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  • Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Specter of Hypocrisy

    Testing the Limits of Moral Discourse

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and social cohesion. Given the contemporary context of post-truth, the examination of degrees or kinds of hypocrisy moves from the Greek etymology of masks worn on the theater stage to the Hebrew etymology of the color adjustment of chameleons to their environment. Canonical ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine

    Integrative Bioethics

    by Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower ...
    "Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific validity) ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Quest for Prosperity

    Reframing Political Economy

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these impediments constrict our political imagination.This book asks what are these frames of references? How ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Popper's Legacy

    Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society". "Popper's Legacy" examines Popper in the round, analysing in particular his moral and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Impact of Critical Rationalism

    Expanding the Popperian Legacy through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie

    Edited by Raphael Sassower, Nathaniel Laor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C. Jarvie extended the notion of Critical Rationalism to be useful in anthropology, aesthetics, film studies, and various social sciences. In this Festschrift, contributors from a range of interests and disciplines engage with the Popperian legacy and Jarvie’s scholarly and editorial ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Democratic Problem-Solving

    Dialogues in Social Epistemology

    by Justin Cruickshank, Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public intellectuals able to develop a more dialogically engaged public? What role should there be for ‘experts’ in a more dialogic democracy? Does information and communications technology present a ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Religion and Sports in American Culture

    by Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower ...
    Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Postcapitalism

    Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more successful financial policies undertaken during the past century. This means that from the workplace to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Political Blind Spots

    Reading the Ideology of Images

    by Louis Cicotello, Raphael Sassower ...
    In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Confronting Disaster

    An Existential Approach to Technoscience

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and regressive environmental policies, resulting in a greater sense of danger for everyone. The promises of economic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Sanctuary of Their Own

    Intellectual Refugees in the Academy

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture's long-standing ambivalence toward 'the life of the mind.' He shows how and why this historical ... Read more

    $39.69 USD