Tracking Global Wokeism /
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In this volume, nineteen authors ask: does wokeness exist in the non-Western world? And if yes, is it imported from America or can it also have its own vernacular roots? Wokeness has helped advance the cause of social justice in many domains. However, a cursory search on the internet can yield the impression that 'woke' is now predominantly used in a negative fashion. The present book approaches woke from unusual philosophical angles that do not adhere to either pro or counter positions but that try to transcend purely ideological perspectives. The book shifts the debate to an international or global level by asking whether Wokeism also exists in the non-Western world.
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1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004703445
Language and Deed : Rediscovering Politics through Heidegger's Encounter with German Idealism /
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This book examines Heidegger's controversial relation to politics as it grows out of his understanding of his predecessors in German Idealism, most notably, Hegel. This way of developing a dialogue between Heidegger and Hegel on the issue of politics provides an important context for questioning the former's link with National Socialism. Yet the book does not simply condemn Heidegger for his Nazi involvement nor claim that his thinking is free from dangerous political implications. On the contrary, a second level of questioning asks whether Heidegger's philosophy can be appropriated in alternative contexts which permit the affirmation of democratic principles. Thus the book concludes by examining the import which Heidegger's thought has on cultivating such democratic motifs as freedom of speech and civil disobedience. The book is especially of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the areas of German idealism, phenomenology, social and political philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
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9789004455849
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Philosophie des Sehens : Das Auge und der Blick /
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Der Mensch ist ein Augentier. Schon die vorsokratische Philosophie feierte den Sehsinn als den edelsten, womit das Auge zum herausgehobenen Gesichtssinn wurde. Gleichwohl wurde von der Antike an, im Deutschen Idealismus und in der Aufklärungsphilosophie das Sehen gegenüber dem begrifflichen Erkennen abgewertet, was im Zusammenhang mit der Verachtung des Leibes und der Sinne steht. Eine angemessene Würdigung erfährt das Sehen in der Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung von Merleau-Ponty, bei Bergson und bei Sartre, dessen Blicktheorie für eine Subjekt- und für eine Intersubjektivitätstheorie grundlegend ist. Die Studie belegt, dass das Sehen für unser Erkennen, unseren Weltzugang und unsere Existenz grundlegend und nicht zu ersetzen ist.
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1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783846768365
Feministisch Denken : Die Philosophie hinter der Revolution /
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"Feministisch denken" führt kompakt und verständlich durch die Hintergründe, Grundlagen und Auswirkungen, aber auch die Sackgassen und Irrwege der feministischen Bewegung und der revolutionären Philosophie dahinter. Geistreich und scharfzüngig zeigt Carol Hay unverblümt, wie unsere Gesellschaft noch immer von Misogynie durchzogen ist, und lässt dabei keine der essenziellen Fragen des Feminismus aus, um deren Beantwortung seit Jahrhunderten gerungen wird: Sind Geschlechterrollen und Genderidentitäten angeboren oder erlernt? Wie hängt Sexismus mit anderen Formen der Diskriminierung zusammen? Wer zählt als Frau*, und vor allem: Wer entscheidet darüber? Welche Verantwortung tragen Frauen* selbst für die Aufrechterhaltung des Patriarchats? Was, wenn überhaupt, können wir tun, damit die Bedürfnisse von Frauen* gesellschaftlich anerkannt werden? "Feministisch denken" ist als Einstieg ebenso geeignet wie als Denkanstoß für Fortgeschrittene.
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1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783969753095
From a Marxist Feminist Point of View : Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature /
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This book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of produc
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1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004703292
Post-Aufklärungs-Gesellschaft : Was wir verlieren und was uns bevorsteht /
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Aufklärung ist das Beste, was die Menschheit je hervorgebracht hat. Ihre Essenz besteht in dem Streben nach Objektivität und intersubjektiver Rechtfertigung. Ein elitäres Minderheitenprojekt, dem große Teile der Menschheit enorme Errungenschaften zu verdanken haben. Dennoch ist derzeit das Ende der zweiten Aufklärungsepoche zu beobachten. Ursächlich sind die immensen Belastungen einer emanzipierten Lebensform ebenso wie aktuelle politische und soziologische Stressfaktoren. Zu diesen gehören ein kapitalistisch verkürztes Freiheitsverständnis ebenso wie Migrationsbewegungen, eine mangelnde Verteidigung des ethischen Universalismus oder ein Antirassismus ohne Bewusstsein für negative Dialektik. Die Erosion bewirkt eine Rückkehr zu den autoritären Standardmodellen der Menschheit gepaart mit den technischen und medialen Potentialen der Moderne. Zeit für einen Blick zurück in Dankbarkeit und eine kritische Betrachtung dessen, was uns erwartet.
