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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Tenth Muse
Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read's essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. Table of Contents1. On Something in Particular 2. The Art of Art Criticism 3. Gauguin: the Return to Symbolism 4. The Inspired Tinker 5. Goethe and Art 6. Naum Gabo 7. Walter Pater 8. The Writer and His Region 9. Max Stirner 10. Frank Lloyd Wright 11. Religion and Culture 12. Michelangelo and Bernini 13. The Limits of Logic 14. Baudelaire as Art Critic 15. The Image in Modern English Poetry 16. De Tocqueville on Art in America 17. Sotto Voce 18. George Lukács 19. The Romantic Revolution 20. The Sustaining Myth 21. On First Reading Nietzsche 22. The Drama and the Theatre 23. Two Notes on a Trilogy 24. C. G. Jung 25. ‘The Prelude’ 26. Barbara Hepworth 27. Susanne Langer 28. Henry Miller 29. ‘De Stijl’ 30. Ezra Pound 31.The Architect as Universal Man 32. Gandhi 33. The Enjoyment of Art 34. D’Arcy Thompson 35. A Seismographic Art 36. Tribal Art and Modern Man 37. Graham Sutherland 38. Kokoschka 39. The Problem of the Zeitgeist 40. The Faith of a Critic; Notes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public
Book SynopsisIn comparison to medicine, the professional field of public health is far less familiar. What is public health, and perhaps as importantly, what should public health be or become? How do causal concepts shape the public health agenda? How do study designs either promote or demote the environmental causal factors or health inequalities? How is risk understood, expressed, and communicated? Who is public health research centered on? How can we develop technologies so the benefits are more fairly distributed? Do people have a right to public health? How should we integrate ethics into public health practice?The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health addresses these questions and more, and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising 26 chapters by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the handbook is divided into four clear parts: Concepts and distinctions Reasons and actions Distribution and inequalitiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Philosophy and Public Health Alex Broadbent and Sridhar Venkatapuram Part 1: Concepts and Distinctions 1. The Public in Public Health John Coggon 2. Medicine and Public Health Daniel Steel 3. Groups and Individuals Stephen John 4. Concepts of Health and Disease in Public Health Benjamin Smart 5. Public Health and Ethics Sridhar Venkatapuram 6. The Philosophical Implications of Fundamental Cause Theory Daniel Goldberg 7. Causal Pluralism and Public Health Federica Russo Part 2: Reasons and Actions 8. External Validity and Public Health Chad Harris 9. Explanation in Public Health Olaf Dammann 10. Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Mathew Mercuri and Ross E. G. Upshur 11. Profiling in Public Health Winnie Ma 12. Big Data and Public Health Derek W. Braverman 13. Machine Learning and Public Health: Philosophical Issues Thomas Grote and Alex Broadbent Part 3: Distribution and Inequalities 14. Capabilities, Human Flourishing, and the Health Gap Michael Marmot 15. Measuring Social Position in Health Inequality Research Mel Bartley 16. Race and Racism in Public Health M.A. Diamond-Hunter 17. Sex and Gender Blind Spots and Biases in Health Research Avni Amin, Lavanya Vijayasingham, and Jacqui Stevenson 18. Global Health Indicators and Data: Communicative Signs and Sites of Contest Sara L. M. Davis 19. Securitization and Health Jeremy Youde 20. Health, Place and Justice: A Philosophical Appraisal of Promoting Equity in Covid-19 through Disadvantage Indices Samantha Fritz, Tuhina Srivastava, Emily Sadecki, and Harald Schmidt Part 4: Rights and Duties 21. Social Justice and Public Health Maxwell J. Smith 22. Health, Healthcare, and Public Health as Objects of (Human) Rights Michael Da Silva 23. Disability Justice and Public Health Agnès Berthelot-Raffard 24. Ageing and Justice in Health: A Conceptual Map toward a Unified View Kebadu Mekonnen Gebremariam and Ritu Sadana 25. Philosophical Issues in Cancer and Public Health Anya Plutynski 26. Public Health, Human Rights, and Philosophy Kristen Hessler. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Love and Language
Book SynopsisWhat is the nature of romantic love and erotic desire in Shakespeare''s work? In this erudite and yet accessible study, David Schalkwyk addresses this question by exploring the historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love. Close readings of Shakespeare''s plays and poems are delivered through the lens of historical texts from Plato to Montaigne, and modern writers including Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc Marion, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou and Stanley Cavell. Through these studies, it is argued that Shakespeare has no single or overarching concept of love, and that in Shakespeare''s work, love is not an emotion. Rather, it is a form of action and disposition, to be expressed and negotiated linguistically.Trade Review'Schalkwyk's arguments are closely reasoned and insightful … Essential.' C. Baker, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Shaping fantasies; 2. Love's troubled consummations; 3. The impossible gift of love; 4. The finality of the you; 5. Is love an emotion?
