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Allison Marisa Burbank is a hilarious but naughty nine-year-old
girl, who imagines everything her way and her way only. In
Allison's wonderful but yet busy life, she get to do so much that
she has always wanted to do. She starts third grade, turns ten, and
she gets to be a flower girl. Everything sure sounds great, but can
Allison make sure nothing will go wrong? And just as everything was
going great, Allison's mother brings unexpected news to the family.
Will Allison try to do everything in her strength to prevent this
unexpected news? Get ready to hold on tight, because it's a roller
coaster full of fun with Allison Marisa Burbank.
Peter Sloterdijk is an internationally renowned philosopher and
thinker whose work is now seen as increasingly relevant to our
contemporary world situation and the multiple crises that punctuate
it, including those within ethical, political, economic,
technological, and ecological realms. This volume focuses upon one
of his central ideas, anthropotechnics. Broadly speaking,
anthropotechnics refers to the technological constitution of the
human as its fundamental mode of existence, which is characterized
by the ability to create dwelling places that 'immunize' human
beings from exterior threats while at the same time instituting
practices and exercises that call on humanity to transcend itself
'ascetically'. The essays included in this volume enter a critical
dialogue with Sloterdijk and his many philosophical interlocutors
in order to interrogate the many implications of anthropotechnics
in relation to some of the most pressing issues of our time,
including and especially the question of the future of humanity in
relation to globalism and modernization, climate change, the
post-secular, neoliberalism, and artificial intelligence. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Angelaki.
Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in
de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his
philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical
justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of
subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual
emancipation in the present? Andrea Rossi pursues these questions
in The Labour of Subjectivity. The book re-examines the genealogy
of the politics of subjectivity that Foucault began to outline in
his lectures at the College de France in the late 1970s and early
1980s. He explores Christian confession, raison d'etat, biopolitics
and bioeconomy as the different technologies by which Western
politics has attempted to produce, regulate and give form to the
subjectivity of its subjects. Ultimately Rossi argues that
Foucault's critical project can only be comprehended within the
context of this historico-political trajectory, as an attempt to
give the extant politics of the self a new horizon.
Michel Foucault defined critique as an exercise in
de-subjectivation. To what extent did this claim shape his
philosophical practice? What are its theoretical and ethical
justifications? Why did Foucault come to view the production of
subjectivity as a key site of political and intellectual
emancipation in the present? Andrea Rossi pursues these questions
in The Labour of Subjectivity. The book re-examines the genealogy
of the politics of subjectivity that Foucault began to outline in
his lectures at the College de France in the late 1970s and early
1980s. He explores Christian confession, raison d'etat, biopolitics
and bioeconomy as the different technologies by which Western
politics has attempted to produce, regulate and give form to the
subjectivity of its subjects. Ultimately Rossi argues that
Foucault's critical project can only be comprehended within the
context of this historico-political trajectory, as an attempt to
give the extant politics of the self a new horizon.
Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through
modern critical theory. How does Chaucer portray the various male
pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what
extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism
inform the study of Chaucer's men? Is there such athing as a
distinct `Chaucerian masculinity', or does it appear in a multitude
of different forms? These are some of the questions that the
contributors to this ground-breaking and provocative volume attempt
to answer, using a diversity of critical methods and theories. Some
look at the behaviour of noble or knightly men; some at clerics, or
businessmen, or churls; others examine the so-called "masculine"
qualities of female characters, and the "feminine"qualities of male
characters. Topics include the Host's bourgeois masculinity; the
erotic triangles operating in the Miller's Tale; why Chaucer
`diminished' the sexuality of Sir Thopas; and whether Troilus is
effeminate, impotent or an example of true manhood. PETER G.
BEIDLER is the Lucy G.Moses Distinguished Professor of English at
Lehigh University. Contributors: MARK ALLEN, PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM,
MARTIN BLUM, DANIEL F. PIGG, ELIZABETH M. BIEBEL, JEAN E. JOST,
CAROL EVEREST, ANDREA ROSSI-REDER, GLENN BURGER, PETER G. BEIDLER,
JEFFREY JEROME COHEN, DANIEL RUBEY, MICHAEL D. SHARP, PAUL R.
THOMAS, STEPHANIE DIETRICH, MAUD BURNETT MCINERNEY, DEREK BREWER
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