Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Experience Machines
The Philosophy of Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give you any experience you desired'. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing...
Theorizing Justice
Critical Insights and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
A Theory of Justice, re-ignited political philosophy and revolutionized how we theorize about justice. Rawls’s approach to justice advanced political philosophy in important and valuable ways – most significantly in the way that it showed that political philosophy remained relevant for our lives...
Commercium
Critical Theory From a Cosmopolitan Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a wealth of discussion and controversy about the idea of a ‘postnational’ or ‘cosmopolitan’ politics. But while there are many normative theories of cosmopolitanism, as well as some cosmopolitan theories of globalization, there has been little...
Homo Interpretans
Towards a Transformation of Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author's perspective...
Gilbert Simondon
Information, Technology and Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology,
The...
Beyond Power and Resistance
Politics at the Radical Limits
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Has political resistance has lost its ability to confront political and economic power and achieve social change? Despite its best intentions, resistance has often become incorporated and neutered before it achieves its aims, as new forms of power absorb it and turn it towards their own ends.
Since...
Rethinking Racial Capitalism
Questions of Reproduction and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources?
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a return to analyses of racial capitalism – the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Processes of neoliberal globalization have put national trade unions under pressure as the transnational organization of production puts these labour movements in competition with each other. The global economic crisis has intensified these pressures further. And yet, economic and political integration...
Cultural Policy and East Asian Rivalry
The Hong Kong Gaming Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Hong Kong was once an established hub of creativity in Asia recognized internationally for its cinema, Bruce Lee and Kung Fu. Cantopop, its particular form of pop music, was popular throughout China and East Asia from the 1970s. So why is Hong Kong’s creative industry today in a state of stagnation?
Cultural...
The Birth of Austerity
German Ordoliberalism and Contemporary Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Ordoliberalism and the ‘Freiburg School’ have gained traction in contemporary political economy in response to two factors: a rising interest in governmentality studies and the banking, financial and sovereign debt crisis in Europe. In the face of these crises, Germany has assumed a position of...
Global Development and Colonial Power
German Development Policy at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
Although Germany was one of the principal colonising nations in Africa and today is the world’s second largest aid donor , there is no literature on the postcolonial condition of contemporary German development policy.
This book explores German development endeavours by state institutions...
The Limits to Capitalist Nature
Theorizing and Overcoming the Imperial Mode of Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The book provides for a historical-materialist understanding of the multiple crises of capitalism, focusing on the ecological crisis and its interaction with other crisis phenomena (financial crisis, crisis of democracy, economic crisis). Drawing on political ecology, Gramscian theory of hegemony,...
The Aesthetics of Violence
Art, Fiction, Drama and Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Violence at an aesthetic remove from the spectator or reader has been a key element of narrative and visual arts since Greek antiquity. Here Robert Appelbaum explores the nature of mimesis, aggression, the effects of antagonism and victimization and the political uses of art throughout history. He...
Case Studies on Corporations and Global Health Governance
Impacts, Influence and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
There is growing evidence of the wide-ranging impacts of corporations in selected industries on global patterns of health and disease. However, limited analysis has been undertaken of the increasing corporate involvement in collective action needed to effectively address these impacts.
This...