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Paradox Towards a Metatheory

Paradox Towards a Metatheory

History reveals countless attempts by great minds to solve life’s paradoxes. But what if these attempts miss the point? What if paradox is life? Contrary to the supposedly sublime linear logic that underpins our prevalent modes of theoretical and empirical enquiry in this fascinating book organizational anthropologist Tom Vine charts the pervasiveness of paradox across the academy: from arithmetic to zoology. In so doing he reflects on the concept of paradox as a widespread existential ‘pattern’ a pattern which holds significant metatheoretical and pedagogical potential. Paradoxes he argues are not inconveniences or ‘fault lines in our common-sense world’ but are coded into our very existence. Paradoxes thus present their own vital logics that shape our lives: they thwart moral and ideological uniformity; they even out subjective experience between ‘the haves’ and ‘the have nots’; and they shed light on the opaque concepts of consciousness and agency. This book will appeal to anybody with a curious mind particularly scholars and students with an interest in one or more of the following: complexity theory critical pedagogies ethnography nonlinear dynamics organization theory and systems theory. | Paradox Towards a Metatheory

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The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

In The Human Paradox: Worlds Apart in a Connected World author Frank Gaffikin probes widely and meticulously into our past and present to analyse the connections between the many acute polarisations that mark contemporary times. Addressing profound issues related to Trumpism Brexit the outbreak of Covid-19 and ensuing pandemic and environmental change the book argues that beneath all the present social tumult lies a fundamental dilemma for human stability and progress namely how we can be estranged from what we refer to as humanity. The book begins with an appraisal of populism and authoritarian nationalism and later explores whether in our human development we are bound for enhancement or extinction. Interrogating these big ideas further the book identifies three central challenges that confront us as a society: living on the planet living with the planet and living with one another on the planet. These challenges prompt a re-think of what it is to be human and social and hinging on these key themes the book thus concludes with consideration of a radical agenda for future social improvement. Rather than peering through the conventional lenses offered by separate disciplines this book argues for interdisciplinary appreciation and recognition especially so if we are to address the dilemma at the center of its concern. The Human Paradox will appeal to readers interested in the major conflicts of our times as well as students of subjects including sociology politics history and economics. | The Human Paradox Worlds Apart in a Connected World

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Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

Title first published in 2003. Shamanism has a contradictory position within the Korean cultural system leading to the periodical suppression of shamanism yet also paradoxically ensuring its survival throughout Korean history. This book examines the place of shamans within contemporary society as a cultural practice in which people make use of shamanic ritual and disputing the prevalent view that shamanism is 'popular culture' a 'women's religion' or 'performing arts'. Directly confronting the prejudice against shamans and their paradoxical situation in a modern society such as Korea this book reveals the cultural discrepancy between two worlds in Korean culture the ordinary world and the shamanic world showing that these two worlds cannot be reconciled. This unique study of shamanism offers a significant contribution to growing studies in indigenous anthropology and indigenous religions and provides a captivating read for a wide range of readers through retelling the stories-never-to-be-told involving shamanic ritual. | Korean Shamanism The Cultural Paradox

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Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation

Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma offers clinicians a new framework for understanding the symptoms and coping mechanisms displayed by survivors of childhood abuse. This approach considers how characteristics such as suicidality self-harm persistent depression and anxiety can have roots in behaviors and beliefs that helped patients survive their trauma. This book provides practitioners with case examples practical tips and techniques for applying this mindset directly to their most complex cases. By depathologizing patients’ experiences and behaviors and moving beyond simply managing them therapists can reduce their clients’ shame and work collaboratively to understand the underlying message that these behaviors conceal. | Understanding the Paradox of Surviving Childhood Trauma Techniques and Tools for Working with Suicidality and Dissociation

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Language Democracy and the Paradox of Constituent Power Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

Language Democracy and the Paradox of Constituent Power Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

In this book Catherine Frost uses evidence and case studies to offer a re-examination of declarations of independence and the language that comprises such documents. Considered as a quintessential form of founding speech in the modern era declarations of independence are however poorly understood as a form of expression and no one can completely account for how they work. Beginning with the founding speech in the American Declaration Frost uses insights drawn from unexpected or unlikely forms of founding in cases like Ireland and Canada to reconsider the role of time and loss in how such speech is framed. She brings the discussion up to date by looking at recent debates in Scotland where an undeclared declaration of independence overshadows contemporary politics. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and using a contextualist comparative theory method Frost demonstrates that the capacity for renewal through speech arises in aspects of language that operate beyond conventional performativity. Language Democracy and the Paradox of Constituent Power is an excellent resource for researchers and students of political theory democratic theory law constitutionalism and political history. | Language Democracy and the Paradox of Constituent Power Declarations of Independence in Comparative Perspective

