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  • Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology

    by Corey Anton ...
    In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and award-winning "Playing with Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to people who are ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • General Semantics and Politics

    Edited by Corey Anton, Thom Gencarelli ...
    Designed for those discovering general semantics for the first time as well as for scholars who are well versed in it, this collection provides vital analytic tools for understanding the contemporary world of politics. It brings together essays that span a wide range of concerns, including the underpinnings of democracy, the challenges of media bias and the two-party system, the difficulties in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • General Semantics Seminar 1937, Fourth Edition

    by Alfred Korzybski ...
    This book is based on a transcript of 14 lectures given by Alfred Korzybski at Olivet College in 1937. This 4th Edition has a newly added Foreword and Index by Corey Anton. General Semantics Seminar 1937 represents Korzybski's most accessible introduction to the discipline of general semantics. It introduces people to basic concepts within general semantics, offers practical advice on managing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Non-being Haunts Being

    On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance

    by Corey Anton ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences.Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Taking Up McLuhan's Cause

    Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality

    Edited by Robert K. Logan, Corey Anton, Lance Strate ...
    This book brings together a number of prominent scholars to explore a relatively under-studied area of Marshall McLuhan’s thought: his idea of formal cause and the role that formal cause plays in the emergence of new technologies and in structuring societal relations. Aiming to open a new way of understanding McLuhan’s thought in this area, and to provide methodological grounding for future media ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Korzybski And...

    by Corey Anton, Lance Strate ...
    "In this volume, Corey Anton and Lance Strate have carefully crafted a collection of comparisons of Korzybski's thoughts to other key philosophers and their ideas. Media, semiotics, imagination, rational thought, cultural studies, and cyberculture are only a sample of the many stimulating topics that come to life in this book...With freshness and vision, this edited collection takes us on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can ... Read more

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  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

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  • Humanesis

    Sound and Technological Posthumanism

    by David Cecchetto ...
    Series Book 25 - Posthumanities
    Humanesis critically examines central strains of posthumanism, searching out biases in the ways that human–technology coupling is explained. Specifically, it interrogates three approaches taken by posthumanist discourse: scientific, humanist, and organismic. David Cecchetto’s investigations reveal how each perspective continues to hold on to elements of the humanist tradition that it is ostensibly ... Read more

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  • Meaning in Life

    by Thaddeus Metz ...
    What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda. He proceeds by examining what, if anything, all the conditions that make a life meaningful have in common. The outcome of this process is a philosophical theory of meaning in life. He starts by evaluating existing theories in terms of the classic ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology

    Edited by Paul K. Moser ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of contemporary ... Read more

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  • Confronting Theory

    The Psychology of Cultural Studies

    by Philip Bell ...
    Confronting Theory presents a methodological (philosophical) and educational evaluation and critique of what has come to be known as Theory (‘with a capital-T’) in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than merely dismissing Theory writing as risibly pretentious and abstract, Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD