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Cultural Theory After the Contemporary
By Stephen Tumino. 2011
Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized agency namely the power of people to shape social life …
Here Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysisChomsky and Deconstruction: The Politics of Unconscious Knowledge
By Christopher Wise. 2011
This book offers a careful and measured response to Noam Chomsky s criticism against deconstructive theories of language …
The author reveals the connections between Chomsky s linguistic theories and politics by demonstrating their shared philosophical basisPhilosophy of Engineering, East and West
By Carl Mitcham, Bocong Li, Byron Newberry, Baichun Zhang. 2018
This co-edited volume compares Chinese and Western experiences of engineering technology and development In doing so …
it builds a bridge between the East and West and advances a dialogue in the philosophy of engineering Divided into three parts the book starts with studies on epistemological and ontological issues with a special focus on engineering design creativity management feasibility and sustainability Part II considers relationships between the history and philosophy of engineering and includes a general argument for the necessity of dialogue between history and philosophy It continues with a general introduction to traditional Chinese attitudes toward engineering and technology and philosophical case studies of the Chinese steel industry railroads and cybernetics in the Soviet Union Part III focuses on engineering ethics and society with chapters on engineering education and practice in China and the West The book s analyses of the interactions of science engineering ethics politics and policy in different societal contexts are of special interest The volume as a whole marks a new stage in the emergence of the philosophy of engineering as a new regionalization of philosophy This carefully edited interdisciplinary volume grew out of an international conference on the philosophy of engineering hosted by the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing It includes 30 contributions by leading philosophers social scientists and engineers from Australia China Europe and the United StatesSpanish Philosophy of Technology
By Bel n Laspra, Jos Antonio L pez Cerezo. 2018
This volume features essays that detail the distinctive ways authors and researchers in Spanish speaking countries express their thoughts on…
contemporary philosophy of technology Written in English but fully capturing a Spanish perspective the essays bring the views and ideas of pioneer authors and many new ones to an international readership Coverage explores key topics in the philosophy of technology the ontological and epistemological aspects of technology development and innovation and new technological frontiers like nanotechnology and cloud computing In addition the book features case studies on philosophical queries Readers will discover such voices as Miguel ngel Quintanilla and Javier Echeverr a who are main references in the current landscape of philosophy of technology both in Spain and Spanish speaking countries Jos Luis Luj n who is a leading Spanish author in research about technological risk and Emilio Mu oz former head of the Spanish National Research Council and an authority on Spanish science policy The volume also covers thinkers in American Spanish speaking countries such as Jorge Linares an influential researcher in ethical issues Judith Sutz who has a very recognized work on social issues concerning innovation Carlos Osorio who focuses his work on technological determinism and the social appropriation of technology and Diego Lawler an important researcher in the ontological aspects of technologyChampion of Choice: The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik
By Cathleen Miller. 2013
Not many women can claim to have changed history but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth …
and change the world she did Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik born into a prominent Indian family in 1929 came to be the world s foremost advocate for women s health and reproductive rights the first female director of a United Nations agency and one of the most powerful women in the world London Times An obstetrician wife mother and devout Muslim Sadik has been a courageous and tireless advocate for women insisting on discussing the difficult issues that impact their lives education contraception abortion as well as rape and other forms of violence After Sadik joined the fledgling UN Population Fund in 1971 her groundbreaking strategy for providing females with education and the tools to control their own fertility has dramatically influenced the global birthrate This book is the first to examine Sadik s contribution to history and the unconventional methods she has employed to go head-to-head with world leaders to improve millions of women s lives Interspersed between the chapters recounting Sadik s life are vignettes of females around the globe who represent her campaign against domestic abuse child marriage genital mutilation and other human rights violations With its insights into the political religious and domestic battles that have dominated women s destinies Sadik s life story is as inspirational as it is dramaticPolitical Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric
By Giuseppe Ballacci. 2018
This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy It demonstrates how…
this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric as it was discussed by Plato Aristotle and above all Cicero and Quintilian who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H Arendt L Strauss and R Rorty The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics rhetoric and philosophyNeuroscience and Social Science