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Visible Learning: Feedback

Visible Learning: Feedback

Feedback is arguably the most critical and powerful aspect of teaching and learning. Yet there remains a paradox: why is feedback so powerful and why is it so variable? It is this paradox which Visible Learning: Feedback aims to unravel and resolve. Combining research excellence theory and vast teaching expertise this book covers the principles and practicalities of feedback including: the variability of feedback the importance of surface deep and transfer contexts student to teacher feedback peer to peer feedback the power of within lesson feedback and manageable post-lesson feedback. With numerous case-studies examples and engaging anecdotes woven throughout the authors also shed light on what creates an effective feedback culture and provide the teaching and learning structures which give the best possible framework for feedback. Visible Learning: Feedback brings together two internationally known educators and merges Hattie’s world-famous research expertise with Clarke’s vast experience of classroom practice and application making this book an essential resource for teachers in any setting phase or country.

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Yeats Eliot Pound and the Politics of Poetry Richest to the Richest

Yeats Eliot Pound and the Politics of Poetry Richest to the Richest

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s. Concentrating on their writings in the period up to the 1930s this study first published in 1982 helps to resolve the paradox and also provides a much needed reappraisal of the factors influencing their poetic and political development. The work of these poets has usually been seen as deriving from the tradition of continental symbolist poetics. Yeats Eliot Pound and the Politics of Poetry will be of interest to students of literature. | Yeats Eliot Pound and the Politics of Poetry Richest to the Richest

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Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

This title was first published in 2000: Analyzing the poverty trends in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s this work is concerned with the extent to which changes in the levels of poverty have modified the extent of participation in the labour market. The period covered is 1982 to 1994 when the Mexican economy experienced an economic crisis and the government set in motion the main stabilization policies and structural adjustment reforms. The author challenges the idea that adjustment reforms have had social costs in terms of income and formal employment loss. Despite income losses well-being indicators continued to improve; and employment statistics show that employment grew despite the economic crisis and adjustment. The paradox of household income decline and the increase in income poverty is explained. | Adjustment Poverty and Employment in Mexico

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Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

Sport aesthetics is an important but often marginalized field in the philosophy of sport. Kinetic Beauty offers a comprehensive principled pluralist introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of sport. The book tackles a wide variety of issues in the philosophical aesthetics of sport proposing a five-level analysis that coordinates extant scholarship on the same conceptual map reveals gaps in the literature and motivates a fresh perspective on stubborn debates and novel topics in the field (for example the aesthetic experience of athletes aesthetic biases in sport the paradox of sport fiction and whether dance can be sport). This is an excellent resource for professors and students in the philosophy of sport sport aesthetics general aesthetics and the philosophy of art. It is also a fascinating read for those working in kinesiology sport studies philosophy art and aesthetics. | Kinetic Beauty The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport

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Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets

Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets

This book analyzes the risk cultures in China that have emerged from the entanglement of new communication technologies and financial markets examining the role that digital media play in Asian modernity and offering an alternative narrative to that of the West. The book illustrates the impact of exclusively Chinese digital media on power dynamics within risk definition arguing that information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower individuals enabling them to compete with an expert-oriented risk culture controlled by Government- and banker-led media outlets. With struggles competitions compromises and confrontations major communicators in financial world are collectively producing risk cultures based on interpersonal relations instead of contractual obligations in which insider information is valued over professional analysis. Meanwhile investors are trapped in a risk culture paradox that they themselves have produced as they attempt to take advantage of other actors’ uncertainties and eventually produce risks for the entire market. | Digital Media and Risk Culture in China’s Financial Markets

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Dangers of Deterrence Philosophers on Nuclear Strategy

