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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Lisa Bortolotti

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.35 Bort

This Is Philosophy of Science: An Introduction by Franz-Peter Griesmaier; Jeffrey A. Lockwood; Steven D. Hales (Series edited by)

Call Number: Print - University Library Open Collection - 08.35 Grie

Love Troubles : A Philosophy of Eros by Federica Gregoratto

Call Number: e-book via De Gruyter

Communism After Deleuze by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

Call Number: e-book via Bloomsbury

Marxism, Revolution and Utopia by Herbert Marcuse; Douglas Kellner (Editor); Clayton Pierce (Editor)

Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation by Herbert Marcuse; Douglas Kellner (Editor); Clayton Pierce (Editor)

Climate Change Litigation: Regulatory Pathways to Cleaner Energy by Jacqueline Peel; Hari M. Osofsky

Call Number: e-book via Cambridge University Press

The Porosity of the Self : Husserl's Philosophy of Self and Personhood by Laura Jane Nanni

Call Number: e-book via EBSCOhost

Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions by Kofi Agawu

Call Number: e-book via Taylor & Francis

The Ethics of Risk: Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World by Sven Ove Hansson

Call Number: e-book via Springer

African Mind, Culture, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives by Yamikani Ndasauka

Call Number: e-book via Springer

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Acquisitions November 2025

Antifa : the anti-fascist handbook by Mark Bray Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 89.21 BrayISBN: 9781612197036Publication Date: 2017Born soon after fascism was invented in the early 20th century, the anti-fascist movement - aka 'antifa' - has a long, fascinating history that is surprisingly little known. As it makes a dramatic and widespread reappearance in Trump's America, this book is both a riveting history, and an accessible guide to methods used over the years to fight repressive demagogism. The emotional life of populism : how fear, disgust, resentment, and love undermine democracy by Eva Illouz Call Number: University Library Open Collection - Course Material 08.00 IlloISBN: 9781509558193Publication Date: 2023Throughout the world, democracy is under assault from various populist movements and ideologies. And, throughout the world, the same enigma: why is it that political figures or governments, who have no qualms about aggravating social inequalities, enjoy the support of those whom their ideas and policies affect and hurt the most? To make sense of this enigma, the sociologist Eva Illouz argues that we must understand the crucial role that emotions play in our political life. Taking the case of Israel as her prime example, she shows that populist politics rest on four key emotions: fear, disgust, resentment, and love for one's country. It is the combination of these four emotions and their relentless presence in the political arena that nourishes and underpins the rise and persistence of populism both in Israel and in many other countries around the world. This highly original perspective on the rise of populism will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the key political developments of our time. The democratic marketplace : how a more equal economy can save our political ideals by Lisa Herzog Call Number: Online available via JSTORISBN: 9780674299894Publication Date: 2025An urgent critique of the market-fundamentalist ideals undermining democratic politics, pointing the way to principled reforms. Democracy has been hollowed out by capitalism. A narrow view of markets and their aims--prioritizing efficiency, profit, and growth--now dominates thinking about democracy itself. Citizens are ignorant of the deep principles of self-governance, having long since adopted a facile equation between democracy and voting as a consumer choice. Lisa Herzog argues that democracy is still possible, but only if democratic values get embedded in everyday experience--including economic experience. That requires new ways of thinking about markets and their goals. The Democratic Marketplace theorizes the foundational structures of a democratic economy, in which markets are not just tools for maximizing profit via exploitation and extraction. To this end, employees are empowered to participate in corporate governance. Economic disparities are curbed so that citizens can negotiate their inevitable differences