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1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783969753279
Power and Crisis: Plotting Paths to Justice and Peace /
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While other eras have faced severe challenges, our crises-including nuclear war and climate catastrophe-involve unprecedented existential threats to human life. It can seem as if our rulers are unable or unwilling to picture an alternative to the status quo. For many, there is insufficient hope for a good future, and scores of people, particularly the young, are gripped with fear and nihilism about their prospects. This volume brings together a diverse group of thinkers appealing to a diverse range of sources responding both to the crisis in power, and the crises we need power to address more skillfully, even if this requires rethinking the role of power itself. It is my hope as editor of this book that you will find resources for and examples of warm-hearted and hard-headed efforts at creating more just and peaceful forms of life. Taken as a whole, this volume is not intended to provide precisely what political project or theory is required to successfully address the crises in power and the crises power faces, it is more a collection of prompts to focus our efforts on realizing a better world for operating under the shared commitment of mutual respect, mutual critique, and the importance of clear critical thought in the pursuit of a sane, just, and stable future.
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1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004732742
Staat - Bild - Subjekt : Arbeitslosigkeit in den Medien /
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Wie formen Arbeitslosenzahlen unser Verständnis von Verantwortung? Im vorliegenden Band zeigt Kyra Palberg, wie die mediale Darstellung von Arbeitslosigkeit zwischen 1967 und 2015 nicht nur Fakten präsentiert, sondern zentrale Fragen zur gesellschaftlichen Verhandlung von Arbeitslosigkeit aufwirft: Wird sie als ein Risiko verstanden, das durch den Staat versichert wird, oder als individuelles Versagen, das bestraft werden muss? Durch die Analyse von Kollektivsymbolen wie das ,soziale Netz', den ,sozialen Körper', die ,Flut' oder die ,Schere zwischen Arm und Reich' entschlüsselt Palberg, wie diese Metaphern den diskursiven Rahmen für Arbeitslosigkeit prägen und dabei tief verwurzelte gesellschaftliche Haltungen widerspiegeln. Mit einem literatur- und medienwissenschaftlichen Ansatz liefert das Buch innovative zeithistorische Einsichten und beleuchtet, wie Arbeitslosigkeit in den Medien als soziales und politisches Thema verhandelt wird.
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1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. :
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9783846769423
Shusterman's Somaesthetics : From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art /
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This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental-the sentient, expressive, human body with its creations of living beauty. Twelve scholars here provide penetrating critical analyses of Shusterman on ontology, perception, language, literature, culture, politics, aesthetics, cuisine, music, and the visual arts, including films of his work in performance art.
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The Philosophical Colony: Writing the History of Philosophy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries /
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ethnologists, linguists, historians, and especially historians of philosophy identified other "cultures," which they distinguished from the West in order to subject them to empirical study. Consequently, Europe was conceived as the unique territory of philosophy, analytical rationality, and reflexive thinking. This book offers an interdisciplinary history of the history of philosophy and investigates how the scientific imagination was constructed in the West. It contributes to debates on the ideological assumptions and political aims of the European social sciences and humanities.
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1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004721432
Plotinus on What We Think We Are /
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The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus invites us to take part in his philosophizing when he encourages his readers to think about what they think they are, as living beings, human beings, as rational beings, ethical subjects and as philosophers. He is interested in what we say about ourselves in ordinary language and notices that such ordinary experience conflicts with what the Platonic tradition claims we (truly) are. This conflict does not lead him to turn away from the human terms and expressions, but impels him to take seriously what we say about ourselves and to explain it philosophically.
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9789004678651
Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration /
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Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian's De Parasito, Nietzsche's "the vengeance of the weak," Dostoyevsky's "Underground," or Marxism, among others.
