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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas gaskill”
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  • The Lure of Whitehead

    Edited by Nicholas Gaskill, A. J. Nocek ...
    Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have all embraced Whitehead’s thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • More-Than-Human Aesthetics

    Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature

    by Mike Michael, Michael Halewood, Thomas P. Keating, Alexander Damianos, Michael L. Thomas, Martin Savransky, Cecile Malaspina, Maximilian Haas, Matthew Fuller, Andy Goffey, Didier Debaise, Nicholas Gaskill ...
    Series series Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
    In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more liveable futures.Drawing on the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and Félix Guattari, the book develops aesthetics as central to all more-than-human forms of experience, including knowledge ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature and Science

    Edited by Neel Ahuja, Monique Allewaert, Lindsey Andrews, Gerry Canavan, Rebecca Evans, Nihad M. Farooq, Erica Fretwell, Nicholas Gaskill, Patrick Jagoda, Erin Gentry Lamb, Jennifer Rhee, Britt Rusert, Matthew A. Taylor, Aarthi Vadde, Priscilla Wald, Rebecca Walsh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This handbook illustrates the evolution of literature and science, in collaboration and contestation, across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The essays it gathers question the charged rhetoric that pits science against the humanities while also demonstrating the ways in which the convergence of literary and scientific approaches strengthens cultural analyses of colonialism, race, sex, ... Read more

    $280.99 CAD

  • Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists

    Experience and Reality

    by George Allan, Steven Meyer, Thomas M. Jeannot, Scott Sinclair, Maria Regina Brioschi, Michael Brady, Nicholas Gaskill, Eleonora Mingarelli, Jude Jones, Nancy Frankenberry, Vincent M. Colapietro ...
    Series series Contemporary Whitehead Studies
    Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Chromographia

    American Literature and the Modernization of Color

    by Nicholas Gaskill ...
    The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880–1930Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children’s books to the bold hues of abstract painting, from psychological theories of perception to the synthetic dyes that brightened commercial goods, color concerned ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Edited by Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stylish Academic Writing

    by Helen Sword ...
    Elegant ideas deserve elegant expression. Sword dispels the myth that you can’t get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions or eager to write for a larger audience, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books enjoyable to read—and to write. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Objectivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Gaukroger ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Rorty

    by Gideon Calder ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Popular Great Philosopher's Series.An accessible overview of the work of one of our most influential living philosophers, as part of the popular Great Philosophers series. Richard Rorty is often cited as the most prominent philosophical defender of postmodernism. Best known for his unusually readable books and articles on philosophy - most notably Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

    The Reinvention of Nature

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • What Is Posthumanism?

    by Cary Wolfe ...
    Series Book 8 - Posthumanities
    What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities—posthumanities—respond to the redefinition of humanity’s place in the world by both the technological and the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD