David Propst, Jack Williams, Kevin Bestgen, and Christopher Hoagstrom (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226694337
- eISBN:
- 9780226694504
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226694504.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Aquatic Biology
Our goal organizing this work was to update the landmark 1991 volume, Battle Against Extinction, and provide scientists and the public with a contemporary view of the status of aquatic ecosystems in ...
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Our goal organizing this work was to update the landmark 1991 volume, Battle Against Extinction, and provide scientists and the public with a contemporary view of the status of aquatic ecosystems in North American deserts and rationales and approaches for their conservation. While predecessor editors W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon painted a grim picture, they noted that knowledge for effective conservation existed, but the missing ingredient was societal willingness to act. Many chapters in this new volume report worsening situations in the intervening decades, while others report modest success and cautious optimism. Several chapters also report practical, on-the-ground examples of conservation strategies for endangered species and habitats. However, the task of Standing Between Life and Extinction remains difficult and the future is ominous. Growth of mega-cities and vast river engineering projects to provide municipal and agricultural water have desiccated streams and simplified or destroyed aquatic habitats. Where water remains, invasive fishes and other species, introduced with reckless abandon, threaten native faunas. The result was numerous extinctions and escalating extinction debts for surviving natives, the latter exacerbated by extended drought, climate change, and unabated human population growth that is unhindered by the yet-absent will to change. Sustainable coexistence of humans and functioning aquatic ecosystems in the desert requires new and innovative strategies that are collaboratively developed and adopted. A conservation ethic going forward must include behavior constraints as the centerpiece, which would dictate humanity’s need to live sustainably with water supplies, natural habitats, and native species.Less
Our goal organizing this work was to update the landmark 1991 volume, Battle Against Extinction, and provide scientists and the public with a contemporary view of the status of aquatic ecosystems in North American deserts and rationales and approaches for their conservation. While predecessor editors W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon painted a grim picture, they noted that knowledge for effective conservation existed, but the missing ingredient was societal willingness to act. Many chapters in this new volume report worsening situations in the intervening decades, while others report modest success and cautious optimism. Several chapters also report practical, on-the-ground examples of conservation strategies for endangered species and habitats. However, the task of Standing Between Life and Extinction remains difficult and the future is ominous. Growth of mega-cities and vast river engineering projects to provide municipal and agricultural water have desiccated streams and simplified or destroyed aquatic habitats. Where water remains, invasive fishes and other species, introduced with reckless abandon, threaten native faunas. The result was numerous extinctions and escalating extinction debts for surviving natives, the latter exacerbated by extended drought, climate change, and unabated human population growth that is unhindered by the yet-absent will to change. Sustainable coexistence of humans and functioning aquatic ecosystems in the desert requires new and innovative strategies that are collaboratively developed and adopted. A conservation ethic going forward must include behavior constraints as the centerpiece, which would dictate humanity’s need to live sustainably with water supplies, natural habitats, and native species.
David Trouille
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226748740
- eISBN:
- 9780226748917
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226748917.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the United States, and numerous communities are witnessing one of the hallmarks of this ...
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Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the United States, and numerous communities are witnessing one of the hallmarks of this transformation: the emergence of park soccer. Fútbol in the Park takes us into the world of Latino soccer players who regularly play in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Together on the soccer field, sharing beers after the games, and occasionally exchanging taunts or blows, the men forge new identities, friendships, and job opportunities, giving themselves a renewed sense of self-worth and community. As the US becomes increasingly polarized over issues of immigration and culture, Fútbol in the Park offers a close look at the individual lives and experiences of immigrants. It traces the history and organization of the midday pickup soccer games and examines how the affluent white neighbors react to the presence of the working-class Latino players. It then goes beyond the park to follow fourteen men who did “off-the-books” construction, painting, and gardening jobs in private homes to explore how informal arrangements and social relations organize immigrant labor in this burgeoning, often precarious sector of the economy. The park’s significance for the men’s work proved all the more striking given the hostility they sometimes faced there from local residents, who nevertheless often depend on immigrant labor. Against this backdrop, Fútbol in the Park argues for the importance of in-depth, multilayered accounts of the people and processes we study and outlines policy implications regarding the use of public space.Less
Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the United States, and numerous communities are witnessing one of the hallmarks of this transformation: the emergence of park soccer. Fútbol in the Park takes us into the world of Latino soccer players who regularly play in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood. Together on the soccer field, sharing beers after the games, and occasionally exchanging taunts or blows, the men forge new identities, friendships, and job opportunities, giving themselves a renewed sense of self-worth and community. As the US becomes increasingly polarized over issues of immigration and culture, Fútbol in the Park offers a close look at the individual lives and experiences of immigrants. It traces the history and organization of the midday pickup soccer games and examines how the affluent white neighbors react to the presence of the working-class Latino players. It then goes beyond the park to follow fourteen men who did “off-the-books” construction, painting, and gardening jobs in private homes to explore how informal arrangements and social relations organize immigrant labor in this burgeoning, often precarious sector of the economy. The park’s significance for the men’s work proved all the more striking given the hostility they sometimes faced there from local residents, who nevertheless often depend on immigrant labor. Against this backdrop, Fútbol in the Park argues for the importance of in-depth, multilayered accounts of the people and processes we study and outlines policy implications regarding the use of public space.
