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Collateral Damage: The Politics and Ethics of Drone Strikes
US Drone strikes have caused unimaginable pain and suffering amongst Pakistani civilians, yet the US denies any wrong doing. Using the testimony of...
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The Montage, Time and Presence
In this paper we will be looking at how our understanding of time has changed from the classic period to today. We will see how memory and presence...
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“An Eye Turned into a Weapon”: a Philosophical Investigation of Remote Controlled, Automated, and Autonomous Drone Warfare
Military drones (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) combine surveillance technology with missile equipment in a far-reaching way. In this article, I...
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Native Corporeality and Organ Transplantation
This chapter will present approaches to the Native corporeality from an anthropological perspective. What are the ethical, medical, and sociological...
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Personal identity and the otherness of one’s own body
Locke claims that a person’s identity over time consists in the unity of consciousness, not in the sameness of the body. Similarly, the...
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Arts Education and Decolonization: Challenges and Opportunities for Cultural Sustainability in the Context of Migration
Recent migration flows originating from conflict, violence, human rights violations, persecution and natural disasters pose new questions for...
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Catering to Otherness: Levinasian Consumer Ethics at Restaurant Day
There is a rich tradition of inquiry in consumer research into how collective consumption manifests in various forms and contexts. While this...
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Human Rights, Rights of the Other, and Preventive Peace: A Levinasian Perspective
Human rights, rights of the other and preventive peace are closely interconnected, as evidenced above all by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas...
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Questioning the boundary between “Us” and “Them” with Waldenfels and Derrida
Between what we call “us” and what we call “them”, a line must be drawn, which immediately becomes a contentious border, or a divide, that brings to...
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Carrying L’Intrus: The transport-station of an organ transplant
The experience of heart transplantation shocks not only the body, but also the sense of self. As a heart transplant survivor, I find that the...
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Toward a Relationally Limited Future
The idea of sexuate subjects as interdetermined places proposed by Luce Irigaray creates an ethical claim upon subjects, because each subject depends...
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Paradigms, Approaches, Issues, Challenges
This chapter reviews paradigms and approaches in the academic study of Muslim societies, using Edward Said’s seminal work, Orientalism (1978), as the...
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Remap** the Borderlands of Britain: The Calais ‘Jungle’ and the Enduring Legacy of Imperial Frontier Policing
This chapter investigates the representations of Europe’s shifting borderlands in contemporary Britain, against the backdrop of the perceived...
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Post-Phenomenology, Transduction, and Speculative Fabulations
This response briefly argues that post-phenomenology has always cut across the transcendental-empirical divide and is able to cultivate a deep...
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The Givenness of Other People: On Singularity and Empathy in Husserl
Other people figure in our experience of the world; they strike us as unique and genuinely other. This paper explores whether a Husserlian account of...
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Spirituality as Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education (SMSC). Using Julia Kristeva to rethink a spirituality of education
Spirituality is impossible to define, but numerous, common themes can be discerned. I suggest a model of spirituality based upon the oeuvre of Julia...
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Imagining the Other: J.M. Coetzee’s Fictional Ethics
The social and political relevance of fiction has recently been reasserted by the new ethical theory, which proposes an ethics of otherness. Yet...
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Denaturalization and Occidental Narrative to the Detriment of the Materiality of Moche and Tupinambá
In the present work, we will study the denaturation of the Tupinambá mantles and the Moche “huacos” present in the museums Le Musée de Quai Branly...
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How Can a Subject Be More Than Himself? Spiritual Subjectivities and Well-Being in Portuguese Spiritism and the New Spiritualities
In Western societies, “new spiritualities” are a response to the supposed needs of the idealized figure of a liberal subject. In other words, they...