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by Jeffrey Metzger (Author)Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become a central text for understanding the thinker and his impact on moral philosophy. Yet his account of the rise of political society and its relation to morality has generally been overlooked, in large part because of its strange and often confusing character. In The Rise of Politics and Morality in Nietzsche's Genealogy: From Chaos to Conscience, Jeffrey Metzger devotes careful attention to Nietzsche's analysis of the ...
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by Brandon Absher (Author)Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United States. Neoliberal philosophy aims to produce human capital and profitable knowledge.Author BiographyBrandon Absher is associate professor of philosophy at D'Youville College.
Number of Pages: 196
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Publication Date: August 24, 2021
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by David Kleinberg-Levin (Author)This volume offers the first substantial study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception, focusing on perception as capacities that can be developed in learning processes, notably in ways befitting ontological mindfulness. The author proposes new interpretations of Heidegger's five most important key words.Author BiographyDavid Kleinberg-Levin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of ten books, most recently Beckett'...
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by Alex Sager (Author)This book carefully engages philosophical arguments for and against open borders, bringing together major approaches to open borders across disciplines and establishing the feasibility of open borders against the charge of utopianism.Author BiographyAlex Sager is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and University Studies at Portland State University, USA. His articles on the political philosophy of migration have appeared in journals including Political Studies, Critica...
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by Nathalie Etoke (Author), Bill Hamlett (Translator), Lewis R. Gordon (Foreword by)Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.Author BiographyNathalie Etoke is Associate Professor of Francophone and Africana Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Bill Hamlett is a translator, researcher, and teacher of French. He holds master's degrees in French from Middlebury Co...
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by Kevin Aho (Author)This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality, temporality, and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology, taking a transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between mental illness and self-constitution.Author BiographyKevin Aho is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. ...
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by David Apgar (Author)Disagreeing despite the Data: The Destruction of the Factual Commons examines the pressing problem of factual disagreement between social groups, suggesting that the belief segregation underway in the United States may be irreversible. David Apgar draws on the work of twentieth-century philosophers of science and language--especially Popper, Wittgenstein, and Davidson--to identify three requirements for factual agreement to be possible at all: a pervasive habit of check...
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by Larry Alan Busk (Author)This book interrogates the meaning and consequences of the unsettling parallel relationship between today's critical theory and Right-wing political philosophy.Author BiographyLarry Alan Busk teaches philosophy and humanities at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Number of Pages: 276
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Publication Date: August 22, 2023
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by Neal Leavitt (Author)This book examines the ethical standard of the obligations of power articulated by philosophers Rabindrinath Tagore and Amartya Sen. The author argues that Tagore and Sen focused on the need to diminish all states' capacity for violence, regardless of regime type.Author BiographyNeal Leavitt is senior lecturer at Boston University.
Number of Pages: 202
Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 08, 2022
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by Jon Paul Sydnor (Editor), Anthony J. Watson (Editor), Mukhtar H. Ali (Contribution by)With contributions by scholars from different religions and specializations, this volume explores the potential of nondualism as a fundamentally unifying concept. In every case, we find that nondualism is universal in its relevance yet distinctive and original in its contribution.Author BiographyJon Paul Sydnor is professor of world religions at Emmanuel College.Anthony J. Watson is research fellow in the...
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by Sj Daniel Harrington (Author), Sj James F. Keenan (Author)Answering the call of the Second Vatican Council for moral theology to 'draw more fully on the teaching of Holy Scripture, ' the authors examine the virtues that both flow from Scripture and provide a lens by which to interpret Scripture. By remaining true to both the New Testament's emphasis on the human response to God's gracious activity in Jesus Christ and to the ethical needs and desires of Christians in the twenty-first centur...
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by Louke Van Wensveen (Author)This is the first extensive study of ecological virtue ethics and the new rhetoric of environmentalists. Based on a wide-ranging survey of environmental literature, Louke van Wensveen offers an overview of current "green" virtue language and proposes the basic elements of a matching ecological virtue theory, dubbed "dirty virtues" by ecological philosophers.Environmental ethics is not exhausted by debates about the need to preserve rivers, our duties to bioregion...
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by Herbert Marcuse (Author)It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. When it first appeared in 1940, Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel's social and political theory. Today, the appreciation of Marcuse's work has remained high, more relevant now than ever before.In the rapidly changing context of...
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by Paul Strathern (Author)These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion.
Number of Pages: 95
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Publication Date: March 21, 2000
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by Gertrude Himmelfarb (Author)A biographical, historical, and philosophical study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, challenging the conventional view of Darwin's greatness. "A thorough and masterly book."--Times Literary Supplement.Back JacketIn her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view of Darw...
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by Ren? J. Muller (Author)Identification of the phenomenon of marginality in The Marginal Self--the failure to become one's authentic, best self, by refusing to actualize this potential that is inherent in us all--turns on recognizing that freedom, and its misuse, underlie most human behavior, normal and pathological. Jean-Paul Sartre insisted that people don't just have freedom, they are freedom. Most philosophical anthropologies, including Freudian psychoanalysis, and the current medical mo...
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by Felix Anderl (Editor)This book reconstructs how a diversity of land knowledges has historically been reduced to understanding land only as commodity. The collection shows the consequences of this epistemological reduction and the potentials of understanding land in more diverse and sustainable ways, thereby changing our understanding of land and those living on it.Author BiographyFelix Anderl is professor of conflict studies at the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg. ...