Alisha Rankin
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226744711
- eISBN:
- 9780226744995
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226744995.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
In the sixteenth century, a series of dramatic medical experiments on human subjects took place at the princely courts of Europe. Under the watch of learned physicians, condemned criminals would take ...
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In the sixteenth century, a series of dramatic medical experiments on human subjects took place at the princely courts of Europe. Under the watch of learned physicians, condemned criminals would take poison, followed by a promising antidote. In several cases, physicians meticulously recorded and shared extensive descriptions of the tests. This book tells the forgotten story of these poison trials. It focuses on antidote tests both as a mirror of Renaissance medical practice and an important crucible for ideas about evidence, authority, and proof. At a time when poison was widely feared as a harming agent and as the root of deadly diseases like plague, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new antidotes. Many poison antidotes had long had a special status as near cure-alls, recommended as plague cures in particular. Antidotes thus played a central role in a broader fascination with new wonder drugs, both exotic substances encountered through trade and colonial expansion and local alchemical cures. The book makes three overarching arguments about experiment, authority, and medical ethics. Physicians cast poison trials as learned medical experiments, an explicit contrast to the marketplace theatrics of charlatans, who often performed dramatic shows with poisons and antidotes. At the same time, there were many limitations to using humans for deadly tests. Outside of the princely courts, physicians took ownership of antidote cure-alls by describing marvelous incidences of curing illness, while empirical practitioners, including alchemists, also tried to direct what kinds of evidence counted as valid proof.Less
In the sixteenth century, a series of dramatic medical experiments on human subjects took place at the princely courts of Europe. Under the watch of learned physicians, condemned criminals would take poison, followed by a promising antidote. In several cases, physicians meticulously recorded and shared extensive descriptions of the tests. This book tells the forgotten story of these poison trials. It focuses on antidote tests both as a mirror of Renaissance medical practice and an important crucible for ideas about evidence, authority, and proof. At a time when poison was widely feared as a harming agent and as the root of deadly diseases like plague, the urgent need for effective cures provoked intense excitement about new antidotes. Many poison antidotes had long had a special status as near cure-alls, recommended as plague cures in particular. Antidotes thus played a central role in a broader fascination with new wonder drugs, both exotic substances encountered through trade and colonial expansion and local alchemical cures. The book makes three overarching arguments about experiment, authority, and medical ethics. Physicians cast poison trials as learned medical experiments, an explicit contrast to the marketplace theatrics of charlatans, who often performed dramatic shows with poisons and antidotes. At the same time, there were many limitations to using humans for deadly tests. Outside of the princely courts, physicians took ownership of antidote cure-alls by describing marvelous incidences of curing illness, while empirical practitioners, including alchemists, also tried to direct what kinds of evidence counted as valid proof.
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226735948
- eISBN:
- 9780226736273
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226736273.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up “the teaching ...
