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Technoscience and Postphenomenology - The Manhattan Papers (Hardcover): Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Robert P. Crease Technoscience and Postphenomenology - The Manhattan Papers (Hardcover)
Jan Kyrre Berg Friis, Robert P. Crease; Contributions by Lars Botin, Anette Forss, Michael Funk, …
R2,750 Discovery Miles 27 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled. Many of the contributors to this collection had especially close ties to Ihde and have benefited from close work with him. This combined with the distinctive diversity of the contributors-18 people from 10 different countries-enables this volume to put on display the diversity of content and styles in this young movement.

Strangers to Nature - Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Paperback): Gregory R Smulewicz-Zucker Strangers to Nature - Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Paperback)
Gregory R Smulewicz-Zucker; Contributions by Drucilla Cornell, Julian H Franklin, Heather M. Kendrick, Eduardo Mendieta, …
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Nature will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human/non-human animal relationships.

Beyond Philosophy - Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology (Hardcover): Enrique Dussel Beyond Philosophy - Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology (Hardcover)
Enrique Dussel; Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
R3,420 Discovery Miles 34 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Enrique Ambrosini Dussel is and has been one of the most prolific Latin American philosophers of the last 100 years. He has written over fifty books, and over three hundred articles ranging over the history of the Latin American philosophy, political philosophy, church history, theology, ethics, and occasional pieces on the state of Latin American countries. Dussel is first and foremost a moral philosopher, a philosopher of liberation. But for him, philosophy must be liberated so that it may contribute to social liberation. In one sense, 'beyond philosophy' means to go beyond contemporary, academicized, professionalized, and 'civilized' philosophy by turning to all that demystifies the autonomy of philosophy and turns our attention to its sources. 'Beyond philosophy, ' also means to go beyond philosophy in the Marxian sense of abolishing philosophy by realizing it. This is the definitive English language collection of Dussel's enormous body of work. It will allow the reader to get a good sense of the breath and depth of Dussel's opus, covering four major areas: ethics, economics, history, and liberation theology.

Strangers to Nature - Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Hardcover, New): Gregory R Smulewicz-Zucker Strangers to Nature - Animal Lives and Human Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Gregory R Smulewicz-Zucker; Contributions by Drucilla Cornell, Julian H Franklin, Heather M. Kendrick, Eduardo Mendieta, …
R4,373 R3,076 Discovery Miles 30 760 Save R1,297 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Nature will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human/non-human animal relationships.

Borders and Debordering - Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness (Hardcover): Tomaz Grusovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Skof Borders and Debordering - Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness (Hardcover)
Tomaz Grusovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Skof; Contributions by Mary Watkins, Eduardo Mendieta, …
R2,529 Discovery Miles 25 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the "border" in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres - from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.

Lived Topographies - and their Mediational Forces (Paperback): Gary Backhaus, John Murungi Lived Topographies - and their Mediational Forces (Paperback)
Gary Backhaus, John Murungi; Contributions by Chad Kautzer, Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh, Eduardo Mendieta, …
R1,171 Discovery Miles 11 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection explores the various forms of narrative, semiotic, and technological mediation that shape the experience of place. From the East End of London to Navajo lands to Ground Zero, Lived Topographies examines the great effect of language, mass media, surveillance, and other incursions of the contemporary world on topographical experience and description. Gary Backhaus and John Murungi have assembled a wide array of scholars to provide an interdisciplinary approach to this subject, giving this rich, focused collection a unique perspective on the phenomenology of place.