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by Paula Sweeney (Author)Social robots that engage with humans elicit an emotional and social response that raises the question of whether robots deserve moral consideration. Sweeney's fictional dualism model is a distinctive and ethically appropriate framework for emotional engagement without moral consideration, while providing conditions for trusting social robots.Author BiographyPaula Sweeney is senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. She previously published in philosophy of langu...
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by Lorenzo Girardi (Author)Lorenzo Girardi brings together themes of Europe, phenomenology and politics to reveal the relevance of Edmund Husserl and Jan Patočka's works for contemporary political issues. Addressing the concept of crisis in Europe, this book presents an agonistic conception of liberal democracy based on Patočka's phenomenological concept of problematicity.Author BiographyLorenzo Girardi is author and editor of the Dutch political platform Vrij Links. His work focuses on the p...
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by Naomi Zack (Author)Naomi Zack critiques identity politics and argues that both political and social identities should not enter democratic government. She proposes evidence-based government by anonymous stakeholders, without preference for group affiliation or political charisma. Central to this book is the theme that government should have an enduring goal of minimizing misery. Toward that goal, the imperfections of evidence, matched by the imperfections of democracy, need to be accepted ...
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by Mart?n Plot (Author)Chaos and Cosmos offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political. While not a political writer in the traditional sense, Borges was indeed an author whose response to the advent of totalitarianism, in particular in its Nazi form, generated the most experimental, insightful, and rigorous short fiction and non-fiction political interro...
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by Matthew MacKenzie (Author)This book deepens and extends the dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and 4E philosophy of mind and phenomenology. It engages with core issues in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed in and through the dialogue between Buddhism and enactivism. Author BiographyMatthew MacKenzie is professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. MacKenzie specializes in Buddhist and Indian philosophy, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics. His research takes a cross-cultur...
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by Lawrence J. Hatab (Author)Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the "first" world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language. Common distinctions between mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where language and life are a m...
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by Jeffrey Bloechl (Editor)This first-ever collection of original essays devoted to philosopher, theologian, and poet Jean-Louis Chr騁ien's work, this interdisciplinary collection includes Chr騁ien's collaborators, successors, and Anglophone interpreters and explores themes of temporality, prayer, and religious reading.Author BiographyJeffrey Bloechl is professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Boston College. He is also honorary research fellow of the Australian Catholic Universit...
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by Kimberley Ducey (Editor), Clevis Headley (Editor), Joe R. Feagin (Editor)This collection gives George Yancy's transformative work in social and political philosophy and the philosophy of race the critical attention it has long deserved. Contributors apply perspectives from disciplines including philosophy, sociology, education, communication, peace and conflict studies, religion, and psychology.Author BiographyKimberley Ducey is associate professor in sociology at the University of Winnipe...
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by Steven M. Cahn (Editor), Andrea Tschemplik (Translator), Krista K. Thomason (Commentaries by)This new, complete translation of Kant's Groundwork makes a challenging foundational work of moral philosophy accessible to all readers. Remaining faithful to the original German, the text is rendered clearly to promote reader comprehension. An inviting introduction, running commentary, and glossary further support study and interpretation.Author BiographySteven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of phi...
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by Elizabeth K. Minnich (Editor), Michael Quinn Patton (Editor)Minnich and Patton gather an eclectic cohort of thought-leaders to reflect on the importance and intricacies of thinking in their respective fields. Philosophically framed and interdisciplinary in approach, this illuminating book is designed to be supremely useful to readers from all backgrounds.Author BiographyELIZABETH K. MINNICH is Distinguished Fellow with the Association of American Colleges & Universities and a professor...
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by Ben Almassi (Author)Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds examines how we can repair human and biotic relationships damaged by environmental injustice, climate change, animal exploitation, and ecological destruction by arguing for the merits of a reparative approach to environmental justice and critically assessing challenges that come with it.Author BiographyBen Almassi is associate professor of philosophy and affiliate professor of gender and sexuality studies and interdi...
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by Christopher Wolfe (Editor), Steven Brust (Editor), Hadley Arkes (Contribution by)Natural Law Today gives a strong voice to classical natural law theory as the best answers to the fundamental questions of ethics and as the best framework for political and social life. It explains various aspects of that theory and defends it against common misperceptions and criticisms.Author BiographySteven Brust is assistant professor of political science at Eastern New Mexico University. Christopher Wolf...
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by Renée Jeffery (Author)Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) was the daughter of the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. A princess born into one of the most prominent Protestant dynasties of the age, Elisabeth was one of the great female intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe. This book examines her life and thought. It is the story of an exiled princess, a grief-stricken woman whose family was b...
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by Seth Vannatta (Editor), Alexander Lian (Contribution by), Raff Donelson (Contribution by)This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, "Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to mention a nihilist)." Each of the eight chapters investigates one label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the term to cha...
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by Anthony Sean Neal (Author)Neal's latest book uses Howard Thurman as a window through which to view concepts that shaped black thought in the Modern Era of the African-American Freedom Struggle. Thurman's grasp of black culture and religious ideas during the period of enslavement allowed him to produce a body of work grounded in the musings and traditions of his ancestors.Author BiographyAnthony Sean Neal is assistant professor of philosophy at Mississippi State University.
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