Book SynopsisSlavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument – all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit much critical reaction. The Žižek Dictionary brings together leading Žižek commentators from across the world to present a companion and guide to Žižekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a key term and, crucially, explores its development across Žižek’s work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns. The dictionary will prove invaluable both to readers coming to Žižek for the first time and to those already embarked on the Žižekian journey.Trade Review"This is an extremely useful resource: the advantage of a "dictionary," or a concise encyclopedia, in this case, is that readers may hop around at will. For instance, one could begin with Žižek's entry on himself, found at the end of the book. This volume provides assistance to this approach by providing, at the end of each individual entry, recommendations for other entries…Overall…the quality of the offerings is uniformly high. This volume will appeal to a wide range of readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - D. W. Sullivan, Metropolitan State University of Denver, in CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction, Rex Butler 1. Act, Sheila Kunkle 2. Althusser, Geoffrey Pfeifer 3. Badiou, Lucy A. Bell 4. Biopolitics, Fabio Vighi 5. Bureaucracy, Eero Laine 6. Butler, Judith, Kristine Klement 7. Capitalism, Chris McMillan 8. Class/Antagonism, Ceren Özselçuk and Yahya Madra 9. Cognitivism/Neuroscience, Adrian Johnston 10. Communism, Matthew Flisfeder 11. Concrete Universality, Wendell Kisner 12. Deleuze, Emmanuelle Wessels 13. Democracy, Matthew Sharpe 13. Derrida, Andrea Hurst 14. Descartes, Jonathan Murphy 15. Desire/Drive, Henrik Jøker Bjerre 16. Ecology, Daniel Hourigan 17. Economics, Chris Cowley 18. Enjoyment, Glyn Daly 19. Ethics, James Penney 20. Fantasy, Adam Cottrel 21. Fetish/Fetishistic Disavowal, Paul Taylor 22. Four Discourses, Yen-Ying Lai 23. Freud, Tony Thwaites 24. Hegel, Robert Sinnerbrink 25. Heidegger, Thomas Brockelman 26. Historicism/Historicity, Kirk Boyle 27. Hitchcock, Laurence Simmons 28. Ideology, Geoff Boucher 29. Inherent Transgression, Christine Evans 30. Interpellation/Identification, Robert Pfaller 31. Jew, Gabriel Tupinambá 32. Judaism/Christianity, Frederick Depoortere 33. Kant, Kelsey Wood 34. Lacan, Sean Homer 35. Laclau/Hegemony, Jan de Vos 36. Law, Jodi Dean 37. Lenin, Paul Kellogg 38. Liberalism/Multiculturalism, Antonio Garcia 39. Lynch, David, Ravindran Gopalan 40. Marx, Min Yang 41. Master-Signifier, David Gunkel 42. Milbank, John, Adam Kotsko 43. Nazism/Stalinism, Yong Wang 44. Negativity, George Garcia 45. Objet petit a/Sublime Object, Christopher W. Haley 46. Other/Big Other, Cindy Zeiher 47. Parallax, George Elerick 48. Real, Symbolic, Imaginary, Duane Rousselle 49. Schelling, Joseph Carew 50. September 11, Marc Acherman 51. Sexual Difference/Formulae of Sexuation, Kirsten Hyldgaard 52. Speculative Realism, Carlos Gomez 53. Subject, Rex Butler 54. Symptom, Todd McGowan 55. Truth, Marc de Kesel 56. Theology, Marcus Pound 57. Unconscious, Daniel Bristow 58. Universal/Particular, Randall Terada 59. Vanishing Mediator, Ian Buchanan 60. Wagner, James Little 61. Yugoslavia/Nationalism, Katerina Kolozova 62. Žižek, Slavoj Žižek. Index