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The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up “the teaching archive”—the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments—of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot, Caroline Spurgeon, I. A. Richards, Edith Rickert, J. Saunders Redding, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and Simon J. Ortiz. This new history of English rewrites what we know about the discipline by showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. It reminds us that research and teaching, which institutions often imagine as separate, have always been intertwined in practice. In our contemporary moment of humanities defunding, the casualization of teaching, and the privatization of pedagogy, The Teaching Archive offers a more accurate view of the work we have done in the past and must continue to do in the future.Less
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up “the teaching archive”—the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments—of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot, Caroline Spurgeon, I. A. Richards, Edith Rickert, J. Saunders Redding, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and Simon J. Ortiz. This new history of English rewrites what we know about the discipline by showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. It reminds us that research and teaching, which institutions often imagine as separate, have always been intertwined in practice. In our contemporary moment of humanities defunding, the casualization of teaching, and the privatization of pedagogy, The Teaching Archive offers a more accurate view of the work we have done in the past and must continue to do in the future.
Patrick Jagoda
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226629834
- eISBN:
- 9780226630038
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226630038.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, ...
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In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role playing, escape rooms, and puzzles, command an ever-expanding audience. At the same time, “gamification”—the application of game mechanics to traditionally nongame spheres, such as personal health and fitness, shopping, habit tracking, and more—has imposed notable levels of competition, repetition, and quantification on daily life. Drawing from game studies and experience in game design, this book argues that games need not be synonymous with gamification. It studies experimental games that intervene in the neoliberal project from the inside out, examining a broad variety of mainstream and independent games, including StarCraft, Candy Crush Saga, Stardew Valley, Dys4ia, Braid, and Undertale. Beyond a diagnosis of gamification, this book imagines ways that games can be experimental—not only in the sense of problem solving, but also the more nuanced notion of problem making that embraces the complexities of our digital present. The book is a contribution to fields that include American studies, media theory, art history, literary criticism, political theory, science studies, and game studies.Less
In our unprecedentedly networked world, games have come to occupy an important space in many of our everyday lives. Digital games alone engage an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide as of 2020, and other forms of gaming, such as board games, role playing, escape rooms, and puzzles, command an ever-expanding audience. At the same time, “gamification”—the application of game mechanics to traditionally nongame spheres, such as personal health and fitness, shopping, habit tracking, and more—has imposed notable levels of competition, repetition, and quantification on daily life. Drawing from game studies and experience in game design, this book argues that games need not be synonymous with gamification. It studies experimental games that intervene in the neoliberal project from the inside out, examining a broad variety of mainstream and independent games, including StarCraft, Candy Crush Saga, Stardew Valley, Dys4ia, Braid, and Undertale. Beyond a diagnosis of gamification, this book imagines ways that games can be experimental—not only in the sense of problem solving, but also the more nuanced notion of problem making that embraces the complexities of our digital present. The book is a contribution to fields that include American studies, media theory, art history, literary criticism, political theory, science studies, and game studies.
Lydia M. Hopper and Stephen R. Ross (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226727844
- eISBN:
- 9780226728032
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226728032.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
The study of the chimpanzee, the human’s closest relative, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, both young and ...
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The study of the chimpanzee, the human’s closest relative, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, both young and veteran scholars take a fascinating comparative approach to the culture, behavior, and cognition of both wild and captive chimpanzees. By seeking new perspectives in how the chimpanzee compares to other species, the scientists featured in this book offer a richer understanding of the ways in which chimpanzees’ unique experiences shape their behavior. They also demonstrate how different methodologies provide different insights, how various cultural experiences influence our perspectives of chimpanzees, and how different ecologies in which chimpanzees live affect how they express themselves. The book examines chimp life histories and developmental milestones, behavior, methods of study, animal communication, cooperation and communication, tool use, chimpanzee care, and chimpanzee conservation. Collectively, these chapters remind us of the importance of considering the social, ecological, and cognitive context of chimpanzee behavior, and how these contexts shape our interpretation of our understanding of chimpanzees.Less
The study of the chimpanzee, the human’s closest relative, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, both young and veteran scholars take a fascinating comparative approach to the culture, behavior, and cognition of both wild and captive chimpanzees. By seeking new perspectives in how the chimpanzee compares to other species, the scientists featured in this book offer a richer understanding of the ways in which chimpanzees’ unique experiences shape their behavior. They also demonstrate how different methodologies provide different insights, how various cultural experiences influence our perspectives of chimpanzees, and how different ecologies in which chimpanzees live affect how they express themselves. The book examines chimp life histories and developmental milestones, behavior, methods of study, animal communication, cooperation and communication, tool use, chimpanzee care, and chimpanzee conservation. Collectively, these chapters remind us of the importance of considering the social, ecological, and cognitive context of chimpanzee behavior, and how these contexts shape our interpretation of our understanding of chimpanzees.
