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 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.
Philosophy of Sport
Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.
Time, Accounts, Surplus Meaning
Prenatal screening offers parental choice, but the anomalies it finds are often unfixable. When termination is the only intervention, complex ethical questions arise about which traits are desirable. This book explores these choices and their impact on autonomy.
Open Codes
Challenging the view that technology and society are distinct, this book explores how human action can be re-centered to democratise technology. It focuses on open source as a new participatory model for creatively re-inventing used technologies.
The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.
Female Beauty in Art
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.
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
This collection presents perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the journey to build and redefine identity. It explores the human needs required to foster respect and allow individuals to develop the potential they contain.
Ideas in Development
This book studies the history of powerful philosophical ideas, treating them as living things that require minds concerned with them. Ideas progress through a conversation between thinkers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James.
Political Correctness in the Era of Trump
This collection explores the intense debates surrounding “political correctness.” It argues that in the era of Trump, the term has been employed as an ideological scapegoat to delegitimize and roll back progress on gender and racial equality, human rights, and democracy.
Eurocentrism, Art and Art Education
David Gall exposes Eurocentrism in art education, philosophy, and aesthetics. Overcoming this ethnocentrism is not optional if we are to combat resurgent fascism and realize a more comprehensive humanity. This book offers alternative ways of viewing aesthetic experience.