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Care in practice
In what way is »care« a matter of »tinkering«? Rather than presenting care as a (preferably »warm«) relation between human beings, the various contributions to the volume give the material world (usually cast as »cold«) a prominent place in their analysis. Thus, this book does not continue to opp...
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Of women borne
Crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality
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Women, biomedical research and art
This book investigates intersectional vulnerabilities, sociogeographical and racial injustices, as well as the potential of trauma in reproductive medicine, human trafficking, and black-market organ trades in a global context. It emphasizes dignity and integrity in the everyday lives of affected ...
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J. m. coetzee and ethics
In 2003, South African writer J. M. Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his riveting portrayals of racial repression, sexual politics, the guises of reason, and the hypocrisy of human beings toward animals and nature. Coetzee was credited with being "a scrupulous doubter, ruthle...
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Unhappy families
Adam Ferner's short, engaging book explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality and the absence of hope.
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With dogs at the edge of life
Rethinking what it means for dogs and humans to live together in the twenty-first century, taking us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that sees the world in a radically different way.
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The philosophical foundations of social work
Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions that should be central to practice, education, and training. Frederic G. Reamer explores how these issues bear on the purpose, methods, and perspectives of social work and their far-reaching implications. This second edition is revised and up...
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On the fragility of life
A conversation of rare depth and tenderness, On the Fragility of Life finds Nick Cave reflecting on love, loss, faith, and the fragile beauty of being alive.
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Earthlings
Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.
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Self-knowledge and moral identity
Many contemporary philosophers, such as Akeel Bilgrami, Crispin Wright, Christine Korsgaard, and Mrinal Miri, have explicitly discussed the relevance of self-knowledge in relation to the discourse of normativity. This book addresses the notion of self-knowledge as relevant in the formation of mor...
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Food philosophy
This book is an introduction to the philosophical dimensions of food. David M. Kaplan shows how the different branches of philosophy contribute to a broader understanding of food and emphasizes how different narratives help us navigate the complex world of food.
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Stem cell dialogues
A dramatic new way to explore controversial science: Socratic dialogues. These creative debates follow the nuances and complexities of stem cell research and emerging therapies for informed readers and newcomers alike.
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Friends and other strangers
Richard B. Miller aims to stimulate religious ethics through discussions of ethnography, ethnocentrism, relativism, and moral criticism; the ethics of empathy; moral responsibility in relation to children and friends; civic virtue, loyalty, war, and alterity; the normative and psychological dimen...
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You and your profile
You and Your Profile blends social theory, philosophy, and cultural critique to unfold an exploration of the way we have come to experience the world. A deft and wide-ranging consideration of our era’s identity crisis, this book provides vital clues on how to stay sane in a time of proliferating ...
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Genuine pretending
This book presents an innovative reading of Daoist philosophy that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Moeller and D’Ambrosio show how the Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of “genuine pretending”: the paradoxical skill of enacting social roles without submitting...
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Sport
The neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that biology and culture do more than coexist when we play sports—they blend together seamlessly, propelling each other toward greater physical and intellectual achievement.
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The quest for god and the good
Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre Hadot, The ...
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Beating hearts
A sophisticated effort to reconcile the supposed conflict between animal rights and abortion rights.
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Integral philosophy
This cumulative course on Johannes Heinrichs’s philosophical works presents the essence of his previous publications: a rich, consistent, and novel monolithic system defying temptations by the zeitgeist. Starting with an emphasis on reflection as the basis of epistemology, Heinrichs also covers t...
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Character and environment
Virtue ethics is now widely recognized as an alternative to Kantian and consequentialist ethical theories. However, moral philosophers have been slow to bring virtue ethics to bear on topics in applied ethics. Moreover, environmental virtue ethics is an underdeveloped area of environmental ethics...
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Dark ecology
Timothy Morton explores the foundations of the ecological crisis to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and rediscover playfulness and joy. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense ...
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Animal rights and moral philosophy
Animals obviously cannot have a right of free speech or a right to vote because they lack the relevant capacities. But their right to life and to be free of exploitation is no less fundamental than the corresponding right of humans, writes Julian H. Franklin. This theoretically rigorous book will...
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On the difficulty of living together
Manuel Cruz offers a nuanced study of memory and forgetting, defining their forms and uses, political meanings, and social and historical implications. Memory is not an intrinsically positive phenomenon, he argues, but an impressionable and malleable one, used to advance a variety of agendas.
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De bruin, mindfulness and meditation at university
Andreas de Bruin showcases the remarkable results of the first ten years of the Munich Model “Mindfulness and Meditation in a University Context.” Students describe the effects of mindfulness and meditation on their studies and in their daily lives.
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Storythinking
This book explains how and why our brains think in stories. Angus Fletcher, an expert in neuroscientific approaches to narrative, identifies this capacity as “storythinking.”
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Mad mothers, bad mothers, and what a "good" mother would do
When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state i...
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Irreparable evil
Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.
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Muslim environmentalisms
Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the legal, ethical, social, and political principles underlying Muslim commitments to the earth.
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Everyday ethics and social change
Americans increasingly cite moral values as a factor in how they vote, but when we define morality simply in terms of a voter's position on gay marriage and abortion, we lose sight of the ethical decisions that guide our everyday lives. In our encounters with friends, family members, nature, and ...
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A hedonist manifesto
The provocative French intellectual promotes a radical body politics that shows us how we must think and act to live well.
