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Transfinite Life

Author : Bruce Rosenstock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253030160

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Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Thomas Mann, and Carl Schmitt, among others--with the argument that ancient Israel's sacrificial rituals held the key to overcoming the tyranny of technology in the modern world. Bruce Rosenstock offers a sympathetic but critical philosophical portrait of Goldberg and puts him into conversation with Jewish and political figures that circulated in his cultural environment. Rosenstock reveals Goldberg as a deeply imaginative and broad-minded thinker who drew on biology, mathematics, Kabbalah, and his interests in ghost photography to account for the origin of the earth. Caricatured as a Jewish proto-fascist in his day, Goldberg's views of the tyranny of technology, biopolitics, and the "new vitalism" remain relevant to this day.

Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation

Author : Benjamin E. Sax
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004680210

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Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation by Benjamin E. Sax Pdf

This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world.

Introduction to Field-Being Philosophy

Author : Therese Dykeman,Laura Weed,David White
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527578784

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Introduction to Field-Being Philosophy by Therese Dykeman,Laura Weed,David White Pdf

This text is the first concise anthology of Lik Kuen Tong’s Field-Being philosophy. In addressing the ontology of both Eastern and Western thought, Field-Being philosophy offers a new metaphysics. Inclusively, it makes room at the table of philosophy for indigenous philosophy, and, foundationally, it rethinks the universe and the global world ontologically as “activity” and “relationality.” A comprehensive philosophy, it considers what is as movement, as well as the what of movement, and inventively adds the concept of “betweenness.” This philosophy of movement or “activity,” being future-oriented, is timely in the practical world, lending itself to the addressing of current issues such as climate change, global relations, and difference.

Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy

Author : Christopher Donohue,Charles T. Wolfe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031126048

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Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy by Christopher Donohue,Charles T. Wolfe Pdf

This Open Access book combines philosophical and historical analysis of various forms of alternatives to mechanism and mechanistic explanation, focusing on the 19th century to the present. It addresses vitalism, organicism and responses to materialism and its relevance to current biological science. In doing so, it promotes dialogue and discussion about the historical and philosophical importance of vitalism and other non-mechanistic conceptions of life. It points towards the integration of genomic science into the broader history of biology. It details a broad engagement with a variety of nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century vitalisms and conceptions of life. In addition, it discusses important threads in the history of concepts in the United States and Europe, including charting new reception histories in eastern and south-eastern Europe. While vitalism, organicism and similar epistemologies are often the concern of specialists in the history and philosophy of biology and of historians of ideas, the range of the contributions as well as the geographical and temporal scope of the volume allows for it to appeal to the historian of science and the historian of biology generally.

"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004468559

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"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics by Anonim Pdf

The volume collects a series of groundbreaking new studies which delve into the work of Franz Rosenzweig and assess its enduring yet still unacknowledged value for Epistemology, Aesthetics, Moral and Political Philosophy, going far beyond Theology and Philosophy of Religion.

Living Law

Author : Miguel Vatter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197546512

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It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity. As a challenge to this belief and echoing a long-held assumption in the republican tradition, Hannah Arendt once remarked that "Washington's and Napoleon's heroes were named Moses and David." In this book, Miguel Vatter reconstructs the political theology of German Jewish philosophers during the twentieth century and their attempts to bring together the Biblical teachings on politics with the Greek and Roman traditions of political philosophy. Developed alongside modern experiences with anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism, and the return of charismatic authority in mass societies, Jewish political theology in the twentieth century advances the radical hypothesis that the messianic idea of God's Kingdom correlates with a post-sovereignty, anarchist political condition of non-domination. Importantly, Jewish philosophers combined this messianic form of democracy with the ideal of cosmopolitan constitutionalism, which is itself based on the identity of divine law and natural law. This book examines the paradoxical unity of anarchy and rule of law in the democratic political theology developed by Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt. Critical of the Christian theological underpinnings of modern representative political institutions, this group of highly original thinkers took up the banner of Philo's project to unify Greek philosophy with Judaism, and rejected the separation between faith and reason, as well as the division between Biblical revelation and pagan philosophy. The Jewish political theology they developed stands for the idea that human redemption is inseparable from the redemption of nature. Living Law offers an alternative genealogy of political theology that challenges the widespread belief that modern republican political thought is derived from Christian sources.

