Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics. Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series (Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion)
by Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Associate Professor of Religious Studies David Kyuman Kim
Ecosophical Aesthetics
Inspired by the ecosophical writings of Felix Guattari, this book explores the many ways that aesthetics – in the forms of visual art, film, sculpture, painting, literature, and the screenplay – can act as catalysts, allowing us to see the world differently, beyond traditional modes of representation. This is in direct parallel to Guattari’s own attempt to break down the 19th century Kantian dialectic between man, art, and world, in favour of a non-hierarchical, transversal approach, to produce...
This sequel to Reflections on the Meaning of Life addresses the question of why we exist. Juxtaposing photographs and text, the book uses images and words from a host of personalities including Michael Jackson, a Peruvian mystic, a Balinese dancer, Garrison Keillor and Sinead O'Connor.
Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human. This book features reflections on mythical thought and its logic and contrasts it to the Western conception of man as expressed in philosophy from antiquity to the twentieth century, its main sources being Christianity and the idealistic tenet in antique Greek philosophy. The author stresses the necessity to break away from a religious and metaphysical perception of...
Georges Dicker here provides a commentary on John Locke's masterwork, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding-the foundational work of classical Empiricism. Dicker's commentary is an accessible guide for students who are reading Locke for the first time; a useful research tool for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students; and a contribution to Locke scholarship for professional scholars. It is designed to be read alongside the Essay, but does not presuppose familiarity with it. Dicker...
They Shall Not Hurt
by Rodney L. Taylor, Rodney Leon Taylor, and Jean Watson
Beyond Modernity (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change. Series I, Culture)
by George F McLean
David-Hillel Ruben's new book pursues some novel and unusual standpoints in the philosophy of action. He rejects, for example, the most widely held view about how to count actions, and argues for what he calls a 'prolific theory' of act individuation. He also describes and argues against the two leading theories of the nature of action, the causal theory and the agent causal theory. The causal theory cannot account for skilled activity, nor for mental action. The agent causalist theory unnecessa...