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Taylor & Francis Rabindranath Tagore
Book SynopsisThis book explores Rabindranath Tagoreâs distinctive argument for peace â in spiritual terms rather than in political terms. Drawing on seminal texts by Tagore, the book presents the reader with a comprehensive overview of Gurudevâs seemingly contradictory notions of individual freedom, universal love for humanity, and nationalism. It underlines Tagoreâs argument that peace could be best affected not by a league of Nations but in educational institutions and that the âreligion of manâ lay in the truth of inter relationship between human beings. A concise handy guide to Tagoreâs philosophy, this book will be essential for students and scholars of philosophy, Tagore studies, peace and conflict studies, and South Asian studies.
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Taylor & Francis A Marketplace Without Jews
Book SynopsisThis book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in Southeastern Europe played in transforming economic life and social relations.It aims to understand how ordinary people in the region responded as beneficiaries, bystanders, perpetrators, rescuers, and, above all, victims to Aryanization, and how regimes and governments adapted its basic principles to their specific national contexts and ideological and ethnic agendas. Aryanization appeared in some of its most radical, accelerated and yet idiosyncratic forms in Southeastern Europe, representing a staging post or parallel process on the journey to the Final Solution. At the same time, it represented a modernizing project through which states on the periphery of Hitler's new Europe could not only catch up with the res
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Taylor & Francis Architecture and Progress
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Taylor & Francis Designing the Complex City
Book SynopsisHow can designers address the emergent self-organizing nature of complex urban environments? Designing the Complex City highlights how both an excess and a lack of design control might contrast the lively complexity of cities, their adaptive and evolutionary capacity. By using key concepts from systems thinking, complexity sciences, life sciences, cognitive sciences, and social sciences, the book frames a systemic spatial design approach aimed at enhancing the potential of different spatial design disciplines to navigate place-specific emergent transformations without overdetermining their formal outcome. A range of heterogeneous case studies, developing at different scales, show how embracing a design approach that is embodied, open-ended, contextually responsive, incremental and adaptive does not question the relevance of designersâ specific skills in shaping the physical structure of cities; it may rather increase their potential to effectively intervene in complex adaptive cycles of urban decay and self-regeneration.Designing the Complex City provides insights for students, researchers, and academics in architecture, interior design, urban and landscape design, planning theory, and urban studies. It is essential reading for all designers who seek to proactively and meaningfully intervene in spontaneous socio-spatial dynamics.
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Taylor & Francis Media Realities in Global Perspective
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Taylor & Francis The Book of Others
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Taylor & Francis The War on Terror and the Caribbean
Book SynopsisThis book offers a multifaced understanding of how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror affected the Caribbean.The volume dives deeper into how the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror impacted the regionâs tourism industry, anti-terrorism legislation, and the banking/financial and immigration system. The book analyses the US-led War on Terror through a broader conceptual lens, i.e., using two Schmittian perspectives: that of the friend-enemy and of the sovereign in times of exception. Using this broader conceptual framework offers an opportunity for a methodological interpretation of Bushâs counter-terrorism policy to give a novel conceptual understanding of the War on Terror in relation to the Caribbean. Thus, the book offers a nuanced and novel perspective on the subject matter.This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism, Caribbean studies, political theory and International Relations.
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Taylor & Francis Political Economy Nationalistic Populism and
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Austin Macauley Publishers Big Issues
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Austin Macauley Publishers TimeSpace
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Austin Macauley Publishers Things that Concentrate the Mind
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Taylor & Francis Leftism in India 1917â1947
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive account of the Leftist movements in India during the most decisive phase of its struggle for freedom. It also describes how the Leftist movements interacted with the mainstream Indian freedom movement led by the Indian National Congress, guided by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and his ideology of non-violence. This ideology directly opposed those who believed in Marxism-Leninism and, naturally, their policies clashed at almost every stage of the freedom movement. These clashes gave rise to dramatic developments, which have been described in this book in their proper context and analysed with scholarly objectivity.The book traces the early twentieth century socio-political awakening of the bourgeois-democratic class of Indian society, the rise of Left-wing nationalists following the Swadeshi Movement, the activities of the early revolutionaries and the formation of the Communist Party of India abroad, the growth of communism in India, the growth
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Taylor & Francis Fomenting Friendship
Book SynopsisIn studies of comparative politics and public policy specifically, interpersonal friendship has been generally regarded as a matter that belongs to the private domain, rather than a site for government intervention. And yet, friendship is inherently political. While friendships can and do evolve spontaneously between individuals, political factors can help to bring people together or drive them apart.Fomenting Friendship examines the ways in which friendship has been perceived in comparative politics, and the barriers to friendship that exist in capitalist society. These barriers, Andrea Chandler contends, have been shaped by government policy. Reviewing the abundant evidence that shows that access to friendship is socially determined, and that a lack of access to friendship disadvantages the individual in numerous ways, Chandler effectively makes the case that government has a role to play in encouraging interpersonal friendship, including calling upon politicians to model friendly and inclusive behaviour in public.This book is a natural resource for all those looking for answers and best policy practices for encouraging friendship and uncovering unanswered questions about friendship.
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Taylor & Francis The Power of Being a Subject
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Taylor & Francis Political Issues and Community Work
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Taylor & Francis Reframing Neoliberalism as a Cognitive System
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Cambridge University Press Remedies for Human Rights Violations
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Cambridge University Press Secret Government
Book SynopsisPolitical philosophers and theorists spend their time analysing political institutions, but thus far have ignored transparency. This book offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of transparency in government, examining both abstract normative defences of transparency and transparency's role in the theory of institutional design.Trade Review'… Secret Government impressively and provocatively decenters publicity as a democratic value.' Mark Fenster, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Publicity in history; 2. Democracy thrives in darkness; 3. Open versus closed deliberation; 4. Publicity and the rule of law; 5. Government house moral theory; 6. Seeing justice done; 7. Mutual knowledge of justice; 8. Putting the philosopher in the model; Conclusion.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Approaching Marx's Theory.- 3. Emancipation in Marx's Early Work.- 4. The Developing Conception of Historical Materialism.- 5. Problems of The German Ideology.- 6. The German Ideology vs. Historical Materialism.- 7. The Puzzle of the Manifesto of the Communist Party.- 8. Debating Marx's Conception of Class in History.- 9. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism.- 10. Capital as a Social Relation.- 11. Capital and Historical Materialism.- 12. Marx and the Politics of the First International.- 13. Marx and Social Theory.Trade Review“Comninel’s Interpretation … focusses on how the original conceptual framework of Marx evolved with his critique of capitalism from his initial framework of alienation of labour. … George Comninel’s exciting contribution can be regarded as a fresh start to recast Marx with his own social and political context, with a strong critique of the Marxist accounts that undermined the essential features of the historical materialist method.” (Berkay Koçak, Progress in Political Economy (PPE), ppesydney.net, June 10, 2021)“With such balanced prose and precise argumentation there are few words fit for purpose other than to declare that with Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx, George Comninel has produced a simply exquisite book. Without hyperbole, it ranks among some of the finest scholarship I have encountered in the past decade.” (Scott Timcke, Marx and Philosophy, June 12, 2020)“This is a skilled and dedicated work of scholarship that will serve anyone interested in deeper engagement with Marx’s works in their own terms very well. … the lively style and illuminating historical analysis will provide fresh insights for readers of all levels of familiarity with the First International’s best known thinker.” (Jules Joanne Gleeson, Tribune, July 8, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Approaching Marx’s Theory.- 3. Emancipation in Marx's Early Work.- 4. The Developing Conception of Historical Materialism.- 5. Problems of The German Ideology.- 6. The German Ideology vs. Historical Materialism.- 7. The Puzzle of the Manifesto of the Communist Party.- 8. Debating Marx’s Conception of Class in History.- 9. Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism.- 10. Capital as a Social Relation.- 11. Capital and Historical Materialism.- 12. Marx and the Politics of the First International.- 13. Marx and Social Theory.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Participation in a Changing World
