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This book reconsiders the place of magic at the foundations of
modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books,
philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, Andrew Moore
shows us that magic was ubiquitous in early modern England. Rather
than a "decline of magic," this study traces a broad cultural
fascination with supernatural power. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, poets, philosophers, jurists, and monarchs
debated the reality and the morality of magic, and, by extension,
the limits of human power. In this way, early modern English
writing about magic was closely related to the scientific and
political philosophical writing from the period, which was likewise
reimagining humanity's relationship to nature. Moore reads Thomas
Hobbes's Leviathan alongside contemporary writing by the notorious
witch hunters Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne. He reminds us that
Francis Bacon's scientific works were addressed to King James I,
whose own Daemonologie insists on the reality of witchcraft. The
fantastical science fiction of Margaret Cavendish, he argues, must
be understood within a tradition that includes works like
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the peculiar autobiography
of criminal astrologer Simon Forman. By considering these disparate
works together Moore reveals the centrality of magic to the early
modern project.
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's
political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's best-known
works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolo
Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By
situating Shakespeare 'between' these two thinkers, the distinctly
modern trajectory of the playwright's work becomes visible.
Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of
kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic.
Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics
through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and
political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare's corpus as
a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and
deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a
revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and
Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three
thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our
mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and
organizing human bodies-caring for their needs, making space for
the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of
violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare's
plays that illuminate the playwright's major political
preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's
political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's best-known
works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolo
Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By
situating Shakespeare 'between' these two thinkers, the distinctly
modern trajectory of the playwright's work becomes visible.
Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of
kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic.
Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics
through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and
political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare's corpus as
a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and
deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a
revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and
Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three
thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our
mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and
organizing human bodies-caring for their needs, making space for
the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of
violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare's
plays that illuminate the playwright's major political
preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.
For seven seasons, AMC's Mad Men captivated audiences with the
story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and
professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller
coaster ride through America's tumultuous 1960s. More than just a
television show about one of advertising's "bad boys," the series
investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring
whether or not the American Dream is a sustainable vision of human
flourishing and happiness. This collection of essays investigates
the show's engagement with the philosophic and political
foundations of American democracy.
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
This book is a thorough, practical review of the challenges facing
clinicians treating skin microbes and how to combat these
therapeutic dilemmas. It expresses the critical public health
concern of antimicrobial resistance and shows how microorganisms
are developing the ability to halt the progress of antimicrobials
like antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. Chapters are grouped
together in five sections for ease of use. The first three sections
of the book convey foundational information on the mechanisms of
antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals resistance, as well as the
implications of lack of vaccination. The fourth section then turns
to the specifics of drug resistance for protozoan and helminth
infections focusing primarily on initial and subsequent resistance
to treatment. The book closes with a discussion on the potential
solutions of innovative therapy including new delivery mechanisms,
broad-spectrum antibiotics, phytocompounds, and biofilms. Chapters
feature magnified, microscopic photos for identifying structures as
they appear on the skin. Part of the Updates in Clinical
Dermatology series, Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin
is an important resource relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, and
is written for all medical healthcare professionals.
"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La
Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of
the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andre
Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel
Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the
symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the
two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of
freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan
constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve
intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search
of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying
one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture
most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete,
and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art
for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific
struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not
think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois
Mauriac)
Andrew Moore's new book, Blue Alabama, focuses on the American
South, depicts the economic, social and cultural divisions that
characterize the South and the love of history, tradition and land
that binds its citizens. Following upon in-depth explorations of
the economically ravaged city of Detroit (2007 - 2009) and the
mythic high plains region along the 100th Meridian (2011 - 2014),
Blue Alabama continues the artist's investigation of "the inner
empire" of the United States.
The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a
cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six
states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling,
tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained
Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved
African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of
place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic
grower's dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive,
and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer
agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the
pawpaw, much less tasted one? In Pawpaw-a 2016 James Beard
Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature
category-author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future
of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello;
canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking
pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars
in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a
Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and
knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists
working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal
Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit's own "Johnny
Pawpawseed"), but also regular folks who remember eating them in
the woods as kids, but haven't had one in over fifty years. As much
as Pawpaw is a compendium of pawpaw knowledge, it also plumbs
deeper questions about American foodways-how economic, biologic,
and cultural forces combine, leading us to eat what we eat, and
sometimes to ignore the incredible, delicious food growing all
around us. If you haven't yet eaten a pawpaw, this book won't let
you rest until you do.
Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us
closer to environmental disaster? Why did biology choose carbon, in
a variety of compounds, as its energy carrier and storage
substance? From the smallest life forms, through multicellular
organisms, and up to whole ecosystems, this economy of carbon
compounds is fundamentally sustainable. Yet today, many are working
to expunge carbon-based energy carriers from human economies,
replacing them with solutions based on other elements and minerals.
In The Decarbonization Delusion, independent scientist and writer
Andrew Moore shows that the race to decarbonize is leading us
further down the road to environmental degradation. Instead of
banishing carbon, Moore argues that we should look to life on
Earth, which has used carbon in highly sustainable ways for 3.5
billion years, as a model for how humans can use carbon
sustainably. The Decarbonization Delusion begins by discussing
carbon's role in the inception of the universe and its critical
importance in biology. Moore identifies many intriguing features of
biology's use of carbon that are crucial to creating sustainable
human economies on Earth. Throughout, Moore draws on extensive
research and original calculations to disprove common fallacies
about carbon-based energy carriers and their alternatives. For
example, he shows that the widely perceived superiority of battery
technology over carbon-based fuels is, in most regards, a serious
misconception that, if not corrected, could have grave
environmental consequences. Politicians, industrial leaders, and
even some scientists have contributed to the widespread belief that
carbon should have no place in our energy economies. In The
Decarbonization Delusion, Moore argues against this idea, asking us
to re-think our assumptions and approach sustainable energy
development in a more scientific and dispassionate fashion.
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