New York: Crown Business, 2012. — 250 p. Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today’s entrepreneurs, using open-source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product design and creation, the collective potential of a million...
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004. — 330 p. — ISBN10: 1557533733; ISBN13: 978-1557533739. Violence and increasing public awareness of violence mark society's contemporary condition. Sept. 11, 2001 made this condition even more indelible. Cultural Shaping of Violence proposes that violence cannot be described, let alone understond or addressed, unless tied to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 304 p. China poses great challenges to human rights in theory and practice. In practice, China is considered, by the measure of most Western countries, to have a patchy record of protecting individuals’ human rights. In the theoretical realm, Chinese intellectuals and government officials have challenged the idea that the term “human rights”...
Springer, 2015. — 264 p. This book integrates studies on the thought of Bernard de Mandeville and other philosophers and historians of Modern Thought. The chapters reflect a rethinking of Mandeville’s legacy and, together, present a comprehensive approach to Mandeville’s work. The book is published on the occasion of the 300 years that have passed since the publication of the...
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2015. — 51 p. Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron’s The Californian Ideology, originally published in 1995 by Mute magazine and the nettime mailinglist, is the iconic text of the first wave of Net criticism. The internet might have fundamentally changed in the last two decades, but their demolition of the neoliberal orthodoxies of Silicon...
Signo, n.d. — 140 p. El presente libro es una iniciativa de la oficina UNESCO Uruguay, de realizar un libro de carácter latinoamericano, en donde confluyen estudiosos de distintas Universidades de América Latina y Francia, son 12 profesores de distintas áreas, que exponen su pensamiento. Con propósitos didácticos, se han dividido por capítulos.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. — 296 p. — ISBN: 0-8166-1307-9 Lukács's Theory of the novel has long been a key work in the philosophy but not the sociology of literature. J.M. Bernstein shows that Theory of the Novel must be seen in conjunction with History and Class Consciousness as a major contribution to a Marxist hermeneutics. He ties the philosophy of...
Praeger, 2003. — 286 p. — ISBN: 0275969088. Foreword by Gad Yaacobi. (Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and Cabinet Minister) Bisk and Dror assert that the 21st Century can be the Jewish Century, that no other people is better prepared to face its challenges. However, to do so, a stress on the Jewish Future must replace a preoccupation with the Jewish Past. They...
Boston: The MIT Press, 1985. — 728 p. — ISBN10: 0262521059; ISBN13: 978-0262521055. In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of...
Set against the collapse of social theory into a theory of ideological discourse, Geoff Boucher sets to work a rigorous mapping of the contemporary field, targeting the relativist implications of this new form of philosophical idealism. Offering a detailed and immanent critique Boucher concentrates his critical attention on the 'postmarxism' of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0190851864, 9780190851866. Doing Valuable Time explores the human concern with expending our life's time well. We pursue what we take to be valuable, strive to live meaningfully, judge whether our present circumstances are good enough, and have standards for what we are willing to take an interest in. Doing valuable time, however,...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 399 p. Setting the Moral Compass brings together the (largely unpublished) work of nineteen women moral philosophers whose powerful and innovative work has contributed to the "re-setting of the compass" of moral philosophy over the past two decades. The contributors, who include many of the top names in this field, tackle several wide-ranging...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 282 p. Hunting Causes And Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and previously published essays, Nancy...
Translated by Brain Massumi. — Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: University of Minnesota Press. 1986. — xxi, 276 p. — ISBN: 0816614040 De Certeau’s essays are divided up into four broadly named parts, each of which contains three or four essays. The parts are, first, “The Return of the Repressed in Psychoanalysis,” the second is “Representation Altered by the Subject (Sixteenth and...
London: Karnac Books, 2009. — 202 p. — ISBN10: 1855755548; ISBN13: 978-1855755543. We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking. After the loss and carnage of the Twentieth Century there is prevailing mood of uncertainty and...
Wiley, 2016. — 227 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7456-8449-9, 0745684483, 0745684491. The concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another? In...