Book SynopsisIn the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political pTrade Review'Citizen political participation is increasing and diversifying in contemporary democracies. Political Participation in a Changing World provides a theoretical guide to this rich and expanding literature. Theocharis and van Deth present a valuable summary of the research evidence and the new research questions in the participation field.' - Russell J. Dalton, University of California'Political Participating in a Changing World addresses several scholarly debates associated with studying how, where, and why citizens engage in politics. The authors argue that participation research has not sufficiently acknowledged societal developments such as globalization, digitalization, and individualization. Theocharis and van Deth attempt to remedy this weakness by identifying five distinct modes of participation that can be used to study how and why citizens engage in and beyond the parliamentary realm of politics. This book offers important advice about studying participation in looser and transnational governance settings that use citizen action to address complex, borderless problems.' - Michele Micheletti, Stockholm UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Would you recognize a form of political participation if you saw one? 2. The continuous expansions of political participation 3. The continuous expansions of concepts and definitions of political participation 4. Conceptualizing political participation 5. Measuring old and new forms of political participation 6. A road map for the study of political participation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Forced Migration and Social Trauma
Book SynopsisForced Migration and Social Trauma addresses the topic of social trauma and migration by bringing together a broad range of interdisciplinary and international contributors, comprising refugee care practitioners, trauma researchers, sociologists and specialists in public policy from all along the Balkan refugee route into Europe. It gives the essence of a moderated dialogue between psychologists and psychoanalysts, sociologists, public policy and refugee care experts.Migration is connected to social trauma and cannot be handled without being aware of this context. The way refugees are treated in the transit or target countries is often determined by the socio-traumatic history of these countries. Social trauma can be collectively committed and perpetuated, leaving transgenerational traces in posttraumatic and attachment disorders, uprootedness and loss of social and political confidence. Media and cultural artefacts like press, TV and the internet influence coTrade Review"Psychoanalytically-informed literature on immigration has largely sidestepped the anguish of exiles and refugees. This book by Hamburger et al. rectifies this inattention and does so in a comprehensive and far-reaching manner. It addresses the suffering of adult and child refugees, host societies’ ambivalence towards the newcomers, the containing and inciting role of media, and the ameliorative measures, both on an individual and societal basis, that aim to heal the trauma of geographical dislocation. Impressively, the book also elucidates the problems faced by those in caregiving roles vis-à-vis refugees and suggests ways to handle them. This is a serious, sophisticated and psycho-politically significant work in our times of radical demographic change and global turmoil."-Salman Akhtar, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University, Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USATable of ContentsPreface by Vamik Volkan; Preface by Ivan Krastev; Dreams to nightmares- welcoming culture, xenophobia and social trauma along the Balkan route: an introduction Andreas Hamburger, Camellia Hancheva, Saime Ozcurumez, Carmen Scher, Biljana Stanković, Slavica Tutnjević PART I: Refugees in public policy and social representation Introduction to Part I by Saime Ozcurumez Chapter 1: International Protection and Psycho-Social Support Services Saime Ozcurumez Chapter 2:Political Traumatisation and Trauma-Discourse Marcus Kumpfmüller Chapter 3: Social Trauma in International Refugee Legislation Jean-Jacques Petrucci & Andreas Hamburger Chapter 4: Visual constructions of ‘refugeeness’ and portrayal of flight in German newspapers Jelena Jovičić Chapter 5: Media Coverage of Refugees and Policy Processes: Serbia and the Refugee Crisis in the 2000s Momir Turudić Chapter 6: How "Words Matter": Reporting on Refugees and Migrants in Europe Žarka Radoja Chapter 7:Refugees in public policy and social representation: workshop results Andreas Hamburger PART II: Trauma and Migration: Psychological Aspects of forced Migration and Mental Health Introduction to Part II Trauma and Migration – Psychological Aspects of forced Migration and Mental HealthAndreas Hamburger & Camellia Hancheva Chapter 8: Syrian ‘Guests’ and the ‘Receiving’ Communities: Traumatization of Being an Outsider/Insider Gamze Ozcurumez Bilgili Chapter 9: Inner Emigration Horst Kächele Chapter 10: How Can Refugees Heal? Reflections on Healing Practices across the Refugee Process – from Displacement to Integration, Return and Beyond Selma Porobić Chapter 11: Mental Health in Refugee children and youth Anastasia Zissi Chapter 12: Methods and ethics in refugee research Maša Vukčević Marković & Jovana Bjekić Chapter 13: Mental Health in Refugees: Workshop Results Nikola Atanassov, Dijana Đurić, Aleksandra Hadžić, Camellia Hancheva, Horst Kächele, Diana Ridjić, Marko Tomašević PART III: Child Refugees Introduction to Part III Slavica Tutnjević Chapter 14: Child Refugee: Transition, Migration and Transitional Phenomena Camellia Hancheva Chapter 15: "Here I found my place": Perspectives of Refugee Children in Serbia on Psychosocial Support Programmes Maša Avramović & Biljana Stanković Chapter 16: Former Child Refugees – Quarter of a Century Later Slavica Tutnjević Chapter 17: Quest of Identity in Unattended Minor Refugees Leonie-Marie Anft Chapter 18: Child Refugees: Workshop Results Camellia Hancheva PART IV: Helpers, Volunteers and Vicarious Trauma Introduction to Part IV Biljana Stanković Chapter 19: Volunteers and Refugee Identity Sotiris Chtouris & Anastasia Zissi Chapter 20: Yoga as a Mindfulness-based Intervention for Refugees and Helpers Stella Schreiber Chapter 21: Secondary Traumatization in Service Providers working with Refugees Maša Vukčević Marković & Marko Živanović Chapter 22: Helpers, Volunteers and Vicarious Trauma Biljana Stanković
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change
Book SynopsisIn this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.The language and symbolism we use to make sense of climate change arose in the post-World War II liberal institutions of the West. This language and symbolism, in neutralising the philosophical and ideological challenge climate change poses to the legitimacy of free market liberalism, has also closed off the possibility of imagining a different kind of future for humanity. The book is structured around a repurposing of the guardrail' concept, commonly used in climate science narratives to communicate the boundary between safe and dangerous climate change. Five discursive guardrails' are identified, which define a boundary between safe and dangerous ideas about how to respond to climate change. The theoretical treatment of these issues is complemented with data from interviews with opiTrade Review"In Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, Chris Shaw effectively, provocatively but accessibly, demolishes the cosy consensus that political and economic liberalism is capable of responding to the existential threat of climate change. With their emphasis on individualism, protecting the freedoms of capital, the primary of western scientific thought and faith in technological fixes, dominant liberal ideologies are having to confront their own crises and contradictions. This book expertly surveys and critiques these belief systems and imaginaries before exploring some of their contenders. It will be of interest to a range of students, scholars and practitioners working on climate change."Peter Newell, University of Sussex and Research Director of the Rapid Transition Alliance"Chris Shaw's essential and urgent book addresses the failure and fundamental inadequacy of current attempts to address the climate crisis. With disquieting clarity, he demonstrates how even well-intentioned participants in projects for preserving a livable planet are trapped within conceptual frameworks or paradigms that a priori prevent the emergence of meaningful strategies for averting catastrophe."Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, New York "Words fail us when confronted with the challenges posed by climate change. Deeds fail us as well. As Chris Shaw demonstrates in this book, we are trapped in an ideological network spun by liberalism. This makes us blind to alternative and more radical ways of approaching climate change from a less individualistic and more communitarian perspective. This book should be read by anybody interested in understanding the climate change impasse in which the world finds itself. Understanding it is a precondition to moving beyond it." Brigitte Nerlich, Emeritus Professor of Science, Language and Society, University of Nottingham"Chris Shaw is steeped in the sociology and politics of climate change. In this book he argues elegantly and powerfully across a range of areas that climate change is intertwined with liberalism and that this blocks any solution to the climate crisis." Luke Martell, Author of Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist SocialismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments PrefaceIntroductionFive liberal climate guardrailsThe liberal language of climate changeDefinitions of liberalismGeographical focusWhy liberalism’s time is up on climate changeThe structure of this bookConclusionChapter 1. The struggles of climate liberalism1.1 Sublimating paradox1.2 The best of all possible worlds, the worst of all possible worlds1.3 Freedom from, or freedom to?1.4 Anarchy and order1.5 Openness to new ideas vs the reproduction of liberalism 1.6 The five liberal climate guardrails 1.7 ConclusionChapter 2: Climate change is not a challenge to individualism. 2.1 A visit to the circus2.2 Creating the climate individual2.3 The search for individual free will2.4 Hegemonic climate communication2.5 ConclusionChapter 3. The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. 