Despite an abundance of violence occurring in political contexts, no liberal political theorist since Thomas Hobbes has talked directly and coherently about death. John E. Seery does. He contends that liberalism desperately needs a theoretical framework in which to discuss pressing matters of human mortality. Among the contemporary political issues that cry out for theoretical articulation, Seery suggests, are abortion politics, ethnic cleansing, suicide assistance, national reparations, environmental degradation, and capital punishment. Seery offers a new conception of social contract theory as a framework for confronting death issues. He urges us to look to an older tradition of descent into an underworld, wherein classic theorists consulted poetically with the dead and acquired from them political insight and direction.In this lively book, Seery excavates the infernal tradition by rereading the politics of death in Platonism, early Christianity, and contemporary feminism. Building on those traditions, he proposes a new, constructive image of death that can serve democratic theory productively. Reconsidered from the "land of the shades," social contractarian theory is sufficiently altered that, for example, a pro-life Christian and a pro-choice secularist might be able to strike common ground upon which to discuss abortion politics.
Автор: Polt Richard, Wittrock Jon Название: The Task of Philosophy in the Anthropocene: Axial Echoes in Global Space ISBN: 1786605554 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786605559 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 27245.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The so-called anthropocene is one of the most widely discussed concepts in philosophy and critical theory at the moment. This volume takes a broad historical view of the topic, bringing together high profile theorists, including Luce Irigaray and Adrian Parr, providing a platform for highly original work in this important and timely field.
Автор: Thomas J. Fararo; Kenji Kosaka Название: Generating Images of Stratification ISBN: 9048163722 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048163724 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so.
Автор: Weigel Sigrid Название: Walter Benjamin ISBN: 0804780609 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804780605 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows Benjamin to explore the simultaneous distance from and orientation towards revelation and to deal with the difference and tensions between religious and profane ideas. In the process, Weigel identifies the double reference of 'life' to both nature and to a 'supernatural' sphere as a guiding concept of Benjamin's writings. Sensitive to the notorious difficulty of translating his language, she underscores just how much is lost in translation, particularly with regard to religious connotations. The book thus positions Benjamin with respect to the other European thinkers at the heart of current discussions of sovereignty and martyrdom, of holy and creaturely life. It corrects misreadings, including Agamben's staging of an affinity between Benjamin and Schmitt, and argues for the closeness of Benjamin's work to that of Aby Warburg, with whom Benjamin unsuccessfully attempted an intellectual exchange.
Автор: Tolia-Kelly, Divya P. Название: Visuality/Materiality ISBN: 1409412229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409412229 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Pollock Название: Figuring Animals ISBN: 1403965129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403965127 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 14673.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Figuring Animals is a collection of fifteen essays concerning the representation of animals in literature, the visual arts, philosophy, and cultural practice. At the turn of the new century, it is helpful to reconsider our inherited understandings of the species, some of which are still useful to us. It is also important to look ahead to new understandings and new dialogue, which may contribute to the survival of us all. The contributors to this volume participate in this dialogue in a variety of ways--through personal experience, natural history, cultural studies, philosophical inquiry, art history, literary analysis, film studies, and theoretical imagining, and through a combination of these trains of thought. The essays expose weaknesses in western epistemological frames of reference that for centuries have limited our views and, thus, our experiences of animal being, including our own.
Название: Found in Translation ISBN: 1138057061 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138057067 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Found in Translation: Connecting Reconceptualist Thinking with Early Childhood Education Practices highlights the relationships between reconceptualist theory and classroom practice. Each chapter in this edited collection considers a contemporary issue and explores its potential to disrupt the status quo and be meaningful in the lives of young children. The book pairs reconceptualist academics and practitioners to discuss how theories can be relevant in everyday educational contexts, working with children who are from a wide range of cultural, ethnic, gender, language, and social orientations to enable previously unimagined ways of being, thinking, and doing in contemporary times.
Автор: Donaldson Brianne Название: Future of Meat Without Animals ISBN: 1783489065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783489060 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6386.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume provides historical, material, aesthetic, and philosophical explorations of plant-based and in vitro food products, including multi-disciplinary approaches from industry, academia, and food advocates.
Автор: Magun Artemy Название: The Future of the State: Philosophy and Politics ISBN: 153814980X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538149805 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The state has been a dominant political form for at least the last two hundred years. This is a multi-authored volume exploring the transformation of state as it experiences historical and conceptual crisis and envisioning how it could be re-constituted.
Автор: Silke Panse Название: Ethical Materialities in Art and Moving Images ISBN: 1350427144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350427143 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Has postmodernism really changed the way the artist relates to their art and environment? Addressing the delicate entanglements between the ethical and the material, this book explores how ethics have figured in the generation of art and images in the 21st century. Starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world, this book develops new ethical thought that acknowledges art and film in their material and immaterial environment. In drawing on new materialism and continental philosophy, the chapters prove just how relative ethics become when applied to artistic creation. Questioning the ethicalities at play in the relations between the human artist, the art, non-human beings and the environment, practitioners contemplate the singular entanglements of relations and non-relations before, during or after a work of art or film comes into being.
Описание: Examines how the media in Britain, the USA and Switzerland framed events in China in the first half of the twentieth century. Analysing the transnational circulation of images, this title also shows how media images of China both reflected and contributed to the discursive construction of nationhood in each country.
Автор: Magun Artemy Название: The Future of the State: Philosophy and Politics ISBN: 1786614839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786614834 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 18860.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The state has been a dominant political form for at least the last two hundred years. This is a multi-authored volume exploring the transformation of state as it experiences historical and conceptual crisis and envisioning how it could be re-constituted.
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