Esoteric Lacan

Author : Philipp Valentini,Mahdi Tourage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609717

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Esoteric Lacan by Philipp Valentini,Mahdi Tourage Pdf

Jacques Lacan was fascinated with forms of the "religious" throughout his life, from monotheism, which shaped his account of the signifier, to modern occultism, as he was well acquainted with the writings of figures such as Oskar Goldberg and René Guénon. Lacan also repeatedly turned to non-European religiosities to test the limits of psychoanalytic theory. In his yearly seminars he engaged with traditions such as Kabbalah and Taoism, going beyond the Western Christian, capitalist and postcolonial setting of the French university to search for a possible outside to psychoanalysis. But such a quest ultimately recapitulates Lacan's constant awareness of the desire for a new master, and the still open question regarding the names and meanings that this desire may yield. This anthology of eleven essays, which travel from gnosticism to sufism, from afro-pessimism to post-68 ex-Maoist apocalypticism, investigates these unresolved threads that Lacan left behind. Beneath the exoteric psychoanalytic apparatus of Lacan's thought, there is an esoteric Lacan who remains unexplored.

The Dynamics of Gender and Life

Author : Stephen Pirie
Publisher : ProCreative Pty ltd
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780957853775

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The central concept within the ebook “The Dynamics of Gender and Life” is the universe as a self-organizing system (SOS) wherein everything and everyone is engaged in an ongoing, dynamic, cyclical, interactive dance between unity and individuality, feminine and masculine, wave and particle, togetherness and separateness, Yin and Yang, possibility and actuality. The exploration of this interactive possibility-actuality, feminine-masculine dance yields valuable and useful insights into creativity, identity politics, personality structure, belief-systems, intuition, gender, spirituality, neuroplasticity, peak-states, health, well-being and more ... Some reviews "I liked (Stephen's) generalized summaries of what it all meant as I went along, e.g., 'We, and each part within creation, are. . . an active pivot-point, a door-way, an active, creative portal through which the creative potential and power of the quantum vacuum, the implicate order, the ground of being, flows and creates. We are the delivery vehicles and directors of where and how that energy is congealed into actuality.' Beautifully expressed. These occasional "boosts" in his explication keeps the reader in touch with the overall context of what he is saying and sustains an emotional connection with the content. All in all, a wonderful piece of work, which I earnestly hope will reach a vast multitude of readers." Professor Emeritus Frank Juszczyk Western New Mexico University More reviews at https://beliefinstitute.com/reviews

Two Roads to Wisdom?

Author : Bo Mou
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812694341

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How are Chinese philosophy and analytic philosophy-two very distinct traditions-alike? In this volume, fifteen distinguished scholars compare and contrast the methodologies, finding areas in which each tradition can learn from, contribute to, and complement the other.

The Case of the Persevering Maltese

Author : Harry Mathews
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1564782883

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"A companion to The Human Country: New and Collected Stories, this volume contains all of Harry Mathews's nonfiction. These astonishing essays cover a wide range of literary topics, including discussion of complex musical forms and Oulipian techniques, to insightful commentaries on the works of Lewis Carroll, Raymond Roussel, Italo Calvino, Joseph McElroy, and Georges Perec. Throughout the collection Mathews examines the relationship between form and literature in a lucid, intimate voice, arguing with intelligence, grace, and humor for the importance of artifice."--Publisher's description.

Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, and Theories of Continua

Author : P. Ehrlich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789401582483

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Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, and Theories of Continua by P. Ehrlich Pdf

Since their appearance in the late 19th century, the Cantor--Dedekind theory of real numbers and philosophy of the continuum have emerged as pillars of standard mathematical philosophy. On the other hand, this period also witnessed the emergence of a variety of alternative theories of real numbers and corresponding theories of continua, as well as non-Archimedean geometry, non-standard analysis, and a number of important generalizations of the system of real numbers, some of which have been described as arithmetic continua of one type or another. With the exception of E.W. Hobson's essay, which is concerned with the ideas of Cantor and Dedekind and their reception at the turn of the century, the papers in the present collection are either concerned with or are contributions to, the latter groups of studies. All the contributors are outstanding authorities in their respective fields, and the essays, which are directed to historians and philosophers of mathematics as well as to mathematicians who are concerned with the foundations of their subject, are preceded by a lengthy historical introduction.

