Deconstructing Transhumanism: A Religion Without Religion challenges the widely held view that transhumanism-a movement advocating for the enhancement of human life through technology-is purely secular and scientific.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.
This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze.
Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest a picture of the world as an assemblage of spectral resonances and disseminations.
In einer Welt, die von Volatilität, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Ambiguität (VUCA) geprägt ist, stehen Führungskräfte vor der Herausforderung, rasch auf Veränderungen zu reagieren und gleichzeitig strategische Klarheit zu bewahren.
The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia.
The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
La presente recopilación busca constituirse en el cimiento de lo que, según el autor, podría denominarse una percepción alternativa de las diferentes temáticas que aborda, como lo son la prevalencia de la ideología en la ciencia y el Estado, el carácter autopoiético y homogeneizante del Estado Moderno y la incidencia del multiculturalismo y de la participación ciudadana en las formaciones políticas de la América Latina contemporánea.
A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity.
A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity.
Establishing a rigorous program of "e;symptomatic reading"e; that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of production as a revolutionary break-the basis of a completely new science.
The World Politics of Disco Elysium analyzes the distinctive political claims and original arguments on a wide range of international political issues of the highly-acclaimed Marxist video game Disco Elysium (2019), which takes place in a speculative fictional world anchored in a post-Soviet Estonian perspective.
This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the Covid 19 pandemic, with contributions from India, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Italy, United States, and Canada.
El conservadurismo ha sido tradicionalmente concebido como contrario a los grandes esquemas abstractos y los ideales de perfección política mientras que lo utópico se ha situado en un orden de promisión o en un no-lugar venturoso.
El presente trabajo estudia la política a partir de su origen griego durante los tiempos arcaicos, su desarrollo histórico y las distintas teorías que lo han abordado.
Finalist for the Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedomChoice touches virtually every aspect of our lives, from what to buy and where to live to whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe.
This book provides a rigorous investigation into the adoption and culture of human rights in Nigeria, with a focus on the human rights attitudes of Nigerian students.
