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Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead - Hardcover

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by Joseph Petek (Author)Unearthing the Unknown Whitehead argues that it is Alfred North Whitehead's recently published Harvard lectures, and not his books, that contain the truest record of the development of his philosophy, including the false starts and dead ends that the published works obscure. This development could previously only be inferred as taking place in the gaps between books. It thus calls for a complete reconsideration of Whitehead's philosophical corpus. Joseph Petek critical...

A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference - Hardcover

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by Emily S. Lee (Author)A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference explores how phenomenology can help philosophy of race explain the persistence of race as a key indicator of social standing. Engaging with the work of women of color to think more deeply about our racial and gendered structural relations with one another, Emily S. Lee argues that phenomenology is helpful in two ways: (1) race, as a social construct, is phenomenal and (2) Merleau-Ponty's pheno...

Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916: A Companion - Hardcover

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by Joyce Avrech Berkman (Author)Joyce Avrech Berkman interprets Edith Stein's autobiography as time and space bound, yet arrestingly transgressive. She probes the origins, nature, and afterlife of Stein's work, which sheds light on Stein's response to Nazi antisemitism and the roots of her key philosophical and spiritual concerns. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 11, 2023

Philosophical Perspective on Cinema - Hardcover

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by Pedro Blas González (Author)Philosophical Perspective on Cinema addresses the relationship between human existence and sensual reality. Applying metaphysical/existential reflection to cinema, the author explores the philosophical clarity that cinema can offer reflective persons about the human experience.Author BiographyPedro Blas González is professor of philosophy at Barry University. Number of Pages: 190 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 17, 2022

Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations - Paperback

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by George Yancy (Editor), Jr. Houston a. Baker (Contribution by), Semassa Boko (Contribution by)Black Men from Behind the Veil bears witness to anti-Black male violence and does so from the perspective of Black male scholars who disclose their fears and what it means to suffer as Black men, courageously marking the deep material, institutional, and epistemic structures that amplify that fear and suffering. Author BiographyGeorge Yancy is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory U...

Ruling Bodies: A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias - Hardcover

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by Robin Varma (Author)This book is about an epochal shift in ideas that changed the nature and meaning of coercion in modern political thought. It begins with a review of Foucault, Arendt, and Habermas, and points out a discrepancy in the way each thinker understood coercion in modern politics. From here, Varma examines Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias to provide a framework and context for thinking about this. As the author shows, each work demonstrates a particular style of Platonic sta...

A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus - Hardcover

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by Liran Shia Gordon (Author)The metaphysical and theological writings of John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308)-one of the most intriguing, albeit if now nigh-forgotten philosophers of the late Middle Ages-were seminal in the emergence of modernity. A Metaphysics of Creation for the Information Age: A Dialogue with Duns Scotus uses the prism of the concept of Creation as the leitmotif to assemble and interpret Scotus's system of thought in a unified manner. In doing so, Liran Shia Gordon reframes Sc...

Morality, Not Mortality: Moral Psychology and the Language of Death in Romans 5-8 - Hardcover

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by William Horst (Author)This study argues that the language of "death" as a present human plight in Romans 5-8 is best understood against the background of Hellenistic moral-psychological discourse, in which "death" refers to a state of moral bondage in which a person's rational will is dominated by passions associated with the body. It is death of this sort, rather than human mortality or a cosmic power called "Death," that entered the world through the transgression of Adam and Eve in Eden...

Eusebism: A New Moral Theory - Hardcover

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by Carlo Prisco (Author)Based on existing moral philosophy, Carlo Prisco introduces Eusebism as a way to develop new perspectives on being and relating by offering practical tools to approach everyday life and transfer good thought into action.Author BiographyCarlo Prisco is assistant professor at the State University of Milan in Philosophy of Law and Bioethics. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 04, 2021

The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government - Hardcover

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by Richard Dien Winfield (Author)At a time when the enemies of democracy cannot be dissuaded by appeals to shared values and conventions, nothing is more pressing than a thoroughgoing investigation of what the state should be. Whereas contemporary thinkers have mostly relativized political justice or conceived it as a formal concept lacking institutional detail, The Just State provides a comprehensive theory of self-government, legitimating democracy and concretely conceiving how political in...

