The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference

by Christine Battersby
Routledge, 2007

The Sublime, Terror and Human Difference offers an exploration of the nature of the sublime, one of the most important topics in contemporary debates about modernity, politics and art. Christine Battersby engages with Kant, Burke, Nietzsche, Lyotard, Irigaray, Arendt, with women writers and artists, and recent debates around ‘9/11’, race, ‘Orientalism’ and Islam. She articulates a radical ‘female’—not ‘feminine’—sublime, and locates resources within the history of western culture to think human differences afresh.

Taking Responsibility for Children

edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007

What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the moral obligations owed to children by their caregivers. Some focus primarily on the responsibilities of parents, while others focus on the responsibilities of society and government.

The essays reflect a mix of concern with the practical and the philosophical aspects of taking responsibility for children, addressing such topics as parental obligations, the rights and entitlements of children, the responsibility of the state, the role and nature of public education in a liberal society, the best ways to ensure adequate child protection, the licensing of parents, children's religious education, and children's health. Taking Responsibility for Children will be of interest to philosophers, advocates for children's interests, and those interested in public policy, especially as it relates to children and families.

edited by Alison M. Jagger
Paradigm Publishers, 2007

Feminist methodology investigates which research methods and strategies are best suited for producing knowledge that is not biased by inequitable assumptions about gender and related categories such as class, race, religion, sexuality, and nationality. Just Methods is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in a range of disciplines. One key theme of the readings is the complex interrelationship between social power and inequality, on the one hand, and the production of knowledge, on the other. A second and related theme is the inseparability of research projects and methods from ethical and political values.

by Noëlle McAfee
Columbia University Press, 2008

Proposing a new political theory for a post-9/11 world, feminist political philosopher Noëlle McAfee addresses the root causes of our seemingly endless war on terror and considers the "talking cures" of testimony, including South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and other public deliberations that have helped societies work through, rather than act out, their conflicts. By bringing to bear a breathtaking range of perspectives on the practical problems of individuals who are committed to addressing past atrocities, McAfee show how the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is key to creating a more democratic society.