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PHILOSOPHY:

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Graham Pechey
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World

Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines

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Michael Jackson
Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology

Michael Jackson’s Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, Jackson creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry More important, he buttresses this philosophical approach with committed empirical research

Traveling from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone to the Maori in New Zealand to the Warlpiri in Australia, Jackson argues that anthropological subjects continually negotiate imaginatively, practically, and politically—their relations with the forces surrounding them and the resources they find in themselves or in solidarity with significant others At the same time that they mirror facets of the larger world, they also help shape it Stitching the themes, peoples, and locales of these essays into a sustained argument for a philosophical anthropology that focuses on the places between, Jackson offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable, to grasp the elusive, to counteract external powers, and to turn abstract possibilities into embodied truths

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Galen Strawson
Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness and Concernment

John Locke’s theory of personal identity underlies all modern discussion of the nature of persons and selves–yet it is widely thought to be wrong In his new book, Galen Strawson argues that in fact it is Locke’s critics who are wrong, and that the famous objections to his theory are invalid Indeed, far from refuting Locke, they illustrate his fundamental point

Strawson argues that the root error is to take Locke’s use of the word “person” only in the ordinary way, as merely a term for a standard persisting thing, like “human being ” In actuality, Locke uses “person” primarily as a forensic or legal term geared specifically to questions about praise and blame, punishment and reward In these terms, your personal identity is roughly a matter of those of your past actions that you are still responsible for because you are still “conscious” of them in Locke’s special sense of that word

Clearly and vigorously argued, this is an important contribution both to the history of philosophy and to the contemporary philosophy of personal identity

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Jill Marsden
After Nietzsche: Notes Towards a Philosophy of Ecstasy

This book explores the imaginative possibilities for philosophy created by Nietzsche’s sustained reflection on the phenomenon of ecstasy From The Birth of Tragedy to his experimental ‘physiology of art’, Nietzsche examines the aesthetic, erotic, and sacred dimensions of rapture, hinting at how an ecstatic philosophy is realized in his elusive doctrine of Eternal Return Jill Marsden pursues the implications of this legacy for contemporary Continental thought via analyses of such voyages in ecstasy as those of Kant, Schopenhauer, Schreber and Bataille

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Luca Vercelloni, David Howes
The Invention of Taste: A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art (Sensory Studies Series)

The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion, cuisine and other social constructions?

Unique amongst the senses, taste is at once a biologically derived sense, private, personal and individual, yet also a sensibility which can be acquired, shared, and communicated Exploring the many factors that defined the evolution of taste – from medieval morals and medicine to social and cultural philosophy, the rise of aesthetics, birth of fashion, branding trends, and luxury worship in the age of mass consumption – Luca Vercelloni’s ambitious text provides readers with an outstanding introduction to the subject, making it the cultural history of taste

Now available for the first time in English, Taste features a new final chapter and a preface by series editor David Howes Rich in detail and examples, this interdisciplinary work is an important read for students and researchers in sensory studies, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, as well as gastronomy, fashion, design, and branding

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