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by John R. Shook (Editor), Paul Kurtz (Editor)Naturalism is widely regarded as the dominant philosophical worldview in the West. The prestige of science and the power of technology have driven naturalism to prominence, even as deep questions mount on all sides.In this volume of all new essays, prominent philosophers consider a wide variety of challenges to naturalism, proposing improved defenses and novel developments in this influential worldview. Some essays question whether naturalism is a...

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by Paul Strathern (Author)A brief and enlightening exploration of Machiavelli's life and ideas, presented in entertaining and accessible fashion. A highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.56 x 8.32 x 5.23 IN Publication Date: November 01, 1998

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by Titus Stahl (Author)When we criticize social institutions and practices, what kinds of reasons can we offer for such criticism? Political philosophers often assume that we must rely on universal moral principles that are not necessarily connected to the particular social practices of our communities. Traditionally, continental critical theory has rejected this claim through its endorsement of the method of immanent critique. Immanent critique is a critique of social practices that draws on...

Domination and Emancipation: Remaking Critique - Paperback

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by Daniel Benson (Editor), Luc Boltanski (Author), Nancy Fraser (Author)A melancholy defeatism has become a hallmark of critical thought and leftist politics. A consequence of this has been an exaggerated focus on domination among critical theorists, leaving emancipation--along with questions of political organization and strategy--undertheorized at best, or disregarded as delusional, at worst. If emancipation still plays a role in critical reflection, it is most often in a "domesticated" for...

Being and Not Being: End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Richard Iveson (Author)In an era of short-termism that has produced disastrous long-term consequences for the planet, this book returns the concept of time to a philosophical reflection on pressing concerns facing us today. The book proposes a critique of scientific determinism that demands an urgent rethinking of causality and proposes a new ethical paradigm. Author BiographyRichard Iveson was awarded his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and then took up a Postdoct...

Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger's Verse - Paperback

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by Martin Heidegger (Author), Eoghan Walls (Translator)Thought Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heidegger's collected works, with the German alongside the English. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanity's primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought poems show Heidegger's language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being.Author BiographyMartin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher and one of the most impor...

In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism - Paperback

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by George Yancy (Editor), Bill Bywater (Editor), J. Kameron Carter (Foreword by)From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the "chosen one" or the "King of Israel," there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in political issues from women's political rights over their own bodies to the rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Carrying Christian signs and crosses, protestor...

Concept Formation in Global Studies: Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge - Hardcover

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by Gennaro Ascione (Author)The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored. It assumes monstrosity as the generative grammar of a new holistic approach to human knowledge, and draws from po...

Aesthetic Theory Across the Disciplines - Hardcover

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by Max Ryyn舅en (Editor), Zolt疣 Somhegyi (Editor)The chapters of this book examine the history, theoretical conditions and connection points between aesthetics and other disciplines. At the same time we are also interested in practical clashes of methodology and agenda--especially when it is not merely about the securing of the position of one or the other discipline.Author BiographyMax Ryyn舅en is senior lecturer in Theory of Visual Culture at Aalto University Finland. He is the former chair o...

Digital Working Lives: Worker Autonomy and the Gig Economy - Hardcover

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by Tim Christiaens (Author)Christiaens argues that digital technologies are fundamentally undermining workers' autonomy by enacting systems of surveillance that lead to exploitation, alienation, and exhaustion. For a more sustainable future of work, digital technologies should support human development instead of subordinating it to algorithmic control. Author BiographyTim Christiaens is assistant professor of economic ethics at the Department of Philosophy of Tilburg University in the Nether...

Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Dialogue - Paperback

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by Nigel C. Gibson (Author)Over sixty years after his death, the social philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Martinique and trained as a psychiatrist in France, Fanon rejected his French citizenship to join the Algerian liberation movement in the 1950s. In the short decade from 1952 to 1961 this brilliant and engaged intellectual composed three books Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, and The Wretched of the Earth, wh...

