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  • Conspiracy and Contingency

    How to Deal with Fake Necessities

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. The COVID-19 crisis has brought about a proliferation of conspiracy theories that reject, among other things, official accounts of the virus’s origins and remedies, and sometimes even the existence of the virus itself. Conspiratorial thinking usually links ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Three Times Emptiness: Śūnyatā, Kenosis, Fanā’

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a triangular comparative analysis by evaluating three different religious approaches to emptiness. It reveals what emptiness or nothingness mean in different cultural and religious contexts. Further, it assesses each tradition’s emptiness concerning the emptiness of the believer, the emptiness of the world, and perhaps even the (temporary or permanent) emptiness of God.Chapters ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • How Much Religion is Good for Us?

    If Religion Were a Game

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    How Much Religion is Good for Us? is a provocative book which examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective.Understanding “religion as a game” in the context of secular culture, it explores the “playful” patterning of spiritual and religious belief in modern societies. Drawing on the Nietzschean concept of a dead but powerful God, ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is “futurist.” ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and optimistic attitude propagated by Italian Futurism in the early twentieth century. The Islamic State does not only excel through the extensive use of high-tech weapons, social media ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Series series SUNY series, Translating China
    Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.How would Zhuangzi, a Chinese philosopher who lived in the fourth century BCE, have reacted to the recent linguistic reforms commonly referred to as "political correctness"? ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Lines

    From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Lines can be physical phenomena, cognitive responses to observed processes, or both at the same time. Based on this assumption, the book describes the “philosophy of lines” in art, architecture, and science. The book compares Western and Eastern traditions. It examines lines ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East

    Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy

    de Stephen Keck, Bryan Alexander, Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, Fatima Badry, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Janel Curry, Boufeldja Ghiat, Michael Gow, Kevin W. Gray0, Amani Hamdan Alghamdi1, Jerry Logan2, M. Ayaz Naseem3, Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar4, Nancy Small5, John Willoughby6, Hassan Bashir7, Mark Rush9 ...
    This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos

    The New Feminine Aesthetics

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more frequent, more visible, and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years. No longer restricted to biker and sailor culture, tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstream of liberal societies. Nudity has become more ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Organic Cinema

    Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    The “organic” is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the “slow cinema” movement. Through a wholly original analysis of the long ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cool-Kawaii

    Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity

    de Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    At the turn of the millennium, international youth culture is dominated by mainly two types of aesthetics: the African American cool, which, propelled by Hip-Hop music, has become the world's favorite youth culture; and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute, that is distributed internationally by Japan's powerful anime industry.The USA and Japan are cultural superpowers and global trendsetters ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

    de Richard Bullen, Allen Carlson, Koji Yamasaki, Mara Miller, Hiroshi Nara, Akiko Takenaka, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michiko Yusa, Cheryl Crowley, Meera Viswanathan, Roy Starrs0, Mikiko Hirayama1, David Bell2, Peter Leech3, Matthew Larking4, Steve Odin5, James McRae6, Robert E. Carter7, C. Michael Rich8, J. Thomas Rimer9, Timothy Unverzagt Goddard0, Carol Steinberg Gould1, Stephen Addiss2, Yuriko Saito3, David E. Cooper4, Graham Parkes5, John C. Maraldo6, Jason M. Wirth7, Professor A. Minh Nguyen8 ...
    This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • The Veil in Kuwait

    Gender, Fashion, Identity

    de N. Abdullah-Khan, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, family, tradition, and fashion are all explored to provide insight into this fascinating phenomenon that has received global interest. ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD