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Posthuman Suffering and the Technological Embrace
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 64.99Posthuman Suffering investigates the core assumptions of posthumanist discourse via philosophy, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and close textual and filmic readings of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Steven Spielberg's film, AI: Artificial Intelligence, bringing the more ontological and epistemological... more...
The Human Touch
Henry Holt and Co. 2008; US$ 15.99What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Here, the acclaimed playwright and novelist takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives Humankind, scientists agree, is an insignificant speck in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say... more...
What We Mean by Experience
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 21.95Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience... more...
The Emotions
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95The emotions are at the centre of our lives and, for better or worse, imbue them with much of their significance. The philosophical problems stirred up by the existence of the emotions, over which many great philosophers of the past have laboured, revolve around attempts to understand what this significance amounts to. Are emotions feelings, thoughts,... more...
Self and Emotional Life
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 31.99Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities? deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking... more...
The Political Humanism of Hannah Arendt
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 79.99This critical study of Arendt explores the sources and dangers of political alienation in the West from the citizen republics of classical antiquity to the consumer societies of modern liberal democracies. It is a sympathetic appraisal of the high promise and great perils of the political life ( the bios politikos ). more...
Security
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 39.50From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatility... more...
The Turbulent Universe
Prometheus Books 2013; US$ 11.99In his final book, the late Paul Kurtz outlines his personal vision for a planetary ethics inspired by scientific wisdom. Blending realism and optimism, he lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that he calls humanist eupraxsophy--that is, the application of practical moral choices inspired by scientific wisdom. Emphasizing the dramatic... more...
Zoence -- The Science of Life
Red Wheel Weiser 1998; US$ 18.95"Zoance "RM" ", developed by Peter Dawkins, is knowing the right thing to do in the right place, at the right time, and with the right orientation. Dawkins introduces us to the idea that chakras, or energy centers, are not limited to the human form: natural and man-made "temples" manifest these same fundamental chakra energy systems. more...
Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 148.00The idea of the Inner is central to our concept of a person and yet is far from being philosophically understood. This book offers a comprehensive account of Wittgenstein's work on the subject and presents a forceful challenge to contemporary views. Written in a non-technical and accessible style, it throws new light both on Wittgenstein's work and... more...









