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Pretensions of Objectivity

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532657382
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Pretensions of Objectivity written by Jeffrey L. Morrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern historical biblical criticism, while having many strengths, often operates under the pretensions of objectivity, as if such scholarship were neutral and disinterested. Examining the history and roots of modern biblical scholarship shows that such objectivity is elusive, and was never intended by the method’s earliest practitioners. Building upon his earlier work in Three Skeptics and the Bible and Theology, Politics, and Exegesis, Morrow continues this historical investigation into the political and philosophical roots of modern biblical criticism in Pretensions of Objectivity, in the hope of developing a criticism of biblical criticism and of making space for theological exegesis.

Re-constructing Archaeology

Author : Michael Shanks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134886098
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Re-constructing Archaeology written by Michael Shanks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.

Ethical Theory: Theories about how we should live. 2004

Author : James Rachels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198751922
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Ethical Theory: Theories about how we should live. 2004 written by James Rachels and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Practice of Quixotism

Author : S. Gordon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601537
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Practice of Quixotism written by S. Gordon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read.

Beyond the Science Wars

Author : Ullica Segerstrale
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791492397
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Science Wars written by Ullica Segerstrale and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the "Science Wars"—an ongoing debate between scientists and social scientists over the nature and meaning of science—from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives. Beyond providing an understanding of the conflict itself, this book presents the comments of two science and technology studies' (STS) "founding fathers" (Bernard Barber and John Ziman), a scientist's protest that STS has abandoned its original mission, a historian's view of the fluctuating social support for science, and a sociologist's analysis of the motives of "anti-antiscience warriors." In addition, an STS statesman discusses ongoing structural changes in science, a sociologist sorts out different views of objectivity, and an STS veteran from the Science Wars brings us tales from the front and evaluates the meaning of recent events. Contributors include Bernard Barber, Henry H. Bauer, Valery Cholakov, Stephan Fuchs, Steve Fuller, Ullica Segerstrale, and John Ziman.

Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom

Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 153269380X
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom written by Jeffrey L. Morrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For far too long the Bible has been studied as just one among many historical and cultural documents from ancient history. That it is a foundational text for Western civilization is clear. What is too often forgotten or ignored in academic discussions, however, is that the Bible has also inspired the lives of countless saints throughout history; men and women who sought to love God and love neighbor to the point of offering heroic sacrifices, sometimes giving up their very lives. Much of biblical scholarship over the past two centuries, however, has reduced the Bible to a dead historical document with little-to-no relevance for today, beyond intellectual curiosity. This, in part, lies at the root of the tragic separation of theology from biblical studies. That theology and biblical exegesis are at an impasse has become a commonplace in academic discourse. Liturgy and Sacrament, Mystagogy and Martyrdom is an attempt to bridge the gap between theology and exegesis. It seeks to develop a theological interpretation of Scripture relying upon the best of traditional Christian exegesis and modern biblical scholarship, so that the Bible can serve, once again, as the wellspring of Christian life.

Truth

Author : David Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137886
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Truth written by David Wood and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the stage with a selection of readings from importantnineteenth century philosophers, this reader on truth puts inconversation some of the main philosophical figures from thetwentieth century in the analytic, continental, and pragmatisttraditions. Focuses on the value or normativity of truth through exposingthe dialogues between different schools of thought Features philosophical figures from the twentieth century inthe analytic, continental, and pragmatist traditions Topics addressed include the normative relation between truthand subjectivity, consensus, art, testimony, power, andcritique Includes essays by Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, James, Heidegger,Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein, Levinas, Arendt, Foucault, Rorty,Davidson, Habermas, Derrida, and many others

The Five Stages of Collapse

Author : Dmitry Orlov
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 155092527X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Five Stages of Collapse written by Dmitry Orlov and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user’s guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse. In the face of political impotence, resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. However, popular perception of how this future might actually unfold varies wildly from "a severe and prolonged recession," to James Howard Kunstler's "long emergency," to the complete breakdown of civilization. In The Five Stages of Collapse , Dmitry Orlov posits a taxonomy of collapse, offering a surprisingly optimistic perspective on surviving the sweeping changes of the day with health and sanity intact. Arguing that it is during periods of disruption and extreme uncertainty that broad cultural change becomes possible, Orlov steers the reader through the challenges of financial, commercial, and political collapse. He suggests that if the first three stages are met with the appropriate responses, further breakdown may be arrested before the extremes of social and cultural collapse are reached. Drawing on a detailed examination of post-collapse societies, including the Somali people of Africa, the Pashtuns of Afghanistan, the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, and even the Russian mafia, The Five Stages of Collapse describes successful adaptations in areas such as finance, self-governance, and social and cultural organization. These fascinating case studies provide a unique perspective on the characteristics that determine highly resilient communities. Shot through with Orlov's trademark dark humor, this is an invaluable toolkit for creating workable post-collapse solutions. Dmitry Orlov was born in Leningrad, Russia, and immigrated to the United States. He is the author of Reinventing Collapse and maintains the phenomenally popular blog Club Orlov.

