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The Abuse of Property
ISBN: 9780262545501
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.
Good Entertainment
A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative
ISBN: 9780262537506
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2019
A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.
Against Nature
ISBN: 9780262537339
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2019
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
Law as Refuge of Anarchy
Societies without Hegemony or State
ISBN: 9780262536585
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2019
A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.
Enlivenment
Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780262536660
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2019
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780262536370
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 4, 2018
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author
On Storytelling, Business, and Literature
ISBN: 9780262535748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 18, 2018
What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
ISBN: 9780262535700
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 18, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
The Radical Fool of Capitalism
The Radical Fool of Capitalism
On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
ISBN: 9780262535496
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2018
A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.
The Abuse of Property
ISBN: 9780262545501
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.
Good Entertainment
A Deconstruction of the Western Passion Narrative
ISBN: 9780262537506
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 8, 2019
A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety—infotainment, edutainment, servotainment—and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg.
Against Nature
ISBN: 9780262537339
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 21, 2019
A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders.
Law as Refuge of Anarchy
Societies without Hegemony or State
ISBN: 9780262536585
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2019
A study of communities in the Horn of Africa where reciprocity is a dominant social principle, offering a concrete countermodel to the hierarchical state.
Enlivenment
Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780262536660
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 5, 2019
A new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature.
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
The Death Algorithm and Other Digital Dilemmas
ISBN: 9780262536370
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 4, 2018
Provocative takes on cyberbullshit, smartphone zombies, instant gratification, the traffic school of the information highway, and other philosophical concerns of the Internet age.
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author
Portrait of the Manager as a Young Author
On Storytelling, Business, and Literature
ISBN: 9780262535748
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 18, 2018
What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.
German Philosophy
A Dialogue
ISBN: 9780262535700
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: September 18, 2018
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy—including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger—from a French perspective.
The Radical Fool of Capitalism
The Radical Fool of Capitalism
On Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon, and the Auto-Icon
ISBN: 9780262535496
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 20, 2018
A fresh interpretation of Jeremy Bentham, finding that his “radical foolery” embodied a social ethics that was revolutionary for its time.