 | Philosopher as Witness, The
Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust
Michael L. Morgan - editor
Benjamin Pollock - editor
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Hardcover: $65.00
Release Date: May 2008
238 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7455-6
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Responses to Fackenheim’s reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.
Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on Judaism and on humanity, but also to recognize that the question of what it means to philosophize—indeed, what it means to be human—must be raised anew in its wake.
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 | Signifying Body, The
Toward an Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference
Penelope Ingram - author
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Hardcover: $55.00
Release Date: May 2008
154 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7443-3
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Release Date: May 2008
154 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7837-0
 
 
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Applies the ideas of Heidegger, Irigaray, and Fanon to literature and film. How do we live ethically? What role do sex and race play in living or being ethically? Can ethics lead to ontology? Can literature play a role in ethical being? Drawing extensively on the work of Luce Irigaray, Frantz Fanon, and Martin Heidegger, Penelope Ingram argues that ethical questions must be understood in light of ontological ones.
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 | Religion and Democracy in Taiwan
Cheng-tian Kuo - author
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Hardcover: $35.00
Release Date: May 2008
161 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7445-7
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Release Date: May 2008
161 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7832-5
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A meticulous study of various Taiwanese religions and their relationships with democratic values and behaviors.
In Religion and Democracy in Taiwan, Cheng-tian Kuo meticulously explores various Taiwanese religions in order to observe their relationships with democracy.
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 | Promise of Poststructuralist Sociology, The
Marginalized Peoples and the Problem of Knowledge
Clayton W. Dumont Jr. - author
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Hardcover: $79.50
Release Date: May 2008
226 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7441-9
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Release Date: May 2008
226 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7442-6
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A postmodern critique of sociology’s presuppositions.
In this fresh look at the serious challenges posed to sociology by poststructuralist philosophy, Clayton W. Dumont Jr. maintains that disempowered, marginalized peoples have much to gain from a poststructuralist interrogation of sociology’s philosophical and theological presuppositions.
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 | Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism
The Third Place
Angela Sumegi - author
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Hardcover: $65.50
Release Date: May 2008
166 pages
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ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7463-1
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Release Date: May 2008
166 pages
ISBN10: N/A
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7464-8
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Explores shamanic and Tibetan Buddhist attitudes toward dreams.
Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism, shamanism, and Tibetan culture with the subject of dreaming. In Tibetan Buddhist literature, there are numerous examples of statements that express the value of dreams as a vehicle of authentic spiritual knowledge and, at the same time, dismiss dreams as the ultra-illusions of an illusory world.
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