Insistence

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253010100

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The Insistence of God by John D. Caputo Pdf

“A tour de force . . . provocative ideas expressed in Heideggerian, Derridean, and Deleuzian rhetoric . . . for a new wave of Christian theologians” (Bibliographia). The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist—God insists. God’s existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God’s existence is haunted by “perhaps,” which does not signify indecisiveness but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and the promise of the world. He shows how perhaps can become a new theology of the gaps God opens. “John D. Caputo is at the top of his game, and he is not content to reiterate what he has already expressed, but continues to develop his own ideas further by way of a thorough engagement with the fields of theology, Continental philosophy, and religious thought.” —Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas “For those allergic to theological certainty―whether of God’s existence or of God’s death―Caputo delivers storm-fresh relief: the theopoetics of God’s insistence.” —Catherine Keller, Drew University “In my life I have read no more stimulating book of theology. Buckle your seatbelt!” —Dialog “An excellent text that opens the way into new forms of theological thinking. He puts forward an argument that must be wrestled with and brings to light new avenues for both religious and theological thought. Caputo is not for the faint of heart.” —Reviews in Religion and Theology

Author : Christopher Breu
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452942841

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Insistence of the Material by Christopher Breu Pdf

Insistence of the Material engages with recent theories of materiality and biopolitics to provide a radical reinterpretation of experimental fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In contrast to readings that emphasize the metafictional qualities of these works, Christopher Breu examines this literature’s focus on the material conditions of everyday life, from the body to built environments, and from ecosystems to economic production. In Insistence of the Material, Breu rethinks contemporary understandings of biopolitics, affirming the importance of forms of materiality that refuse full socialization and resist symbolic manipulation. Breu considers a range of novels that reflect questions of materiality in a biopolitical era, including William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, Thomas Pynchon’s V., J. G. Ballard’s Crash, Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker, and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. Drawing from accounts of the emergence of immaterial production and biopolitics by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Breu reveals the confrontational dimensions of materiality itself in a world devoted to the idea of its easy malleability and transcendence. Taking his analysis beyond the boundaries of literature, Breu argues that both materiality and subjectivity form sites of resistance to biopolitical control and that new developments in materialist theory advance a conception of social existence in which materiality—rather than language or culture—is the central term.

Author : Bill Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429845840

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The Insistence of the Letter by Bill Green Pdf

Originally published in 1992. What kinds of literacy are appropriate for life and work in the late twentieth century? What historically is the relationship between curriculum and literacy, and how is it changing? The essays in this book provide an innovative forum for discussion for what are often two quite distinct enterprises: literacy research and curriculum studies. They re-frame and redraw the traditional boundaries between these two disciplines, examining socio-cultural theories and classroom practices in a diverse and lively debate. They explore readings of the modernist/postmodernist debate and specific studies in curriculum politics and history, rhetoric, language and literacy education, media studies and educational linguistics. This multi-voiced anthology brings together researchers from Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States in a common critical reassessment of the curriculum/literacy nexus.

Author : Geraldine Friedman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804725446

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The Insistence of History by Geraldine Friedman Pdf

Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. The book begins with the discovery that, in these writers, issues of narration and figuration are already taken up in the political and historical questions raised by the two revolutions; conversely, historical-political positioning and representation are involved from the beginning in problems of narration and figuration. This co-implication of aesthetics and history in each other has profound consequences: once historical events take the form of figures, they no longer act as literal, material referents but rather interrogate the status of reference itself. Far from being denied, history becomes a problem for analysis, one whose normative frames of understanding and founding concepts, such as “event,” “experience,” and “chronology,” must be rethought. This can be most easily seen in the fact that the four writers, in their different ways, all miss historical occurrence—not when they try to flee it, as many older accounts of Romanticism have claimed, but just when they attempt to engage it most intensely.

Author : Vasile Munteanu
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781457510625

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The Book of Insistence by Vasile Munteanu Pdf

The book is a collection of poems dealing with various themes, emotions and mental states, the overarching, unifying idea being regret. Regret tends to incorporate both things we wish we had done and things we wish we hadn't done, always with an eye toward not repeating the same mistakes. But time has a way of bringing us back to both scenarios, often against our will and better judgment. Yet, the need to revisit the past remains a very strong impetus in our memory, regardless of our desires. The poems aspire to highlight this tendency. Vasile Munteanu earned a B.A. and an M.A. degree in English from Oakland University in Michigan and a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture from State University of New York at Binghamton. He teaches Literature and Philosophy at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He is also the author of Godmaker, The Book of Aloneness, The Unthought, Forgotten Words, The Book of Remembrance, Chandala, and the Book of Intentions.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823275816

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The Insistence of Art by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were accompanied by an immense range of discussions about the arts and their relation to one another. Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other historical event or social phenomenon, this book treats art as a phenomenon in itself. The contributors suggest ways in which artworks and practices of the early modern period make aesthetic experience central to philosophical reflection, while also showing art’s need for philosophy.

