Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
A Fred Will Reader samples writings from poetry to philosophy. Naming the world, Will says, is half the world. The other half is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, we can learn to reconstruct the broken totality of the human condition.
Molecular structure is fundamental to chemistry, yet no one has ever seen it, nor can it be derived from quantum mechanics. Is what chemists take to be molecular structure real? This book addresses this head-on, exploring the grounds of a core concept of chemistry.
Gupta brings forth the popular theories of Indian aesthetics and Indian poetics. Her text represents primarily a compilation of commentaries and criticism of works such as Natryashastra, Dhvanyavloka, and Abhinavbharati, and there is a full glossary for non-Sanskrit speakers.
This book provides a framework for ethical reasoning, exploring how values shape our worldview and principles guide our practice. Placing humanity at its heart, it discusses applications within the beginning and end of life, science, education, and business.
A World Government in Action
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
Albert Camus’s The Stranger
This collection of critical essays by international experts examines Camus’s The Stranger from both philosophical and literary perspectives. Presenting the first known critical examination in English, this volume sheds new light on the classic novel.
How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.
Back and Forth
This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.
Bonds and Borders
This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.
Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity
A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor’s thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Conrad and the Being of the World
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
Conrad’s Destructive Element
This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad’s manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.
An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.
This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
Ethics and Poetics
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.