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  • From War Room to Living Room

    Everyday Innovations from the Military

    by Tish Davidson, Scott Davidson ...
    The military's focus on innovation and problem-solving has led to the creation of numerous items and technologies that have transcended the battlefield and become commonplace in our daily lives.This accessible reference volume explores 46 of these innovations, from duct tape to microwaves, focusing on the people and events that made each possible. Entries follow a standardized format that covers ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • What is Hermeneutics?

    by Johann Michel ...
    Translated by Scott Davidson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book reveals how hermeneutics has experienced unprecedented attention under the leadership of Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur, after long being confined to a restricted field of disciplines focused on understanding discourse. The author confronts the following questions: What is understanding? How to interpret a work of art? Can we decipher nature? How to orient yourself in space?This ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Pathos and Praxis

    An Integrated Phenomenology of Life

    by Scott Davidson ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Pathos and Praxis presents a new and original framework for an integrated phenomenology of life. It provides the first comparative study of two influential French philosophers, Paul Ricoeur and Michel Henry, and shows that their debates over the interpretation of Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx signal two rival approaches to the phenomenology of life.Author Scott Davidson demonstrates that while Henry ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body

    by Stephanie N. Arel, Gaëlle Fiasse, Anne Gléonec, Richard Kearney, Maria Cristina Clorinda Vendra, Roger W. H. Savage, Scott Davidson, Annemie Halsema, Timo Helenius, Dan R. Stiver0 ...
    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeur’s reflections and analyses of the body as one’s own through explorations into the ethical, cultural, and affective dimensions of our corporeal existence. Starting with the fact that each of us has a place in the world by reason of our mode of incarnation as flesh, the contributors to this volume address a range of diverse themes in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Law of Treaties

    Edited by Scott Davidson ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in International Law
    The centrality of treaties to the international legal system requires little emphasis. Not only is the treaty a source of law that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is bound to apply when resolving international disputes, but it is also the medium through which the vast preponderance of international legal intercourse is now conducted. The essays contained in this informative volume ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy

    The Roots of Desire

    by Till Grohmann, Stefan Kristensen, Paula Lorelle, Delia Popa, Alexander Schnell, Melissa Theriault, Renaud Barbaras, Scott Davidson, A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone ...
    Series series Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
    Reframing Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: The Roots of Desire, edited by Elodie Boublil, investigates the works of French philosophers who have been relegated to the margins of the canon, even if their teachings and writings have been recognized as highly influential. The contributions gather around the concept of “desire” to make sense of the French philosophical debate throughout the ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Barbarism

    by Michel Henry ...
    Translated by Professor Scott Davidson ...
    Series series Continuum Impacts
    Barbarism represents acritique, from the perspective of Michel Henry's unique philosophy of life, ofthe increasing potential of science and technology to destroy the roots ofculture and the value of the individual human being. For Henry, barbarismis the result of a devaluation of human life and culture that can betraced back to the spread of quantification, the scientific method andtechnology over ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists

    Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis

    by Johann Michel ...
    Translated by Scott Davidson ...
    In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought—Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.Although the fertile dialogue between Ricoeur and various structuralist thinkers is well documented, his position in relation to the post ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • From Communism to Capitalism

    Theory of a Catastrophe

    by Michel Henry ...
    Translated by Professor Scott Davidson ...
    Both a unique witness of transformative events in the late 20th century, and a prescient analysis of our present economic crises from a major French philosopher, Michel Henry's From Communism to Capitalism adds an important economic dimension to his earlier social critique. It begins by tracing the collapse of communist regimes back to their failure to implement Marx's original insights into the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • A Companion to Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil

    by Scott Davidson, Colby Dickinson, Daniel Frey, Adam J. Graves, Brian Gregor, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Nathan D. Pederson, Jérôme Porée, B. Keith Putt, Petruschka Schaafsma0, Dan R. Stiver1, Marc-Antoine Vallée2 ...
    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the question of evil in its actuality. What is the nature of the will that has succumbed to evil? The question of evil resists reflection and remains ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man

    by Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Jean-Luc Amalric, Luz Ascárate Ascarate, Scott Davidson, Daniel Frey, Brian Gregor, Annemie Halsema, Timo Helenius, Jérôme Porée, Pol Vandevelde0 ...
    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur’s early trilogy on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to examine the bad will, asking what makes evil a possibility. Combining rigor and originality, Ricoeur locates the possibility of evil in a self that is ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur's Philosophy

    by Pamela Sue Anderson, Alison Scott-Baumann, Stephanie N. Arel, Annlaug Bjørsnøs, Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Marjolaine Deschênes, Carlos A. Garduño Comparán, Damien Tissot, Teresa Maria Leal de Assunção Martinho Toldy, Morny Joy, Scott Davidson, Gonçalo Marcelo ...
    Series series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
    This book for the first time brings together considerations upon the feminine in relation to Paul Ricœur’s thinking. The collection of renowned scholars who have published extensively on Ricoeur and promising younger scholars together shows the rich potential of his thought for feminist theory, without failing to critically scrutinize it and to show its limitations with respect to thinking gender ... Read more

    $105.99 USD