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Book SynopsisCollects and introduces some of the most important and insightful essays written in the past century by philosophers, political theorists and other thinkers who have reflected on the nature of liberty.Table of ContentsIntroduction, David Miller; 1. Liberal Legislation and Freedom of Contract, T. H. Green; 2. Two Concepts of Liberty, Isaiah Berlin; 3. Freedom and Politics, Hannah Arendt; 4. Freedom and Coercion, F. A. Hayek; 5. Negative and Positive Freedom, Gerald C. MacCallum Jr; 6. Individual Liberty, Hillel Steiner; 7. What's Wrong with Negative Liberty, Charles Taylor; 8. Capitalism, Freedom, and the Proletariat, G. A. Cohen; 9. Constraints on Freedom, David Miller; 10. Towards a Feminist Theory of Freedom, Nancy Hirschmann; 11. The Republican Ideal of Freedom, Philip Pettit; 12. A Third Concept of Liberty, Quentin Skinner; Notes on Authors; Select Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisWhy have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction About About Time; Chapter One: The Present; Chapter Two: Prolepsis; Chapter Three: Temporality and Self-Distance; Chapter Four: Inner and Outer Time; Chapter Five: Backwards Time; Chapter Six: Fictional Knowledge; Chapter Seven: Tense Times; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisTechnics and Time 2: Disorientation continues Stiegler's interrogation of prosthetic and ortho-thetic memory in light of the crisis that arises when speed and delay are irreconcilable, the crisis of "human being" itself.Trade Review"Disorientation, a most important piece of scholarly work, continues and adds to the development of the arguments set forth in the preceding volume of Technics and Time, putting a whole new set of clarifications into place. It will interest philosophers in general and should become required reading for anyone interested in cognitive science."—Rodolphe Gasché"Bernard Stiegler's ambition for Technics and Time 2: Disorientation is exhilaratingly immodest: he promises to offer nothing less than a history of temporality, from prehistoric man to the present day . . . Stiegler makes a convincing case for the vital importance of the politics of memory in the 21st century."—Julian Brigstocke, Environment and Planning D: Society and SpaceTable of ContentsTranslators' note General introduction Part I. The Invention of the Human: Introduction: 1. Theories of technical evolution 2. Technology and anthropology 3. Who? What? The invention of the human Part II. The Fault of Epimetheus: Introduction: 1. Prometheus's liver 2. Already there 3. The disengagement of the what Notes Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book revisits and revises some of the most basic concepts of time in the Judeo-Christian tradition, drawing on St. Paul's writings to rethink a new kind of radical faith in truth as an event, as the advent of the incalculable, a modality that remakes the pairing religious/secular.Trade Review"Badiou introduces the reader to the notion that philosophy stands somewhere beyond the commonplace . . . [and] illustrates the way in which during [St. Paul's] time Paul decided that for God particularities such as nationality or sex are unimportant and therefore everybody is (compared to God) just a human being."—Peter Takac, Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences

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Book SynopsisHannibal Lecter, the subject of best-selling novels, movies, and the acclaimed TV series Hannibal, is one of pop culture''s most compelling characters. In Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy, 16 philosophers come at Hannibal the way he comes at his victims — from unexpected angles and with plenty of surprises.What does the relationship between Hannibal and those who know him — particularly FBI investigator Will Graham — tell us about the nature of friendship? Does Hannibal confer benefits on society by eliminating people who don’t live up to his high aesthetic standards? Can upsetting experiences in early childhood turn you into a serial killer? Why are we enthralled by someone who exercises god-like control over situations and people? Does it make any difference morally that a killer eats his victims? Can a murder be a work of art?Several chapters look at the mind of this proud and accomplished killer, psychiatrist, and gourmet cook. Is he a sociopath or a psychopath, or are these the same? Is he lacking in empathy? Does his moral blindness give him compensating abilities, the way literally blind people gain heightened senses? Does it harm us that we are drawn into Hannibal’s world by identifying with him?

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Book SynopsisWhat can we learn about culture from other species?

