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Teaching as Radical Logic: Dialectic, Analectic, and Education - Hardcover

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by Noah De Lissovoy (Editor), Raúl Olmo Fregoso Bailón (Editor), Alex J. Armonda (Editor)This volume offers original analyses of capitalism and coloniality while proposing new critical and decolonizing approaches to education. Grounding teaching in the fundamental logics of radical thought, contributors propose rigorous and imaginative modes of pedagogical praxis applicable in a variety of contexts.Author BiographyNoah De Lissovoy is professor of cultural studies in education in the Departmen...

The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements - Paperback

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by Michael J. Colebrook (Author)The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society. Focusing primarily upon the thought of 20th century German ?migr? political scientist Eric Voegelin, the book argues that we cannot understand the globalized world in which we live unless we appreciate the lasting influence of the various "En...

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by Diego E. Machuca (Author)This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types of disagreement-motivated skepticism in ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. In each case, it favors suspension of judgment as the seemingly appropriate response to the realization of disagreement. One main line of argument pursued in the Element is that, since in real-life disputes we have ...

The Risks and Ethics of Human Gene Editing: A Philosophical Guide to the Arguments - Paperback

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by Madeleine Hayenhjelm (Author), Christer Nordlund (Author)This Open Access book is about the risks and the ethics of human germline gene editing, i.e., the possibility to make heritable changes to the DNA of early human embryos or germ cells. Is there something particularly morally problematic about editing the human germline? Is there something unique about germline editing, and, if so, does this suggest that we ought not to edit the human germline, or only in particular circumstances or f...

Christian Theology in a Pluralistic Age - Paperback

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by David H. Jensen (Editor)How does today's context of radical pluralism affect Christian theology? Can Christian theologians be claimed by more than one religious tradition? What makes constructive interreligious dialogue possible? The authors of this volume explore the challenges and opportunities of religious diversity and religious non-affiliation for Christian faith. By exploring the ways in which engagement of other traditions changes them, these theologians offer hopeful reflections fo...

Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?: Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Hamid Dabashi (Author)When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema--and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's artworld, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami's oeuvre offers an iconoclastic critique of the field's Eurocentrism an...

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by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Author)"Nature" as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that "the pristine nature" is "out there." This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as "pristine" into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for "seasons". Much emphasis is given to the inhabitants demonstrating the dynamic characteristic of nature. As a study done over a long period of history, Repre...

Scaffolded Minds: Integration and Disintegration - Paperback

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by Somogy Varga (Author)A comprehensive account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. In Scaffolded Minds, Somogy Varga offers a novel account of cognitive scaffolding and its significance for understanding mental disorders. The book is part of the growing philosophical engagement with empirically informed philosophy of mind, which studies the interfaces between philosophy and cognitive science. Varga draws on two recent shifts within empirically in...

The Good Life and the Good State: A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Government - Hardcover

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by Katharina Nieswandt (Author)There is no good human life outside of a state, and the good state enables us to live well together - so says Constitutivism, the theory developed in this book. Reinvigorating Aristotelian ideas, the author asks in what sense citizens of modern, populous and pluralistic societies share a common good.Author BiographyKatharina Nieswandt is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal. She specialises in metaethics and political theory. Num...

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by Fabrice Correia (Author)The concept of grounding - of a fact obtaining in virtue of other facts - has been a topic of intensive philosophical and logical investigation over roughly the past two decades. Many philosophers take grounding to deserve a central place in metaphysical theorizing, in great part because it is thought to do a better job than other concepts - e.g., reduction and supervenience - at capturing certain phenomena. Studies on the logic of grounding have largely been conduc...

Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 4 - Paperback

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by Josef V. Stalin (Author)The Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 4 is an important chronicle of the revolutionary years from 1917 to 1920-a period marked by the consolidation of Soviet power, civil war, and the fierce struggle against imperialist intervention. Volume 4 captures Stalin's critical contributions as both a theorist and a leader in the newly established socialist state, offering readers a window into the strategic and practical challenges faced by the Bolsheviks in the wake ...

Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 3 - Paperback

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by Josef V. Stalin (Author)The Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 3 is an essential exploration of one of the most decisive moments in revolutionary history-the pivotal year of 1917. Covering the first half of this transformative year, this volume immerses readers in Stalin's critical theoretical and practical contributions to the Bolshevik cause as the old Russian Empire teetered on the brink of collapse. From incisive analyses of dual power and the Provisional Government's wavering aut...

A Conference of Birds in the time of COVID - Paperback

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by Regi Weile (Author), L. Ladendorf (Designed by)A Conference of Birds collects, in book form, over a dozen connected exercises in thinking and drawing which were developed during the Covid lockdown by Axiom Maxiom Drawing Center. When the sudden distancing by quarantine threatened the curtailment of in-person communication the Center engaged in a process for correspondence by mail or postal carrier. This presented options for the continuance of civilized dialogic writing, drawing, painting,...

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by Simon May (Author)An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pok?mon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum and E.T.--all reflect its gathering power. But what does "cute" mean, as a sensibility and style? Why is it so pervasive? Is it all infantile fluff, or is there something more unca...

Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 4 - Hardcover

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Collected Works of Josef Stalin: Volume 3 - Hardcover

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The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant - Paperback

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by Alain Badiou (Author), Jacques Lezra (Translator), Susan Spitzer (Translator)Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant--a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One" there is no fundamental unit of being; being is inherently multiple. What is novel in Badiou's vie...

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At the Vanishing Point in History: Critical Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War - Hardcover

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by Marina F. Bykova (Editor)Putin's war has prompted a deep analysis and reevaluation of the forces driving this deadly confrontation. At the Vanishing Point in History brings together renowned humanities scholars and prominent novelists to explore the roots and causes of the ongoing catastrophe in Eastern Europe.This distinguished group of Russian ?migr?s, well-versed in Russian culture, history, and philosophy, aims to examine the past to understand the present. Experts in the inner working...

Unknowable Minds: Philosophical Insights on AI and Autonomous Weapons - Paperback

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by Mark Bailey (Author)Imagine that in the cold heart of a secret military facility, a new form of intelligence awakens. It is a synthetic mind born from intricate algorithms and complex computations, operating in ways unfathomable to its human creators. Charged with safeguarding national security, this intelligence orchestrates strategies that defy human ethics and laws of war, leaving its creators both awed and unnerved.Unknowable Minds delves into the unsettling reality of entrusting our s...

Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work - Paperback

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by Larry A. Hickman (Author)"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed." --Don IhdeA practical and comprehensive appraisal of the value of philosophy in today's technological culture.Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture contends that technology--a...

Zen Mind Jewish Mind: Koan, Midrash, & the Living Word - Paperback

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by Rami Shapiro (Author)"A great way to deepen your spiritual life is to take a deep dive into a tradition other than your own-especially if you have a competent guide, and Rabbi Rami is an extraordinary guide. Not into Zen? Not a Jew? Not a problem. Anyone on any path will benefit enormously from this profoundly illuminating book." --Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda: From Emerson and the Beatles to Yoga and Meditation, How Indian Spirituality Changed the WestWith reference to Shunryu...

Aster chilensis: or Self-Immolation - Paperback

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by Adam Baltieri (Author)Do you remember when I told you I wished I could write down what happened? I was desperate. We were at a restaurant by the sea. In the stillness of time, I despaired of capturing your uniqueness which exceeds all measure: this ground I can never stand on. I needed the security of what had happened, even if I'd already died in the blaze. I see now that I was desperate for you to exist: otherwise I'd die. So for the sake of being, I withstood your scorn and became its p...

Practicing Excellence: Restoring Civility, Faith & Trusted Leadership in the Public Square - Hardcover

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by Anthony Randall (Author)Practicing Excellence: Restoring Civility, Faith & Trusted Leadership in the Public Square by Dr. Anthony Randall presents a compelling exploration of the challenges facing contemporary society and the need to pursue a life of practicing excellence as trusted leaders of character. Dr. Randall observes that America's civic public square, founded upon the virtues of classic liberalism, is being eroded by the destructive forces of incivility. These vices baffle the...

Practicing Excellence: Restoring Civility, Faith & Trusted Leadership in the Public Square - Paperback

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Moral Fictionalism and Religious Fictionalism - Hardcover

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by Richard Joyce (Editor), Stuart Brock (Editor)Atheism is a familiar kind of skepticism about religion. Moral error theory is an analogous kind of skepticism about morality, though less well known outside academic circles. Both kinds of skeptic face a "what next?" question: If we have decided that the subject matter (religion/morality) is mistaken, then what should we do with this way of talking and thinking? The natural assumption is that we should abolish the mistaken topic, just as we pre...

The Essential Mòzǐ: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings - Paperback

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by Mo Zi (Author), Chris Fraser (Editor)'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mòzi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and logical theories. The collected works introduce concepts, assumptions, and issues that had a profound, lasting influence throughout the classical and early imperial eras. Mòzi and his followers d...

Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography - Paperback

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by David M. Halperin (Author)Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michael Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists? Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and others, Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defence of the late French phil...

The Numinous Way of Pathei-Mathos - Paperback

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by David Myatt (Author)Fifth Edition Contents Prefatory Note 1 Conspectus 2 The Way of Pathei-Mathos - A Philosophical Compendium 3 Some Personal Musings On Empathy 4 Enantiodromia and The Reformation of The Individual 5 Society, Politics, Social Reform, and Pathei-Mathos 6 The Change of Enantiodromia 7 The Abstraction of Change as Opposites and Dialectic Appendix I - The Principle of Dika Appendix II - From Mythoi To Empathy - A New Appreciation Of The Numinous Appendix III - Towards Un...

Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell - Hardcover

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by Tyson Yunkaporta (Author)Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us from talking to one another. Yunkaporta invites us to confront life's biggest questions and arms us with the tools we ne...

Atrocity: A Literary History - Hardcover

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by Bruce Robbins (Author)Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. Venturing from the Bible to Zadie Smith, Robbins explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over time, abhorrence of mass violence takes shape. With it comes the emerg...