The Theological Metaphors of Marx: Enrique Dussel The Theological Metaphors of Marx
Enrique Dussel; Translated by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo; Foreword by Eduardo Mendieta
R722 R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Save R51 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Theological Metaphors of Marx: Enrique Dussel The Theological Metaphors of Marx
Enrique Dussel; Translated by Camilo Pérez-Bustillo; Foreword by Eduardo Mendieta
R3,726 R2,326 Discovery Miles 23 260 Save R1,400 (38%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy - Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (Paperback): Eduardo Mendieta The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy - Karl-Otto Apel's Semiotics and Discourse Ethics (Paperback)
Eduardo Mendieta
R1,393 Discovery Miles 13 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Karl-Otto Apel is one of the most important German philosophers of the 20th century, and is finally coming to be recognized as such. However, his work is still poorly understood and inadequately treated throughout most of the world. In The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy, critical theory scholar Eduardo Mendieta examines the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Apel's thought. Mendieta finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and deeply influenced later thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas. Apel's turn toward pragmatism and analytic philosophy helped him bring the concept of a linguistic paradigm shift to Germany."

The Human-Animal Boundary - Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Paperback): Mario Wenning, Nandita Batra The Human-Animal Boundary - Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Paperback)
Mario Wenning, Nandita Batra; Contributions by Joshua A Bergamin, Kristian Bjorkdahl, Gary Comstock, …
R1,047 Discovery Miles 10 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference-rather than a porous transition-between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans.. This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions "What is human?" and "What is animal?" What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the human-animal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and nonhuman animals, they also present the reader with alternative perspectives on the porous continuum and surprising reversal of what appears as human and what as nonhuman.

The Human-Animal Boundary - Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Hardcover): Nandita Batra, Mario Wenning The Human-Animal Boundary - Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Hardcover)
Nandita Batra, Mario Wenning; Contributions by Joshua A Bergamin, Kristian Bjorkdahl, Gary Comstock, …
R3,594 R2,532 Discovery Miles 25 320 Save R1,062 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference-rather than a porous transition-between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans.. This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions "What is human?" and "What is animal?" What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the human-animal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and nonhuman animals, they also present the reader with alternative perspectives on the porous continuum and surprising reversal of what appears as human and what as nonhuman.

Beyond Philosophy - Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology (Paperback): Enrique Dussel Beyond Philosophy - Ethics, History, Marxism, and Liberation Theology (Paperback)
Enrique Dussel; Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Enrique Ambrosini Dussel is and has been one of the most prolific Latin American philosophers of the last 100 years. He has written over fifty books, and over three hundred articles ranging over the history of the Latin American philosophy, political philosophy, church history, theology, ethics, and occasional pieces on the state of Latin American countries. Dussel is first and foremost a moral philosopher, a philosopher of liberation. But for him, philosophy must be liberated so that it may contribute to social liberation. In one sense, "beyond philosophy" means to go beyond contemporary, academicized, professionalized, and "civilized" philosophy by turning to all that demystifies the autonomy of philosophy and turns our attention to its sources. "Beyond philosophy," also means to go beyond philosophy in the Marxian sense of abolishing philosophy by realizing it. This is the definitive English language collection of Dussel's enormous body of work. It will allow the reader to get a good sense of the breath and depth of Dussel's opus, covering four major areas: ethics, economics, history, and liberation theology.

Pragmatism, Nation, and Race - Community in the Age of Empire (Paperback): Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta Pragmatism, Nation, and Race - Community in the Age of Empire (Paperback)
Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pragmatism has been called "the chief glory of our country's intellectual tradition" by its supporters and "a dog's dinner" by its detractors. While acknowledging pragmatism's direct ties to American imperialism and expansionism, Chad Kautzer, Eduardo Mendieta, and the contributors to this volume consider the role pragmatism plays, for better or worse, in current discussions of nationalism, war, race, and community. What can pragmatism contribute to understandings of a diverse nation? How can we reconcile pragmatism's history with recent changes in the country's racial and ethnic makeup? How does pragmatism help to explain American values and institutions and fit them into new national and multinational settings? The answers to these questions reveal pragmatism's role in helping to nourish the fundamental ideas, politics, and culture of contemporary America.