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject-formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray and Fanon.Trade Review"Judith Butler's reading of major works on the construction of the subject, ranging from Descartes and Spinoza to Irigaray and Fanon, intertwines three projects, which prove intimately related: a symptomatic reading of texts, where the materiality of their writing reveals a permanent uncertainty about the "sovereignty" or "autonomy" that they claim; a phenomenology of the affective "third substance" which, being neither mind nor body, must also encroach on both; and a critique of normative ontological binarisms which, in particular, confuse sexual otherness with a difference of given places. In this account of the latent "sensible" mover of metaphysics, she also gives an account of herself as incarnated thinker, beautifully complex and inventive. Her book will generate admiration and continuous reflection." -- -Etienne Balibar author of Equaliberty "With this inspiring book--simultaneously a philosophical dispossession of philosophy, a paean to sensation and an affirmation of the 'radically impossible venture' of ethics and politics--[Butler] edges towards a palpable, outward-looking alternative to philosophical chest beating." -Times Higher Education "In this exceptional collection, Judith Butler displays the unusually vivid, even startling insight that makes her indisputably the world's most interesting contemporary philosopher. These lucid essays climb in and out of the me, the her, the you, dream and reality, subject, object, nature and the preternatural, meaning and its deadly discontents. Butler wrestles the narratives of embodiment into language that lives." -- -Patricia J. Williams Columbia Law School "Butler concludes the Introduction to this book thus: 'Acted on, I act still, but it is hardly this "I" that acts alone, and even though, and precisely because, it never gets done with being undone.' In these eloquent, passionately dialectical, and vertiginous essays, Butler relentlessly tracks our being undone by others, by language, by things, by institutions, and by the normative formations that hold us upright beyond our standing upright in the writings of, among others, Descartes, Spinoza, Hegel, Merleau Ponty, Irigaray, and Fanon. This is echt Butler: a necessity for those who already know her work, and a generous point of entry for those philosophers who have yet to find their way to her thought." -- -J. M. Bernstein The New School for Social ResearchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments "How Can I Deny That These Hands and This Body Are Mine?" Merleau-Ponty and the Touch of Malebranche The Desire to Live: Spinoza's Ethics under Pressure To Sense What Is Living in the Other: Hegel's Early Love Kierkegaard's Speculative Despair Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigary and Merleau-Ponty Violence, Non-Violence: Sartre on Fanon Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical. Newly revised and updated edition....Trade ReviewThis is a real eye opener of a book and one I would recommend to anyone -- Harri Roberts * Outdoor Focus Magazine *Path to enlightenment: how walking inspires writers -- Billy Mills * The Guardian *A brisk history of why and in what ways writers have walked -- David Sexton * Evening Standard *Coverley's approach is an enlightening one. Covering an astounding amount of material, both well-known and cult writers feature with equal prominence; from Baudelaire, Blake, Whitman and Rimbaud, to the lesser-known Papadimitriou and Walser -- Declan Tan * Huffington Post UK *Splendid, scholarly and suffused with evocative stories and biographical sketches, Coverley's book not only proffers pleasure and diversion but also potently explores the historical significance of the art of walking * Booklist *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Menza ... was a guru, a giant. He was a supernova. He was the only brilliant person I have ever met. I took his course by accident, and it changed my life. He had all these acolytes who would hang on his every word, and he knew it, so one day he came into class and he started in on something, and we were taking down everything, and he stopped and said: 'Put your pens down. What I am saying is important.'"--Peter Mose in I Remember My Teacher by David ShribmanTable of Contents1. Psychic Bolt-Holes2. Visitation3. I Never Saw Harvey4. What Is a Symbol 5. Down the Philosophical Rabbit-Hole; or, “GAVAGAI!”6. The Rabbit Evangels: Joel Chandler Harris and Beatrix Potter7. Obliterature8. How Children Get Cheated Out of Their Humanity9. The Rabbit between Us Came from Slavery10. Aubade with Brer Rabbit11. The Rabbit Dances

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsMundanity: Sensible Context and Public Sphere 1. Wonder and Safety 1.1 The Miracle according to Wittgenstein 1.2 Existence of the World, Existence of Language 1.3 The Sublime according to Kant 1.4 Magnitude and Power 1.5 Iconoclasm 1.6 Sublime Tractatus 2. The Emotional Root of Cosmology 2.1 The Unconditioned Principle 2.2 'The Unattainability of Nature' 2.3 The World in the Last Day 2.4 Totality or Context? 3. Raw Nature 3.1 Boredom and Happiness 3.2 Sensible Context 3.3 Father and Son 3.4 The Insertion of Language 3.5 Chiasm 3.6 'Such Indolent Modesty' 4. Public Sphere 4.1 The Nameless Threat 4.2 Dread and Shelter 4.3 The Uncanny 4.4 Do It Again! 4.5 Common Places and the Public Character of the Mind 4.6 The Space of the Intellect Virtuosity and Revolution: The Political Theory of Exodus 1. Action, Labour, Intellect 2. Activity without Work 3. Public Intellect: The Virtuosos' Score 4. Exodus 5. The Virtue of Intemperance 6. In Praise of the Multitude 7. The Right to Resistance 8. The Expected Unforeseen The Use of Life 1. Touch 2. Prepositions 3. Wax Tablet 4. What the Human Being Can Do of Himself 5. The Clumsy Animal 6. Having 7. Institutional Phenomena 8. The Pronoun 'We' 9. Limits and Crisis of Use 10. The Care of the Self 11. On Stage 12. Estrangement Effect 13. Wittgenstein's Director's Notes

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Book SynopsisIn this classic study, Herbert A. Davidson examines every medieval Arabic and Hebrew proof for the eternity of the world, the creation of the world and the existence of God which has philosophical character, disregarding only those that rest entirely on religious faith or fall below a minimum threshold of plausibility. Classifying the proofs systematically, he analyses and explains them, and traces their sources in Greek philosophy. He pursues the penetration of some of these Islamic and Jewish arguments into medieval Christian philosophy and, in a few instances, all the way into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European philosophy. Unique in both its classification of the proofs and its comprehensiveness, this work will once again serve medievalists, historians of philosophy and historians of ideas.Trade Review‘This book is a tour de force of real scholarship, methodical analysis, and painstaking classification… Davidson’s canvas is vast. All the major Islamic and Judaic philosophers are here and the book is thus assured of a ready sale among students and scholars of both.’ * Philosophy East and West *‘Extraordinarily successful… Davidson’s book is an invaluable contribution to the understanding of the history of ideas; it is also a stimulating essay of philosophical analysis.’ * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *‘A towering achievement. At the height of his powers here, Davidson has gone back to the sources to assemble all the significant medieval Islamic and Jewish proofs for the eternity of the world, for the creation of the world, and for the existence of God… It is most welcome to see the medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophers treated so rigorously in their own right, not merely as precursors to Aquinas, or, even worse, as puppets dangling in a history of medieval thought. This book provides as clear an indication as one could hope to have of the health and vitality of Greek wisdom before its (re)discovery in (Christian) Europe.’ * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsI Introduction 1. Eternity, creation, and the existence of God 2. The present book II Proofs of Eternity from the Nature of the World 1. Proofs of eternity 2. Proofs of eternity from the nature of the physical world 3. Replies to proofs from the nature of the world 4. Summary III Proofs of Eternity from the Nature of God 1. The Proofs 2. Replies to proofs from the nature of the cause of the universe 3. Summary IV John Philoponus’ Proofs of Creation and Their Entry into Medieval Arabic Philosophy 1. Philoponus’ proofs of creation 2. Saadia and Philoponus 3. Kindi and Philoponus 4. Summary V Kalam Proofs for Creation 1. Proofs from the impossibility of an infinite number 2. Responses of the medieval Aristotelians to proofs of creation from the impossibility of an infinite number 3. The standard Kalam proof for creation: the proof from accidents 4. Juwayni’s version of the proof from accidents 5. Proofs from composition VI Arguments from the Concept of Particularization 1. Inferring the existence of God from creation 2. Arguments from the concept of particularization 3. Particularization arguments for the existence of God without the premise of creation; particularization arguments for creation 4. Ghazali and Maimonides 5. Additional arguments for creation in Maimonides and Gersonides VII Arguments from Design 1. Cosmological, teleological, and ontological proofs of the existence of God 2. Teleological arguments 3. Summary VIII The Proof from Motion 1. Aristotle’s proof from motion 2. Maimonides’ version of the proof from motion 3. Hasdai Crescas’ critique of the proof from motion 4. Another proof from motion IX Avicenna’s Proof of the Existence of a Being Necessarily Existent by Virtue of Itself 1. First cause of motion and first cause of existence 2. The existence of God: a problem for metaphysics 3. Necessarily existent being and possibly existent being 4. The attributes of the necessarily existent by virtue of itself 5. Proof of existence of the necessarily existent by virtue of itself 6. Questions raised by Avicenna’s proof 7. The version of Avicenna’s proof in Shahrastani and Crescas 8. Summary X Averroes’ Critique of Avicenna’s Proof 1. The proof of the existence of God as a subject for physics 2. Necessarily existent by virtue of another, possibly existent by virtue of itself 3. The nature of the celestial spheres according to Averroes 4. Averroes’ critique of the body of Avicenna’s proof 5. Summary XI Proofs of the Existence of God from the Impossibility of an Infinite Regress of Efficient Causes 1. The proof from the impossibility of an infinite regress of causes 2. Unity and incorporeality 3. The proof from the impossibility of an infinite regress of efficient causes and the proof from the concepts possibly existent and necessarily existent 4. Resumé 5. Crescas on the impossibility of an infinite regress 6. Ghazali’s critique of Avicenna’s proof 7. Summary XII Subsequent History of Proofs from the Concept of Necessary Existence 1. Maimonides and Aquinas 2. The influence of Avicenna’s proof 3. Proofs of the existence of God as a necessarily existent being in modern European philosophy 4. Summary 5. Concluding remark Appendix A. Two Philosophic Principles 1. The principle that an infinite number is impossible 2. The principle that a finite body contains only finite power Appendix B. Inventory of Proofs Primary Sources Index of Philosophers Index of Terms