By Agustín Ibáñez, Lucas Sedeño, Adolfo M. García. 2017
This book seeks to build bridges between neuroscience and social science empirical researchers and theorists working around the world, integrating…
perspectives from both fields, separating real from spurious divides between them and delineating new challenges for future investigation. Since its inception in the early 2000s, multilevel social neuroscience has dramatically reshaped our understanding of the affective and cultural dimensions of neurocognition. Thanks to its explanatory pluralism, this field has moved beyond long standing dichotomies and reductionisms, offering a neurobiological perspective on topics classically monopolized by non-scientific traditions, such as consciousness, subjectivity, and intersubjectivity. Moreover, it has forged new paths for dialogue with disciplines which directly address societal dynamics, such as economics, law, education, public policy making and sociology. At the same time, beyond internal changes in the field of neuroscience, new problems emerge in the dialogue with other disciplines.Neuroscience and Social Science – The Missing Link puts together contributions by experts interested in the convergences, divergences, and controversies across these fields. The volume presents empirical studies on the interplay between relevant levels of inquiry (neural, psychological, social), chapters rooted in specific scholarly traditions (neuroscience, sociology, philosophy of science, public policy making), as well as proposals of new theoretical foundations to enhance the rapprochement in question.By putting neuroscientists and social scientists face to face, the book promotes new reflections on this much needed marriage while opening opportunities for social neuroscience to plunge from the laboratory into the core of social life. This transdisciplinary approach makes Neuroscience and Social Science – The Missing Link an important resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in the social dimension of human mind working in different fields, such as social neuroscience, social sciences, cognitive science, psychology, behavioral science, linguistics, and philosophy.Eleanor Marx: A Biography
By Yvonne Kapp. 1972
New edition of Yvonne Kapp's much-celebrated biographyEleanor Marx is one of the most tragically overlooked feminists intellectuals in history. To…
the extent that she is known, interest in her is often limited to her proximity to Karl Marx, her father. But not only did she edit, translate, transcribe and collaborate with him, she also spent her extraordinary life putting his ideas into practice as a labour organizer and radical. This highly acclaimed biography brilliantly succeeds in capturing Eleanor's spirit, from a lively child, opining on the world's affairs, to the new woman, aspiring to the stage, earning her living as a free intellectual, and helping to lead England's unskilled workers at the height of the new unionism; being always more than, yet at the same time inescapably, Karl Marx's daughter. It is also, inevitably, an unrivalled biography of the Marx household in Victorian London, of the Marx circle, and of Friedrich Engels, the family's extraordinary mentor.Eleanor's biography appeared first at the height of feminist organizing, and does so again in this single-volume edition as the interest in feminism resurges, as a crucial corrective to a narrative that puts feminists and marxists on opposing sides of radical history.Friedrich Nietzsche is often depicted in popular and scholarly discourse as a lonely philosopher dealing with abstract concerns unconnected to…
the intellectual debates of his time and place. Robert C. Holub counters this narrative, arguing that Nietzsche was very well attuned to the events and issues of his era and responded to them frequently in his writings. Organized around nine important questions circulating in Europe at the time in the realms of politics, society, and science, Nietzsche in the Nineteenth Century presents a thorough investigation of Nietzsche's familiarity with contemporary life, his contact with and comments on these various questions, and the sources from which he gathered his knowledge.Holub begins his analysis with Nietzsche's views on education, nationhood, and the working-class movement, turns to questions of women and women's emancipation, colonialism, and Jews and Judaism, and looks at Nietzsche's dealings with evolutionary biology, cosmological theories, and the new "science" of eugenics. He shows how Nietzsche, although infrequently read during his lifetime, formulated his thought in an ongoing dialogue with the concerns of his contemporaries, and how his philosophy can be conceived as a contribution to the debates taking place in the nineteenth century. Throughout his examination, Holub finds that, against conventional wisdom, Nietzsche was only indirectly in conversation with the modern philosophical tradition from Descartes through German idealism, and that the books and individuals central to his development were more obscure writers, most of whom have long since been forgotten.This book thus sheds light on Nietzsche's thought as enmeshed in a web of nineteenth-century discourses and offers new insights into his interactive method of engaging with the philosophical universe of his time.A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century a new age…
