Philosophy

Redefining Eternity: Interfacing Immortality in the Digital Corporate World

Author: 

Crawford, Bethany

In Redefining Eternity: Interfacing Immortality in the Digital Corporate World, Bethany Crawford critically assesses the implications of “digital immortality” for central tenets of the human experience - such as consciousness, death, and time - as a preliminary mapping of the shifting existential paradigms of the digital age. This groundbreaking new book explores the social consequences and provocations of a digitally replicable subject in the current sociopolitical context.

Market: 
Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Identity Politics, Science, Technology, Information Technology, Computer Science, Immortality, Ray Kurzweil, Martine Rothblatt, Max More, Transhumanism, Futurism, Cybernetics
Release Date: 
September 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680539646 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
242
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language

Author: 

Zriba, Hassen, Professor and Chair, Department of English, University of Gafsa (Tunisia) (Ed.)

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language is a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of “erasure” is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of change and continuity in subjects of human knowledge.

Market: 
Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Literary Theory, Language, Postmodernism, Postmodern Theory, Erasure, Martin Heidegger Jacques Derrida
Release Date: 
September 15, 2020
ISBN: 
9781680539509: Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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To Tell the Truth: Fifty Years of Politics in the Promised Land

Author: 

Kuhrt, David

Credentials: 

Author of "Wittgenstein the Tartar", and "The Trojan War Has Not Been Won"

This collection of essays reflect the prolific philosopher David Kuhrt’s prescient thesis that subjectivity can be bypassed, thereby exploding the myth of positivist philosophy. In bypassing intuition with abstract ideas, “science,” as we have described it, has informed the notion of Western imperialism in the Middle East, from the dogmatic Christianity of the medieval Papacy through transnational corporate investment today.

Market: 
Philosophy, Religion, Middle East, International Relations, East-West Relations, Middle East Politics, Positivism, Subjectivism, Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict
Release Date: 
July 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680532128 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
194
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Reform For An Enlightenment Education

Author: 

Thiher, Allen: Curators’ Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia and Permanent Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge

Drawing on a distinguished 40-year university career, Allen Thiher probes the subjects that serve as a basis for higher education in the twenty-first century. Addressing the general reader as well as the scholar, he argues that all the best about contemporary culture springs directly from the unfettered rationalism of the Enlightenment. Provocatively, Thiher argues that today’s education system is failing to produce students with the enlightened sensibilities they need to lead good and ethical lives and instead focuses on short-term utilitarian aims.

Market: 
9781680531077
Release Date: 
May 15, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531077 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
218
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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The Phaedrus of Plato: A Translation with Notes and Dialogical Analysis

Author: 

Quandt, Kenneth Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

This pioneering translation of Plato’s Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life.

Market: 
Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Studies, Plato, Translation, Ancient Greek, Language Arts
Release Date: 
May 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531084 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
445
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Football as Literature: A Semiotic Reading

Author: 

Hanson, Utibe: University of Ibadan (Nigeria)

Football as Literature adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football (soccer) to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, respectively, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball. In employing this commentary, a standard football match is seen as a representation of the active text. Particularly, without commentary football unfolds as an unspoken semiotic narrative.

Market: 
Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Semiotics, Football, Sports, Literature, Symbolism
Release Date: 
June 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680531039 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Speaking of Wagner: Talking to Audiences about The Ring of the Nibelung

Author: 

Berger, William, Metropolitan Opera author, lecturer, and commentator

Credentials: 

Author of Wagner Without Fear: Learning to Love – And Even Enjoy – Opera’s Most Demanding Genius

Speaking of Wagner compiles in a new and highly accessible format celebrated author, lecturer, and Metropolitan Opera commentator William Berger’s collection of talks and presentations about Richard Wagner, the most controversial, and perhaps the most widely influential, artist in history. These talks have been successful with diverse audiences, ranging from newcomers to the field to the most exacting experts, often at the same time!

Market: 
Performing Arts, Cultural History, Music, Opera, Theater, Philosophy, Mythology, European Studies, Richard Wagner
Release Date: 
April 1, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680530964 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
160
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Shakespeare’s Identities: Psychological, Mythic, and Existentialist Perspectives

Author: 

Driscoll, James P., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Author of Shakespeare and Jung – The God in Time

No dramatist has treated identity in as many ways and in such depth as William Shakespeare. In Shakespeare’s Identities, James P. Driscoll shows how the Bard used history, comedy, tragedy, and romance to develop comprehensive treatments of personal identity.

Market: 
English Literature, World Literature, Literary Criticism, Drama, Identity Studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Shakespeare, Carl Jung, Psychology, Civilization Studies, Myth, Character Analysis, Existentialism
Release Date: 
December 20, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532104 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
248
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Forbidden Knowledge: Things We Should Not Know

Author: 

Porter, Burton, Ph.D., University of Oxford

Credentials: 

Author of Finding Your Own Philosophy of Life and The Great Perhaps: God as Question and The Janus Face of Ideas: Which Way Should We Look?

In this book eminent philosopher Burton Porter examines the concept of “forbidden knowledge” in religion, science, government, and psychology. From the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden (forbidden fruit), to world altering scientific research (nuclear power, stem-cells, cloning) to damning government secrets (Abu Ghraib, domestic spying), to traumatic experiences that individuals want to repress (sexual abuse), humanity has encountered knowledge that has been hidden and suppressed.

Market: 
Philosophy, National Security, International Relations, Ethics, Privacy, Terrorism, Psychology, Mindfulness, Humanities, Ideology, Myths, Epistemology, Repressed Memories, Pathology
Release Date: 
December 20, 2019
ISBN: 
978-1680532142 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
272
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
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Washington, DC 20036
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Being and Symptom: The Intersection of Sociology, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, and Continental Philosophy

Author: 

Öğüt, Suheyb; Founder and Director, Bosphorus Center for Global Affairs

In this daring new study, the renowned Turkish sociologist and public intellectual Suheyb Öğüt seeks a new explanation of political sovereignty demystified from traditional descriptions of the political process.

Market: 
Political Science, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Ontology, Metaphysics, Hobbes, Foucault, Lacan, Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Žižek
Release Date: 
June 8, 2020
ISBN: 
978-1680539974 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
220
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036
academicapress.editorial@gmail.com

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