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Book SynopsisKnowledge of the structure of the cosmos, Plato suggests, is important in organizing a human community which aims at happiness. This book investigates this theme in Plato''s later works, the Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws. Dominic J. O''Meara proposes fresh readings of these texts, starting from the religious festivals and technical and artistic skills in the context of which Plato elaborates his cosmological and political theories, for example the Greek architect''s use of models as applied by Plato in describing the making of the world. O''Meara gives an account of the model of which Plato''s world is an image; of the mathematics used in producing the world; and of the relation between the cosmic model and the political science and legislation involved in designing a model state in the Laws. Non-specialist scholars and students will be able to access and profit from the book.Trade Review"Non-specialist scholars and students will be able to access and profit from this book...For the specialist, this is a rich and challenging book..." --The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political ThoughtTable of ContentsPrologue: the future of the past in Plato's work; Part I. The World of Timaeus: 1. A feast for the Goddess; 2. The world-maker; 3. The model of the world; 4. The beauty of the world; Interlude; Part II. The City of the Statesman and the Laws: 5. The Statesman: a new robe for the Goddess?; 6. The legislators of the Laws; 7. The order of the city of the Laws and its model; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisA study of the major U.S. military interventions in unconventional war, this book looks at four wars that occurred while the U.S. was a superpower in the post-war WW II period and one in the Philippines in 1898.Trade Review"Wayne Bert provides a thoughtful assessment of previous American military actions. In doing so, the author makes an excellent case for tempered and rational assessments of military action, prior to the initiation of force." - Political Science Quarterly "Wayne Bert has written a serious, but very readable, study of the combination of idealism and aggressiveness that for more than a century has resulted in U.S. military interventions that almost always have failed to accomplish their objectives - either for the United States or for the target peoples and countries. Bert shows that in most cases, from the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century to Iraq in the early 21st century, the United States had no clear national security interest involved before intervention. Moreover, the 'American style of war,' which relies on overwhelming materiel superiority, was ill suited to the low-intensity warfare that ensued. As a result, he concludes, "One could make an idealistic case for all these wars, but no matter how desirable the outcome, there would still be the problem of persuading the listener that the benefits of the intervention exceeded the political, economic and human costs it sustained for both the United States and the target country." The case studies in which Bert develops his argument demonstrate the impact of ethnocentrism, even racism, on the making and execution of U.S. policy, as well as the serious difficulty until very recently in Iraq and Afghanistan that the United States has had in adapting military policy to the realities of insurgency.The reader concerned about putting the recent U.S. experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq into historical context will find American Military Intervention in Unconventional War a thoughtful and thought-provoking introduction to the topic. The book should become required reading for any future team of U.S. security advisors considering overseas military intervention." - Roger E. Kanet, Professor, University of MiamiTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION The New International Environment US Policies: Origins and Objectives Counterinsurgency and US Adaptation to Fourth Generation War PART II: CASE STUDIES The Philippines: 1898-1901 Vietnam: 1945-73 Bosnia: 1991-95 Afghanistan: 2001 Iraq: 2003 PART III: CONCLUSION The Perils of Intervention

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Book SynopsisSeries Preface Introduction The Essential Political Problem Contemporary Discourses about Animals Insurrection On Blindness to Being Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge) References IndexTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction The Essential Political Problem Contemporary Discourses about Animals Insurrection On Blindness to Being Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge) References Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Note on the Text Introduction; L.Kahn PARTI: MILL'S MORAL CONCEPTS Mill's Ambivalence about Duty; D.Brink Rights, Justice, and Rules andin Mill's Utilitarianism; W.H.Shaw Mill Division of Morality; D.E.Miller John Stuart Mill on Justice; F.Wilson PART II: MILL AND OTHERS ON JUSTICE Mill and Rawls; H.West Mill's Justice and Political Liberalism; D.G.Brown Happiness and the Moral Sentiment of Justice; J.Riley Justice for Barbarians; C.L.Ten The Objection from Justice and the Conceptual/Substantive Distinction; L.Kahn IndexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors A Note on the Text Introduction; L.Kahn PART I: MILL'S MORAL CONCEPTS Mill's Ambivalence about Duty; D.Brink Rights, Justice, and Rules and in Mill's Utilitarianism; W.H.Shaw Mill Division of Morality; D.E.Miller John Stuart Mill on Justice; F.Wilson PART II: MILL AND OTHERS ON JUSTICE Mill and Rawls; H.West Mill's Justice and Political Liberalism; D.G.Brown Happiness and the Moral Sentiment of Justice; J.Riley Justice for Barbarians; C.L.Ten The Objection from Justice and the Conceptual/Substantive Distinction; L.Kahn Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.Table of ContentsThe Problem of Evil in International Relations R.Jeffery PART I: AGENCY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR EVIL IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Individual Agency and Responsibility for Atrocity K.Ainley Collective Evil and the Eradication of Individuality A. J. Vetlesen PART II: ETHICAL RESPONSES TO EVIL IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Evil, Agency and Punishment A.F.Lang Jr Reconciliation: An Ethic for Responding to Evil in Global Politics D.Philpott To Forgive the Unforgivable? Evil and the Ethics of Forgiveness in International Relations R.Jeffery Avenging Evil: A Reconsideration I.Hall Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book begins from the premise, which it seeks to elaborate, that the poorest human being shares with the richest, a natural nature. This, it is claimed, is not the trivial thesis it is sometimes represented as being. Rather, significant moral consequences flow from the assumption that all human beings share a set of natural needs. Using this starting point, the book also seeks to defend an objectivist epistemology.Trade Review'Exciting, challenging, engaging, clear: this book provides a fresh approach to the urgent issue of justice in a divided world.' - Morwenna Griffiths, Professor of Educational Research, Nottingham Trent University, UK 'Alison Assiter has written a very accessible book...which offers a useful counterpoint to the literature on multiculturalism, as well as developing a thesis that resonates with the 'ethical turn' in a considerable amount of contemporary social thought.' - Keith Tester, School of Social, Historical & Literary Studies, University of Portsmouth, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Why Pluralism? Forms of Universalism and Monism Common Human Nature: An Empty Concept? Moral Obligations Arising From Needs Needs and the Imagination Bodies and Dualism Feminist Epistemology and Value Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix.Trade Review"An independent scholar and author of Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love (2010), Emslie argues for the value of narrative explanations in humanistic writing. He develops this argument through the analysis of an unusually wide-ranging mix of theoretical and critical fields that includes Marxist humanism, feminist theory and literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and German idealist philosophy, along with a number of eclectic subjects - such as sports and conspiracy theories - by which he explains the value of the kinds of narrative explanation for which he argues . . . This is not a book for those uninitiated into the language and content of critical theory, but it usefully explores the form and purpose of writing in the humanities. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICETable of ContentsAn Overview Marxist Humanism: Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Eagleton, Habermas Women and Writing: Women Theorists, Women Novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë Freud: Science as narrative, a perverse and singular teleology, certainty masquerading as doubt Philosophy and Fatherland: German Transcendentalism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism Realism: Brecht, Sport, the Bible, Lenin, Conspiracy theories Death

