Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosopher, and Ellen Metzger, a scientist, clarify n…
What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a v…
"Hope originally meant anticipation of what is to come and was related mostly to the material here-and-now or a religious dimension in the beyond. By the modern era at the latest, however, this reading becomes problematic. Instead, literature and philosophy develop conceptions o…
Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to supply the world's growing population, it represents a potentially disastrous threat to water supplies, agriculture and food produc…
"The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language teaching and translation studies, testify to a topical and disc…
This dissertation investigates whether there is a theme of future hope in Proverbs. Chapter 1 surveys scholarship on this point. Most scholars who believe Proverbs is only concerned with this present world do not read Proverbs in its canonical context. This dissertation argues t…
In contemporary South Korea, the concept of "unification preparation" (t'ongil chunbi) has spawned a diffuse web of South Korean institutions - from government agencies, think tanks, media groups, NGOs, churches, to corporations - that are united by the shared mission of prepari…
In the final extant letter of his Epistulae Morales, Seneca the Younger attributes the human good to the work of cura, “care” or “concern,” before abruptly discussing how humans, unique among animals, have access to future time. This dissertation argues that Seneca’s distinctive…
