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In 1953, Professor A. H. Armstrong published his little book, Plotinus a Volume of Selections in a New English Translation, in the UK. The original book was 174 pages in length, in a 5 x 7.5 hardbound format. I believe that Professor Armstrongs translation of Plotinus is the best available, with an excellent choice of selections from this unique and incomparable philosopher.
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This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs.`Over the past forty years, Derek Attridge has engaged, quite possibly more meticulously than anyone else, the work and thought of Jacques Derrida. Through his abiding care for the working of language, he reminds us just how exacting, how adventurous, how serious and how deeply responsive Derrida could be to the words and potential meanings of others.---Thomas Docherty, Professor of English and of Comparative Literature, University of Warwic`This wonderful book admirably displays Derek Attridges special gifts as a reader clarity, learning, and penetrating understanding. It contains some of the best essays ever written about what is distinctive in Derridas thinking.---J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English, University of California at IrvineReading and Responsibility examines the importance of deconstruction and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular for literary criticism today. Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derridas own readings of literary and philosophical texts responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader.
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We are living in the midst of the Earths sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earths systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended. An inspiration for Roseand a touchstone throughout her bookis the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species. People save what they love, observed Michael Soule, the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of lovingand therefore capable of caring forthe animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire. **Review Attuned to the complex harmonics in the howling of wild dingoes, Rose asks what it means to live and die in a time of escalating human-provoked mass extinctions. In her own practice, Rose shows us how to keep the stories rolling and rolling, winding around each other and us in the task of singing back the life and lives of the good earth. A wise and generative book. (Donna Haraway, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of When Species Meet) Wild Dog Dreaming is a remarkable book, animated by a searching intelligence and a deeply ethical spirit. In a time of extinction Deborah Bird Rose teaches us what is inextinguishable our kinship with animals. (David L. Clark, McMaster University) [A] bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire. (Australian Animal Studies Bulletin) As seemingly hopeless as the task of halting anthropogenic extinctions is, [Rose] says she believes that it is one toward which we owe an ethical response. (Chronicle of Higher Education) Rose, an anthropologist, uses the dingo as a touchstone to explore ethical connectivity between human and nonhuman life.... A well-referenced, wide-ranging, and sometimes abstract dialogue between dreamtime stories and Western existentialist philosophy on life, death, kinships, and dualism with nonhuman life. (CHOICE) About the Author Deborah Bird Rose, Adjunct Professor in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales, is the author of Reports from a Wild Country Ethics for Decolonisation and Dingo Makes Us Human Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture.
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Henri Pirenne is best known for his provocative argument--known as the Pirenne thesis and familiar to all students of medieval Europe--that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient cities of Europe. Pirenne first formulated his thesis in articles and then expanded on them in Medieval Cities. In the book Pirenne traces the growth of the medieval city from the tenth century to the twelfth, challenging conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade. In addition, Pirenne describes the clear role the middle class played in the development of the modern economic system and modern culture. The Pirenne thesis was fully worked out in the book Mohammed and Charlemagne, which appeared shortly after Pirennes death.Pirenne was one of the worlds leading historians and arguably the most famous Belgium had produced. During World War I, while teaching at the University of Ghent, he was arrested for supporting Belgiums passive resistance and deported to Germany, where he was held from 1916 to 1918. In 1922, universities in various parts of the United States invited him to deliver lectures out of these lectures grew Medieval Cities, which appeared in English translation before being published in French in 1927.ReviewAn indispensable complement to the confusing history of the Carolingian period and early days of European civic development. . . . In short, it is one of the best sort of contributions to historical writing--those which combine simplicity with erudition and imagination with accuracy. (New Statesman (London) ) Nearly a century after it was first published in 1925, Medieval Cities remains one of the most provocative works of medieval history ever written. Here, Henri Pirenne argues that it was not the invasion of the Germanic tribes that destroyed the civilization of antiquity, but rather the closing of Mediterranean trade by Arab conquest in the seventh century. The consequent interruption of long-distance commerce accelerated the decline of the ancient cities of Europe. Pirenne challenges conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade, tracing their growth from the tenth century to the twelfth. He also describes the important role the middle class played in the development of the modern economic system and modern culture.Featuring a new introduction by Michael McCormick, this Princeton Classics edition of Medieval Cities is essential reading for all students of medieval European history.**
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This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that transcend the realismanti-realism dichotomy. As such, it constitutes the state of the art with regard to metaepistemology, and will shape the debate in years to come. **From the Back Cover This book contains twelve chapters by leading and up-and-coming philosophers on metaepistemology, that is, on the nature, existence and authority of epistemic facts. One of the central divides in metaepistemology is between epistemic realists and epistemic anti-realists. Epistemic realists think that epistemic facts (such as the fact that you ought to believe what your evidence supports) exist independently of human judgements and practices, and that they have authority over our judgements and practices. Epistemic anti-realists think that, if epistemic facts exist at all, they are grounded in human judgements and practices, and gain any authority they have from our judgements and practices. This book considers both epistemic realist and anti-realist perspectives, as well as perspectives that transcend the realismanti-realism dichotomy. As such, it constitutes the state of the art with regard to metaepistemology, and will shape the debate in years to come. About the Author Christos Kyriacou is a Lecturer at the University of Cyprus and has received his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main interests lie in epistemology, metaethics and their intersection. He has published articles in Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Papers, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophia as well as in volumes dealing with issues in metaepistemology (Metaepistemology, eds. C.McHugh, J.Way and D.Whiting, forthcoming, co-authored with T.Cuneo) and epistemic normativity (Epistemic Reasons, Norms and Goals, eds. M.Grajner and P.Schmechtig, 2016). He has also written the Metaepistemology entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online in Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Robin McKenna is a postdoctoral researcher on the Emergence of Relativism project at the University of Vienna, Austria. Before coming to Vienna, he worked at the University of Geneva. His research is principally in epistemology and philosophy of language, though he has also done work in metaethics and is increasingly interested in the philosophy of science. He is currently working on a book that argues that knowledge is a social status. He has published articles in American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly and Synthese.
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Bedlam! The very name,derived from a nickname for the Bethlehem Hospital,conjures up graphic images of naked patients in filthy conditions, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. Thiscommon image of madness canbe tracedto William Hogarths 1735 Rakes Progress series, which depicts Bedlam asa freak show providing entertainment for Londoners between trips to the zoo, puppet shows, and public executions. That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam,more thantwo centuries later, says much aboutthe prevailingattitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirkes impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum. Following the historical narrative structure of Necropolis,this history examines the capitals treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.**ReviewElegantly written and richly anecdotal. *Daily Mail *What a dark undertow tugs away at the readers imagination in this smoothly written, densely researched book. Sunday ExpressA finely written, thoroughly researched and humane book, packed with moving stories. *Independent *Everything you always wanted to know about perishing in London. Kirkus Reviews on NecropolisAbout the Author Catharine Arnolds previous books include Necropolis London and its Dead, the first of her London trilogy.
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