Slaves of the Passions
Title | Slaves of the Passions PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Schroeder |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2007-12-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199299501 |
Mark Schroeder presents an original theory of reasons for action. This theory is broadly Humean, in holding that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires. Slaves of the Passions will be essential reading for anyone interested in metaethics, practical reason, or explanatory moral theory.
Of the passions
Title | Of the passions PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 582 |
Release | 1826 |
Genre | |
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Willing Slaves Of Capital
Title | Willing Slaves Of Capital PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Lordon |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2014-07-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1781681619 |
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remolding of desire. A thoroughly materialist reading of Spinoza's Ethics allows Lordon to debunk all notions of individual autonomy and self-determination while simultaneously saving the ideas of political freedom and liberation from capitalist exploitation. Willing Slaves of Capital is a bold proposal to rethink capitalism and its transcendence on the basis of the contemporary experience of work.
Reflecting Subjects
Title | Reflecting Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Anne Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198729529 |
Offers a reconstruction of Hume's social theory and examines his moral philosophy, account of social power, and system of ethics.
Thoughts Upon Slavery
Title | Thoughts Upon Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | John Wesley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1774 |
Genre | Slavery |
ISBN |
Slaves in the Family
Title | Slaves in the Family PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Ball |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2017-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 146689749X |
Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"
Generations of Captivity
Title | Generations of Captivity PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2004-09-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674020832 |
Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding of the processes that continually transformed the lives of slaves makes Generations of Captivity essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of antebellum America. Connecting the Charter Generation to the development of Atlantic society in the seventeenth century, the Plantation Generation to the reconstruction of colonial society in the eighteenth century, the Revolutionary Generation to the Age of Revolutions, and the Migration Generation to American expansionism in the nineteenth century, Berlin integrates the history of slavery into the larger story of American life. He demonstrates how enslaved black people, by adapting to changing circumstances, prepared for the moment when they could seize liberty and declare themselves the Freedom Generation. This epic story, told by a master historian, provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.