On Knowing Humanity

Author : Eloise Meneses,David Bronkema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315315300

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On Knowing Humanity by Eloise Meneses,David Bronkema Pdf

The development of a phenomenological approach to religion and the rise of perspectivism are challenging anthropology’s exclusive rootedness in the ontology of secularism. When considered with the increased interest in the anthropology of religion as an area of study, it is clear that there is a growing need for non-reductionist representations of Christian thought and experience in ethnography. This volume is intended as a critique of anthropology’s epistemological and ontological assumptions and a demonstration of the value added by an expanded set of parameters for the field. The book’s core argument is that while ethnographers have allowed their own perspectives to be positively influenced by the perspectives of their informants, until recently anthropology has done little in the way of adopting these other viewpoints as critical tools for analysis precisely because it has represented those viewpoints from a limited epistemological perspective. With chapters organized around topics in epistemology and ontology written by scholars of anthropology, theology and history, and an afterword by Joel Robbins, the book is essential reading for scholars of the anthropology of religion as well as other philosophically-oriented social scientists, theologians and those who are interested in gaining further insight into the human condition.

Author : Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137374905

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Knowing Humanity in the Social World by Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek Pdf

This book examines Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Chapters treat especially Fuller’s provocative response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology and end on an interview with Fuller himself. While Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work, to him the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. The authors assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: Science and Technology Studies (STS), the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0.

Author : Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0887273173

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Humanity and Self-cultivation by Wei-ming Tu,Weiming Tu Pdf

This first paperback edition of a renowned collection of essays by noted scholar of Chinese history and philosophy Tu Wei-ming includes a new introductory essay by Robert Cummings Neville, Dean of

Author : Henry M. Goodwin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385213593

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Christ and Humanity by Henry M. Goodwin Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author : Eduardo Kohn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520276109

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How Forests Think by Eduardo Kohn Pdf

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be humanÑand thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of EcuadorÕs Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worldÕs most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting directionÐone that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings.

Author : Randy Huddleston
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780981928517

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Getting to Know God's Work in Humanity by Randy Huddleston Pdf

Author : S. Fuller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230233430

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Humanity 2.0 by S. Fuller Pdf

Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner.

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Signal
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771049835

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Author : Eloise Meneses
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532636684

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Studying the Image by Eloise Meneses Pdf

The field of anthropology provides rich insights into the world of people and cultures. But it also presents challenges for Christians in the areas of cultural relativism, evolutionary theory, race and ethnicity, forms of the family, governments and war, life in the global economy, the morality of art, and religious pluralism. Most significantly it raises questions regarding the truth and how we can know it. This book provides the opportunity to investigate such questions with both the informed understanding of anthropological theory and ethnography, and the larger framework and commitment of Christian biblical and theological studies. So equipped, readers are encouraged to investigate for themselves the depths and intricacies of topics in anthropology that are especially relevant for Christians.

Author : OWEN. STRACHAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433645858

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Reenchanting Humanity by OWEN. STRACHAN Pdf

Reenchanting Humanity is a work of systematic theology that focuses on the doctrine of humanity. Engaging the major anthropological questions of the age, like transgender, homosexuality, technology, and more, author Owen Strachan establishes a Christian anthropology rooted in Biblical truth, in stark contrast to the popular opinions of the modern age.

Author : Samera Esmeir
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804783149

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Juridical Humanity by Samera Esmeir Pdf

In colonial Egypt, the state introduced legal reforms that claimed to liberate Egyptians from the inhumanity of pre-colonial rule and elevate them to the status of human beings. These legal reforms intersected with a new historical consciousness that distinguished freedom from force and the human from the pre-human, endowing modern law with the power to accomplish but never truly secure this transition. Samera Esmeir offers a historical and theoretical account of the colonizing operations of modern law in Egypt. Investigating the law, both on the books and in practice, she underscores the centrality of the "human" to Egyptian legal and colonial history and argues that the production of "juridical humanity" was a constitutive force of colonial rule and subjugation. This original contribution queries long-held assumptions about the entanglement of law, humanity, violence, and nature, and thereby develops a new reading of the history of colonialism.

Author : Patrick C. Lee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527558304

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Ending the War Between Humanity and Nature by Patrick C. Lee Pdf

This book offers plausible explanations for people’s puzzling unwillingness to address the human-nature interactions that have led us to the precipice that is climate change today. Humanity and nature are at war; the evidence is all around us: catastrophic weather events, rising sea levels, extinction of species, famine, wildfires, melting polar ice, millions of environmental refugees, and toxic pollution of air, water, and soil. The list goes on and on. What is causing this war, and how can it be stopped? Is this war an unintended consequence of economic and environmental imperatives pulling in opposite directions? This book takes the question—and its answer—to a deeper level. It argues that the root cause of our war on nature might be found in the time-honored, historically deep myths, narratives and stories we tell ourselves—and have been telling ourselves for centuries—about humanity’s place in (or out of) the natural world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74883215

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Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137374896

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Knowing Humanity in the Social World by Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek Pdf

This book examines Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Chapters treat especially Fuller’s provocative response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology and end on an interview with Fuller himself. While Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work, to him the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. The authors assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: Science and Technology Studies (STS), the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0.

Author : John S. Hammett,Katie J. McCoy
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781087730165

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Humanity by John S. Hammett,Katie J. McCoy Pdf

John Hammett’s and Katie McCoy’s Humanity is built on four assumptions: that humans are creatures, that they can only be understood in light of the intentions of their Creator, that the Creator’s intentions are revealed in the pages of Scripture, and that humans enjoy a truly and fully human life only when they live in accordance with their created nature. Thus, this work seeks to offer a biblical perspective on human nature as designed by God.