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Book SynopsisThe book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.Trade Review'In this insightful analysis, John Nelson examines the intersections of popular culture and politics. Treating film as examples of practical reasoning, Nelson explores the ways in which cinematic texts contribute to public understandings of our communal life. He analyzes film through the lenses of genre (epic, noir, satire) and political theory (with particular emphasis on realism and idealism) and concludes that cinematic myth making both reflects and defines public understanding of politics in interesting ways. Nelson's book provides important evidence that political philosophy is neither dead nor confined to the academy, but is an on-going, shared enterprise, actively engaged in by the mass public. Well-written and provocative, this book will interest students and scholars of film, popular culture, history, rhetoric, and politics.' Mary E. Stuckey, Professor, Communication and Political Science, Georgia State University, USA 'Just what do we see at the movies? Fantasy and fashion aplenty, but political theory? John Nelson's answer to this question is both surprising and compelling. Popular films teach their audiences how to think about politics pragmatically and creatively and by using the ideas, although not the terms, that have defined political philosophy. Nelson provides a detailed and systematic vocabulary for critical study of how this public art mediates political experience. This original book is sure prompt many vibrant discussions about media and politics.' Robert Hariman, Northwestern University, USA, and author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power 'In Popular Cinema as Political Theory Nelson offers a subtle formal analysis of genre, an impressive categorizing of films within his three chosen genres, combined with a series of deft readings of a wide variety of popular films. Most readers of this book will know (and love) some of the films discussed herein and many will know most, but every reader will take away from the book a deeper appreciation for how popular cinema today operates as political theory.' Samuel A. Chambers, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Editor, Contemporary Political Theory "John Nelson's latest publication, Popular Cinema as Political Theory, explores the field of political theory through the unconventional lens of popular film and television. Nelson's work classifies the cultural artifacts studied into three areas: epics, noirs, and satires. He uses these narrative demarcations to open up the films under discussion to explore them along side classical texts and conceptions within political theory while highlighting the ways in which contemporary political myths work their way into our common cultural conversation, often unbeknownst to us as citizens. Nelson's astute analysis provides a fresh and convincing exploration of some of the most popular films of the past two decades. He also teaches the reader to be aware of what is communicated through often unexplored or unanticipated cultural avenues. This book makes a significant contribution to the field of political theory by using popular culture texts to examine classical themes and narrative conceits." Lilly J. Goren, Professor of Political Science, Carroll University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Doing Political Theory with Popular Films: Styles in Action in Everyday Life 1. An Epic Comeback? Post-Western Politics in Film and Theory 2. Rhythms of Political Satire: Post-Modern Politics in Words, Musics, and Movies 3. Realism as a Political Style: Noir Insights 4. Noir in Paradise: Testing and Twisting Realist Politics Conclusion: Unsettling Idealism versus Realism: Perfectionism in Two Classics of Neo Noir

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Richard Amesbury brings recent developments in Anglo-American philosophy into engagement with dominant currents in contemporary European social theory in order to articulate a pragmatic account of moral criticism. Presented in a lively and accessible style that avoids technical jargon, Morality and Social Criticism argues that the objectivity of moral discourse can be preserved without recourse to the overweening philosophical ambitions of the Enlightenment.Trade Review“Richard Amesbury has produced an excellent book ... . Amesbury’s central project is to preserve –- as Rorty’s pragmatism self-admittedly cannot –- the rationality of radical criticism within the spheres of moral, political and religious thought and action. In doing this he finds himself confronting issues that relate quite generally to the nature of rationality and these he takes to be linked inextricably to the philosophy of language and to be fundamentally logical. It is this that gives Amesbury’s book a much wider appeal than that of most books of its size on social philosophy. Its critical momentum is grounded on a conception of rule-following behaviour which gives primacy to normative practices, which in some sense, lie at the roots of human beings’ actions and, thus, of human societies.” (Guy Stock, Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 31 (4), 2008) “Amesbury ... provides a solid reconstruction of recent attempts in continental philosophy to theorize in a nonfoundational way about the status and function of social norms. He takes a middle ground between the strongly universalizing theory of discourse ethics (Habermas) and the rejection of universality represented by deconstruction (Derrida and to some extent Rorty). Norms are thus neither platonically ahistorical nor mere contingent posits. With the help of Robert Brandom's recent pragmatic account of norms, Amesbury argues that they are implicit in practices; the philosophical task is simply to make them explicit. Thus he avoids the regress of norms found in a position he calls "regulism." But he does think that no ethical reasoning can be done without a backdrop of certain moral commitments about which "doubts do not ordinarily arise." This is the key assumption of his "ordinary realism." The hope is that such a realist model of reasoning about norms can lend strong support to critique of problematic norms in a society. The book is accessible to those who have a modicum of background in contemporary continental ethics, but experts will garner much from it as well.” (James C. Swindal, Choice, Vol. 43 (5), 2006)Table of ContentsIntroduction Solidarity and Dissent: Rorty and the 'Consequences of Pragmatism' The Force of Reasons: Habermas on Norms and Justification Norms, Interpretation and Decision-Making: Derrida on Justice Norms and Normativity: Between Regulism and Regularism 'In the Beginning was the Deed': The Ungrounded Grounds of Rational Criticism Agreeing to Disagree: Towards a More Capacious Conception of Tradition The Return of Objectivity: Realism without (Rampant) Platonism Postscript: Doing Justice: Criticism and Philosophy