The Frankfurt School on Religion - Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (Paperback, New): Eduardo Mendieta The Frankfurt School on Religion - Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (Paperback, New)
Eduardo Mendieta
R1,281 Discovery Miles 12 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and sophistication with which they engaged the core religious issues and major religious traditions.
Through a careful selection of writings from eleven prominent theorists, including several new and previously untranslated pieces from Leo Lowenthal, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, this volume provides much needed sources for religious leaders, philosophers, and social theorists as they grapple with the nature and functions of religion in the contemporary social, political, andeconomic landscape.
"The Frankfurt School on Religion" recovers the religious dimensions of the Frankfurt School, for too long sidelined or ignored, and offers new perspectives and insights necessary to the development of a fuller and more nuanced critical theory of society.
Selections and essays from: Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Johann Baptist Metz, Jurgen Habermas, Helmut Peukert, Edmund Arens.

The Good Citizen (Paperback, New in Paperback): David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta The Good Citizen (Paperback, New in Paperback)
David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Full Contributors:
Linda Martin Alcoff, David Batstone, Robert N. Bellah, Judith Butler, Barbara Christian, Michael Lerner, Eduardo Mendieta, Ronald Takaki, Cornel West

Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (Hardcover): David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Dwight... Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (Hardcover)
David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Dwight N. Hopkins
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Simultaneously arising out of such diverse contexts as the black community in the United States, grassroots religious communities in Latin America, and feminist circles in North Atlantic countries, theologies of liberation have emerged as a resource and inspiration for people seeking social and political freedom. Over the last three decades, liberation theology has irrevocably altered religious thinking and practice throughout the Americas.
Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas provides a meaningful and spirited debate on vital interpretive issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics. The renowned group of scholars explore liberation theologies' uses of discourses of emancipation, revolution and utopia in contrast with postmodernism's suspicion of grand narratives, while assessing what the postmodernism/liberation debate means for strategies of social and political transformation. Guided by the experiences of those at the margins of social power, liberation theologies demystifythe eurocentric myths of secularization and modernity, and calls for a re-appraisal of religion in contemporary societies.
Contributors: Edmund Arens, David Batstone, Maria Clara Bingemer, Enrique Dussel, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jurgen Habermas, Franz Hinkelammert, Dwight Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Amos Nascimento, Elsa Tamez, Mark McLain Taylor, and Sharon Welch, Robert Allen Warrior

Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (Paperback, New): David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen,... Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas (Paperback, New)
David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Dwight N. Hopkins
R1,537 Discovery Miles 15 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415916585

The Frankfurt School on Religion - Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (Hardcover, New): Eduardo Mendieta The Frankfurt School on Religion - Key Writings by the Major Thinkers (Hardcover, New)
Eduardo Mendieta
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In "The Frankfurt School on Religion," Eduardo Mendieta has brought together a collection of readings and essays revealing both the deep connections that the Frankfurt School has always maintained with religion as well as the significant contribution that its work has to offer. Rather than being unanimously antagonistic towards religion as has been the received wisdom, this collection shows the great diversity of responses that individual thinkers of the school developed and the seriousness and sophistication with which they engaged the core religious issues and major religious traditions.
Through a careful selection of writings from eleven prominent theorists, including several new and previously untranslated pieces from Leo Lowenthal, Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, this volume provides much needed sources for religious leaders, philosophers, and social theorists as they grapple with the nature and functions of religion in the contemporary social, political, andeconomic landscape.
"The Frankfurt School on Religion" recovers the religious dimensions of the Frankfurt School, for too long sidelined or ignored, and offers new perspectives and insights necessary to the development of a fuller and more nuanced critical theory of society.
Selections and essays from: Ernst Bloch, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Johann Baptist Metz, Jurgen Habermas, Helmut Peukert, Edmund Arens.

