..., offering a critique and a parody of Western practices of distancing, othering, and moral indifference. The chapter analyzes three films that come from a range of cinematic cultures: Nicija Zemlja (No Man's Land, 2001) from Bosnia, Tears of the Sun (2003) from America...

...This section considers indifference to taste, eating based on nutritional and biological need, in the context of Perullo’s previous development of the aesthetics of taste. ecological paradigm animal attitude anthropocentric doctrine of taste Brillat Savarin Jean Anthelme The Character of Rain...

... helps critical social theory engage with phenomena such as meaninglessness, isolation, and indifference. By severing alienation's link to a problematic conception of human essence while retaining its social-philosophical content, the book provides resources for a renewed critique of social pathologies...

...This chapter describes the problems associating domain with the concept of alienation, with particular emphasis on the various dimensions of the concept and how alienation reveals itself both in everyday language and in the philosophical treatment of the concept. Alienation means indifference...

...This chapter focuses on indifference as a kind of self-alienation and loss of self. Someone who is indifferent with respect to his/her (own) projects and plans, who cannot identify with anything, so the argument goes, is not only alienated from the world but also from himself/herself, since he/she...