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7Mortal Vocabularies vs. Immortal PropositionsCulture and Dialogue 1 (2): 63-78. 2011.Over thirty years ago, Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature declared the demise of epistemology and the arrival of a new post-Philosophical era. Rorty envisaged the intellectual activity of this predominantly literary culture as an unconstrained large-scale conversation that would flourish in an “ecstasy of spiritual freedom.” Having abandoned all systematic pretensions, edifying philosophers would add their voice to the conversation of mankind, fully aware of the radical incommen…Read more
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5The Crisis of the Human Sciences: False Objectivity and the Decline of Creativity (edited book)Cambridge Scholars Press. 2011.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 humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a hic et nunc basis, and that they should not entirely depend on normative criteria whose function is often to hide ignorance behind a pretentious veil of value-neutral objectivity. In sociology, the gro…Read more
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5The cool-kawaii: Afro-Japanese aesthetics and new world modernityLexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011.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 expressions set against oppressive homogenizations of a technocratic world. The Cool-Kawaii sheds light on the history and development of both cultures in three main ways: First, both emerge from similar historical conditions; second, both are in search of human dignity and libera…Read more
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3The Philosophy of Viagra: Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World (edited book)BRILL. 2011.The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a pretext for jokes or even as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications that are not limited to sexuality. _The Philosophy of Viagra_ offers a unique perspective as it examines the phenomenon of Viagra through ideas derived from more than two thousand years of philosophical reasoning. In …Read more
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1Mazhar Hussain and Robert Wilkinson, eds. The Pursuit of Comparative Aesthetics: An Interface between East and West Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (1): 28-31. 2008.
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Book Reviews (review)Architecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.The Philosophy of Chinese Architecture by David Wang Thinking Like a Mall by Steven Vogel
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Sh-zo Kuki et la'philosophie de la contingence'fran aise. Une communication entre l'Oreitne et l'OccidentRevue Philosophique De Louvain 97 (1): 113-126. 1999.
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
Gulf University For Science And Technology
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Gulf University For Science And TechnologyProfessor
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Philosophy, Misc |
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Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |
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