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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Full Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, David Batstone, Robert N. Bellah, Judith Butler, Barbara Christian, Michael Lerner, Eduardo Mendieta, Ronald Takaki, Cornel West
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important
philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent
decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of
the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy
and critical theory. Santiago Castro-Gomez argues that "Latin
America" is not so much a geographical entity, a culture, or a
place, but rather an object of knowledge produced by a family of
discourses in the humanities that are inseparably linked to
colonial power relationships. Using the archaeological and
genealogical methods of Michel Foucault, he analyzes the political,
literary, and philosophical discourses and modes of power that have
contributed to the making of "Latin America." Castro-Gomez examines
the views of a wide range of Latin American thinkers on modernity,
postmodernity, identity, colonial history, and literature, also
considering how these questions have intersected with popular
culture. His critique spans Central and South America, and it also
implicates broader and protracted global processes. This book
presents this groundbreaking work of contemporary critical theory
in English translation for the first time. It features a foreword
by Linda Martin Alcoff, a new preface by the author, and an
introduction by Eduardo Mendieta situating Castro-Gomez's thought
in the context of critical theory in Latin America and the Global
South. Two appendixes feature an interview with Castro-Gomez that
sheds light on the book's composition and short provocations
responding to each chapter from a multidisciplinary forum of
contemporary scholars who resituate the work within a range of
perspectives including feminist, Francophone African, and
decolonial Black political thought.
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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