Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy
The Centrality of a Negative Dialectic
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This book aims to put modern continental philosophy, specifically the sub-fields of phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, deconstruction, critical theory and genealogy, into conversation with the field of contemporary theology. Colby Dickinson demonstrates the way in which negative dialectics,...
by Yuk Hui
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2019
This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy...
by Martijn Boot
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensurability prevents the assignment of determinable and impartial weights. In those cases an objective balance does not exist.
The original thesis of...
Interdisciplinary Studies of the Market Order
New Applications of Market Process Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Market process theory is crucial to our knowledge and expectations of actors working toward economic coordination and cooperation. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, there has been a renewed interested in using new applications of market process theory to better understand the global political...
Camps Revisited
Multifaceted Spatialities of a Modern Political Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ‘the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology.
This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that...
The State and the Self
Identity and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this fascinating and timely book, Maren Behrensen facilitates a conversation between philosophy and the ‘practitioners’ of identity. What makes a person the same person over time? This question has been studied throughout the history of philosophy. Yet philosophers have never fully engaged...
Unsettling Food Politics
Agriculture, Dispossession and Sovereignty in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these effects, activists have proposed alternative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ‘apolitical age’, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches – the tendency of which...
Exploitation
From Practice to Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Contemporary theoretical discussions of exploitation are dominated by thinkers in the liberal and Marxian traditions. Exploitation: From Practice to Theory, pushes past these traditional and binary explanations, to focus on unjust practises that both depend on and perpetuate inequalities central to...
Multiculturalism in East Asia
A Transnational Exploration of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed the decline of multiculturalism as a policy in Western countries with tighter national border controls and increasing anti-migration discourse. But what is the impact of multiculturalism in East Asia? How will East Asian nations develop their own...
In the Marxian Workshops
Producing Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Theorists have often returned to the work of Marx, to interpret and better understand global developments and current political and economic crisis. In the Marxian Workshops: Producing Subjects combines an attempt to develop a specific reading of Marx with a set of interventions on high stakes topics...
by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean?
From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate...
Law and Philosophical Theory
Critical Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
This important collection explores contemporary legal thought (and thought about the law more generally) in relation to its interdisciplinary critical engagement with philosophy, in particular continental philosophy. Over the last 25 years, many legal thinkers have increasingly and critically engaged...
by Jonathan Cable
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The attention paid to protest groups and social movements has rarely been higher, be it the Occupy movement, austerity protests, or student demonstrations. These formations are under continual scrutiny by academics, the press and politicians who are all attempting to interpret and understand protest...