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Economic Objects and the Objects of Economics
By L szl Zsolnai, Peter R na. 2018
This book examines the nature of economic objects that form the subject matter of economics, and studies how they resemble…
or differ from the objects studied by the natural sciences. It explores the question of whether economic objects created by modern economics sufficiently represent economic reality, and confronts the question whether tools, techniques and the methodology borrowed from the natural sciences are appropriate for the analysis of economic reality. It demonstrates the unsustainability of rational choice theory. It looks at economic agents, such as individuals, groups, legally constituted entities, algorithms, or robots, how they function and how they are represented in economics. The volume further examines the extent, if any, that mathematics can represent the objects of the economy, such as supply and demand, equilibrium, marginal utility, or the money supply as they actually occur in the economy, and as they are represented in economics. Finally, the volume explores whether the subject matter of economics – however defined – is the proper subject of theoretical knowledge, whether economics is an analytic or a descriptive discipline, or if it is more properly seen in the domain of practical reason. Specifically, the book looks at the importance and the ambiguity of the ontology of modern economics, temporality, reflexivity, the question of incommensurability, and their implications for economic policy.The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
By Ward Farnsworth. 2018
Stoicism is the most helpful and practical philosophy ever devised. Its intention is to help people find happiness by thinking…
differently about their lives and their problems. The advice the Stoics provided centuries ago is still the best anyone has offered, and it’s as useful today as it was then—or more. When anyone today says something really wise, the Stoics usually said it first. Today the word “stoicism” is often used to mean suffering without complaint, but the true ideas, and ideals, of the Stoics are far more powerful and interesting. Stoicism means knowing the difference between what we can control and we can’t, and not worrying about the latter. The Stoics were masters of perspective, always taking the long view while remembering that life is short. And they were deep and insightful students of human nature, understanding how we manage to make ourselves miserable as well as how we seek and can find fulfillment. The great insights of the Stoics are spread over a wide range of ancient sources. This book brings them all together for the first time. It systematically presents what the various Stoic philosophers said on every important topic, accompanied by an eloquent commentary that is clear and concise. The result is a set of philosophy lessons for everyone—the most valuable wisdom of ages past made available for our times, and for all time.Borderology: Along the Green Belt (Springer Geography)
By Jan Selmer Methi, Andrei Sergeev, Małgorzata Bieńkowska, Basia Nikiforova. 2019
This book provides a unique and multifaceted view on and understanding of borders and their manifestations: physical and mental, cultural…
and geographical, and as a question of life and death. It highlights the Green Belt along the Iron Curtain, which offered a haven for rare species for many decades and, after the Cold War, became a veritable treasure trove for a European network of researchers. A geographical border is something that can be seen, but other borders sometimes have to be crossed to be discovered. The border zone is an arena for development that is not found in any other places. This book focuses on borderology, which became the name of a cross-border study and research program that explores the border zone from multiple perspectives. This cross-disciplinary book will appeal to interested researchers and students from many fields, from philosophy and diplomacy to ecology and geography.What is Reality?: The New Map of Cosmos, Consciousness, and Existence
By Deepak Chopra, Stanislav Grof, Ervin Laszlo. 2016
Ervin Laszlo's tour de force, What is Reality?, is the product of a half-century of deep contemplation and cutting-edge scholarship.…
Addressing many of the paradoxes that have confounded modern science over the years, it offers nothing less than a new paradigm of reality, one in which the cosmos is a seamless whole, informed by a single, coherent consciousness manifest in us all. Bringing together science, philosophy, and metaphysics, Laszlo takes aim at accepted wisdom, such as the dichotomies of mind and body, spirit and matter, being and nonbeing, to show how we are all part of an infinite cycle of existence unfolding in spacetime and beyond.Augmented by insightful commentary from a dozen scholars and thinkers, along with a foreword by Deepak Chopra and an introduction by Stanislav Grof, What is Reality? offers a fresh and liberating understanding of the meaning and purpose of existence.Exploring Transdisciplinarity in Art and Sciences
By Zoï Kapoula, Emmanuelle Volle, Julien Renoult, Moreno Andreatta. 2018
The book is organized around 4 sections. The first deals with the creativity and its neural basis (responsible editor Emmanuelle…
