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Living Alterities
(April 2014)
Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race
Emily S. Lee - Editor
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Destiny Domesticated
(March 2014)
The Rebirth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Technology
Jos de Mul - Author
Bibi van den Berg - With translation assistance from
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Analyzes of contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.
Destiny Domesticated investigates three approaches Western civilization has tried to tame fate: the heroic affirmation of fate in the tragic culture of the Greeks, the humble acceptance of divine providence in Christianity, and the abolition of fate in modern technological society. Against this background, Jos de Mul argues that the uncontro...(Read More) |
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From Modernity to Cosmodernity
(March 2014)
Science, Culture, and Spirituality
Basarab Nicolescu - Author
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Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society.
The quantum, biological, and information revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries should have thoroughly changed our view of reality, yet, the old viewpoint based on classical science remains dominant, reinforcing a notion of a rational, mechanistic world that allows for endless progress. In pra...(Read More) |
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Habitations of the Veil
(February 2014)
Metaphor and the Poetics of Being in African American Literature
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher - Author
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Catastrophe and Redemption
(December 2013)
The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
Jessica Whyte - Author
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Offers a striking new reading of Agamben’s political thought and its implications for political action in the present.
Challenging the prevalent account of Agamben as a pessimistic thinker, Catastrophe and Redemption proposes a reading of his political thought in which the redemptive element of his work is not a curious aside but instead is fundamental to his project. Jessica Whyte considers his critical account of...(Read More) |
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Hans Jonas’s Ethic of Responsibility
(December 2013)
From Ontology to Ecology
Theresa Morris - Author
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Articulates the fundamental importance of ontology to Hans Jonas’s environmental ethics.
Despite his tremendous impact on the German Green Party and the influence of his work on contemporary debates about stem cell research in the United States, Hans Jonas’s (1903–1993) philosophical contributions have remained partially obscured. In particular, the ontological grounding he gives his ethics, based on a phenomenolog...(Read More) |
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