Theorizing Masculinities

Author : Harry Brod
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506319645
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Theorizing Masculinities written by Harry Brod and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1994-06-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together the broad range of theoretical issues posed in the new study of masculinity, contributors from diverse backgrounds address in this volume the different disciplinary roots of theories of masculinity - sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality studies. Subsequent chapters theoretically model many issues central to the study of men - power, ethnicity, feminism, homophobia - or develop theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men including the military and the men's movement.

Contaminations

Author : Mack Michael Mack
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147441138X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Contaminations written by Mack Michael Mack and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the figure of contamination as alternative to dialectics Whereas dialectics separates two entities and traverses from one to the other (finally negating negation), contamination allows for the simultaneous interdependence of what has previously been conceived as separate or opposed. The book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity, action and contemplation, the sacred and the profane. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated-what has only been implied-within postmodern and poststructuralist, and deconstructive theory.Combining theory with literary criticism, the book sheds light on how overlooked aspects of Henry James's , H. Melville's and H. G. Wells's novels question notions of natural order as well as an opposition between the subjective and the objective. It offers fresh readings of classic films and literary texts, including Vertigo and Moby Dick, with the aim to ground theoretical insights in close analysis. Key featuresCritically engages with some aspects of contemporary theory that keep propounding a Cartesian notion of the mind's control over the bodyAnalyses how key thinkers such as Spinoza, Benjamin, Pasolini and Freud attempt to re-evaluate what Agamben calls 'bare life'Offers original readings of Pasolini's notion of scandalo in terms of contaminationAlerts us to the ways in which some aspects of contemporary posthumanism may merely reproduce the dialects of inclusion and exclusion which is still premised on traditional notions of purity and immunity

State/Society

Author : Gilbert Shang Ndi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643908423
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book State/Society written by Gilbert Shang Ndi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2017 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkably meticulous work, Gilbert Shang Ndi succeeds in bringing together the aesthetic and political dimensions of the texts and in broadening interpretative perspectives in very convincing analyses. Each author is handled in his peculiarity and the theoretical ambitions of the project contribute to fruitful and innovative readings of major African literature texts by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ahmadou Kourouma, Ayi Kwei Armah and Sony Labou Tansi. --Prof. Xavier Garnier, U. de Paris-Sorbonne III **This title is based on a Dissertation. (Series: Contributions in African Research / BeitrÃ?Â¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 77) [Subject: African Studies, Literary Criticism]

Free Will

Author : Gary Watson
Publisher : Oxford Readings in Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 019925494X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Free Will written by Gary Watson and published by Oxford Readings in Philosophy. This book was released on 2003 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this highly successful text will once again provide the ideal introduction to free will. This volume brings together some of the most influential contributions to the topic of free will during the past 50 years, as well as some notable recent work.

Comparative Education

Author : Carlos Alberto Torres
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742574504
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Education written by Carlos Alberto Torres and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-09-16 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local, Third Edition brings together many of the outstanding scholars in the field of comparative and international education to provide new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national, and local forces as they shape the functioning and outcomes of education systems in specific contexts. Various chapters in the book call for a rethinking of the nation-state as the basic unit for analyzing school-society relations; provide new ways of conceptualizing equality of educational opportunity and outcomes; call attention to the need to study social movements in relation to educational reform; emphasize the value of feminist, postcolonial, and culturally sensitive perspectives to comparative inquiry into the limitations as well as potential of education systems to contribute to individual development and social change; and provide detailed critical accounts of how various international financial and technical assistance agencies shape educational policy and practice in specific regions of the world.

