Cultural Studies 2022

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Philosophy

Political Studies

philosophy may provide foundations for modern-day human rights protection rather than for totalitarian orders.

Jean-Rémi Carbonneau • Fabian Jacobs • Ines Keller (eds.)

Dorota Probucka (ed.)

Bruxelles, 2021. 512 pp., 9 fig. b/w, 6 tables.

The Ethical Condemnation of Hunting

Diversitas. Vol. 27

Berlin, 2022. 338 pp., 1 tables. hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-87078-5 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.60 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-87784-5 CHF 70.– / €D 59.95 / €A 61.70 / € 56.10 / £ 46.– / US-$ 67.95

This volume, edited by Dorota Probucka, criticizes the modern approach to hunting by incorporating legal, ethical, cultural, social, theological, and linguistic perspectives into the analysis. The collection of articles contains thorough argumentation against hunting and determines social change strategies for eliminating it from cultural behavior patterns. It utilizes the expertise of Polish experts from many fields to describe and criticize the practice of hunting, illustrate its inhumane nature and unimaginable cruelty, and condemn the devastation of the natural environment that comes as a direct consequence of the actions of hunters. This volume argues that, unless dictated by biological need, hunting as a practice ought to be outlawed and culturally shunned, much like slavery.

Hanna Urbańska

The Philosophical System of Śiva Śatakam

Dimensions of Cultural Security for National and Linguistic Minorities

pb. • ISBN 978-2-8076-1727-8 CHF 93.– / €D 79.95 / €A 82.20 / € 74.80 / £ 61.– / US-$ 90.95 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-2-8076-1728-5 CHF 93.– / €D 79.95 / €A 82.30 / € 74.80 / £ 61.– / US-$ 90.95

Cultural security is a basic need for individuals belonging to national and linguistic minorities. Structurally exposed to asymmetric power dynamics, these minorities compete with the larger society for material and nonmaterial resources, rendering their future perspectives particularly precarious. This book brings researchers from different social sciences together to examine the notion of cultural security and its meaning for different national and linguistic minorities through multiple case studies in Europe, Asia, North and South America.

The cultural security of these minorities comprises various dimensions, including institutional and territorial arrangements, state stability, as well as different patterns of citizen belonging and participation. Through the prism of these dimensions, the contributors to this book present a variety of strategies of cultural resilience, societal structures and institutional frameworks allowing national and linguistic minorities to secure a certain degree of cultural autonomy and develop a sense of belonging to their respective states. Cultural security is an inescapable condition for the fair and sustained development of both minorities and majorities in today’s societies characterized by deep diversity.

In Relation to Tirumandiram by Tirumūlar Berlin, 2022. 562 pp., 5 fig. b/w.

Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies. Vol. 23

Wiesław Gumuła

On Property and Ownership Relations

hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-86787-7 CHF 81.– / €D 69.95 / €A 71.90 / € 65.40 / £ 54.– / US-$ 78.95

A Return to the Social Theory of Karl Marx

eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-631-86788-4 CHF 81.– / €D 69.95 / €A 71.90 / € 65.40 / £ 54.– / US-$ 78.95

Berlin, 2018. 200 pp.

This full-scaled monograph, rich in factographic material, concerns Nārāyan.a Guru (1855/56—1928), a founder of a powerful socio-religious movement in Kerala. He wrote in three languages (Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil), drawing on three different literary conventions.

The world of this complex philosophicreligious literature is brought closer to the reader with rare deft and dexterity by the Author who not only retrieves for us the original circumstances, language and poetic metre of each work but also supplies histories of their reception. Thanks to numerous glosses, comments and elucidations supplied by the Author, we can much better understand how Nārāyan.a’s mystical universe creatively relates to the Tamil Œaiva Siddhānta and to Kerala’s variety of Vedānta tradition. Prof. Cezary Galewicz

Studies in Philosophy, History of Ideas and Modern Societies. Vol. 12 hb. • ISBN 978-3-631-66736-1 CHF 49.40 / €D 41.20 / €A 43.20 / € 39.27 / £ 32.60 / US-$ 48.25 eBook (SUL) • ISBN 978-3-653-06321-9 CHF 49.40 / €D 41.23 / €A 43.20 / € 39.27 / £ 32.55 / US-$ 48.25

This book comprises a systematic analysis of Karl Marx’s reasoning on ownership. Marx as the author of an original theory of ownership is yet to be discovered. The creator of a theory which was to interpret social reality is quite a different thinker from the creator of a doctrine which was to alter the world. In designing communist society, Marx ignored the threats which social property bears, despite having skillfully identified them in investigations of diverse pre-capitalistic forms of common ownership. The