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WW Norton & Co The Outward Path
Book SynopsisA practical and eye-opening guide to the Aztec philosophy on how to live.
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WW Norton & Co Private Notebooks 19141916
Book SynopsisWritten in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translationTrade Review"Translated into English for the first time, these diaries provide a glimpse into the innermost thoughts of a great philosopher." -- Anil Gomes - The Guardian"Perloff has done a great service in bringing this volume to fruition. Her inclusion of remarks from the recto pages is judicious and will engage the non-specialist reader… Her translation here has real presence: emotional ubiety." -- Ian Ground - The Times Literary Supplement"These notebooks do reveal that in a sense Wittgenstein’s philosophy was a response to his circumstances: but only by providing him with the vital means to escape from them into his own mind – an extraordinary achievement." -- Thomas Nagel - New Statesman"Merely by reminding us that, for all his saintliness, Wittgenstein was human, all too human, these beautiful Notebooks bring him that bit closer to us." -- Christopher Bray - The Tablet
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Palgrave Macmillan Kant Schopenhauer and Morality Recovering the Categorical Imperative
Book SynopsisAddressing the perennial question: why should we be moral? this book argues that we can only give a truly and morally satisfying answer to that question by radically reconfiguring our conception of the self and the way it relates to others.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: A Great Reversal? PART I: HOW KANT FAILED TO JUSTIFY HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Justifying Morality Groundwork 3 – An Enigmatic Text The Second Critique Groundwork 2 - Rational Nature as an End-in-itself? PART II: HOW KANT SHOULD HAVE JUSTIFIED HIS CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE Introduction: Reconstructing Groundwork 3 From Rational Agency to Freedom From Freedom to the Non-Phenomenal From Non-Phenomenality to Universality The Identity of Persons Recovering the Categorical Imperative Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Biopolitical Experience
Book SynopsisAn original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault''s analysis of biopolitics - situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience.Table of ContentsIntroduction Escaping the Laws of Being: The Character of the 'Bio' in Foucault's Genealogies of Biology and Biopolitics Incorporation: Foucault on the Co-Constitution of Modern Embodiment, Experience and Politics Christianity, Process and Positive Critique: Rethinking the Resonance Between Foucault and Arendt, Against Agamben 'Post-Population' or 'Cultural' Biopolitics'? Rethinking Foucault's Concepts Today, Against Nikolas Rose Eternally Becoming: Feminism, Race, Contingency and the Critique of Biopolitics Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Contentment in Contention
Book SynopsisSouthgate draws on ideas within history, philosophy, literature, psychology, and theology to explore two traditions: contentment with our situation as it is, and the aspiration to transcend it. He discusses the possibility of escape from intellectual constraints, and advocates a positive ''duty of discontent'', and its implications.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Epigram Introduction Contentment with 'Reality' and 'Common-sense' Contentment within Cages (i): Science, Ethics, Politics Contentment within Cages (ii): Language and History Cages: Dogmatism and Escape Antidote to Contentment: the Sublime Education for Contentment? Utility, Conformity, Dissent Conclusion Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Reception of Derrida
Book SynopsisThis book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with word deconstruction. It is the first book to consider the cultural reception of Derrida's works, its accessible language and structure help to make this a benchmark amongst introductory Derrida studies.Trade Review'Through offering...an 'introduction' to Derrida's work in the context of literary studies, it also provides the advanced student of Derrida and researchers who specialize in the field of literary theory, poststructuralism, and 'deconstruction' much to consider, and equally much to reassess...one can only wish that there were more books of this quality on Derrida.' - Professor Julian Wolfreys, Department of English, University of Florida, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Task of the Translator: Translation as Transformation Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Deconstruction in America The Deconstruction of a Pedagogical Institution: Derrida and the 'Principle of Reason' The Postmodern Political Condition: Deconstruction and Enlightenment The Politics of the Proper Name: Nietzsche, Derrida and De Man Disfigured Maintaining the Presence of Marx: Marxism and Deconstruction Afterword: Legacy Bibliography Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning
Book SynopsisJacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century's three key thinkers on death Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing that none of these three figures' discourses offers us a complete account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries. This is one of the first monographs to pay particular attention to the key role any contemporary account of the ethics of eulogy must grant to the revolutionary theoreticTrade ReviewTimothy Secret’s book addresses a very important area of Derrida’s work that has thus far not received justly-deserved attention. The originality of Secret’s project and its most significant impact, I believe, rests on the role accorded to Derrida’s eulogies as political acts “offering a pedagogy in responsibility. * Kas Saghafi, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA *Timothy Secret’s book is quite remarkable: erudite, well written and argued, conceptually strong and original, it sheds a completely new light on a decisive moment of contemporary philosophy. There is little doubt that it will form an important contribution to debates about the work of the philosopher Jacques Derrida, but also the relationship between ethics, politics, ontology, psychoanalysis, and, not least, its designated “object”, the existential and moral phenomenon of mourning. * Etienne Balibar, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, UC Irvine, USA *Timothy Secret has accomplished a great deal with this text. For those who already turn to the work of Jacques Derrida or Sigmund Freud to think about the ethics and politics of mourning, this work will be invaluable. For those who are skeptical of deconstruction or psychoanalysis, it will serve as a refreshingly clear and convincing argument that they should rethink their positions. For all who find themselves reflecting on the sobering if not impossible responsibilities of speaking about the dead, Secret’s text will become an irreplaceable intellectual companion. * David W. McIvor, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Colorado State University, USA *Combining eloquence and sharp philosophical insight in equal measure, Timothy Secret weaves a fascinating commentary on the treatment of questions of death and mourning in the work of four of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers. His book represents a major contribution to our understanding of the ways in which Freud, Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida approach that most ineluctable of issues – our common mortality. * Peter Dews, Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, UK *Secret is a sensitive and illuminating reader of Derrida. -- Stuart Walton * Review31 *[T]his is a book to read. -- Dawne McCance, University of Manitoba * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *The challenge to develop a significant learning experience through Derrida’s eulogies could be difficult, but it is not impossible, and Secret’s book is an essential tool to begin the process and overcome some of the barriers. The author’s passion for the topic is evident; I believe this book is relevant and extraordinary, and it is an outstanding addition to the literature in the field of death and dying. For all of these reasons I recommend it to those interested in death, mourning, and eulogy as a way to memorialize those who have gone before us. -- José Luis Moreno * Adult Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: The Proffered Refuge of the Dead (or ‘Why Psychoanalysis’) 1. Becoming Mortal 1.1. Learning to Die 1.2 The Anticipation of Death (on Heidegger) 2. Articulation 2.1 The Work of Deconstruction 2.2 Hinges and Articulations 3. The Ethics of Vulnerability 3.1 A Wounding of Language 3.2 Death in the Order of Exposition 4. The Scene of Writing 4.1 The Psychographic Metaphor 4.2 Psychic Sketches 5. Mourning or Melancholia 5.1 Psychoanalysis and Mourning 5.2 The Ghosts of Budapest 6. The Address of Eulogy 6.1 The Most Common of Experiences 6.2 The Simplest Thing 6.3 Memoires 6.4 The World is Gone Conclusion: Closing the Tomb Appendix: The Exceptional Solitude of Abraham and Torok Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Emotion Reason and Action in Kant
Book SynopsisThis book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.Though Kant never used the word emotion' in his writings, it is of vital significance to understanding his philosophy. This book offers a captivating argument for reading Kant considering the importance of emotion, taking into account its many manifestations in his work including affect and passion. Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant explores how, in Kant's world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. On the one hand, there are positive moral emotions that can and should be cultivated. On the other hand, affects and passions are considered illnesses of the mind, in that they lead to the weakness of the will, in the case of affects, and evil, in the case of passions. Seeing the role of these emotions enriches our understanding of Kant's moral theory. Exploring the full range of negative and positTrade ReviewEnglish-language readers now have the opportunity to learn about Brazilian philosopher Maria Borges’s groundbreaking work on Kant and the emotions. In Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant – her first book in English – she expands and deepens her investigations into an underexplored side of Kant that is unfortunately still foreign territory for many of Kant’s friends as well as foes. * Robert B. Louden, Distinguished Professor and Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA *Among the recently increasing number of works on Kant on emotion, Borges's book is the most wide-ranging and insightful yet. Drawing on the full range of Kant's work in moral philosophy, anthropology, and aesthetics, she brings out the complexity of Kant's conception of what we now call the emotions and of the relation between his view of the emotions and his transcendental idealist theory of free will. A bonus is her demonstration that in spite of well-taken feminist critiques of Kant, he also allotted an indispensable role to women in the moral education of humankind at large. Borges convincingly argues that Kant made enduring contributions to our understanding of the nature and importance of human emotions. * Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Brown University, USA *Wide-ranging in topics and scholarship, Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant develops Maria Borges’s initially shocking claim that we can learn something about the emotions from Kant. Since, as she argues, any adequate account of Kant’s moral psychology must include his views about the roles of different emotions in moral life, Borges’s book will be valuable to many. * Patricia Kitcher, Roberta and William Campbell Professor of Humanities, Columbia University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Translations Introduction 1. Action, reason, and causes in Kant 2. Can we act without feelings? Respect, sympathy, and other forms of Love 3. A place for affects and passions in the Kantian system 4. What can Kant teach us about emotions? 