3.1 Guardrail 2: The liberal construction of climate change is universally relevant. 3.2 Institutional norms and the liberal imperialism of climate change3.3 The communication of liberal institutional norms in climate discourses3.4 Climate targets and the communication of liberal norms3.5 The denial of uncertainty and the denial of climate justice3.6 Local experiences of a global phenomenon3.7 ConclusionChapter 4: Climate change is not an historical phenomenon. 4.1 Removing history from the climate debate4.2 De-historicising the transformation4.3 Removing the working class from the transformation4.4 Intellectuals and the de-historicising of climate change4.5 Living with the past4.6 ConclusionChapter 5. Guardrail 4: Climate change will be solved through technological innovation. 5.1 Substituting technology for progress5.2 Science against democracy5.3 Selling technological responses to climate change5.4 ConclusionChapter 6: Climate Guardrail 5: Sustainable lifestyles will emerge from the appropriate cultural cues and leadership. 6.1: Stories, myths and other fairy tales6.2 Can new stories create new worlds?6.3 Culture as control6.4 Creating orderly transitions through stories6.5 Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth. 6.6 What We Think About When We Try Not to Think about Global Warming: Toward a New Psychology of Climate Action. 6.7 ConclusionChapter 7: Maybe tomorrow7.1 Interview methodology 7.2 Results from the interview analysis7.2.1 Freely choosing a future of fewer freedoms7.2.2 The individual’s role in creating the conditions for a system of fossil fuel free exploitation7.2.3. Searching for mushrooms7.2.4 Keep your head down whilst waiting for the change to come7.2.5. Substituting politics with science and technology 7.2.6 Talking climate7.2.7 So much to do, such little time7.2.8 Waiting for politicians7.2.9 What’s the problem? 7.2.10 It’s not just the climate7.3 ConclusionChapter 8: Conclusion: What future?8.1 Is there a there there?8.2 The limits of the individual in a world of limits8.3 You shall have no other gods but science8.4 We can’t do this on our own8.5 A peasant prospectIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Danger of Being a Gentleman Works of Harold
Book SynopsisAn excellent and entertaining essayist, Laski's volume deals with the issues of politics and law in Europe and American during the 1920s and 30s. It is unified by the concpetion of democracy as a society of equals sharing in a common good. Table of Contents1. The Danger of Being a Gentleman: Reflections on the Ruling Class in England (1932) 2. On the Study of Politics (1926) 3. Law and Justice in Soviet Russia (1935) 4. The Judicial Function (1936) 5. The English Constitution and French Public Opinion, 1789-1794 (1938) 6. The Committee System n English Local Government (1936) 7. Nationalism and the Future of Civilization (1932) 8. Mr. Justice Holmes: For his Eighty-Ninth Birthday (1930)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of the Unpolitical
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Requiem for a Species
Book SynopsisThis book does not set out once more to raise the alarm to encourage us to take radical measures to head off climate chaos. There have been any number of books and reports in recent years explaining just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, and why it is now too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species as expressed in both the institutions we built and the psychological dispositions that have led us on the path of self-destruction. It is about our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the Earth - our capacity to reason and our connection to Nature - and those that, in the end, have won out - our greed, materialism and alienation from Nature. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures. Clive Hamilton is author of the bestselling AffTrade Review'Listen to this Requiem and weep, if it helps. False hope is as dangerous as despair. But don't get mired in helplessness. Above all, Requiem is a call to arms; to the urgent task of overhauling democracy in pursuit of survival. At stake, the biggest prize of all: our own humanity.' Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth 'I am afraid Clive Hamilton has it right about climate change - deeply afraid. Requiem is a brave and searingly honest book by a brilliant scholar. Ignoring it will only make a bad situation worse, so, please, read this book now.' James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability and Dean Emeritus, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 'Requiem for a Species is a remarkable publication which brings together the scientific imperatives of taking action in the field of climate change. Hamilton highlights the political inertia which is currently acting as a roadblock. In the wake of the weak outcome of Copenhagen, this book assumes added significance in breaking the resistance to the truth about climate change.' R K Pachauri, Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Director-General, TERI 'I find it hard to imagine what life would be like if I had genuinely come to the irrevocable conclusion that it was too late to do anything serious about preventing runaway climate change� For me, this ongoing internal dialogue gets a little bit more painful, every year � And having just finished reading Clive Hamilton's excellent (but deeply disturbing!) Requiem for a Species, I'm now going to have to think it all through all over again.' Jonathon Porritt, Founder, Forum for the Future, and author of Capitalism As if the World Matters 'Requiem offers an insightful and informative look at why the human species can't come to terms with a changing climate. And Hamilton's conclusion--To despair, accept, then act--is an important call for us to respond to climate change immediately and decisively or spend the rest of our lives reacting to a warming world and an unraveling civilization.' Erik Assadourian, Director: State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability and Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute 'Clive Hamilton investigates - in real time - our society's choice not to act to protect ourselves from devastating climate change. We know the science, but 'scientific facts are fighting against more powerful forces' - power, money, bureaucratic inertia and our innate desire to ignore what we don't want to believe. 'It's too late,' he says. 'Humanity failed.' That past tense is devastating.' Fred Pearce, writer and author of The Last Generation: How Nature will take her Revenge for Climate Change 'Hamilton's book presents a powerful statement of the problems confronting us - not just the problem of climate change itself, but the tendency to wish the problem away by denial (which in less extreme circumstances can arguably be an adaptive response to difficult situations). And all compounded by the fact that neither our institutions nor we ourselves have experience in acting on behalf of a seemingly distant future. Read this book.' Robert M May OM AC FRS 'When future generations look out on a planet ravaged by climate change, they will ask of our generation 'When you knew what was happening--surely the greatest debacle since we came out of our caves--why didn't you stop it?' Clive Hamilton proposes the problem lies with 'the perversity of our institutions, our psychological dispositions, our strange obsessions, our penchant for avoiding facts, and, especially, our hubris.' It all makes for a riveting read because (alas) it is all too true--just like Greek tragedy.' Norman Myers, 21st Century School, University of Oxford 'Requiem for a Species magnificently captures the idea that by and large, none of us want to believe that climate change is real. It explains our inability to seriously weigh the evidence of climate change, and to take appropriate action to ensure our own survival.' Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia 'Clive Hamilton, as usual, has courageously challenged the current nature of our society in this inspirational new book.' Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research 'Books that change one's life are rare... Requiem is a tour de force of compression and analysis that cannot help but shift climate change thinking.' Andres Kabel, Cultural Pilgrim (www.andreskabel.com) 'Requiem for a Species is a call to immediate action. It should be sent to every elected official at each level of government. All concerned citizen should read it in order to hold government and industry accountable for knowing the facts, altering policy, and developing clean technologies-not at some later point in time but now. The future looks grim; but, as Hamilton says, action is the best cure for despair. It may also be our only hope.' Courier Mail 'Well worth reading by anyone who takes a serious interest in climate change. It's concise, accessible, and full of insights and information which I suspect most readers will find new and revealing.' Permaculture Magazine 'Requiem for a Species is recommended for those who want to get a clearer picture of the science of climate change' Camilla Royle, Socialist Review 'Anyone even superficially concerned about climate change would fo well to read CLive Hamilton's Requiem for a Species...highly entertaining and excellently sources book' Talitha Haller, Ecosystem Marketplace. 'Even more strongly, Hamilton argues that humans have become docile puppets of the growth-focused system and that only those 'who have internalized the goals of the system most faithfully' become political leaders.' Climate Policy 'Hamilton advises that we grieve appropriately. That is, we should despair about the failure of humanity to prevent the climate change problem from reaching current levels, we should accept the new vision of the future that this entails and the need to transform our previous way of life, and we should act to make the best of the situation as we can. Unlike other drier reports and softly spoken analyses of climate change, this book frankly communicates the urgency of the problem, and I hope many people read it.' Katie Steele, Climate Law. 'As Hamilton so convincingly demonstrates, climate change is not only an inconvenient, but a distressing and fundamentally life-changing, truth. When faced with facts so alien to our ideology, we experience 'cognitive dissonance', and become almost incapable of accepting the evidence before us. So if, psychologically, humans as a species were never able to deal with the threat of climate change, is anyone really to blame? Well, Hamilton lays the blame firmly with the corporations.' Green World 'Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton was chosen as the May 2010 Book of the Month on my website, www.globalforesightbooks.org. Very important book.' Michael Marien, Editor, GlobalForesightBooks.org 'Anyone concerned with global affairs, facing up to climate change, and long-term futures should read this book' Michael Marien, Editor, GlobalForesightBooks.org 'Refreshing in its candour, clearly-written and well-sourced, Requiem for a Species is a landmark polemic. So while it is undoubtedly an important book for activists, it is clear humanity's future depends on those who are currently not involved in climate activism reading and acting on the facts and arguments contained within. Spread the word.' Ian Sinclair, Peace News "This book succeeds in revealing why we have ignored the scientific warnings of climate change. Hamilton analyses the science and underlying reasons for global warming with an appropriate blend of dispassion and compassion." -Suzanne Simard, PhD, RPF, BC Forest Professional MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. No Escaping the Science 2. Growth Fetishism 3. The Consumer Self 4. Many Forms of Denial 5. Disconnection from Nature 6. Is There a Way Out? 7. The Four-Degree World 8. Reconstructing a Future Appendix: Greenhouse Gases Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Common