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between the human soul and the stars, which has been central to Western thought and other cultures for thousands of years.Trade Review'Two conferences initiated by the Sophia Centre at Bath Spa University last year resulted in the publication of Sky and Psyche...in which astrologers and others reflect on the relationship between the human soul and the stars. Their intention was 'not to come up with conclusions but to exchange ideas'; they have succeeded admirably.'--The Christian Parapsychologist, Dec 2006'The 12 chapters here each have the potential to inspire, depending on the reader's own contact with psyche. Those who see the sky as little more than a medium for cheap flights for escapist holidays are, sadly, unlikely to choose this book for aeroplane reading but if they did one might expect almost a human alchemical insight.'--Northern Earth, Dec. 2006'Complex ideas are presented not only with clarity but also as expressions of the numinous. Some sections were challenging, others almost read as poetry or as song. I loved this book because it has emerged from a different discipline, and has served to illumine my own as an artist, and has left me refreshed, uplifted and inspired.'--Inner Light Magazine, Spring 2007'They are more than lectures. As the reader I can feel myself being personally addressed by the various contributors speaking out of professional and life experience … This book could be a rare, nourishing wellspring for life, for the amateur and professional soul carer.'-- Anita Large, Perspectives, June - August 2007'There is no doubt that its various authors have combined to create a book of considerable importance, and one that can be strongly recommended to astrologers, psychotherapists, and all who are concerned with trying to understand our place within the cycle and images of the world.'-- Mike Harding, Correlation: Astrological Association Journal of Research in AstrologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Sky and Psyche: Heaven and Soul by Nicholas CampionPart I: The Alchemical Sky1. Love and the Alchemical Saturn by Liz Greene2. The Azure Vault: The Caelum as Experience by James HillmanPart II: Sky and Psyche3. Chartres Cathedral and the Role of the Sun in the Cathedral's Christian Platonist Theology by Bernadette Brady4. Life Across the Cosmos by Neville Brown5. Imagining Eternity: Weaving 'The Heavens' Embroidered Cloths' by Jules Cashford6. The Soul of the Sky by Noel Cobb7. The Russian Spirit of Place by Cherry Gilchrist8. A Dimensional Model for the Relationship of Consciousness and Cosmos: Mathematical Abstraction versus Conscious Experience by Robert Hand9. Sun Gods and Moon Deities in Africa by Jarita C. Holbrook10. Where the Heavens Meet the Earth: Inspirations from the Lives of Carl Jung, Jalal-u-din Rumi and Mahatma Ghandi by Nicholas Pearson11. Understanding the Modern Disenchantment of the Cosmos by Richard Tarnas12. The Secret Life of Statues by Angela Voss

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Book SynopsisIncludes "Burke's Reflections" and "Pocock's Reflections on Burke and the Eighteenth Century".Trade ReviewPocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American political thought. . . . All of his skills are brilliantly employed in the Introduction. . . . In addition to being the best treatment of Burke's thought in context, it is . . . the best and most concentrated presentation of Pocock's own view of the main contours of eighteenth-century political thought. . . . Finally, the Reflections and other texts by Burke are then woven into this rich fabric, thus providing the reader with an understanding of Burke's thought which is deeper and more complex (and surely more historically sensitive) than any available in the secondary literature. --James Tully, McGill UniversityOf all the scholars who currently study the history of Western political thought, no one is more fertile, eloquent, and ingenious than J. G. A. Pocock. --Keith Thomas, in the New York Review of Books

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Book SynopsisProvides a solution to the problem of how to introduce students to Hegel in a survey course in the history of Western philosophy.Trade Review. . . as felicitous as a translation of Hegel can be --H. S. Harris, York UniversityAn elegant and intelligent translation. The text provides a perfect solution to the problem of how to introduce students to Hegel in a survey course in the history of Western philosophy. --Graham Parkes, University of Hawaii

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Book SynopsisThis is a translation of three works by Mirandola: "On the Dignity of Man", a document of early Renaissance humanism; "One Being and the One", a treatise on the relationship between unity and being; and "Heptaplus", an interpretation of the first verses of "Genesis".Trade ReviewThis is an excellent edition for students. It stands out physically and intellectually as an introduction to the Italian Renaissance.--Dr. John Lewis, Ashland University

