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by Jg Sternagel (Editor), James Tobias (Editor), Dieter Mersch (Editor)Providing a solid media-philosophical groundwork, Beyond Mimesis contributes to the theory of mimesis and alterity in performance philosophy while serving to stimulate and inspire future inquiries where studies in media and art intersect with philosophy. It collects a wide range of philosophical and artistic thinkers' work to develop an exacting framework with clear movement beyond mimesis in aesthetic experiences in unca...
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by Branko Mitrović (Author)This book examines the wide-ranging implications for historical research of the view that everything is physical and that no immaterial entities, forces, or phenomena exist. It presents the consequences of materialism for our understanding of the historical past, including the rejection of postmodernist perspectives on history.Author BiographyBranko Mitrović is professor of architectural history and theory at Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondhe...
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by Keith Doubt (Author), Jeffrey Boucher (Contribution by)Through the lens of a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today's wars, focusing on war crimes, scapegoating, torture, and capitalism. Author BiographyKeith Doubt is professor emeritus at Wittenberg University.
Number of Pages: 100
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Publication Date: May 15, 2022
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by Will Barnes (Author)Focusing on the philosophical work of Judith Butler and Peter Sloterdijk, A Critique of Liberal Cynicism diagnoses--and proposes an immanent critique of--a form of cynicism dominant in popular and academic culture.Author BiographyWill Barnes teaches philosophy at New Mexico Highlands University.
Number of Pages: 164
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Publication Date: August 12, 2022
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by Hugo Moreno (Author)The author argues that Borges' Ficciones, Zambrano's Claros del bosque, and Paz's El mono gramático call into question the conventional distinction between literature and philosophy, and that each text embodies an alternative way of doing philosophy.Author BiographyHugo Moreno is visiting assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Lewis and Clark College.
Number of Pages: 240
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Publication Date: February 22, 2022
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by Alexander R. Mazziotti (Author)As the crowd stood and applauded for the neurophysiologist Du Bois-Reymond's lecture on August 14, 1872, they did not know that his lecture on the seven riddles of the universe would be long remembered. Scientists at the time believed that science could unlock all of the mysteries of the universe. However, the scientific revolution of the early 20th century fueled by relativity and quantum mechanics would upend the scientific world confirming Du Bois-Reymond'...
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by Michael Picard (Author)How to Play Philosophy is a series of lyrical, creative essays that explore timeless and timely ideas about who we are and how we live. MIT-trained philosopher Michael Picard shares ideas of numerous philosophers from conflicting traditions and builds an intellectual background to enable readers to draw their own conclusions. Author BiographyMichael Picard teaches philosophy at Douglas College in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He founded and facilitated Café Philosophy in Vi...
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by Brian W. Becker (Author)Evil and Givenness describes a phenomenological situation exclusive to evil. The central concept in this work, the thanatonic, identifies that phenomenality proper to evil, arriving by a parasitic mode of givenness and manifesting itself through four figures: trauma, the evil eye, the foreign-body, and the abject.Author BiographyBrian W. Becker is professor of neuropsychology at Lesley University and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Re...
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by Erin McKenna (Author)This accessible work of scholarship brings a pragmatist ecofeminist perspective to discussions around animal rights, animal welfare, and animal ethics. Rather than seek absolute moral stands regarding human and animal relationships, and rather than trying to end such relationships altogether, the books urges us to make existing relations better. Author BiographyErin McKenna is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of Livestock: Food, Fiber,...
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by Laura Quintana (Author)With and beyond the political philosophy of Jacques Rancière, this book rethinks critical agency and its emancipatory effects today through an examination of the body.Author BiographyLaura Quintana is associate professor of philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Number of Pages: 243
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Publication Date: July 27, 2020
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by Yoni Van Den Eede (Editor), Stacey O'Neal Irwin (Editor), Galit Wellner (Editor)Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations explores our contemporary media landscape from the unique perspective of postphenomenology. This volume for the first time puts the central concepts of postphenomenology to work for the specific analysis of new, digital media--thus delivering a wholly innovative take on their study.Author BiographyYoni Van Den Eede is postdoctoral fellow of the ...
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by Philip Goodchild (Author)Goodchild offers a philosophical analysis of the contemporary economy in terms of the way it structures credit and faith.Author BiographyPhilip Goodchild is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Number of Pages: 214
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Publication Date: July 06, 2020
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by William E. Scheuerman (Author)Scholarly and political interest in the controversial 20th Century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the last twenty years. This volume, focusing directly on Schmitt's complex ideas about law, situates his views within broader debates about the rule of law and its fate, taking seriously his Nazi-era political and legal writings.Author BiographyWilliam E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Indiana University.
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by Matthew R. X. Dentith (Editor)This volume challenges the prima facie that conspiracy theories are irrational beliefs, and presents fresh perspectives from the philosophical community on what is becoming an issue of increasing relevance in our time.Author BiographyMatthew R. X. Dentith is the author of The Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories (2014). He is currently a Fellow in the Institute for Research in the Humanities (ICUB) at the University of Burcharest, where he is working on a researc...
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by Brian Michael Norton (Author)This book examines the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed, as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment's ethical legacy.Author BiographyBrian Michael Norton is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at California State U...
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by Gregg D. Caruso (Editor), Susan Blackmore (Contribution by), Thomas W. Clark (Contribution by)Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility is an edited collection of new essays by an internationally recognized line-up of contributors. It is aimed at readers who wish to explore the philosophical and scientific arguments for free will skepticism and their implications.Author BiographyGregg D. Caruso is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the humanities department a...
