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*With a foreword from Tim Keller* A bold vision for Christians who
want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and
culturally sensitive. In Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher
Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make
sense of modern life and culture. Critical theories exist to
critique what we think we know about reality and the social,
political, and cultural structures in which we live. In doing so,
they make visible the values and beliefs of a culture in order to
scrutinize and change them. Biblical Critical Theory exposes and
evaluates the often-hidden assumptions and concepts that shape
late-modern society, examining them through the lens of the
biblical story running from Genesis to Revelation, and asking
urgent questions like: How does the Bible's storyline help us
understand our society, our culture, and ourselves? How do specific
doctrines help us engage thoughtfully in the philosophical,
political, and social questions of our day? How can we analyze and
critique culture and its alternative critical theories through
Scripture? Informed by the biblical-theological structure of Saint
Augustine's magisterial work The City of God (and with extensive
diagrams and practical tools), Biblical Critical Theory shows how
the patterns of the Bible's storyline can provide incisive, fresh,
and nuanced ways of intervening in today's debates on everything
from science, the arts, and politics to dignity, multiculturalism,
and equality. You'll learn the moves to make and the tools to use
in analyzing and engaging with all sorts of cultural artifacts and
events in a way that is both biblically faithful and culturally
relevant. It is not enough for Christians to explain the Bible to
the culture or cultures in which we live. We must also explain the
culture in which we live within the framework and categories of the
Bible, revealing how the whole of the Bible sheds light on the
whole of life. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging,
and dynamic voice in the marketplace of ideas today, we need to
mine the unique treasures of the distinctive biblical storyline.
What does 'autonomy' mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding
of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have
the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent
developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political
pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The
challenges to autonomy today reach across society with
unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from
philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine
the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully
defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of
resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading
for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of
one of modernity's foundational concepts and one of our most widely
cherished values.
This title reassesses the term 'atheism' in the context of
contemporary French philosophy. Drawing primarily on the work of
Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, plus Quentin Meillassoux and
Slavoj Zizek, Watkin explores the theme of atheism through the
ideas of the death of God and nihilism, and probes the limits of
any 'atheistic politics'. He argues that rigorous atheism is
elusive, and that Continental thought, even in its most stridently
atheistic guises, has yet to fully come to terms with the death of
God.
Christopher Watkin provides a true overview of Serres' thinking.
Using diagrams to explain Serres' thought, the first half of the
book carefully explores Serres' 'global intuition' - how he
understands and engages with the world - and his 'figures of
thought', the repeated intellectual moves that characterise his
unique approach. The second half explores in detail Serres'
revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and
ecology. All told, Watkin shows that Michel Serres has produced a
cross-disciplinary body of work that provides a crucial and as yet
under-exploited reference for current debates in post-humanism,
object oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental
humanities.
Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres
and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is
laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of
philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to
'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the
possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to
our own brains. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and
perils of these new philosophies. And he shows just how high the
stakes are for our technologically advanced but socially atomised
and ecologically vulnerable society.
Phenomenology or Deconstruction? challenges traditional
understandings of the relationship between phenomenology and
deconstruction through new readings of the work of Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricur and Jean-Luc Nancy. A constant dialogue
with Jacques Derrida's engagement with phenomenological themes
provides the impetus to establishing a new understanding of 'being'
and 'presence' that exposes significant blindspots inherent in
traditional readings of both phenomenology and deconstruction. In
reproducing neither a stock phenomenological reaction to
deconstruction nor the routine deconstructive reading of
phenomenology, Christopher Watkin provides a fresh assessment of
the possibilities for the future of phenomenology, along with a new
reading of the deconstructive legacy. Through detailed studies of
the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Ricur and Nancy, he shows how a
phenomenological tradition much wider and richer than Husserlian or
Heideggerean thought alone can take account of Derrida's critique
of ontology and yet still hold a commitment to the
ontological.
This new reading of being and presence fundamentally re-draws our
understanding of the relation of deconstruction and phenomenology,
and provides the first sustained discussion of the possibilities
and problems for any future 'deconstructive phenomenology'.
Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres
and Bruno Latour: this new generation of French philosophers is
laying fresh claim to the human. Across a number of new strains of
philosophy, they are rethinking humanity's relationships: to
'nature' and 'culture', to the objects that surround us, to the
possibility of social and political change, to ecology and even to
our own brains. Christopher Watkin draws out both the promises and
perils of these new philosophies. And he shows just how high the
stakes are for our technologically advanced but socially atomised
and ecologically vulnerable society.
Christopher Watkin provides a true overview of Serres' thinking.
Using diagrams to explain Serres' thought, the first half of the
book carefully explores Serres' 'global intuition' - how he
understands and engages with the world - and his 'figures of
thought', the repeated intellectual moves that characterise his
unique approach. The second half explores in detail Serres'
revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and
ecology. All told, Watkin shows that Michel Serres has produced a
cross-disciplinary body of work that provides a crucial and as yet
under-exploited reference for current debates in post-humanism,
object oriented ontology, ecological thought and the environmental
humanities.
"From Plato to Postmodernism" presents the cultural history of the
West in one concise volume. Nearly four thousand years of Western
history are woven together into an unfolding story in which we see
how movements and individuals contributed to the philosophy,
literature and art that have shaped today's world. The story begins
with the West's Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian origins, moving
through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romanticism
to twenty-first century postmodernity. The author covers key
figures such as Moses, Michelangelo, Mozart and Marx, setting them
in context and highlighting their main contributions. Illustrations
and a comprehensive glossary help explain important terms such as
'gothic', 'baroque', 'stream of consciousness' and 'the death of
God', and clarify movements such as Neoplatonism, Renaissance
humanism and existentialism.For students, this book bridges the gap
between what is taught in schools and the cultural knowledge
required at university, providing an indispensible grounding in the
story of Western culture. For all readers, it offers an invitation
to take an enjoyable tour through the fascinating history of
Western thought, literature and art.
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