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  • The Specter of Hypocrisy
    Raphael Sassower
    Raphael Sassower examines the concept of hypocrisy for its strategic potential as a means of personal protection and social cohesion. Given the contemporary context of post-truth, the examination of degrees or kinds of hypocrisy moves from the Greek etymology of masks worn on the theater stage to the Hebrew etymology of the color adjustment of chameleons to their environment. C...
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    66,61 €

  • Quest for Prosperity
    Raphael Sassower
    This book asks what are the common assumptions - or frames of references - that underlie our understanding of political economy today. How many of them are worthy of retaining? Could others be discarded? ...
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    71,79 €

  • Democratic Problem-Solving
    Justin Cruickshank / Raphael Sassower
    This timely volume explores pressing questions that relate to democracy and the politics of knowledge, in a dialogue based on developing and applying philosophies that stress the importance of dialogue, democracy and criticism. The debate contributes to a re-reading of Karl Popper, centring on the recovery of the ‘critical Popper’ and his relationship to other thinkers. ...
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    71,92 €

  • Solo
    Raphael Sassower
    Solo: Postmodern Explorations provides a postmodern approach to technoscience and economics. Sassower pulls together postmodern motifs and attitudes with his own experience to provide a unique perspective on political history and economics. Solo raises the question of whether it is possible to be an objective observer and what that means for scholarship, especially when it conc...
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    74,96 €

  • War Images
    Louis Cicotello / Raphael Sassower
    In an age when the visual landscape dominates our communication, War Images offers the rationale and the method by which we can critically engage images. Though focused on war images, this book provides a broad appreciation of how 'reading' images is an act of social courage and personal responsibility. ...
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    67,33 €

  • Political Blind Spots
    Louis Cicotello / Raphael Sassower
    In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and pol...
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    63,44 €

  • Confronting Disaster
    Raphael Sassower
    Contemporary society is rife with instability. Contemporary genetic research has raised and given life to the one-time science fiction specter: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to greater manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and as a result greater danger. And the promises of globalization have, in some cases, delivered their intended results, but i...
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    60,92 €

  • Sanctuary of Their Own
    Raphael Sassower
    What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture’s long-standing ambivalence toward ’the life of the mind.’ ...
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    54,83 €