Milano: Rafaello Cortina Editore, 2004. – 234 p. — ISBN: 88-7078-877-6 Indice: Libertà naturale Uno strumento per riflettere sul determinismo Riflettere sul determinismo Stiamo a sentire le regioni dei libertari Da dove viene tutto il progetto? L'evoluzione delle menti aperte L'evoluzione dell'agire morale Siete fuori dal giro? Il nostro bootstrapping per esseri liberi Il...
New York: St. Martin’s Press,1990. — 256 p. What is our future? Will the human race exist in a 1,000 years time? In 10,000 years? In a 100,000 years time? If so, what will we look like and how will we behave? How will we have developed or adapted, and why? What will be the effect of that change on other animals? At present, Man as a species is outside evolution - supported by...
2012, English. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1118065077. A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. The post-apocalyptic world of Panem's twelve districts is a divided...
Springer, 2017. — 240 p. — (The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology 18). — ISBN: 9402411488. This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 375 p. This book is based on Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Base and Superstructure in Marx and Later: Towards Reconstruction of an Original Paradigm”. The central thrust of the argument revolves around differentiating between Marx, and the later writers, in view of their understanding and use of the base and superstructure. A key contention is...
Paris: L'Æncre, 2000. — 240 p. — ISBN: 2-911202-30-9. Avertissement Introduction Une symphonie espagnole Les mécanismes de la colonisation et de la submersion démographique L'implacable logique des chiffres Un désastre démographique Casser le thermomètre pour ne pas savoir. Un travail de désinformation Une colonisation “par le bas”, très différente de l'ancien colonialisme...
New World Perspectives, CultureTexts Series Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1998 - 228 p. A collection of essays on different aspects of value regarding the concepts of truth, art, economy and essays devoted to key postmodernist thinkers. ISBN: 0-920393-98-5
Routledge, 2019. — 175 p. — (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy). — ISBN: 978-0-429-19936-3. "Humanity and nature have been defended on many sides from the onslaught of science and technology, but in this book Frodeman expertly confronts what is arguably the greatest challenge of them all, transhumanism." – Steve Fuller, Author of Humanity 2.0, University of Warwick,...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2012. — 117 p. — ISBN10: 1137277068; ISBN13: 978-1137277060. Developing directly from Fuller's recent book Humanity 2.0 , this is the first book to seriously consider what a 'post-' or 'trans'-' human state of being might mean for who we think we are, how we live, what we believe and what we aim to be. Philosophy for Humanity 2.0 Political Economy for...
Springer, 2016. - 291 p. - ISBN: 9783319290683 This book explains why the current education model, which was developed in the 19th century to meet the needs of industrial expansion, is obsolete. It points to the need for a new approach to education designed to prepare young people for global uncertainty, accelerating change and unprecedented complexity.The book offers a new...
Clarendon Press, 2008. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 019954395X, ISBN13: 978-0199543953 Margaret Gilbert offers an incisive new approach to a classic problem of political philosophy: when and why should I do what the laws of my country tell me to do? Beginning with carefully argued accounts of social groups in general and political societies in particular, the author argues that in...
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2016. - 264 p. - ISBN: 9780262034401 In Pirate Philosophy , Gary Hall considers whether the fight against the neoliberal corporatization of higher education in fact requires scholars to transform their own lives and labor. Is there a way for philosophers and theorists to act not just for or with the antiausterity and student protestors --...
Routledge, 2005. — 160 p. The media often talk about public opinion, the 'American' or 'British' public, or the movie-going public. A public can hold an opinion and be divided. What is the public and where did it come from? Is there one public or many? Is the very idea of the public a myth? In this fascinating book, Alastair Hannay explores these questions and unpacks a much...
Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 1994 — 368 p. — ISBN10: 0816620865; ISBN13: 978-0816620869. "Labor is the living, form-giving fire," Marx wrote. "It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time." How is it, then, that labor, with all its life-affirming; potential, has become the means of capitalist discipline,...