on a truly equal footing. And while a democratic economy need not eschew growth, it does renounce today's growth-at-all-costs expectations, instead balancing growth with goals like ecological sustainability and the preservation of time outside of work. Democratic economics also entails implementing reforms in ways that take seriously the perspectives, experiences, and skills of the whole population. These are not utopian dreams, Herzog contends. The proposals that follow from the theory of democratic economics are already being tested around the world. And the shift in social norms that they necessitate is already under way. The Stoics on Lekta : all there is to say by Ada Bronowski Call Number: University Open Collection - 08.21 BronISBN: 9780198842880Publication Date: 2019After Plato's Forms, and Aristotle's substances, the Stoics posited the fundamental reality of lekta - the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. This is the first time in the tradition of Western philosophy that what is signified is properly distinguished from signs and signifiers. The Stoics on Lekta offers a synoptic treatment of the many implications of this distinction, which grants an existential autonomy to lekta: language can only ever express meanings, but what happens to meanings which are there, ready to be said, but which are never actually expressed? It analyses the deep shift in ontological paradigm required by the presence of lekta in reality, and reveals a truly unique, complex, and consistent cosmic view in which lekta are the keystones of the structure of reality. According to this view, we cannot not speak or think in terms of lekta, and for this reason, they are in fact all there is to say. The Stoics' position ignited many fiery debates in antiquity and continues to do so in the modern era: they were the first to be concerned with questions about language and grammar, and the first to put the relation of language to reality at the heart of the enquiry into human understanding and the place of man in the cosmos. Such questions remain central to life and philosophy to this day, and by explicitly comparing and contrasting the themes and topics discussed to twentieth-century treatments of the status of the proposition, propositional structure, speech act theory, and the relation of attribution of the predicate to a subject-term, this volume seeks to demonstrate the enduring value of a direct Stoic contribution to the contemporary debate. Fascism and the masses : the revolt against the last humans, 1848-1945 by Ishay Landa Call Number: Online available via Taylor & FrancisISBN: 9781351179973Publication Date: 2018Highlighting the "mass" nature of interwar European fascism has long become commonplace. Throughout the years, numerous critics have construed fascism as a phenomenon of mass society, perhaps the ultimate expression of mass politics. This study deconstructs this long-standing perception. It argues that the entwining of fascism with the masses is a remarkable transubstantiation of a movement which understood and presented itself as a militant rejection of the ideal of mass politics, and indeed of mass society and mass culture more broadly conceived. Thus, rather than "massifying" society, fascism was the culmination of a long effort on the part of the élites and the middle-classes to de-massify it. The perennially menacing mass - seen as plebeian and insubordinate - was to be drilled into submission, replaced by supposedly superior collective entities, such as the nation, the race, or the people. Focusing on Italian fascism and German National Socialism, but consulting fascist movements and individuals elsewhere in interwar Europe, the book incisively shows how fascism is best understood as ferociously resisting what Elias referred to as "the civilizing process" and what Marx termed "the social individual." Fascism, notably, was a revolt against what Nietzsche described as the peaceful, middling and egalitarian "Last Humans." Homo Sacer : sovereign power and bare life by Giorgio Agamben Call Number: Online available via De GruyterISBN: 9780804764025Publication Date: 2020 Late fascism : race, capitalism and the politics of crisis by Alberto Toscano Call Number: Online available via ProQuest Ebook Central (1 concurrent user)ISBN: 9781839760228Publication Date: 2023 Cedric J. Robinson : on racial capitalism, Black internationalism, and cultures of resistance by Cedric J. Robinson, H.L.T. Quan Call Number: Online available via JSTORISBN: 9781786805218Publication Date: 2019...

