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  • Research Objects in their Technological Setting

    Edited by Bernadette Bensaude Vincent, Sacha Loeve, Alfred Nordmann, Astrid Schwarz ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    What kind of stuff is the world made of? What is the nature or substance of things? These are ontological questions, and they are usually answered with respect to the objects of science. The objects of technoscience tell a different story that concerns the power, promise and potential of things – not what they are but what they can be. Seventeen scholars from history and philosophy of science, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Ecology Revisited

    Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science

    Edited by Astrid Schwarz, Kurt Jax ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    As concerns about humankind’s relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline. The text provides readers with an overview of the theoretical, institutional and historical formation of ecological knowledge. The varied ... Read more

    $254.89 CAD

  • Experiments in Practice

    by Astrid Schwarz ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
    Traditionally experimentation has been understood as an activity performed within the laboratory, but in the twenty-first century this view is being challenged. Schwarz uses ecological and environmental case studies to show how scientific experiments can transcend the laboratory. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    A New Theory of Modernity

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Book 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of Knowledge

    Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

    by Jürgen Renn ...
    A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

    by Hub Zwart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ... Read more

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  • Anthropology

    A Continental Perspective

    by Christoph Wulf ...
    Originally published in German, Christoph Wulf's Anthropology sets its sights on a topic as ambitious as its title suggests: anthropology itself. Arguing for an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to anthropology that incorporates science, philosophy, history, and many other disciplines, Wulf examines—with breathtaking scope—all the ways that anthropology has been understood and practiced ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

    Edited by Alwin F. Fill, Hermine Penz ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins with chapters on language diversity, language minorities and language endangerment, with authors providing insight into the link between the loss of ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • General Ecology

    The New Ecological Paradigm

    by James Edward Burton ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    Ecology has become one of the most urgent and lively fields in both the humanities and sciences. In a dramatic widening of scope beyond its original concern with the coexistence of living organisms within a natural environment, it is now recognized that there are ecologies of mind, information, sensation, perception, power, participation, media, behavior, belonging, values, the social, the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Government of Things

    Foucault and the New Materialisms

    by Thomas Lemke ...
    Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialismsMaterialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this "new materialism". In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, ... Read more

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  • The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discursive Knowledge

    Communication-Theoretical Perspectives on an Empirical Philosophy of Science

    by Loet Leydesdorff ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book addresses three themes which have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

    $166.99 CAD