Dangers of Deterrence Philosophers on Nuclear Strategy

Europe has everything to lose from nuclear war and nothing to gain from it. Yet it is nuclear deterrence that we are relying on to shield us from war. More and more people are coming to believe that security under a nuclear shield is an illusion and that nuclear deterrence embodies a dangerous paradox. It is too close to provocation it cannot prevent nuclear blackmail and its short-term success can only lead to proliferation and ultimate instability. In this book originally published in 1983 philosophers go behind the rhetoric of the nuclear debate and analyse the dangers of deterrence. The contributors all share a concern about the radical confusions that have arisen concerning nuclear deterrence. Showing how unilateral arguments can be developed from hard-headed political and military considerations they stress their belief that carefully managed unilateralism is the best method for securing the political independence of Western Europe. The doctrine is not founded on sheer moral idealism. This book will be essential reading for anyone engaged in the public discussion of defence policy. | Dangers of Deterrence Philosophers on Nuclear Strategy

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The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Essays in Imagination and Religion

The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Essays in Imagination and Religion

This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic of the imaginative mindset of late ancient authors from a variety of Greco-Roman religious traditions. Attending to the play of language as well as to the late ancient sensitivity to image metaphor and paradox Cox Miller's work highlights the poetizing sensibility that marked many of the texts of this period and draws on methods of interpretation from a variety of contemporary literary-critical theories. This book will appeal to scholars of late antiquity religious literature and literary critical theory more widely illustrating how fruitful dialogue across the centuries can be - not only in eliciting aspects of late ancient texts that have gone unnoticed but also in showing that many 'modern' ideas such as Roland Barthes' were actually already alive and well in ancient texts. | The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity Essays in Imagination and Religion

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The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

This book examines the interaction of spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages with psychotherapy in everyday practice. Written by a team of seasoned clinicians and illustrated through clinical vignettes chapters explore topics pertaining to the mystical dimensions of psychological and spiritual life and how it may be integrated into clinical practice. Topics discussed include dreams dissociation creativity therapeutic relationship free association transcendence poetry paradox doubleness loss death grief mystery embodiment and soul. The authors clinicians with decades of experience in psychotherapy psychoanalysis and spiritual practice draw from their deep engagement with spirituality and psychoanalysis focusing on a particular theme and its application to clinical work that is supported by the generative conversation among these lineages. At once applied and theoretical this book weaves insights from the heart of Vajrayana Buddhism Zen Buddhism Christianity Catholicism Ecumenicism Integral Spirituality Judaism Kabbalah Non-violence Sufism and Vedanta. They are in conversation with psychoanalytic perspectives including Jungian Post-Jungian Winnicottian Bionian Post-Bionian and Relational. A felt sense of the spiritual psyche in clinical practice emerges from this conversation among spiritual and psychoanalytic lineages beckoning clinicians ever further on the path of spiritually rooted psychodynamic practice. | The Spiritual Psyche in Psychotherapy Mysticism Intersubjectivity and Psychoanalysis

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Northernness Northern Culture and Northern Narratives

Northernness Northern Culture and Northern Narratives

Northernness Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture and the North of England like other Northernnesses in Europe is a collection of narratives myths stereotypes and symbols. In politics and everyday culture Northern culture is paradoxically a site of resistance against an inauthentic South a source of working-class identity and a source of elite marginalisation. This book provides a key to theorising about Northernness and a platform to scholars working away at exposing the North in different aspects of culture. The aims of this book are twofold: to re-theorise ‘the North’ and Northern culture and to highlight the ways in which constructions of Northernness and Northern culture are constituted alongside other gender racial and regional identities. The contributions presented here theorise Northernness in relation to space leisure gender race class social realism and everyday embodied practices. A main thematic thread that weaves the whole book together is the notion that Northernness and ‘the North’ is both an imagined discursive construct and an embodied subjectivity thus creating a paradox between the reality of ‘North’ and its representation. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

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Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter A Lacanian Perspective

Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter A Lacanian Perspective

Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching. In psychoanalysis the subject who is summoned “to speak himself” is by definition lacking in identity. His question is “What am I?” but as he is only represented by his words his being is “always elsewhere” within other words that are yet to come. Thus a paradox: one seeks via speech the identity of a being who through his speech is not identifiable. Yet the fact remains he has a body and he is riveted to sufferings that psychoanalysis from Freud to Lacan identified which are not accidental which we call repetition and symptom and which shift the question of identity because a One real is at play in them. Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter will be key reading for the study and research of Lacanian psychoanalysis and all practitioners interested in Lacan’s teaching as well as other discourses such as philosophy art literature and history. | Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter A Lacanian Perspective

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The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