Volle). The second section concerns the neurophysiology of aesthetics (responsible editor Zoï Kapoula). It covers a large spectrum of different experimental approaches going from architecture, to process of architectural creation and issues of architectural impact on the gesture of the observer. Neurophysiological aspects such as space navigation, gesture, body posture control are involved in the experiments described as well as questions about terminology and valid methodology. The next chapter contains studies on music, mathematics and brain (responsible editor Moreno Andreatta). The final section deals with evolutionary aesthetics (responsible editor Julien Renoult).Chapter "Composing Music from Neuronal Activity: The Spikiss Project" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Path of Compassion
By Thich Nhat Hanh. 2012
Path of Compassion is a collection of key stories from Thich Nhat Hanh’s classic Old Path White Clouds, a book…
celebrating its 20th publishing anniversary this year. It tells the fascinating life story of Prince Siddhartha, who left his family and renounced his carefully guarded life, and after many years of spiritual seeking became the Buddha, the Enlightened One. Far more than the description of an unusual life story, it serves as an enjoyable, compelling, and informative introduction to Buddhism by conveying its most important teachings in a compact and accessible format.Thich Nhat Hanh’s ability to show the Buddha as a person who deals with the same life issues as we do is unique and unsurpassed. Written in language accessible to readers of all ages and levels of experience Thich Nhat Hanh combines the description of the major life stages of the Buddha with his most important teachings. Reaching far beyond the biography genre Path of Compassion is a highly readable and informative introduction to Buddhism.Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism: Ethnographies from South America (Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference)
By Cecilie degaard, Juan Javier Rivera And a. 2019
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of…
indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?Desobedecer
By Fr d ric Gros. 2018
Desobedecer es obedecerse a sí mismo. Un libro contra el conformismo generalizado y la inercia del mundo actual, por el…
autor de Andar. Una filosofía. «¿Por qué desobedecer? Basta con tener ojos en la cara. La desobediencia está tan justificada, es tan normal, que lo que choca es la falta de reacción, la pasividad.» Desobedecer debería ser una necesidad urgente y compartida. En esta estimulante invitación a ser responsables, valientes y por lo tanto desobedientes, Frédéric Gros desmitifica todas nuestras razones para acatar las normas, analiza nuestra capacidad de aceptar lo inaceptable y defiende la transgresión como única manera, hoy, de reafirmar nuestra humanidad. La historia nos ha mostrado con fuerza la figura de los monstruos de la obediencia, y nuestra ancestral tendencia a la sumisión lleva siglos intrigando a los filósofos. En conversación con autores como Sócrates, Montaigne, Arendt, Thoreau o Kant, que nos convencen de hasta qué punto transgredir puede ser razonable, Gros nos acompaña en un ameno recorrido por la historia del conformismo, repleto de anécdotas y ejemplos, y nos permite así descubrir, inventar y provocar nuevas y originales formas de desobediencia. Este libro nos recuerda que la filosofía, en el fondo, es precisamente el pensamiento en rebelión, y nos ofrece una verdadera ética de la desobediencia frente al desastre colectivo de nuestro mundo actual, que se alimenta de conformismo y cobardía. Críticas:«Una reflexión personal de admirable claridad e inteligencia. Gros rastrea con placer esa parcela de responsabilidad que corresponde a cada uno de nosotros, por nuestros silencios, por nuestras rutinas, por nuestras coartadas, en el sistema general de obediencia. He aquí un ensayo que le gustaría a Sócrates.»Roger-Pol Droit, Le Monde «El filósofo Frédéric Gros analiza los resortes de nuestra pasividad. El ciudadano se somete por miedo, conformismo o placer. Pero también para huir de su responsabilidad. La desobediencia no está reñida con la democracia.»Libération «Magistral. Frédéric Gros muestra la desobediencia como un horizonte político al mismo tiempo eterno y extremadamente contemporáneo, pues resuena en las voces insurrectas de hoy.»Les Inrockuptibles «Un tema palpitante. Merece esa pequeña toma de distancia que es la lectura de un libro.»L'Express «Un ensayo profundo y saludable.»L'Humanité «¡Inspirador!»ElleEl traslado: Narrativas contra la idiotez y la barbarie
By Enrique Díaz Álvarez. 2015
Enrique Díaz Álvarez invita a los lectores a prestar atención a aquellas narrativas que nos sensibilizan contra el abuso de…
poder, el racismo, el fanatismo, el dolor de los demás. Un ensayo cuyo punto de partida son los flujos migratorios actuales como espacio ejemplar para analizar las formas de luchar contra el fanatismo y la apatía de las sociedades contemporáneas. Nada es más frecuente en las sociedades contemporáneas que el miedo y la indiferencia hacia lo extraño. Parecemos incapaces de desechar los prejuicios que impiden cuestionar los relatos discriminatorios que nos separan. Sin duda, buena parte de la decadencia de la vida pública tiene raíz en la poca disposición para ponernos en el lugar del otro. "Un acto de hospitalidad no puede ser sino poético", dice Jacques Derrida en el epígrafe de este libro, cuyo punto de partida es una premisa fundamental: la imaginación es un acto de resistencia política en tanto que suscita el traslado, esto es, la posibilidad de experimentar significativamente la vida de los otros. Hay que tener en cuenta este poder para hospedar e implicarnos con cuerpos e historias ajenas si queremos combatir la barbarie y esa idiotez que nos aísla de lo público. La propuesta de esta obra es decisiva: para revertir algo del descrédito de la política debe prestarse atención a aquellas narrativas que nos sensibilizan contra el abuso de poder, el racismo, el fanatismo, el dolor de los demás. La vida en común nos exige cultivar ese simulacro que revela la individualidad y las condiciones sociales de personas con otra ideología, religión o cultura. Otros autores han opinado: "De Enrique Díaz Álvarez cabía esperar este paso: hábil montador de historias en el cine, se ha trasladado al ensayo y propone una literatura de resistencia ante los discursos invasores. Un libro muy sugerente, creativo, absolutamente recomendable." - Enrique Vila-Matas.Ancient Greek Philosophers (Leather-bound Classics)
