This volume examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organinzation in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching o…
This volume examines the philosophical mobilization of metaphors for print, inscription, reading and knowledge organinzation in early modern philosophical texts in continental Europe. Primarily engaging with the work of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz and Bayle while also touching o…
Since the early seventeenth century of Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes, the relations between science and religion as well as mind and body have remained volatile fault lines of conflict. The controversies surrounding these relations are as alive and pressing now as at any point o…
Since Bacon, Gallileo and Descartes in the early 17th century, the relations between science and religion as well as mind and body have remained volatile fault lines of conflict. The controversies surrounding these relations are as alive and pressing now as at any point over the…
Consumption and Well-Being in the Material World
This volume addresses how we can find happiness and well- being in the material world. It builds on previous works that find that materialism is associated with lowered well -being (materialists are less happy) and that consumerism, in all its profusion, is harmful to environmen…
Sustaining loss: art and mournful life
"Critically engaging with some limitations of new materialist scholarship, Lemke draws on Foucault's concept of a "government of things" to propose a relational understanding of political ontologies"