Author : Susan Scheckel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400822584

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The Insistence of the Indian by Susan Scheckel Pdf

Americans' first attempts to forge a national identity coincided with the apparent need to define--and limit--the status and rights of Native Americans. During these early decades of the nineteenth century, the image of the "Indian" circulated throughout popular culture--in the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, plays about Pocahontas, Indian captivity narratives, Black Hawk's autobiography, and visitors' guides to the national capitol. In exploring such sources as well as the political and legal rhetoric of the time, Susan Scheckel argues that the "Indian question" was intertwined with the ways in which Americans viewed their nation's past and envisioned its destiny. She shows how the Indians provided a crucial site of reflection upon national identity. And yet the Indians, by being denied the natural rights upon which the constitutional principles of the United States rested, also challenged American convictions of moral ascendancy and national legitimacy. Scheckel investigates, for example, the Supreme Court's decision on Indian land rights and James Fenimore Cooper's popular frontier romance The Pioneers: both attempted to legitimate American claims to land once owned by Indians and to assuage guilt associated with the violence of conquest by incorporating the Indians in a version of the American political "family." Alternatively, the widely performed Pocahontas plays dealt with the necessity of excluding Indians politically, but also portrayed these original inhabitants as embodying the potential of the continent itself. Such examples illustrate a gap between principles and practice. It is from this gap, according to the author, that the nation emerged, not as a coherent idea or a realist narrative, but as an ongoing performance that continues to play out, without resolution, fundamental ambivalences of American national identity.

Author : Stephen Dunn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393327434

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The Insistence of Beauty: Poems by Stephen Dunn Pdf

An evocation of beauty's often-surprising manifestations; even in the face of tragedy. "Beauty isn't nice. Beauty isn't fair;" So, in part, states an epigraph for this stunning new collection, his thirteenth, by the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry (2000). First traversing betrayal and loss, Stephen Dunn then moves to speak of new love, with its attendant pleasures and questioning. The title poem, perhaps emblematic of the book as a whole, is evocative of beauty's often surprising manifestations even in the light of tragedy; as on that terrible day "when those silver planes came out of the perfect blue." Because beauty jars us, makes us look twice, it is as startling as a good poem, and as insistent. Fortunately, it is never too late to search for the right words for what we've seen, felt, endured. With quiet authority Dunn enacts what it feels like to be a particular man at a particular juncture of his life; struggling not to deny, but to name, then rename.

Author : Ailbhe Darcy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 1780370784

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Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy Pdf

The poems in Ailbhe Darcy's second collection relate to love, hope, home and children in a world under threat politically and environmentally. Insistence won the Wales Book of the Year Award 2019, the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and the Pigott Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and T.S. Eliot Prize.

Author : Rebecca Felix
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781532173806

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#WomensMarch: Insisting on Equality by Rebecca Felix Pdf

In this title, readers learn about the #WomensMarch, movement from the campaign for women's suffrage, to legislation safeguarding reproductive rights and protecting them from sexual harassment, to the 2017 and 2018 Women's Marches and the continued fight for gender equality and social justice. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410352828

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A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Lyn Hejinian's "yet we insist that life is full of happy chance," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Henry DODWELL (the Elder.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1683
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022836887

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A discourse concerning the one altar and the one priesthood insisted on by the ancients in their disputes against schism. Wherein the ground and solidity of that way of reasoning is explained, as also its applicableness to the case of our modern schismaticks, with particular regard to some late treatises of Mr. R. Baxter, etc by Henry DODWELL (the Elder.) Pdf

Author : William COOK (Pastor of the East Church in Sudbury, Mass.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1757
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018777577

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The Plain Truths of the Gospel Most Profitable to be Insisted on by the Ministers of It. In a Discourse Deliver'd at Hanover, December 1st 1756. when the Reverend Mr. Samuel Baldwin was Ordained Pastor of the Church There by William COOK (Pastor of the East Church in Sudbury, Mass.) Pdf

Author : Christopher Breu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0816689466

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Insistence of the Material by Christopher Breu Pdf

Insistence of the Material engages with recent theories of materiality and biopolitics to provide a radical reinterpretation of experimental fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. In contrast to readings that emphasize the metafictional qualities of these works, Christopher Breu examines this literature's focus on the material conditions of everyday life, from the body to built environments, and from ecosystems to economic production. In Insistence of the Material, Breu rethinks contemporary understandings of biopolitics, affirming the importance of forms of materiality that refuse full socialization and resist symbolic manipulation. Breu considers a range of novels that reflect questions of materiality in a biopolitical era, including William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, Thomas Pynchon's V., J. G. Ballard's Crash, Dodie Bellamy's The Letters of Mina Harker, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead. Drawing from accounts of the emergence of immaterial production and biopolitics by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Breu reveals the confrontational dimensions of materiality itself in a world devoted to the idea of its easy malleability and transcendence. Taking his analysis beyond the boundaries of literature, Breu argues that both materiality and subjectivity form sites of resistance to biopolitical control and that new developments in materialist theory advance a conception of social existence in which materiality--rather than language or culture--is the central term.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : UCAL:B3556486

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The Federal Reporter by Anonim Pdf