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Notes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror
writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy.
Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of
philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g.
the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world
burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative
absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy
and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz doesn't shy
away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition
to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works
are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves.
Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader
the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way
than traditional philosophy usually allows. An antidote to
philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative
potential of human thought, Notes from the Crawl Room revels in the
unsettling and creative potential of stories for revealing what
thinking philosophically might really mean.
A Feminist Mythology takes us on a poetic journey through the
canonical myths of femininity, testing them from the point of view
of our modern condition. A myth is not an object, but rather a
process, one that Chiara Bottici practises by exploring different
variants of the myth of "womanhood" through first- and third-person
prose and poetry. We follow a series of myths that morph into each
other, disclosing ways of being woman that question inherited
patriarchal orders. In this metamorphic world, story-telling is not
just a mix of narrative, philosophical dialogues and metaphysical
theorizing: it is a current that traverses all of them by
overflowing the boundaries it encounters. In doing so, A Feminist
Mythology proposes an alternative writing style that recovers
ancient philosophical and literary traditions from the pre-Socratic
philosophers and Ovid's Metamorphoses to the philosophical novellas
and feminist experimental writings of the last century.
Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons.
Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the
character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and
spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed
versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including
science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic
book origins. While there are volumes analyzing Batman through
literary, philosophical, and psychological lenses, this volume is
one of the first academic monographs to examine Batman through a
theological and religious lens. Theology and Batman analyzes Batman
and his world, specifically exploring the themes of theodicy and
evil, ethics and morality, justice and vengeance, and the Divine
Nature. Scholars will appreciate the breadth of material covered
while Batman fans will appreciate the love for the character
expressed through each chapter.
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This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly
original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau. This book has
long been recognized as one of the best and most concerted attempts
to explore one of the most important, yet controversial ancient
philosophers whose thought, Guyau claims, remains vital to modern
and contemporary culture. Throughout the text we are introduced to
the origins of the philosophy of pleasure in Ancient Greece, with
Guyau clearly demonstrating how this idea persists through the
history of philosophy and how it is an essential trait in the
Western tradition. With an introduction by Keith Ansell-Pearson and
Federico Testa, which contextualizes the work of Guyau within the
canon of French thought, and notes on both further reading and on
Epicurean scholarship more generally, this translation also acts as
a critical introduction to the philosophy of Guyau and Epicurus.
Susannah Ticciati explores Augustine's scriptural interpretation,
as well as the ways in which he understands the character of signs
in theory. The book explores Augustine's scriptural world via three
case studies, each geared towards the healing of a particular
modern opposition. The three, interrelated, modern oppositions are
rooted in an insufficient semiotic worldview. Ticciati argues they
contribute to the alienation of the modern reader not only from
Augustine's scriptural world, but more generally from the
scriptural world as habitation. Examining the ways in which the
therapy for our modern day semiotic illiteracy can be found in the
5th-6th-century Augustine, Ticciati brings close readings of
Augustine to bear on significant concerns of our own day:
specifically, our modern alienations from the rich world of
Scripture.
In his influential essay "Provisional Painting," Raphael Rubinstein
applied the term "provisional" to contemporary painters whose work
looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or
self-cancelling; who appeared to have deliberately turned away from
"strong" painting for something that seemed to constantly risk
failure or inconsequence. In this collection of essays, Rubinstein
expands the scope of his original article by surveying the
historical and philosophical underpinnings of provisionality in
recent visual art, as well as examining the works of individual
artists in detail. He also engages crucial texts by Samuel Beckett
and philosopher Gianni Vattimo. Re-examining several decades of
painting practices, Rubinstein argues that provisionality, in all
its many forms, has been both a foundational element in the history
of modern art and the encapsulation of an attitude that is
profoundly contemporary.
This very important work offers penetrating dialogues between the
great spiritual leader and the renowned physicist that shed light
on the fundamental nature of existence. Krishnamurti and David Bohm
probe such questions as 'why has humanity made thought so important
in every aspect of life? How does one cleanse the mind of the
'accumulation of time' and break the 'pattern of ego -centered
activity'?The Ending of Time concludes by referring to the wrong
turn humanity has taken, but does not see this as something from
which there is no escape. There is an insistence that mankind can
change fundamentally; but this requires going from one's narrow and
particular interests toward the general, and ultimately moving
still deeper into that purity of compassion, love and intelligence
that originates beyond thought, time, or even emptiness.
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince remains an influential book more
than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However,
the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is
often misunderstood. Although he thought humans to be rational,
self-interested creatures, and even though he proposed an approach
to politics in which the ends justify the means, Machiavelli was
not, as some have argued, simply "a teacher of evil." The Prince's
many ancient and medieval examples, while relevant to sixteenth
century readers, are lost on most of today's students of
Machiavelli. Examples from modern films and television programs,
which are more familiar and understandable to contemporary readers,
provide a better way to accurately teach Machiavelli's lessons.
Indeed, modern media, such as Breaking Bad, The Godfather, The
Walking Dead, Charlie Wilson's War, House of Cards, Argo, and The
Departed, are replete with illustrations that teach Machiavelli's
critical principles, including the need to caress or annihilate,
learning "how not to be good," why it is better to be feared than
loved, and how to act as both the lion and the fox. Modern media
are used in this book to exemplify the tactics Machiavelli
advocated and to comprehensively demonstrate that Machiavelli
intended for government actors and those exercising power in other
contexts to fight for a greater good and strive to achieve glory.
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