began the age of questions In the Eastern and Belgian questions as much as in the slavery worker social woman and Jewish questions contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved Alexis de Tocqueville Victor Hugo Karl Marx Frederick Douglass Fyodor Dostoevsky Rosa Luxemburg and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose what trajectory it followed and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century Was there a family resemblance between questions Have they disappeared or are they on the rise again in our time In this pioneering book Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis presenting chapter by chapter seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation of women slaves Jews laborers and others a steady inexorable march toward genocide and the Final Solution or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries Or was it simply a farce a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions As the arguments clash patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move historyFor a Left Populism
By Chantal Mouffe. 2018
What is the populist moment and what does it mean for the left Populism today is…
the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics It is more than an ideology or a political regime It is a way of doing politics that can take various forms but emerges when one aims at building a new subject of collective action--the people In this new book the leading political thinker Chantal Mouffe proposes a new way to define left populism The political is to be constructed by establishing a political frontier that divides society into two camps mobilising an underdog against those in power Populism far from being a perversion of democracy constitutes the most adequate political force to recover and reconstitute itself This new politics must recognise its partisan character This presents itself as more than the image of demagoguery and emotive rabbles seen across our media Furthermore it is an urgent struggle because the future will be formed by the kind of populism that emerges victorious from the conflict against the current threats of post-politics and post-democracyWhat kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader The question seems utterly cynical But …
as David Runciman suggests it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere Political Hypocrisy is a timely and timeless book on the problems of sincerity and truth in politics and how we can deal with them without slipping into hypocrisy ourselves Runciman draws on the work of some of the great truth-tellers in modern political thought--Hobbes Mandeville Jefferson Bentham Sidgwick and Orwell--and applies his ideas to different kinds of hypocritical politicians from Oliver Cromwell to Hillary Clinton He argues that we should accept hypocrisy as a fact of politics--the most dangerous form of political hypocrisy is to claim to have a politics without hypocrisy Featuring a new foreword that takes the story up to Donald Trump this book examines why instead of vainly searching for authentic politicians we should try to distinguish between harmless and harmful hypocrisies and worry only about the most damaging varietiesThe Republic
By Plato.
Plato’s most famous work and the bedrock of Western philosophy Written in the form of a Socratic dialogue, The Republic…
is an investigation into the nature of an ideal society. In this far-reaching and profoundly influential treatise, Plato explores the concept of justice, the connection between politics and psychology, the difference between words and what they represent, and the roles of art and education, among many other topics. A towering achievement of philosophical insight, The Republic is as relevant to readers today as it was to the citizens of ancient Athens. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Rights of Man
By Thomas Paine.
The Founding Father’s most influential work: an impassioned defense of democracy and revolution in the name of human rights.Whatever is…
my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. In Rights of Man, Founding Father of the United States Thomas Paine makes a compelling case in favor of the French Revolution. Written in response to Edmund Burke’s highly critical Reflections on the Revolution in France, its forceful rebuke of aristocratic rule and persuasive endorsement of self-government made it one of the most influential political statements in history. Paine asserts that human rights are not granted by the government but inherent to man’s nature. He goes on to argue that the purpose of government is to protect these natural rights, and if a government fails to do so, its people are duty-bound to revolution. Originally published in two parts, in 1791 and 1792, Rights of Man was a popular sensation in the United States, while in England, its incendiary views were seen as a threat to the Crown. For its erudite prose and rigorous argumentation, it remains a classic text of political thought. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
By Amanda Guillán. 2017
This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher s system of pragmatic idealism It also looks at his approach to…
prediction in science Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science The author offers a full characterization of Rescher s system of philosophy She presents readers with a comprehensive philosophico-methodological analysis of this important work Her research takes into account different thematic realms semantic logical epistemological methodological ontological axiological and ethical The book features three thematic-parts I General Coordinates Semantic Features and Logical Components of Scientific Prediction II Predictive Knowledge and Predictive Processes in Rescher s Methodological Pragmatism and III From Reality to Values Ontological Features Axiological Elements and Ethical Aspects of Scientific Prediction This insightful analysis offers a critical reconstruction of Rescher s philosophy The system he created is often characterized as pragmatic idealism that is open to some realist elements He is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism who has made a great deal of contributions to the study of this topic This area is crucial for science and it has been little considered in the philosophy of scienceSound Poetics
