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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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 book explores the way in which the study and practice of love
creates a common ground for different faiths and different
traditions within the same faith. For the contributors, "common
ground" in this context is not a minimal core of belief or a lowest
common denominator of faith, but a space or area in which to live
together, consider together the meaning of the love to which
various faiths witness, and work together to enable human
flourishing. Such a space, the contributors believe, is possible
because it is the place of encounter with the divine. This book is
the fruit of a Project for the Study of Love in Religion which aims
to create this space in which different traditions of love
converge, from Islam, Judaism, and the Christianity of both East
and West. Tools employed by the contributors in exploring this
space of love include exegesis of ancient texts, theology, accounts
of mystical experience, philosophy, and evolutionary science of the
human. Insights about human and divine love that emerge include its
nature as a form of knowing, its sacrificial and erotic dimensions,
its inclination towards beauty, its making of community and its
importance for a just political and economic life.
The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most
obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the
pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational
nature in a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of
Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of
Xenophon. Adam and Eve both begin their life "much wondering where\
And what I was, whence thither brought and how." Their conjoint
discoveries of each other's and their own nature in this talk
Milton arranges for a in dialectical counterpoise to his persona's
expressed task "to justify the ways of God to men." Like Xenophon's
Socrates in the Memorabilia, Milton's persona indites those "ways
of God" in terms most agreeable to his audience of "men"--notions
Aristotle calls "generally accepted opinions." Thus for Milton's
"fit audience" Paradise Lost will present two ways--that address
congenial to men per se, and a fit discourse attuned to their very
own rational faculties--to understand "the ways of God to men." The
interrogation of each way by its counterpart among the distinct
audiences is the "great Argument" of the poem.
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The World Of Perception (Hardcover)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Translated by Oliver Davis; Introduction by Thomas Baldwin
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R3,670
Discovery Miles 36 700
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"Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own."
In 1948, Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote and delivered on French radio
a series of seven lectures on the theme of perception. Translated
here into English for the first time, they offer a lucid and
concise insight into one of the great philosophical minds of the
twentieth-century.
The lectures explore themes central not only to Merleau-Ponty's
philosophy but to phenomenology as a whole. He begins by rejecting
the idea - inherited from Descartes and influential within science
- that perception is unreliable, prone to distort the world around
us. Merleau-Ponty instead argues that perception is inseparable
from our senses and it is how we make sense of the world.
Merleau-Ponty explores this guiding theme through a brilliant
series of reflections on science, space, our relationships with
others, animal life and art. Throughout, he argues that perception
is never something learned and then applied to the world.
Ascreatures with embodied minds, he reminds us that we are born
perceiving and share with other animals and infants a state of
constant, raw, unpredictable contact with the world. He provides
vivid examples with the help of Kafka, animal behavior and above
all modern art, particularly the work of Cezanne.
A thought-provoking and crystalline exploration of consciousness
and the senses, "The World of" "Perception" is essential reading
for anyone interested in the work of Merleau-Ponty,
twentieth-century philosophy and art.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
Money makes the world go round - until it doesn't. Bankers blunder,
governments turn a blind eye and investors just get it plain wrong.
But what if there's something else lurking behind all our great
recessions and depressions, something operating in the shadows that
makes our bubbles bigger and our crashes more catastrophic?
Something so familiar and ubiquitous that we hardly ever think of
its effects - even when it's under our very nose. What if it's
money? Our modern system of money is a marvel, enabling complex
trade and economic growth on a scale never known before. But money
also carries a fatal flaw: it can be hoarded forever, and whenever
we hoard we depress spending and distort interest rates. The result
is a dreaded sequence of boom-and-bust that we know as the business
cycle, an endless swing from unemployment to inflation and back
again. But it doesn't have to be this way. One-Month Money begins
as an eye-opening demonstration of how modern money is often our
own worst economic enemy, and ends by proposing a controversial and
innovative solution: a simple reinvention of money that would end
recessions, inflation and unemployment forever.By rewiring the
banking system and giving money a monthly expiry date, we can
create a system of money with all its current benefits and none of
its drawbacks, a system where money greases the wheels of global
production without ever destabilising it. We can still save - just
not under the mattress. Bad businesses can still go bust - just
without bringing the wider economy down with them. Once money
cannot be hoarded and interest rates are always perfect, there will
be no more business cycles. The system of one-month money
automatically checks our worst hoarding impulses, allowing us to
save productively, keep prices stable and enjoy permanent full
employment. With many countries struggling for growth and the
stimulus toolbox growing emptier by the year, a creative rethink of
our monetary system is critically urgent. One-Month Money is not
only a timely and enjoyable addition to a vital conversation, but a
book that will forever change the way you think about what's in
your wallet.
Hatred of Sex links Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy of the
constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche's
identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human
sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim
Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood
and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable
than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this
conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions,
including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement,
and "traumatology," demonstrating how hatred of sex has been
optimized and exploited by neoliberalism. Advancing strong claims
about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and
governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of
equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more
precarious.
