Böcker utgivna av Rowman & Littlefield International

To See and Be Seen considers some of the ideological, aesthetic, pragmatic, institutional, cultural, commercial, environmental, and psychological forces that consciously or otherwise shape the production of news images and subsequently influence their reception.

This book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships.

This book develops an understanding of these power relations through rich empirical case studies of different forms of rule-resistance relationships.

This book aims to spell out the consequences of taking the technologies behind the doing of science seriously.

This volume offers the first substantial study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception, focusing on perception as capacities that can be developed in learning processes, notably in ways befitting ontological mindfulness. The author proposes new interpretations of Heidegger's five most important key words.

Through accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty's views of linguistic expression and understanding, and by tracing the evolution of these views throughout the course of his philosophical career, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Language offers a comprehensive picture of his engagement with the philosophy of language.

Scholarly and political interest in the controversial 20th Century German thinker Carl Schmitt has exploded in the last twenty years. This volume, focusing directly on Schmitt's complex ideas about law, situates his views within broader debates about the rule of law and its fate, taking seriously his Nazi-era political and legal writings.

Offers a critical framework built on the epistemology of Frankfurt School scholars identifying the normative assumptions omnipresent in current causal and explanatory empirical studies

Provides an understanding of the importance of elections in democratization and the constitution of order.

Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony.

This volume intends to cultivate an appreciation for the complexity of human decision making and the incentives that drive human behavior. By examining specific policy changes, it will delve into the effects of and lessons learned from regulations in financial markets, computer and internet governance, and health care innovation and delivery.

William Rasch offers a reading of Carl Schmitt that avoids rehashing the controversies of the Weimar era in favour of examining a broader historical context. He examines Schmitt's notion of political theology, eschewing theocratic intention but taking seriously the 'secularization' of patterns of thought derived from Medieval theology.

This volume intends to cultivate an appreciation for the complexity of human decision making and the incentives that drive human behavior. By examining specific policy changes, it will delve into the effects of and lessons learned from regulations in financial markets, computer and internet governance, and health care innovation and delivery.

This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, allowing for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political theory, critical studies of technology, philosophy and ethics of technology.

This book advances and enriches the debates and discussions about the value of art. It offers a close reading of passages from Marx's entire body of work and an engaging and accessible narrative of the beginnings, development and discoveries of Marx's thoughts on art.

This volume gathers pieces from Richard Kearney's extraordinarily prolific output, providing the first full overview of his thought.

This volume offers an interdisciplinary conversation about several possible futures for the human species. The contributors elaborate on the issues that trouble our very understanding of what it means to be human in the 21st century, expanding on recent scholarly discussions about the posthuman and nonhuman turn.

This volume gathers pieces from Richard Kearney's extraordinarily prolific output, providing the first full overview of his thought.

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

The scope of the book is confined to Asia: China, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in urban Chinese cities.

Race in Post-racial Europe offers an analysis of the intersectional logics of post-racial formations in Europe.

This valuable collection of illuminating analysis of skill stories from the Zhuangzi, a 4th century BCE Daoist text opens up new lines of inquiry in comparative East-West philosophical debates on skill, cultivation and mastery, as well as cross-disciplinary debates in psychology, cognitive science and philosophy.

This collection provides a clear analytical framework for comparison across cases that will allow us to draw useful theoretical and empirical conclusions and explore the dynamics of intersectional practice in a variety of institutional, cultural and policy making contexts.

This collection provides a clear analytical framework for comparison across cases that will allow us to draw useful theoretical and empirical conclusions and explore the dynamics of intersectional practice in a variety of institutional, cultural and policy making contexts.

Goodchild offers a philosophical analysis of the contemporary economy in terms of the way it structures credit and faith.

This third volume in the series develops a metaphysics which is missing when trust is ordered around economic theories and institutions.

A fascinating portrait of a brilliant, complicated and often unattractive human being.

This book explores new phenomenological research on the structural disruptions of spatiality, temporality, and understanding in the context of anxiety and depressive disorders. It offers critiques of mainstream psychopathology, taking a transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between mental illness and self-constitution.

Using local, national and international perspectives on the meanings and uses of heritage cities, this book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, lifelessly displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.