5. Physiology and the Controlling of Affects in Kant’s Philosophy 6. Kantian Virtue as a Cure for Affects and Passions 7. The beautiful and the good: refinement as a propaedeutic to morality 8. Women and Emotion 9. Evil and Passions Conclusion: An emotional Kant? Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Digital Souls
Book SynopsisSocial media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophical debates, Digital Souls claims that the digital dead are objects that should be treated with loving regard and that we have a moral duty towards. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, while also making them vulnerable to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, the moral status of digital remains and the threat posed by AI-driven avatars of dead people. In the digital era, it seems we must all re-learn how to live wTrade Review[Stokes addresses] the exploitation of dead people’s memories in the form of big data, where numerous e-commerce giants work in tandem with social media platforms … Stokes leaves us here with a call to action. We must wrestle control from these corporations. We must restore dignity to the dearly departed. * Berfrois *Eloquently written, choc-a-bloc with piquant stories of tech history, and combined with the penetrating philosophical analysis we have come to associate with the author, Digital Souls is a rigorous and yet accessible mediation on the perennial question of personal identity as it intersects with our evolving cyber self-personifications. It is a rare feat, but there is enough history of philosophy in these pages to satisfy scholars without losing non-academic readers. In sum, the smart move would be to put away your Smartphones for an hour or three to digest this wise and entertaining reflection on how new-technologies of the self are molding our understanding of personal immortality and alas, what it means to be a self. * Gordon Marino, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, USA *Digital Souls is a little gem of applied philosophy, and Stokes’ erudition is undiminished by the lightness and accessibility with which he presents it. Scholars and general readers alike will have their assumptions constructively disrupted by this book, and it’s certainly been a long time since I was this enjoyably provoked. * Elaine Kasket, author of "All the Ghosts in the Machine" *Online technologies have allowed us to extend ourselves ever further in space, time and memory. But have they thereby allowed us to ‘cheat death’? Digital Souls is a seminal investigation of this possibility and the ethical quandaries it raises for all who live in a digitalized social world. * Michael Cholbi, Professor of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, UK *This is a fascinating exploration of how online sites and resources represent, and, in some ways, transform death. The book is written in a lively and accessible style. It helps us to understand our attitudes toward death in a new and illuminating way. Highly recommended! * John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Dying Online 2. #TheWorkOfMourning 3. Kicking the Virtual Dust 4. Ghosts in the Machine 5. Deletion as Second Death 6. When the Dead Talk Back 7. “To be dead is to be a prey for the living” Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alejandro Jodorowsky
Book SynopsisAlejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky's writings, theatre work and mime, and his films, along with the therapeutic practice he calls psychomagic, can all be tied together to form the philosophical programme that underpins his films. Incorporating surrealism and thinkers including Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and Žižek into his interpretation of Jodorowsky''s work, Egginton shows how his diverse films are connected by interpretive practices with a fundamental similarity to Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using case studies of Jodorowsky''s cult films, El Topo, Fando y Lis and Holy Mountain and more, this book provides a unique perspective on a filmmaker whose work has been notoriously difficult to analyse.Trade ReviewAlejandro Jodorowsky: Filmmaker and Philosopher is a captivating exploration of Jodorowsky’s work, and a vital read for those seeking a deeper understanding of the filmmaker’s elusive concept of psychomagic. Egginton’s analysis, premised on highlighting the parallel structures that exist between Jodorowsky’s body of work and Lacanian psychoanalysis, has unlocked a register of criticism that will serve Jodorowsky scholars for years to come * Michael Newell Witte, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, University of San Diego, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Violence of Desire 3. Staging the Fantasy 4. Subjective Destitution Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Vibrant Death
