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Punctum Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Object Oriented Environs is the lively archive of a critical confluence between the environmental turn so vigorous within early modern studies, and thing theory (object oriented ontology, vibrant materialism, the new materialism and speculative realism). The book unfolds a conversation that attempts to move beyond anthropocentrism and examine nonhumans at every scale, their relations to each other, and the ethics of human enmeshment within an agentic...
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Mundell and Son
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"One of the greatest reasons why so few people understand themselves, is, that most writers are always teaching men what they should be, and hardly ever trouble their heads with telling them what they really are. As for my part, without any compliment to the courteous reader, or myself, I believe man (besides skin, flesh, bones, &c. that are obvious to the eye) to be a compound of various passions; that all of them, as they are provoked and come uppermost,...
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Springer
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development calls for more research and innovation to end poverty, leaving no one behind; and yet the export of unethical practices from high-income to lower-income settings is still a major concern. Such ethics dumping occurs in all academic disciplines. When research is regarded, on the one hand, as a dirty word among vulnerable populations who face ethics dumping, and, on the other, as a solution to many of...
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Horace Greeley
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in The Dial magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it was later expanded and republished in book form in 1845.
The basis for Fuller's essay is the idea that man will rightfully inherit the earth when he becomes an elevated being, understanding of divine love. There have...
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Publisher
Punctum Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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“Experience” is a concept paradoxically deployed to accentuate the aconceptual. Although thinking, knowing, reflecting, and analyzing are kinds of experiences, invocations of “experience” typically direct our attention to what is immediate, embodied, unrepresented, unthought, even unthinkable. And yet, whether by learning experience, traumatic experience, life experience, mystical experience, or all of these, we hope most fervently that our...
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University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l' Universite d'Ottawa
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: "Where are we headed?" Grounding...
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Punctum Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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CMOK to YOu To presents the 2015 email correspondence of the Serbian-born poet, art critic and playwright Nina Živančević and Canadian cultural theorist Marc James Léger. In December of 2014 Léger invited Živančević to contribute a text to the second volume of the book he was editing, The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today. Taken with each other’s idiosyncrasies, their correspondence gradually shifted from amiable professional...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Originally a lecture given at Harvard as part of the Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality, this small volume is psychologist William James's updated second edition, which addresses criticisms levied against his original work on the nature of human immortality. James sees the individual soul as part of a greater soul, hidden behind the veil of death. And that greater soul, perhaps God, perhaps an essence that defies description, is eternal. James
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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This posthumous (1911) collection of some of James's most popular speeches and essays demonstrates his wide interests and restless intellect. Included are "The Moral Equivalent of War," "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake," "Final Impressions of a Psychical Researcher," "The Ph.D. Octopus," "Remarks at the Peace Banquet," "Herbert Spencer's Autobiography," and more.
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The relationships, both historical and philosophical, among the Zhuangzi’s Inner, Outer, and Miscellaneous chapters are the subject of ancient and enduring controversy. Liu marshals linguistic, intertextual, intratextual, and historical evidence to establish an objectively demonstrable chronology and determine the philosophical affiliations among the various chapters. This major advance in Zhuangzi scholarship furnishes indispensable data for all...
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transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
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Marcel Mauss schrieb 1923 in seinem Essay Die Gabe, er habe in den Motiven des Gabentauschs »einen der Felsen gefunden, auf denen unsere Gesellschaften ruhen«. Bis heute wirft diese These Fragen auf: Wie stiftet die Gabe Solidarität, Anerkennung und Vertrauen in vormodernen Gesellschaften? Gelingt ihr das auch in modernen Gesellschaften? Aufbauend auf einer pointierten Rezeptionsgeschichte von Mauss' Essay und im Dialog mit Denkern aus Philosophie,...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically, while Cahill avoids interpretative debates,...
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Peter Lang
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Considerable socio-political change has re-configured the discursive space once occupied by ‘utopia’. Within the cultures of late capitalism and the organisational matrices of bio-political administration, that space is no longer animated by images of idealised states that are yet to come, or by a sense of simple failure in the production of those same states. Rather, it is overdetermined by a condition of differentiation in the representation...
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Pluto Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new ‘common sense’. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this privatisation of the world ‘idiotism’. Through constructing a new vocabulary with which to understand our society, Curtis examines 'idiotism' across the spheres of economics, politics and culture, drawing on the philosophy and political theories of Martin...
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Matthew J. Van Cleave
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a “critical thinking textbook.” (Source: Open Textbook Library)...
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The University of Adelaide
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect or On the Improvement of the Understanding) is an unfinished work of philosophy by the seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (also known variously as Benedict de Spinoza, Benedictus Spinoza, and other names), published posthumously in 1677.
The Tractatus was first published in 1677, the year of Spinoza's
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state's exercise of punitive power—from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Makerspaces—local workshops that offer access to and training on fabrication technologies, often with a focus on creativity, education, and entrepreneurship—proliferated in the 2010s, popping up in cities across the world. Beyond the Makerspace is a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of a particular Seattle makerspace that begins in 2015 and ends with the closing of the space in 2018. Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words,...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve. Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic justice—meritocracy—which rests upon a desert principle...
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