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A Foucault for the 21st Century
Governmentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium
How relevant is Foucault’s social thought today? This collection of essays offers novel interpretations of his key concepts—biopower, governmentality, and subjectivation—applying them to contemporary issues like neoliberalism, genetics, and surveillance.
How relevant is Foucault’s social thought today? This collection of essays offers novel interpretations of his key concepts—biopower, governmentality, and subjectivation—applying them to contemporary issues like neoliberalism, genetics, and surveillance.
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The Sexualized Body and the Medical Authority of Pornography
Performing Sexual Liberation
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
This collection examines pornography as a material practice that eroticises gender inequality and sexual violence towards women. It addresses the complex relationship between pornography and medicine, whereby medicine has afforded pornography great legitimacy and even authority.
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This book analyses assisted death through biopolitics, considering the inescapable legacy of the Holocaust and Nazi eugenics. It searches for a form of resistance that does not exclude marginalized groups, moving the discussion on assisted death in new directions.
This book analyses assisted death through biopolitics, considering the inescapable legacy of the Holocaust and Nazi eugenics. It searches for a form of resistance that does not exclude marginalized groups, moving the discussion on assisted death in new directions.
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How can we build a better society? This book applies insights from philosophy, religion, and social science to offer practical reforms for our core institutions, from government to the economy. A call to action for every big-picture thinker.
How can we build a better society? This book applies insights from philosophy, religion, and social science to offer practical reforms for our core institutions, from government to the economy. A call to action for every big-picture thinker.
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Death Down Under
Twenty-first Century Dying, Death, Disposal and Memorialisation in the Antipodes
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life's most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
This insightful collection of essays challenges the assumption that death is hidden or done badly. It documents the varied and creative multi-cultural ways we respond to one of life’s most challenging aspects, offering new ways to understand our contemporary death practices.
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Fighting Corruption in African Contexts
Our Collective Responsibility
Leading African scholars examine how to mobilise citizens towards accountability and transparency. This book advocates that fighting corruption is everyone’s business, in order to strengthen Africa’s integrity, equity, and sustainable development.
Leading African scholars examine how to mobilise citizens towards accountability and transparency. This book advocates that fighting corruption is everyone’s business, in order to strengthen Africa’s integrity, equity, and sustainable development.
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Georg Simmel in Translation
Interdisciplinary Border Crossings in Culture and Modernity
Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.
Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.
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This work argues that third-wave feminine activism has given rise to feminine patriarchy. In their push for equality, women have paradoxically reproduced the patriarchy, seeking integration into the system rather than changing it, reifying their identity as feminine men.
This work argues that third-wave feminine activism has given rise to feminine patriarchy. In their push for equality, women have paradoxically reproduced the patriarchy, seeking integration into the system rather than changing it, reifying their identity as feminine men.
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Philosophies of the Future and the Non-Human
From Cyberspace to Human Enhancement
This book questions what it means to be human in the face of technological developments like AI, cyborgs, and autonomous robots. It explores the profound ethical and philosophical consequences, asking: How should we think of human existence in this new and emerging world?
This book questions what it means to be human in the face of technological developments like AI, cyborgs, and autonomous robots. It explores the profound ethical and philosophical consequences, asking: How should we think of human existence in this new and emerging world?
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This original work discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a political, social, economic, and philosophical challenge that tested the limits of human nature. The volume brings together diverse approaches, from philosophy and sociology to politics and social work.
This original work discusses the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, a political, social, economic, and philosophical challenge that tested the limits of human nature. The volume brings together diverse approaches, from philosophy and sociology to politics and social work.
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Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
Settings of the Theophanic
This book harvests the author’s work, over several decades, on narrative and time, the place of imagination in conceptual thinking, and the underlying nature of historical accounts.
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In a world of facts without why, our culture swings between extremes. This book analyzes the shift from seeking Truth to asserting subjective meanings, lighting a path out of the chaos so we can live wisely and peacefully once more.
In a world of facts without why, our culture swings between extremes. This book analyzes the shift from seeking Truth to asserting subjective meanings, lighting a path out of the chaos so we can live wisely and peacefully once more.
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Platonism for the Iron Age
An Essay on the Literary Universal
The present book is a study of Platonic idealism as it can play out in daily life. It buttresses its defense of the Platonic through reference both to Classical Greek and eighteenth-century thought, and to language in the pressure cooker of the American street.
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This volume explores how meanings of space are created and how they impact identity and belonging. It brings together multiple narratives to shed light on how they emerge from, and reshape, relations of power.
This volume explores how meanings of space are created and how they impact identity and belonging. It brings together multiple narratives to shed light on how they emerge from, and reshape, relations of power.
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The Last Forty Years of Italian Popular Culture
“Andare al Popolo”
This volume offers an insight into recent Italian pop culture. Essays on topics from literature and music to comics and politics reveal a country where mass participation in cultural events accompanies reflection on national identity. An engaging and indispensable read.
This volume offers an insight into recent Italian pop culture. Essays on topics from literature and music to comics and politics reveal a country where mass participation in cultural events accompanies reflection on national identity. An engaging and indispensable read.
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This book explores the politics and aestheticization of the Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. Analyzing unconventional characters and raw storytelling, it challenges conventional notions of beauty and highlights societal realities through the lens of identity and gender.
This book explores the politics and aestheticization of the Ugly in contemporary Malayalam cinema. Analyzing unconventional characters and raw storytelling, it challenges conventional notions of beauty and highlights societal realities through the lens of identity and gender.
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Female Beauty in Art
History, Feminism, Women Artists
Female Beauty in Art examines the role of female beauty in art, history, and culture. These essays consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny, and female identity.
Female Beauty in Art examines the role of female beauty in art, history, and culture. These essays consider how the discourse of beauty can generate empowering insights into womanhood, female destiny, and female identity.
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Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
Following great thinkers on human happiness from antiquity to today, this book argues that as active creators, we can amend the world and make it a safe place for all. It includes primary sources on happiness in their original Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, with translations.
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This book analyses the complex problems shaping our modern world. It explores the impact of digital technologies, social crises, and environmental threats on our communities, personal lives, and global consciousness in the age of globalization.
This book analyses the complex problems shaping our modern world. It explores the impact of digital technologies, social crises, and environmental threats on our communities, personal lives, and global consciousness in the age of globalization.
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A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being
Fulfilled Lives
This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.
This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.
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