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Book SynopsisThe Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the sixteenth century, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, Müntzer and Calvin The Politicisation of Man: The Levellers and Hobbes Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFoucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.Table of ContentsIntroduction; M.Dillon& A.W.Neal PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; S.Elden PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler on Discourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; A.W.Neal Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; J.Reid Security: A Field Left Fallow; D.Bigo Revisiting Franco's Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; P.Palladino PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE Law Versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; M.Valverde The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; D.Fassin Security, Race, and War; M.Dillon

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Book SynopsisThis book considers Karl Marx''s ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote. It emphasizes both the continuity of his commitment to the cause of full human emancipation, and the role of his critique of political economy in conceiving history to be the history of class struggles. The book follows his developing ideas from before he encountered political economy, through the politics of 1848 and the Bonapartist farce,, the maturation of the critique of political economy in the Grundrisse and Capital, and his engagement with the politics of the First International and the legacy of the Paris Commune. Notwithstanding errors in historical judgment largely reflecting the influence of dominant liberal historiography, Marx laid the foundations for a new social theory premised upon the historical consequences of alienation and the potential for human freedom.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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Book SynopsisUnlike most books on the ethics of war, this book rejects the ''just war'' tradition, proposing a virtue ethics of war to take its place. Like torture, war cannot be justified. It answers the question: ''If war is a very great evil, would a leader with courage, justice, compassion, and all the other moral virtues ever choose to fight a war?''Trade Review'David Chan offers a Copernican Revolution in thinking about the ethics of war. He utilizes virtue ethics instead of the traditional deontological and consequentialist approaches to just war theory. Arguing that the just war tradition has been overly permissive, Chan asks us to consider how virtuous leaders would approach war as a tragic choice, which forces the virtuous person to choose the evil of war. With subtlety and historical insight, Chan situates his own 'philosophy of co-existence' somewhere between pacifism and traditional just war theory.' - Andrew Fiala, Department of Philosophy, California State University, USATable of ContentsForeword; C.Card Preface Introduction: The State of Ethics of War The Moral Problem of War Just War Reconsidered From Rights to Virtues War as an Evil The Philosophy of Co-Existence Theoretical Implications and Challenges Practical Implications and Challenges Is War Ever Justified? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2023A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to administer our common collections, and offers solutions for diversity reform and redistributive restructuring.In the United States, institutions administered by the nonprofit system have an ambiguous status as they are neither entirely private nor fully public. Among nonprofits, the museum is unique as it is the only institution where trustees tend to collect the same objects they hold in public trust on behalf of the nation, if not humanity. The public serves as alibi for establishing the symbolic value of art, which sustains its monetary value and its markets. This structure allows for wealthy individuals at the helm to gain financial benefits from, and ideological control over, what is at its core purpose a public system. The dramatic growth of the art market and the development of financial tools based on art-collTrade ReviewIs there such a thing as a ‘before’ and ‘after’ in museum scholarship? Nizan Shaked’s Museums and Wealth would be an example. This is a unique, dialectical study of the art museum, the practise of collecting, and the creation of value in art in contemporary capitalism (racial and gendered, as we know it). It is also an acutely critical reflection on why it is so hard for emancipatory politics to change the field, yet it offers hope about how to move forward. And finally, this book is a lesson on methodology, in ways that will make it indispensable to researchers in contemporary art theory, museum studies, curatorial theory and the history of collecting. Shaked exposes ‘philanthrocapitalism’ as a system that privatises in fairly specific ways the social value of art while she builds a nuanced argument on the reproduction of white supremacy in museums. Moving between case studies and the big picture, Museums and Wealth is an extraordinary contribution to the struggle for an egalitarian (art) world. * Angela Dimitrakaki, University of Edinburgh, UK *Finally, a book that does the heavy lifting of querying the obfuscated connection between economic and aesthetic value, addressing a blind spot in the critique of institutions. Shaked gives a solid account of the complicated entwinement of the art market and the exponential growth in the financial sector of first world economies that increasingly rely on debt rather than on actual production. She explains why, over the last thirty years, the art world has become little more than a hedge fund working for the interests of the wealthiest class. The latter development, as she demonstrates, explains the mushroom cloud like quantitative expansion of contemporary art practices in proportion to its concomitant fall and contraction in quality and creative risk. She also traces the social worlds that gather around venal self-interest masquerading as professional “sacrifice for the team.” I cannot recommend this book highly enough for programs in critical curatorial studies. * Jaleh Mansoor, Associate Professor, The University of British Columbia, Canada *This book issues a profound challenge to almost every aspect of the capitalist art world, revealing how many practices that are technically legal are nevertheless contrary to the public good. It offers a radical and specifically-targeted critique, surpassing the usual vague complaints over the commodification of art. It achieves a link between the critique of white supremacy (which has had a profound effect on the art world in recent years) and an economic critique of capitalism that has sometimes, if misguidedly, been opposed to “identity politics.” The defense of a Marxist “totalizing” perspective precisely for the purpose of abolitionist anti-racist work could not be more important in this moment. Although the solutions proposed may seem almost impossibly out of reach at present, so too did the idea of "defunding the police" just a year ago, as the author points out. This book looks beyond incremental reforms to a thorough restructuring of the art/museum world, or rather of society itself, which is indeed what it would take to achieve the seemingly more modest goal of making museums truly serve the public. * Daniel Spaulding, Assistant Professor Of Modern And Contemporary Art, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art And Economic Inequality: Art And Imperialism 2. The Substance Of Symbolic Value: Museums And Private Collecting 3. From Medici To Moma: Collections, Sovereignty And The Private/Public Distinction 4. Blue-Prints For The Future: Demographic And Economic Change Conclusion Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisHow can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How can we create a feminism that doesn't turn into yet another tool for oppression? It has become commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, we have to unpack the ways different forms of oppression intersect with one another: class, race, gender, sexuality, disability, and ecology, to name only a few. By arguing that there is no single factor, or arche, explaining the oppression of women, Chiara Bottici proposes a radical anarchafeminist philosophy inspired by two major claims: that there is something specific to the oppression of women, and that, in order to fight