By Kenneth Mondschein, Editors of Canterbury Classics. 2018
"Philosophy begins in wonder." --PlatoHave you ever wondered about the development of civilization? What topics were discussed in the days…
of Ancient Greece? This collection of thoughts from Plato, Aristotle, and other masters of philosophy will lead your mind on a journey of enlightened exploration into ethics, morality, law, medicine, and more. With an introduction by a distinguished scholar of classic literature, this Canterbury Classics volume is sure to be a favorite keepsake edition.The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
By Thomas Ligotti. 2010
In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument…
that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality."There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world."His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work.This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method…
for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the unthinkable in performance, it asks how philosophy can approach what cannot be thought while honouring and preserving its alterity. Employing its method, it creates a series of encounters between aspects of Beckett’s theatrical practice and a range of concepts drawn from Deleuze’s philosophy. Through the force of these encounters, a new range of concepts is invented. These provide novel ways of thinking affect and the body in performance; the possibility of theatrical automation; and the importance of failure and invention in our attempts to respond to performance encounters. Further, this book includes new approaches to Beckett’s later theatrical work and provides an overview of Deleuze’s conception of philosophical practice as an ongoing struggle to think with immanence.Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism: Reification Revalued (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)
By Richard Westerman. 2019
This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how…
the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism. Reading Lukács’s work through the so-called “Heidelberg Aesthetics” reveals for the first time a range of unsuspected influences on his thought, such as Edmund Husserl, Emil Lask, and Alois Riegl; it also offers a theory of subjectivity within social relations that avoids many of the problems of earlier readings of his text. At a time when Lukács’s reputation is once more on the rise, this bold new reading helps revitalize his thought in ways that help it speak to contemporary concerns.The Freedom to Be Free: From Thinking Without a Banister (A Vintage Short)
By Hannah Arendt. 2018
This lecture is a brilliant encapsulation of Arendt’s widely influential arguments on revolution, and why the American Revolution—unlike all those…
preceding it—was uniquely able to install political freedom. “The Freedom to be Free” was first published in Thinking Without a Banister, a varied collection of Arendt’s essays, lectures, reviews, interviews, speeches, and editorials—which, taken together, manifest the relentless activity of her mind and character and contain within them the articulations of wide and sophisticated range of her political thought. A Vintage Shorts Selection. An ebook short.Hölderlin's Hymn "Remembrance" (Studies in Continental Thought)
By Martin Heidegger, Julia Ireland, William McNeill. 2018
Martin Heidegger's 1941–1942 lecture course on Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn, "Remembrance," delivered immediately following his confrontation with Nietzsche, lays out a…
detailed plan for the interpretation of Hölderlin's poetry in which remembrance is a central concern. With its emphasis on the "free use of the national" and the "holy of the fatherland," the course marks an important progression in Heidegger's political thought. In addition to its startlingly innovative analyses of greeting, the festive, and the dream, the text provides Heidegger's fullest elaboration of the structure of commemorative thinking in relationship to time and the possibility of an "other beginning." This English translation by William McNeill and Julia Ireland completes the series of Heidegger's major lecture courses on Hölderlin.The Experimental Side of Modeling (Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
By Isabelle Peschard, Bas C van Fraassen. 2018
An innovative, multifaceted approach to scientific experiments as designed by and shaped through interaction with the modeling process The role…
