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On Patience: Reclaiming a Foundational Virtue - Paperback

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by Matthew Pianalto (Author)In On Patience, Matthew Pianalto explores the multiple aspects of patience and the relationship of patience to other virtues such as courage, love, and wisdom. Drawing from a wide range of sources and traditions, Pianalto develops a picture of this foundational virtue, according to which we can never be too patient.Author BiographyMatthew Pianalto is associate professor of philosophy at Eastern Kentucky University. Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 I...

Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong: Two Systems, One City - Paperback

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by Shu-Mei Huang (Author)Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, this book recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban governance.Author BiographyShu-Mei Huang is assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: Au...

Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh: Reading with and beyond Aristotle - Paperback

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by Mae J. Smethurst (Author)By looking at 15th/16th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a previously unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and their performance, that is, the involvement of the third actor at the climactic moments of the plot in both and the actor stepping out of character in noh. This observation helps to account for Aristotle's view that tragedy be limited to three actors.Author B...

Generational Feminism: New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach - Paperback

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by Iris Van Der Tuin (Author)Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict towards a more nuanced conception of the methodology's useful structures. Experimenting with generational logic as an impetus for a new materialism, this book advances feminist politics for the twenty-first century.Author BiographyIris van der Tuin is associate professor of liberal arts and sciences at Utrecht University. Number of Pages: 184 Di...

Big Ideas for Young Thinkers: Answering Questions, Questioning Answers, and Creating Ethical Communities - Paperback

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by Roberta Israeloff (Editor), Karen Mizell (Editor), Thomas Wartenberg (Other)Ethics Bowl espouses a new way to engage in discussions about complex ethical issues. Author BiographyRoberta Israeloff has directed the Squire Family Foundation, devoted to advancing philosophy education, since its inception in 2007. The Foundation co-founded several national organizations, including Philosophy Learning and Teacher Organization (PLATO), and the National High School Ethics Bowl. Karen Mizell is Pro...

Philosophical Inquiry: Combining the Tools of Philosophy with Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning - Hardcover

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by Philip Cam (Author)Philosophical Inquiry introduces teachers to a philosophical approach to collaborative inquiry-based teaching and learning.Author BiographyDr. Philip Cam is an international authority on philosophy in schools, who has run workshops for educators in many countries, and whose books for teachers and children have been widely translated. He has a DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford and has had a long university career in Australia. Number of Pages: 174 Dimensio...

Philosophical Inquiry: Combining the Tools of Philosophy with Inquiry-based Teaching and Learning - Paperback

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Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality - Hardcover

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by Edward F. Kelly (Editor), Adam Crabtree (Editor), Paul Marshall (Editor)In Beyond Physicalism, an interdisciplinary group of physical scientists, behavioral and social scientists, and humanists from the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory and Research argue that physicalism must be replaced by an expanded scientific naturalism that accommodates something spiritual at the heart of nature.Author BiographyEdward F. Kelly is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavi...

John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity - Hardcover

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by J. Donald Moon (Author)Donald Moon's John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls' life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politics--the state.Author BiographyJ. Donald Moon is the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan Univer...

Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir - Paperback

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by Sara Heinämaa (Author)Sara Heinämaa rediscovers neglected passages of Le Duexième Sexe in her quest to follow Simone de Beauvoir's line of thinking. She finds the masterpiece to be grounded in the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.Author BiographySara Heinämaa is senior research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.53 x 8.48 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: January 01, 2003

Reading the New Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy, the Gay Science, Thus Spoken Zarathustra, and on the Genealogy of Morals - Paperback

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by David B. Allison (Author)Reading the New Nietzsche is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the four most important ad widely read of Nietzsche's works. After a largely biographical introduction, a chapter is devoted to each work. Read in succession they give an overall philosophical account of Nietzsche's thought.Author BiographyDavid B. Allison is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the editor of the groundbreaking anthology The New Nietzsch...

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by Carl Cohen (Author), Tom Regan (Author)Do all animals have rights? Is it morally wrong to use mice or dogs in medical research, or rabbits and cows as food? How ought we resolve conflicts between the interests of humans and those of other animals? Philosophical inquiry is essential in addressing such questions; the answers given must have enormous practical importance. Here for the first time in the same volume, the animal rights debate is argued deeply and fully by the two most articulate...

Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy - Paperback

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by Anita Allen (Contribution by), Bernard Boxill (Contribution by), Joshua Cohen (Contribution by)A collection of recent essays by today's most innovative social thinkers addressing a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensions: 0.84 x 8.97 x 5.91 IN Publication Date: January 14, 1998

Leo Strauss: Political Philosopher and Jewish Thinker - Paperback

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by Christopher Bruell (Contribution by), Kenneth L. Deutsch (Contribution by), Hillel Fradkin (Contribution by)In this book, 19 prominent representatives of each side in the basic division among Strauss's followers explore his contribution to political philosophy and Jewish thought.Author BiographyKenneth L. Deutsch is Professor of Political Science at State University of New York at Geneseo. Walter Nicgorski is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Number of Page...

Our Heritage: The Past in the Present of African-American and African Existence - Paperback

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by Tsenay Serequeberhan (Author)In this compelling and engaging work, Tsenay Serequeberhan discusses recent themes in African-American and African Philosophy from a hermeneutical perspective, while paying special attention to the question of how we relate to our past (i.e. our hertiage) and the open possibilities of our future. Our Heritage carefully examines the variety of approaches to African philosophy and argues for a historically engaged and existentially attuned paradigm shift. The res...

Marx and Modern Political Theory: From Hobbes to Contemporary Feminism - Paperback

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by Philip J. Kain (Author)Philip J. Kain deftly demonstrates the historical antecedents to and continuing relevance of Karl Marx's thought. Kain reveals the unappreciated pluralism of Marx, how it has endured and how it will continue to adapt to the challenges of modern day thought such as feminist theory.Author BiographyPhilip J. Kain is professor of philosophy at Santa Clara University and the author of Marx and Ethics (Clarendon Press, 1988). Number of Pages: 316 Dimensions: 0.99 x 9 x 6 I...

The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial - Paperback

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by Jacob Howland (Author)In engaging five of Plato's dialogues_Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Cratylus, Sophist, and Statesman_and by paying particular attention to Socrates' intellectual defense in the 'philosophic trial' by the Stranger from Elea, Jacob Howland illuminates Plato's understanding of the proper relationship between philosophy and politics. This insightful and innovative study illustrates the Plato's understanding of the difference between sophistry and philosophy, and it identifies th...

Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction, and the Law - Paperback

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by Drucilla Cornell (Author)This new edition of Drucilla Cornell's highly acclaimed book includes a substantial new introduction by the author, which situates the book within current feminist debates. In Beyond Accommodation, Drucilla Cornell offers a highly original vision of what feminist theory can give contemporary women. She challenges essentialist and naturalist accounts of feminine sexuality, arguing that any attempt to affirm woman's value and difference by either emphasizing her mate...

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by David L. Norton (Editor), Mary F. Kille (Editor)To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.86 x 8.98 x 5.82 IN Publication Date: January 18, 1989

Craft Objects, Aesthetic Contexts: Kant, Heidegger, and Adorno on Craft - Paperback

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by Sandra Corse (Author)Craft Objects, Aesthetic Contexts examines the place of contemporary craft in traditional aesthetics.Author BiographySandra Corse is retired after teaching for many years in the school of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. She is the author of three books on opera and numerous articles on literature, music, and aesthetics. Number of Pages: 110 Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.7 x 5.9 IN Publication Date: October 14, 2008

Better than Both: The Case for Pessimism - Paperback

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by Peter Heinegg (Author)Better Than Both: The Case for Pessimism is an experiment in "popular philosophy." It presents and discusses (literally) life-and-death issues in non-technical, everyday language. This new work sees pessimism not as a kind of depressed moodiness or self-indulgent negativity, but as the inevitable result of any fair-minded survey of the world we actually live in.Author BiographyPeter Heinegg is Professor of English at Union College. He received his B.A. from Fordham Un...

Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World - Paperback

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by Deane Curtin (Author)Deane Curtin puts today's most important social and environmental ethical issues into their historical, political, and philosophical contexts, and offers deep insights into the nature of our freedom and its relation to justice in our globalized, commercialized culture. Using familiar literary and historical icons to make surprising points about colonial attitudes and practices, he also demonstrates the unique linkages between colonialism and environmentalism. Using an ...

Socializing Care: Feminist Ethics and Public Issues - Paperback

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by Maurice Hamington (Editor), Dorothy C. Miller (Editor), Joan Tronto (Contribution by)Contributors to this volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, the first looks at care as a model for an evaluative framework that rethinks social institutions, liberal society, and citizenship at a basic conceptual level. The second explor...

Evolution and the Foundations of Ethics: Evolutionary Perspectives on Contemporary Normative and Metaethical Theories - Paperback

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by John Mizzoni (Author)This book outlines the extremely rich array of work being done with evolution and ethics. John Mizzoni argues that by employing an evolutionary perspective and viewing the ethical components of ten theories of ethics, ethical elements can be understood more deeply.Author BiographyJohn Mizzoni is professor of philosophy at Neumann University. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN Publication Date: May 03, 2019

Wily Elites and Spirited Peoples in Machiavelli's Republicanism - Paperback

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by David N. Levy (Author)In this book, author David N. Levy uses Machiavelli's conflict between the elite and the people as the lens through which to understand the other major features of his republicanism. Through analyzing his Discourses on Livy, Levy shows that Machiavelli's principles can provide support for, and constructive criticism of, modern liberal democracy.Author BiographyDavid N. Levy is lecturer in philosophy at John Cabot University. Number of Pages: 170 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x...

The Ethics of Food: A Reader for the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Gregory E. Pence (Editor), Ronald Bailey (Contribution by), Wendell Berry (Contribution by)In The Ethics of Food, Gregory E. Pence brings together a collection of voices who share the view that the ethics of genetically modified food is among the most pressing societal questions of our time. This comprehensive collection addresses a broad range of subjects, including the meaning of food, moral analyses of vegetarianism and starvation, the safety and environmental risks of genetically modif...

Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction - Paperback

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by James A. Arieti (Author), David M. Gibson (Choreography by)Philosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction_an intellectual history of the ancient world from the eighth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E., from Homer to Boethius_describes and evaluates ancient thought in its cultural setting, showing how it affected and was affected by that setting. The greatest philosophers (Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine) and cultural figures (Homer, Euripides, Thucydides, Archimedes) and a...

Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations - Paperback

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by Rosenberger (Editor), Peter-Paul Verbeek (Editor), Don Ihde (Contribution by)Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations provides an introduction to the school of thought called postphenomenology and showcases projects at the cutting edge of this perspective. Postphenomenology presents a unique blend of insights from the philosophical traditions of phenomenology and American pragmatism, and applies them to studies of user relations to technologies. These studi...

Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of Neoliberalism - Paperback

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by Todd May (Author)Friendship in an Age of Economics is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have, but also to see how friendship can provide a bulwark of resistance to them. Written in an engaging style, it will be understandable to political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and cultural theorists.Author BiographyTodd May is Class of 1941 Memorial Professor of the Humanities at Clemson University. Number of Pages: 164 Dimensions: 0.5...

The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy - Paperback

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by George Yancy (Author), Barbara Applebaum (Contribution by), Susan E. Babbitt (Contribution by)In this collection, white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Focuses on the whiteness of the epistemic and value-laden norms within philosophy itself, the text dares to identify the proverbial elephant in the room known as white supremacy and how that supremacy fun...

Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought - Paperback

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by Karen L. F. Houle (Author)Responsibility, Complexity, and Abortion: Toward a New Image of Ethical Thought draws from feminist theory, post-structuralist theory, and complexity theory to develop a new set of ethical concepts for broaching the thinking challenges that attend the experience of unwanted pregnancy.Author BiographyKaren Houle is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph. She co-edited, with Jim Vernon, Hegel and Deleuze: Together Again for the First Time. She...

Pharmakon: Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens - Paperback

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by Michael A. Rinella (Author)Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon, one superior to a large number of rival occupations, each of which laid claim to their powers being derived from, connected with, or likened to, a pharmakon. Accessible yet erudite, Pharmakon is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the place of intoxicants ...