that, we need to untangle all other forms of oppression and the anthropocentrism they inhabit. Anarchism needs feminism to address the continued subordination of all femina, but feminism needs anarchism if it does not want to become the privilege of a few. Anarchafeminism calls for a decolonial and deimpTrade ReviewThis book takes anarchist feminism in a fresh direction by relocating it within an ontological framework developed from Baruch Spinoza’s seventeenth-century efforts ... Bottici makes a strong case for anarchism as a method and for Spinoza as a useful voice for building anarchist-feminist process-philosophy. * Contemporary Political Theory *Bottici has eruditely crafted an anarchafeminist political philosophy. * CHOICE *This is a capacious, clear, and revolutionary text that will bring readers who are just starting to learn about feminist philosophy as well as those who have been around a long time. This book does an excellent job in communicating the value of the anarchic, especially in its resistance to the leader, and its thoroughgoing affirmation of the value of freedom. This freedom is not a narrow idea of personal liberty, but an entire mode of transforming the world. We learn as well about a ‘transindividualism’ which allows us a way to rethink global solidarity for our times. * Judith Butler, author of "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" *Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminism As Critique Part I: Bodies In Plural And Their Oppression 1. Intersectional Struggles, Interlocking Oppressions 2. Anarchism Beyond Eurocentrism And Beyond Sexism 3. Within And Against Feminism: Queer Encounters Intermezzo: Stabat Mater Part II: The Philosophy Of Transindividuality 4. From Individuality To Transindividuality 5. The Philosophy Of Transindividuality As Transindividual Philosophy 6. Women In Process, Women As Processes Intermezzo: Itinerarium In Semen Part II: The Globe First 7. The Coloniality Of Gender: For A Decolonial And Deimperial Feminism 8. Somatic Communism And The Capitalist Mode Of (Re)Production 9. The Environment Is Us: Ecofeminism As Queer Ecology Coda: An Ongoing Manifesto Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us through the history of the idea from Socrates and Plato, via the medievals, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Foucault and Hadot. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended to transform their philosophy into manners of living.Philosophy as a Way of Life also examines the recent resurgence of thinking about philosophy as a practical, lived reality and why this ancient tradition still has so much relevance and power in the contemporary world.Trade ReviewSharpe and Ure have written a fantastic book and have made an important contribution to PWL as a sub-discipline. They acknowledge their debt to Hadot whilst building upon his work with their own scholarship in an outstanding way. The book works well for both the specialist and as an introduction for the beginner. It encourages a radical and welcome rethinking of what philosophy actually is and allows us to see it in a new and exciting way, not just as something to be studied, but as something to be lived. * Philosophy in Review *Not just arguments but a call to a way of life – this is the vision of philosophy that is traced in this book, from Socrates to Nietzsche and Foucault. Inspired by the work of Pierre and Ilsetraut Hadot, the authors offer for the first time an alternative history that gives philosophy’s transformative promise its due. * David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University, USA *I highly recommend this book. It offers an extraordinarily rich and insightful dive into what it means for philosophy to be a way of life--not simply an object of abstract study. Along the way, it showcases not only many giants of philosophy, but also neglected and underappreciated figures and traditions, all with skill, subtle attention to detail, and clarity. A very impressive and important work. * Stephen Grimm, Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University, USA *Sharpe and Ure have undertaken a hugely ambitious task and they have completed it admirably. They have produced a rich and fascinating study of both the concept and the history of philosophy understood as a way of life. It must surely become a standard point of reference in any future discussions of this topic but it also deserves to be widely read by anyone interested in the history of philosophy and in the very concept of philosophy itself. * John Sellars, Reader in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Philosophy as a Way of Life is a milestone in the contemporary re-appraisal of this ancient concept. For anyone interested in the history of philosophy or the topic of metaphilosophy, this surely fills an important gap in the literature. It will provide an invaluable foundation for future research in this area. * Donald Robertson, Author of "Stoicism And The Art Of Happiness" and "How To Think Like A Roman Emperor" *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Ancients Ch. 1. Socrates and the Inception of Philosophy as a Way of Life 1.1 the atopia of Socrates 1.2 a founding exception 1.3 Socrates contra the Sophists 1.4 the elenchus as spiritual exercise 1.5 care of the psyche 1.6 the sage and the Socratic paradoxes 1.7 the Socratic legacy Ch. 2. Epicureanism: Philosophy as a Divine Way of Life 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Epicureanism as way of life, therapy, and of writing 2.3 the turn inwards: against empty opinions, unnatural and unnecessary desires 2.4 Epicurus’ revaluation of happiness, pleasure and the good 2.5 the gods and the figure of the sage 2.6 the four-fold cure, and physics as spiritual exercise 2.7 spiritual exercises in the garden 2.7` Criticisms Ch. 3. Stoicism: Philosophy as the Art of Living 3.1 Wisdom, knowledge of things human and divine, and an art of living 3.2 The Socratic lineage: dialectic, the emotions, and the sufficiency of virtue 3.3 From Musonius Rufus to Seneca 3.4 Epictetus’ Paranetic Discourses, and his Handbook 3.5 Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (Ta Eis Heauton) Ch. 4. Platonisms as Ways of Life 4.1 Introduction: Platonisms 4.2 From Arcesilaus to Pyrrhonism: scepticism as a way life 4.3 Cicero: the philosopher as rhetorician and physician of the soul 4.4 Plotinus’ philosophical mysticism 4.5 Boethius and the end of ancient philosophy Part 2: medievals and early moderns Ch. 5. Philosophy as a way of life in the middle ages 5.1 On Christianity as “philosophy” 5.2 Monastic philosophia, and the Christianisation of spiritual exercises 5.3 Scholasticism, the theoreticisation of philosophia, & the ascendancy of dialectic 5.4 Counter-strains: from Abelard to Dante’s Il Convivio Ch. 6. The Renaissance of Philosophy as a Way of Life 6.1 Philosophy, the humanisti, and the ascendancy of rhetoric 6.2 Petrarch’s Christian-Stoic medicines of the mind 6.3 Montaigne: The essayist as philosopher 6.4 Justus Lipsius’ Neostoicism Ch. 7. Cultura Animi in Early Modern Philosophy 7.1 The end of PWL (again)? 7.2 Francis Bacon: the Idols and the Georgics of the mind 7.3 On Descartes, Method and Meditations Ch. 8. Figures of the philosophe in the French enlightenment 8.1 “The philosophe” 8.2 Voltaire and the view from Sirius 8.3 Diderot and his Seneca Part 3: the moderns Interlude: The Nineteenth Century Conflict between PWL and University Philosophy Ch. 9. Schopenhauer: Philosophy as the Way Out of Life 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Philosophy against sophistry (again) 9.3 Two cheers for Stoicism 9.4 The Saint versus the Sage 9.5 Schopenhauerian salvation Ch. 10. Nietzsche: Philosophy as the Return to Life 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Nietzsche’s metaphilosophical meditations 10.3 Nietzsche’s philosophy as a spiritual exercise 10.4 Nietzsche’s spiritual exercise: eternal recurrence 10.5 Conclusion Ch. 11. Foucault’sReinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.1 Philosophical heroism: Foucault’s Cynics 11.2 Foucault’s reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life 11.3 Genealogy as spiritual exercise 11.4 Conclusion Conclusion 1. PWL, today 2. History, declines and rebirths 3. Criticisms 4. PWL of the future?