Book SynopsisVibrant Death links philosophy and poetry-based, corpo-affectively grounded knowledge seeking. It offers a radically new materialist theory of death, critically moving the philosophical argument beyond Christian and secular-mechanistic understandings. The book's ethico-political figuration of vibrant death is shaped through a pluriversal conversation between Deleuzean philosophy, neo-vitalist materialism and the spiritual materialism of decolonial, queerfeminist poet and scholar Gloria Anzaldua. The book's posthuman deexceptionalizing of human death unfurls together with a collection of poetry, and autobiographical stories. They are analysed through the lens of a posthuman, queerfeminist revision of the method of autophenomenography (phenomenological analysis of autobiographical material).Nina Lykke explores the speaking position of a mourning, queerfeminine I, who contemplates the relationship with her dead beloved lesbian life partner. She reflects on her enactment Trade ReviewLykke challenges the entrenched dualist, Christian, secular, and colonial understandings of death and mourning by allowing her excessive mourning to continue unbounded ... By opening the door to a new understanding of death and mourning, Lykke leaves the reader with a deep sense of love and connection to the world and has us join her in asking, “what if every critter’s death was vibrant?” * Journal of Lesbian Studies *Composed of ashes, pearls, diatoms, longing and audacious thought, this book takes the reader beyond the life/death threshold, to an encounter with the posthuman that is both spectral and inexorably material. Nina Lykke takes posthumanist scholarship to a new place. * Maggie MacLure, Professor Emerita, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *Through an interweaving of dimensions such as photography, poetry, storytelling, opera, miraculous co-becomings and philosophical reflections, Vibrant Death invites us to a process of un-learning of death beyond the idea of static nothingness. This book is a radical, sensorial and transformative project * Katja Aglert, independent artist and Professor of Art, Linköping University, Sweden *Vibrant Death is simply stunning across all registers: affective, methodological, theoretical and poetic. As a magical “travelogue”, its range and depth of inquiry around the issues of death and mourning are fearless and startlingly innovative. Lykke gives us a relentlessly posthuman, queerfeminist text that beautifully exemplifies an erotics of connection. * Margrit Shildrick, Guest Professor of Gender and Knowledge Production, Stockholm University, Sweden *Table of ContentsOverture: Travelling to the World of the Dead – A Triptych Chapter 1: Queering Death and Posthumanizing Mourning - Introduction Interlude I: Lacrimoso e Lamentoso (Crying and Lamenting) Chapter 2: The Excessive Mourner Interlude II: Vibrato Bruscamente (Abruptly Vibrating) Chapter 3. The Vibrant Corpse Interlude III: Silenzio Appasionato (Passionate Silence) Chapter 4: Is the Wall of Silence Breachable? Interlude IV: Ardente e Ondeggiante (Burning and Undulating) Chapter 5: Miraculous Co-Becomings? Interlude V: Milagrosa (Miraculous) Chapter 6: Pluriversal Conversations on Immanent Miracles Interlude VI: Glissando (Gliding Between Pitches) Chapter 7: Doing Posthuman Autophenomenography, Poetics, and Divinatory Figuring Interlude VII: Con Abbandono e Devozione (With Self-Abandon and Devotion) Coda - Between Love-Death and a Posthuman Ethics of Vibrant Death
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Good Robot
Book SynopsisWhat is good technology? Is good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker provides a snapshot of key challenges, questions and provocations in the field of feminism and technology.While the question of whether various AI and technological advances can be ethical is not new, the embedded nature of feminist perspectives pulls out whether this perceived goodness' or wrongness' might actually impact our lives in the 21st century. This book explores both the radical possibilities of technology to disrupt practices of patriarchy, colonialism, racism and beyond but also provides a significant critique of how we can contain the ethical possibilities of entities we cannot predict. In exploring unjust technological practices and engaging critical voices in the tech industry, the existing moral issues are bro
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Bloomsbury Academic Human Flourishing
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics of the Wretched
Book SynopsisThe Politics of the Wretched argues for ressentiment''s generative negativity, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective No. Inspired by Kant and Nietzsche''s philosophy, Zalloua identifies two modes of deploying ressentiment private and public use by substituting ressentiment for reason. This reinterpretation argues for a public use of ressentiment, for the wretched to universalize their grievances, to see their antagonism as cutting across societies, and to turn personal trauma into a common cause. A public use of ressentiment rails against the ideology of identity and victimhood and insists on ressentiment''s generative negativity, its own rationality, prompting a shift from ressentiment as a personal expression of frustration to ressentiment as a collective No. Reframing ressentiment as a tool to oppose the
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Lulu.com Poetics
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John Wiley & Sons Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial I ntelligence
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Wiley-Blackwell Systematic Philosophical Theology Volume II On
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John Wiley & Sons Philosophy of Religion for a STEM Generation
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Wiley-Blackwell On Certainty The New Translation
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Edinburgh University Press ZarathustraS Moral Tyranny
