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Another Love explores the form, method, imperatives, and inflections of love in the global post colony, and offers a way to re-apprehend and re-inscribe love in an anticolonial, materialist, and non fascist politics and aesthetics.

This book explores how social media influenced presidential campaign rhetoric. Janet Johnson discusses media use in American presidential campaigns as well as social media campaigns for Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.

This book examines literary and cinematic representations of the European settlers of Algeria known as the pieds-noirs following their mass migration to France in 1962. It breaks new ground by focusing on the family trope, including gender and youth, to reveal constructions of collective memory and identity post-Algerian independence.

With encouragement from Durufle's editor and the foundation established in his name, Ronald Ebrecht has meticulously studied each of Durufle's works and put together the first book to analyze in detail all of Durufle's music.

Alexandre Kojève: A Man of influence offers a multi-faceted approach to the work of Alexandre Kojève in which 11 international scholars combine their perspectives on key aspects of the Russo-French thinker's work. The result: an original reappraisal of its significance that prompts a better understanding of the contemporary world.

Anthropological poverty has long been overlooked in Christian theology. It disproportionately affects women, striking at the heart of their existence. However, when women are empowered to follow Christ and live as risen beings, they can radically contribute to a Catholic Christian theology that claims solidarity with the poor and oppressed.

A Companion to African Rhetoric argues for a holistic view of rhetoric on the continent, gives an outline of what African rhetoric is, and serves as a pivotal anthology with contributions from African, Afro-Caribbean and African American rhetoricians to understanding African rhetoric.

A engaging dialogue with the modern "axionoetic" proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls "mutual immanence."

This book examines how in a series of critical confrontations, Stirner rejected the efforts of his "Young Hegelian" contemporaries to recast Hegel as a revolutionary. For him, the various apocalyptic declarations of these "pious atheists," were only the expressions of adolescent dreams set upon the annihilation of real individuality.

The goal of resettlement must be the sustainable social, economic and human development of displaced communities. The provisions and directives entailed in resettlement policies and current performance standards constitute the I.S.I.R. Case examples from Asia, Africa and the Americas illustrate the praxis required for improving outcomes.

This book offers a critical analysis of the theory and practice of global development. Using how Chagas disease has been understood and addressed as an example of a failing of global development, Anna Malavisi argues for a rethinking from an ethico-epistemic perspective using a strong ethical approach.

American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as ';the new normal,' and ';in these uncertain times,' that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and transformation. Cultural shifts generally involve multiple catalysts, but in this collection the contributors focus on the role changing discourse norms play in cancel culture, corporatism, the counter-sexual revolution, racialism, and a radically divided political climate. Three central themes arise in the arguments. First, that contemporary discourse norms emphasize outcomes rather than shared understanding, which support institutional and political goals but contribute to the contemporary political divide, and the notion that we are engaged in a zero-sum game. These discourse norms give rise to a form of Adorno's administered world, such that we order society according to dominant opinions, which generally means those well acclimated to institutional and corporate culture. Finally, as Arendt feared, the personal has become political, meaning that the toxic public discourse invades private discourse, reducing personal autonomy and leaving us perpetually under the scrutiny of institutional authority.

Through an analysis of suicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writings, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how his implicit awareness of self-homicide pre-figured theories of prominent suicidologists, shaped both his philosophy and craft as a writer, and forged a ligature between artistry and the pluripresent impulse to self-annihilate.

This book explores the idea of hybrid home schools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week, arguing that there are clear examples of how school choice can work for the middle class and improve civil society by challenging the existing definitions of schooling.

This book presents new information about Rachmaninoff accessed from unique sources previously unavailable in English. From the extraordinary women who inspired him, to his humanitarian work, to his religion, Nollan interweaves Rachmaninoff's personal struggles and triumphs into his concert career.

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India critically investigates multiple perspectives demonstrated by American poets, dramatists, and fiction writers. It discusses universal themes of racism, class, gender, and identity crisis and demonstrates how American letters influence the Indian intellectual scene and how it is interpreted in turn.

Yoga is a popular and beneficial evidence-based health practice. This book addresses the origins, explores yoga's evolution, and outlines current scientific research as well as contemporary discussions related to the possibilities as well as the politicization of this ancient Indian practice.

A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, this international group of scholars explores questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato's Charmides, Aeschylus' Prometheia Trilogy, Xenophon's Hiero or Tyrannicus, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's Plato, whether Nietzsche thought of himself as a modern-day Socrates, philosophy's relationship to science, the function of the noontide image in the center of Part IV of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, a re-evaluation of the young Nietzsche's break from the spell of Schopenhauer, the dramatic date of the conversation presented in Plato's Republic, Leo Strauss's account of the modern break with classical political philosophy, and Nietzschean environmentalism. The book also includes an interview with Laurence Lampert.

In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg illustrates how concerns about insanity raised difficult questions about the nature of governance in the tumultuous era of the American Revolution.

In our modern time of division, who belongs to the we is an important and underexamined area of philosophical investigation. This book offers another way of understanding we-ness by adopting diverse linguo-cultural traditions in a philosophical investigation of selfhood.

In Clash of Cultures: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homer and the Iliad, Vincenzo Sanguineti examines the psychological complexities of Homer through the Iliad.

This book examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from across sixteen research studies.

Odera Oruka and the Human Minimum: An African Philosophers Defence of Human Dignity and Environment considers the work of Odera Oruka (19441995)arguably one of the finest philosophers in Africaby analyzing his major practical contribution to philosophy from the practical point of view. Odera Oruka is well known for his sage philosophy, but his practical philosophy has received less attention. This book situates Oruka within philosophical discourses around issues of justice, human rights, ethical duty, ecology, humanism, and politics. A thread that ties these questions together is Orukas argument for the right to a human minimum, defined by three basic human needs: physical security, subsistence, and health care. Michael Kamau Mburu explores how these three taken together constitute the most basic and necessary (though not sufficient) right, and establishing this right is a means to ensuring human dignity, a condition for global justice. The book also expounds and applies some ethical values and philosophies from Africasuch as ubuntu or humannessto clarify, defend, and promote human dignity without jeopardizing the environment.

This book examines Naotako Sato's remarkable and long career at the crossroads of Imperial Japan, emphasizing his role in maintaining the Neutrality Pact with the Soviet Union and in promoting the United Nations.