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Book SynopsisPolitics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times.Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation that has accompanied the crisis of governmental legitimacy, which is aggravated by the economic crisis in various countries and demonstrated by groups such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the US, Podemos in Spain, or La France Insoumise in France.At the same time, Innerarity endeavors to offer a universal, rather than a merely circumstantial, interpretation of the transformations that are still ongoing in our political systems, as well as of those that need to be put in place in order to satisfy the expectations and rights of democratic citizenship. Politics inTrade ReviewIn this original and timely book, Daniel Innerarity implores us to rethink the “game of politics,” and the concepts that we use to understand it, in order to judge it with all the severity it deserves. As he pushes against the cynics, Innerarity reminds us that political philosophy can still be done and that it matters that it is. -- Carlos Alberto Sanchez, Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University, USAPenetrating, provocative and precise: this book is a major contribution to the evolving global debate about the future of democracy * Lord Anthony Giddens, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and former Director of the London School of Economics, UK *Innerarity provides a thought-provoking analysis of the political culture in liberal democracies as a changing world undermines the basis of its stability. He poses important questions, and makes a powerful case for seeking answers in a politics that is an intelligent, responsive and - above all - universal activity. * Roger Mortimore, Professor of Public Opinion and Political Analysis, King's College London, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: politics explained to idiots I. Who Does Politics? 1. Old and New Political Subjects 2. The End of Political Parties? 3. Politics of Recognition 4. Right to Decide? II. The Political Condition 5. Political Time 6. Political Discourse 7. Politics of Emotions 8. The Importance of Coming to an Agreement 9. The Democratic Deception III. Politics in Hard Times 10. The Age of Limits 11. Politics after Indignation 12. Democracy without Politics IV. Some Platitudes 13. Democracies of Representative Proximity and Distance 14. How Much Transparency Do Our Democracies Require and Tolerate? 15. The Importance and Limits of Raising the Moral Standards of Politics 16. What Remains on the Left and Right V. The Future of Politics 17. What is this thing called Governance? 18. Politics as an Intelligent Activity Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume revisits Adorno's lesser-known work, Minima Moralia, and makes the case for its application to the most urgent concerns of the 21st century. Contributing authors situate Adorno at the heart of contemporary debates on the ecological crisis, the changing nature of work, the idea of utopia, and the rise of fascism. Exploring the role of critical pedagogy in shaping responses to fascistic regimes, alongside discussions of extractive economies and the need for leisure under increasingly precarious working conditions, this volume makes new connections between Minima Moralia and critical theory today. Another line of focus is the aphoristic style of Minima Moralia and its connection to Adorno's wider commitment to small and minor literary forms, which enable capitalist critique to be both subversive and poetic. This critique is further located in Adorno's discussion of a utopia that is reliant on complete rejection of the totalising system Trade ReviewThis compelling collection on Adorno’s aphoristic masterwork snaps it into contemporary focus with a range of essays addressing ‘damaged life’ in the present, from the resurgence of fascism in politics to the colonisation of life by work and the escalation of ecological violence. Adorno, it turns out, has been waiting for us in the twenty-first century. * Nicholas Lawrence, University of Warwick, UK *Minima Moralia is the exquisite entrée into Adorno’s thought: intense aphorisms that quietly juxtapose and interweave autobiographical reflection, miniatures of sociological critique, and philosophical analysis. The essays in Filar and Irr’s volume are the perfect companion for contemporary readers, pointedly focusing on the bond between the textures of ordinary life and fascism; animality, racism, and anthropocentrism; aphorisms as artwork-like modes of writing that resist the calls instrumental reason and capitalist exchange; and Adorno’s “reflections from damaged life” as the agonized adumbration of life in the Anthropocene. Together these essays reveal Adorno as a challenging and urgent contemporary. * Jay Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA *Table of ContentsForeword by Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University, USA) Introduction 1. An Adorno for the 21st Century: Introduction Caren Irr and and Diana Filar (Brandeis University, USA) Part I Thought After Fascism 2. Minima Moralia and the Contradictions of Post-War Pedagogy Jakob Norberg (Duke University, USA) 3. Breathtaking Leaps,” or from Doorknobs to Fascism Oshrat C. Silberbusch (author of Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical) Part II The Effects of the Aphorism 4. Gesture, Survival, Utopia: Adorno's Senses of Critique S.D. Chrostowska (York University, Canada) 5. Negative Dialectics, Negative Events: Aphoristic Knowledge as Melancholy Historicism in Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia Wyatt Sarafin (Harvard University, USA) Part III A Labor Theory of the Present 6. “The Whole of Life Must Look Like a Job”: Minima Moralia, Utopian Idleness, and the Capitalocene Clint Williamson (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 7. Self-Preservation, Self-Destruction Caleb Shaoning Fridell (CUNY, USA) Part IV Adorno’s Ecology 8. Adorno and Animality After Auschwitz Andrea Dara Cooper (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA) 9. Living with Damage: Adorno in the Anthropocene Caren Irr (Brandeis University, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisClimate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity.As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown.Why Climate Breakdown Matters is a practical guide on how to be a radical, responsible climate activist.Trade Review[Read's] references are genuinely an interesting read – I repeatedly found myself underlining sentences and citations for later consideration and investigation. With Read [being] one of the most interesting thinkers currently engaging with the most pressing issue of our time, Why Climate Breakdown Matters is essential reading. * Morning Star *Climate and ecological breakdown is happening now. In this uncompromising, powerful and provocative book, Read challenges us to face up to that reality and to recognise that our collective survival depends on our responding not just with logic but, crucially, with love. Stark and searingly honest, it’s vital reading for our time. * Caroline Lucas, MP, Green Party of England and Wales, UK *Why Climate Breakdown Matters is an essential read for all who know and care about the climate and ecological emergency and, even more so, for those who don't. Pulling no punches, Rupert Read warns us that, whatever action we now take to reduce emissions, things are going to be grim. Recognising this really is the first step in preparing to meet and adapt to a future that will be very different to the default one we unthinkingly expect, and in driving the transformative action that stops a bleak future becoming a cataclysmic one. As the darkness draws in, this book will continue to shine, shedding light that picks out the path we must follow if we are to prevent climate breakdown driving all-pervasive societal collapse. * Bill McGuire, writer, broadcaster, activist and Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London, UK *This is what philosophy written down on Earth — rather than adrift in the stratosphere — looks like. This is philosophy that is eco-logical, grounded in reality rather than in dangerous fantasies. This book explains the origins of our troubled times, and offers a guide on how to transform a civilization that is on the brink of collapse. Please read it. * Giorgos Kallis, co-author of "The Case for Degrowth" *In this philosophically masterful book Read reminds us that anthropogenic climate change and ecological collapse pose a grave and imminent threat to human civilisation. Collapse is not a potential ‘black swan' event he explains, but a white swan, an expected event. His analysis is tough to read. He aims to wake up his readers to reality, and demands we re-examine our lives. But he also provides radical, active hope; a route towards transformation that requires the jettisoning of shallow optimism and futile fantasies. A powerful read. * Ann Pettifor, author of “The Case for The Green New Deal” *A deeply moving account of where humanity stands in the age of climate breakdown. Read stares unflinchingly into the abyss of civilizational collapse, not to terrify us or to give us false hope but to help us reimagine what it means to be human in a time of transformational change. * Byron Williston, Professor of Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada *I might paraphrase this book this way: climate change represents a kind of final exam for humanity. If we pass, we move on to a new and interesting life as a species. If not, well... * Bill McKibben, 2014 winner of the Right Livelihood Award, and founder of www.350.org *Rupert Read is one of the few honest philosophers writing about the climate crisis. He makes it clear how confronting breakdown matters not just for saving our skins, but for saving our souls - for re-igniting the human spirit which has burnt so nearly down to the socket in these desperate times. * John Foster, author, “Realism And The Climate Crisis” *This is an urgent and necessary book. Rupert Read is one of the deepest thinkers of the green movement, and at the same time one of the most clear-headed. He urges us to face the reality of likely climate, and thus societal and ecological, breakdown, and act accordingly; nothing less is needed than a transformation of our politics, our economics, our society, and ultimately our philosophy. This is a book for realists not naive optimists, a book for those who are prepared to face scientific fact rather than rely on conventional thinking - and technology - to deliver us from this emergency. We need to shift the entire political and economic paradigm both to prepare for breakdown and mitigate it. Rupert Read gets it, and so should you. * Carne Ross, founder of Independent Diplomat, and author of "The leaderless revolution" *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue: The Attention-Shift From Climate To Corona - And Back Again? Introduction: On Climate, Ecological And Societal Breakdown Chapter 1: Just How Much Do You Care About The Future Of Humanity? Chapter 2: Is Climate Breakdown A White Swan? Chapter 3: Is This Civilisation Finished? Chapter 4: The Great Gift Of Community That (Climate) Disasters Can Give Us Chapter 5: How Climate Grief May Yet Be The Making Of Us Chapter 6: Can We Understand Cetacean Society? Can We Change Ourselves? Chapter 7: How Today To Live In Truth Epilogue: The Lessons From Corona For Climate Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA timely dethroning of the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, in this book Christine Daigle highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability.Posthuman Vulnerability fills a significant theoretical gap - whilst feminism has explored the affirming power of vulnerability, it''s been from a very human-centric viewpoint. In posing a feminist and posthuman take on vulnerability, Daigle is bridging traditions in a totally original and much needed way.Trade ReviewDrawing inspiration from non-human critters such as coral polyps and an insistent bee, Posthumanist Vulnerability explores what it means to be vulnerable and agentic – transjective – beings, and how they may teach humans ethical lessons in unlearning human exceptionalism. This is a truly wonderful book, full of new, affirmative posthumanist insight. * Nina Lykke, Poet and Professor of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden, and Aarhus University, Denmark *Daigle’s Posthumanist Vulnerability is a timely philosophical monograph, highlighting the affirmative potential of multispecies vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. Bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, Deleuzoguattarian thought, and affect theory, Daigle dethrones the human subject and convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability. * Evelien Geerts, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK *Table of ContentsMeandering 1: In lieu of a Preface Introduction: By way of Getting Started Meandering 2: Land Acknowledgement Chapter 1: The Transjective—A Posthumanist Material Feminist Ontology Meandering 3: Charlie and Me Chapter 2: Our Polyp-Being Meandering 4: Feeling/Being Out of Place Chapter 3: Affective Fabric and Collective Agency Meandering 5: Inoculation Chapter 4: Of Selves and Agents Meandering 6: Inosculation Meandering 7: 4am By the Train Tracks Chapter 5: Vulnerability Meandering 8: World in Turmoil Chapter 6: Manifold Toxicity Meandering 9: Cohabitating Chapter 7: Ethical Thriving References

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Book SynopsisMexican philosophy has been relegated for far too long to the margins of philosophy's global scene. Carlos Alberto Sánchez brings it to the front and centre by demonstrating that its figures, methods, and texts, supplement, enrich, and broaden the scope and depth of both philosophy and our everyday understanding. Explaining the context and thinkers associated with relajo, zozobra, nepantla, corazonada, tik, and Mexistentialism, Sánchez goes beyond a standard introduction of Mexican philosophy. His sustained analysis of prominent concepts gives us a new vocabulary for understanding ourselves and the world we live in. Based on the concrete experience of Mexican life, we are introduced to influential thinkers and uniquely Mexican themes: the primacy of history and circumstance and the intrinsic value of community. Powered by a commitment to use Mexican philosophy to navigate the perplexing world we inhabit, Sánchez challenges the blanket applicaTrade ReviewThis wise and well argued book is a game changer for teaching Mexican philosophy as well as helping contemplate how to live meaningfully. Innovative presentations of key themes in the understudied field of Mexican philosophy allow readers to engage philosophically from the start and wrestle with urgent concerns in their lives. * Amy A. Oliver, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Spanish, and Latin American Studies, American University, USA *Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century is more than an introduction to Mexican philosophy. It demonstrates how to apply Mexican philosophy to our contemporary lives and world, and makes a compelling case for the specificity and originality of Mexican philosophy, paving the way into what the author calls “post-Western” philosophy in the English-speaking world. * Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Occidental College, USA *This book is an important contribution to demonstrating the relevance and potential of Latin American philosophy in the 21st century. Seven distinctly Mexican concepts used by Mexican philosophers are carefully and clearly translated, explained, and applied to everyday human concerns. After reading it, there should be no doubt that Mexican philosophy has powerful theoretical and conceptual resources to tackle and understand social and concrete