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Book SynopsisOver the last decade there has been a resurgence of interest in the scientific study of consciousness an area that has been largely ignored since the time of William James. This renaissance has primarily been stimulated by developments in PET, fMRI and other brain-scanning technology that enable scientists to pinpoint the neural correlates of conscious experience with ever-increasing accuracy. However, the study of conscious experience itself has not kept pace with these advances in third-person methodologies. If anything, the standard approaches to examining the ''view from within'' involve little more than cataloging its readily accessible components. Thus the study of lived subjective experience is still at the level of Aristotelian science. This has led many to deny that there could possibly be such a thing as a truly scientific study of conscious experience, or at least to ask: can one be objective about the subjective? Drawing on a wide range of approaches from phenomenology

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Book Synopsis"Three Dialogues Between Hylas & Philonous".Trade ReviewA model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield

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Book SynopsisThis highly acclaimed and beautifully illustrated book is like a personal meditation and companion for your bedside. Each chapter touches that deepest part in us all which feels a higher calling in life.The book is an uplifting experience, whilst the practical exercises promote a rare freedom to truly be yourself.Trade ReviewKINDRED SPIRIT Magazine: " A practical guide to help us discover the true meaning of being human, this book presents seven carefully constructed chapters, referred to as contemplations. They each consist of four integrated parts, a picture, a poem, writing and a practical exercise. Illustrating the book in this way, Ballabon achieves a light and gentle balance in allowing the reader to think about why we are living in this world.'Why is the Human on Earth?' is recommended for anybody who's ever questioned why we are here."Table of Contents* The Quietening* Welcome to an increasingly bigger picture* The Journey of the Seven Contemplations

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Book SynopsisThe 1929 debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental philosophy. This is the first comprehensive philosophical analysis of the content and arguments of this fascinating and often misunderstood debate.

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Book SynopsisThis Element is a survey of central topics in the metaphysics of material objects. The topics are grouped into four problem spaces. The first concerns how an object''s parts are related to the object''s existence and to the object''s nature, or essence. The second concerns how an object persists through time, how an object is located in spacetime, and how an object changes. The third concerns paradoxes about objects, including paradoxes of coincidence, paradoxes of fission, and the problem of the many. The fourth concerns views with radical consequences regarding the existence of composite material objects, including mereological nihilism, ontological anti-realism, and deflationism.Table of ContentsOverview; 1. Parts; 2. Persistence; 3. Paradox; 4. Existence.

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Book SynopsisDrawing and building on the existing literature, this Element explores the interesting and challenging philosophical terrain where issues regarding cooperation, commitment, and control intersect. Section 1 discusses interpersonal and intrapersonal Prisoner''s Dilemma situations, and the possibility of a set of unrestrained choices adding up in a way that is problematic relative to the concerns of the choosers involved. Section 2 focuses on the role of precommitment devices in rational choice. Section 3 considers the role of resoluteness in rational choice and action. And Section 4 delves into some related complications concerning the nature of actions and the nature of intentions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Commit?; 1. Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Prisoner's Dilemma Situations; 2. Precommitting; 3. Resoluteness; 4. Taking Extended Agents Seriously; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book interprets Peirce's writings as informed by the spirit of modern science systematic inquiry, not system-building thus mitigating their notorious difficulties. It shows that Peirce's experimental work expanded empiricism, subverting the fact/value dichotomy. And it describes Peirce's ironic opposition of modern science to modernity.

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Book SynopsisFrost's analysis of Aquinas's theories of efficient causation and causal powers is a rich exploration of a central philosophical topic in medieval philosophy and beyond. It will be valuable especially for scholars and advanced students working on Aquinas and on medieval philosophy.

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Book SynopsisConduct is determined not just by what we do, but also by why and how we do it. Written by an internationally high-profile philosopher, this is the first full statement of an ethics of conduct, spanning moral theory, practical ethics, and theories of obligation and value.Table of ContentsI. Dimensions of Moral Conduct: 1. Action and the Will; 2. Moral Worth; 3. Manners of Action; II. Moral Obligation: 4. Moral Principles: The Traditional Common Core; 5. Higher-Level Moral Obligations; 6. Living Morally; III. Moral Knowledge and Normative Realism: 7. The Epistemology of Moral Principles; 8. Moral Perception and Singular Moral Judgment; 9. Moral Explanation and Moral Realism; IV. Reasons, Values, and Obligations: 10. Reasons, Values, and the Structure of Rational Action; 11. The Diversity of Value; 12. Consequentialism and Deontology; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisEvery philosophy is a celebration of the fact that being can be thought, that the world around us yields to concepts that join together into arguments which can lead us to new thoughts and new ways of thinking. Heidegger's great talent was to never lose his philosophical wonder at philosophy, to never stop thinking about thinking.

