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Psychros (Paperback)
Charlene Elsby
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Violent Faculties
Charlene Elsby
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A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by
performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after
the department is closed due to budget cuts.Violent Faculties
follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille. She
is ejected by university administrators aiming to impose business
strategies in the interest of profit over knowledge.She designs a
series of experiments to demonstrate the value of philosophy as a
discipline, not because of its potential for financial benefit, but
because of its relevance to life and death. The corpses proliferate
as her experiments yield theoretical results and ethical
conundrums.She questions why it is wrong to kill humans, what is it
about them that makes their lives sacred, and then attempts to find
it in their bodies, their words, their thoughts, and their
souls--seeking foundational truths with a knife in her home office.
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Hexis (Paperback)
Charlene Elsby
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I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's
something called "relent" and that I'm lacking it. In that sense,
I'm not relentless, but perhaps I'm unrelenting. I could relent if
I wanted to. But he always has to die. I mean "always" in two
senses: at all times and all of the time. I can't kill him all of
the time. That would take too long. But all of the times I did, I
did. I'd do it again. I could relent if I wanted to, but instead
I'd do it again. If he's different, then he's the same and if he's
the same, he's got to go. If he were different and not the same,
then there would be two things and I'd only have to kill one of
them. If only I only had to kill one of him. What a life I would
live, if only I only had to kill him the one time. But death
doesn't always do him in.
Essays on Aesthetic Genesis is a collection of essays written on
Jeff Mitscherling's work in realist phenomenology, Aesthetic
Genesis: The Origin of Consciousness in the Intentional Being of
Nature. The authors explicate, expand, contextualize and apply the
concepts of intentional being, the "New Copernican Hypothesis" (a
reversal of the fundamental tenet of phenomenology that all
consciousness is intentional-intentionality, rather, gives rise to
consciousness), the idea of intentional structures in nature, and
the foundational concepts of Aesthetic Genesis as they appear in
the work of Aristotle, Ingarden and Gadamer amongst others. This
book takes as its focus Mitscherling's comprehensive
phenomenological analysis of embodiment, aesthetic experience, the
interpretation of texts, moral behavior, and cognition, and
exemplifies subsequent work in the field of realist phenomenology
being conducted by an international collection of active scholars
influenced by Aesthetic Genesis.
Why read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy
Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an
actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be
enlightening. Amy Schumer is one of a handful of contemporary
comedians filling the role of public philosopher. To be clear, Amy
herself does not claim to be offering wisdom. This volume contains
seventeen fun-filled chapters. One author makes the case that Amy
uses humor to encourage her audience to consider important
questions, for example, she does this when she discusses the trial
of Bill Cosby while evoking fond memories of The Cosby Show. She
essentially asks her audience to consider whether they give
priority to unconflicted entertainment over justice for rape
victims. In another chapter, the author casts a philosophical eye
toward the action-comedy film Snatched and finds that it raises
questions about responsibility: Is Schumer's character, Emily,
responsible for getting kidnapped in Ecuador? Is Emily responsible
for the death of one of her kidnappers? Another author asks whether
Snatched can be a great comedy and still get negative reviews? What
is the role of art and who determines whether a work of art is good
or beautiful? What do Amy Schumer and Friedrich Nietzsche have in
common? Is Amy a "sex comic" or an "issue comic"? With her typical
self-deprecating comedic style, Amy makes jokes by highlighting the
absurd, the illogical, and the hypocritical in gender relations,
notions of masculinity and femininity, and superficial values. But
the main reason to read Amy Schumer and Philosophy is that it a
pretty awesome read and laughter will most definitely ensue.
The product of a Kickstarter fundraising campaign, "Clear and
Present Thinking" is a college-level textbook in logic and critical
thinking. Chapters: 1. Questions, Problems, and World Views 2. Good
and Bad Thinking Habits 3. Basics of Argumentation 4. Fallacies 5.
Reasonable Doubt 6. Moral Reasoning In an effort to reduce the cost
of education for students, this textbook was funded by over 700
people through the Kickstarter online crowd-funding platform. This
softcover edition is available here for the lowest reasonable
price. All profits from the sale of this print edition will go
towards funding future free or nearly-free college textbook
projects.
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