Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
The Quest for Prosperity
Reframing Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these impediments...
Thinking Catherine Malabou
Passionate Detachments
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou. Through its fifteen contributions, including two previously untranslated essays by Malabou, the volume explores the various ways in which Malabou's thought both performs...
Socrates Tenured
The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Professional philosophy has strayed so far from its roots that Socrates wouldn’t stand a chance of landing tenure in most departments today. After all, he spent his time talking with people from all walks of life rather than being buried in the secondary literature and polishing arguments for peer-reviewed...
Comedy and Critical Thought
Laughter as Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Throughout history, comedians and clowns have enjoyed a certain freedom to speak frankly often denied to others in hegemonic systems. More recently, professional comedians have developed platforms of comic license from which to critique the traditional political establishment and have managed to play...
by Daniel Little
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Philosophy matters for the social sciences. Our world faces ever more complex and hazardous problems and, social science ontology and methods need to be adequate to the changing nature of the social realm. Imagination and new ways of thinking are crucial to the social sciences.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The eye roll, the smirk, the unilateral lip curl. These, psychologists tell us, are typical expressions of contempt. Across cultures, such expressions manifest an emotional response to norm violations, among them moral norms. As such, contempt is of tremendous personal and social significance –...
by Roberto Beneduce, Nigel C. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is in part because most of his psychiatric writings have remained untranslated. With a focus on Fanon’s...
Social Suffering
Sociology, Psychology, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
There are various forms of suffering that are best described as social suffering, such as stress, harassment, experience of poverty and domination. Such suffering is a matter of social concern, but it is rarely a matter of discussion in the social sciences, political theory or philosophy. This book...
Measurement in Medicine
Philosophical Essays on Assessment and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of assessment and evaluation in medicine. Ranging from...
Conscience in Moral Life
Rethinking How Our Convictions Structure Self and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The notion of conscience remains one of the most widely used moral concepts and a cornerstone of ordinary moral thinking. This book explores where this widespread confidence in conscience stems from, examining the history of conscience as a moral concept and its characteristic moral phenomenology.
Jason...
Young and Free
[Post]colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Tracing the complex yet intimate relationship between a present-day national obsession with childhood and a colonial past with which Australia as a nation has not adequately come to terms, Young and Free draws on philosophy, literature, film and testimony. The result is a demonstration of how anxiety...
Appearances of Ethos in Political Thought
The Dimension of Practical Reason
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
What sort of ethos does democratic politics demand? While many political thinkers argue that democratic ethics should shape political judgments, the concept of ethos remains underdeveloped.
Appearances of Ethos responds to this gap in three ways. It begins by identifying the contours of the...
Poor News
Media Discourses of Poverty in Times of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews. This happens, the authors claim, because journalists and news editors make use of a set of information strategies while...
Technology, Modernity, and Democracy
Essays by Andrew Feenberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.
According to critical theory of technology,...