The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg

Author : Mårten Björk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350228245

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The Politics of Immortality in Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg by Mårten Björk Pdf

Highlighting the central importance of theological configurations of immortality and eternal life from 1914-1945, Mårten Björk explores the key writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Barth and Oskar Goldberg to situate their ideas in relation to the political turmoil of the period, including the rise of social Darwinism, nationalism and fascism. The conversations happening among Christian and Jewish theologians and philosophers on the nature of immortality and eternal life during the period constitute what Björk calls a 'politics of immortality'. The speculative question of eternal life became a way to address the meaning of 'a good life' in a period when millions of lives were lost to war, camps and prisons. This book shows how theology was related to central political concepts and ideas of the era, revealing how the question of immortality pursued by Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg became a way to resist the reduction of life to race, blood and soil. By situating the exact political consequences of theological and metaphysical theories of immortality and eternal life, Björk's discussion of Rosenzweig, Barth and Goldberg confronts the perennial question on the relation between life and death and exposes the important connections between political theology and philosophical posthumanism.

Political Theology Today

Author : Mitchell Dean,Lotte List,Stefan Schwarzkopf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350344532

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Political Theology Today by Mitchell Dean,Lotte List,Stefan Schwarzkopf Pdf

Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exception in his by now classic Political Theology (1922). Written at a time of crisis, the book sought to establish the institution of sovereignty, not from within a well-functioning governing machine of the state in a situation of normality, but rather as the minimal condition of state order in the moment of governmental breakdown. The book appeared anachronistic already at its publication. Schmitt went against Max Weber's popular thesis defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world characterizing modern societies, and instead suggested that the concepts of modern politics mirrored a metaphysics originating in Christianity and the church. Nevertheless, the concept of political theology has in recent years seen a revival as a field of research in philosophy as well as political theory, as studies in the theological sub-currents of politics, economics and sociality proliferate.

The Split Time

Author : Nimi Wariboko
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438489803

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The Split Time by Nimi Wariboko Pdf

The quest for economic development is arguably the most frustrating and tragic dimension of human existence in Africa. As its primary task, The Split Time constructs an economic philosophy from a tradition of thought that is indigenous to Africa, arguing that there are long-neglected resources within African philosophy to guide economic policymakers toward creating an African economy that can sustain human flourishing. Exploring notions of destiny, temporality, and desire, Nimi Wariboko constructs an economic-philosophical framework to rethink solutions to the vexing problem of economic development in Africa. He also provides a robust social-ethical perspective in which the basic aspects of economic life—the agential (accounts of human agency, telos), the circumstantial (material/social context), and the affective (to feel appropriately what matters to a people in an economy or their desire for human flourishing)—come together to fire social imagination about development policies for the common good.

Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling

Author : Andrew D. Lester
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664255884

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Hope in Pastoral Care and Counseling by Andrew D. Lester Pdf

In this ground-breaking book, pastoral counselor Andrew Lester demonstrates that pastoral theology (as well as social and behavioral sciences) has neglected to address effectively the predominant cause of human suffering: a lack of hope, a sense of futurelessness. Lester examines the reasons that pastoral theology and other social and behavioral sciences have overlooked the importance of hope and despair in the past. He then offers a starting point for the development of addressing these significant dimensions of human life. He provides clinical theories and methods for pastoral assessment of and intervention with those who despair. He also puts forth strategies for assessing the future stories of those who despair and offers a corrective to these stories through deconstruction, reframing, and reconstruction. This book will be invaluable to pastoral caregivers who are looking for a vantage point from which to provide care and to pastoral theologians who are seeking to develop a theological lens through which to understand the human condition.