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Hardcover): Richard Rorty Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
Richard Rorty; Edited by Eduardo Mendieta; Foreword by Robert B. Brandom
R719 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R78 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate decades ago in his groundbreaking Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Marking a new stage in the evolution of his thought, Rorty's final masterwork identifies anti-authoritarianism as the principal impulse and virtue of pragmatism. Anti-authoritarianism, on this view, means acknowledging that our cultural inheritance is always open to revision because no authority exists to ascertain the truth, once and for all. If we cannot rely on the unshakable certainties of God or nature, then all we have left to go on-and argue with-are the opinions and ideas of our fellow humans. The test of these ideas, Rorty suggests, is relatively simple: Do they work? Do they produce the peace, freedom, and happiness we desire? To achieve this enlightened pragmatism is not easy, though. Pragmatism demands trust. Pragmatism demands that we think and care about what others think and care about, which further requires that we account for others' doubts of and objections to our own beliefs. After all, our own beliefs are as contestable as anyone else's. A supple mind who draws on theorists from John Stuart Mill to Annette Baier, Rorty nonetheless is always an apostle of the concrete. No book offers a more accessible account of Rorty's utopia of pragmatism, just as no philosopher has more eloquently challenged the hidebound traditions arrayed against the goals of social justice.

The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Hardcover): Amy Allen, Eduardo Mendieta The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (Hardcover)
Amy Allen, Eduardo Mendieta
R3,718 Discovery Miles 37 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jurgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical and social-theoretic roots of these terms and concepts, as well as their intellectual and disciplinary contexts, to build a broad but detailed picture of the development and trajectory of Habermas as a thinker. The volume will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Habermas, as well as for other readers in political philosophy, political science, sociology, international relations, cultural studies, and law.

Decolonizing Epistemologies - Latina/o Theology and Philosophy (Hardcover, New): Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, Eduardo Mendieta Decolonizing Epistemologies - Latina/o Theology and Philosophy (Hardcover, New)
Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, Eduardo Mendieta
R2,916 Discovery Miles 29 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Decolonizing Epistemologies builds upon the contributions of liberation and postcolonial theories in both philosophy and theology. Gathering the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosophers
who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines, it seeks to facilitate the emergence of new knowledge by reflecting on the Latina/o reality in the United States as an epistemic locus: a place from which to start as well as the source of what is known and how it is known.
The task of elaborating a liberation and decolonial epistemology emerges from the questions and concerns of Latina/os as a minoritized and marginalized group. Refusing to be rendered invisible by the dominant discourse, the contributors to this volume show the unexpected and original ways in which U.S. Latina/o social and
historical loci are generative places for the creation of new matrices of knowledge.
Because the Latina/o reality is intrinsically connected with that of other oppressed groups, the volume articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding not only of Latina/os but also possibly for other marginalized and oppressed groups, and for all those seeking to engage in the move beyond coloniality
as it is present in this age of globalization.

Decolonizing Epistemologies - Latina/o Theology and Philosophy (Paperback): Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, Eduardo Mendieta Decolonizing Epistemologies - Latina/o Theology and Philosophy (Paperback)
Ada Maria Isasi Diaz, Eduardo Mendieta
R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Decolonizing Epistemologies builds upon the contributions of liberation and postcolonial theories in both philosophy and theology. Gathering the work of three generations of Latina/o theologians and philosophers who have taken up the task of transforming their respective disciplines, it seeks to facilitate the emergence of new knowledge by reflecting on the Latina/o reality in the United States as an epistemic locus: a place from which to start as well as the source of what is known and how it is known. The task of elaborating a liberation and decolonial epistemology emerges from the questions and concerns of Latina/os as a minoritized and marginalized group. Refusing to be rendered invisible by the dominant discourse, the contributors to this volume show the unexpected and original ways in which U.S. Latina/o social and historical loci are generative places for the creation of new matrices of knowledge. Because the Latina/o reality is intrinsically connected with that of other oppressed groups, the volume articulates a new point of departure for the self-understanding not only of Latina/os but also possibly for other marginalized and oppressed groups, and for all those seeking to engage in the move beyond coloniality as it is present in this age of globalization.

