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Posthumanities eBook Series

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  • The Universe of Things

    On Speculative Realism

    by Steven Shaviro ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead’s work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Hyperobjects

    Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Everything Guide to Understanding Philosophy

    Understand the basic concepts of the greatest thinkers of all time

    by Kenneth Shouler ...
    Series series Everything® Series
    Complex ideas explained in everyday language!Is there life after death? Are euthanasia, suicide, or stem cell research ethical acts? Does the use of performance enhancers in sports constitute cheating?These are the types of philosophical questions people face today. Philosophy is not a dead set of doctrines--it's a living body of knowledge that you can use to guide behavior and problem solving. In ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pessimism

    Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit

    by Joshua Foa Dienstag ...
    Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference

    Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir

    by Sara Heinämaa ...
    Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi_me Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers those neglected passages in her quest to follow Beauvoir's line of thinking. HeinSmaa, like some ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Experts and Consensus in Social Science

    Edited by Carlo Martini, Marcel Boumans ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together the research of philosophers, sociologists, and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address and possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Philosophy of the Economy

    An Aristotelian Approach

    by Ricardo F. Crespo ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a philosophical analysis of economic reality and economic science from an Aristotelian point of view. It is the result of many years of thinking and philosophical study about these topics. It differs from other philosophy of economics books as it also deals with economic reality (not only the science) and approaches its subject from an Aristotelian perspective. It differs from ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Rethinking Capital

    by Richard Dien Winfield ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book develops a comprehensive systematic economic theory, conceiving how the dynamic of market relations generates an economy dominated by the competitive process of individual profit-seeking enterprises. The author shows how, contrary to classical political economy and contemporary economics, the theory of capital is an a priori normative account properly belonging to ethics. Exposing and ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction

    by Robert J. Yanal ...
    How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us do not exist? This is a conundrum that has puzzled philosophers for a long time, and in this book Robert Yanal both canvasses previously proposed solutions to it and offers one of his own.First formulated by Samuel Johnson, the paradox ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Emerging Consensus in Social Systems Theory

    by Kenneth C. Bausch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In The Emerging Consensus of Social Systems Theory Bausch summarizes the works of over 30 major systemic theorists. He then goes on to show the converging areas of consensus among these out-standing thinkers.Bausch categorizes the social aspects of current systemic thinking as falling into five broadly thematic areas: designing social systems, the structure of the social world, communication, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Quality of Life

    The Selected Works of Alex C. Michalos

    by Alex C. Michalos ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This first volume has as its main focus the philosophical foundations of Michalos’ work and describes it in the broad context of the study of logic, the philosophy of social sciences, and a general theory of value. After distinguishing things that have value from the value that things might have, it describes the foundations of a pragmatic theory of value. This theory plays a key role in the ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Interpreting Charles Taylor’s Social Theory on Religion and Secularization

    A Comparative Study

    by Germán McKenzie ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines “Taylorean social theory,” its sources, main characteristics and impact. Charles Taylor’s meta-narrative of secularization in the West, prominently contained in his major work A Secular Age (2007), has brought new insight on the social and cultural factors that intervened in such process, the role of human agency, and particularly on the contemporary conditions of belief in ... Read more

    $80.99 USD