The University of Alabama Press, 1995. — 276 p. — ISBN10: 0817308024; ISBN13: 978-0817308025. Ihab Hassan, sometimes called the father of Postmodernism sets out here to recover the major trends, themes and debates that have animated the American literary and cultural scenes for nearly fifty years.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 244 p. — ISBN10: 1137443456; ISBN13: 978-1137443458. In this book Wayne Hope analyzes the double relation between time and global capitalism. In order to do this, he cross-relates four epistemes of time - epochality, time reckoning, temporality and coevalness – with four materializations of time – hegemony, conflict, crisis and rupture....
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2015. — 144 p. A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline represents nothing less than a sweeping revisionist history of mankind, in a concise and readable volume. Dr. Hoppe skillfully weaves history, sociology, ethics, and Misesian praxeology to present an alternative and highly challenging view of human economic development over the ages. As...
Interdisciplinary Contexts for the Revival of Invention: Philosophical Studies. Psychological Studies. Literacy Studies. The State of Invention at Mid-Twentieth Century. Awakening Interest in Invention. Early Studies of Invention: Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s: Rhetoric as Epistemic. New Invention Theories in Rhetoric and Composition. Research on Invention. Review: Early Studies of...
New York: The Teaching Company, 2018. — 312 p. — (The Great Courses). — ISBN: 978-1980014522. The science fiction genre has become increasingly influential in mainstream popular culture, evolving into one of the most engaging storytelling tools we use to think about technology and consider the shape of the future. Along the way, it has also become one of the major lenses we use...
Springer International Publishing, 2018. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies). — ISBN: 3319761439, 9783319761435. This book examines the ways in which a minority of primarily white, male, French philanthropists used their social standing and talents to improve the lives of peoples of African descent in Saint-Domingue during the crucial period of the Haitian...
Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2011. — 338 p. — ISBN10: 9521065680; ISBN13: 978-9521065682. This festschrift celebrates the 60th birthday of Markku Kivinen, director of the Aleksanteri Institute. In Part I, Social Theory, Uskali Mäki addresses the potential of scientific realism, Osmo Kivinen the relevance of Searlean social ontology for social sciences, Vesa Oittinen the...
Helsinki: Aleksanteri Institute, 2011. — 338 p. — ISBN10: 9521065680; ISBN13: 978-9521065682. This festschrift celebrates the 60th birthday of Markku Kivinen, director of the Aleksanteri Institute. In Part I, Social Theory, Uskali Mäki addresses the potential of scientific realism, Osmo Kivinen the relevance of Searlean social ontology for social sciences, Vesa Oittinen the...
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. — 248 p. Nietzsche and Sociology: Prophet of Affirmation discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s sociological reading of modern industrial society. Nietzsche is often identified as a philosopher but his uniquely sociological theories and ideas have been disregarded and unacknowledged in the social sciences. This work examines the reasons why Nietzsche...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 94 p. — ISBN: 0199340498 Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states. The United Nations grew from 51 member states at its founding in 1945...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0748618163; ISBN13: 978-0748618163. During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 206 p. Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we value? What kinds of motivations are available for political agency and judgment in an age that lacks the enthusiasm...
New York: Modern Library, 2008 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0812974476; ISBN13: 978-0812974478. In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending...
Polity, 2015. — 119 p. — ISBN10: 0745679617. — ISBN13: 978-0745679617 The most accessible expression of Fran?ois Laruelle's non-philosophical, or 'non-standard', thought, General Theory of Victims forges a new role for contemporary philosophers and intellectuals by rethinking their relation to victims. A key text in recent continental philosophy, it is indispensable for anyone...
Berkeley, CA : Ronin Publ., 1994. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-914171-77-1. Timothy Leary's Chaos & Cyber Culture is his futuristic vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computer and other brain technologies. This "cyberpunk manifesto" describes a new breed that loves...
Harvard University Press, 1993. — 160 p. Only Words is a 1993 book by Catharine MacKinnon. In this work of feminist legal theory, MacKinnon contends that the U.S. legal system has used a First Amendment basis to protect intimidation, subordination, terrorism, and discrimination as enacted through pornography, violating the equal protection guarantee of the Fourteenth Amendment....