Acquisitions October 2025

The Character Sketch As Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types by Katie Ebner-Landy Call Number: Online available via JSTORISBN: 9780674302082Publication Date: 2025An insightful exploration of the moral and political power of the character sketch in early modern Europe--and the implications for our own relationship to this genre today. In the fourth century BCE, the philosopher Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle, composed thirty character sketches depicting ordinary Athenian vices: idle chatter, bad timing, cowardice, shamelessness, and superstition, among others. Centuries later, this enigmatic text--known as the Characters--was feverishly translated and imitated by early modern Europeans convinced of its moral and political importance. Tracing this resurgence of the Theophrastan tradition, Katie Ebner-Landy sheds new light on the role of the character sketch as a philosophical tool. Ebner-Landy shows that the original Characters is best understood as a work of political philosophy, designed to urge Athenians toward civic virtue. It is this quality that made the text so resonant in early modern Europe, where the character sketch again served as a means of encouraging ethical behavior and cultivating political knowledge. During the English Civil War, for example, the character sketch was used to diagnose new political types such as the Roundhead and the Cavalier. By the era of the Enlightenment, however, moral philosophy's long association with the character sketch began to break down. A different approach to philosophy took hold, one that spurned literary descriptions of manners, mores, and types and instead emphasized the principles underlying knowledge itself. This shift, in turn, helped to drive a broader separation between literature and philosophy. A revealing intellectual history, The Character Sketch as Philosophy also encourages us to consider what literary description might contribute to ethics and political thought today--and to think critically about the kinds of character sketches on which we still rely, from the snob to the mansplainer. Drivers of Authoritarianism by Günter Frankenberg (Editor); Wilhelm Heitmeyer (Editor) Call Number: Online available via ElgaronlineISBN: 9781035324699Publication Date: 2024-04-12Drivers of Authoritarianism provides a prescient deep-dive into modern threats to pluralism and democracy in times of crisis. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this incisive book analyses the social, political, economic and psychological consequences of crises during the first decades of the 21st century, powered by the proliferation of authoritarian regimes and their ideologies. Günter Frankenberg and Wilhelm Heitmeyer bring together esteemed academics from a diverse range of disciplines to consider the ways in which crises have acted as catalysts for authoritarian developments. The book assesses the effects of authoritarianism at individual, social, national and global levels, raising concerns for the future of political and social stability. Chapters explore exterminism, authoritarian cultural identities, left-wing identity politics as a driver of authoritarianism, media entertainment and authoritarianism, and the role of gender in right-wing authoritarian populism. This timely book will be a vital read for academics, researchers and students specialising in constitutional and administrative law, law and politics, and public policy. Providing expert insight into the political landscape of the early 21st century this book will also be of great interest to political professionals and policymakers working at local, national and international levels. Dit is fascisme by Rosan Smits Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 89.21 SmitISBN: 9789493254701Publication Date: 2025 Mafia Politics by Marco. Santoro Call Number: University Open Collection - 71.65 SantISBN: 9780745670683Publication Date: 2022This ground-breaking book offers a deep and original analysis of the Mafia - in particular Cosa Nostra - as a distinct form of politics. Marco Santoro breaks with criminal and economic approaches which see the Mafia as an industry of private protection and rationally calculating wealth accumulation. Instead he argues that it represents an alternative way of organizing political relations, the exercise of power, and the struggle for prestige. Nor is this a distortion or failure of the modern Western state, based on the rule of law: the Mafia is best understood as an older, alternative tradition of politics, a distinctly Southern institutional arrangement of social life focused on personal ties and obligations. Today, the Mafia still thrives among subaltern classes and in regions that the modern state has not yet incorporated, as a conservative counter-politics of prestige. Pivotal to understanding this world is a cultural sociology of the Mafia, offering the tools and concepts necessary to penetrate the symbolism and structures of Mafia life. Blending diverse theoretical strands with folk sources and the voices of Mafiosi themselves, Santoro develops a political theory of the Mafia, shedding new light on this captivating, global, and remarkably resilient phenomenon. Paranoid publics : psychopolitics of truth by Zahid R. Chaudhary Call Number: Online available via JSTORISBN: 9781531511890Publication Date: 2025Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth ...