Fabian Holt
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226738406
- eISBN:
- 9780226738680
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226738680.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
In the early twenty-first century, the economic growth in live music and especially music festivals caused a sensation in the music industries, in pop aesthetics, and in the media. This birth of a ...
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In the early twenty-first century, the economic growth in live music and especially music festivals caused a sensation in the music industries, in pop aesthetics, and in the media. This birth of a new mass consumer culture of live music has further ramifications in cultural policy, tourism, and urban planning and even generated a literature of its own in popular music studies. This book pioneers a critical approach to the field, arguing that live music is the result of the commercial institutionalization of musical performance, a process that has occurred several times since the birth of consumer society in the eighteenth century, but that the scale and form of the current process is unprecedented. The book begins by examining the lack of critical thinking about live music cultural research and the similar lack of comprehensive explorations of the conceptual foundations for the social study of musical performance in modernity. This leads to the main tasks of (1) developing a systematic and critical framework of the field with a grounding in music sociology and (2) investigating this history through case studies of significant developments in the United States and Europe. The empirical investigations focus on the origins and development of two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival. The investigations provide insights into the history of these institutions and further use the institutional perspective to provide new insights into the history of music, urban life, and media culture, pointing to fundamental changes in the human condition.Less
In the early twenty-first century, the economic growth in live music and especially music festivals caused a sensation in the music industries, in pop aesthetics, and in the media. This birth of a new mass consumer culture of live music has further ramifications in cultural policy, tourism, and urban planning and even generated a literature of its own in popular music studies. This book pioneers a critical approach to the field, arguing that live music is the result of the commercial institutionalization of musical performance, a process that has occurred several times since the birth of consumer society in the eighteenth century, but that the scale and form of the current process is unprecedented. The book begins by examining the lack of critical thinking about live music cultural research and the similar lack of comprehensive explorations of the conceptual foundations for the social study of musical performance in modernity. This leads to the main tasks of (1) developing a systematic and critical framework of the field with a grounding in music sociology and (2) investigating this history through case studies of significant developments in the United States and Europe. The empirical investigations focus on the origins and development of two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival. The investigations provide insights into the history of these institutions and further use the institutional perspective to provide new insights into the history of music, urban life, and media culture, pointing to fundamental changes in the human condition.
Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226481623
- eISBN:
- 9780226706016
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226706016.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they ...
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Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together essays that challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how “temporal regimes” are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and innovative contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.Less
Time is the backdrop of historical inquiry, yet it is much more than a featureless setting for events. Different temporalities interact dynamically; sometimes they coexist tensely, sometimes they clash violently. In this innovative volume, editors Dan Edelstein, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Natasha Wheatley bring together essays that challenge how we interpret history by focusing on the nexus of two concepts—“power” and “time”—as they manifest in a wide variety of case studies. Analyzing history, culture, politics, technology, law, art, and science, this engaging book shows how “temporal regimes” are constituted through the shaping of power in historically specific ways. Power and Time includes seventeen essays on a wide variety of subjects: human rights; sovereignty; Islamic, European, and Indian history; slavery; capitalism; revolution; the Supreme Court; and even the Manson Family. Power and Time will be an agenda-setting volume, highlighting the work of some of the world’s most respected and innovative contemporary historians and posing fundamental questions for the craft of history.
Pierre M. Durand
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226747620
- eISBN:
- 9780226747934
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226747934.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Evolutionary Biology / Genetics
The origins of life and cell death were the two most foundational events on which all other biological processes rest. This book provides the most up-to-date syntheses of why and how life and cell ...
