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The Ethics of Narrative Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 2007-2017


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English | ISBN: 1501773585 | 2024 | 306 pages | EPUB | 798 KB
The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White’s uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume 2 features White’s trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and authors at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies. These include the concept of utopia in history, modernism and postmodernism, constructivism, the conceptualization of historical periods such as "the Sixties" and "the Enlightenment," the representation of the Holocaust in scholarly and literary writing, as well as essays on Frank Kermode, Saul Friedländer, and Krzysztof Pomian.

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Immigration and Social Equality The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy


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English | ISBN: 0197658091 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Skill-selective immigration policies, through which states favor the admission of highly-skilled migrants over low-skilled migrants, are a familiar component of the immigration landscape. Wealthy Western states, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have explicitly declared their desire to attract the "best and the brightest". On the other hand, attitudes towards low-skilled migrants could not be more different. They have consistently been portrayed as dangerous and undesirable, a drain on social welfare, and economically threatening to citizens. Immigration and Social Equality argues that we ought to re-think this stance. Beginning from the widely-shared principle of equal respect for all persons, it proposes that equal respect requires the recognition of each person’s pro tanto right to social equality, regardless of their citizenship status. Even if states have the right to exclude non-citizens, they cannot do so in a way that is demeaning or subordinating to excluded persons. The right to social equality gives us a richer picture of why certain instances of immigrant selection, such as the US’s recent ban on citizens from Muslim-majority countries, are unjust. However, it also has troubling implications for skill-selective immigration policies, as they are currently practiced: the book reveals that they ought to be regarded as a form of wrongful discrimination. Drawing on the framework of social equality, Désirée Lim goes on to consider the problem of colonial injustice and how it may be reproduced by skill-selective immigration policies, as well as migratorial disobedience.

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George Orwell The Ethics of Equality


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English | ISBN: 0197627404 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 962 KB + 12 MB
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell’s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell’s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell’s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions.

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The Ethics of Immediacy Dangerous Experience in Freud, Woolf, and Merleau-Ponty


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English | November 2, 2023 | ISBN: 9798765107249, ASIN: B0BWPK2CC3 | True EPUB/PDF | 222 pages | 0.5/1.96 MB
Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy.

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Posthumanist Vulnerability An Affirmative Ethics


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English | July 13, 2023 | ISBN: 1350302872, 1350302880 | True EPUB/PDF | 224 pages | 3/18.2 MB
A timely dethroning of the human subject and embracing of a new kind of existence, in this book Christine Daigle highlights the affirmative potential of vulnerability amidst unprecedented times of more-than-human crises. By bringing together traditions as diverse as feminist materialist philosophy, phenomenology, and affect theory, Daigle convincingly pleas for the radical embracing of a shared posthumanist vulnerability.

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ETHICS Endorse Technologies for Heritage Innovation Cross-disciplinary Strategies


Free Download ETHICS: Endorse Technologies for Heritage Innovation: Cross-disciplinary Strategies by Alessandra Battisti, Serena Baiani
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 356 Pages | ISBN : 3031501209 | 118 MB
This book outlines, within the Italian national framework, the current and potential paths oriented towards a new concept of Architectural Heritage, through actions referring to Innovation and Experimentation and Protection and Transformation of the Architectural Heritage. The development of the themes is articulated in two sessions dealing with the aspects related to the analysis and mapping of Architectural Heritage to face the context of the current Climate Crisis and the development of projects and experimentations oriented to the Green and Digital Transition.

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