Book SynopsisIn this reading of Nietzsche's most elusive work, Francesca Cauchi claims that Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a moral polemic, one grounded in its own set of moral values that posits its own moral goal - the self-overcoming of Christian morality through the creation of new values.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Newton
Book SynopsisNewton is an evocative intellectual history of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton the natural philosopher, covering his influential thoughts about philosophical problems, our knowledge of nature, and even the nature of the divine.Trade Review“Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (Choice, 1 August 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Preface ix 1 Life and times 1 1.1 Background and childhood 4 1.2 Early years in cambridge 5 1.3 Mature years in cambridge and london 8 1.4 Final years 11 2 Was newton a scientist? 17 3 Making philosophy experimental: boyle and hobbes and hooke and newton 37 3.1 Boyle’s debate with hobbes 41 3.2 Hooke’s debate with newton 49 4 Newton’s struggle with descartes 63 4.1 Setting the historical stage 63 4.2 Descartes’s metaphysical foundation for natural philosophy 64 4.3 Newton’s new natural philosophy: from de gravitatione to the principia 69 4.4 Newton’s new metaphysics: de gravitatione as foundational text 78 5 Making philosophy mathematical 89 5.1 Applying mathematics to nature 89 5.2 Applying mathematics to nature: the cartesian legacy 96 5.3 Newton’s program in natural philosophy 100 5.4 Newton’s mathematical treatment of force 104 6 Newton’s struggle with leibniz 117 6.1 Newton versus leibniz, 1693–1712 118 6.2 The leibniz–clarke correspondence, 1715–1716 129 7 Newton’s god 139 7.1 Newton’s unique approach to theology and natural philosophy 151 7.2 Newton’s philosophical god 161 7.3 The god of the philosophers and the god of the bible 167 Bibliography 177 Index 192
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Challenge of Things
Book SynopsisA. C. Grayling''s lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling''s recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful.Trade ReviewGrayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse * Sunday Times *Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau * Daily Telegraph *If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling * The Times *The range of topics he covers is impressively broad, taking in subjects as diverse as the ethics of drone warfare, the nature of the mind and the meaning of happiness … “Informed and considered” also nicely describes his urbane and eminently reasonable intellectual style … At his best, Grayling is a tough-minded proponent of the kind of enlightened rationalism expounded by several of the public intellectuals with whom he declares an affinity here: Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, to name only three. But he’s more historically-minded than Russell, less dogmatic than Dawkins and less in thrall to the charms of his own fluency than Hitchens * Prospect *
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Taylor & Francis Inc Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities
Book SynopsisIn recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of biology and psychology, have set their sights on rescuing the humanities from the ravages of postmodernism. In this volume, Eugene Goodheart attacks the neo-Darwinist approach to the arts and articulates a powerful defense of humanist criticism.E. O. Wilson, the distinguished Harvard biologist, has spoken of converting philosophy into science, substituting science for religion, and formulating a biological theory of literature and the arts in Consilence: The Unity of Knowledge. Goodheart demonstrates that Wilson''s efforts, and those of his colleagues Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and Daniel Dennett among others, have resulted in scientism rather than science. If, for example, Dawkins had contented himself in The Selfish Gene with the claim that Darwinism had made worthless otherTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrologue1. Reducing Literature and the Arts2. Demystifying Religion3. Reinventing Ethics4. Is History a Science?5. Condescending to Science6. In Defense of DualismEpilogueWorks CitedIndex
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Possible Present SUNY series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) MerleauPonty and the Art of Perception
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State University of New York Press Earthly Encounters Sensation Feminist Theory and the Anthropocene SUNY series in Gender Theory
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State University of New York Press Critical Studies on Heidegger
Book SynopsisOriginal reading of Heidegger suggesting what his project could mean for building an ethical way of life now and in the future.
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State University of New York Press Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisInterpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.Is it possible to reconcile human excellence with a dedication to equality? Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy explores the meaning, conflict, and potential resolution of the tension between human excellence and equality in the thought of philosophers from Greek antiquity to modern times. Each chapter is devoted to the thought of a particular thinker, and the chapters are arranged chronologically. Interpretations offered here rely on close readings of the major texts by critically important thinkers from Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon in antiquity to a broad range of modern thinkers from Spinoza to Rawls.