Apple Academic Press, Inc., 2019. — 410 p. — ISBN: 1771886943. This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers' buying intentions and decisions. The chapters consider consumer behavior theory in the context of green or ecologically friendly products from...
Vinnitsa: Publishing house VSC Prometey, 2006 - 84 p. ISBN: 966-621-047-9 ISBN: 966-621-107-6 ISBN: 966-526-018-4 ISBN: 966-621-093-2 In his work, the author makes one more attempt to answer the main question of philosophy – what is primary the spirit or the matter. Analysis of frost patterns shows that the life in the Universe is typical and appears in line with the rule...
Vinnitsa: Publishing house VSC Prometey, 2006 - 84 p. ISBN: 966-621-047-9 ISBN: 966-621-107-6 ISBN: 966-526-018-4 ISBN: 966-621-093-2 In his work, the author makes one more attempt to answer the main question of philosophy – what is primary the spirit or the matter. Analysis of frost patterns shows that the life in the Universe is typical and appears in line with the rule...
Vinnitsa: Publishing house VSC Prometey, 2006. - 84 p. ISBN: 966-621-047-9 ISBN: 966-621-107-6 ISBN: 966-526-018-4 ISBN: 966-621-093-2 In his work, the author makes one more attempt to answer the main question of philosophy – what is primary the spirit or the matter. Analysis of frost patterns shows that the life in the Universe is typical and appears in line with the rule...
Princeton University Press, 2003. — 257 p. In an era of heightened concern about injustice in relations of identity and difference, political theorists often prescribe equal recognition as a remedy for the ills of subordination. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, they envision a system of reciprocal knowledge and esteem, in which the affirming glance of others lets everyone be...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — viii, 258 p. — ISBN: 978-1-5013-1665-4, 978-1-5013-1668-5, 978-1-5013-1666-1. This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 395 p. What do we owe to our descendants? How do we balance their needs against our own? Tim Mulgan develops a new theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He argues that the resulting theory accounts for a wide range of independently plausible...
London; Calcutta; Sydney : George G. Harrap W Co. LTD., 1923. — 320 p. The Story of Utopias, written and edited in 1922, is a unique work, in which Lewis Mumford makes the analysis of historical utopias, based on the distinction between utopias of escape and utopias of reconstruction, including these most classic literary utopias, Plato Edward Bellamy, through Thomas More,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 245 p. Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today. Reflecting the diversity of his many philosophical preoccupations, this volume is a collection of his most recent critical essays and reviews. The first section, Public and Private, focuses on the notion of privacy in the context of social and...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 360 p. Yes, that's right: The Freeman. This is the original, as edited by Albert Jay Nock in the early 1920s. It is radical, far-reaching, topical, and bracing in every way. Here we have a collection of what Nock himself considered to be the best of that journal, with many of the articles (probably even half) written by Nock himself. Don't...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2008. — 210 p. Here is that passage that explains why Albert Jay Nock called his book Snoring as a Fine Art: Snoring should be regarded as a fine art and respected accordingly. If this be admitted, I might suggest further that our civilization does not so regard it, as it should, and gives the practice no encouragement, but rather the contrary....
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011. — 124 p. This was Albert Jay Nock's first great anti-war book, a cause he backed his entire life as an essential component of a libertarian outlook. The book came out in 1922, and has been in very low circulation ever since. In fact, until this printing, it has been very difficult to obtain in physical form. The narrative has incredible staying...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011. — 124 p. This was Albert Jay Nock's first great anti-war book, a cause he backed his entire life as an essential component of a libertarian outlook. The book came out in 1922, and has been in very low circulation ever since. In fact, until this printing, it has been very difficult to obtain in physical form. The narrative has incredible staying...
Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2005. — 407 p. This collection of essays by eminent traditionalists and contemporary thinkers throws into sharp relief many of the urgent problems of today. Harry Oldmeadow. Introduction: Signs of the Times and the Light of Tradition Tradition and Modernity Frithjof Schuon. “No Activity Without Truth” René Guénon. A Material Civilization Brian Keeble....
Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2011. — 234 p. — (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education 78). — ISBN: 9460917070. Neuroscience has found that neuroplasticity of brain cells allows brains to invent themselves. Remodeling of brains can be facilitated by schools and universities. What may be done to accelerate that positive inventing so as to prepare for...
Routledge, 2007. — 255 p. Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso, Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those theories have ignored the question of time and sexual...
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. — XVIII, 350 p. " The End of Work is rich in detail, absorbing in its real-life relevance, and large in scope. An indispensable introduction to a problem that we (and our children) will be living with for the rest of our lives." Robert L. Heilbroner "Jeremy Rifkin adresses boldly and expertly a most important problem facing contemporary...
Palgrave, 2015. — 448 p. In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism. Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has...
Leiden: Brill, 2005. — 420 p. — ISBN10: 9004141596; ISBN13: 978-9004141599 Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy brings together a range of essays concerning ways of conceptualising modernities, subjectivities, and recognition. It highlights recent developments in German critical and social philosophy and includes essays by Martin Seel, Christoph Menke,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 344 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-13295-5. Recently there has been a major revival of interest in the connections between evolutionary theory, especially that of Darwin, and moral reasoning and action. This wide-ranging and clearly written book traces the history of evolutionary ethics and takes readers through the arguments involved. Historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 400 p. An international team of distinguished contributors examines the major figures in Critical Theory, including Adorno, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as lesser known but important thinkers. They survey the shared philosophical concerns that have given impetus to Critical Theory throughout its history, while at the same time showing the...
Russell Lao. God Will Work With You But Not For You. Copyright 1955 by Lao Russell. University of Science and Philosophy. Part I. The Eleventh Hour. Who Am I? What Am I? Why Am I Here? Mind Consciousness. Cosmic Consciousness. Christ Consciousness. Part II. Universal Oneness. Application of Universal Oneness. God's Balanced Universe. Man's Unbalanced World. Man-Woman Equality....
Harvard University Press, 1983. — 336 p. This extraordinarily wide-ranging work represents a new departure for contemporary literary theory. Author of Beginnings and the controversial Orientalism, Edward Said demonstrates that modern critical discourse has been impressively strengthened by the writings of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, for example, and by such influences...
2008. - 310 p. (In English). A thesis presented in fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand. Abstract Preface/Acknowledgements Illustrations Introdaction Postmodern Orientalism Cyberpunk and Drugs Cyberpunk and Rock Music The Cyborg and Prosthetics Cyberspace and the Virtual Orient Works Cites and...
Oxford University Press, 2010, - 304 p. (English language) The authors of this book are concerned about the new scale on which many of these pressing problems are now manifesting themselves. Because technology has been a key factor in triggering these issues in the first place, we believe it should also be part of solving them and of preventing similar problems from arising in...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 81 p. — ISBN10: 1137312394; ISBN13: 978-1137312396 This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and...
Routledge, 2004. — 320 p. Christopher J.Arthur Feminism and philosophy Mary Wollstonecraft and the Tensions in Feminist Philosophy Jean Grimshaw Hegel as Lord and Master Christopher J.Arthur Morality, Masculinity and the Market Ross Poole Feminism and the Logic of Morality: A Consideration of Alternatives Susan F.Parsons From Virginia Woolf to the Postmoderns: Development in a...
N.Y.: The Free Press, 1995. — 256 p. The Construction of Social Reality is an examination of the relation between physical and social reality. It discusses the ways in which social reality can be based on physical reality, and it investigates the nature of the rules that constitute and regulate the social world. It defends epistemological realism (the theory that there is a...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 310 p. Western Civilization--the American version in particular--is in a very turbulent and, perhaps terminal condition. The sense of civility that helps give meaning to a "civilization" is in full retreat. Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 wonderful essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and...