Acquisitions September 2025

The New Fascist Body by Dagmar Herzog Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 89.21 HerzISBN: 9783948200206Publication Date: 2025An analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of aggression and violence are just as essential. As such, racism is particularly intense when it is erotically charged, migration presenting as a sexual threat to white women being one of many examples. Germany's strikingly successful right-wing political party Alternative für Deutschland is, according to the historian Dagmar Herzog, characterized by this "sexy racism," with its second main feature being that of an obsessive antidisability hostility – both elements resonating strongly with Nazism. In The New Fascist Body, Herzog connects her analysis of fascism's libidinous energy with its animus against bodies perceived as imperfect. Only by studying the emotional and intellectual worlds of past fascisms can we understand and combat their current manifestations.The book features an afterword by Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (Verso 2023). Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy by Peter Adamson Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 08.23 AdamISBN: 9780192856418Publication Date: 2022Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movements of two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from such early figures as John of Damascus in the eighth century to the late Byzantine scholars of the fifteenth century. Then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the era ofMachiavelli, Giordano Bruno, and Galileo. This is the sixth volume in Adamson's History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, taking us to the threshold of the early modern era. Capital's Grave: neofeudalism and the new class struggle by Jodi Dean Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 83.21 DeanISBN: 9781804295199Publication Date: 2025The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation and becoming something that might even be worse. Bringing together analyses from different fields--law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis--Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn't just a metaphor. It's the operating system for the present. Politics and plunder thrive in the capitalist pursuit of profit, and the many are bound to serve the few, coerced into a system of rents, destruction, and hoarding driven by privilege and dependence. The question is: In a society of serfs and servants, how do we get free? With the rise of neofeudalism, and as more and more workers are drawn into the service sector--from nurses to Uber and delivery drivers--Dean argues that we can see the emergence of a new vanguard, the class that can lead the struggle for liberation from oppression and exploitation: what she calls the servant vanguard. Armin Mohler und die intellektuelle Rechte in der Bonner Republik by Maik Tändler Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 15.70 TändISBN: 9783835358232Publication Date: 2025Mohlers Rolle als Netzwerker zwischen Liberalkonservativen und Nationalisten lässt die Geschichte der bundesrepublikanischen Rechten neu verstehen.Zwei Jahrzehnte nach seinem Tod gilt Armin Mohler noch immer als Vordenker der Neuen Rechten in Deutschland. Der 1920 in der Schweiz geborene Publizist inszenierte sich nach 1945 als Erbwahrer jenes in der Weimarer Republik grassierenden Radikalnationalismus, den er unter dem Begriff der »Konservativen Revolution« in die Bundesrepublik hinüberzuretten versuchte. Damit avancierte er zeitweilig zu einer der einflussreichsten Stimmen am rechten Rand des politischen Spektrums.Maik Tändler rekonstruiert die Geschichte der rechtsintellektuellen Netzwerke um Mohler, ihre Sammlungs- und Mobilisierungsversuche unter den Bedingungen einer sich schnell wandelnden politischen Öffentlichkeit und ihr Verhältnis zum weiteren Feld eines sich liberalisierenden Konservatismus. Die Herausbildung einer Neuen Rechten seit den 1970er Jahren erweist sich dabei weniger als Formwandel des »alten« Rechtsradikalismus der frühen Bundesrepublik, sondern vielmehr als Reaktion auf die langfristige und nicht immer geradlinige Entmischung von liberaldemokratischem Konservatismus und antiliberalem Rechtskonservatismus. Spinoza's Religion: a New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle Call Number: Online available via JSTORISBN: 9780691224206Publication Date: 2021A bold re-evaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza's Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of religion centre-stage but refusing to convert Spinozism to Christianity, Carlisle reveals that "being in God" unites Spinoza's metaphysics and ethics. Spinoza's Religion unfolds a powerful, inclusive philosophical vision for the modern age--one that is grounded in a profound questioning of how to live a joyful, fully human life. Like Spinoza himself, the Ethics doesn't fit into any ready-made religious category. But Carlisle shows how it wrestles with the question of religion in strikingly original ways, responding both critically and constructively to the diverse, broadly Christian context in which Spinoza lived and worked. Philosophy itself, as Spinoza practiced it, became a spiritual endeavor that expressed his devotion to a truthful, virtuous way of life. Offering startling new insights into Spinoza's famously enigmatic ideas about eternal life and the intellectual love of God, Carlisle uncovers a Spinozist religion that integrates self-knowledge, desire, practice, and embodied ethical life to reach toward our "highest happiness"--To rest in God. Seen through Carlisle's eyes, the Ethics prompts us to rethink not only Spinoza but also religion itself. Staging the Third Reich by Anson Rabinbach; Stefanos Geroulanos (Editor); Dagmar Herzog (Editor) Call Number: Online available via Taylor & FrancisISBN: 9781000077490Publication Date: 2020A widely celebrated intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and the after-effects of Nazism on postwar German and European culture. Historically detailed and theoretically sophisticated, his essays span the aesthetics of production, messianic and popular claims, the ethos that Nazism demanded of its adherents, the brilliant and sometimes successful efforts of antifascist intellectuals to counter Hitler's rise, the most significant concepts to emerge out of the 1930s and 1940s for understanding European authoritarianism, the major controversies around Nazism that took place after the regime's demise, the philosophical claims of postwar philosophers, sociologists and psychoanalysts--from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt and from Alexander Kluge to Klaus Theweleit--and the role of Auschwitz in European history. Fascisme 2.0 Call Number: University Library Closed StacksISBN: 9782492542244Publication Date: 2025Le deuxième numéro du magazine AOC propose un ensemble de 20 textes longs autour des attaques que subit la démocratie partout dans le monde, et que l’arrivée de Trump au pouvoir en 2025 a rendu spectaculairement évidentes. Antérieures à ce moment, cependant, ou avançant parfois de façon masquée, ces attaques ont atteint aujourd’hui un degré tel que l’on peut ne pas avoir peur des mots : il s’agit de fascisme 2.0. Quelles en sont les réalités, conséquences, fonctionnements ? Et quels sont les moyens pour consolider la démocratie ?L’iconographie, confiée à la curation du Palais de Tokyo, proposera une sélection d’œuvres de la jeune artiste irano-américaine Tala Madani, dont les peintures et vidéos d’animation questionnent l’autorité politique et ses déséquilibres....

