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      Conspiracy and Contingency

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      What do conspiracy theories, algorithms and meritocracy have in common? All three avoid contingency and frantically look for necessities. 'Contingency phobia' is not only manifest in conspiratorial thinking. It is…

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      Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

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      How Much Religion is Good for Us?

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      This provocative book examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective. Interdisciplinary in scope, it is an outstanding resource for students and scholars of Religious…

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      How Much Religion is Good for Us?

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      This provocative book examines parallels between play and religion from a philosophical, theological, and anthropological perspective. Interdisciplinary in scope, it is an outstanding resource for students and scholars of Religious…

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      Culture, Nature, Memes

      This collection of essays on cognition, which involves continental as much as analytical approaches, attempts to observe cognitive processes in three areas: in culture, in nature, and in an area…

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      The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity

      Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the real world. The authors of this volume suggest that the…

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      Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena that have changed considerably during the past thirty years, this book reveals through conceptual analysis that the three are both private and…

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      Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics

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      Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics inaugurates a new approach toward the history and usage of nudity, veiling, and tattoos. By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena…

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      Daoism, Dandyism, and Political Correctness

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of "carefree wandering," deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

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      Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

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      Critical Regionalism is a notion which gained popularity in architectural debate as a synthesis of universal, ‘modern’ elements and individualistic elements derived from local cultures. This book shifts the focus…

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      Micro and Macro Philosophy: Organicism in Biology, Philosophy, and Politics

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      What role can philosophy play in a world dominated by neoliberalism and globalization? Must it join universalist ideologies as it has in past centuries? Or might it turn to ethnophilosophy…

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      Transcultural Architecture: The Limits and Opportunities of Critical Regionalism

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      This book shifts the focus from Critical Regionalism towards a broader concept of ‘Transcultural Architecture’ and defines Critical Regionalism as a subgroup of the latter.

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      Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Bela Tarr

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      What might the organic mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Bela Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker slow…

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      Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai

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      Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein reveals a common structure of dreamtense in the works of major filmmakers like Tarkovsky…

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      Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein reveals a common structure of ‘dreamtense’ in the works of major filmmakers like Tarkovsky…

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      Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study

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      Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Russia and Japan: A Comparative Philosophical Study examines the parallels between Russian and Japanese philosophies and religions by revealing a common concept of space…

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      The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity

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      The Cool-Kawaii: Afro-Japanese Aesthetics and New World Modernity, by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, analyzes and compares African American cool culture and the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii or cute and characterizes them as…

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      The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Straight lines, distorted lines, blurred lines, hot and cold lines, dynamic…

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      The Political Aesthetics of ISIS and Italian Futurism

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      Through empirical analysis and theoretical reflection, this book shows that the aesthetics and politics of the Islamic State is futurist. ISIS overcomes postmodern pessimism and joins the modern, techno-oriented, and…

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      Inception and Philosophy

      Inception , starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is the one of the most philosophical and disturbing movie since The Matrix . The very idea that our dreams and reality are one and…

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      Organic Cinema: Film, Architecture, and the Work of Bela Tarr

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      What might the organic mean in the context of film studies? This innovative volume locates one instance of organicity in the work of Bela Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker slow…

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      The Philosophy of Lines: From Art Nouveau to Cyberspace

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      This book offers a philosophical exploration of lines in art and culture, and traces their history from Antiquity onwards. Straight lines, distorted lines, blurred lines, hot and cold lines, dynamic…

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      Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration

      Parasite presents the ethico-biological problem of parasitism in a metaphorical and artistic fashion. In this book, philosophers explore the film using sources such as the ancient satirist Lucian’s De Parasito…

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      Plotinus and the Moving Image

      Plotinus and the Moving Image offers the first philosophical discussion on Plotinus’ philosophy and film. It discusses Plotinian concepts like the One and the intelligible in a cinematic context, relates…

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      The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity

      N. Abdullah-Khan,Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

      The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, family, tradition, and fashion are…

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      The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait)

      What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times.

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      The New Aesthetics of Deculturation: Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch

      Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait)

      What are the predominant aesthetics of the twenty-first century? Thorsten Botz-Bornstein argues that deculturation, embodied by the conspicuous vulgarity of kitsch, is the overriding visual language of our times.

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      The Veil in Kuwait: Gender, Fashion, Identity

      N. Abdullah-Khan,Thorsten Botz-Bornstein,J. Kellenberger

      The Veil in Kuwait explores the complex reasons behind why women veil and how they are perceived by those that do not veil. Religion, culture, family, tradition, and fashion are…

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      Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy

      Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East examines the emergence of the global university in the Middle East and Asia, focusing in particular on the phenomenon of branch…

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