The conversation of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost, that most
obvious of Milton's additions to the Biblical narrative, enacts the
pair's inquiry into and discovery of the gift of their rational
nature in a mode of discourse closely aligned to practices of
Socrates in the dialogues of Plato and eponymous discourses of
Xenophon. Adam and Eve both begin their life "much wondering where\
And what I was, whence thither brought and how." Their conjoint
discoveries of each other's and their own nature in this talk
Milton arranges for a in dialectical counterpoise to his persona's
expressed task "to justify the ways of God to men." Like Xenophon's
Socrates in the Memorabilia, Milton's persona indites those "ways
of God" in terms most agreeable to his audience of "men"--notions
Aristotle calls "generally accepted opinions." Thus for Milton's
"fit audience" Paradise Lost will present two ways--that address
congenial to men per se, and a fit discourse attuned to their very
own rational faculties--to understand "the ways of God to men." The
interrogation of each way by its counterpart among the distinct
audiences is the "great Argument" of the poem.
'In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes.
He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space
and things, the unfortunate optimism of science and also the
insidious stickiness of honey, and the mystery of anger.' - James
Elkins
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important thinkers of
the post-war era. Central to his thought was the idea that human
understanding comes from our bodily experience of the world that we
perceive: a deceptively simple argument, perhaps, but one that he
felt had to be made in the wake of attacks from contemporary
science and the philosophy of Descartes on the reliability of human
perception.
From this starting point, Merleau-Ponty presented these seven
lectures on The World of Perception to French radio listeners in
1948. Available in a paperback English translation for the first
time in the Routledge Classics series to mark the centenary of
Merleau-Ponty 's birth, this is a dazzling and accessible guide to
a whole universe of experience, from the pursuit of scientific
knowledge, through the psychic life of animals to the glories of
the art of Paul C zanne.
Universities are increasingly being asked to take an active role as
research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community
organisations, which, it is claimed, makes them more accountable,
creates better research outcomes, and enhances the knowledge base.
Yet many of these research collaborators, as well as their funders
and institutions, have not yet developed the methods to 'account
for' collaborative research, or to help collaborators in
challenging their assumptions about the quality of this work. This
book, part of the Connected Communities series, highlights the
benefits of universities collaborating with outside bodies on
research and addresses the key challenge of articulating the value
of collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social
sciences. Edited by two well respected academics, it includes
voices and perspectives from researchers and practitioners in a
wide range of disciplines. Together, they explore tensions in the
evaluation and assessment of research in general, and the debates
generated by collaborative research between universities and
communities to enable greater understanding of collaborative
research, and to provide a much-needed account of key theorists in
the field of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three
leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical
theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation
is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new
orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ('from
above') and philosophical ('from below') sections lead to a new
exposition of Christian life in confrontation with deep-seated
problems of ethics and justice.The three pieces closely interweave
with each other in the elaboration of a new kind of practical,
doctrinal theology of full philosophical integrity. There are
extended passages of reflection upon the historical processes which
shaped the theological present in terms of the evolution of science
and cosmology, and the consequent development of an array of
idealist or anti-empirical conceptualities and methods.This book
offers a powerful and sustained critique of modern theologies
across the traditions which evade, assimilate or fail to take
account of the real world of sensible embodiment, in which,
according to creedal affirmations, incarnation continues. In place
of idealist readings of faith in different guises, it argues for
the centrality of sensibility and the unresolved problematics of
everyday empirical existence as the primary place of divine
disclosure in which theology is learned and practiced with
integrity.
Interdisciplinary studies on medieval mystics and their cultural
background. Contemplative life in the middle ages has been the
focus of much recent critical attention. The Symposium papers
collected in this volume illuminate the mystical tradition through
examination of written texts and material culturein the medieval
period. A particular focus is on Celtic modes of witnessing to
comtemplative vision from Ireland and Wales: an eighth-century
account of voyages to wonders beyond the known world of Irish
monasticism, and the workof Christian bards in medieval Wales.
Distinctions within the mystical tradition in England are also
explored both within differing Religious Orders and bewtween
individuals engaged with the contemplative life. Dr MARION GLASSCOE
teaches in the School of English and American Studies at the
University of Exeter. Contributors: THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN, OLIVER
DAVIES, R. IESTYN DANIEL, RUTH SMITH, VALERIE EDDEN, DENISE N.
BAKER, DENIS RENEVEY, E.A. JONES, RICHARD LAWES, NAOE KUKITA
YOSHIKAWA, C. ANNETTE GRISE, JAMES HOGG
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Selected Writings (Paperback, Reissue)
Meister Eckhart; Introduction by Oliver Davies; Translated by Oliver Davies
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R342
R278
Discovery Miles 2 780
Save R64 (19%)
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The mystical vision of the German Dominican Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1329) has fascinated German thinkers from Hegel to Heidegger. Central to his writings were a belief in divine 'Oneness' and self-reproduction. Eckhart argued God was both the ultimate source of the universe and the element inherent in all His creatures. He was also preoccupied with the nature of 'intellect' which he called the 'ground of the soul'; the image of God inside us offering all the possibility of redemption through a return to the Trinity. This Neo-platonic 'Oneness' was boldly reconciled with the Christian Trinity by stressing God's reproduction through His son and the human individual. Whilst this unorthodox approach led to charges of preaching beyond the confines of his faith, Eckhart's radical synthesis of Greek thought and Christian doctrine has remained complex, challenging and frequently misunderstood. These Selected Writings, some translated into English for the first time, illustrate the rhetorical flourish and metaphysical drama of Eckhart's evangelical style and confirm his critical position in the evolution of European intellectual life.
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