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume provide new readings of Kantâs account of human nature.Despite the relevance of human nature to Kantâs philosophy, little attention has been paid to the fact that the question about human nature originally pertains to pure reason. The chapters in this volume show that Kantâs point is not to state once and for all what the human being actually is, but to unite pure reasonâs efforts within a unitary teleological perspective. The question about human nature is the cornerstone of reasonâs unity in its different activities and domains. Kantâs question about human nature goes beyond our empirical inquiries to show that the notion of humanity represents the point of convergence and unity of pure reasonâs most fundamental interests.Kant on Freedom and Human Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Kantâs philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Human Freedom and Human Nature Luigi Filieri and Sofie Møller Part 1: The Legislation of the Realm of Freedom 1. Freedom Within Nature Allen Wood 2. Kant’s Answer to the Question “What Is the Human Being?” Marcus Willaschek 3. What Is Humanity? Sofie Møller 4. Maximizing Freedom? Paul Guyer on the Value of Freedom and Reason in Kant Heiner F. Klemme 5. Putting Freedom First: Some Reflections on Paul Guyer's Interpretation of Kant's Moral Theory Herlinde Pauer-Studer Part 2: The Legislation of the Realm of Nature 6. Kant on the Exhibition (Darstellung) of Infinite Magnitudes Rolf-Peter Horstmann 7. The Problem of Intersubjectivity in Kant's Critical Philosophy Konstantin Pollok 8. Kant on Conviction and Persuasion Gabriele Gava Part 3: Bridging the Gulf between the Realms of Nature and Freedom 9. Why is There Something, Rather than Nothing? Kant on the Final End of Creation Reed Winegar 10. Kant’s Philosophy of History, as Response to Existential Despair Rachel Zuckert 11. Mendelssohn and Kant on Human Progress: A Neo-Stoic Debate Melissa Merritt 12. Aesthetic Subjectivity in Ugly Matters: A Comparison Between Kant and Mendelssohn Anne Pollok Postscript: Kant on Freedom and Human Nature: Responses Paul Guyer

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses key issues in housing policy through the lens of the philosophical concepts that underpin them. It is intended to be an introduction to philosophical subjects and how they relate to key housing issues and deals with the concepts with enough rigour and depth to be of use to undergraduate and postgraduate students and teachers. Both practitioners in the housing sector and academics researching housing-related subjects often use terms such as fairness', social justice', tenure', property', home' and others as if there is a single agreed meaning for these terms. But these terms can be highly contested and there are multiple viewpoints for each of them that could change how we approach them, and how we therefore create, interpret and implement policies and procedures. This book aims to introduce certain concepts and provide guidance and stimulate thinking around how they make an impact on real-world policy. Each section opens with a relevant case study designedTable of ContentsIntroduction: Housing is a practical issue, what does philosophy matter? 1. Why can’t we all just agree that housing is a good thing, and that the government should provide it? 2. Why do we need the State anyway? 3. Why does the same house sell for more, just because it’s in London? 4. Why are there homeless people in a rich, modern country like a UK? 5. Why can’t I burn my house down, if I feel like it? 6. What if the State really does know best? 7. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten lectures, in a free and often informal style, Foucault explores, together with his Japanese interlocutors, what it would mean to take up, from outside Europe, the questions he was raising at the time about Revolution and Enlightenment in the traditions of European critical thought. In a series of wide-ranging discussions, on sexuality and its history, non-Christian forms of spirituality, new forms of political movements, and the role of knowledge, power, and truth in them, Foucault examines these questions in relationship to Asia. He had hoped these questions, very much debated at the time in postwar Japan, would be the start of new forms of translation, publication, and exchange. At the heart of the lectures is thus a search for the creation of a new sort of transnational collaboration, recasting the history of European colonialism and opening to a philosophy no longer simply Western, yet to come.The Japan Lectures thus contribute to the new scholarship in Asian and in translation studies which has long since moved away from earlier Area Studies; at the same time, it participates in the new scholarship about Foucaultâs own work and itinerary, following the publication of an extraordinary wealth of materials left unfinished or unpublished by his untimely death. In these ways, The Japan Lectures help us to better see the implications of Foucaultâs work for philosophy in the 21st century.Trade Review"A fascinating excursion into Foucault's thought in the late 1970s, in which Japan is an ‘enigma’ that works to clarify his own thoughts. In his presentations to Japanese audiences, the reader overhears Foucault explaining his thinking to himself in an engaging and often personal manner."Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University." ‘The end of the era of Western philosophy.’ Foucault was often less guarded abroad and would drop gems in conversation with foreign scholars that he might not have shared in France. These brilliant Japan Lectures are a case in point. In a wide-ranging set of talks delivered in Japan in 1978 – ranging over topics from sexuality, to discipline, to power, knowledge, and philosophy– Foucault revealed himself and his ongoing thought processes. Expertly edited by John Rajchman and beautifully translated, these Japan Lectures offer a new window into his work." Bernard E. Harcourt is a chaired professor at Columbia University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and has edited a range of works by Foucault in French and English, including the Gallimard Pléaide edition of Surveiller et punir."A fascinating rediscovery of Foucault in Asia. The Japan Lectures presents an exclusive collection of the French philosopher’s lectures, interviews, and conversations during his trips to postwar Japan, available for the first time in English translation. This book transforms our understanding of Foucault and his reflections on the limits of Western thought by posing a fundamental question: Will the philosophy of the future emerge outside Europe?"Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, author of The Freudian Robot.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsFoucault in Asia: An IntroductionTHE JAPAN LECTURES 1. Power and Knowledge 2. Sexuality and Politics 3. Disciplinary Society in Crisis 4. The Analytic Philosophy of Power 5. Sexuality and Power 6. The Theater of Philosophy 7. Methodology for a Knowledge of the World: How to Get Rid of Marxism 8. Michel Foucault and Zen: A Stay in a Zen TempleFoucault in Japan: An Interview with Shiguéhiko HasumiIndex

