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Slav Outposts in Central European History
The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach tends to overlook submerged nations like the Wends, the westernmost Slavs who once inhabited the lands which later became East Germany and Western Poland. This book examines the decline...
The Sympathy of Things
Ruskin and the Ecology of Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era.
Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth...
by Assistant Professor Tiger C. Roholt
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Key Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and major works in the history of this key area of philosophical thought. Ideal for first-year students...
Traversals of Affect
On Jean-François Lyotard
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This volume traces the topic of affect across Lyotard's corpus and accounts for Lyotard's crucial and original contribution to the thinking of affect. Highlighting the importance of affect in Lyotard's philosophy, this work offers a unique contribution to both affect theory and the reception of Lyotard.
Affect...
Genealogies of Speculation
Materialism and Subjectivity since Structuralism
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Genealogies of Speculation looks to break the impasse between the innovations of speculative thought and the dominant strands of 20th century anti-foundationalist philosophy. Challenging emerging paradigms of philosophical history, this text re-evaluates different theoretical and political traditions...
Basic Income
A Transformative Policy for India
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional monthly cash payment. In a context...
Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific
Rev. Simpson’s "Improper Liberties†?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' with at least three more. The events did not come out in public for at least a decade, while Simpson's...
Winston Churchill
Politics, Strategy and Statecraft
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winston Churchill is a renowned historical figure, whose remarkable political and military career continues to enthral. This book consists of short, highly readable chapters on key aspects of Churchill's career. Written by leading experts, the chapters draw on documents from Churchill's extensive...
The Laughter of the Thracian Woman
A Protohistory of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and...
Developing the Rivers of East and West Africa
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How did rivers contribute to the economic and political development of modern Africa? How did African and European notions of nature's value and meaning differ? And how have these evaluations of Africa's rivers changed between 1850 and the present day? Drawing upon examples from across the African...
by Ralf M. Bader
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In 1974, Robert Nozick's book Anarchy, State, and Utopia moved libertarianism from a relatively neglected subset of political philosophy to the center of the discipline, as one of the most cogent critiques of social democracy and egalitarian liberalism.
Nozick developed a rights-based account...
Transgression and the Inexistent
A Philosophical Vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
A contemporary philosopher of Tunisian origin, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is here published in English for the first time. His new book, Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary, is a comprehensive foray into Kacem's elaborate philosophical system in twenty-seven discreet chapters, each...
Food and Architecture
At The Table
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Food and Architecture is the first book to explore the relationship between these two fields of study and practice. Bringing together leading voices from both food studies and architecture, it provides a ground-breaking, cross-disciplinary analysis of two disciplines which both rely on a combination...
Germany Since 1945
Politics, Culture, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international...