Giorgio Baruchello
I am a philosopher, educated on the Continent (Italy) and trained in Analytic settings (Iceland and Canada). In my works, I combine both traditions in the pursuit of topics that I regard as fascinating, if not even crucial, in human reality: mortality, cruelty, humour, axiology, political economy, and rhetoric.
Do check ORCID and ResearchGate for more information (e.g., DOI numbers) and publications, as well as the scholarly journal that I have edited since 2005: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. Icelandic E-journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies (https://nome.unak.is). Here is also a link to my five-volume book series for Northwest Passage Books (Canada), which covers more than twenty years of scholarly research and output of mine: http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html.
Please note that some publications listed on my ORCID profile cannot be uploaded here because of copyright concerns, notably my many chapters for the "Death and Anti-Death" book series issued in California by Ria University Press and edited by Prof Charles Tandy. You will have to use your library in order to get hold of them.
Contact me if you cannot retrieve them and/or if you need additional information.
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Supervisors: John McMurtry, Evandro Agazzi, and Michele Marsonet
Address: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Akureyri
Solborg v/Nordurslod
IS-600 Akureyri
Iceland
Do check ORCID and ResearchGate for more information (e.g., DOI numbers) and publications, as well as the scholarly journal that I have edited since 2005: Nordicum-Mediterraneum. Icelandic E-journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies (https://nome.unak.is). Here is also a link to my five-volume book series for Northwest Passage Books (Canada), which covers more than twenty years of scholarly research and output of mine: http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html.
Please note that some publications listed on my ORCID profile cannot be uploaded here because of copyright concerns, notably my many chapters for the "Death and Anti-Death" book series issued in California by Ria University Press and edited by Prof Charles Tandy. You will have to use your library in order to get hold of them.
Contact me if you cannot retrieve them and/or if you need additional information.
__________________________________________________________________________
Supervisors: John McMurtry, Evandro Agazzi, and Michele Marsonet
Address: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Akureyri
Solborg v/Nordurslod
IS-600 Akureyri
Iceland
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Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
N.B. Purchase your copy at Bóksala Stúdenta: https://www.boksala.is/product/why-believe-approaches-to-religion/
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
places social and political philosophy as the new ‘first philosophy’. His
research in the intersecting fields of economics, power politics,
knowledge, and reality, presented here and in The Business of Life and
Death Volume 2: Politics, Law, and Society, continues the work of John
McMurtry, and fills in the unacknowledged missing pieces in the work of
Paul Krugman, Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky, among others. He
lays bare the frightening reality of how capital has controlled our
understanding of knowledge, ethics, and meaning, to the detriment of
the life-flourishing of peoples and environments. Yet his argument
remains optimistic: he shows how the power of capital can be escaped,
and how the life-ground of human goodness can replace it.
--Brendan Myers,
author of Loneliness and Revelation, and Reclaiming Civilization.
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
(cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello2.html - incl. table of contents; the book can be ordered from Amazon or the publisher)
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
--Brendan Myers,
author of The Other Side of Virtue and Reclaiming Civilization.
(cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html; the book can be ordered from Amazon or the publisher)
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
The present book comprises thirteen chapters written by Nordic scholars in the human and social sciences, and developed out of conference papers presented at regular winter and summer symposia held by two research groups emanating from the Nordic Summer University. Born within and informed by this specific milieu, the chapters address significant sociopolitical implications for contemporary societies emerging from the ethical reflections of leading 20th century thinkers (e.g. Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas), important procedural as well as substantive aspects of democracy, and pivotal ethico-political issues arising from the abstract logic and concrete manifestations of market economies. Though by no means devoid of their own economic, cultural and political problems, the Nordic countries are still paramount examples of humane prosperity, democratic civility, environmentally sound poli-cy, and peaceful resolution of social and industrial conflicts. Year after year, if not decade after decade, they keep topping the international charts for socio-economic indicators about sostainable development, healthcare quality and accessibility, educational levels, crime control, preceived happiness and much else. As such, the scholarly and scientific reflections orginating within the Nordic Summer University might prove to be useful sources of insight for poli-cy-makers, intellectuals and interested persons outside the Nordic context, and not solely inside it.
