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Explosive and propulsive, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty proves Charlene Elsby to be a formidable talent. This book will haunt you." -Juliet Escoria, author of Juliet the Maniac "Depraved, stark, and dripping in blood, The Devil Thinks I'm Pretty by Charlene Elsby is an experience that demands to be felt. Unique prose, dark musings, and an experimental structure blend beautifully with the layers of grief and bodily autonomy. In the main charact...

A philosophy professor, influenced by de Sade and Bataille, tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts. Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor who is ejected from the academic system by university administrators who aim to impose business strategies on the institution in the interest of profit over knowledge. She designs a serie...

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I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm lacking it. In that sense, I'm not relentless, but perhaps I'm unrelenting. I could relent if I wanted to. But he always has to die. I mean "always" in two senses: at all times and all of the time. I can't kill him all of the time. That would take too long. But all of the times I did, I did. I'd do it again. I could relent if I wanted to, but in...

Asses, Arrows, and Undead Cats is a handbook for everyone who enjoys the thought of an unsolvable problem. Why does freedom lead to tyranny? What would happen if you went back in time and killed your own grandfather? What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Throughout history, philosophers have run up against problems and paradoxes that seem to come straight out of their own worldviews. Asses, Arrows, and Undead Cats ...

Trade paperback. Seventeen chapters applying a philosophical lens to the work of comedian Amy Schumer, looking at "Snatched", her commonality with Nietzsche, and her commentary on media issues.

This thesis is an investigation of intentional being in a realist phenomenological context, its history and its characteristics. Intentional being is a type of being existing in nature that can be ascribed to immaterial entities that come into being and pass away. Beginning with Aristotle, notions of a second type of incorporeal being (besides the ideal) are traced as made evident in the works of ancient commentators through to the modern conc...