In this book Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object and examines how psychic survival-of-the-object places the early m/Other at the centre of the nascent psyche before innate factors are relevant. Abram’s clinical-theoretical elaborations advance several of Winnicott’s key concepts. Moreover the clinical illustrations show how her advances arise out of the transference-countertransference matrix of the analyzing situation. Chapter by chapter the reader witnesses the evolution of her proposals that not only enhance an appreciation of Winnicott’s original clinical paradigm but also demonstrate how much more there is to glean from his texts especially in the contemporary consulting room. The Surviving Object comprises 8 chapters covering themes such as: the incommunicado self; violation of the self; the paradox of communication; terror at the roots of non survival; an implicit theory of desire; the fear of WOMAN underlying misogyny; the meaning of infantile sexuality; the ‘father in the nursing mother’s mind’ as an ‘integrate’ in the nascent psyche; formlessness preceding integration; a theory of madness. The volume will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapists of all levels who are inspired by clinical psychoanalysis and the study of human nature. | The Surviving Object Psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival-of-the-object

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Archetypal Nonviolence Jung King and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma

Archetypal Nonviolence Jung King and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma

Renée Moreau Cunningham’s unique study utilizes the psychology of C. G. Jung and the spiritual teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to explore how nonviolence works psychologically as a form of spiritual warfare confronting and transmuting aggression. Archetypal Nonviolence uses King’s iconic march from Selma to Montgomery a demonstration which helped introduce America to nonviolent philosophy on a mass scale as a metaphor for psychological and spiritual activism on an individual and collective level. Cunningham’s work explores the core wound of racism in America on both a collective and a personal level investigating how we hide from our own potential for evil and how the divide within ourselves can be bridged. The book demonstrates that the alchemical transmutation of aggression through a nonviolent ethos as shown in the Selma marches is important to understand as a beginning to something greater within the paradox of human violence and its bedfellow nonviolence. Archetypal Nonviolence explores how we can truly transform hatred by understanding how it operates within. It will be of great interest to Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training and to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies American history race and racism and nonviolent movements. | Archetypal Nonviolence Jung King and Culture Through the Eyes of Selma

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Critical Approaches to the Psychology of Emotion

Critical Approaches to the Psychology of Emotion

This fascinating book explores the different methodologies resources and strategies that have been used to study emotion and identifies emerging trends and research perspectives in the field. Emotion is a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in all fields of social and behavioural sciences. And yet the more we have attempted to individualize emotions and set limits that separate the different types of emotions the more the subject has resisted these categorizations. Mapping the changes and diverse perspectives in the study of emotion author Simone Belli explores how a critical psychology of emotion has emerged in order to answer this paradox examining emotions within a social framework. Divided into five chapters the book uses interdisciplinary critical approaches to cover everything from the interaction between emotion and language to emotional contagion such as the spread of fear in a pandemic. There is also a particular focus on emotion analysis in digital environments which have left a deep mark on our lives from the beginning of this century. Showcasing a selection of important investigations that have dealt with the study of emotions in society Critical Approaches to the Psychology of Emotion is essential reading for students of critical social psychology sociolinguistics sociology anthropology and philosophy.

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Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017

Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017

Cricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural aristocratic Englishness. On the other it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War examining key cultural and political themes including decolonisation racism gender globalisation corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945 a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game’s evolution as an international sport analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the development of the women’s game; the new breed of coach; the limits to the game’s global expansion; and the rise of India as the world’s leading cricket power. Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017 is fascinating reading for anybody interested in the contemporary history of sport.

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Women in Jazz Musicality Femininity Marginalization

Women in Jazz Musicality Femininity Marginalization

Women in Jazz: Musicality Femininity Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways in which women thrive as professionals despite such conditions. The author shines a light on the paradox for women in jazz: to express oneself in a feminine way is to be denigrated for it yet to behave in a masculine manner is to be devalued for a lack of femininity. This masculine world ensures it is more difficult for women to be recognized as jazz musicians than it is for men – even when musicians critics and audiences are ideologically opposed to discrimination. Female singers are confined by the feminine stereotypes of their profession while female instrumentalists must comport themselves into traditionally masculine roles. The author explores the academic and professional socializations of these musicians the musical choice they make and how they are perceived by jazz professionals as a result. First published in French by CNRS Editions in 2007 (and later reissued in paperback in 2018 with the author’s postscript that nothing much has changed) Women in Jazz: Musicality Femininity Marginalization expands the conversation beyond the French border identifying female jazz musicians as a discriminated minority all around the world. | Women in Jazz Musicality Femininity Marginalization

