@book {80286, title = {Living Racism Through the Barrel of the Book}, series = {Lexington Books}, year = {2017}, abstract = {

Living Racism\ is based on the premise that race and racism are well-entrenched elements of US society. The contributors of this volume argue that race and racism are more than mere concepts; instead, they see and treat these as part of the fabric that constitutes and organizes everyday life. Consequently, race and racism are maintained through structures such as social institutions (e.g., schools, criminal justice system, media, etc.) and are carried by individual actors through racial ideologies and a racial etiquette (beliefs, practices, traditions, and customs) that inform how people relate to and interact with one another (or not). As expressed throughout this book, the notion of\ living racism\ is twofold. On the one hand,\ living racismdenotes the ways in which racism is embodied and active, much like a living organism. On the other hand,\ living racismconnects with the ways that people must navigate racism in their individual and collective lives.\ 

}, isbn = {9781498544313}, author = {Theresa Rajack-Talley} } @book {80934, title = {On Liberty}, year = {2011}, month = {11/2011}, publisher = {Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.}, organization = {Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.}, abstract = {

The Origin of Liberalism. Influenced by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Mill adopted a modified laissez-faire position, believing in the efficiency of free enterprise, but aware of the frequent failure of the market to maximize utility. Later refining this stance, he argued that the promotion of happiness is a moral duty (though he made a clear distinction between desirable and undesirable forms of pleasure). These ideas had a decisive influence on Mill{\textquoteright}s classic 1859 essay, perhaps the most celebrated defense of individual freedom and self-protection based on utilitarian values rather than natural right to appear in English. JOHN STUART MILL [1806-1873] was an English philosopher whose works made significant contributions to individualistic liberal political thought. He worked for the East India Company and was a Member of Parliament for one term. Mill{\textquoteright}s influence continues today in this and his other widely-read texts Utilitarianism (1863), The Subjection of Women (1869) and his Autobiography (1873).

}, isbn = {9781584772217}, author = {John Stuart Mill} } @book {82591, title = {The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Mit Pr}, organization = {Mit Pr}, abstract = {

Santayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos.

Santayana{\textquoteright}s Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely.

In this first book of the work, Santayana provides an account of how the human animal develops instinct, passion, and chaotic experience into rationality and ideal life. Inspired by Aristotle{\textquoteright}s De Anima, Darwin{\textquoteright}s evolutionary theory, and William James{\textquoteright}s The Principles of Psychology, Santayana contends that the requirements of action in a hazardous and uncertain environment are the sources of the development of mind. More specifically, instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos. Separating himself from the typical thought of the time by his recognition of the imagination, Santayana in this volume offers extensive critiques of various philosophies of mind, including those of Kant and the British empiricists.

This Critical Edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes a chronology, notes, bibliography, textual commentary, lists of variants, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

}, isbn = {9780262016742}, author = {Santayana, George} } @book {82429, title = {Lectures on ethics}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge, United Kingdom}, abstract = {

This volume contains four versions of the lecture notes taken by Kant{\textquoteright}s students of his university courses in ethics given regularly over a period of some thirty years. The notes are very complete and expound not only Kant{\textquoteright}s views on ethics but many of his opinions on life and human nature. Much of this material has never before been translated into English. As with other volumes in the series, there are copious linguistic and explanatory notes and a glossary of key terms.\ 

}, isbn = {9780521788045}, author = {Immanuel Kant}, editor = {Peter Heath and J. B. Schneewind} } @book {80502, title = {The language of new media}, year = {2002}, pages = {354}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, abstract = {

1st MIT Press pbk. ed. "In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media{\textquoteright}s reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer, and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new media, such as interface and database."{\textendash}Book cover. What is new media? {\textendash} The interface {\textendash} The operations {\textendash} The illusions {\textendash} The forms {\textendash} What is cinema?

}, isbn = {9780262632553}, author = {Manovich, Lev.} } @book {82297, title = {Liberty}, year = {2002}, publisher = {Oxford University Press, USA}, organization = {Oxford University Press, USA}, abstract = {

Liberty\ is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important--Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly discussed since it was first published in 1969. Writing in\ Harper{\textquoteright}s, Irving Howe described it as "an exhilarating performance--this, one tells oneself, is what the life of the mind can be."
Berlin{\textquoteright}s editor Henry Hardy has revised the text, incorporating a fifth essay that Berlin himself had wanted to include. He has also added further pieces that bear on the same topic, so that Berlin{\textquoteright}s principal statements on liberty are at last available together in one volume. Finally, in an extended preface and in appendices drawn from Berlin{\textquoteright}s unpublished writings, he exhibits some of the biographical sources of Berlin{\textquoteright}s lifelong preoccupation with liberalism. These additions help us to grasp the nature of Berlin{\textquoteright}s "inner citadel," as he called it--the core of personal conviction from which some of his most influential writing sprung.

Isaiah Berlin was a Fellow of All Souls and New College, Professor of Social and Political Theory, and founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. He died in 1997. Henry Hardy is a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and is one of Isaiah Berlin{\textquoteright}s Literary Trustees. He has edited several other books by Berlin, and is currently preparing his letters and his remaining unpublished writings for publication.