Parasite is a philosophically interesting film because it presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. Michel Serres, in his book called The Parasite , holds that parasites are not in fact useless, but that they establish communications between different spheres and are thus able to transform large-scale organisms. Parasites import coincidences, activate defence systems, and establish new links with the host. In this book, philosophers explore the film from various angles: using the ancient satirist Lucian's De Parasito , Nietzsche's concept of "the vengeance of the weak," Dostoyevsky's "underground," Marxism, and many more.
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9789004515628
An Unmanaged World: A Philosophical Study of Global Dynamics /
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This book is devoted to the philosophical analysis of key problems of world development and prospects for global management. Based on both rich factual material and a holistic understanding of the world, the author shows how modern globalization has shifted the arena of interaction from individual territories and regions to the entire space of the Earth. The global problems resulting from this shift have led to a weakly regulated and unmanaged world, one that gives rise to acute contradictions for the world community. How can we improve this situation? According to the author, we must learn to "think globally and act together." This study argues that humanity needs a global civilizational revolution aimed at forming a planetary civil society and initiating a shift within international relations, from the "right of power" to the "power of law."
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1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004746060
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism : A Selection, Volume 2 /
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The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (HCDM) is a comprehensive Marxist lexicon, which in the 9 German-language volumes concluded so far has involved over 800 scholars from around the globe. Conceived by philosopher Wolfgang Fritz Haug in 1983, the first volume of the ongoing lexicon project was published in 1994. This second volume of selected articles in English translation offers readers a further sample of the HCDM's wide scope of terms: besides Marxist concepts, approached from a plural standpoint and stressing feminist, ecological, and internationalist perspectives, it boasts entries on the histories of social movements, theoretical schools, as well as cultural, political, philosophical, and aesthetic debates. Contributors are: Wolfram Adolphi, Jan Otto Andersson, Helmut Arnold, Konstantin Baehrens, Colin Barker, Theodor Bergmann, Stefan Bollinger, Ulrich Brand, Mario Candeias, Paresh Chattopadhyay, Dagmar Engelken, Sibylle Fischer, Georg Fülberth, Montserrat Galcerán, Stephen Gill, Werner Goldschmidt, Christoph Görg, Volker Gransow, Gerhard Hanappi, Donna Haraway, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Frigga Haug, Ursula Huws, Peter Jehle, Susan Kippax, Hans Gustav Klaus, Juha Koivisto, Michael Krätke, Wolfgang Küttler, Mikko Lahtinen, Sven-Eric Liedman, Andrea Maihofer, Thomas Marxhausen, Claudia Opitz, Helmut Peitsch, Victor Rego Diaz, Antje Schmitt, Victor Strazzeri, Benno Teschke, Oliver Walkenhorst, Bastiaan Wielenga, Gunter Willing.
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1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004754966
Critical Encounters with Habermas's Political and Legal Theory /
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With over a dozen contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines, this book revisits Jürgen Habermas's defining text on legal and political theory, Between Facts and Norms (1992). The contributors interrogate the prospects for Habermas's optimistic defense of liberal democracy in our current age of straining global capitalism and menacing authoritarian populisms. The authors arrive at different conclusions, with some contributors engaging directly with his theory while others assessing it through the prisms of political economy, the media, policing, employment discrimination law, international relations theory, social movements, democratic institutions and the historical context of Between Facts and Norms .
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1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004744042
Coming Back to the Absurd: Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus: 80 Years On /
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This collection of essays from some of the world's leading Camus scholars is a celebration of the enduring significance and impact of Albert Camus's first philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus . Coming Back to the Absurd examines Camus's unique contribution to philosophy through The Myth since its publication. The essays within are intended to engage students and scholars of existentialism, phenomenology and the history of philosophy, as well as those simply seeking greater understanding of one of the most influential philosophers and philosophical constructs of the twentieth century. In revisiting The Myth , the authors hope to inspire a new generation of Camus scholars.
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Recalling Masaryk's The Czech Question : Humanity and Politics on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century /
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This book presents T. G. Masaryk's efforts to shape the identity of a small nation in late the 19th and early 20th century. It features contributions from leading Czech scholars who analyse Masaryk's efforts 120 years later. Masaryk is considered the most important figure in modern Czech history. Drawing on the ideas of his ideological predecessors and humanists, he wanted to integrate the Czech nation into the family of advanced world nations in line with international intellectual trends. Masaryk was the first in world history to fulfil the Platonic ideal of a philosopher who founded a state.
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