This collection of essays explores the connection between Nietzsche and Phenomenology. Leading international scholars uncover surprising new connections and profound differences, offering significant insights that broaden our understanding of both.
‘Black Lives Matter’
This volume analyzes the US protest against racial discrimination and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement using the tenets of critical discourse analysis. It is an essential resource for degrees in linguistic, cultural, media, and political sciences.
How India Found its Feet
Through frank interviews, thirteen business leaders explain the out-of-the-box strategies that fashioned globally competitive businesses in India. These stories of creativity and risk-taking will inspire future entrepreneurs worldwide to innovate and invent.
European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.
From Theory to Mysticism
Georgallides focuses on the main constituent of the Bild theory of sentences in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: the term ‘object’. He highlights why the exact meaning of this concept is left unclear, and what difficulties result from this lack of clarity in the Tractatus.
Botanical Speculations
This conference proceedings brings together researchers, artists, art historians, and activists to collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge, and to capitalize on contemporary art’s ability to productively unhinge scientific theories.
Long Live the King
Escudero-Alías acutely examines the drag king phenomenon, as well as key theoretical texts by feminist, postcolonial and cultural thinkers, delving into drag king culture and highlighting its relevance for the study of the relationship between gender, sex, race and sexuality.
This collection of philosophical essays synthesizes Western culture and science with insights from Zen practice. It discusses provocative topics from The Lord of the Rings to artificial intelligence and consciousness. A stimulating tour that will challenge how you look at things.
Under the guise of protection, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom of Buganda. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs the machinations of British rule in Uganda, demonstrating how its colonial past shapes its future.
Women in Art and Literature Networks
This anthology examines the place of women in art and literature from the 19th century to the present day, whether as artists, critics or collectors. It centres on the idea of the network, as a possible point of entry for women into cultural circles long seen as male territories.
The Museum in the Digital Age
The digital revolution directly concerns museums. This collection highlights how curators tackle the challenges of digital technology, exploring its impact on exhibitions, the conservation of digital works, communication, and the legal aspects of digitalisation.
Making America Green and Safe
To build a resilient future, we must learn from the past. This book explores the history of climate science and policy, offering crucial insights on how to achieve strong economic growth while protecting our environment for generations to come.
Studies of Potter tend to see him through the lens of his relationship with his most famous daughter, Beatrice (Webb). In this book, Potter is the subject of study in his own right. The work denotes how he was a new type of businessman: an international corporate capitalist.
The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
Ageism in Youth Studies
Scholars fault youth for being apathetic, ignoring their leadership in global uprisings. This book exposes ageism in youth studies, shifting focus from sub-cultures to economic barriers. Based on interviews with 4,000 young people, it asks: Are Millennials “Generation We or Me”?
Health and Safety for Spirit Seers, Telepaths and Visionaries
While 51 million people in the world are afflicted with schizophrenia, self-help books on the topic are not in ample supply and often very dark in outlook. This extensive study provides a much-needed, positive, hopeful and holistic perspective on how to cope with schizophrenia.
Depictions of the Three Orders and Estates around the Year 1500
This volume highlights the copious depictions of society’s three orders—the oratores, bellatores, and laboratores—in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The vast visual material proves this trifunctional division was a widespread ideological foundation.
This book offers a trenchant analysis of the post-millennial cultural shift away from liberal social values. It dissects how values like racial equality, tolerance, and diversity have been evacuated of their meaning to serve a reactionary politics peddling regressive ideology.
Art as “Night”
Art as “Night” proposes a type of dark, a-historical knowledge crossing painting from Velázquez to Richter and Kiefer. It argues for a non-discursive form of intellection embodied in the work of art—a pure visual and moral agency lost since the Baroque era.
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