problems across the globe. * Gregory Fernando Pappas, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, USA *Carlos Sánchez is one of the leaders of the reconstruction of Mexican philosophy as a "world philosophy". In this brilliant book, he shows how we can find in Mexican Philosophy conceptual resources to face the great questions of our times. * Guillermo Hurtado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Mexican Philosophy: What Is It and Why It Matters 1. Relajo 2. Nepantla 3. Zozobra 4. Corazonada 5. Tik 6. Figure of the World 7. Mexistentialism Questions for Discussion Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Annotated Bibliography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely (Bernard Steigler April 1952- August 2020).When Bernard Stiegler writes I love you in the quote above, he openly provokes us to question or experience the meaning or contact of these words. He also invites us to question the relationship between a thinker''s life and their thought. For Stiegler, they were inextricable. His life was one that focused on friendship but not friendships at a purely social level but ones that produced philosophy, politics, and existential truths.Bringing together scholars who knew Stiegler, including Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, Divya Dwivedi, Peter Szendy, and Emily Apter, this volume provides an original - and personal - insight into his life and philosophy. Each piece gives a sense of the wide range of Stiegler's work and how it affected the praxis of the philosopher iTable of Contents1. Introduction: Deconstruction: The Portrait of the Family, Shaj Mohan (India) 2. Preface, Jean-Luc Nancy (Marc Bloch University, France) 3. To Live, Cellulairement – In memory of Bernard Stiegler, Emily Apter (New York University, USA) 4. Memories, Didier Cahen (France) 5. Sysiphus, Michel Deguy (France) 6. Of Adoption and Inheritance: For Bernard, Divya Dwivedi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) 7. A Thinking of Suspension: Melancholy and Politics Where There Is No Epoch, Erich Hörl (Leuphana University, Germany) 8. The Wind Rises – In Memory of Bernard, Yuk Hui (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 9. The Universal Right to Breathe, Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa) 10. A Good Night for Long Walks: For Bernard Stiegler, Shaj Mohan (India) 11. Melancholia, Jean-Luc Nancy (Marc Bloch University, France) 12. I Will Have Been Late, Peter Szendy (Brown University, USA) 13. Psychoanalysis and Technè, Esther Tellermann (France) 14. The Spirit of Bernard Stiegler, Colette Tron (France) 15. Bernard Stiegler: Friendship and Fellowship, Maël Montévil (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) Notes on Contributors Biblography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do we understand the dignity and value of non-human animals? Leading philosophers, ethnologists and writers contribute to this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging account of animal dignity. With a foreword by world-leading primatologist, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, essays collected here make the case for applying the concept of dignity beyond its usual humanist framework and introduce readers to animal dignity in history, law, science, philosophy, and literature. United in recognizing the dignity of non-human animals, these essays suggest how we might ensure a flourishing environment in times of ecological destruction and climate breakdown. Historians, primatologists, philosophers, novelists and artists approach the concept of animal dignity creatively, offering interpretations that are academically rigorous, alongside ones that are personal and literary. This variety of engagement knits together a fruitful way forward for progressive relations between all species.Trade ReviewHow best to think about and do justice to the dignity of animals? As Challenger’s superb collection demonstrates, this task involves not simply extending traditional notions of dignity to animals but also considering how the lives and deaths of animals themselves might challenge us to conceive of dignity in new and unanticipated ways. * Matthew Calarco, Professor of Philosophy, California State University, USA *Melanie Challenger has earned a place as an essential, foundational thinker on topics of animal capacity for experiencing life and the world, and in calling us to consider our appropriate response to the beings cohabiting this planet. In this consideration of dignity and its ramifications and imperatives, Challenger has gathered the best, brightest, highest, and deepest other thinkers and convened them for us between the covers of this daring and pathfinding book. * Carl Safina, Ecologist and Author of Alfie and Me (2023), USA *Animal Dignity is a bold, modern effort to ascribe to non-human beings a concept that heretofore has eluded them. These forceful essays also awakened me to the idea when we deny other animals their dignity, we corrupt our own. * Jonathan Balcombe, Ethologist and Author of What a Fish Knows (2016) and Super Fly (2020), Canada *Dignity is such an obvious concept to apply to animals, yet for a long time human dignity was defined by stressing how unlike other species we are. Our changing relation with nature is reflected in these thoughtful essays, which instil respect for the intelligence and emotions of other life forms. * Frans de Waal, Author of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (2016), USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Foreword, Memories of Greybeard, Dame Jane Goodall Acknowledgements Introduction Prelude I: Frogs, Simon Rich (Independent Scholar, USA) Laughing with Dignity, Melanie Challenger (Nuffield Council on Bioethics and RSPCA, UK) Part I. Defining the Concept. What is Dignity? Prelude II: 33,000 Birds, Jonathan Safran Foer (Independent Scholar, USA) 1. A Place for Animals? Rethinking the history of human dignity, Remy Debes (University of Memphis, USA) 2. Philosophical Approaches to Dignity, and their Applicability to Non-human Animals, Suzanne Killmister (Monash University, Australia) Part II. Approaches to Dignity. What are the Grounds of Animal Dignity? Prelude III: Ways of Seeing an Octopus, Sy Montgomery (Independent Scholar, USA) 3. On Standing, Harriet Ritvo (MIT, USA) 4. Wild Dignity, Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University in Middletown, USA) 5. Dignity in Dogs, Alexandra Horowitz (Barnard College, USA) 6. The Heart of the Scorpion, Kathleen Dean Moore (Oregon State University, USA) 7. An Old Joy: Ways of Attending to Dignity, Deborah Slicer (University of Montana, USA) 8. Dignity in their World, Danielle Celermajer (University of Sydney, Australia) Part III. Forms of Dignity. Are There Separate Cultural Conceptions Of Animal Dignity? Prelude IV: Lead Me into Thy Nest, Nelson Bukamba (Gorilla Doctors, Uganda) 9. Killing Dogs in Zambia: Prospects for ubuntu, Julius Kapembwa (University of Zambia, Zambia) 10. Let all Beings Be happy: Dignity and Prana, the vital force in Indian thought, Meera Baindur (RV University, Bangalore, India) 11. Two-Eyed Seeing: Animal dignity through Indigenous and Western lenses, Cristina Eisenberg (Oregon State University, USA) and Michael Paul Nelson (Oregon State University, USA) 12. Dignity in Non-humans: A theological perspective, Michael Reiss (University College London, UK) Part IV. Dignity in Practice. What Work Can Animal Dignity Do? Prelude V: The Last Safe Habitat, Craig Santos Perez (University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA) Losing 13. A Capabilities Approach to Dignity, Martha Nussbaum , Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago, USA) 14. Beyond Animal Welfare, Eva Bernet Kempers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 15. Animal Dignity as More-Than-Welfarism, Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki, Finland) 16. Dignity: A Concept for All Species, Lori Marino (The Kimmela Center for Scholarship-based Animal Advocacy, USA) 17. Four Legs Good, Three Legs Bad? An Aesthetics of Animal Dignity, Samantha Hurn (University of Exeter, UK) 18. Looking Up to Animals and Other Beings: What the fishes taught us, Becca Franks (New York University, USA), Monica Gagliano (Southern Cross University, Australia), Barbara Smuts (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), and Christine Webb (Harvard University, USA) 19. Dignity, Indignity, and the Education of Biologists, David George Haskell (Sewanee: The University of the South, USA) Afterthoughts Prelude VI: Characteristics of Life, Camille Dungy (Colorado State University, USA) Ways Forward, Melanie Challenger (Nuffield Council on Bioethics and RSPCA, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisIn a period of mounting global anxiety and widespread political unrest about democracy's future, the moment has come for more thinking about thinking, and for considering the surprising connections between thinking and democracy.