Philosophy

The Early Writings of Conor Cruise O’Brien

Author: 

Edwards, Owen Dudley

Credentials: 

Professor of History, Edinburgh University

C.C. O’Brien’s early writings contain the early on the mature, magisterial style and substance that have made him one of the finest political philosophers alive and active today. Edited with notes by Professor Edwards, this is the first collection of O’Brien’s precient discourses on Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy,the UNO , the UN and Africa and more.

Market: 
Irish studies, Foreign Affairs(Ireland),UN and Africa, political philosophy, diplomacy(Europe and Africa)
Release Date: 
Spring 2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-06-2
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Justice Thurgood Marshall, Crusader for Liberalism: His Judicial Biography

Author: 

Bland, Randall W., Ph.D.

Credentials: 

Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Southwest Texas State University

A major research work, this study examines one of America’s most distinguished Afro-American jurists from the point of view of his legal and philosophical beliefs as practiced from the bench. This monograph is a product of 31 years of research and investigation and includes material derived from interviews with Justice Marshall and his colleagues on the Supreme Court then and now. Justice Clarence Thomas and his role vis a vis the Marshall legacy is also discussed at length.

Market: 
Thurgood Marshall; Supreme Court, U.S. Civil Rights 1945-1954; Legal Philosophy, Jurisprudence
Release Date: 
9/2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-23-2
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
404
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Inhuman: The Internet, Education and Humanity

Author: 

Redeker, Robert; translated and with an introduction by Philip Beitchman with an Introduction by Christian Delacampagne, author of A History of French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (Johns Hopkins,1999)

Credentials: 

Author is well known French philosopher and board member of Les Temps Modernes; translator is professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University (NY)

The transformation of Western civilization into a planetary society of information and communication compels us to pose some philosophical and political questions about the influence of these new technologies on education. This author, a philosopher, journalist, literary critic, and also a member of the board of Les Temps Modernes, has concluded that Information Science and Internet do represent grave dangers for education, since they rather show us a way of avoiding the teacher and teaching (“how not to teach”) than help teach.

Market: 
Education:; Philosophy, postmodern; Pedagogy and Science
Release Date: 
7/2003
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-33-X
Price: 
$44.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
114
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Walter Benjamin’s Transit: A Destructive Tour of Modernism

Author: 

Polsky, Stephanie

Walter Benjamin’s Transit is a work in two halves. The first, part 1, entitled
“Mapping Desire: Towards a Minor Fascism” applies the lens of Gilles Deleuze
and Felix Guattari’s philosophy to the critical writings of to the critical writings
of Walter Benjamin, the latter devised amid an atmosphere of emergent fascism
in Europe between two World Wars. This book represents something radically
different from other critical approaches to Walter Benjamin’s body of work. It is
an attempt to act with Benjamin to devise a new set of philosophical and political

Release Date: 
11/2009
ISBN: 
978-1-933146-73-7 / 1933146-73-7
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
364
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton

Author: 

Cunningham, Eric

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Professor of History, Gonzaga University, WA

This monograph explores and describes the historical continuities and relationships between 20th c Zen Buddhism, the postwar psychedelic movement and postmodern eschatology. In general terms (and this is a rich, complex study) the work is a critique of modernization theory as a way of viewing history and suggests the modern epoch (like the Greco-Roman world before it) will only end when the modern world ends.

Market: 
Intellectual History, History of Ideas, Japanese 20th c history, Zen Buddhism, Nishida
Release Date: 
05/15/2007:in stock
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-28-1
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
420
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Oral Traditions in ILE –IFE: The Yoruba People and Their Book of Enlightenment

Author: 

Ogunyemi, Yemi D.

Credentials: 

Ph.D. African Literatures, Debrecen University, Ph.D Political Science, Clayton University, author of LITERATURES OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (2004)

This research monograph discusses the understudied and often misunderstood aspects of West African culture and religion especially that of the Yoruba people and their Book of Enlightenment (Ife-Ifa) together with its metaphysical importance to the Yoruba as a source of philosophy, religion and literature.

Market: 
Yoruba/Nigerian Studies, West African Studies, Religion in West Africa, African Literatures, African Diasporic Literature, African Autochthonic Theologies, Afro-American traditional religion
Release Date: 
09/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-65-2 / 1933146-65-6
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
184
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Origin of Culture

Author: 

Marsland, Amy and Marsland, William B.

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Cultural Anthropology

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.

Market: 
Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Art History, History of Philosophy
Release Date: 
02/2009
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-47-8 / 193314647-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
186
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Depression and Philosophy

Author: 

Redeker, Robert, Translated from French by Professor Philip Beitchman, NYU

Credentials: 

Ph.D; National Centre for Research (Paris);noted French philosopher and controversialist

This work is, in the words of Dr Norman Freed, a “rich picture of an empty landscape, the depression that is to be engaged to maximally avoid it and its ramifications.” This work explores the philosophical aspects of the plague of depression found throughout the modern world.

Market: 
Philosophy, Psychiatry, Medical Sociology, Cultural Studies, French Intellectual History, French Philosophy,20thC.,French Studies
Release Date: 
10/2008
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-933146-52-4
Price: 
$64.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
204
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Art Matters: The Art of Knowledge/The Knowledge of Art

Author: 

Koenig, Bernard

Credentials: 

Ph.D, Fanshawe College,Canada

ART MATTERS is a clear and comprehensive overview of art criticism as it relates to both the value of art and the aesthetics of art. The author offers a new perspective on how science, philosophy and art overlap each other, the author argues that art can give us knowledge of our world and our place in it the same way that science or philosophy do (per se Deleuze or Kristeva).

Market: 
Aesthetics, Art Sociology of Art,, Philosophy, Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Media
Release Date: 
12/2008
ISBN: 
Paper: 978-1-933146-58-4 / 193314658-3
Price: 
$49.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
292
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
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