Rethinking Mimesis
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
This title is a passionate scholarly inquiry focused on some of the most pressing issues confronting architectural practice, urbanism, and city-making today. It offers an array of conversations with leading architects, urbanists, architectural historians and urban thinkers.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
Calling on philosophers as the custodians of rationality to reconsider their responsibility toward their communities and the state of civilization at large, Amir considers philosophy to be a practical discipline.
Rethinking Presuppositions
This book overturns the study of presuppositions. Arguing that mainstream debate has focused on how presuppositions are made, not what they are, it reveals a new model: a curve ranging from natural ontology to the lexicon. A challenging and essential read for scholars.
Rethinking Romantic Love
This book explores contemporary conceptions of romantic love in different countries and social groups. It shows that Western ideals of romantic love persist despite varied experiences. The public will find many ‘love stories’ from this detailed study of our society.
Rethinking Secularization
A philosophical appraisal of secularization in light of religion’s re-emergence. This volume challenges dominant theories of a linear emancipation from a religious past to a secular age, considering philosophy’s role in such prophecies and offering a more complex view.
Rethinking Social Capital
The essays here offer reflections and case studies from all over the world. They step out of well-known paths of discourse and discuss the phenomenon of social capital in manifold ways and from new perspectives, with a particular focus on its practical application.
Rethinking Social Issues in Education for the 21st Century
Key social issues and controversies in education are revisited in this volume. The text shows how common interests and collaboration help us understand social issues, the evaluation of governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.
Rethinking Sustainable Development in Terms of Justice
This title explores renewed and distinctive approaches to the sustainability and justice debate, integrating a range of perspectives that include moral philosophy, sociology and law.
Rethinking the Humanities
Rethinking the Humanities reflects on the challenges facing the humanities in an era of globalization. Drawing on diverse perspectives, this volume surpasses the dominant rhetoric of crisis to open new fields of debate and offer innovative perspectives.
This volume explores musical instruments in creative practice and culture. Contributors examine acoustical, electronic and digital instruments, the relationships composers and performers establish with them, and their crucial role in creating musical experiences and meanings.
Rethinking the Racial Moment
This collection of essays re-energises the debate on race by focusing on its intersections with colonialism. It shifts our historical understanding, offering invigorating new approaches to cultural encounters via the interpretive frame of ‘the moment.’
In this collection, eminent academics explain the phenomenon of public sector reform. Drawing on vast theoretical, empirical, and comparative data, this is a first-rate resource for scholars seeking to understand its key trends, challenges, and dilemmas.
This book challenges Sino-western dualism with a multi-dimensional model for cross-cultural research. By separating spatial and temporal dimensions, it reconceptualises the relationship between China and the West, seeking new pathways for understanding.
Rethinking the Theoretical Concepts of Sociology
This book discusses key problems in contemporary social-scientific theory, focusing on fundamental contradictions in concepts like social action, institutions, and systems. Despite dealing with abstract problems, the book’s argument is clear, accessible, and understandable.
Rethinking the Vanguard
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard’s transformation and its relevance today.
Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race
For decades, Jeffersonian scholarship has uncritically depicted a less-than-human Jefferson: an inveterate hypocrite and racist. This book offers a provocative challenge to these stale revisionist claims, appealing to all who believe it is time to gain fresh insights.
Dealing with modern issues in the field of English studies, this work evaluates traditionalism and contemporaneity and proposes new theoretical and critical paradigms. It focuses on the practical criticism and the study of particular linguistic, literary, and cultural phenomena.
This 2024 study reveals a stark divide: 80-100% of employees cheer fair monitoring, yet only 20-40% stomach invasive AI. Learn why trust falters and how to fix it. Discover strategies to slash turnover by 50%, boost engagement, and attract top talent by respecting privacy.
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