Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Reducere. In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to se...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Ferenc HuoranszkiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Mind, Meaning and MetaphysicsPublication date: 2022...

An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the...

DescriptionThis book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, ...

A biography of two troublesome words.

"Vanity Fair" has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama s United States is an irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear ar...

More than a book about Illich, this is a conversation with Illich's work as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, just under twenty years ...

This book presents Dr. Goldiamond's reflections on various ways we formulate behavioral and emotional problems, most often in traditional terms of ...

Provides guidance to States, authorities and operators on how to develop and maintain contingency plans for nuclear facilities. This publication ca...

Reducere. More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very ho...

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, ...

What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so t...

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the ...

Reducere. When life seems to take a back step to nature, something amazing happens when you least expect it.Picture this: Your whole world is turned upside d...

A study of how literature responds to conditions of political uncertainty, this book rewrites much of what we thought we knew about civil war and R...

Reducere. When studying irony in the Gospel of John, scholars have largely relied on modern literary theories and anachronistic interpretive tools. In this b...

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing assumptions around genre and...

Scholarship usually represents itself as objective, dispassionate, and politically neutral. This masterful study uses Marx to shatter this picture.

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The question at the center of the seventeenth edition of The Irony Of Democracy is "How democratic is American society?" While most American govern...

A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Manuel PastorNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 215 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softback...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Monique (Professor and Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change Philosophy, Professor and Chair in...

In this lively and fascinating analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as...

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Reducere. Engineered Irony, a 150th commemorative edition, revisits civil engineers Octave Chanute and George Morison's greatest achievement to 1869-the comp...

A little desert city known as Albuquerque, in the state of New Mexico, would have its first Gay Pride March in 1976. This book reveals the struggle...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 344Collection: Modern Studies in European LawPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 166 x 241 x 26C...

Reducere. As nationalism, patriarchy, and alt-right fear-mongering threaten our troubled nation, the pulpit has again become a subversive space of sacred res...

This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the c...

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented...

Reducere. For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opi...

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Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that shaped modern Europe, this text provides a concise history of the continent fro...

How should British national identity be understood in the light of the UK's decision to leave the European Union?Editor(s): Andrew Bradstock

Reducere. DescriptionBorders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America--the impact of immigration polic...

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth,...

Facing repression, the Latin American left in the '60s and '70s found connection in transnational exchange, organising with activists in Africa, th...