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  • Music Worlding in Palau

    Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness

    by Birgit Abels ...
    Series series Global Asia
    Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness is a detailed study of the performing arts in Palau, Micronesia as holistic techniques enabling the experiential corporeality of music’s meaningfulness – that distinctly musical way of making sense of the world with which the felt body immediately resonates but which, to a significant extent, escapes interpretive techniques. ... Read more

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  • Wonderstruck

    How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think

    by Helen De Cruz ...
    A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain worldWonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions respond to our fundamental need to make sense of ourselves and everything around us, and how they enable us to engage with the world as if we are experiencing it for the first time.Drawing on the latest ... Read more

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  • I am Not a Brain

    Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century

    by Markus Gabriel ...
    Translated by Christopher Turner ...
    Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness? Is the self only our brain’s user interface, a kind of stage on which a show is performed that we cannot freely direct?In this book, philosopher ... Read more

    Was $56.00 USD Now $22.00 USD

  • Material Ecocriticism

    by David Abram, Joni Adamson, Jane Bennett, Eli Clare, Stacy Alaimo, Hannes Bergthaller, Jeffrey J. Cohen, Simon Estok, Heather I. Sullivan, Catherine Rigby, Dana Phillips, Timo Maran, Cheryll Glotfelty, Greta Gaard, Lowell Duckert, Wendy Wheeler, Hubert Zapf, Timothy Morton, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands ...
    Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Listening, Thinking, Being

    Toward an Ethics of Attunement

    by Lisbeth Lipari ...
    Although listening is central to human interaction, its importance is often ignored. In the rush to speak and be heard, it is easy to neglect listening and disregard its significance as a way of being with others and the world. Drawing upon insights from phenomenology, linguistics, philosophy of communication, and ethics, Listening, Thinking, Being is both an invitation and an intervention meant ... Read more

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  • Atmospheric Architectures

    The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces

    by Professor Gernot Böhme ...
    There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Böhme.Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces brings together Böhme's most seminal writings on the subject, through chapters selected from ... Read more

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  • Sensing Sound

    Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice

    by Nina Sun Eidsheim ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    In Sensing Sound Nina Sun Eidsheim offers a vibrational theory of music that radically re-envisions how we think about sound, music, and listening. Eidsheim shows how sound, music, and listening are dynamic and contextually dependent, rather than being fixed, knowable, and constant. She uses twenty-first-century operas by Juliana Snapper, Meredith Monk, Christopher Cerrone, and Alba Triana as case ... Read more

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  • The Territories of Human Reason

    Science and Theology in an Age of Multiple Rationalities

    by Alister E. McGrath ...
    Series series Ian Ramsey Centre Studies in Science and Religion
    Our understanding of human rationality has changed significantly since the beginning of the century, with growing emphasis being placed on multiple rationalities, each adapted to the specific tasks of communities of practice. We may think of the world as an ontological unity-but we use a plurality of methods to investigate and represent this world. This development has called into question both ... Read more

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  • New Materialist Literary Theory

    Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

    by Philipp Erchinger, Grant Hamilton, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Annina Klappert, Evan Gottlieb, Ann-Katrin Preis, Cord-Christian Casper, Kerstin Howaldt, Arne De Boever, Marco Caracciolo0, Daniela Keller1 ...
    Series series New Critical Humanities
    This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Sonic Skills

    Listening for Knowledge in Science, Medicine and Engineering (1920s-Present)

    by Karin Bijsterveld ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    It is common for us today to associate the practice of science primarily with the act of seeing—with staring at computer screens, analyzing graphs, and presenting images. We may notice that physicians use stethoscopes to listen for disease, that biologists tune into sound recordings to understand birds, or that engineers have created Geiger tellers warning us for radiation through sound. But in ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art

    Edited by Marcel Cobussen, Vincent Meelberg, Barry Truax ...
    Series series Routledge Music Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art presents an overview of the issues, methods, and approaches crucial for the study of sound in artistic practice. Thirty-six essays cover a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to studying sounding art from the fields of musicology, cultural studies, sound design, auditory culture, art history, and philosophy. The companion website hosts sound examples and ... Read more

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  • General Ecology

    The New Ecological Paradigm

    by James Edward Burton ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behavior, belonging, values, the social, the ... Read more

    $33.19 USD