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Plato’s Gorgias: Speech, Soul and Politics
(2024)
In the Gorgias Plato offers a synthesis of what he thinks about the bitter conflict between philosophical and non-philosophical approaches to one’s responsibilities in private and public life. This book contributes to a ...
From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond
(2024)
Two millennia ago, the Jewish priest-turned-general Flavius Josephus, captured by the emperor Vespasian in the middle of the Roman-Jewish War (66–70 CE), spent the last decades of his life in Rome writing several ...
Thauma(u)topoiesis
(2024)
Literature and the Senses
(2023)
Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection ...
How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved
(2024)
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern’ inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
The introduction to this collection sets out the stakes of research on consent in this contemporary moment. It explores current debates about the limitations of consent as a framework for sexual ethics and argues for ...
Chapter 16 Afterword
(2024)
Building upon Sudeshna Chatterjee's concluding chapter in this volume and its reflections upon who is and is not included in social contracts of consent, the Afterword reflects on how an intersectional approach to consent ...
Intentional Transformative Experiences
(2024)
This edited volume brings together research on religious, esoteric, and philosophical practices that intentionally aim to transform their practitioners. Various analytical tools will be developed to shed new light on ...
The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture
(2024)
The Routledge Handbook of Global Islam and Consumer Culture is an outstanding inter- and transdisciplinary reference source to key topics, problems, and debates in this challenging research field. The study of Islam is ...