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  • Digital Exposure

    Postmodern Postcapitalism

    par R. Sassower ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Price of Public Intellectuals

    par R. Sassower ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals. Sassower suggests how the state might financially support the essential work of public intellectuals so as to critically engage the public and improve public policies. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Compromising the Ideals of Science

    par R. Sassower ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Impact of Critical Rationalism

    Expanding the Popperian Legacy through the Works of Ian C. Jarvie

    Modifié par Raphael Sassower, Nathaniel Laor ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    As a student and disciple of Karl Popper and longtime managing editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Ian C. Jarvie extended the notion of Critical Rationalism to be useful in anthropology, aesthetics, film studies, and various social sciences. In this Festschrift, contributors from a range of interests and disciplines engage with the Popperian legacy and Jarvie’s scholarly and editorial ... En savoir plus

    $108.99 CAD

  • Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation

    par Raphael Sassower ...
    Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Democratic Problem-Solving

    Dialogues in Social Epistemology

    par Justin Cruickshank, Raphael Sassower ...
    Collections series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public intellectuals able to develop a more dialogically engaged public? What role should there be for ‘experts’ in a more dialogic democracy? Does information and communications technology present a ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Religion and Sports in American Culture

    par Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower ...
    Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine

    Integrative Bioethics

    par Mary Ann Gardell Cutter, Raphael Sassower ...
    "Ethical Choices in Contemporary Medicine" jettisons the standard medical ethics models of "rights" language and shows how the bioethical problems that receive attention from the media and the public are related to and are explicable in terms of the epistemological foundations of science and medicine. These epistemological concerns include how medical knowledge is established (scientific validity) ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • Solo

    Postmodern Explorations

    par Raphael Sassower ...
    Solo: Postmodern Explorations provides a postmodern approach to technoscience and economics. Sassower pulls together postmodern motifs and attitudes with his own experience to provide a unique perspective on political history and economics. Solo raises the question of whether it is possible to be an objective observer and what that means for scholarship, especially when it concerns making ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • Popper's Legacy

    Rethinking Politics, Economics and Science

    par Raphael Sassower ...
    The work of Karl Popper has had extraordinary influence across the fields of scientific and social thought. Widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the twentieth century, he was also a highly influential social and political philosopher, a proponent and defender of the "open society". "Popper's Legacy" examines Popper in the round, analysing in particular his moral and ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • Cultural Collisions

    Postmodern Technoscience

    par Raphael Sassower ...
    In Cultural Collisions Raphael Sassower brings postmodernism face to face with technoscience and considers the viability of public works, such as the Superconducting Supercollider, in a postmodern age. Contending that technoscientific projects are contingent upon economic and political support, and not simply upon their scientific feasibility, Sassower illuminates the cultural context of ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • Postcapitalism

    Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis

    par Raphael Sassower ...
    Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more successful financial policies undertaken during the past century. This means that from the workplace to ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD