Astra Taylor

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Accepting Cura’s Gift From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor presents an ethic of insecurity, drawing on the ancient myth of the goddess Cura to frame human vulnerability as a foundation for care and solidarity.	Astra Taylor	14	2023	$1.40 Add
From Barons or Commoners? From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor traces the relationship between negative and positive rights, from the Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest in 1215 and 1217 to the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and …	Astra Taylor	57	2023	$5.70 Add
From Beyond Human Security From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor examines the limits of conventional security frameworks and the humility required to navigate an increasingly complex world.	Astra Taylor	57	2023	$5.70 Add
From Consumed by Curiosity From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor examines how postmaterialist values from the 1960s and 1970s counterculture in Canada and the United States were co-opted by consumer capitalism to manufacture insecurity.	Astra Taylor	55	2023	$5.50 Add
From Cura’s Gift From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor argues that care and anxiety are inherent to human existence, tracing this idea from the Roman myth of Cura through Stoic philosophy to today.	Astra Taylor	50	2023	$5.00 Add
From Escaping the Burrow From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Taylor examines how commercial insurance moved from collective security to individual risk, examining Kafka’s early twentieth- century work in Prague, the industry’s …	Astra Taylor	56	2023	$5.60 Add
From Notes and Biblography From: The Age of Insecurity View House of Anansi Press	This "chapter" is a bibliography.	Astra Taylor	47	2023	$4.70 Add
The Age of Insecurity Coming Together as Things Fall Apart House of Anansi Press	These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially stressed and emotionally overwhelmed. The status quo isn’t working for anyone, even those who appear to have it all. What is going …	Astra Taylor	354	2023	View