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012. — 310 p. Western Civilization--the American version in particular--is in a very turbulent and, perhaps terminal condition. The sense of civility that helps give meaning to a "civilization" is in full retreat. Butler Shaffer has, over the course of several years, written 51 wonderful essays observing the dissolution of Western culture and...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 328 p. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility is a series of volumes presenting outstanding new work on a set of connected themes, investigating such questions as: What does it mean to be an agent? What is the nature of moral responsibility? Of criminal responsibility? What is the relation between moral and criminal responsibility (if any)?...
Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002. — 344 p. — (Blackwell Philosophy Guides, Vol. 5). — ISBN: 0-631-22126-3 The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of...
Disinformation Books, 2015. — 290 p. Transhumanism is an international movement that advocates the use of science and technology to overcome the "natural" limitations experienced by humanity through such developments as: the Singularity--the creation of machine intelligences that exceed the capacities of our biological brains the ability to replicate individual minds and put...
University of Wales, Aberystwyth. - 2003. - 336 p. (In English). This thesis examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into two parts: theory and literature. Beginning with histories of nihilism and the sublime, the Enlightenment is constructed as a conflict between the two. Rather than promote a simple binarism,...
Gerry Stahl at Lulu.com., 2017. — 228 p. Truth as Value: Nietzsche’s Escape from Nihilism The Jargon of Authenticity: An Introduction to a Marxist Critique of Heidegger Attuned to Being: Heideggerian Music in Technological Society Sound and Society: an Essay on Electronic Music Utopian Optics: Theodor W. Adorno’s Prisms: Cultural Criticism and Society A Modern Voice for Marx...
Not specified, 2017. - 674 p. This collection of articles was written over the last 10 years and the most important and longest within the last year. Also I have edited them to bring them up to date (2016). The copyright page has the date of this first edition and new editions will be noted there as I edit old articles or add new ones. All the articles are about human behavior...
Oxford University Press, 2011. - 144 p. From Cicero and Augustine through the middle ages and into the Reformation, this Very Short Introduction considers conscience as a matter of human rights and obligations, as well as an important issue in contemporary politics. Written by Paul Strohm, an eminent authority in the field and an engaging writer, this compact book provides a...
New York: Routledge, 2002 - 275 p. Acknowledgements ix Іntroduction Body Gender Beauty and the face Hair The senses Touch Smell Sight Bodies and senses
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 111 p. — ISBN10: 0230391893; ISBN13: 978-0230391895. The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 239 p. Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection is a powerful and provocative critique of the foundations of Rational Choice theory and the economic way of thinking about the world, written by a former leading practitioner. The target is a dehumanizing ideology that cannot properly recognize that normal people have attachments and...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0735220565. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code — and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0735220565. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code — and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in...
Penguin Press, 2019. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0735220565. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code — and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — xvi, 360 p. — (Ideas in Context). — ISBN13: 978-0-511-46345-7. These two ambitious volumes from one of the world's most celebrated political philosophers present a new kind of political and legal theory that James Tully calls a public philosophy, and a complementary new way of thinking about active citizenship, called civic freedom. Professor...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 406 p. Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives, showing the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 267 p. Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex, and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke aruges that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. A...
London: Sage. 2009 Understanding Representation offers a contemporary, coherent and genuinely interdisciplinary introduction to the concept of representation. Drawing together the full range of ideas, practices, techniques and disciplines associated with the subject, this book locates them in a historical context, presents them in a readable fashion, and shows their relevance...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 576 p. This textbook provides a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. The book presents a sophisticated account of the theoretical foundations in an accessible and engaging manner. It then explores class using cross-national...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 311 p. This book provides students with a lively and penetrating exploration of the concept of class and its relevance for understanding a wide range of issues in contemporary society. What unites the topics is not a preoccupation with a common object of explanation, but rather a common explanatory factor: class. Three broad themes are...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 — 200 p. — ISBN10: 0192801821; ISBN13: 978-0192801821. Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial challenge to western dominance. This lively and innovative account of both the history and key debates of postcolonialism discusses its importance as an historical...
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