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“scott marratto”

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  • Phenomenology and the Arts

    by A. Licia Carlson, Peter Costello, Galen A. Johnson, Brian Rogers, Scott Marratto, Kirsten Jacobson, Susan Bredlau, Laura McMahon, Jeff Morrisey0, Matthew Goodwin1, David Ciavatta2, John Russon3, John Lysaker4, Christian Lotz5 ...
    Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The End of Ethics in a Technological Society

    by Lawrence E. Schmidt, Scott Marratto ...
    Lawrence Schmidt and Scott Marratto challenge modern liberal ethics, arguing that there is no consistent ethical framework to deal with the long-range negative consequences of certain technological developments They examine established ethical approaches to such urgent contemporary concerns as environmental degradation, nuclear energy, high tech militarism, and fetal genetic testing, showing that ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    by Adam Briggle, Carl Mitcham ...
    Series series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Liberalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    by Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann ...
    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Great Divide

    Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in the concept of liberal democracy itself, and the resulting divide is now so wide that those ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Designs on Nature

    Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Metamorphosis of the World

    How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Catastrophism

    The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth

    by Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, James Davis ...
    Series series Spectre
    We live in catastrophic times. The world is reeling from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, with the threat of further meltdowns ever-looming. Global warming and myriad dire ecological disasters worsen—with little if any action to halt them—their effects rippling across the planet in the shape of almost biblical floods, fires, droughts, and hurricanes. Governments warn that ... Read more

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  • A Larger Sense of Purpose

    Higher Education and Society

    by Harold T. Shapiro ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Universities were once largely insular institutions whose purview extended no further than the campus gates. Not anymore. Today's universities have evolved into multifaceted organizations with complex connections to government, business, and the community. This thought-provoking book by Harold Shapiro, former president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan, and Chairman of ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Prisoners of Reason

    Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy

    by S. M. Amadae ...
    Is capitalism inherently predatory? Must there be winners and losers? Is public interest outdated and free-riding rational? Is consumer choice the same as self-determination? Must bargainers abandon the no-harm principle? Prisoners of Reason recalls that classical liberal capitalism exalted the no-harm principle. Although imperfect and exclusionary, modern liberalism recognized individual human ... Read more

    $31.99 USD