By Seán Street. 2017
This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally through imagination memory and direct response…
In doing so it explores how the mind makes sound through experience as it interprets codes on the written page and creates an internal leitmotif that then interacts with new sounds made through an aural partnership with the external world chosen and involuntary exposure to music and sound messages both friendly and antagonistic to the identity of the self It creates an argument for sound as an underlying force that links us to the world we inhabit an essential part of being in the same primal sense as the calls of birds and other inhabitants of a shared earth Street argues that sound as a poetic force is part of who we are linked to our visualisation and sense of the world as idea and presence within us This incredibly interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to scholars of radio sound media and literature as well as philosophy and psychologyLinjis Weg zum Glück: Wie sich Rationalität und Achtsamkeit zur Lebenskunst verbinden
By Jens Wimmers. 2018
Wie kommen Glück und Sinn zusammen? Dieses Buch ist ein Wegweiser zu einer neuen Form der Lebenskunst. Wir gehen davon…
aus, dass der Schlüssel zum Glück in der Veränderung des eigenen Bewusstseins liegt. Die Art und Weise, wie wir uns selbst und unsere Umwelt wahrnehmen, entscheidet maßgeblich darüber, ob wir glücklich werden. Aber als moderne, selbstbestimmte Menschen folgen wir noch einem weiteren Ziel: Wir wollen unser Leben sinnvoll gestalten. Sinn und Glück sind die zentralen Herausforderungen für eine gelingende Lebensführung. Doch zwischen dem intuitiven Glücksempfinden und unserem rationalen Denken wird häufig ein einander ausschließender Widerspruch ausgemacht. Demnach könne nur glücklich werden, wer sich von den Zwängen der Rationalität befreit. Das Buch zeigt, dass ein solches Verständnis die tiefere Dimension von Glück und Sinn noch nicht erfasst. Denn zum Glück im Ganzen gehört auch das Verstehen der Sinnzusammenhänge. Und wer in schwierigen Entscheidungssituationen intuitives Glücksempfinden berücksichtigt, handelt klug, weil er damit die Möglichkeiten der Rationalität voll ausschöpft.Jens Wimmers zeigt anhand der philosophischen Interpretation der Achtsamkeitslehre des Abts Linji, wie „Herz“ und „Kopf “ miteinander verbunden sind. Dies führt zu einem tieferen Verständnis für das, was ein gelingendes Leben ausmacht: die Einheit von glücklichem Empfinden und sinnvollem Entscheiden. Die hier an praktischen Beispielen vorgestellte Lebenskunst ist die bewusste Erweiterung von Achtsamkeit und Rationalität. Sie ermöglicht uns, das Leben so zu gestalten, dass das eigene Glück sinnvoll wird und der erkannte Sinn glücklich macht.Uncertainty in Economics
By Julia Köhn. 2017
In this book the author develops a new approach to uncertainty in economics, which calls for a fundamental change in…
the methodology of economics. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical appraisal of the economic theory of uncertainty and shows that uncertainty was originally conceptualized both as an epistemic and an ontological problem. As a result of the economic professions’ attempt to become acknowledged as a science, the more problematic aspect of ontological uncertainty has been neglected and the subjective probability approach to uncertainty became dominant in economic theory. A careful analysis of ontological theories of uncertainty explains the blindness of modern economics to economic phenomena such as instability, slumps or excessive booms. Based on these findings the author develops a new approach that legitimizes a New Uncertainty Paradigm in economics.General Reports of the XIXth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law Rapports Généraux du XIXème Congrès de l'Académie Internationale de Droit Comparé
By Martin Schauer, Bea Verschraegen. 2017
This book deals with convergences of legal doctrine despite jurisdictional cultural and political barriers and of divergences…
due to such barriers examining topics that are of vital importance to contemporary legal scholars Written by leading scholars from more than twenty countries its thirty-two chapters present a comparative analysis of cutting-edge legal topics of the 21st century While each of the countries covered stands alone as a sovereign state in a technologically advanced world their disparate systems nonetheless show comparable strategies in dealing with complex legal issues The book is a critical addition to the library of any scholar hoping to keep abreast of the major trends in contemporary law It covers a vast area of topics that are dealt with from a comparative point of view and represents the current state of law in each areaDomesticating Human Rights
By Fidèle Ingiyimbere. 2017
This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political…
critics of human rights who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights that is why they have to be taken seriously At the same time the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture Thus after elaborating and exposing these criticisms the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and J rgen Habermas in order to see whether they can be addressed Unfortunately they are not Therefore having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postcolonial challenges the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights Confronted to the challenges this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights as well as the tension between universalism and relativism