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Just life
Reorients ethics and politics around the generativity of mothers and daughters rather than the right to property and the sexual proprieties of the oedipal drama
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Animals as persons
A prominent and respected philosopher of animal rights law and ethical theory, Gary L. Francione is known for his criticism of animal welfare laws and regulations, his abolitionist theory of animal rights, and his promotion of veganism and nonviolence as the baseline principles of the abolitionis...
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Images of the present time
Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou’s seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of “the present.”
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The summons of love
We are conditioned to think that love heals wounds, makes us happy, and gives our lives meaning. When the opposite occurs and love causes fracturing, disenchantment, and existential turmoil, we suffer deeply, especially if we feel that love has failed us or that we have failed to experience what ...
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Are the lips a grave?
Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist ...
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Striking beauty
Using the ethics and aesthetics of the Asian martial arts to enrich our knowledge of human behavior, bodily movement, technical knowledge, and artistic creation.
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Beyond individualism
The noted humanitarian and educator urges Western societies to engage with the core commitments of traditional communities.
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Anthropocene affordances
How does contemporary US-American literature reimagines narrative forms to confront humanity’s impact in the Anthropocene?
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Sebald's vision
A major new assessment of one of the most important writers of the late twentieth century and his work with history and its representation.
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Radical cosmopolitics
Reconfiguring cosmopolitanism to adapt to the moral and political challenges of globalization.
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Animal lessons
Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animal...
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The fall of the wild
Ben A. Minteer calls for reflection on the ethical dilemmas of species loss and recovery in an increasingly human-driven world. He probes the tension between our impulse to do whatever it takes and the risk of pursuing strategies that undermine our broader commitment to the preservation of wildness.
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Eat this book
A provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.
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Care logic in diabetes care and nursing
What is good diabetes and nursing care? Shedding new light on reflections on German healthcare practice.
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Creating communities
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement...
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Genetic responsibility in germany and israel
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing, has changed the experience of pregnancy and prenatal care. This book presents conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany, featuring analyses of the reshaping of life by biomedicine and philosophical reflections on so...
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Situating existentialism
This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their format...
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Ethical loneliness
Ethical loneliness is the experience of being abandoned by humanity, compounded by the cruelty of wrongs not being acknowledged. Jill Stauffer examines the root causes of ethical loneliness and difficult truths about the desire and potential for political forgiveness, transitional justice, and po...
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Ethics in action
American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ensure quality affordable health care to all Americans, but as Donald Munro points out, leaders rarely outline the content of this moral standard and whether it can be applied to all societies. Munro turns to recent research in cognitive scie...
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Negative emotions and transitional justice
Contributes theoretically and practically to the growing field of transitional justice
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Environmental ethics, ecological theology, and natural selection
In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of these environm...
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Rumours of a moral economy
Since the beginning of capitalism—with its mathematical equations and laws of supply and demand—its champions have claimed that studying the moral aspects of the theory interfere with its natural function. Yet, as this ethicist and theologian argues, economies are always deeply integrated in soci...
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Philosophy and animal life
Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting,...
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Entre nous
Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most important figures of twentieth-century philosophy. Exerting a profound influence upon such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Blanchot, and Irigaray, Levinas's work bridges several major gaps in the evolution of continental philosophy—between modern and postmodern, ...
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Exemplary women of early china
In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with w...
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Laughter
In this classic 1900 essay, philosopher Henri Bergson anatomises the comic impulse with surgical clarity and lyrical wit.
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Rethinking ethics through hypertext
This book is a formidably compelling source of insights for those who are interested in subjects ranging from moral philosophy, social justice, hermeneutics and education. It reconciles traditional theories of ethics by re-framing them through hypertextual techniques, bringing together contrastin...
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Beyond ethics to post-ethics
This book presents a new theory of ethics that challenges traditional views on morality and immorality. It explores the nature of ethics by drawing on various approaches in literature, offering a fresh perspective on how to understand morality without favoring any single ideology.
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Next phase of business ethics
In searching for appropriate business ethics for the 21st century, it is necessary to embrace a range of inter-related disciplines such as psychology and ethics, but also areas including philosophy, politics and religion. This text acts as an example of interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Person and knowledge
This book is an in-depth discussion between researchers which both enriches the respective visions and moves towards a more comprehensive understanding of human knowledge and its relationship with the human person.
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The ethics gap in the engineering of the future
Challenging readers to think about our moral compasses and the multifaceted impact of technology on our everyday lives, this collection is an insightful look into engineering ethics and the technology of tomorrow.
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The austrian and bloomington schools of political economy
The volume is a unique attempt to explore the relationship between two of the most interesting contemporary schools of thought evolving at the interface between social science and social philosophy: The Austrian tradition of F A Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, and the Bloomington tradition of Elinor ...
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Teaching for moral imagination
"Teaching for Moral Imagination" explores morality, ethics, and moral education, providing educators with theories, practices, and curricular content. It aims to inspire deliberation on values, foster moral development, and create ethical classrooms. Suitable for teacher preparation courses, prof...
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Comparative study of professional accountants judgements
Provides an empirical examination of cultural influences on judgments of professional accountants from Australia, India and Malaysia in relation to a number of ethical issues in accounting including auditor-client conflict resolution, whistle blowing as an internal control mechanism and social de...
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Research on professional responsibility and ethics in accounting
Presents the research and cases that focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. This title features articles on a broad range of important topics, including professionalism, social responsibility, ethical judgment, and accountabi...
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Ethics in modeling
This volume provides a setting for a dialogue about ethics, when using mathematical models, and shows the need to continue and define a vocabulary for exploring ethical concerns. The text should act as a clear and strong code of ethics for those having to make ethical decisions.
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