Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism
Focusing on the philosophical work of Judith Butler and Peter Sloterdijk, A Critique of Liberal Cynicism diagnoses-and proposes an immanent critique of-a form of cynicism dominant in popular and academic culture.
A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating
subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon the human race.
Traditional aesthetics has tried to locate the reasons for aesthetic value in the transcendental subject while neglecting the importance of culture, even though it is obvious that artistic styles vary from culture to culture in both a geographical and historical sense. However, after recognizing importance of a cultural approach, one is faced with ......
This book examines the contributions of William James, John Dewey, F.C.S. Schiller, C.S. Peirce, George Herbert Mead, and Jane Addams to a case for a pragmatist philosophy of history. Together, they expand our understanding on how we process the past, which impacts our present and our future.
Before Margaret Mead, even before Ruth Benedict, it was Elsie Clews Parsons who paved the way as the first woman president of the American Anthropological Association. Born into a prominent New York family in 1874, Parsons showed early determination to be free of social constraints.
Nations, Societies and Capitalism in the Many Americas
This volume offers a transnational perspective on two centuries of historical experiences in the Americas, providing comparative analysis of different states and societies in the Americas from a perspective consistent with the Social Imaginaries movement.
Offering a critical introduction to the philosophical debate on the concept of the political, this book explores recent developments in continental philosophy. Viriasova engages with key contemporary thinkers: Agamben, Esposito, Henry and Meillassoux and explores the current debate in the context of the Italian concept of the impolitical.
End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy
In an era of short-termism that has produced disastrous long-term consequences for the planet, this book returns the concept of time to a philosophical reflection on pressing concerns facing us today. The book proposes a critique of scientific determinism that demands an urgent rethinking of causality and proposes a new ethical paradigm.
Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective
This book explores the three foundational topics in Rawls's theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of democratic citizenship, public reason, and liberal individualism latent in his treatment of these subjects in order to uncover their cultural and historical underpinnings.