}, isbn = {9780199249893}, author = {Berlin, Isaiah and Harris, Ian} } @book {82430, title = {Life and Death: Grappling with the Moral Dilemmas of Our Time}, year = {1999}, publisher = {Cengage Learning, Inc}, organization = {Cengage Learning, Inc}, address = {Belmont, CA, United States}, abstract = {

This single-authored, brief text explores the moral dilemmas in our lives from a philosophical point of view. Society is deeply divided on the matters of life and death discussed in this book: the sanctity of life versus the quality of life; the meaning of death and dying; suicide; euthanasia; abortion; artificial procreation such as in vitro fertilization and cloning; the death penalty; animal rights; world hunger; and war.\ 

}, isbn = {9780534508241}, author = {Louis Pojman} } @book {80241, title = {Liberalism and the limits of justice}, year = {1998}, pages = {231}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, abstract = {

2nd ed. Previous edition published in 1982.

Sandel traces the limits of liberalism to the conception of the person that underlies it, and argues for a deeper understanding of community than liberalism allows. Introduction: Liberalism and the Primacy of Justice

{\textendash} 1. Justice and the Moral Subject. The Primacy of Justice and the Priority of the Self. Liberalism without Metaphysics: The Original Position. The Circumstances of Justice: Empiricist Objections. The Circumstances of Justice: Deontological Rejoinder. In Search of the Moral Subject. The Self and the Other: The Priority of Plurality. The Self and Its Ends: The Subject of Possession. Individualism and the Claims of Community

{\textendash} 2. Possession, Desert, and Distributive Justice. Libertarianism to Egalitarianism. Meritocracy versus the Difference Principle. Defending Common Assets. The Basis of Desert. Individual and Social Claims: Who Owns What?

{\textendash} 3. Contract Theory and Justification. The Morality of Contract. Contracts versus Contractarian Arguments. Liberalism and the Priority of Procedure. What Really Goes on behind the Veil of Ignorance

{\textendash} 4. Justice and the Good. The Unity of the Self. The Case of Affirmative Action. Three Conceptions of Community. Agency and the Role of Reflection. Agency and the Role of Choice. The Status of the Good. The Moral Epistemology of Justice. Justice and Community

{\textendash} Conclusion: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

{\textendash} A Response to Rawls{\textquoteright} Political Liberalism.

}, isbn = {9780521567411}, author = {Michael J. Sandel} } @book {80555, title = {Literary theory : an introduction}, year = {1996}, publisher = {University of Minnesota Press}, organization = {University of Minnesota Press}, isbn = {9780631201885}, author = {Eagleton, Terry} } @book {80778, title = {Literature and rationality : ideas of agency in theory and fiction}, year = {1991}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, abstract = {

Rationality: some basic issues {\textendash}
Agency, rationality, and literary knowledge {\textendash}
Naturalism and the question of agency {\textendash}
Agent{\textquoteright}s rationality {\textendash}
Plans and irrationality {\textendash}
Science, reason, and society {\textendash}
Coda: {\textquoteright}Der Bau{\textquoteright}.

}, isbn = {0521405408}, author = {Livingston, Paisley} } @book {80237, title = {Liberalism, community, and culture}, year = {1989}, pages = {280}, publisher = {Clarendon Press}, organization = {Clarendon Press}, abstract = {

Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader account of the relationship between the individual and society. This book presents the liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture in an unusually explicit and systematic way, and links it to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality. Critics charge that liberalism suffers from an underlying {\textquoteright}atomistic{\textquoteright} or {\textquoteright}abstract{\textquoteright} individualism. As a result liberals, in a misguided attempt to promote the dignity and autonomy of the individual, have undermined the very communities and associations which alone can nurture human flourishing and freedom. Professor Kymlicka considers these objections as they are formulated in recent communitarian writings, and as they appear in debates over the rights of minority cultures. In each case, he argues, the resources available within the liberal view of community and culture have been misunderstood and underestimated.

He analyses the rights of minority cultures, in particular the special status of Indian and Inuit in Canada, and concludes that liberalism, properly understood and applied, recognizes the fundamental importance of cultural membership, and endorses various measures undertaken to protect minority cultures.

}, isbn = {0198275994}, author = {Kymlicka, Will.} } @book {79827, title = {Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication}, year = {1988}, publisher = {Basil Blackwell}, organization = {Basil Blackwell}, address = {Oxford}, abstract = {

A new edition of Ruth Finnegan{\textquoteright}s controversial reposte to Walter Ong{\textquoteright}s famous theories of {\textquoteright}orality{\textquoteright}

}, isbn = {9780631156260}, author = {Ruth Finnegan} } @book {80113, title = {Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols}, year = {1968}, publisher = {Hackett}, organization = {Hackett}, address = {Indianapolis, IN}, author = {Nelson Goodman} } @article {10794, title = {La formation de sens comme {\'e}v{\'e}nement}, volume = {34}, year = {1943}, pages = {149{\textendash}172}, author = {Tengelyi, L{\'a}szl{\'o}} }