Book SynopsisAround the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible principle: the common.In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century. In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history, theology, and sociology.Instead of conceptualizing the common as an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developeTrade ReviewIf we accept the authors’ repeated contention that our present and future are profoundly bleak, we must equally recognize that a new way of engaging our present and future in common is required. This new way of engaging is precisely what Dardot and Laval offer under the name the common—the political principle that informs the collaborative, deliberative activity whereby new customs and institutions may be formed to transcend the social and political conditions threatening humanity and our world itself. * Confluence: The Journal of the AGLSP *The common has emerged as a key concept in 21st century struggles for justice. Dardot and Laval not only explain why, they also inspire us to build and strengthen commoning movements. An important intervention. -- Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA and author of 'The Communist Horizon'In the past few years, movements across the planet have fought bravely for the re-appropriation of plundered and privatized goods, while revitalizing the critique of property, understood as the legal form structuring our political economy and everyday life. Common is a sweeping, erudite and combative attempt to draw the theoretical balance-sheet of these movements and critiques, to anatomize their spontaneous philosophies, and to transform ‘common’ into a political principle for a new model of revolutionary politics that could break through the impasses of contemporary radical thought and practice. An indispensable contribution to one of the central debates of our time. -- Alberto Toscano, Co-director of Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and author of 'Fanaticism'What do you do after you have written one of the most devastating criticisms of neoliberal reason? Dardot and Laval’s answer is to turn to the exact opposite to neoliberalism’s reduction of nature to private property and society to competition, to the common. The common is framed here not as something lost in precapitalist mists, or something that only appears sporadically in moments of revolt, but as that which must be instituted and created by practices. There are no shortages of criticisms of the existing order, but Common is the rare book that takes the next step, not just imagining a new world, but showing us the conditions for its creation. -- Jason Read, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA, author of 'The Politics of Transindividuality'After their massive tome on Karl Marx, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval strike again, this time with an even more wide-ranging militant investigation into the common. Combining long-term legal and conceptual history with classical and present-day political theory, they invite us to leave behind the habitual focus on either the tragic story of the enclosure of the commons or the heroic example of the Paris Commune and instead argue for an all-encompassing understanding of the common as the pivotal ground for a future politics. This is a must-read for each and everyone interested in the shared practice of instituting new forms of life in common. -- Bruno Bosteels, author of 'The Actuality of Communism'This new and exciting translation of Dardot’s and Laval’s Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century is the best account of the communal idea available in contemporary theory and criticism. Philosophically rich and archeologically exhaustive, it stands as a founding text in the growing field of commons studies that will appeal to a wide variety of teachers, scholars, and activists who share a commitment to exploring a new reason of the common in everyday activities and practices. -- Davide Panagia, Professor of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The Common: A Political Principle Chapter 1: Archaeology of the Common PART 1: The Emergence of the Common Chapter 2: The Communist Burden; or Communism Against the Common Chapter 3: The Great Appropriation and the Return of the “Commons” Chapter 4: Critiquing the Political Economy of the Commons Chapter 5: Common, Rents, and Capital PART 2: Law and Institution of the Common Chapter 6: The Law of Property and the Unappropriable Chapter 7: Law of the Common and “Common Law” Chapter 8: The “Customary Law of Poverty” Chapter 9: The Workers’ Common: Between Custom and Institution Chapter 10: Instituent Praxis PART 3: Nine Political Propositions Postscript on the Revolution of the 21st Century Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Art Politics and the Pamphleteer
Book SynopsisArt, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. It is diverse in content, interpreting the pamphlet' in the broadest terms, and encompassing a number of case studies that offer historical or specific examples of contemporary pamphleteering practice that can be seen to perform a clear political implication' or protest. Besides exploring the radical history and diverse cultures of the pamphlet, it also celebrates the rich visual rhetoric, typography and contemporary relevance of the format for both artists and activists. Contributions include an historical overview and essays by: Andy Abbott, Angeliki Avgitidu, Aziz Choudry and Désirée Rochat, David Murrieta Flores, Michelle Kempson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Rachel Schreiber, Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley; visual contributions by Gary AndTrade ReviewPassionately engaged, impressively researched and seasonably distilled ... Do not be deceived by its scrappy demeanour. Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer will serve scholars and practitioners of aesthetic engagement in social movements for decades to come. In this service, the collection’s wealth of sources, depth of critical appreciation and clarity of expression will enhance any move that builds on it. * Journal of Design History *This book entices us into the prismatic fringe of the ‘pamphlet’ and its unruly disciple the ‘pamphleteer’. True to its object, here design, text, form, matter, and affect fold in and pull apart in multiple ways. Immersed in the present, past, and emerging future of pamphleteering, the book leaves readers in no doubt that this disreputable form presents an adventure in art, politics, and publishing that is poorly served by the word ‘writing’. * Nicholas Thoburn, author of "Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing" *An absorbing critical anthology of pamphlet formats with the exhilarating whiff of something improvised, uncontrolled, it melds research, personal insights and DIY fanzine monochrome mayhem. Pamphlets are transient, oriented to the moment, but, gathered here, they receive a continued life – tactile too - amidst a spiky volley of political and artistic attitudes. This is history and its reflection, but it is also a manual for future campaigns devising a renewed common culture. * Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsSee list of contributors above.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular
Book SynopsisFew individuals made such an impact on nineteenth-century French politics as Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Political organiser, leader, propagandist and prisoner, Blanqui was arguably the foremost proponent of popular power to emerge after the French Revolution. Practical engagement in all the major uprisings that spanned the course of his life 1830, 1848, 1870-71 was accompanied by theoretical reflections on a broad range of issues, from free will and fatalism to public education and individual development. Since his death, however, Blanqui has not been simply overlooked or neglected; his name has widely become synonymous with theoretical misconception and practical misadventure. Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment offers a major re-evaluation of one the most controversial figures in the history of revolutionary politics. The book draws extensively on Blanqui''s manuscripts and published works, as well as writings only recently translated into EnglishTrade ReviewWhen it comes to revolutionaries asking the right questions today, there is great value in returning to Blanqui. And Philippe Le Goff’s work is a welcome guide to this remarkable figure. * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *For the Marxist political movements which rose to prominence after his death, Blanqui came to symbolize a conspiratorial mode of elitist politics left behind by mass working class organizations, and he has remained excluded from the socialist canon ever since. Le Goff bucks this trend, reclaiming Blanqui as a thinker of the ever-possible work of organizing popular empowerment ... Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment illuminate[s] the key practical and theoretical challenges facing a twenty-first century socialist politics. * Contemporary Political Theory *Le Goff’s exposition of Blanqui’s ideas is clear and compelling. * H-France *Karl Marx had much admiration for Auguste Blanqui, whose name he considered as synonymous with revolutionary socialism, and Walter Benjamin celebrated his unique voice of bronze. The remarkable and path-breaking essay by Philippe Le Goff explains why it is so important to reconsider this forgotten figure of the revolutionary tradition, whose contribution to socialist political theory and to an anti-positivist conception of history is still very much relevant. -- Michael Lowy, Emeritus research director, Centre National de la recherche Scientifique, France and author of Young Marx’s Theory of RevolutionIs there a future for radical politics? There is no better way to address this question than by revisiting Auguste Blanqui’s thought. This exciting and scholarly study reappraises Blanqui’s ideas by attending carefully to his arguments on the priority of political action and the ideals of radical democracy and equality. -- Gary Browning, Professor of Politics, Oxford Brookes University, UKTable of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Intelligence Chapter 2. Conflict Chapter 3. Actors Chapter 4. Volition Chapter 5. History Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Feminist Mythology
