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  • Ethics and Education as Practices of Freedom

    Thinking with Dewey

    by Pedro Tabensky ...
    What does it mean to live freely-and how do education and ethics shape that possibility?Bringing together thinkers such as Dewey, Freire, Foucault, Midgley, and Rorty, this book argues that education and ethics are not separate ideas but two inseparable dimensions of what it means to practice freedom.Challenging the narrow view of education as simply knowledge transfer, the book shows that ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question

    An Ethics of Rebellion

    by Pedro Tabensky ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power imbalances.The author foregrounds the bloody Algerian War of Independence in his analysis of the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Judging and Understanding

    Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation

    Edited by Pedro Alexis Tabensky ...
    This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. It seems that after a particular threshold of understanding of the basic facts leading to a given moral transgression, the more we understand the context and motives leading to crime, the more likely we are to abstain from harsh retributive judgement. Martha Nussbaum‘s ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Happiness

    Personhood, Community, Purpose

    by Pedro Alexis Tabensky ...
    This book is about happiness and about how the supremely happy life - the life blessed with what Aristotle refers to as eudaimonia - is the life of an ethical individual living in a healthy community. Much ethical literature has drawn inspiration from Aristotle's outlook, but relatively little attention has been paid to the central concept of Aristotle's ethical system - the concept of eudaimonia. ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities

    Re-reading the Canon

    by George Hull, Lisa Treffry-Goatley, Marzia Milazzo, Rocío Cobo-Piñero, Pedro Tabensky, Oritsegbubemi Anthony Oyowe, Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Chielozona Eze ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Recognizing philosophy’s traditional influence on—and literature’s creative stimulus for—sociopolitical discourses, imaginations, and structures, African Philosophical and Literary Possibilities: Re-readingthe Canon, edited by Aretha Phiri, probes the cross-referential, interdisciplinary relationships between African literature and African philosophy. The contributors write within the broader ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Ethical Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Russ Shafer-Landau ...
    Series Book 13 - Wiley Philosophy Anthologies
    The second edition of Ethical Theory: An Anthology features a comprehensive collection of more than 80 essays from classic and contemporary philosophers that address questions at the heart of moral philosophy.Brings together 82 classic and contemporary pieces by renowned philosophers, from seminal works by Hume and Kant to contemporary views by Derek Parfit, Susan Wolf, Judith Jarvis Thomson, and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life

    by Anthony T. Kronman ...
    The question of what living is for-of what one should care about and why-is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Democracy's Children

    Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics

    by John McGowan ...
    How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual ... Read more

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  • The Human Condition

    by John Kekes ...
    The Human Condition is a response to the growing disenchantment in the Western world with contemporary life. John Kekes provides rationally justified answers to questions about the meaning of life, the basis of morality, the contingencies of human lives, the prevalence of evil, the nature and extent of human responsibility, and the sources of values we prize. He offers a realistic view of the ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Strangers to Nature

    Animal Lives and Human Ethics

    by Drucilla Cornell, Julian H. Franklin, Heather M. Kendrick, Andrew Linzey, Paola Cavalieri, Rod Preece, Ted Benton, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Allen Fox, Ralph R. Acampora, Bernard Rollin, Eduardo Mendieta, Michael J. Thompson, Lori Gruen ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Democracy and Rhetoric

    John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming

    by Nathan Crick ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an "ontology of becoming"In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused with the spirit of ethics, a method of inquiry, and a sense of beauty. Crick relies on rhetorical theory as well ... Read more

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  • Virtues of the Family

    by Jacob Joshua Ross ...
    Since the sexual revolution, the traditional family’s moral authority has been the subject of an increasingly politicized debate. The family’s detractors have viewed it as an arbitrary social arrangement which perpetuates injustice and legitimates violations of individual rights. Those who defend it, on the other hand, insist that it is the only possible source of human values and suggest that ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD