Against Indifference

Author : Carole J. Lambert
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Christianity and antisemitism
ISBN : 1433127679

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Against Indifference by Carole J. Lambert Pdf

Against Indifference analyzes four responses to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, moving on a spectrum from indifference to courageous action. C. S. Lewis did little to speak up for victimized Jews; Thomas Merton chose to enclose himself in a monastery to pray for and expiate the sins of a world gone awry; Dietrich Bonhoeffer acted to help his twin sister, her Jewish husband, and some other Jews escape from Germany; and the Trocmés established protective housing and an ongoing «underground railroad» that saved several thousand Jewish lives. Why such variation in the responses of those who had committed their lives to Jesus Christ and recognized that His prime commandment is to love God and others? This book provides answers to this question that help shed light on current Christians and their commitment to victims who suffer and need their help.

Author : Frank Ruda
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781531505332

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Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents by Frank Ruda Pdf

In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism’s development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism’s effect on individuals and society. Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially rationalist philosophical thought, a problem of misunderstanding freedom. Thinkers like Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and Marx claim that there are conceptions and interpretations of freedom that lead the subjects of these interpretations to no longer act and think freely. They are often unwillingly led into unfreedom. It is thus possible that even “freedom” enslaves. Modern philosophical rationalism, whose conceptual genealogy the books traces and unfolds, assigns a name to this peculiar form of domination by means of freedom: indifference. Indifference is a name for the assumption that freedom is something that human beings have: a given, a natural possession. When we think freedom is natural or a possession we lose freedom. Modern philosophy, Ruda shows, takes its shape through repeated attacks on freedom as indifference; it is the owl that begins its flight, so that the days of unfreedom will turn to dusk.

Author : Mary Jane Logan McCallum,Adele Perry
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887555718

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Structures of Indifference by Mary Jane Logan McCallum,Adele Perry Pdf

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city, and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a thirty-four-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. His death reflects a particular structure of indifference born of and maintained by colonialism. McCallum and Perry present the ways in which Sinclair, once erased and ignored, came to represent diffuse, yet singular and largely dehumanized ideas about Indigenous people, modernity, and decline in cities. This story tells us about ordinary indigeneity in the City of Winnipeg through Sinclair's experience and restores the complex humanity denied him in his interactions with Canadian health and legal systems, both before and after his death. Structures of Indifference completes the story left untold by the inquiry into Sinclair's death, the 2014 report of which omitted any consideration of underlying factors, including racism and systemic discrimination.

Author : Johannes Quack,Cora Schuh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319484761

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Religious Indifference by Johannes Quack,Cora Schuh Pdf

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research. Religious indifference is a central category for understanding contemporary societies, and a controversial one. For some scholars, a growing religious indifference indicates a dramatic decline in religiosity and epitomizes the endpoint of secularization processes. Others view it as an indicator of moral apathy and philosophical nihilism, whilst yet others see it as paving the way for new forms of political tolerance and solidarity. This volume describes and analyses the symbolic power of religious indifference and the conceptual contestations surrounding it. Detailed case studies cover anthropological and qualitative data from the UK, Germany, Estonia, the USA, Canada, and India analyse large quantitative data sets, and provide philosophical-literary inquiries into the phenomenon. They highlight how, for different actors and agendas, religious indifference can constitute an objective or a challenge. Pursuing a relational approach to non-religion, the book conceptualizes religious indifference in its interrelatedness with religion as well as more avowed forms of non-religion.

Author : William Watkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783480098

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Agamben and Indifference by William Watkin Pdf

Since the publication of Homo Sacerin 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world’s most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found supporters and enemies in almost equal measure. His wider thoughts on topics such as language, potentiality, life, law, messianism and aesthetics have had significant impact on such diverse fields as philosophy, law, theology, history, sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. Yet although Agamben is much read, his work has also often been misunderstood. This book is the first to fully take into account Agamben’s important recent publications, which clarify his method, complete his ideas on power, and finally reveal the role of language in his overall system. William Watkin presents a critical overview of Agamben’s work that, through the lens of indifference, aims to give a portrait of exactly why this thinker of indifferent and suspensive legal, political, ontological and living states can rightfully be considered one of the most important philosophers in the world today.

Author : Esteban Céspedes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443893343

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Notes on Knowledge, Indifference and Redundancy by Esteban Céspedes Pdf

What is knowledge? In what sense is the environment of a cognitive system more than a mere source of information? What are the roles of relevance and indifference for a characterisation of knowledge? How are knowledge and action related? These issues are considered and discussed in this book. Although it does not offer an account of knowledge, this work addresses a diverse range of important topics concerning that notion, seeking to connect them in a unifying way.

