G. V. Loewen – författare & böcker

Adventures in the Aporetic

Anthropological Alterities

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

838 kr

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Life presents us, intimately and immanently, with a series of diverse and puzzling aporia. One event and its interpretation, occurring in the simultaneous context of another and differing event, leads us to reflect on the limits of language in order to adequately negotiate the limits of human experience. The process of perplexity in the face of disjunctive similitudes we may call aporesis. There are many examples of what can henceforth be called aporia_concepts mutually necessary but paradoxical, contradictory expectations of the human condition. The mutual imbrications of nature and culture, the presence of the past in the present, or the contradictions of the modern-self concept are all fundamental examples of aporetic structures. This book attempts, through a series of interpretive discussions, to confront a number of well-known perplexities in their structural form of disjunctive moments, of interpretive contexts of 'this is' and 'this is not.'

Three Apodeictic Dialogues

Examples of Conceptual Mirrors in Religion, Psychology, and Social Organization

AvG. V. Loewen

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

547 kr

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The concept of certainty may be approached contextually through the use of dialogue. In three creative dialogues involving characters that are often seen as representing each other's antipodes —- "a theist" and an "atheist," a "therapist" and "the rapist," and two multi-voiced group personae, 'casual ties' and 'casualties' —- this text negotiates the overlapping aspects of consciousness that each must have in its alter. Coming to know the other in oneself while at the same time othering ourselves is one process of knowing more fully the truth of the human condition. The dialogues are bookended by a meditative and philosophical introduction concerning human finitude and the role of the otherness of death, and a scholarly conclusion about the vicissitudes within the use of human language. Drawing on sources from anthropology, archaeology, socio-linguistics, and critical philosophy, and using both conversation and academic exposition, Three Apodeictic Dialogues offers a unique perspective on some of the disconcerting questions that animate belief, desire, and communication.

Place Meant

Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self

AvG. V. Loewen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

1 184 kr

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What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the history of ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who has traveled the earth and pondered their relationship to home, away, and the world at large.

Place Meant

Hermeneutic Landscapes of the Spatial Self

AvG. V. Loewen

E-bok

Engelska, 2014

1 286 kr

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What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of these and related questions, through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the history of ideas. It will be of interest to anyone who has traveled the earth and pondered their relationship to home, away, and the world at large.

Bungle Book

Some Errors by Which We Live

AvG. V. Loewen

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

561 kr

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The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the “senses” of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to “unexpect the expected” and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.

Bungle Book

Some Errors by Which We Live

AvG. V. Loewen

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

604 kr

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The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the “senses” of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to “unexpect the expected” and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.

G. V. Loewen – författare

Adventures in the Aporetic

Three Apodeictic Dialogues

Place Meant

Place Meant

Bungle Book

Bungle Book

Field Guide to Common Ghosts

Field Guide to Common Ghosts

What Is God?

Becoming a Modest Society

On the Afterlife

Big Secrets

What if Questioned I

Social Marginalia

Contrapaganda

InSightful's Guide to Critical Thinking

Basic Problems in Hermeneutics

Forgetting the Dreamtime

Halcyon Summer

Penumbra of Personhood

On Being Ignored

Life Worthy of Life

Words are also Deeds - Essays in Public Ethics and Private Aesthetics

On Time

Ex Spiritus Mundi

First and Last Science

Number of the Best -- A Novel of Ourselves

Ennead

Decalogue

Truer Trinity