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Book SynopsisThis challenging study places fiction squarely at the centre of the discussion of metaphysics. Philosophers have traditionally treated fiction as involving a set of narrow problems in logic or the philosophy of language. By contrast Amie Thomasson argues that fiction has far-reaching implications for central problems of metaphysics. The book develops an 'artifactual' theory of fiction, whereby fictional characters are abstract artifacts as ordinary as laws or symphonies or works of literature. By understanding fictional characters we come to understand how other cultural and social objects are established on the basis of the independent physical world and the mental states of human beings.Table of ContentsIntroduction: from fiction into metaphysics; Part I. The Artifactual Theory of Fiction: Foreword; 1. If we postulated fictional objects, what would they be?; 2. The nature and varieties of existential dependence; 3. Fictional characters as abstract artifacts; 4. Reference to fictional characters; 5. Identity conditions for fictional characters; Part II. Ontological Decisions: Foreword; 6. Fiction and experience; 7. Fiction and language; 8. Ontology and categorization; 9. The perils of false parsimony; 10. An ontology for a varied world; Notes; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this book examine the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy which occurred during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the foundationalism of Descartes and Spinoza gave way to the idea that alternative styles of enquiry are possible.Trade Review"...this book reminds us that style has always played a role in philosophical writing despite claims to the contrary. Not only does it show that philosophy has influenced the arts, but that the arts might hold the key to understanding style in philosophical writing." Jeffrey R. DiLeo, Philosophy and LiteratureTable of Contents1. The style of method: repression and representation in the genealogy of philosophy B. Lang; 2. Style in painting R. Wollheim; 3. Stylistic strategies in William Hogarth's theatrical satires M. K. Lindberg; 4. Style in architecture J. Mordaunt Crook; 5. Par le style on atteint au sublime: the meaning of the term style in French architectural theory of the late eighteenth century C. A. Van Eck; 6. Aesthetic forms of philosophising L. Wiesing; 7. Style and community S. Kemal; 8. Metaphor and paradox in Toqueville's analysis of democracy F. R. Ankersmit; 9. The formation of styles: science and the applied arts J. W. McAllister; 10. Beyond the mannered: the question of style in philosophy or questionable styles of philosophy N. Davey; 11. Style and subjective agency C. Altieri; 12. Style and innocence: lost, regained, and lost again? D. Franck; Appendix; Index.

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Book SynopsisKant's Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert's book interprets the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '… impressive in its intellectual scope, its clearly-written quality, its well-informed, considerable citation of the secondary literature in Kant scholarship and its manner of arguing for a variety of nuanced positions that arise within the text's many subthemes. It is a contribution that stands solidly on the shoulders of the presently leading Kant scholarship and that integrates itself well into it.' British Journal for the History of PhilosophyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The problem: unity of the diverse; 2. Reflective judgment and its principle: preliminary remarks; Part I. Teleological Judgment: 3. The critique of teleological judgment: purposiveness is the 'highest formal unity'; 4. A merely subjective principle: time and the 'peculiarities of our intellects'; Part II. Aesthetic Judgment: Introduction; 5. Beautiful objects: subjectively purposive form; 6. Aesthetic pleasure: the feeling of subjective, projective temporality; 7. The free harmony of the faculties: purposiveness as the principle of aesthetic Beurteilung; 8. The justification of aesthetic judgment: purposiveness as the principle of reflective judging; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an historical and critical guide to the concepts of the post-modern and the post-industrial. It brings admirable clarity and thoroughness to a discussion of the many different uses made of the term post-modern across a number of different disciplines (including literature, architecture, art history, philosophy, anthropology and geography). It also analyses the concept of the post-industrial society to which the concept of the post-modern has often been related. Dr Rose discusses the work of many theorists in the area, including Hassan, Lyotard, Jameson and the architectural historian Charles Jencks, and also looks at analyses and uses of the concepts of the post-modern and post-industrial by Frampton, Portoghesi, Peter Fuller and others.Trade Review'Rarely can one say of a scholarly work that it is so good as to advance the discourse on a subject - but here I can. Margaret Rose has studied and understood all sides of the debate on post-modernism, which is more than one can say of the debaters, and she has represented the arguments with sympathy. Anyone who wants to understand post-modernism - especially now that confused books are appearing on the subject monthly - need look no further than this summary and criticism.' Charles JencksTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Defining the post-modern; 2. Defining the post-industrial; 3. Deconstructionist theories; 4. Double-coded theories; 5. Alternative theories; 6. Conclusion and summary; Bibliography; Index.

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