Author : James SPENCE (D.D., Independent Minister.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021856372

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Indifference a sin in the cause of Christian Missions. A sermon [on Num. xxxii. 20-23], etc by James SPENCE (D.D., Independent Minister.) Pdf

Author : Hugo Rojas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030881702

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Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile by Hugo Rojas Pdf

This book contributes to the fields of memory and human rights. It offers a novel and interdisciplinary theory on social indifference, and in particular on the indifference of people to human rights violations committed against certain sectors of society in turbulent times. These theoretical frameworks are explored empirically with respect to the Chilean case. Through a blend of mixed methods, the book explains the causes, characteristics and social consequences of the current indifference of Chileans with respect to the human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). The different findings are an invitation to rethink new challenges of transitional justice processes in fragmented societies and to strengthen public policies on human rights.

Author : Randy Martin
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822389804

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An Empire of Indifference by Randy Martin Pdf

In this significant Marxist critique of contemporary American imperialism, the cultural theorist Randy Martin argues that a finance-based logic of risk control has come to dominate Americans’ everyday lives as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Risk management—the ability to adjust for risk and to leverage it for financial gain—is the key to personal finance as well as the defining element of the massive global market in financial derivatives. The United States wages its amorphous war on terror by leveraging particular interventions (such as Iraq) to much larger ends (winning the war on terror) and by deploying small numbers of troops and targeted weaponry to achieve broad effects. Both in global financial markets and on far-flung battlegrounds, the multiplier effects are difficult to foresee or control. Drawing on theorists including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, and Achille Mbembe, Martin illuminates a frightening financial logic that must be understood in order to be countered. Martin maintains that finance divides the world between those able to avail themselves of wealth opportunities through risk taking (investors) and those who cannot do so, who are considered “at risk.” He contends that modern-day American imperialism differs from previous models of imperialism, in which the occupiers engaged with the occupied to “civilize” them, siphon off wealth, or both. American imperialism, by contrast, is an empire of indifference: a massive flight from engagement. The United States urges an embrace of risk and self-management on the occupied and then ignores or dispossesses those who cannot make the grade.

Author : Gilbert Gerard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1797
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024287681

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On Indifference with respect to religious truth. A sermon [on 1 Thess. i. 21], preached before the Synod of Aberdeen by Gilbert Gerard Pdf

Author : Kara Granzow
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774837460

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Invested Indifference by Kara Granzow Pdf

In 2004, Amnesty International characterized Canadian society as “indifferent” to high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls. When the Canadian government took another twelve years to launch a national inquiry, that indictment seemed true. Invested Indifference makes a startling counter-argument: that what we see as societal unresponsiveness doesn’t come from an absence of feeling but from an affective investment in framing specific lives as disposable. Kara Granzow demonstrates that mechanisms such as the law, medicine, and control of land and space have been used to entrench violence against Indigenous people in the social construction of Canadian nationhood.

Author : Naisargi N. Davé
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478027133

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Indifference by Naisargi N. Davé Pdf

In Indifference, Naisargi N. Davé examines the complex worlds of animalists and animalism in India. Through ethnographic fieldwork with animal healers, animal activists, farmers, laborers, transporters, and animals themselves, and moving across animal shelters and dairy farms to city streets and abattoirs, Davé shows how human-animal relations often manifest through care and violence. More surprisingly, what Davé also finds animating interspecies relationality in India is an ethic of indifference---that is, an orientation of mutual regard rather than curiosity, love, desire, or animus. For Davé, indifference is a respect for others in their otherness that allows human and nonhuman animals to flourish in immanent encounters. Indifference, then, becomes the basis for an interspecies ethics and a method of care and practice in everyday life. With indifference, Davé describes both a mode of relationality in the world and a scholarly approach: seeking what is possible when we approach ethico-political concepts with indifference rather than commitment or antagonism. Moments of indifference, Davé contends, offer the promise of otherwise worlds.

Author : Moira Roth,Jonathan D. Katz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9057013312

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Difference/indifference by Moira Roth,Jonathan D. Katz Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Evangelical Alliance. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015069286592

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The Religious Condition of Christendom by Evangelical Alliance. Conference Pdf

Author : Virginie Van Ingelgom
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301483

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Integrating Indifference by Virginie Van Ingelgom Pdf

Have European citizens become increasingly Eurosceptic over the last two decades, turning their backs on European integration? Though many journalists, politicians and academics argue that they have, this book suggests that reactions to European integration cannot be reduced uniquely to a rise in Euroscepticism, but that indifference and ambivalence need also to be brought into the picture when studying EU legitimacy and its politicisation. Drawing on new evidence from survey data from eight founding member states, and focus groups conducted in francophone Belgium, France and Great Britain, Integrating Indifference explores the various faces of citizens’ indifference, from fatalism, to detachment, via sheer indecision. This book adopts a pioneering mixed-methods approach to analysing the middle-of-the-road attitudes of ordinary citizens who consider themselves neither Europhiles nor Eurosceptics. Complementing existing quantitative and qualitative literature in the field, it opens up new perspectives on attitudes towards European integration.