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Postmortal Society Towards a Sociology of Immortality

Postmortal Society Towards a Sociology of Immortality

Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and deal with death or even seek to outlive it as it were. Bringing together theoretical and empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a range of disciplines Postmortal Society offers studies of the strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying to ‘cheat’ death or prolong life the status of the dead in the modern Western world the effects of beliefs that address the terror of death in other areas of life the ‘immortalisation’ of celebrities the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds symbolic immortality through work the implications of understanding ‘immortality’ in chemical-neuronal terms and the apparent paradox of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that explore humanity’s attempts to deal with its own mortality in the modern age this book will appeal to sociologists anthropologists philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in death and dying. | Postmortal Society Towards a Sociology of Immortality

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The 'Empty' Church Revisited

The 'Empty' Church Revisited

This title was first published in 2003. When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The Empty Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today Gill points to physical factors economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work The Myth of the Empty Church presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches changes in patterns of worship and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade. | The 'Empty' Church Revisited

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Play in Philosophy and Social Thought

Play in Philosophy and Social Thought

To understand play we need a bottom-up phenomenology of play. This phenomenology highlights the paradox that it is the players who play the game but it is also the game which makes us players. Yet what is it that plays us when we play? Do we play the game or does the game play us? These questions concern the relation between the playing subject and play as something larger than the individual – play as craft play as rhythm play between normality and otherness even play as religion as a sense of spiritual play between self and other. This goes deeper than the welfare-political or educational intention to make people play or play more or to advise individuals to play in a correct and useful way. Exploring topics such as identity otherness and disability as well as activities including skiing yoga dance and street sport this interdisciplinary study continues the work of the late Henning Eichberg and sheds new light on the questions that play at the borders of philosophy anthropology and the sociology of sport and leisure. Play in Philosophy and Social Thought is a fascinating resource for students of philosophy of sport cultural studies sport sciences and anthropological studies. It is also a thought-provoking read for sport and play philosophers sociologists anthropologists cultural studies scholars and practitioners working with play.

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Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

This book offers Dimen’s classic take on psychosexuality drawing on relational theory feminism and postmodernism with a new foreword by Virginia Goldner and Velleda Ceccoli honouring the late Muriel Dimen and introducing a new audience to her profound legacy. For Dimen the shift from dualism to multiplicity that has reshaped a range of disciplines can also be brought to bear on our thinking about sexuality. She urges us to return to the open-mindedness hiding between the lines and buried in the footnotes of Freud’s writings and to replace the determinism into which his thought has hardened with more fluid notions of contingency paradox and thirdness. By unveiling the colloquy among psychoanalysis social theory and feminism Dimen challenges clinicians and academicians alike to rethink ideas about gender eroticism and perversion. She explores among other topics the relations between lust and libido; the limitations of Darwinian thought in theorizing homosexuality; the body as projective test; and the intimate tangle of love and hate between women. Generous clinical examples illustrate the ways in which a radical re-visioning of psychosexuality benefits therapists and patients alike. A brilliant example of contemporary psychoanalytic theory at its destabilizing best Sexuality Intimacy Power covers both clinical insights and theoretical rethinking that is invaluable for psychoanalysts psychotherapists and students of women’s gender and queer studies. | Sexuality Intimacy Power Classic Edition

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Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture Artificial Slaves

Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture Artificial Slaves

Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize Honourable Mention. This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants humanoids and automata from earlier times LaGrandeur traces how these literary representations coincide with a surging interest in automata and experimentation and how they blend with the magical science that preceded the empirical era. In the instances that this book considers the idea of the artificial factotum is connected with an emotional paradox: the joy of self-enhancement is counterpoised with the anxiety of self-displacement that comes with distribution of agency. In this way the older accounts of creating artificial slaves are accounts of modernity in the making—a modernity characterized by the project of extending the self and its powers in which the vision of the extended self is fundamentally inseparable from the vision of an attenuated self. This book discusses the idea that fictional artificial servants embody at once the ambitions of the scientific wizards who make them and society’s perception of the dangers of those ambitions and represent the cultural fears triggered by independent experimental thinkers—the type of thinkers from whom our modern cyberneticists descend. | Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture Artificial Slaves

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