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  • Parasitic Personhood and the Ontology of Eating

    by Lisa Heldke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Food
    Humans must eat, and our eating involves us in a cascade of eating relationships that leave life and death biting into each other.These realities should—but often do not—profoundly shape our understanding of personhood. This book explores “parasitic personhood,” an alternative to atomistic individualism that acknowledges the biological individual as a network of persistent biological relationships ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophers at Table

    On Food and Being Human

    by Raymond D. Boisvert, Lisa Heldke ...
    One of the most important things we do every day is eat. The question of eating – what and how – may seem simple at first, but it is dense with possible interpretations, reflecting the myriad roles food plays in our lives. In fact, as Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke show in this book, it’s difficult to imagine a more philosophically charged act than eating. Philosophers at Table explores the ... Read more

    $18.49 USD

  • The Center Must Not Hold

    White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy

    by Barbara Applebaum, Berit Brogaard, Lisa Heldke, Sarah Hoagland, Crista Lebens, Alexis Shotwell, Audrey Thompson, Alison Bailey, Susan E. Babbitt, George Yancy, Cynthia Kaufman, Cris Mayo, Shannon Sullivan, Lisa Tessman ...
    The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within this text, white women philosophers critique the field of philosophy for its complicity with ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Exotic Appetites

    Ruminations of a Food Adventurer

    by Lisa Heldke ...
    Exotic Appetites is a far-reaching exploration of what Lisa Heldke calls food adventuring: the passion, fashion and pursuit of experimentation with ethnic foods. The aim of Heldke's critique is to expose and explore the colonialist attitudes embedded in our everyday relationship and approach to foreign foods. Exotic Appetites brings to the table the critical literatures in postcolonialism, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Atkins Diet and Philosophy

    Chewing the Fat with Kant and Nietzsche

    Edited by Lisa Heldke, Kerri Mommer, Cynthia Pineo, William Irwin ...
    The Atkins diet has transformed the lives of millions of people, revolutionizing grocery store shelves, restaurant menus, and dinner-table conversations. But there are questions beyond its efficacy and longevity. Is the Atkins diet a new wrinkle in capitalist exploitation or a twisted expression of negative body images? Is it a symbol of super-masculinity? Has the Atkins diet really been around ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Vibrant Matter

    A Political Ecology of Things

    by Jane Bennett ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

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  • Fellow Creatures

    Our Obligations to the Other Animals

    by Christine M. Korsgaard ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good derived from Aristotle, she offers an explanation of why animals are the sorts of beings for whom things can be good or bad. She then turns to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Eating in Theory

    by Annemarie Mol ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone

    Grounds for Debate

    by Fritz Allhoff, Scott F. Parker, Michael W. Austin ...
    Series Book 26 - Philosophy for Everyone
    Offering philosophical insights into the popular morning brew, Coffee -- Philosophy for Everyone kick starts the day with an entertaining but critical discussion of the ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and culture of coffee.Matt Lounsbury of pioneering business Stumptown Coffee discusses just how good coffee can beCaffeine-related chapters cover the ethics of the coffee trade, the metaphysics of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Why "Happy Meat" Is Always Wrong

    by Magnus Vinding ...
    The "happy meat" position does not challenge our large-scale mistreatment of non-human beings, but rather serves to support it. That is among the core claims of this essay, which argues that the rejection of the "happy meat" position is critical if we are to end the extreme horrors that humanity inflicts upon other animals."Magnus Vinding argues powerfully against eating 'happy meat'." — Peter ... Read more

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  • Grafts

    by Michael Marder ...
    Series series Univocal
    Grafting: do we ever do anything other than that? And are we ever free from vegetal influences when we engage in its operations? For the philosopher Michael Marder, our reflections on vegetal life have a fundamental importance in how we can reflect on our own conceptions of ethics, politics, and philosophy in general. Taking as his starting point the simple vegetal conception of grafting, Marder ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Arrogant Ape

    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

    by Christine Webb ...
    **A New York Times’s Notable Book of 2025An impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves**Darwin considered humans one part of the web of life, not the apex of a natural hierarchy. Yet today many maintain that we are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. This flawed thinking enables us ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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