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Continuum Publishing Corporation Idealism and Existentialism
Book SynopsisThe history of Continental philosophy is often conceived as being represented by two major schools: German idealism and phenomenology/existentialism. These two schools are frequently juxtaposed so as to highlight their purported radical differences. There is a commonly held view that an abrupt break occurred in the nineteenth century, resulting in a disdainful rejection of idealism in all its forms. This break is often located in the transition from Hegel to Kierkegaard. The history of philosophy in the first half of the nineteenth century has thus been read as a grand confrontation between the overambitious rationalistic system of Hegel and the devastating criticisms of it by Kierkegaard's philosophy of existence. This work aims to undermine this popular view of the radical break between idealism and existentialism by means of a series of detailed studies in specific episodes of European thought. As a whole, this book represents an important attempt to demonstrate the long shadow castTrade Review"Stewart's fresh approach to the so-called 'antagonism' between idealism and existentialism is both welcome and edifying. His careful, nuanced scholarship encourages the reader to re-consider and re-evaluate the major debates that shaped the development of European philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." - Daniel Conway, Texas A&M University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations of Primary Texts; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Hegel and German Idealism; 1. Hegel and the Myth of Reason; 2. Hegel's Phenomenology as a Systematic Fragment; 3. The Architectonic of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; Part II: Between Idealism and Existentialism; 4. Points of Contact in the Philosophy of Religion of Hegel and Schopenhauer; 5. Kierkegaard's Criticism of the Absence of Ethics in Hegel's System; 6. Kierkegaard's Criticism of Abstraction and His Proposed Solution: Appropriation; 7. Kierkegaard's Recurring Criticism of Hegel's "The Good and Conscience"; 8. Hegel and Nietzsche on the Death of Tragedy and Greek Ethical Life III. Existentialism; 9. Existentialist Ethics; 10. Merleau-Ponty's Criticisms of Sartre's Theory of Freedom; 11. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Consciousness and Bad Faith; Bibliography; Index of Persons; Subject Index.
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Xlibris The Healing Power of Love
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and the Animal
Book SynopsisThese 14 essays apply Deleuze and Guattari's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness, mourning, virtual technology, protest, activism, animal rights and abolition. Each chapter questions the premise of the animal and critiques the centrality of the human.Table of ContentsPart 1: Undoing Anthropocentrism: Becoming-Animal and the Non-Human; 1. Ahuman Abolition by Patricia MacCormack; 2. Brutal Thoughts: Laruelle and Deleuze on Human Animal Stupidity by John Q Maoilearca; 3. The Oedipal Animal? Companion Species and Becoming by Joanna Bednarek; Part 2: Vectors of Becoming-Imperceptible: the Multiplicity of the Pack; 4. Louis Malle's Kleistian War Machine: Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Imperceptible in Black Moon (1975) by Colin Gardner; 5. Ant and Empire: Myrmetic Writing, Simulation, and the Problem of Reciprocal Becomings" by Zach Horton; 6. Music-becoming-animal in works by Grisey, Aperghis and Levinas by Edward Campbell; 7. Un/Becoming Claude Cahun: Zigzagging in a Pack by Renee C. Hoogland; Part 3: Animal Politics, Animal Death: Transversal Connectivities and the Creation of an Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm; 8. Bridging Bateson, Deleuze and Guattari through Metamodelization: What Brian Massumi Can Teach Us About Animal Politics by Colin Gardner; 9. Becoming-shewolf and ethics of solidarity in Once Upon a Time: Feminist and posthumanist re-assembling of Little Red Riding Hood by Nur Ozgenalp; 10. Hannibal aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres by Charles Stivale; 11. The Unmournable Animal Death by Laurence Rickels Part 4: Animal Re-territorializations in Art and Cinema; 12. Five Meditations on How to Make a Territory with the Work of Art? by Gregg Lambert; 13. Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative by Dennis Rothermel; 14. Deleuze and Roxy: The Time of the Intolerable and Godard's Adieu au langage"by Ronald Bogue Part 5: Transverse Animalities: Ecosophical Becomings; 15. Interkingdoms of Alcohol: Interspecies Assemblages, Sobriety, and Intoxication by Gary Genosko; 16. Becoming-Wolf: From Wolfman to the Tree Huggers of Turkey" by Serazer Pekerman.
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Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS the AntiChrist
Book SynopsisPresupposing no prior knowledge of Nietzsche or the text, nor with Christian beliefs or doctrines, Paul Bishop carefully guides students through The Anti-Christ section by section. Bishop unpacks the difficulties that many readers face when dealing with Nietzsche's rhetoric.