of scientific modeling in mediation between theories and phenomena is a critical topic within the philosophy of science, touching on issues from climate modeling to synthetic models in biology, high energy particle physics, and cognitive sciences. Offering a radically new conception of the role of data in the scientific modeling process as well as a new awareness of the problematic aspects of data, this cutting-edge volume offers a multifaceted view on experiments as designed and shaped in interaction with the modeling process.Contributors address such issues as the construction of models in conjunction with scientific experimentation; the status of measurement and the function of experiment in the identification of relevant parameters; how the phenomena under study are reconceived when accounted for by a model; and the interplay between experimenting, modeling, and simulation when results do not mesh. Highlighting the mediating role of models and the model-dependence (as well as theory-dependence) of data measurement, this volume proposes a normative and conceptual innovation in scientific modeling—that the phenomena to be investigated and modeled must not be precisely identified at the start but specified during the course of the interactions arising between experimental and modeling activities.Contributors: Nancy D. Cartwright, U of California, San Diego; Anthony Chemero, U of Cincinnati; Ronald N. Giere, U of Minnesota; Jenann Ismael, U of Arizona; Tarja Knuuttila, U of South Carolina; Andrea Loettgers, U of Bern, Switzerland; Deborah Mayo, Virginia Tech; Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan U; Paul Teller, U of California, Davis; Michael Weisberg, U of Pennsylvania; Eric Winsberg, U of South Florida.Taking Turns with the Earth: Phenomenology, Deconstruction, and Intergenerational Justice
By Matthias Fritsch. 2018
The environmental crisis, one of the great challenges of our time, tends to disenfranchise those who come after us. Arguing…
that as temporary inhabitants of the earth, we cannot be indifferent to future generations, this book draws on the resources of phenomenology and poststructuralism to help us conceive of moral relations in connection with human temporality. Demonstrating that moral and political normativity emerge with generational time, the time of birth and death, this book proposes two related models of intergenerational and environmental justice. The first entails a form of indirect reciprocity, in which we owe future people both because of their needs and interests and because we ourselves have been the beneficiaries of peoples past; the second posits a generational taking of turns that Matthias Fritsch applies to both our institutions and our natural environment, in other words, to the earth as a whole. Offering new readings of key philosophers, and emphasizing the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida in particular, Taking Turns with the Earth disrupts human-centered notions of terrestrial appropriation and sharing to give us a new continental philosophical account of future-oriented justice.Abiding Grace: Time, Modernity, Death (Religion and Postmodernism)
By Mark Taylor. 2018
Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of…
his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end? Abiding Grace navigates the competing Hegelian and Kierkegaardian trajectories born out of the Reformation and finds Taylor arguing from spaces in between, showing how both narratives have shaped recent philosophy and culture. For Hegel, Luther’s internalization of faith anticipated the modern principle of autonomy, which reached its fullest expression in speculative philosophy. The closure of the Hegelian system still endures in the twenty-first century in consumer society, financial capitalism, and virtual culture. For Kierkegaard, by contrast, Luther’s God remains radically transcendent, while finite human beings and their world remain fully dependent. From this insight, Heidegger and Derrida developed an alternative view of time in which a radically open future breaks into the present to transform the past, demonstrating that, far from autonomous, life is a gift from an Other that can never be known. Offering an alternative genealogy of deconstruction that traces its pedigree back to readings of Paul by way of Luther, Abiding Grace presents a thoroughgoing critique of modernity and postmodernity’s will to power and mastery. In this new philosophical and theological vision, history is not over and the future remains endlessly open.Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
By Francis Fukuyama. 2018
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics:…
its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of stateIn 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy.Identity is an urgent and necessary book—a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.Religion, Pacifism, and Nonviolence (Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion)
By James Kellenberger. 2018
This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form. Pacifism is one…
religious approach to war and violence. Another is embodied in just war theories, and both pacifism and just war thinking are critically examined. Although moral support for pacifism is presented, a main focus of the book is on religious support for pacifism, found in various religious traditions. A crucial distinction for pacifism is that between force and violence. Pacifism informed by nonviolence excludes violence, but, the book argues, allows forms of force. Peacekeeping is an activity that on the face of it seems compatible with pacifism, and several different forms of peacekeeping are examined. The implications of nonviolence for the treatment of nonhuman animals are also examined. Two models for attaining the conditions required for a world without war have been proposed. Both are treated and one, the model of a biological human family, is developed. The book concludes with reflections on the role of pacifism in each of five possible futurescapes.