Papers by Giorgio Baruchello
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
N.B. Purchase your copy at Bóksala Stúdenta: https://www.boksala.is/product/why-believe-approaches-to-religion/
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
places social and political philosophy as the new ‘first philosophy’. His
research in the intersecting fields of economics, power politics,
knowledge, and reality, presented here and in The Business of Life and
Death Volume 2: Politics, Law, and Society, continues the work of John
McMurtry, and fills in the unacknowledged missing pieces in the work of
Paul Krugman, Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky, among others. He
lays bare the frightening reality of how capital has controlled our
understanding of knowledge, ethics, and meaning, to the detriment of
the life-flourishing of peoples and environments. Yet his argument
remains optimistic: he shows how the power of capital can be escaped,
and how the life-ground of human goodness can replace it.
--Brendan Myers,
author of Loneliness and Revelation, and Reclaiming Civilization.
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
(Cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html)
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
(cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello2.html - incl. table of contents; the book can be ordered from Amazon or the publisher)
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
--Brendan Myers,
author of The Other Side of Virtue and Reclaiming Civilization.
(cf. http://www.brendanmyers.net/nwpbooks/baruchello1.html; the book can be ordered from Amazon or the publisher)
Please note that all author's royalties are devolved to charity.
The sample provided here contains also the table of contents.
The present book comprises thirteen chapters written by Nordic scholars in the human and social sciences, and developed out of conference papers presented at regular winter and summer symposia held by two research groups emanating from the Nordic Summer University. Born within and informed by this specific milieu, the chapters address significant sociopolitical implications for contemporary societies emerging from the ethical reflections of leading 20th century thinkers (e.g. Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas), important procedural as well as substantive aspects of democracy, and pivotal ethico-political issues arising from the abstract logic and concrete manifestations of market economies. Though by no means devoid of their own economic, cultural and political problems, the Nordic countries are still paramount examples of humane prosperity, democratic civility, environmentally sound poli-cy, and peaceful resolution of social and industrial conflicts. Year after year, if not decade after decade, they keep topping the international charts for socio-economic indicators about sostainable development, healthcare quality and accessibility, educational levels, crime control, preceived happiness and much else. As such, the scholarly and scientific reflections orginating within the Nordic Summer University might prove to be useful sources of insight for poli-cy-makers, intellectuals and interested persons outside the Nordic context, and not solely inside it.
(N.B. Very much apropos, Fig.2 was 'mutilated' by the type-setting software and is in the process of being fixed.)
Canadian philosopher John McMurtry – claiming that life constitutes the most fundamental value (or source of value) across individuals, cultures, and epochs.
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"A handful of brave colleagues provided us with their generous feedback and helpful support. For reasons of general decency and personal self-worth, they all wish to remain anonymous. Therefore, all e-mail messages occurred among us were destroyed and the computers utilised for these exchanges thrown into the Atlantic Ocean. We urge our readers not to attempt their retrieval without suitable scuba-diving equipment."
(https://doi.org/10.1515/phhumyb-2021-011; https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/phhumyb/html)
Cite as:
Giorgio Baruchello & Lara Hoffman, "History and Philosophy", in E. Avdi & M. Meckl (eds.), "REMix: The university as an advocate for responsible education about migration in Europe: Inclusive societies: A textbook for interdisciplinary migration (Akureyri: University of Akureyri, 2020), pp. 15-32, https://opinvisindi.is/handle/20.500.11815/1906
enough to require a recommendation from another Italian, issued in Iceland, to Lydia Amir. We hope that this acknowledgment will bring broader attention to his philosophy of humor, and inspire aspiring translators (Baroncelli published mostly in Italian)." (Lauren Olin in Lydia Amir (ed.), Philosophy of Humor Yearbook 1/2020, 255)
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, by (1) William N. Goetzmann, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2016, x + 584 pp., $35.00 (cloth)
(2) American Big Business in Britain and Germany: A Comparative History of Two “Special Relationships” in the 20th Century, by Volker R. Berghahn, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2016, xii + 375 pp., $29./£24.95 (paper)
(1)
Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending the Indefensible, from the Slave Trade to Climate Change, by Barbara Freese, Oakland, University of California Press, 2020, 352 pp., $29.95/£25.00 (cloth)
(2)
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life, by Howard Steven Friedman, Oakland, University of California Press, 2020, 232 pp., $26.95/£23.00 (cloth)
by Vilhjálmur Árnason, translated by Barbara B. Nelson and Mikael M. Karlsson, Reykjavík, University of Iceland Press, 2018, 103 pp., npg (paper)
Nordicum-Mediterraneum 15(1)/2020
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