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Another Way of Seeing - Essays on Transforming Law, Politics and Culture (Hardcover)
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Another Way of Seeing - Essays on Transforming Law, Politics and Culture (Hardcover)
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In ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING, Peter Gabel argues that our most
fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for
authentic mutual recognition. Because we live in a world in which
this desire is systematically denied due to the legacy of fear of
the other that has been passed on from generation to generation, we
exist as what he calls "withdrawn selves," perceiving the other as
a threat rather than as the source of our completion as social
beings. Calling for a new kind of "spiritual activism" that speaks
to this universal interpersonal longing, Gabel shows how we can
transform law, politics, public policy, and culture so as to build
a new social movement through which we become more fully present to
each other-creating a new "parallel universe" existing alongside
our socially separated world and reaffirming the social bond that
inherently unites us. "Peter Gabel is one of the grand prophetic
voices in our day. He also is a long-distance runner in the
struggle for justice. Don't miss this book " -Cornel West, The
Class of 1943 Professor, Princeton University, and Professor of
Philosophy and Christian Practice, Union Theological Seminary
"Peter Gabel has delivered a set of unmatched phenomenological
analyses of the profound alienation that pervades everyday life in
America in the early 21st century. His insightful descriptions of
the way things really are challenge us to open our eyes, minds and
hearts to our own and one another's deepest longings, and together,
to bring one another back home. ... Like a pick axe thrown ahead to
anchor us all, to paraphrase one of his most evocative images,
Gabel's polemic teaches and inspires us to 'think with our hearts,
' to genuinely and confidently love ourselves and our brothers and
sisters on this very planet Earth, to lift ourselves and one
another on the strength of our authentic Presence, and to move
things forward together. Now." -Rhonda V. Magee, Professor of Law,
University of San Francisco
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