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The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste By John Asimakopoulos
2019 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 9004297049 | PDF | 11 MB
In The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the spectacle conceptualized by philosophers like Guy Debord through a broad interdisciplinary-nonsectarian approach concluding every society is a caste system legitimized by ideology.

The Philosophy of Susanne Langer: Embodied Meaning in Logic, Art and Feeling by Adrienne Dengerink
English | October 17, 2019 | ISBN: 1350030554, 1350254037 | True EPUB | 400 pages | 1.7 MB
This book is a comprehensive study of one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century, Susanne Langer.

The Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film By Thomas Deane Tucker
2019 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 1474409296 | PDF | 4 MB
From cinema's earliest days, walking and filmmaking have been intrinsically linked. Technologically, culturally and aesthetically, the pioneers of cinema were not only interested in using the camera to scientifically study ambulatory motion, but were also keen to capture the speed and mobile culture of late 19th-century urban life. Photographers such as Felix Nadar took their cameras into the Parisian streets and boulevards as mechanised flâneurs, ushering us into the age of the 'mobilised virtual gaze'. But if photography could only embalm modernity in an instant of time, the cinema brought these instants to life again. From Muybridge and Marey's photographic studies of motion to Charlie Chaplin's character 'The Tramp', and from the Steadicam to the police procedural, Thomas Deane Tucker explores the intertwined relationship between cinema and walking from its very first steps - breaking new ground in motion studies and providing a bold new perspective on film history.

The Perils of Extremism
by Van Tatenhove, Jason;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1510774424 | 221 pages | True EPUB | 28.11 MB

Hilaire Belloc, "The Path to Rome"
English | ISBN: 1236732499 | 2013 | 94 pages | EPUB | 1157 KB

The Paradox of Transgression in Games By Torill Elvira Mortensen, Kristine Jørgensen
2020 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 0367418398 | PDF | 6 MB
The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions. The book delves into the commercial success of many controversial videogames: although such games may appear shocking for the observing bystander, playing them is experienced as deeply rewarding for the player. Drawing on qualitative player studies and approaches from media aesthetics theory, the book challenges the perception of games as innocent entertainment, and examines the range of emotional, moral, and intellectual experiences of players. As they explore what players consider transgressive, the authors ask whether there is something about the gameplay situation that works to mitigate the sense of transgression, stressing gameplay as an aesthetic experience. Anchoring the aesthetic game experience both in play studies as well as in aesthetic theory, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of game studies, aesthetics, media studies, philosophy of art, and emotions.

The Origins and Evolution of Consumer Capitalism: A Veblenian-Keynesian Perspective
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1138335460 | 241 Pages | PDF (True) | 3.2 MB
Consumer capitalism arose with the second industrial revolution, the application of continuous-mass production to consumer goods during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book adopts a Veblenian, Keynesian viewpoint, presenting an evolutionary view of consumption combined with the need to increase demand to match increases in production. The book traces the history of consumer capitalism, examining the paradox posed by applying continuous-mass production to produce armaments for dynastic ambitions versus consumer goods for the masses, manifesting itself in the world wars of the twentieth century. Multiple paradoxes at the heart of the story address booms leading to busts, over-producing countries in Asia relying on over-consuming countries in the West, and the expansion of demand depending on increasingly inventive ways of liquefying assets, in light of stagnant incomes. The book persuasively argues that these paradoxes result from capitalism's incessant drive to accumulate capital, fostering conflict, crises, and depression. The latest paradox results from the impact of continuous-mass production on the environment, manifesting itself as the Darwinian dilemma. The dilemma stems from human beings largely winning the struggle for existence and, in the process, possibly making the earth uninhabitable, at least for humans.

Stefan Fischer, "The Origin of Oughtness "
English | ISBN: 3110600722 | 2018 | 300 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 1494 KB
How come we ought to do things? Current metanormative debates often suffer from the fact that authors implicitly use adequacy conditions not shared by their opponents. This leads to an unsatisfying dialectical gridlock (Chang): One author accuses her opponents of not being able to account for stuff she judges essential, but the opponents do not think this to be a major flaw. In an attempt to meet the problem of gridlock head-on, the current investigation approaches oughtness differently. I start with the introduction of a grounding framework for thinking about oughtness that allows a lucid presentation of the views on the market. It soon becomes clear that one necessary part of any plausible assessment of accounts of oughtness is a discussion of their adequacy conditions. I continue with a detailed evaluation of four different accounts, as presented by Halbig (2007), Schroeder (2007), Stemmer (2006), and Scanlon (2014). My main result is that desire-based or Humean theories of oughtness are more plausible because desire-independent accounts fail to explain something crucial: the for-me character of oughtness. Based on the insights gathered thus far, I then develop a new Humean theory - metaethical conativism - and defend it against some historically influential objections.

Lindsay O'Neill, "The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World "
English | ISBN: 0812246489 | 2014 | 272 pages | PDF | 25 MB
By the early eighteenth century, the rapid expansion of the British empire had created a technological problem: communication and networking became increasingly vital yet harder to maintain. As colonial possessions and populations grew and more individuals moved around the globe, Britons both at home and abroad required a constant and reliable means of communication to conduct business, plumb intellectual concerns, discuss family matters, run distant estates, and exchange news. As face-to-face communication became more intermittent, men and women across the early modern British world relied on letters.

Armin A. Brott, "The New Father: A Dad's Guide to The Toddler Years, 12-36 Months"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0789213249, 0789213230 | 336 pages | EPUB | 3.2 MB
The essential guide for fathers of one- and two-year-olds, completely revised and updated