This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Confucius' The Analects, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read The Analects or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Confucius philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.

This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Confucius' The Analects, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read The Analects or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to Confucius philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.

This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes comprehension on a first reading. Whether you have already read Meditations or not, this essay will allow you to immerse yourself in each and every one of its meanings, opening a window to marcus Aurelius' philosophical thought and his true intention when he created this immortal work.

This volume weaves together a variety of perspectives aimed at confronting a spectrum of ethico-political global challenges arising in the Anthropocene which affect the future of life on planet earth. In this book, the authors offer a multi-faceted approach to address the consequences of its imaginary and projective directions. The chapters span the disciplines of political economy, cybernetics, environmentalism, bio-science, psychoanalysis, bioacoustics, documentary film, installation art, geoperformativity, and glitch aesthetics. The first section attempts to flesh out new aspects of current debates. Questions over the Capitaloscene are explored via conflations of class and climate, revisiting the eco-Marxist analysis of capitalism, and the financial system that thrives on debt. The second section explores the imaginary narratives that raise questions regarding non-human involvement. The third section addresses ’geoartisty,’ the counter artistic responses to the speculariztion of climate disasters, questioning eco-documentaries, and what a post-anthropocentric art might look like. The last section addresses the pedagogical response to the Anthropocene.

Guy Stroumsa offers an innovative and powerful argument that the comparative study of religion finds its origin in early modern Europe. --from publisher description.

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