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Jean-François Lyotard and Postmodern Technoscience
Often associated with themes in political philosophy and aesthetics, the work of Jean-François Lyotard is most known for his infamous definition of...
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Role of the neo-rural phenomenon and the new peasantry in agroecological transitions: a literature review
In the context of agricultural activity intensification and rural abandonment, neo-rurality has emerged as a back-to-the-land migratory movement led...
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Postmodern Thought and the Self: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
The present paper advocates for the use of phenomenology in the study of the self, presenting the findings from a phenomenological study on the...
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Jacques Bouveresse (1940–2021). How to Remain Rationalist in a Postmodern World?
With the passing of Jacques Bouveresse on May 9th, 2021, France has lost one of its most original philosophers. Although he was little known to the...
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Exploring the Philosophical Paradigm of Grey Systems Theory as a Postmodern Theory
Every scientific or intellectual movement is founded upon basic assumptions and hypotheses that shape its specifically formulated philosophy. This...
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Beyond Modernism: The American Postmodern Novel
Finally, what I intend to show in the last chapter is an example of the efficacy of Adorno’s philosophy of literature to explain and evaluate one of...
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Whither Postmodernism? Whether It’s New Liberalism?
The next chapter argues for a reassessment of postmodernism, both as a theory and as a mode of philosophy. Particularly in light of thinkers like...
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Counting and Narrating: A Methodological Dialogue of Medieval Literature and History
Narration is almost indispensable for our understanding of the world. Narratives lend structure to what was previously disordered: they capture found...
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‘Emancipation’ in Digital Nomadism vs in the Nation-State: A Comparative Analysis of Idealtypes
Academic and public debate is continuing about whether digital nomadism, a new Internet-enabled phenomenon in which digital workers adopt a...
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‘Pure Treason, I’ll Tell You Why’: The Erasure of Hip Hop Culture by Rap Music and Postmodern Hip Hop Studies
This chapter describes how Hip Hop’s fundamental proscription against biting was violated, and then effectively obscured, by the distorting...
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Phrónēsis in Literary Criticism—The Pragmatic Denouement
The penultimate chapter gathers together the arguments previously adumbrated about the dovetailing of literary criticism and philosophy, while also...
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Introducing Nietzsche and Postmodernism
Nietzsche, the last major – and most radical – philosopher of the Enlightenment, speaks to those who have ambition to lead change, those destined to...
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Hidden Worlds
This chapter sets out how to revise the traditional Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation in light of a speculative reading of Hans Urs von...
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The Poetics of the Unpoetic: Literature, Ordinariness, and Raymond Carver’s Minimalist Realism
This study examines the idiosyncratic form of realism in Raymond Carver’s short stories as a type of utterance that brings together two ostensibly...
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Arguments Over Life Extension in Contemporary Bioethics
In this chapter, I provide a critical exposition of the contemporary bioethics of life extension (LE). First, I provide critical socio-historical...
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Accounting’s Great Retreat: Decline of the Public Sphere and The Malaise of Accounting
This chapter examines the role of accounting in the public sphere. The aim is to create an informed polity where issues of corruption and...
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Dancing on a Tightrope: Globalization, Deterritorialization, and Standardization in Multicultural Environment
The article introduces a new perspective on the impact of globalization on identity formation, which marks a shift from traditional understandings of...
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Challenging Corruption in Civil Society: Community, Accounting and Interpretation
This chapter utilises a neo-MacIntyrean and Taylorian perspective to analyze whether recent neoliberal and postmodern accountability reforms can...
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Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism
In this chapter, Vattimo is shown to propose hermeneutics as a history of nihilistic secularization in the style of a non-metaphysical,...
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Do We Need a Philosophy of Tourism?
In this paper, I would like to give some reasons why we absolutely need a philosophical approach to tourism. Hegel understood philosophy as “its own...