Rowman Littlefield International imprint: 467 books
by James A. Tyner
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia enacted a program of organized mass violence that resulted in the deaths of approximately one quarter of the country’s population. Over two million people died from torture, execution, disease and famine. From the commodification of the ‘killing...
Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest
Between Control and Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and...
The Brain-Eye
New Histories of Modern Painting
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked ‘case studies’ in which philosophical thought encounters...
Pyropolitics
When the World is Ablaze
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
From the books and heretics burnt on the pyres of the Inquisition to self-immolations at protest rallies, from the massive burning of oil on the global scale to inflammatory speech, from the imagery of revolutionary sparks ready to ignite the spirits of the oppressed to car bombings in the Middle...
The Risk of Freedom
Ethics, Phenomenology and Politics in Jan Patocka
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In particular, Francesco Tava takes an original approach...
by Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Jünger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger’s death in 1975. This volume contains the first English translation of their complete correspondence, as well as letters from Heidegger’s wife...
Thumbelina
The Culture and Technology of Millennials
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed...
Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists
Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought—Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.
Although the fertile dialogue between...
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema
Beyond Mere Illusions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstädt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that has been part of philosophical debate for centuries. She argues that with the increase in use of digital...
by Emilio Carlo Corriero
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book describes the reception of the Nietzschean Death of God within the Italian philosophical debate, an ambit traditionally concerned with emphasising the practical-political meaning of philosophical thinking.
Nietzsche's abyssal announcement of the Death of God - "mein Wort für...
by Anya Topolski
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt’s ideas intersect in an important...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Plant-based and cell-cultured meat, milk, and egg producers aim to replace industrial food production with animal-free fare that tastes better, costs less, and requires a fraction of the energy inputs. These products are no longer relegated to niche markets for ethical vegetarians, but are heavily...
Engaging Enemies
Hayek and the Left
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Friedrich Hayek was a founding figure of the neo-liberalism that flourished in the 1980s. Yet, despite his antagonistic relationship with socialism, his work became a surprising source of inspiration for several influential thinkers on the left. This book explains the left’s unusual engagement with...
Breaking the Silence
Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
There has been extensive research into the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors who immigrated to the US and Israel. But very little work in this space has looked at children whose parents fled Nazi persecution before the Holocaust. Even less attention has been paid to those who ended...