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Cosmologies of the Anthropocene
Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism
Inbunden, 2019
2132 kr
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This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that …
On Guilt
The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture
Av John Carroll
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression – a force to be kept in check. Yet guilt is equally our richest and most hidden resource, the essence of our humanness, and it drives us on to our highest achievements. Today, when …
On Guilt
The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture
Av John Carroll
Häftad, 2020
667 kr
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Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression – a force to be kept in check. Yet guilt is equally our richest and most hidden resource, the essence of our humanness, and it drives us on to our highest achievements. Today, when …
Making a Living, Making a Life
Work, Meaning and Self-Identity
Av Sara James
Häftad, 2019
749 kr
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In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising …
Anxiety of Ascent
Middle-Class Narratives in Germany and America
Av Scott Doidge
Häftad, 2020
828 kr
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This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. For Weber, and a group of influential sociologists that followed, Western modernity is marked by growing disenchantment with the beliefs and …
History of the Present
The Contemporary and its Culture
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ …
History of the Present
The Contemporary and its Culture
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book explores the demise of the grand narrative of European modernity. That once commanding narrative located the meaning of the past in the present and the meaning of the present in an ever-receding future. Today, instead, the present defines both the past and the future. The ‘contemporary’ …
Cosmologies of the Anthropocene
Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism
Häftad, 2020
575 kr
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This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that …
Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom
Av John Rundell
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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In a new reading of Immanuel Kant’s work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these – rather than the problem of reason – as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his …
Kant: Anthropology, Imagination, Freedom
Av John Rundell
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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In a new reading of Immanuel Kant’s work, this book interrogates his notions of the imagination and anthropology, identifying these – rather than the problem of reason – as the two central pivoting orientations of his work. Such an approach allows a more complex understanding of his …
Everyday Moralities
Doing it Ourselves in an Age of Uncertainty
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Stephen Crook Memorial Prize fromThe Australian Sociological Association, a biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian sociologyFrom concerns of dwindling care and kindness for others to an excessive concern with self and consumerism, plenty of evidence has been …
Understanding Piety and Theology in the Culture of the West
The Poetic Life
Av Gregory Melleuish, Susanna G. Rizzo
Inbunden, 2025
2585 kr
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This book provides a new and original approach to the Western tradition, its foundations, and the implications of its particular development for understanding the contemporary world.Arguing that with the creation of writing in the Axial Age, tradition took a ‘theological’ form that placed emphasis …
Metaphysical Sociology
On the Work of John Carroll
Av Sara James
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed Australian sociologist John Carroll. It makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology, which Carroll has proposed should focus on the questions of fundamental existence that confront all humans: ‘Where do I come from?’, ‘What should I …
Politics of the Soul
From Nietzsche to Arendt
Av John Dickson
Inbunden, 2022
2132 kr
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This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche. With each figure offering very different ethical and spiritual positions, all shed light on what we mean …
Politics of the Soul
From Nietzsche to Arendt
Av John Dickson
Häftad, 2024
647 kr
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This book takes the form of intellectual histories of eight major representative figures of the twentieth century, who inherited and responded to the spiritual problematic left by Nietzsche. With each figure offering very different ethical and spiritual positions, all shed light on what we mean …
Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University
A Study in Knowledge Production
Av Harry Redner
Inbunden, 2023
2585 kr
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The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess the institutional pressures on research in major …
Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University
A Study in Knowledge Production
Av Harry Redner
Häftad, 2024
629 kr
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The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess the institutional pressures on research in major …
University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy
Rise and Fall of the Academic Industry
Inbunden, 2025
2439 kr
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This book explores the radical reform experienced by universities worldwide, as reformers, inspired by extreme economic thinking, seek to transform the university into part of a global academic industry. With attention to the implied passage from a focus on education and the advancement of …
Cultural History of Laughter
Inbunden, 2024
1146 kr
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Is laughter a sin? Or is it man’s best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day.Engaging with a range of thought from Plato to Nietzsche, it …
University Under the Rule of Global Technocracy
Rise and Fall of the Academic Industry
Häftad, 2026
686 kr
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This book explores the radical reform experienced by universities worldwide, as reformers, inspired by extreme economic thinking, seek to transform the university into part of a global academic industry. With attention to the implied passage from a focus on education and the advancement of …
Cultural History of Laughter
Häftad, 2026
382 kr
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Is laughter a sin? Or is it man’s best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day.Engaging with a range of thought from Plato to Nietzsche, it …
Right Order
Beyond God and Atheism
Av John Carroll
Häftad, 2026
647 kr
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This book confronts issues of meaning in a disenchanted, ‘godless’ world marked by the decline of organised religion. It proposes that right order is emerging as both the hidden structure of meaning that underpins the human condition and the force that shapes existence. The author argues that right …
Right Order
Beyond God and Atheism
Av John Carroll
Inbunden, 2026
2510 kr
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This book confronts issues of meaning in a disenchanted, ‘godless’ world marked by the decline of organised religion. It proposes that right order is emerging as both the hidden structure of meaning that underpins the human condition and the force that shapes existence. The author argues that right …
Metaphysical Sociology
On the Work of John Carroll
Av Sara James
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed Australian sociologist John Carroll. It makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology, which Carroll has proposed should focus on the questions of fundamental existence that confront all humans: ‘Where do I come from?’, ‘What should I …
Sociological Noir
Irruptions and the Darkness of Modernity
Inbunden, 2016
2510 kr
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Contrary to secular claims regarding the expulsion of religion, modernity does in fact produce unprecedented forms whose understanding re-casts the relationships between sociology and theology. This book explores ‘irruptions’ which disturb modernity from without: fragments or deposits of history …
Anxiety of Ascent
Middle-Class Narratives in Germany and America
Av Scott Doidge
Inbunden, 2018
2887 kr
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This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. For Weber, and a group of influential sociologists that followed, Western modernity is marked by growing disenchantment with the beliefs and …
Sociological Noir
Irruptions and the Darkness of Modernity
Häftad, 2018
749 kr
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Contrary to secular claims regarding the expulsion of religion, modernity does in fact produce unprecedented forms whose understanding re-casts the relationships between sociology and theology. This book explores ‘irruptions’ which disturb modernity from without: fragments or deposits of history …
Everyday Moralities
Doing it Ourselves in an Age of Uncertainty
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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Winner of the 2020 Stephen Crook Memorial Prize fromThe Australian Sociological Association, a biennial prize for the best authored book in Australian sociologyFrom concerns of dwindling care and kindness for others to an excessive concern with self and consumerism, plenty of evidence has been …
Making a Living, Making a Life
Work, Meaning and Self-Identity
Av Sara James
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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In a world in which individuals will undergo multiple career changes, is it possible any longer to conceive of a job as a meaningful vocation? Against the background of fragmentation and rationalisation of work, this book explores the significance and meaning of work in contemporary life, raising …
