Provides an introduction to major theories of democracy. This edition takes into account significant transformations in world politics. It is useful for those interested in politics, political theory, and political philosophy.
My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence is an improvisational call-and-response writing performance conducted by a language artist and an AI language model and is arranged as a series of intellectual provocations that investigate the creative process across the human-nonhuman spectrum.
This book establishes first, that melancholy serves as an important focal point in the interpretation of Benjamin's early work, and second, that Benjamin's approach to melancholy releases it from its customary psychological context, turning it into a philosophical premise.
This book elaborates the social-psychological concept of schema while championing the literary critical practice of close reading to show how literature reflects, promotes, and contests pervasive sociocultural ideas like race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
Unconventionally fusing the the history of faith and reason in Islam, this book traces the Qur'an-inspired intellectual revolution that took off in the Islamic world of the seventh century, revealing its highlights and following it through to its sixteenth-century demise.
This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past.