Book SynopsisA Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different variants of the myth of womanhood through first- and third-person prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas and feminist experimental writings of the last century.Trade ReviewA fascinating investigation of the feminine as myth or mythmaking process. By brilliantly exploring, recombining and embroidering different variants of the “womanhood” mythologem, Chiara Bottici’s book succeeds in confronting traditional frames of interpretations in order to provide an “imaginal philosophy” and an “imaginal feminism” constructed as speculative spaces where something new can happen. * Adriana Cavarero, author of "Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood" *If Danto warned against the risks of expressive reduction, inherent in the attempt to restrict philosophy to the sole genre of professional paper, Bottici’s A Feminist Mythology has above all the merit of highlighting the strength of a creative narration, which has its roots in her previous philosophical research. * Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics *Table of ContentsPreface: A Myth And A Half, By Jean-Michel Rabaté Introduction: A Book Of Myths, By Chiara Bottici Part I. Two Myths And A Half First myth: Sherazade And Her Phantom Second myth: The Dress Of Ariadne Third myth: Europa Recovered Epilogue Intermission Part II. The City Of Women 1. Overture 2. The Vest 3. Rehab 4. The Oven Of Opposites 5. A Witch And Her Broomstick 6. A Bill 7. The Names 8. The Call, Or Occasional Tourism 9. Maximum Ten (With Addendum) 10. The Lifebelt 11. The Threat Epilogue Intermission Part III. Bestiarium Prologue 1. The Ostrich 2. The Butterfly 3. The Dog 4. The Snake 5. The Herring Epilogue Intermission Part IV. Herbarium Prologue The investor Interlude The inspector Interlude The dancing god Grand Finale
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC With Power Comes Responsibility
Book SynopsisWhat is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and responsibility truly function in today's world.Drawing on case studies from sweatshops to climate change, McKeown identifies three types of structural injustice: the pure and unintended accumulation of disparate activities; the avoidable injustice that could be ameliorated by the powerful but nevertheless continues; the deliberate perpetuation of structural processes that benefit powerful political and economic agents. In each of these, the role of power is different which changes the allocation of responsibility. From this understanding, we can shape a deeper, more sophisticated idea of how structural injustice operates and what we as individuals can do about it. What is the political responsibility of ordinary individuals? How
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig Barth
Book SynopsisHighlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact politicalTrade Review[A] concise and consistently incisive presentations of Rosenzweig, Barth, and Goldberg ... Regardless of a reader’s prior familiarity with their work, there is much to be gained by following Björk in his search for a common front of resistance against forms of politics that equate life with a set of biologically determined traits. * Los Angeles Review of Books *This is the most thought-provoking and innovative book about contemporary theology and biopolitcs I’ve read in recent years. An essential book not only for students and researchers but also for anyone interested in the perennial question of immortality from a brand-new perspective anchored in the 21st century dilemmas. * Fabián Ludueña Romandini, Full Professor of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina *What is the purpose of our biological lives? Survival for the sake of the reproduction of more life? Or the redemption of all life, past and future, from the grip of death? Björk shows how the trauma of the First World War led three very different theologians in Weimar Germany to choose the seemingly impossible option. With clarity and passion, Björk explains why their audacious vision for life beyond death remains as necessary today as it was a century ago. * Bruce Rosenstock, Director of Graduate Studies, University of Illinois, USA *The Politics of Immortality includes masterful presentations of the thought of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth, and Oskar Goldberg; but its major innovation lies in its discovery of a constellation of counter-Darwinian forces that can be found in the configuration of the three thinkers, each of whom sees in life more than survival. * Peter Fenves, Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Literature, Northwestern University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Yearning for a System: Franz Rosenzweig and the Great Paganism of Life 2. Abundance and Scarcity: Karl Barth and the Struggle for Existence 3. The Animal of the Infinite: Oskar Goldberg and the Science of Evil 4. Life Outside Life: Theology and Resistance Notee Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC HansHerbert Koglers Critical Hermeneutics
Book SynopsisProviding a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Kögler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics. In the current climate of crisis, the relevance and fruitfulness of Kögler's work has never been greater, as he fuses the philosophies of Michel Foucault, Hans Georg Gadamer, and his mentor, Jürgen Habermas, to respond to critical international issues surrounding politics, agency, and society. Working towards a truly non-ethno-centric and global conception of intercultural dialogue, an essential aspect of Kögler's critical hermeneutics is his account of selfhood as reflexive: socially situated, embodied, and linguistically articulated, permeated by power, but yet critical and creative. Leading international scholars, representing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, build upon Kögler's approach in this volume and explore the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of critiTrade ReviewLeading philosophers, social researchers and cultural theorists are contributing to this great book on Hans-Herbert Kögler’s much noticed Critical Hermeneutics. Kögler has invented Critical Hermeneutics as an outstanding progression of the Frankfurt school’s critical theory that is fruitful for research programs and challenging for political praxis. The volume impressively documents the international scale, impact and critique of this promising and singular mix of social philosophy, social research and social criticism. A must-read. * Hauke Brunkhorst, Senior Professor, European University Flensburg, Germany *For decades now, Hans-Herbert Kögler's work has enriched and expanded our understanding of Critical Theory. Reopening the dialogue with the hermeneutical tradition, integrating the insights of Michel Foucault and taking cosmopolitanism seriously as a political and philosophical commitment were decisive moments in a theoretical development that has given us a sense how a critical social theory of the present might look like. In this fine volume, a group of prominent commentators and interlocutors offer readings, dialogues and, of course, critique to which Kögler responds generously. This is a welcome occasion to witness critical thinking in action. * Martin Saar, professor of social philosophy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany *The best measure of a body of thought is often given by the work to which it gives rise. This is especially true of the thought of Hans-Herbert Kögler and is well-demonstrated by Kurt Mertel and Lubomír Dunaj’s excellent collection of essays on Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics. The volume not only makes a valuable contribution to the critical and hermeneutic literature, and to the discussion of a range of important and challenging issues, but it is also a testament to the contemporary significance of Kögler’s work and its synthesizing and innovative character. * Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, L'ubomír Dunaj & Kurt C. M. Mertel Part I: Critical Hermeneutics as Social Theory 1. The Case for a Critical Hermeneutics: From the Understanding of Power to the Power of Understanding, Simon Susen (City University of London, UK) 2. Power, the Body and Reflexivity: Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Hermeneutics in the Con-text of Critical Sociology, Rainer Winter (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria) 3. Naturalizing Kögler, Stephen Turner (University of South Florida, USA) Part II: Recognition, Cosmopolitanism, Religion 4. The Moral Stance, Our Moralizing Nature, and the Hermeneutic and Empathic Dimension of Human Relations, Karsten Stueber (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Dialogue, Cosmopolitanism and Language Education, Werner Delanoy(Alpen-Adria, University, Klagenfurt, Austria) 6. Secularity, Religion, and Dialogue: Rethinking the Conditions of the Possibility for Genuine Complementary Learning, Paul Healy (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) 7. The Limits of Interreligious Hermeneutics and the Need for Alternative Understanding, John Maraldo (University of North Florida, USA) Part III: Towards a Critical Hermeneutics of the Present 8. Sociology, the Studies, and the Ontology of the Present, Frédéric Vandenberghe (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 9. Cherche pas à Comprendre: Cosmopolitan Hermeneutics in Difficult Times, William Outhwaite (Newcastle University, UK) 10. Playing more seriously: an enactivist critique of Kögler's critically reflexive dialogue, Lauren Barthold (Endicott College, USA) 11. Dialogue in a polarized world – is there a way out?, Randi Gressgård (University of Bergen, Norway) Conclusion and Response Social Ontology, Dialogic Recognition, and Contemporary Challenges: A Reply, Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida, USA) List of Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Right to Resist
