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  • af Mark Kingwell
    231,95 kr.

    In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the field before any deadly battle is joined.

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    177,95 kr.

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    142,95 kr.

  • - Essays
    af Mark Kingwell
    187,95 kr.

    Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to imagine and achieve the society we want. The concept of "e;the gift"e; unites many of these essays: it is in this idea, Kingwell argues persuasively, in which we may be able to refashion the real world of democracy. "e;An activist, fugitive democracy. A living democracy that is no opaque demand but a real thinga society. Democracy: the gift we keep on giving each other."e;Smart, engaged, and wide ranging, Mark Kingwell's Measure Yourself Against the Earth confirms its author as among our leading cultural theorists and philosophers.

  • - Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism
    af Mark Kingwell
    356,95 - 680,95 kr.

    This work is about a widely-shared desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. Arguing that what is needed is social dialogue about how choices are made, and not more philosophical theories, the author propounds his idea of "justice as civility".

  • - City Stages
    af Mark Kingwell & Matthew Pillsbury
    552,95 kr.

    First monograph of an artist with an established gallery track record who has been widely published

  • - Essays in Culture, Politics, and Interpretation
    af Mark Kingwell
    354,95 - 468,95 kr.

    This collection of essays and reviews reveals the sources and developments of popular Toronto philosopher and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell's thought and examines the nature and limits of intellectual engagement.

  • - The Empire State Building and American Dreams
    af Mark Kingwell
    425,95 kr.

    The Empire State Building literally cannot be seen in its totality, from any perspective. This book encourages us to look beneath the strong physical presence of the building, to become aware of its evolving layers of meaning, and to see how the building lives within a unique imaginative space in the landscape of the American consciousness.

  • - Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination
    af Mark Kingwell
    197,95 kr.

    Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ... His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world.Naomi Klein, author of No LogoMeet the fast zombie"e; citizen of the current world. He is a rapid, brainless carrier of preference-driven consumption. His Facebook-style likes replace complex notions of personhood. Legacy college admissions and status-seekers gobble up his idea of public education, and positional market reductions hollow out his sense of shared goods. Meanwhile, the political debates of his 24-hour-a-day newscycle are picked clean by pundits, tortured by tweets. Forget the TV shows and doomsday scenarios; when it comes to democracy, the zombie apocalypse may already be here.Since the publication of A Civil Tongue (1995), philosopher Mark Kingwell has been urging us to consider how monstrous, self-serving public behaviour can make it harder to imagine and achieve the society we want. Now, with Unruly Voices, Kingwell returns to the subjects of democracy, civility, and political action, in an attempt to revitalize an intellectual culture too-often deadened by its assumptions of personal advantage and economic value. These 17 new essays, where zombies share pages with cultural theorists, poets, and presidents, together argue for a return to the imaginationand from their own unruly voices rises a sympathetic democracy to counter the strangeness of the postmodern political landscape.Mark Kingwell is the author of sixteen books and a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine.

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