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Edinburgh University Press Legal Artifices Ten Essays on Roman Law in the
Book SynopsisThis volume collects and translates 10 essays by renowned Roman and legal history specialist Yan Thomas (1943 2008), the most renowned French jurist of the 20th century.
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Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuzes Luminous Philosophy
Book SynopsisEngaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as The Actual and the Virtual, Lucretius and the Simulacrum and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.
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Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and
Book SynopsisA team of leading international scholars examine Middle Ages and Renaissance philosophy from the perspective of themes and lines of thought that cut across authors, disciplines and national boundaries, opening up new ways to conceptualise the history of this period within philosophy, politics, religious studies and literature.
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Edinburgh University Press The Event Universe
Book SynopsisLeemon McHenry argues that Whitehead's metaphysics provides a more adequate basis for achieving a unification of physical theory than a traditional substance metaphysics, drawing on Maxwell, Einstein, Quine, Russell and Broad.
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Edinburgh University Press Time Duration and Eternity in Spinoza
Book SynopsisA translation of the first book written by one of the most famous and authoritative Spinoza scholars in the world today.
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Edinburgh University Press DerridaS Politics of Friendship
Book Synopsis25 years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida's text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work.
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Edinburgh University Press Questioning a New History of Western Philosophy
Book SynopsisGideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith Butler, he reveals the ancient in the modern and reflects on newer questions, like: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair?
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Edinburgh University Press ShakespeareS Virtuous Theatre
Book SynopsisPresents Shakespeare's theatre as a powerful forum for shaping our capacity for virtue
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Duke University Press Wild Blue Media
Book SynopsisMelody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based media theory frameworks and reorients the perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment—a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is created, stored, transmitted, and perceived.Trade Review“‘Blood is seawater,’ said the French biologist René Quinton more than a century ago. Melody Jue shows that seawater can be the lifeblood of a new ‘milieu-specific’ analysis that discards terrestrial biases in understanding media. Navigating across topics such as iron lungs, squid skin, and Google maps of the ocean floor, this book invites us to let our thinking go productively wild by transcending our lazily land-based concepts via a deep dive into the wet blue yonder.” -- John Durham Peters, Yale University“Melody Jue's bracing and brilliant Wild Blue Media invites readers to reorient their terrestrially tuned assumptions about media by dunking such notions as inscription, storage, and transmission underwater, into the multiplicitous materialities of the oceanic. Jue teaches us the vital lesson that by rethinking the medium of the ocean through media theory—and vice versa—we may better apprehend the sea changes of our fraught, climate-changing time.” -- Stefan Helmreich, author of * Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond *“Forging an innovative speculative methodology of ‘conceptual displacement’, the book configures oceanic immersion as a critical and imaginative resource for thinking otherwise.... Wild Blue Media embarks upon a vital reassessment of the parameters through which media studies and literary criticism mediate oceanic knowledge.” -- Alexandra Campbell * Wasafiri *"I love how this book beckons us to new depths in its pursuit of a defamiliarization that might hold ameliorating potential for the planet and those who dwell on it. . . . Wild Blue Media aims to jolt its readers out of accustomed habits of perception, and for me, creating the conditions for such heightened sensitivity is what teaching is all about." -- Sari Edelstein * Edge Effects *“Wild Blue Media makes an important and timely contribution to the oceanic turn within literary theory and media studies. Notably for a monograph focused on mediation, the book is also a beautiful object. Jue’s skill and passion for diving inform the volume’s design as well as her contributions to media theory.” -- Rachel Webb Jekanowski * Science Fiction Studies *“Wild Blue Media . . . is a gift to the ocean humanities, suturing concepts across media studies, literary criticism, oceanographic research, feminist science, and technology studies and visual culture with formidable deftness.” -- Pujita Guha * Configurations *“Jue’s sophisticated theorizing is combined with an ethical commitment to care for the ocean, and she refers to Wild Blue Media as a pre-activist book. . . . Jue’s book will hopefully inspire scholars and activists to immerse themselves into underwater worlds, and show people above the surface what a wonderful world of many worlds our pluriversal blue planet is.” -- Paula Uimonen * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface: Into the Blue ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Thinking through Seawater 1 1. Interface / Breathing Underwater 34 2. Inscription / Vampire Squid Media 71 3. Database / Proteus and the Digital 112 4. Underwater Museums / Diving as Method 142 Notes 167 Bibliography 193 Index 209
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