Book SynopsisWhile the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past, resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against specific institutions. Increasingly, dissent has become integrated into the fabric of modern life. This volume addresses new forms of resistance at a level that combines a rootedness in the philosophical tradition and a sensitivity to rethinking the possibility of emancipation in today's age. The work focuses on contemporary social and political philosophy from a perspective informed by critical theory. The text specifically addresses three challenges. (1) Critical theorists need to investigate in which ways resistance, conformism, and oppression oppose and constitute each other. (2) The relationship between the theory and the practice of resistance needs to be posed anew, given recent protest movements and media of protest. (3) It needs to bTrade ReviewWhat counts as resistance and when resistance is justified remain strongly contested questions. This volume seeks to bring clarity to the debate by providing a very welcome expansion of the theoretical focus beyond narrowly defensive notions of resistance and beyond the Global North. * Robin Celikates, Professor of Social Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany *Are there rights and obligations to resist and even revolt against oppressive regimes and hegemonic social orders? What tactics can best promote social change? Drawing on a diverse array of sources from Continental and Intercultural philosophy and social theory, the twelve timely essays in this engaging volume offer provocative analyses and innovative strategies for addressing these and related questions in our contemporary situation. * Eric S. Nelson, Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong *This new volume sparkles with insight as a dozen scholars think about the meaning of resistance, contestation and revolt in our troubled present. Anyone seeking to understand how global modernity can provide us with new utopias and visions of a shared future should start here. * Kai Marchal, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National Chengchi University, Taiwan *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction, Thomas Byrne (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China) Part 1. Justifications for resistance 1. Kantian Conditions for the Possibility of Justified Resistance to Authority (Stephen R. Palmquist, Hong kong Baptist Church, China) 2. Justifying Resistance (Christian Schmidt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) 3. Beyond Morality: On the Relation of Indifference and Resistance (Philip Hogh, Florida Atlantic University, USA) Part 2. Resistance, Revolution and Social Change 4. On the Temporal Structure of Resistant Practices: A Hermeneutical Proposal (Stefan Deines, Frankfurt University, Germany) 5. Resistance and Social Transformation in Walter Benjamin’s “On the Critique of Violence” (Alexei Procyshyn, Sun Yat-sen University Zhuha, China) 6. Passive Resistance: A Daoist Approach (Mario Wenning, University of Macau, China) 7. Resistance through Transformation: Spiritual Practices as a Pedagogy of Unlearning and Becoming (Jinting Wu, State University of New York, USA) Part 3. Resistance in the Media, the Arts and Religion 8. Network Resistance in China (Shih-Diing Liu and Lin Song, University of Macau, China) 9. "Probability and Reality Do Not Always Coincide": Uncanny Modernity in Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas (Louis Lo, National Tapei University, Taiwan) 10. Resistance in the Mysticism of Kabir and Jaspers (Amita Valmiki, University of Mumbai, India) 11. On Dissent Against Lockdowns: Phenomenology and Public Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Thomas Byrne and Tarun Kattumana, KU Leuven, Belgium) Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions. This rebellious and groundbreaking book's chaptersmost of which have been written by disabled philosophersare wide-ranging in scope and invite a broad readership. The chapters underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics; talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and dTrade ReviewA fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers challenging all of us who do philosophy — in any of its subfields — to pay more sustained attention to the different disabled perspectives that may dislodge old habits of thought and invigorate new ones. * Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University, USA *Fresh, deep, and exceptional in its intersectional engagement, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a field-defining contribution to philosophy. Shelley Tremain’s expansive collection of original work in philosophy of disability by philosophers of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and perspectives effectively demonstrates that philosophy of disability has come of age as a field worthy of recognition and respect. * Tracy Isaacs, Professor of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada *This trailblazing volume assembles cutting-edge work in philosophy of disability to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of this new movement in philosophy. The volume firmly establishes philosophy of disability as a way of practicing philosophy that is central to all areas of philosophical inquiry. * Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, USA *This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, offering an enlightening and poignant up-to-date snapshot of the philosophy of disability. The volume showcases a range of philosophical approaches and topics, examining disability and its relationship with philosophy from a variety of angles, which illuminate this new field. * Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, and Author of Illness: the Cry of the Flesh *The range in this collection is impressive, from the kinds of disabilities covered, to the domains to which disability connects. From chronic fatigue, substance use, deafness, neurodiversity, speech pathologies, and more, to an exploration of the concept of "disability" in Africana philosophy, in music theory, assisted reproduction, and more, everyone should find something to learn from this volume. * Barry Lam, Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside, USA, and Founder and Producer of the award-winning Hi-Phi Nation podcast *This fantastic collection is both long overdue and yet ahead of its time. The essays not only press against the cherished norms of philosophy; they also refract similar dynamics and epistemic violences in other fields. The result is no less than a challenge to the ableist strictures of disciplinarity itself. * Jasbir K. Puar, Author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, USA *Table of ContentsForeword, Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) Part I: Desegregating The Disciplines 1. Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) 2. Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy, Kristin Rodier (Athabasca University, Canada) and Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph, Canada) 3. Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male, Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue, Licia Carlson (Providence College, USA) 5. Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health, Robert Chapman (Durham University, UK) 6. Disability and African Philosophy, Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression 7. The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration, Andrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo, USA) 8. Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue, Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA) 9. Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism, Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge, USA) 10. The Art of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices, Desiree Valentine (Marquette University, USA) 11. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism, Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion 12. Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens, Corinne Lajoie (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 13. Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness, Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities, Emily R. Douglas (Athabasca University, Canada) 15. Exemption, Self-exemption, and Compassionate Self-excuse, Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå Universitet, Sweden) 16. Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized, Gen Eickers (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Part IV: Disabling Normativities 17. A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh, UK) 18. Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability, Jordan Joseph Wadden (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tim Stainton (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access, August Gorman (Oakland University, USA) 20. The Ethics of Disability Passing and Uncovering in the Philosophy Classroom, Joseph A. Stramondo (San Diego State University, USA) 21. Inclusive Ethics: A Precautionary Principle, Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University, USA) Part V: Resisting Epistemologies 22. Risking Ourselves, Together: The Politics and Persons of Risk, Melinda C. Hall (Stetson University, USA) 23. Disablement and Ageism, Christine Overall (Queen’s University, Canada) 24. Power-Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in Employment for Disabled Adults, Josh Dohmen (Mississippi University for Women, USA) 25. “But you don’t look autistic”: Resisting Neurotypical Narratives, Nathan Moore (Canada) 26. Nocebos Talk Back: Marked Bodied Experience and the Dynamics of Health Inequality, Suze G. Berkhout (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ada S. Jaarsma (Mount Royal University, Canada) Index List of Contributors
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
