A Different Society Altogether
What is society? Arguing that sociology has become entrenched in an unwarranted anthropocentrism, this book suggests solutions based on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Guattari to reinvigorate the discipline and provide better analytical tools.
This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.
This volume explores posthumanism’s challenges in artistic expression and the humanities. It asks whether posthumanism is an expansion of humanism or a transcendence. Authors from diverse backgrounds offer a varied perspective on this critical contemporary question.
Axel Honneth’s Social Philosophy of Recognition
This book reconstructs Axel Honneth’s recognition theory in the context of the conflict between autonomy and social cohesion. It proposes the Reconstructive Normative Simulation (RNS) to examine social pathologies by locating deficiencies in the social spheres of our lives.
Between the Two
This book is a reflexive exploration into collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. At its heart are sequences of exchanged writings that form an experimental, transgressive inquiry into subjectivity, drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Body and Justice insightfully examines the western woman: her body, sexuality, and the justice she is afforded. How fair is a world where women are forced to conform to beauty standards? It calls for a morality that frees our bodies from oppression.
This work highlights the Haitian Lakou, a form of libertarian communism. To free people from the exploitation and climate change of neoliberal capitalism, it must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level.
Caring and Power in Female Leadership
Can philosophical understandings of power and care illuminate roadblocks that disrupt the potential of women in leadership? Borgerson considers leadership challenges by drawing upon debates that pulse through the history of philosophy and into present-day social concerns.
Exploring business ethics through history, philosophy, and biology, this book addresses today’s key concerns, from wealth inequality to sustainability. It is an invitation to make the world a better place by engaging in ethical thought.
Cliché and Organization
Peters adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through his use of film. Juxtaposing philosophers like Deleuze and Heidegger and filmmakers like the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, he shows why managers in organizations are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
Confessions
This collection explores the central place of narrative in social inquiry and the ethical life. Through examples from art to politics, it illuminates the link between telling stories to create meaning and the ethical engagement critical for a good life.
This book responds to pressing environmental issues by exploring ethics, evolution, and creation. Prominent philosophers critique the work of Professor Robin Attfield, who in turn provides a clear and thorough response to each challenge.
Crisis, Exposure, Imagination
Unprecedented crises expose new ways of understanding. This interdisciplinary volume examines the role of imagination in our response. Lifting the veil between crisis and creativity radically undoes the past, opens us to the future, and provides vision and hope.
Declensions of the Self
This work is a collective reflection on the modern self. A bestiary of articles rethinks modern dichotomies: the real and the ideal, self and world. An introspective journey where we are both the spectator and the spectacle—the beast subject to the gaze.
In the first collection devoted to Deleuze and Asia, Asian and Western scholars explore Deleuzian concepts in philosophy, religion, film, art, and literature, mapping new directions in East-West research that reveal new dimensions of Deleuze’s thought.
Can democracy become a new form of despotism? This book reveals the totalitarian seeds hidden within liberal society, born from our constant struggle between the universal desire for freedom and the craving for absolute security.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
This collection addresses the multi-dimensionality of modern moral philosophy. It analyzes agency through historical figures and contemporary issues like oppression and debt, exploring moral reasoning, emotion, responsibility, and what constitutes a moral agent.
Discomfort and Moral Impediment
This book connects human suffering with morality. It explores our condition through the moral requirements of not harming or manipulating, and questions the ethics of responsible procreation and the moral quality of abstention.
Essays on the Condition of Inwardness
Will deals with inwardness in two different senses, the first as the center of existence, and the second as a quest for the meaning of the center of one’s existence. The text culminates with tales of searching for the meaning of interiority, as it self-characterises.