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This book is an "immanent critique", exploring the processes by which different academic concerns and schools have been connected and treated as examples of a very general account of how the whole universe works, which Barad terms "agential realism". There is no intention here to reject or dismiss these arguments, to replace them with a rival account, or to adopt some detached "objective" stance, although any alternatives which occur during the process are acknowledged and briefly discussed. The main objective in this book is to consider the consistency of Barad's arguments and how they have been used in actual discussions. Some of the supporting work, by other authors like Haraway, Kirby, Schrader and Ziarek, is also considered in six chapters covering the quantum world, animals and machines as nonhuman agents, social relations as intra-actions, diffraction as a method, and general philosophical underpinnings.  Free Download Luigi Filieri, "Kant on Freedom and Human Nature " English | ISBN: 1032195088 | 2023 | 274 pages | EPUB, PDF | 557 KB + 17 MB The essays in this volume provide new readings of Kant's account of human nature.  Free Download Naama Harel, "Kafka's Zoopoetics: Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier" English | ISBN: 0472131796 | 2020 | 216 pages | PDF | 973 KB Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka's animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka's animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka's commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka's entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis,  Free Download Jung Duk Lim, "K-Speed: The Source of Korean Competitiveness" English | ISBN: 1804411795 | 2023 | 270 pages | PDF | 6 MB Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world up to the mid to late 20th century, but within less than half a century she emerged as an economic and cultural powerhouse. The US and World Report recently ranked Korea as 6th in global power. In terms of GNP and per capita income Korea became one of the most advanced countries in the world. This has been dubbed as the 'Korean Miracle'. There may be several factors that could explain this outcome and this book argues that one of the most compelling reasons is the concept of speed in Korean society and its people, which is quite different from other countries. This take on speed can be considered from the perspective of anthropological and/or social DNA, tradition, cultural heritage. Therefore, this book names 'K-speed' as an unexpected factor which brought on the so-called 'miraculous' Korean economic growth.  Free Download Gijs Kruijtzer, "Justifying Transgression: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE LAW - 1200 to 1700" English | ISBN: 3111215903 | 2023 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 100 MB How do people justify what others see as transgression? Taking that question to the Persian-Muslim and Latin-Christian worlds over the period 1200 to 1700, this book shows that people in both these worlds invested considerable energy in worrying, debating, and writing about proscribed practices. It compares how people in the two worlds came to terms with the proscriptions of sodomy, idolatry, and usury. When historians speak of the gap between premodern practice and the legal theory of the time, they tend to ignore the myriad of justifications that filled this gap. Moreover, a focus on justification evens out many of the contrasts that have been alleged to exist between the two worlds, or the Muslim and Christian worlds more generally. The similarities outweigh the differences in the ways people came to terms with the various rules of divine law. The level of flexibility of the theologians and jurists in charge of divine law varied more over time and by topic than between the two worlds. Both worlds also saw the development of ever more sophisticated justifications. Amid the increasing complexity of justifications, a particular kind of reasoning emerged: that good outcomes are more important than upholding rules for their own sake.  Free Download Susie Hodge, "Just Draw!: A Creative Step-by-Step Guide for Artists" English | ISBN: 139882609X | 2023 | 128 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 7 MB This practical and accessible guide makes drawing easier than ever, offering tons of tips and tricks, as well as step-by-step projects to help you put them into practice.  Free Download Gunda Werner, "Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and the Theology of Freedom " English | ISBN: 1032557095 | 2023 | 218 pages | EPUB, PDF | 983 KB + 9 MB This book explores how Judith Butler's work on gender and the shaping of the human subject and Michel Foucault's notion of parrhesia, 'speaking the truth', can be made fruitful for a theology of freedom. The volume illustrates the importance of three concepts - freedom, gender (body) and power (critique) - and how this triad provides the foundational categories and structural elements of a theology of freedom. By starting from an analysis of power and the performative potential of gendered embodiment, freedom can be thought of as the basis of creative and critical human action and thereby implemented in theology. The chapters feature several theological-historical case studies that are representative of topics that continue to shape contemporary Catholic norms and thought. In particular, the author reflects on the 13th century with the idea of personal sin and confession, and the 19th century with a gender ideology that has led to the marginalization of difference and dissent. The book shows how Butler and Foucault can provide essential insights for Catholic theology and is valuable reading for scholars of religion, philosophy, and gender and sexuality studies.  Free Download Judicial Responses to Climate Change in the Global South: A Jurisdictional and Thematic Review by Shuma Talukdar, Valéria Emília de Aquino English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 203 Pages | ISBN : 303146141X | 8.9 MB This book explores how judiciaries in different parts of the world are responding to climate change and how climate change intersects with the law. It offers feminist approaches to the judicial responses to climate change in the Global South, providing both jurisdictional and thematic reviews. Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues facing humankind, and is currently reshaping geopolitics, governance, law, and international relations around the world.  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Using Texas as a case study, Deambrogio examines how these medical, legal, and cultural trends shaped psycho-legal debates in state criminal courts, while shedding light on the ways in which experts and lay actors' interpretations of "pathological" mental states influenced trial verdicts in capital cases. She shows that despite mounting pressures from advocates of the "rehabilitative penology," Texas courts maintained a punitive approach towards defendants allegedly affected by severe mental disabilities, while allowing for moralized views about personalities, habits, and lifestyle to influence psycho-legal assessments, in potentially prejudicial ways.  Free Download Kate Campbell, "Journalism, Literature and Modernity" English | ISBN: 1853311758 | 2000 | 288 pages | PDF | 13 MB Journalism has often been disregarded by literary critics and authors alike. Its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism and reporting. Yet 'journalism' broadly refers to all writing in public journals, spanning high culture and popular culture. It has been central to experiences of modernity, making its dismissal problematic. Journalism, Literature and Modernity considers journalism in its diversity, suggesting its aptness for interdisciplinary study. The authors examine writing in journals across a cultural spectrum-literary journals, organs of culture, magazines, journals promoting modernism, and daily newspapers. Demonstrating a variety of approaches, they explore journalism's importance in relation to gender, modernity and modernism through readings of established writers and critics - William Hazlitt, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding - and journals and journalists - Henry Mayhew, |
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