Book SynopsisThe Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologized by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy: it critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce; resists the institutionalized ableism of academia to which these assumptions contribute; and boldly articulates new anti-ableist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-carceral, and decolonial insights and perspectives that counter these assumptions. This rebellious and groundbreaking book's chaptersmost of which have been written by disabled philosophersare wide-ranging in scope and invite a broad readership. The chapters underscore the eugenic impetus at the heart of bioethics; talk back to the whiteness of work on philosophy and dTrade ReviewA fascinating and wide-ranging collection of papers challenging all of us who do philosophy — in any of its subfields — to pay more sustained attention to the different disabled perspectives that may dislodge old habits of thought and invigorate new ones. * Miranda Fricker, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University, USA *Fresh, deep, and exceptional in its intersectional engagement, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a field-defining contribution to philosophy. Shelley Tremain’s expansive collection of original work in philosophy of disability by philosophers of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and perspectives effectively demonstrates that philosophy of disability has come of age as a field worthy of recognition and respect. * Tracy Isaacs, Professor of Philosophy, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada *This trailblazing volume assembles cutting-edge work in philosophy of disability to offer a comprehensive and accessible overview of this new movement in philosophy. The volume firmly establishes philosophy of disability as a way of practicing philosophy that is central to all areas of philosophical inquiry. * Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University, USA *This is a lively and wide-ranging collection of essays, offering an enlightening and poignant up-to-date snapshot of the philosophy of disability. The volume showcases a range of philosophical approaches and topics, examining disability and its relationship with philosophy from a variety of angles, which illuminate this new field. * Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK, and Author of Illness: the Cry of the Flesh *The range in this collection is impressive, from the kinds of disabilities covered, to the domains to which disability connects. From chronic fatigue, substance use, deafness, neurodiversity, speech pathologies, and more, to an exploration of the concept of "disability" in Africana philosophy, in music theory, assisted reproduction, and more, everyone should find something to learn from this volume. * Barry Lam, Professor of Philosophy, UC Riverside, USA, and Founder and Producer of the award-winning Hi-Phi Nation podcast *This fantastic collection is both long overdue and yet ahead of its time. The essays not only press against the cherished norms of philosophy; they also refract similar dynamics and epistemic violences in other fields. The result is no less than a challenge to the ableist strictures of disciplinarity itself. * Jasbir K. Puar, Author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, USA *Table of ContentsForeword, Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University, USA) Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: New Movement in Philosophy: Philosophy of Disability, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) Part I: Desegregating The Disciplines 1. Disaster Ableism, Epistemologies of Crisis, and the Mystique of Bioethics, Shelley Lynn Tremain (Coordinator of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, Canada) 2. Would you Kill the Fat Man Hypothetical? Fat Stigma in Philosophy, Kristin Rodier (Athabasca University, Canada) and Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph, Canada) 3. Pruriently Feared: Theoretical Erasure of the Disabled Black Male, Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Disability, Dissonance, and Resistance: A Musical Dialogue, Licia Carlson (Providence College, USA) 5. Neurodiversity, Anti-Psychiatry, and the Politics of Mental Health, Robert Chapman (Durham University, UK) 6. Disability and African Philosophy, Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY, USA) Part II: Mechanisms of Oppression 7. The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Use at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration, Andrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo, USA) 8. Disability, Ableism, Class, and Chronic Fatigue, Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA) 9. Algorithms as Ableist Orientation Devices: The Technosocial Inheritance of Colonialism and Ableism, Johnathan Flowers (California State University, Northridge, USA) 10. The Art of Kinship: An Intersectional Reading of Assisted Reproductive Practices, Desiree Valentine (Marquette University, USA) 11. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Authority on Autism, Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) Part III: Phenomenologies of Access and Exclusion 12. Disability, Access, and the Promise of Inclusion: Returning to Institutional Language through a Phenomenological Lens, Corinne Lajoie (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) 13. Stuttering and Ableism: A Study of Eventfulness, Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta, Canada) 14. Frantz Fanon and Disability: Frictions and Solidarities, Emily R. Douglas (Athabasca University, Canada) 15. Exemption, Self-exemption, and Compassionate Self-excuse, Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå Universitet, Sweden) 16. Pathologizing Disabled and Trans Identities: How Emotions Become Marginalized, Gen Eickers (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) Part IV: Disabling Normativities 17. A Crip Reading of Filipino Philosophy, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh, UK) 18. Recognizing Human Flourishing in the Context of Disability, Jordan Joseph Wadden (The University of British Columbia, Canada) and Tim Stainton (The University of British Columbia, Canada) 19. Neurodiversity and the Ethics of Access, August Gorman (Oakland University, USA) 20. The Ethics of Disability Passing and Uncovering in the Philosophy Classroom, Joseph A. Stramondo (San Diego State University, USA) 21. Inclusive Ethics: A Precautionary Principle, Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University, USA) Part V: Resisting Epistemologies 22. Risking Ourselves, Together: The Politics and Persons of Risk, Melinda C. Hall (Stetson University, USA) 23. Disablement and Ageism, Christine Overall (Queen’s University, Canada) 24. Power-Knowledge and Epistemic Injustice in Employment for Disabled Adults, Josh Dohmen (Mississippi University for Women, USA) 25. “But you don’t look autistic”: Resisting Neurotypical Narratives, Nathan Moore (Canada) 26. Nocebos Talk Back: Marked Bodied Experience and the Dynamics of Health Inequality, Suze G. Berkhout (University of Toronto, Canada) and Ada S. Jaarsma (Mount Royal University, Canada) Index List of Contributors
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Philosophy of Mario Perniola
Book SynopsisEnea Bianchi provides the first in-depth introduction to the pioneering thought of 20th-century Italian philosopher, Mario Perniola. Examining Perniola's entire oeuvre, this book also pushes his philosophy into new directions by investigating the connection between his aesthetics and the philosophical underpinnings of dandyism. Rich in influences, from ancient Stoicism to Roman ritualism, Baroque literature and avant-garde revolutionary movements, Perniola's philosophy is wide-ranging. This book highlights and explores numerous notions pivotal to understanding Perniola's thought, including: the sex appeal of the inorganic, the enigma, strategic beauty and the artistic shadow. Combining these concepts with three exemplar dandies George Brummell, Charles Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde Bianchi demonstrates not only the close relationship between their principles and Perniola's aesthetics, but their shared, and timely, opposition to the status quo. A dandy philosophy emerges, which chaTrade ReviewThe Philosophy of Mario Perniola is a long overdue, conceptually rich and insightful introduction into the protean work of Mario Perniola, one of the most significant and distinctive voices in contemporary Italian philosophical and aesthetic thought. * Erik Vogt, Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College, USA *Work on Mario Perniola is especially timely and this book does a lot more than merely fill a gap. This is a monograph with a difference as novel comparisons with phenomena not directly related to Perniola’s canon of reference drive multiple transversal resonances with Continental Philosophy, Cultural Studies, New Materialism and Ecocriticism. A deeply fascinating book. * Federica G. Pedriali, Professor of Literary, Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations of Perniola’s Works Introduction Part 1 1. The Suicide of Literature 2. To Love or Smash Images? The Dimension of the Simulacrum 3. Action at the End of Action: Rituals without Myths 4. George Bryan Brummell: The Ritual Clothing Part 2 5. What Is It Like to Be a Thing? 6. A Queering Agency: Perniola’s The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 7. Beauty is Like a Blade: Towards a Strategic Theory of Aesthetics 8. Charles Baudelaire: Greatness without Convictions Part 3 9. The Artistic Alienation and the Situationist International 10. A Shadow and Its Art 11. Oscar Wilde: the In-Between Dandy Conclusion Notes References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Digital Pandemic
Book SynopsisA refreshing approach to the dominance of technology in our contemporary lives, The Digital Pandemic, translated from Portuguese, poses fundamental questions about love, fear, connectedness, proximity, imagination and consciousness.Arguing that the pandemic has ushered in a civilizational digital shock, João Pedro Cachopo charts new channels of relatedness and communication between people through digital technologies for the foreseeable future. The transformation of human experience that began in 2020 creates a break in our sociality that Cachopo pinpoints through key themes of love, travel, study, community and art.In contrast to the growing philosophical literature on the pandemic, this bold theoretical work does not prophesy the fall of capitalism or the end of personal freedom and relationships. Instead, this book carefully investigates the advanced technology that is increasingly inextricable from our lives, using an alternative approach that avoids pessimism, while remainiTrade ReviewA marvellous meditation on the spatial and temporal reorientation brought to light by the pandemic. Covering isolation in the home, and the shock of a new daily existence that produces distinct aesthetic experiences, Cachopo explores the digital pandemic through globalization, inequality, biopolitics, technology and disaster capitalism. * Lydia Goehr, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, USA *From Agamben to Žižek, anyone interested in a sober, witty, and productive critique of the ways in which the pandemic has influenced our ways of loving, studying, traveling, coexisting, and creating should read this book. * Ana Ilievska, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Stanford University, USA *Among countless books and articles on the COVID-19 crisis, The Digital Pandemic stands out. It is a compelling meditation on the isolation that we have experienced. Philosophically sophisticated and yet thoroughly readable, the book offers fresh insight into the physical separation and digital proximity of life during this unpredictable pandemic. * Jay David Bolter, Wesley Chair of New Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA *Speaking to the urgency of our times, this is a short, incisive book that manages to slow down. Cachopo’s analysis moves the critical literature on the pandemic along by highlighting how digital media reshapes the conditions of human imagination. * Peter Szendy, Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature, Brown University, USA *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Pandemic Is Not the Event 1. The Role of Philosophy in Times of Uncertainty 2. Questions, Hypotheses, Suspicions 3. Topology of the Imagination 4. Apocalypse Remediated 5. The Disruption of the Senses Love Travel Study Community Art Epilogue: Our World After the Pandemic Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Zizek Responds
