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Revisiting and Revising the Fifties in Contemporary US Popular Culture
In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fifties. By investigating the cultural work of films and TV …
Reasons Why Not
Many philosophers have shown sympathy to the thought that reality is fundamentally positive. Julio De Rizzo formulates this idea precisely by means of the notion of grounding, and …
African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective
African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is – at least since the 20th century if not even earlier – inherently intercultural. The aim …
Panpsychism and the Emergence of Consciousness
In this book Fabian Klinge develops a novel approach for explaining phenomenal consciousness. He defends a version of panpsychism, that is the theory, that (some of) the …
Feminist Philosophy of Technology
There has been little attention to feminism and gender issues in mainstream philosophy of technology and vice versa. Since the beginning of the so-called »second wave feminism« (in …
Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction
The present book deals with Sarah Kane’s dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death – one that is not necessarily causal or …
The Challenges of Content Acquisition in a CLIL Course
The book deals with content acquisition in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) based chemistry course and represents high level scientific work. The topic of the …
World Literature and the Postcolonial
This volume approaches literary representations of post and neocolonialism by combining their readings with respective theoretical configurations. The aim is to cast light upon …
Television and Precarity
Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Tremé, Shameless, …
Literary Rooms
The four prose texts discussed in Literary Rooms position themselves in a literary tradition which highlights the manifold purposes the private room may serve: it is a mirror of …
Subordinating Modalities
This study is concerned with the use of the English modals (may, might,can, could, shall, should, will, would and must) in adverbial, relative and complement clauses. It employs …
Rational Reasoning with Finite Conditional Knowledge Bases
Nonmonotonic reasoning is a discipline of computer science, epistemology, and cognition: It models inferences where classical logic is inadequate in symbolic AI, defines normative …