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Book SynopsisBusiness Ethics: Methods, Theories, and Application provides a new systematic approach to normative business ethics that covers the complex and various ethical challenges of modern business. It aims to train analytical thinking skills in the field of business ethics and to approach ethical issues in business in a rational and systematic way.The book develops a number of specific methods for business ethics analysis that are tailored for ethical decision-making in business and for analyzing complex ethical topics in business. The book discusses fundamental ethical questions regarding the meaning of business and the economy for the individual person, society, the environment, and people around the world.As a result, Business Ethics: Methods, Theories, and Application develops normative guidelines for business in the 21st century and its fundamental challenges and will be key reading for undergraduate, postgraduate, and MBA students of business ethics, busTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to business ethicsChapter 2 Ethical theory and its application to business contextsChapter 3 Conceptions of the economy and business: ethical aspectsChapter 4 Organizational ethics: ethics of corporations, companies, and other business organizationsChapter 5 Individuals in the world of business: ethical aspects of specific roles and professionsChapter 6 Global business ethicsChapter 7 Economic and ethical challenges of the Anthropocene: sustainabilityConclusion

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Book SynopsisRadical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and proposes a more embodied approach to social change as a solution.Collecting insights from powerful thinkers across multiple traditionsincluding Black radicals, Indigenous resurgence theorists, terror management theorists, and Buddhist feminists Rowe argues for the political importance of seemingly apolitical practices such as meditation and ritual. On their own, these strategies are not enough, but integrated into social movements that are combating structural injustices, mindbody practices can begin transforming the embodied fears that feed endless fuel to supremacist ideologies and yet are not targeted by most political actors.Radical Mindfulness is for academics, activists, and individuals who want to oTrade Review"Radical Mindfulness is an extraordinarily generous intervention in the burgeoning conversation about the role of mindfulness in social transformation. James K. Rowe offers genuinely new approaches to understanding why some humans so consistently choose to perpetuate oppression, crafting a rich conception of the co-production of fear of death and supremacy cultures. You’ll emerge from the book having grappled with your own existential response to the fact that death comes without warning, and that you yourself will one day be a corpse. You’ll be convinced that reckoning with this fact has been a central concern of thinkers from James Baldwin to the Buddha. And you’ll have renewed resources for understanding the resonances among Indigenous, feminist, and Black liberation struggles that have practiced life-affirming ways to meet death. For white settler readers in particular, this book gives resources for learning from these other contexts without appropriating them. As erudite and precise as it is ebullient and provocative, this book offers a generative path for anyone committed to the possibility of collective liberation and a world in which abundance rather than scarcity shapes our lives." Alexis Shotwell, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University "How do white supremacism, alpha-masculinity, class politics, and climate denialism fold into the dominant institutions of today? In this remarkable book, James K. Rowe helps us to see and feel the connections. Existential traumas about death and deadly institutional practices, he says, are intertwined, with the traumas and drives feeding into each other. Radical mindfulness, as a set of collective practices, can help to reshape these connections. Drawing sustenance from Bataille, James Baldwin, Indigenous thinkers, Buddhists, feminists and others, Rowe folds mindfulness into radicalism and radicalism into mindfulness. An astute and timely book, full of insights and inspirational stories."William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Johns Hopkins University"Can humans collectively stop enslaving, exploiting, segregating and desecrating? Can "metabolizing" our fear of death precipitate awakening to our responsibilities within "the inescapable network of mutuality"? Weaving existential philosophy with acknowledgement of Indigenous wisdom, Buddhism, feminism, and dismantling white supremacy practices and tools, James K. Rowe has crafted a bold proposal of love and hope." Mushim Patricia Ikeda, Buddhist teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center, author, and community activist"I consistently ruminate over the climate destruction befalling us. I know settler colonialism and white supremacy are deeply woven into the harm befalling Mother Earth. I am often left feeling helpless due to the seeming infallibility of the systems that maintain control. James K. Rowe's book provides me with immense hope as he clarifies