Book SynopsisResponses to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have been, like Žižek himself, extreme. Critics have accused him of charlatanism on the one hand, while others have lauded his genius, especially as a public intellectual, on the other. This makes it difficult to find any kind of nuanced or interesting critical appraisal of his work.At its best Žižek''s work provides a new foundation of dialectical philosophy, beyond the glitz of stardom or oversimplified sinister disdain. Žižek Responds! combines philosophers and theorists engaging with Žižek''s philosophy in order to explore its unnoticed implications, its conceptual problems, or its unrealized potential. With detailed and lively responses from Žižek himself, this book offers an unique insight into how this thinker might explain, clarify and hone some of his most controversial and misunderstood ideas. At once an introduction to Žižek''s most important concepts and a rare and novel insight into his thoughts on the critiTrade ReviewThe contributors to this book let the ancient Socratic utopia of philosophical conversation become real: helping the unborn thoughts of the other to be born. The special twist here is the fact that this 'maieutic' service is mutual: As a most rare chance, the commentators get responses to their responses by the most inspiring philosopher of our time. * Robert Pfaller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, Austria *In Žižek Responds!, some of his most perceptive interlocutors engage his thought on topics including German Idealism, speculative realism, psychoanalysis, dialectical materialism, subjectivity, and the contemporary possibilities of political transformation. Uniformly illuminating, both the essays and Žižek’s own responses elicit the continued dynamism and deep relevance of his ever-expanding oeuvre. * Paul M. Livingston, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, USA *Žižek responds to his interlocutors in much the same way that a bridge player responds to their partner’s opening bid. It doesn’t matter who ends up being the dummy, as long as they succeed in defeating their common enemy. * Andrew Cutrofello, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Dominik Finkelde and Todd McGowan Part I: Ontology 1. Cake or Doughnut?: Žižek and German Idealist Emergentisms, Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Johnston 2. Truth as Bacchanalian Revel: Žižek and the Risks of Irony, Dominik Finkelde (Munich School of Philosophy, Germany) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Finkelde 3. Žižek and the Retroactivity of the Real, Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, Los Angeles, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Harman 4. Slavoj Žižek’s Hegel, Robert Pippin (University of Chicago, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Pippin Part II: Ideology 5. Slavoj Žižek Is Not Violent Enough, Todd McGowan (University of Vermont, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to McGowan 6. Žižek’s Foundationless Building: Ideology Critique as an Existentialist Choice, Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Neroni 7. The Subject is Not Enough, Henrik Jøker Bjerre (Aalborg University, Denmark) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Bjerre 8. Žižek and Derrida: Hospitality, Hostility, and the “Real” Neighbor, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Zalloua 9. The Politics of Incompleteness: On Žižek’s Theory of the Subject, Nadia Bou Ali (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Nadia Bou Ali Part III: Psychoanalysis 10. Reading the Illegible: On Žižek’s Interpretation of Lacan’s ‘Kant with Sade’, Dany Nobus (Brunel University London, UK) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Nobus 11. Raising a Mundane Object to the Dignity of the Thing: When Desire is Not the Desire of the Other, Mari Ruti (University of Toronto, Canada) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Ruti 12. Hoping Against Hope: Žižek, Jouissance, and the Impossible, Jennifer Friedlander (Pomona College, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Friedlander 13. Psychoanalysis in Exile: Ramblings Without a World, Duane Rousselle (University of Tyumen, Russia) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Rousselle 14. Harpo’s Grin: Rethinking Lacan’s Unthinkable “Thing”, Richard Boothby (Loyola University Maryland, USA) Slavoj Žižek, Response to Boothby Notes on the Contributors Index
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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 Publishing (UK) Futures Theory
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Bloomsbury Academic Indigenous NationBuilding in Australia
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Edinburgh University Press Temporal Politics
Book SynopsisAdrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political conflict in the world today. He forms his argument around three major cases: Indigenous politics in settler colonies; the politics of bordering and migration; and debates over the future of democracy.
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Edinburgh University Press Animals and Capital
Book SynopsisThe first systematic application of Marx's value theory to animal labour within the context of capitalist food systems
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Edinburgh University Press Redirecting Radical Democracy
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Edinburgh University Press Citizen of the World
Book SynopsisDevelops a new interpretation of Ab Nar al-Frb's political philosophy as contributing to the Western tradition of cosmopolitanism
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Edinburgh University Press 21stCentury Philosophy of Events
Book SynopsisReframes and advances our current philosophy of events, focusing on post-analytic-continental divide ontology and metaphysics.
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Palgrave USA The Courage of Truth
Book SynopsisThe Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of truth-telling in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditionsbased on courage and conviction.Trade Review'In this, the final year of his lectures at the College de France, Michel Foucault reaches more deeply into the foundations of Western thought than ever. Emphasizing parrhesia, the ancient practice of speaking truth to power, he shows how it is a practice of the care of the self, and in so doing, demonstrates how the dictum 'know oneself' is only a part of our philosophical inheritance. This is an astonishing conclusion to the life's work of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College, USA 'In his powerful final course of lectures, expertly edited by Frédéric Gros and sympathetically translated by Graham Burchell, Foucault provides an explicitly political focus to his work on parrhesia. He offers readings of a range of texts, of which those of the Apology and the Cynics are especially insightful. It is impossible to read these lectures without an eye to the links between his work and his life, but Foucault's focus remains on the material at hand and his long-running interest in the interrelations of truth, power and the subject.' - Stuart Elden, Durham University, UKTable of ContentsForeword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana 1 February 1984: First Hour 1 February 1984: Second Hour 8 February 1984: First Hour 8 February 1984: Second Hour 15 February1984: First Hour 15 February 1984: Second Hour 22 February 1984: First Hour 22 February 1984: Second Hour 29 February 1984: First Hour 29 February 1984: Second Hour 7 March 1984: First Hour 7 March 1984: Second Hour 14 March 1984: First Hour 14 March 1984: Second Hour 21 March 1984: First Hour 21 March 1984: Second Hour 28 March 1984: First Hour 28 March 1984: Second Hour Course context Index of notions Index of names
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Making Sense of Human Rights
Book SynopsisThis fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility. New, revised edition of James Nickel''s classic study. Explains and defends the conception of human rights found in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and subsequent treaties in a clear and lively style. Covers fundamental freedoms, due process rights, social rights, and minority rights. Updated throughout to include developments in law, politics, and theory since the publication of the first edition. New features for this edition include an extensive bibliography and a chapter on human rights and terrorism. Trade Review"This is an outstanding book. Nickel sets a new standard for clear thinking on this crucial topic. No book comes close as an introduction to the theory of human rights." Leif Wenar, University of Sheffield "The new edition of James Nickel's classic work is a major contribution to the philosophical study of human rights. The book will be widely admired for its clarity and range and for the power and creativity of its arguments." John Tasioulas, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Contemporary Idea of Human Rights. 2. Human Rights as Rights. 3. Making Sense of Human Rights. 4. Starting Points for Justifying Rights. 5. A Framework for Justifying Specific Rights. 6. The List Question. 7. Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies. 8. Economic Liberties as Fundamental Freedoms. 9. Social Rights as Human Rights. 10. Minority Rights. 11. Eight Responses to the Relativist. 12. The Good Sense in Human Rights. Bibliography and References. Appendixes. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The European Convention on Human Rights. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Index
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