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The Sensual God
How the Senses Make the Almighty Senseless
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
In the Old Testament, God wrestles with a man (and loses). In the Talmud, God wriggles his toes to make thunder and takes human form to shave the king of Assyria. In the New Testament, God is made flesh and dwells among humans. For religious thinkers trained in Greek philosophy and its deep distaste...
Industry and Intelligence
Contemporary Art Since 1820
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The history of modern art is often told through aesthetic breakthroughs that sync well with cultural and political change. From Courbet to Picasso, from Malevich to Warhol, it is accepted that art tracks the disruptions of industrialization, fascism, revolution, and war. Yet filtering the history...
The Hidden God
Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
The Hidden God revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought. By reaching as far back as the Calvinist arguments of the American Puritans and their struggle to know a "hidden God," this book brings American...
Religion, Theory, Critique
Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this anthology emphasizes the dynamic relationship between...
Dark Ecology
For a Logic of Future Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological...
Happiness and Goodness
Philosophical Reflections on Living Well
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being is dependent not on particular activities, accomplishments, or awards but on finding personal satisfaction...
Posthumous Life
Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume...
by Clare Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
It is widely agreed that because animals feel pain we should not make them suffer gratuitously. Some ethical theories go even further: because of the capacities that they possess, animals have the right not to be harmed or killed. These views concern what not to do to animals, but we also face questions...
Animals as Persons
Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionist...
Character and Environment
A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics....
by Julian H. Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will...
Being Animal
Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting...
Mental Causation
The Mind-Body Problem
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Two thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; it's physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees. But if that's so how can we—how can our thoughts, emotions, our values—make anything happen in the physical world?
This conceptual knot, the mental...
The Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment...