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Kant and the Path of German Idealism examines numerous key texts from the rich philosophical period spanning from Kant through Hegel to illuminate the consequential development of Kant's core systematic principles by his successors, ultimately arguing in favor of the strength of Kant's discursive epistemic foundation.

Internalism and the Limits of Twin Earth Scenarios explores visual perceptual experiences and whether nor not visual intentional content is internal or external.

This book is a comprehensive overview of Black male college athletes' experiences, highlighting their self-presentation processes as they navigate ever-changing social environments.

Upside-Down Utopia: Directionality for the City of God demonstrates that determining an appropriate heading for utopian affect entails identifying its genesis within past loss, an initial catastrophe defining humankind's nature and struggle, highlighting the need for divine aid to orient the quest for the city of God.

This book examines the societal impact of preadolescent girls and their depictions in American popular culture from 1924 to 1945 to explore how these portrayals helped address societal anxieties exacerbated by the Great Depression and World War II, including generational conflicts, gender issues, racial tensions, and urban-rural divides.

This book examines why women are often treated with vitriol in the video game industry and communities of play. Using a Deleuzoguattarian lens, it considers the content and production of video games; the affects they amplify and how they impact gender identity; and how affects flow throughout communities of play.

In this book, Morten Bay provocatively questions whether or not truth in media is lost and, furthermore, whether humans can perceive objective reality or, as many neuroscientists and philosophers now believe, we all perceive different realities constructed through predictive processing. As affective polarization continues to render American democracy increasingly dysfunctional - a situation largely inflamed by media - Bay calls for a cultural shift in which these two conditions are reconciled. Drawing on political philosophy, this book presents an ethics that holds up responsible media conduct as a democratic duty of all media users. This shift in ethical frameworks carries with it different implications for a variety of audiences, including individuals, media platforms and corporations, media practitioners and journalists, media studies scholars, and society more broadly. Each stakeholder involved will need to reconsider their approach to media and reality - individuals must accept that everyone's perceptions of reality are different; platforms and corporations must cease irresponsible practices that dissociate realities and stoke division; practitioners and journalists must develop more nuanced epistemologies beyond 'The Truth', and scholars must redefine media by foregrounding epistemology, pluralism, and physicality in media theory. Collectively, Bay argues, we must come to a new understanding of reality as a plurality of realities - a plureality.

This book argues how by relying on unnatural discourse to relate to the natural world, coexistence becomes much more difficult to achieve.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the diversity of Socialist Literature worldwide through the lens of Minor and Small Literature, exploring the multifaceted dimensions and complexities of World Literature and Socialist World Literature.

In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler, army officers, and New York officials began planning invasions against Iroquoia, the homeland of the Haudenosaunee and several other allied Indigenous nations. This invasion was one of the largest American offensives of the Revolutionary War, curated to punish the Haudenosaunee for raids against frontier settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. However, the resulting 1779 campaigns of Goose Van Schaick, Daniel Brodhead, and Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton were not simple retaliation. Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution by Travis M. Bowman and Matthew A. Zembo critically examines archival materials from these campaigns to investigate the driving force behind the campaigns: removal. Through their research, Bowman and Zembo explore how colonial leaders ignored peace efforts and how George Washington ordered his officers to do the same - prioritizing the destruction of Iroquoia and placing native peoples at the lower end of a racial hierarchy to justify their actions. Using letters, journals, speeches, and reports, this book brings the buried truths to light, exploring these series of coordinated attacks that were designed to destroy Haudenosaunee political cohesion, clear the Indigenous population from the land, and replace it with a non-Indigenous one.

This book offers an exploration of the intersections between carceral systems, environmental concerns, and political ideologies. It examines how prison literature and narrative witness reveal the complexities of our contemporary world, shedding light on the systemic issues that link environmental degradation with carceral practices.

This book examines the history and construction of the Creole voice in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literature and the archivisation of Caribbean Creoles within the literary text.

A collection of essays assimilating and applying philosopher David Walsh's new "personalist language of persons."

This book offers a reconsideration and re-evaluation of the philosophical exchange between Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein. Angela Ales Bello highlights the depth and breadth of the philosophers' thinking on questions related to subjects such as ethics, religion, personhood, and psychology.

How is Hollywood shaping the American public's thought about politics? Winning The Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films analyses the philosophies of power and the good life found in some of the smartest popular films of recent years.

Through analyses of Hollywood films, Thai genre cinema, and Thai art films, this book considers the ways in which Thailand and its people have been represented in films distributed to the Western marketplace.

The Black Electoral Dichotomy: An Assessment of Black Republican Electoral Behavior and Political Attitudes during the 2016 Presidential Election examines the political perspective of Black Republican voters contrasted to Black Republican leadership in North Carolina. The study used data collected through the PEW Research Center's 2017 Political Typology Study and data collected on the voting behavior of North Carolina registered voters. Specifically, this approach looked at the social, political, and economic influences that contributed to how North Carolina Black Republicans voted during the 2016 presidential election. Through a survey of Black Republican leaders and registered voters who voted during the 2012 and 2016 presidential election cycles, this study seeks to identify the determining factors that speak to Black voters' reason for supporting the Republican Party. Furthermore, The Black Electoral Dichotomy examines the various factors that shape the political premise of North Carolina's Black Republicans and informed their support for Donald Trump.

This edited volume explores the practices of health and science journalists covering conflicts, displacement, and global pandemics amid evolving media landscapes and new communication technologies. Contributors highlight shared challenges like funding cuts, public mistrust, and online harassment.

Assata Zerai reflects on three decades of scholarship and examines ways in which scholars and professors have begun to move their disciplines from a focus on traditional canons of the modernist era to embrace decolonial sensibilities in research, teaching, and institutional transformation, bringing about change within higher education.

In this book, Aidan Kestigian argues that political communities are in a critical thinking crisis, which inhibits high-quality reasoning in public deliberation. Substantive educational and political reform is needed to bring public decision-making closer to the ideals imagined in democratic theory.

This book presents Ahmadu Bamba as one of the pioneers of decolonization and non-violence in West Africa to examine his legacy as a man of unshakable faith, a humanist, a socio-cultural reformer, and a key agent in the decolonization of minds and spaces.

Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.

This book examines the life of the Sixteenth Karmapa and his contributions to the preservation and transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in exile. The author analyzes the life and activity of the Karmapa through the lens of cross-cultural interaction between Buddhism and the West with a particular focus on Asian agency.

In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.

"This book uses ideas from Mead, Burke, and Bakhtin to analyze how individuals interact through communication and applies Burke's "grammar of motives" to various social phenomena"--

"Taiwan has become a new flashpoint in Sino-U.S. relations in recent years. The nation just concluded its presidential and legislative elections this January. This book analyzes the trilateral relationship between the United States, Taiwan, and China under the new Lai administration in Taiwan"--

This book serves as a comprehensive guide not only to Catholicism, headlined by its evangelizing pope and the sexual abuse scandal of its clergy, but also to Times journalism during the epoch of Pope John Paul II.

"This book presents an in-depth exploration of Korean migration to and within the Global South, offering new insights into how migrants adapt to diverse political and economic contexts in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa"--

"This study, based at a community garden in a small town in Minnesota, explores different factors that affect the acculturation process of twenty Somali refugee women. Using Berry's framework of acculturation patterns, the study also looks at how social capital complements the process of acculturation"--