Dark matters, Van Der Lugt, Mara

Автор: Van Der Lugt Mara
Название: Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering
ISBN: 0691206627 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691206622
Издательство: Wiley
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An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope.

Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like.

A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

Автор: Laura J. Shepherd, Caitlin Hamilton
Название: Gender matters in global politics
ISBN: 0367477602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367477608
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, and development. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of feminist methodologies, gender theory, and feminist approaches to key topics and themes in global politics.

Автор: K. Harries
Название: Art Matters
ISBN: 9400726023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400726024
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: In recent years there has been a lot of talk about the possible death of art. This text challenges that view, and seeks to demonstrate the continued relevance of Heidegger`s reflections on the issue, summed up in his essay `The Origin of the Work of Art`.

Автор: Christoph Hanisch
Название: Why the Law Matters to You: Citizenship, Agency, and Public Identity
ISBN: 3110323958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110323955
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: This book presents an answer to the question of why modern legal institutions and the idea of citizenship are important for leading a free life. The majority of views in political and legal philosophy regard the law merely as a useful instrument, employed to render our lives more secure and to enable us to engage in cooperate activities more efficiently. The view developed here defends a non-instrumentalist alternative of why the law matters. It identifies the law as a constitutive feature of our identities as citizens of modern states. The constitutivist argument rests on the (Kantian) assumption that a person’s practical identity (its normative self-conception as an agent) is the result of its actions. The law co-constitutes these identities because it maintains the external conditions that are necessary for the actions performed under its authority. Modern legal institutions provide these external prerequisites for achieving a high degree of individual self-constitution and freedom. Only public principles can establish our status as individuals who pursue their life plans and actions as a matter of right and not because others contingently happen to let us do so. The book thereby provides resources for a reply to anarchist challenges to the necessity of legal ordering.

Автор: Seitz
Название: Intersubjectivity and the Double
ISBN: 1137563745 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137563743
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book extends philosophy’s engagement with the double beyond hierarchized binary oppositions. Brian Seitz explores the double as a necessary ontological condition or figure that gets represented, enacted, and performed repeatedly and in a myriad of configurations. Seitz suggests that the double in all of its forms is simultaneously philosophy’s shadow, its nemesis, and the condition of its possibility. This book expands definitions and investigations of the double beyond the confines of philosophy, suggesting that the concept is at work in many other fields including politics, cultural narratives, literature, mythology, and psychology. Seitz approaches the double by means of a series of case studies and by engaging loosely in eidetic variation, a methodological maneuver borrowed from phenomenology. The book explores the ways in which wide-ranging instances of the double are connected by the dynamics of intersubjectivity.

Автор: Segall
Название: Why Inequality Matters
ISBN: 1107129818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107129818
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book brings together discussions of the moral value of inequality with luck- or responsibility-sensitive accounts of distributive justice to explore and defend the view that inequality is intrinsically bad, and it is bad when and because it leaves some worse off than others through no fault or choice of their own.

Автор: Beiner
Название: Political Philosophy
ISBN: 1107069955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107069954
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Political Philosophy is a survey of twentieth-century political philosophy focused on twelve of the most ambitious practitioners of epic political theory: Arendt, Oakeshott, Strauss, Loewith, Voegelin, Weil, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, MacIntyre, Rawls, and Rorty. Through critical dialogue, Ronald Beiner seeks to clarify what is at stake in the whole theory enterprise.

Автор: Mark Dooley
Название: Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming
ISBN: 1472526155 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472526151
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Moral Matters: A Philosophy of Homecoming is Mark Dooley's attempt to offer an alternative to 'Cyberia'. It is a book about home, memory and identity. At a time when people are rapidly disengaging from those forms of life which once bound them together, it can be argued that our happiness depends on saving and conserving them. We cannot flourish in isolation or by detaching from the social sphere which surrounds us. We cannot truly prosper or progress if we choose to forget where we came from or if we dismiss our inherited moral wisdom. And yet, in opting for loss, separation and homelessness, it seems we have done just that. We have opted for a rootless existence where alienation and amnesia are the norm. This powerful and passionate book shows how the alienated, 'postmodern' self can become re-rooted to time and place and restored to full humanity and happiness whilst moving in a virtual, hyperconnected world. In caring for creation, conserving culture and saving the sacred we can once again make our home in the world and experience the consolation of moving from loss to love.

Автор: Beiner
Название: Political Philosophy
ISBN: 1107680557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107680555
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Political Philosophy is a survey of twentieth-century political philosophy focused on twelve of the most ambitious practitioners of epic political theory: Arendt, Oakeshott, Strauss, Loewith, Voegelin, Weil, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, MacIntyre, Rawls, and Rorty. Through critical dialogue, Ronald Beiner seeks to clarify what is at stake in the whole theory enterprise.

Автор: Grebowitz Margret
Название: Why Internet Porn Matters
ISBN: 0804786623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804786621
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and consumption of Internet porn, in her account, are a symptom of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In this first feminist critique to privilege the effects of pornography's Internet distribution rather than what it depicts, Grebowicz examines porn-sharing communities (such as the bestiality niche market) and the politics of putting women's sexual pleasure on display (the "squirting" market) as part of the larger democratic project. Arguing against this project, she shows that sexual pleasure is not a human right. Unlikely convergences between thinkers like Catherine MacKinnon, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, and Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard allow her to formulate a theory of the relationships between sex, speech, and power that stands as an alternative to such cyber-libertarian mottos as "freedom of speech" and "sexual freedom."

Автор: Digeser, P. E.
Название: Friendship reconsidered
ISBN: 0231174349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231174343
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Описание: Digeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendship`s many forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship, political and legal institutions, and international relations.

Автор: Segall Shlomi
Название: Why Inequality Matters
ISBN: 110757031X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107570313
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book brings together discussions of the moral value of inequality with luck- or responsibility-sensitive accounts of distributive justice to explore and defend the view that inequality is intrinsically bad, and it is bad when and because it leaves some worse off than others through no fault or choice of their own.