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  • Fascinatingly Disturbing

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Michael Haneke's Cinema

    Edited by Stefanie Knauss, Alexander Darius Ornella ...
    Michael Haneke is one of Europe's most successful and controversial film directors. Awarded the Palme d'Or and numerous other international awards, Haneke has contributed to and shaped contemporary auteur cinema and is becoming more and more popular among academics and cinephiles. His mission is as noble as it is provocative: he wants "to rape the audience into independence," to wake them up from ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Commun(icat)ing Bodies

    Edited by Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Alexander D. Ornella, Stefanie Knauss ...
    Series series Religion-Economy-Politics
    As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion.This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Feminist Theologies

    Interstices and Fractures

    by Rebekah Pryor, Stephen Burns, Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg, Choi Hee An, Bryan Cones, Shannon Craigo-Snell, Jenny Daggers, Sally Douglas, Joseph Goh0, Cristina Lledo Gomez1, Jione Havea2, Marguerite Kappelhoff3, Peter Kline4, Stefanie Knauss5, Janice McRandal6, David Tombs7, Jin Young Choi8 ...
    Series series Decolonizing Theology
    This assemblage of feminist theologies represents a series of vital entanglements. Chapters are written from different cultures, geographies and discourses and brought together around themes as specific and wide-ranging as immigration detention, hate crime, discrimination, rites of marriage and partnership, and artistic and religious imagination. The contributors variously echo, celebrate, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers: Hegel

    by Raymond Plant ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable - all those whose ideas have made the modern age have worked in his ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

    A Dialogue

    by Gianni Vattimo, René Girard ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives.Christianity, Truth, and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Philosophy as a Way of Life

    Ancients and Moderns - Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot

    Edited by Michael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, Michael McGhee ...
    Philosophy as a Way of LifeThis unique collection of essays on the late Pierre Hadot’s revolutionary methodological approach to studying and practicing philosophy explores Hadot’s primary conviction that philosophy itself goes beyond solving puzzles and analyzing abstract arguments. Hadot believed that philosophy is a key part of humanity’s search for happiness, that it can transform our ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

  • Esotericism and the Academy

    Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture

    by Wouter J. Hanegraaff ...
    Academics tend to look on 'esoteric', 'occult' or 'magical' beliefs with contempt, but are usually ignorant about the religious and philosophical traditions to which these terms refer, or their relevance to intellectual history. Wouter Hanegraaff tells the neglected story of how intellectuals since the Renaissance have tried to come to terms with a cluster of 'pagan' ideas from late antiquity that ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Evolution and Conversion

    Dialogues on the Origins of Culture

    by Dr René Girard ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of René Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His long argument is a historical one in which the origin of culture and religion is reunited in the contemporary world by means of a reinterpretation ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays.Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the ... Read more

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  • A Systems Theory of Religion

    by Niklas Luhmann ...
    Translated by David Brenner, Adrian Hermann ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • After Christianity

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Luca D'Isanto ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    What has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the "death of God"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of the European constitution, addresses these critical questions.When Vattimo was asked by a former ... Read more

    $20.89 USD