the drive for the will to supremacy, which is to say, he allows the reader an opportunity to understand what is happening – the ignorance that the settler colonial regime depends upon is therefore brought into disruption."Tricia McGuire-Adams, Anishinaabek Nation, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Ganandawisiwin Sovereignties, University of Ottawa "Original and poignant, Radical Mindfulness is a deep-dive into the social justice implications of death denial. Rowe argues that at the root of our entangled predicaments of climate change, ongoing colonialism, threats to democracy, and racial and gender injustice, is the inability of those in power to cope with their fear of death. From "white extinction anxiety" to the viral currency of outrage, this incapacity to manage the ultimate terror of mortality manifests in violence large and small. If mindfulness can help us face our fear of death, it can reduce the harms we wittingly or unwittingly commit."Sarah Jaquette Ray, Professor of Environmental Studies, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt"Radical Mindfulness addresses the need to simultaneously come to terms with death at the personal level while dismantling/reconstructing death-denying structures (religious, political and economic). A magnificent book — timely, important and compelling."Sheldon Solomon, Professor of Psychology, Skidmore College"In Radical Mindfulness, James K. Rowe compellingly advocates for the inclusion of mind-body practices such as mindfulness as vital components of political transformation. Reflecting the radical inclusivity animating the project, Radical Mindfulness is at once an autoethnography, intellectual genealogy, social critique, existential guide, and healing justice manifesto. In the words of bell hooks, one of the many visionaries inspiring the book, it exemplifies scholarship as the “practice of freedom."Ann Gleig, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies , University of Central Florida "This powerful, deeply reflective book is exactly what the world needs. James K. Rowe, a long-time meditator and social theorist, offers searing insight into how mindfulness can help progressive thinkers and movements root-out the sources of supremacy and work collectively to build a more just, ecological sane, and humane future. Finally, someone has linked our inner and outer lives in a compelling, politically relevant, critical way. This book is liberation between two covers."Paul Wapner, Professor Emeritus of Global Environmental Politics, American UniversityTable of ContentsAn Opening: A Conversation with Dylan Thomas 1. Introduction: Fear of Death as a Driver of Injustice 2. The Will to Supremacy 3. White Supremacy: James Baldwin on Death Denial and Whiteness 4. Class and Colonial Supremacy: John Mohawk on Oppression in the Western World 5. Human Supremacy: Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory 6. Male Supremacy: Rita Gross and Hsiao-Lan Hu’s Buddhist Feminism 7. Conclusion: Practice for a Just, Liveable Future Coda: A Contemplation on Basic Goodness Appendix: Activists on Using Mind-Body Practices

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Book SynopsisIn A Social Ontology of Psychosis, Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes explores how to interpret and apply the concept of the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father in Lacanian theory, particularly in the context of working with psychosis.Londoño proposes a logical framework drawing on the work of Badiou, then traces the historical development of this concept and its implications as a structural necessity for anyone who speaks and engages in discourse. The book opens by exploring set theory, transitioning from nought to one, from the Thing to the object, essential for any presentation. Subsequently, it follows a historical path, examining the evolution of the figure and the signifier of the Father, journeying from ancient Mesopotamian roots through Modernity, touching upon Claudel's theater and the films of the Coen brothers. Finally, it aligns Searle's social ontology with Lacan's discourses, highlighting psychosis as an illustration of being outside discourse, particularly wh

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Book SynopsisThis highly original work uses the Big Bang theory as a conceptual tool to address the question of the origin of the subject in psychoanalysis.The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis elucidates the radical discontinuity between Freud and Lacan in the foundations of their psychoanalytic theories and conceptions of the clinic. Alfredo Eidelsztein argues that just as physics conceives the origin of matter, energy and space-time as an absolute beginning, so the appearance of the symbolic order and the subject must be understood as an âœex-nihilo creationâ that excludes any form of causal relationship between the âœbeforeâ and the âœafter.â He argues that this is a major conceptual difference between Freud and Lacan: the dimension of the signifier, beginning with its appearance, marks an absolute discontinuity from what was before and asserts itself as the condition from which, for the human realm, reality and experience are given. Eidelszteinâs conceptions regarding th

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