Comparative Education

Author : Robert F. Arnove
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442217774
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Education written by Robert F. Arnove and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its fourth edition, Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local remains the same groundbreaking book when it first debuted its collection of outstanding scholars in examining the changing transnational landscape of education. With the addition of new coeditor Stephen Franz, the book provides new perspectives on the dynamic interplay of global, national, and local forces as they shape the functions and outcomes of education systems. The book calls for a rethinking of the nation-state as the basic unit for analyzing school-society relations and emphasizes the need to study social movements in relation to educational reforms. It also emphasizes the value of feminist, postcolonial, and culturally sensitive perspectives for inquiry into the potential of education systems to contribute to individual development and social change. This new edition incorporates recent developments in scholarship, especially in education policy and practice, the impact of the global economic crisis, and a new chapter on education in the European Union.

Objectivity

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942130619
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Objectivity written by Lorraine Daston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objectivity has a history, and it is full of surprises. In Objectivity, Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison chart the emergence of objectivity in the mid-nineteenth-century sciences — and show how the concept differs from alternatives, truth-to-nature and trained judgment. This is a story of lofty epistemic ideals fused with workaday practices in the making of scientific images. From the eighteenth through the early twenty-first centuries, the images that reveal the deepest commitments of the empirical sciences — from anatomy to crystallography — are those featured in scientific atlases: the compendia that teach practitioners of a discipline what is worth looking at and how to look at it. Atlas images define the working objects of the sciences of the eye: snowflakes, galaxies, skeletons, even elementary particles. Galison and Daston use atlas images to uncover a hidden history of scientific objectivity and its rivals. Whether an atlas maker idealizes an image to capture the essentials in the name of truth-to-nature or refuses to erase even the most incidental detail in the name of objectivity or highlights patterns in the name of trained judgment is a decision enforced by an ethos as well as by an epistemology. As Daston and Galison argue, atlases shape the subjects as well as the objects of science. To pursue objectivity — or truth-to-nature or trained judgment — is simultaneously to cultivate a distinctive scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge. Moreover, the very point at which they visibly converge is in the very act of seeing not as a separate individual but as a member of a particular scientific community. Embedded in the atlas image, therefore, are the traces of consequential choices about knowledge, persona, and collective sight. Objectivity is a book addressed to any one interested in the elusive and crucial notion of objectivity — and in what it means to peer into the world scientifically.

Upsetting Composition Commonplaces

Author : Ian Barnard
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874219477
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Upsetting Composition Commonplaces written by Ian Barnard and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be difficult to translate to the classroom, Barnard upends several especially intransigent tenets that continue to influence the teaching of writing and how students are encouraged to understand writing. Using six major principles of writing classrooms and textbooks—clarity, intent, voice, ethnography, audience, and objectivity—Barnard looks at the implications of poststructuralist theory for pedagogy. While suggesting some evocative poststructuralist pedagogical practices, the author focuses on diagnosing the fault lines of composition's refusal of poststructuralism rather than on providing "solutions” in the form of teaching templates. Upsetting Composition Commonplaces addresses the need to more effectively engage in poststructuralist concepts in composition in an accessible and engaging voice that will advance the conversation about relations between the theory and teaching of writing.

The Astronaut

Author : Dario Llinares
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443831387
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Astronaut written by Dario Llinares and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Astronaut: Cultural Mythology and Idealised Masculinity interrogates the historical and cultural dynamics of one of the most revered icons of the 20th century. Analysing a diverse range of cultural representations the book postulates the construction of an intertextual mythology through which the astronaut becomes an embodiment of American ideological values and heroic manhood. The discursive processes at work in the range of media texts examined serve to embed the astronaut into the cultural imaginary as a largely coherent and uncontested exemplar of idealised masculinity. Using a range of interdisciplinary analytical tools the book examines how the social construction of this masculine ideal iterates and naturalises gender hegemony. The book situates the astronaut within the context of a modern/postmodern theoretical framework linking shifts in gender perspectives to the contradictory narratives and characterisations that inform the mediation of the astronaut. In so doing, the book argues for a re-evaluation of the, often oversimplified, use of the term hegemonic masculinity as an anchoring point for the critique of masculinity. The strength of this work is its interdisciplinary diversity and its interconnection of a range of themes including gender, representation, history, ideology, the postmodern and the media. Drawing upon contemporary theoretical debates while redeploying seminal theoretical texts the book offers new cultural interrogations of a highly familiar historical subject.