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Thinking Woman
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Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth
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This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars
across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances
a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms. While there
is little agreement on what ‘materialism’ means, it is evident
that there is a resurgence in thinking about matter in more
animated and active ways. The volume explores how debates
concerning the new materialisms impinge on religious traditions and
the extent to which religions, with their material culture and
beliefs in the Divine within the material, can make a creative
contribution to debates about ecological materialisms. Spanning a
broad range of themes, including politics, architecture,
hermeneutics, literature and religion, the book brings together a
series of discussions on materialism in the context of diverse
methodologies and approaches. The volume investigates a range of
issues including space and place, hierarchy and relationality, the
relationship between nature and society, human and other agencies,
and worldviews and cultural values. Drawing on literary and
critical theory, and queer, philosophical, theological and social
theoretical approaches, this ground-breaking book will make an
important contribution to the environmental humanities. It will be
a key read for postgraduate students, researchers and scholars in
religious studies, cultural anthropology, literary studies,
philosophy and environmental studies.
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first
academic study—adopting an interdisciplinary and international
perspective—to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework
for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different
radical-right movements in Global South countries in the
twenty-first century. From deforestation and the anti-vaccine
movement in Bolsonaro’s Brazil to the massacre of religious
minorities in Modi’s India, the rise of the radical right in the
Global South is in the news every day. Not long ago, some of these
countries were globally celebrated as emerging economies that
consolidated vibrant democracies. Nonetheless, they never overcame
structural problems including economic inequality, social violence,
cultural conservatism, and political authoritarianism. Featuring
case studies from Brazil, India, the Philippines, and South Africa,
and more generally from Africa and Latin America, this book
analyses future scenarios and current alternatives to this
political movement to the radical right. It proposes a shift of
focus in examining such a trend, adopting a view from the Global
South; conventional theoretical tools developed around the
experience in Global North countries are not enough. The authors
show that the radical right in the Global South should be analysed
through specific lenses, considering national historical patterns
of political and economic development and instability. They also
warn that researching these countries may differ from contexts
where democratic institutions are more reliable. This does not mean
abandoning a transnational understanding of the radical right;
rather, it calls for the opposite: the chapters examine how the
radical right is invented, adapted, modified, and resisted in
specific regions of the globe. This volume will be of interest to
all those researching the radical right and the politics of
development and the Global South.
Presents a new philosophy of gender categories, going beyond binary
oppositions Introduces some novel concepts, such as 'gender feels'
and applies hermeneutical injustice theory to gender One of the
first books to use analytic philosophy to disentangle a lot of the
confusing debates around gender, which are still rooted in
physiological differences
The rapid advancement of technology has led to an explosion of
speculative theories about what the future of humankind may look
like. These "technological futurisms" have arisen from significant
advances in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and
information technology and are drawing growing scrutiny from the
philosophical and theological communities. This text seeks to
contextualize the growing literature on the cultural, philosophical
and religious implications of technological growth by considering
technological futurisms such as transhumanism in the context of the
long historical tradition of technological dreaming. Michael
Burdett traces the latent religious sources of our contemporary
technological imagination by looking at visionary approaches to
technology and the future in seminal technological utopias and
science fiction and draws on past theological responses to the
technological future with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques
Ellul. Burdett's argument arrives at a contemporary Christian
response to transhumanism based around the themes of possibility
and promise by turning to the works of Richard Kearney, Eberhard
Jungel and Jurgen Moltmann. Throughout, the author highlights
points of correspondence and divergence between technological
futurisms and the Judeo-Christian understanding of the future.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
Why aren’t ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin’s invasion
of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin’s own historical propaganda
narratives, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense.
From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the
Kremlin has long used myth and memory to legitimize repression at
home and imperialism abroad, its patriotic history resonating with
and persuading large swathes of the Russian population. In Memory
Makers, Russia analyst Jade McGlynn takes us into the depths of
Russian historical propaganda, revealing the chilling web of
nationwide narratives and practices perforating everyday life, from
after-school patriotic history clubs to tower block World War II
murals. The use of history to manifest a particular Russian
identity has had grotesque, even gruesome, consequences, but it
belongs to a global political pattern – where one’s view of
history is the ultimate marker of political loyalty, patriotism and
national belonging. Memory Makers demonstrates how the extreme
Russian experience is a stark warning to other nations tempted to
stare too long at the reflection of their own imagined and heroic
past.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANIST FUNERALS introduces readers to what
makes a humanist funeral, and offers inspiration from quotes,
meditations and stories from Humanists UK celebrants on how to
commemorate the life of a loved one.
The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series,
previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth
Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes
since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of
Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the
Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth
century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political
theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are
published in English or French.
This book defends a novel theory of singular concepts, emphasizing
the pragmatic requirements of singular concept possession and
arguing that these requirements must be understood to institute
traditions and policies of thought.
'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times
'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow
radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be
prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life
forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and
thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend Ways of Being' Dr Jane
Goodall, DBE Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial'
intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger
than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware
of the other intelligences which have been with us all along,
unrecognized. These other beings are the animals, plants, and
natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their
complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built
are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. In Ways of
Being, writer and artist James Bridle considers the fascinating,
uncanny and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn
from these other forms of intelligence and personhood, and how can
we change our societies to live more equitably with one another and
the non-human world? From Greek oracles to octopuses, forests to
satellites, Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology,
technology and intelligence. We must, they argue, expand our
definition of these terms to build a meaningful and free
relationship with the non-human, one based on solidarity and
cognitive diversity. We have so much to learn, and many worlds to
gain.
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