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The origins of life and cell death were the two most foundational events on which all other biological processes rest. This book provides the most up-to-date syntheses of why and how life and cell death originated. By integrating the information from diverse disciplines like philosophy, biochemistry, theoretical models, genomics, and other disciplines, a likely scenario for life’s origins is presented. The broad sketch suggests eight key evolutionary steps for the origin and evolution of life, long before cellular life as we understand it began. Soon after cells emerged, an active way of dying evolved. Programmed cell death is perhaps as old as cellular life itself, but its origin and evolution are enigmatic. As with life’s origins, a synthesis for the evolution of death in unicellular organisms is presented. Drawing on multiple lines of enquiry and evidence, the evolutionary innovations necessary for programmed cell death to emerge are sketched. Not only is non-incidental death itself an important evolutionary milestone, but it is a fascinating lens through which to examine the inter-connectedness between life and death. An unexpected coevolutionary relationship is revealed that was essential for more complex life histories like eukaryogenesis, multicellularity and insect eusociality to emerge. In an ironic twist, it becomes clear that in many circumstances, programmed cell death is essential for sustaining life. Sociobiological phenomena like cooperation, altruism, coadaptation, kin and group selection, and the levels of selection problem take center stage in this account of the origin and evolution of life and death.Less
The origins of life and cell death were the two most foundational events on which all other biological processes rest. This book provides the most up-to-date syntheses of why and how life and cell death originated. By integrating the information from diverse disciplines like philosophy, biochemistry, theoretical models, genomics, and other disciplines, a likely scenario for life’s origins is presented. The broad sketch suggests eight key evolutionary steps for the origin and evolution of life, long before cellular life as we understand it began. Soon after cells emerged, an active way of dying evolved. Programmed cell death is perhaps as old as cellular life itself, but its origin and evolution are enigmatic. As with life’s origins, a synthesis for the evolution of death in unicellular organisms is presented. Drawing on multiple lines of enquiry and evidence, the evolutionary innovations necessary for programmed cell death to emerge are sketched. Not only is non-incidental death itself an important evolutionary milestone, but it is a fascinating lens through which to examine the inter-connectedness between life and death. An unexpected coevolutionary relationship is revealed that was essential for more complex life histories like eukaryogenesis, multicellularity and insect eusociality to emerge. In an ironic twist, it becomes clear that in many circumstances, programmed cell death is essential for sustaining life. Sociobiological phenomena like cooperation, altruism, coadaptation, kin and group selection, and the levels of selection problem take center stage in this account of the origin and evolution of life and death.
Otfried Höffe
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780226465906
- eISBN:
- 9780226466064
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226466064.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Höffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Höffe addresses a set of complex questions ...
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In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Höffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Höffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and equity in the modern world, the destruction of nature, the dissolving of social cohesion, and the deregulation of uncontrollable markets. Through these considerations, he shows how the idea of freedom is central to modernity, and he assesses freedom’s influence in a number of cultural dimensions, including the natural, economic and social, artistic and scientific, political, ethical, and personal-metaphysical. Neither rejecting nor defending freedom and modernity, he instead explores both from a Kantian point of view, looking closely at the facets of freedom’s role and the fundamental position it has taken at the heart of modern life. Expanding beyond traditional philosophy, Critique of Freedom develops the building blocks of a critical theory of technology, environmental protection, economics, politics, medicine, and education. With a sophisticated yet straightforward style, Höffe draws on a range of disciplines in order to clearly distinguish and appreciate the many meanings of freedom and the indispensable role they play in liberal society.Less
In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Höffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Höffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and equity in the modern world, the destruction of nature, the dissolving of social cohesion, and the deregulation of uncontrollable markets. Through these considerations, he shows how the idea of freedom is central to modernity, and he assesses freedom’s influence in a number of cultural dimensions, including the natural, economic and social, artistic and scientific, political, ethical, and personal-metaphysical. Neither rejecting nor defending freedom and modernity, he instead explores both from a Kantian point of view, looking closely at the facets of freedom’s role and the fundamental position it has taken at the heart of modern life. Expanding beyond traditional philosophy, Critique of Freedom develops the building blocks of a critical theory of technology, environmental protection, economics, politics, medicine, and education. With a sophisticated yet straightforward style, Höffe draws on a range of disciplines in order to clearly distinguish and appreciate the many meanings of freedom and the indispensable role they play in liberal society.
After Redlining
Beethoven
The Calamity Form
Catastrophic Thinking
Congress Overwhelmed
Difference without Domination
Digital Divisions
Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump
Phyllostomid Bats