Acquisitions August 2025

The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning Call Number: University Library Open Collection - Course Material 08.00 BlanISBN: 9780753828656Publication Date: 2011 Feminist Theory: a Philosophical Anthology by Robin O. Andreasen (Editor); Ann E. Cudd (Editor); E. Díaz-León (Editor) Call Number: University Open Collection - 08.44 AndrISBN: 9781394172658Publication Date: 2025-05-06Bringing together influential voices and groundbreaking new essays, Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology examines the key questions at the heart of feminist philosophy through a clear structure and accessible yet rigorous content. This carefully curated selection of classic and contemporary essays emphasizes the flourishing growth of feminist thought over time, ranging from foundational texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, and Kimberlé Crenshaw, to new essays by contemporary scholars like Kate Manne, Talia Mae Bettcher, and Robin Dembroff. This edition expands on the original with fresh scholarship and a broader range of perspectives on gender, identity, knowledge, production and justice. New essays address intersectionality, gender identity, the critique of ideal theory, feminist critiques of traditional ethics, the impact of social norms on autonomy and epistemic injustice, and much more. Including critiques of traditional philosophical frameworks and self-reflection of feminism itself, this essential collection highlights how feminist theory shapes and challenges our current understanding of society. Designed for students and scholars in philosophy, gender studies, and social theory, Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology is ideal for students taking courses in feminist philosophy and feminist theory, educators in social sciences and humanities, and activists and professionals seeking a nuanced understanding of feminist philosophy. Collected Works of Erasmus - Controversies by Desiderius Erasmus; Ronald Begley (Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Daniel Sheerin (Translator, Notes by); Carol Begley (Introduction by) Call Number: University Library Closed StacksISBN: 9781487559250Publication Date: 2025-05-16Volume 79 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series presents two works written by Erasmus in a controversy with the Carthusian monk Pierre Cousturier. Erasmus had ignited controversy throughout Europe with his criticisms of the Vulgate in current use and his attempts to produce better texts and better Latin translations of Scripture, as well as a new version of the Greek New Testament. Erasmus's work came under the scrutiny of the Paris faculty of theology. The resulting controversy between Erasmus and various Paris theologians culminated in a formal censure of both vernacular translations of the Bible and new Latin translations from Hebrew and Greek sources. In 1522, Pierre Cousturier began to attack humanist translators in a series of publications, arguing for the accuracy and divine inspiration of the commonly used Latin Bible, which rendered further Latin translations unnecessary, even dangerous. The fact that Cousturier had a doctorate in theology from Paris and was highly regarded in the Paris basin as a reformer prompted Erasmus to reply in order to clarify his textual and theological principles and their implications. In his Apologia against Cousturier and the subsequent Appendix, Erasmus offers some of his most important reflections on his aim to cultivate humanistic and linguistic expertise in the service of advancing the Gospel. Chaos and the Automaton by Franco 'Bifo' Berardi Call Number: Online available via Project MuseISBN: 9781452971773Publication Date: 2025-04-22Facing real threats of extinction and futurelessness, a search for new ground on which to build projects toward emancipation Chaos and the Automaton is the first volume to collect Franco "Bifo" Berardi's extensive collaboration with e-flux, which has become one of his primary English-language publishers since 2010. The selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi's prescient interventions into more than a decade of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order since the 2008 financial crisis, from European austerity, Occupy, the Arab Spring, and Anonymous through the ascendance of Pope Francis, Brexit, Covid-19, the Trump-Biden sequence, the U.S. Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine--as well as bizarre new cultural occurrences that were consequences. Berardi draws not only from current events but also movements and figures at the firmament of his thought, such as Guattari, Pasolini, and Italian street art of the 1970s. His essays represent a sustained and singular effort to reveal the psychic and material underpinnings of a society in which history came roaring back at the same moment as any vision of a sustainable future receded from sight. "I know that it is dangerous to write in simultaneity with events that nobody can precisely foresee, that can only be vaguely intuited," he wrote on the eve of the 2020 American elections, "but the only way to imagine something about the becoming of the psycho-sphere is to run ahead of the dynamics of the disaster." The Bloomsbury handbook of care ethics by Matilda Carter Call Number: Online available via Bloomsbury CollectionsISBN: 9781350428386Publication Date: 2025 Kant and the Concept of Community by Charlton Payne (Editor); Lucas Thorpe (Editor) Call Number: Online available via De GruyterISBN: 9781580467810Publication Date: 2011-04-30An interdisciplanary collection of essays focused on Kant's work on the concept of community. The concept of community plays a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy, his practical philosophy, his aesthetics, and his religious thought. Kant uses community in many philosophical contexts: the category of community introduced in his table of categories in the Critique of Pure Reason; the community of substances in the third analogy; the realm of ends as an ethical community; the state and the public sphere as political communities; the sensus communis of the Critique of Judgment; and the idea of the church as a religious community in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. Given Kant's status as a systematic philosopher, volume editorsPayne and Thorpe maintain that any examination of the concept of community in one area of his work can be understood only in relation to the others. In this volume, then, scholars from different disciplines -- specializing in various aspects of and approaches to Kant's work -- offer their interpretations of Kant on the concept of community. The various essays further illustrate the central relevance and importance of Kant's conception of community to contemporary debates in various fields. Charlton Payne is postdoctoral fellow at Plattform Weltregionen und Interaktionen, Universität Erfurt, Germany. Lucas Thorpe is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy atBogaziçi University, Turkey. Contributors: Ronald Beiner, Jeffrey Edwards, Michael Feola, Paul Guyer, Jane Kneller, Béatrice Longuenesse, Jan Mieszkowski, Onora O'Neill, Charlton Payne, Susan M. Shell, Lucas Thorpe, Eric Watkins, Allen W. Wood Fascist Pigs by Tiago Saraiva; Wiebe E. Bijker; W. Bernard. Carlson; Trevor Pinch Call Number: Online available via Oxford AcademicISBN: 9780262035033Publication Date: 2016-10-07How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy, Portugal, and Germany and to their imperial expansion. In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil. Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes. The pigs, the potatoes, and the wheat embodied fascism. In Nazi Germany, only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce. Pigs that didn't efficiently convert German-grown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminated. Saraiva describes national campaigns that intertwined the work of geneticists with new state bureaucracies; discusses fascist empires, considering forced labor on coffee, rubber, and cotton in Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Eastern Europe; and explores fascist genocides, following Karakul sheep from a laboratory in Germany to Eastern Europe, Libya, Ethiopia, and Angola. Saraiva's highly original account--the first systematic study of the relation between science and fascism--argues that the "back to the land" aspect of fascism should be understood as a modernist experiment involving geneticists and their organisms, mass propaganda, overgrown bureaucracy, and violent colonialism. Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relations by Andrew Smith (Editor); Pauline Dibben (Editor); Adrian Wilkinson (Editor) Call Number: University Library Open Collection - 85.08 SmitISBN: 9781035316199Publication Date: 2025-06-27This comprehensive book explores key theories and concepts in the study of work and employment relations. Expert authors provide a detailed guide to the essential theories behind the ever-changing world of employment, presenting their own perspectives on these ideas. Chapters are organised into four thematic parts, encompassing the employment relationship, managerial challenges, the experience and conceptualisation of work, and trade unionism and resistance. The book features a range of diverse voices, with contributions from both leading scholars and emerging academics who have made crucial advancements in the field. Ultimately, Theories and Concepts in Work and Employment Relationsaims to deepen our understanding of the key ideas in the study of employment, creating a framework for future academic discourse and debate. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is an essential read for researchers and students in the fields of industrial and employment relations, the sociology of work and human resource management. It includes both an overview of the field and a valuable guide to avenues for future research, supporting aspiring scholars in making a contribution to contemporary debates. Its innovative insights will also benefit practitioners and professionals who would like to further their theoretical knowledge in the field....

Acquisitions February 2025

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