Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Public policy debates often turn on how to get things done once we know our policy objectives. But how do we make appropriate progress when people disagree about what those objectives might be? In this volume, a team of world-renowned scholars introduce and explore the power of philosophy as a tool...
The Virtual Ninja Manifesto
Fighting Games, Martial Arts and Gamic Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Navigating between society’s moral panics about the influence of violent videogames and philosophical texts about self-cultivation in the martial arts, The Virtual Ninja Manifesto asks whether the figure of the ‘virtual ninja’ can emerge as an aspirational figure in the twenty-first century.
Engaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
A quarter of a century ago, Heather Joshi edited a landmark volume (sponsored by the British Society for Population Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research) entitled The Changing Population of Britain. In 2014-15, to mark the 25th anniversary of this book, the BSPS teamed up with the British...
Prometheanism
Technology, Digital Culture and Human Obsolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Günther Anders’s prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders’s pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power that are configuring themselves around our...
Politics of Divination
Neoliberal Endgame and the Religion of Contingency
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it. How can we account for the persistence of neoliberal hegemony, in spite of its obviously disastrous effects upon labor, capital,...
Between Nature and Culture
The Aesthetics of Modified Environments
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Within philosophy, a new interest in aesthetics beyond the arts has encouraged the rapid growth of environmental aesthetics. Within this literature, however, less attention has been given to the spaces and places that emerge from various nature-culture interactions. This has meant the relative neglect...
Moral Psychology of Confucian Shame
Shame of Shamelessness
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Early Confucian philosophers (notably Confucius and Mencius) emphasized moral significance of shame in self-cultivation and learning. In their discussion, shame is not just a painful sense of moral failure or transgression but also a moral disposition and a form of moral excellence (i.e., virtue)...
Collectivity
Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice brings new voices and new approaches to under-developed areas in the philosophical literature on collectives and collective action. The essays in this volume introduce and explore a range of topics that fall under the more general concept of collectivity,...
Philosophy and the City
Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Philosophy has its origins in the city, and in the context of our own highly urbanised modes of living, the relationship between philosophy and the city is more important than ever. The city is the place in which most humans now play out their lives, and the place that determines much of the cultural,...
It's Not About the Gift
From Givenness to Loving
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In his fascinating new book, leading phenomenologist Anthony Steinbock intervenes in contemporary debate around the idea of the gift through a set of critical readings in which he situates the gift in the context of interpersonal relations.
While taking up the key figures in the discussion...
by Sean Gaston
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
This important new book argues that Jacques Derrida’s work can be treated as the basis for a distinctive historiography. The possibility of seeing Derrida not as a philosopher of language but as a philosopher of history has become more apparent with the recent publication of Derrida’s 1964-1965...
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Mobilizing against Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called ‘gender ideology’ or ‘gender theory’. Opposition to progressive gender equality is manifested in challenges to marriage equality, abortion, reproductive...
Nanotechnology
Regulation and Public Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
Over the last decades, nanoscience and nanotechnology has been ascribed the potential to contribute beneficial applications in fields such as medicine, cosmetics, or environmental remediation. At the same time it is still contested whether engineered nanomaterials might be not one-sidedly “good”...
Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological
Interpreting Husserl through Dilthey, 19161925
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
In this first book-length study of the topic, Robert C. Scharff offers a detailed analysis of the young Heidegger’s interpretation of Dilthey’s hermeneutics of historical life and Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology. He argues that it is Heidegger’s prior reading of Dilthey that grounds...