Terrorism Unjustified: The Use and Misuse of Political Violence - Paperback

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by Vicente Medina (Author)Vicente Medina challenges common misconceptions and excuses for extreme political violence. Countering such axioms as "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" and the "do whatever it takes" attitude toward counter-terrorism, Medina differentiates between justified political violence and unjustifiable terrorism. Surveying terrorism with both historical and contemporary examples, Medina dispels the relativism and emotional responses that have been used by...

Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory - Paperback

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by Jeanne Morefield (Author)This is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said's influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Morefield argues that Said's critique provides a timely approach that bridges historical analyses of imperialism and postcolonial politics with an urgent imperative to theorize contemporary global crises.Author BiographyJeanne Morefield is associate professor of Political Theory and fellow at New College, University of Oxford. She is...

Overcoming Addiction: Seven Imperfect Solutions and the End of America's Greatest Epidemic - Paperback

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by Gregory E. Pence (Author)Leading bioethicist Gregory Pence demystifies seven foundational theories of addiction to reveal how they must work together to build more comprehensive solutions. Concerned citizens, individuals suffering from addiction, their families, and those who devote their lives to fighting addiction will find this new perspective a hopeful call to arms.Author BiographyGregory E. Pence is known as the founder of bioethics, having studied applied ethics with famous ethicist ...

Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Diary, 1930-1932 and 1936-1937 - Hardcover

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by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), James C. Klagge (Editor), Alfred Nordmann (Editor)While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final, coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private writing does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully come to light. Wittgenstein's diary entries from the 1930s reveal themselves as a first-person spiritual epic. Wittgenstein agonizes over his relationship with ...

Gadamer's Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary - Paperback

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by Cynthia R. Nielsen (Editor), Greg Lynch (Editor)This book offers a fresh look at Gadamer's magnum opus, Truth and Method, which is widely recognized as a ground-breaking text of philosophical hermeneutics. The volume features essays from fourteen scholars who cover a portion of Truth and Method.Author BiographyGreg Lynch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where he teaches courses on a range of subjects, including hermeneutics, the history...

Philosophy of Education: Thinking and Learning Through History and Practice - Paperback

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by John Ryder (Author)Assuming no background knowledge of philosophy, John Ryder's introductory text surveys canonical writings and contemporary applications to inform future teachers' practice of systematic philosophy of education. Exposing readers to the philosophies that built Western education, the book welcomes the development of alternate approaches through systematic analysis of how theory informs practice. The book systematically analyzes key contributions by the four most influential...

Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies - Hardcover

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by Naomi Zack (Author)This dynamic new text for ethics and philosophy of race courses brings together subjects philosophers have generally kept separate-ethics and race. But every issue concerning race is an ethical issue, and it's time we studied them as such. Naomi Zack introduces students to historical and contemporary issues of race and racism and provides an ethical foundation for students to critically engage with these issues in the classroom and in their lives. The chapters discuss af...

Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies - Paperback

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Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology: Caught in the Web - Paperback

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by Edward H. Spence (Author)Spence develops and applies a normative model based on rationalist and virtue ethics as well as stoic philosophy to assess the impact of technology on wellbeing. Through developing this model, Spence offers a novel and important examination of the benefit of technology to our society as a whole. Author BiographyDr. Edward H. Spence is a philosopher specializing in moral philosophy and epistemology, as well as in applied and practical ethics in the areas of computer...

The Moral Psychology of Gratitude - Paperback

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by Robert Roberts (Editor), Daniel Telech (Editor)This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.Author BiographyRobert Roberts is Distinguished Professor of Ethics Emeritus at Baylor University. Daniel Telech is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, at ...

Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Enquiries - Hardcover

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by Iulian Cananau (Editor), Peder Thalén (Editor)The contributors to this volume reflect on the phenomenon and concept of populism in relation to democracy and the humanities from the vantage points of various disciplinary backgrounds: philosophy, history of ideas, media and communication, journalism, political science, gender studies, organization science, education theory, popular culture, and literary studies. While the study of populism seems to have become a subfield within political sci...