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by Christian Lotz (Author)The Capitalist Schema uses marxist philosophy to explain how money frames all social relations in our capitalist world and how money regulates and conditions social references to past and future social life. Consequently, modern life becomes ever more abstract and leveled, and all human desire becomes channeled towards profit and making money.Author BiographyChristian Lotz is associate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University.
Number of Pages: 191
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by A. Minh Nguyen (Editor), Stephen Addiss (Contribution by), A. Minh Nguyen (Contribution by)This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.Author BiographyA. Minh Nguyen is professor of philosophy, assistant dean of the Honors College, and faculty affiliate of the Center for Cr...
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by Robert Bernasconi (Author)Explores in the context of Heidegger's thought and unpacks a number of questions and challenges. Author BiographyRobert L. Bernasconi is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is well known as a reader of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and for his work on the concept of race. He has also written on the history of philosophy. His books include How to Read Sartre (2007), Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing (1993...
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by Egidius Berns (Author), Frank Chouraqui (Editor)Porosity between Politics and the Economy addresses the relationships between politics and the economy in deeply original ways. It is a book motivated by a sense of urgency aroused by both the failure of modern capitalism and the environmental crisis. Egidius Berns argues that the relations between politics and the economy are porous, and he investigates the consequences of this porosity. By mapping out of a number of conceptual fault lines t...
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by Aaron Harper (Author)Aaron Harper defends a new theory of sport--sport realism--focusing on sport operations and the decisions made by sports officials like umpires and referees. Sport realism offers an explanation of sport as it is played, along with normative assessment of ethical issues in sport like cheating and rules disputes.Author BiographyAaron Harper is associate professor of philosophy at West Liberty University.
Number of Pages: 182
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by Bonard Iván Molina García (Author)Using Heideggerian tool ontology to investigate antiblack racism in the United States, Ontological Branding: Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World provides a novel account of race and racial justice. Bonard Iván Molina García argues that race is best understood as a tool to brand persons of color, particularly Black persons, as subordinate in order to privilege whiteness as the proper state of persons in a world created by and for per...
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by Pamela A. Zeiser (Editor), Berrin A. Beasley (Editor)This multidisciplinary collection explores the ethics of social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on misinformation, truth, well-being, and authenticity. Author BiographyBerrin A. Beasley is professor in the School of Communication at the University of North Florida. Pamela A. Zeiser is professor of political science at the University of North Florida.
Number of Pages: 170
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by Lucas Fain (Author)After the epoch of the "end of metaphysics" and the attendant disasters of twentieth-century political violence, this book initiates a renewed inquiry into the responsibility of the philosopher and its rootedness in the possibility of philosophy itself.Author BiographyLucas Fain is visiting scholar at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University
Number of Pages: 216
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Publication Date: September 15, 2022
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by Gregory Fried (Author)This book presents an original and creative enactment of a confrontation between Heidegger and Plato. Gregory Fried outlines a new approach to ethics and politics combining skeptical idealism and what he calls polemical ethics, and goes on to apply polemical ethics to the crucial questions around fascism and racism. Author BiographyGregory Fried is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is the author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics. With Richard ...
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by Robert S. Corrington (Author)Corrington achieves the most judicious presentation of Peirce's philosophy made so far, an ideal introduction for the beginning student and 'balancer' for Peirce sophisticates. -John Deely, Loras CollegeAuthor BiographyRobert S. Corrington, associate professor of philosophical theology at Drew University, is the author of three books including Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World (Indiana University Press).
Number of Pages: 188
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by Christopher Bruell (Author)The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.Author BiographyChristopher Bruell is professor of political science at Boston College.
Number of Pages: 240
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Publication Date: April 08, 2003
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by Peter Augustine Lawler (Author)Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism-a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism.Author BiographyPeter Augustine Lawler is professor of government at Berry College and associate editor of Persp...
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by N. J. Fox (Author)The A to Z of Leibniz's Philosophy sheds light not only on his philosophical thought but also the impact it had on the thinking of his contemporaries. They, and he, are described in numerous cross-referenced dictionary entries. Also included are other entries that present his writings, explain his concepts, and trace his action in specific fields. The introduction sums much of this up and-along with the bibliography-provides a strong foundation for further study.Author Bi...
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by Laura Amazzone (Author)This book takes us on a pilgrimage to explore the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture. The mythology, rituals, philosophy, and spiritual practices of this distinctly female-centered and millennia-old tradition of Durga offer female potential and empowerment, focusing on peace, healing, spiritual liberation, and realization of inherent divinity.Author BiographyLaura Amazzone is an author, teacher, jewelry artist, and Yogini. She completed her master's de...
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by Rafael F. Narváez (Author)The human body is not a given fact--it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew.Author BiographyRafael F. Narváez is a sociologist. He was educated in Lima, Peru, and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is assistant professor of so...
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by Toshimaro AMA (Author)Why Are the Japanese Non-Religious?: Japanese Spirituality: Being Non-Religious in a Religious Culture, translated here for the first time in English, was first published in Japan in 1996. It has also been translated into Korean and German. Author Toshimaro Ama examines the concept of mushukyo, or lack of specific religious beliefs. According to Ama, the Japanese generally lack an understanding of or desire to commit to a particular organized religion, oftentimes fusi...