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an important reappraisal of Schelling's philosophy and his relationship to German Idealism. Focusing on Schelling's self-critique in early identity philosophy the author rejects those criticisms of Schelling made by both Hegel and Heidegger.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From the Logic to the Logogrif of Experience Kant's Transcendental Deduction: The Conceptual Reconstruction of Experience From Determinant to Reflective Judgement: The Normalisation of Experience Fichte's will-to-freedom: The Appropriation of Experience SCHELLING'S NOTION OF EXPERIENCE: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Identity Philosophy: Its Critique and its Criticism Schelling's Dynamic Account of the Absolute and Finitude Schelling's Conception of the Self The Deities of Samothrace: Towards Schellings' Logogriphike Conclusion: Helmet and Pomegranate Abbreviations Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRomantic writers responded to the challenges of reform and revolution by rethinking the scope of political reason.What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British poets, philosophers, and polemicists in the years following the French Revolution.Timothy Michael argues that much literature of the period is a trial, or a critique, of reason in its political capacities and a test of the kinds of knowledge available to it. For Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the historical sequence of revolution, counter-revolution, and terror in Franceand radicalism and repression in Britainoccasioned a dramatic reassessment of how best to advance the project of enlightenment. The political thought of Trade ReviewMichael offers extraordinary insights into many other matters, including the philosophy of Shelley, Coleridge and Kant... Deserve[s] a place on the bookshelf on anyone interested in British politics, American history, the history of India, philosophy (both ancient and 18th/19th century), poetry, the development of ideas and much else. Sun News Miami This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasingly clear manner. English Oxford Journals Michael's book effectively shows how, during the Enlightenment, the political was not a fixed point or concept. AmeriQuests This is a thoughtful, rigorous book written in a pleasing clear manner. English Not the least of the strengths of this work is the lucidity of its author's style: the clarity with which he presents and prosecutes his thesis, summarizes or elaborates particular intellectual positions and debates as he sets out their bearings on his discussion, adds considerably to the force of his insights. European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Discipline of Political KnowledgeContextCases of RomanticismConceptual Orientations1. Kant and the Revolutionary Settlement of Early RomanticismRevolutions, Copernican and FrenchProphetic History and Moral TerrorismIndependence from ExperienceThe Rhetoric of Hurly-Burly Innovation2. Burke and the Critique of Political MetaphysicsHypotaxisParadox3. Wollstonecraft and the Vindication of Political ReasonRatiocinatioStale Tropes and Cold RodomontadeOur Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful4. The Government of the TongueThe Power of Mere PropositionConstructing a Form of WordsResisting "Incroachment"The Literature of Justice and Justification5. Coleridge and the Principles of Political KnowledgeHume and the Highest Problem of PhilosophyStructures of Mind and GovernmentThe Symptom of Empiricism6. The State of KnowledgeRational ResistanceThe Limits of Experimental PhilosophyTrying French PrinciplesPoetry and Poetics of the Excursive and Unbound Mind7. The Dwellers of the DwellingEpistemic HedonismTranquil and Troubled PleasureBuilding Social FreedomThe Inner Citadel of the Spirit8. P.B. Shelley and the Forms of ThoughtThe Case for Skeptical IdealismHistorical EpistemologyThe Atmosphere of Human ThoughtAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFive innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

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Book SynopsisInterpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.Is it possible to reconcile human excellence with a dedication to equality? Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy explores the meaning, conflict, and potential resolution of the tension between human excellence and equality in the thought of philosophers from Greek antiquity to modern times. Each chapter is devoted to the thought of a particular thinker, and the chapters are arranged chronologically. Interpretations offered here rely on close readings of the major texts by critically important thinkers from Plato, Aristotle and Xenophon in antiquity to a broad range of modern thinkers from Spinoza to Rawls.

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Book SynopsisThis volume is unique in bringing together the knowledge of leading international scholars and combining three dimensions of investigation that are necessary to understand Jaspers in light of contemporary questions: history (section I), methodology (section II) and application (section III).Table of ContentsPart I: History and Methodology.- Psychopathology and the Modern Age. Karl Jaspers reads Hölderlin.- Hermeneutical and dialectical thinking in psychiatry and the contribution of Karl Jaspers.- Phenomenological intuitionism and its psychiatric impact.- The reception of Jaspers’ General Psychopathology outside of Europe.- Brain mythologies: Jaspers’ critique of reductionism from a current perspective.- Karl Jaspers’ criticism of anthropological and phenomenological psychiatry.- Perspectival knowing: Karl Jaspers and Ronald N. Giere.- Part II: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy.-Karl Jaspers on primary delusional experiences of schizophrenics: his concept of delusion compared to that of the DSM.- Delusion and double book-keeping.- Jaspers on feelings and affective states.- Jaspers’ concept of “limit situation”: extensions and therapeutic applications.- Psychopathology and psychotherapy in Jaspers’ work and today’s perspectives on psychotherapy in psychiatry.

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Book SynopsisChristopher Watkin provides a true overview of Serres' thinking. Using diagrams to explain Serres' thought, the first half of the book carefully explores Serres' 'global intuition'and 'figures of thought'. The second half examines Serres' revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and ecology.

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Book SynopsisDeleuze and the City asks what a city can do, how its human and non-human relations can be made sufficiently durable, and participate in the formation of affirmative rather than destructive subjective, social and environmental ecologies. The 16 contributors to this collection re-deploy conceptual tools of Deleuze and Guattari.

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