The Ethics of Policing - New Perspectives on Law Enforcement (Paperback): Ben Jones, Eduardo Mendieta The Ethics of Policing - New Perspectives on Law Enforcement (Paperback)
Ben Jones, Eduardo Mendieta
R953 R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Save R50 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice system From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefront of national debate in the United States. In The Ethics of Policing, Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work. With contributors such as Tracey Meares, Michael Walzer, and Franklin Zimring, this volume covers timely topics including race and policing, the use of aggressive tactics and deadly force, police abolitionism, and the use of new technologies like drones, body cameras, and predictive analytics, providing different perspectives on the past, present, and future of policing, with particular attention to discriminatory practices that have historically targeted Black and Brown communities. This volume offers cutting-edge insight into the ethical challenges facing the police and the institutions that oversee them. As high-profile cases of police brutality spark protests around the country, The Ethics of Policing raises questions about the proper role of law enforcement in a democratic society.

Sound and Affect - Voice, Music, World (Hardcover): Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, Stephen Decatur Smith Sound and Affect - Voice, Music, World (Hardcover)
Judith Lochhead, Eduardo Mendieta, Stephen Decatur Smith
R3,066 Discovery Miles 30 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is no place on earth that does not echo with the near or distant sounds of human activity. More than half of humanity lives in cities, meaning the daily soundtrack of our lives is filled with sound-whether it be sonorous, harmonious, melodic, syncopated, discordant, cacophonous, or even screeching. This new anthology aims to explore how humans are placed in certain affective attitudes and dispositions by the music, sounds, and noises that envelop us. Sound and Affect maps a new territory for inquiry at the intersection of music, philosophy, affect theory, and sound studies. The essays in this volume consider objects and experiences marked by the correlation of sound and affect, in music and beyond: the voice, as it speaks, stutters, cries, or sings; music, whether vocal, instrumental, or machine-made; and our sonic environments, whether natural or artificial, and how they provoke responses in us. Far from being stable, correlations of sound and affect are influenced and even determined by factors as diverse as race, class, gender, and social and political experience. Examining these factors is key to the project, which gathers contributions from a cross-disciplinary roster of scholars, including both established and new voices. This agenda-setting collection will prove indispensable to anyone interested in innovative approaches to the study of sound and its many intersections with affect and the emotions.

Maps for a Fiesta - A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis (Paperback): Otto Maduro Maps for a Fiesta - A Latina/o Perspective on Knowledge and the Global Crisis (Paperback)
Otto Maduro; Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What can theology offer in the context of neoliberalism, globalization, growing inequality, and an ever more ecologically precarious planet that disproportionately affects the poor? This book, by one of the country's best-known Latino theologians, explores possibilities for liberation from the forces that would impose certain forms of knowledge on our social world to manipulate our experience of identity, power, and justice.
Beautifully written in a refreshingly direct and accessible prose, Maduro's book is nevertheless built upon subtly articulated critiques and insights. But to write a conventional academic tractatus would have run counter to Maduro's project, which is built on his argument that ignorance is masked in the language of expertise, while true knowledge is dismissed because it is sometimes articulated in pedestrian language by those who produce it through the praxis of solidarity and struggle for social justice.
With a generosity and receptivity to his readers reminiscent of letters between old friends, and with the pointed but questioning wisdom of a teller of parables, Maduro has woven together a twenty-first-century reply to Marx's "Theses on Feuerbach." Neither conventional monograph nor memoir, neither a theological nor a political tract, but with elements of all of these, Maps for a Fiesta arrives as Maduro's philosophical and theological testament one that celebrates the knowledge-work and justice-making of the poor.
What Maduro offers here is a profound meditation on the relationship between knowledge and justice that could be read as a manifesto against the putatively unknowable world that capitalist chaos has made, in favor of a world that is known by the measure of its collective justice. His fiesta grants us the joy that nourishes us in our struggles, just as knowledge gives us the tools to build a more just society. What Maduro offers is nothing less than an epistemology of liberation.

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