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19 produkter
Counterpleasures
Inbunden, 1999
1040 kr
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Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging …
Immemorial Silence
Inbunden, 2001
1040 kr
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Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of intertwined ideas. Exploring silence as the absence of language, which is nonetheless inherent in …
Word Made Skin
Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh
Inbunden, 2004
1190 kr
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Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch?In a trio of …
Word Made Skin
Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh
Häftad, 2004
472 kr
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Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch?In a trio of …
Fragmentation and Memory
Meditations on Christian Doctrine
Inbunden, 2008
1190 kr
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Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing "God" and the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But religious thought has always been more interesting—indeed, a rich source of endlessly unfolding …
Seducing Augustine
Bodies, Desires, Confessions
Av Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1120 kr
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Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize …
Seducing Augustine
Bodies, Desires, Confessions
Av Virginia Burrus, Mark D. Jordan m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
472 kr
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Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize …
Divine Enticement
Theological Seductions
Inbunden, 2012
998 kr
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Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical—but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions—affirmative …
Divine Enticement
Theological Seductions
Häftad, 2012
425 kr
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Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical—but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions—affirmative …
Matter of Voice
Sensual Soundings
Inbunden, 2016
1053 kr
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Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but …
Matter of Voice
Sensual Soundings
Häftad, 2016
342 kr
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Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but …
Material Mystery
The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies
Inbunden, 2021
1317 kr
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Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very …
Material Mystery
The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies
Häftad, 2021
359 kr
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Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very …
Failing Desire
Inbunden, 2018
1286 kr
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Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of …
We and They
Decolonizing Greco-Roman and Biblical Antiquities
Av Jonathan Cahana-Blum, Karmen MacKendrick
Inbunden, 2019
342 kr
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The articles collected in this volume share a very similar goal: to decolonize our understanding of antiquity, thus allowing modernity to converse with antiquity without constraining the latter to be either the direct precedent or the thoroughly other of the former. It is certainly true that the …
Counterpleasures
Häftad, 1999
462 kr
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Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging …
Immemorial Silence
Häftad, 2001
386 kr
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Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of intertwined ideas. Exploring silence as the absence of language, which is nonetheless inherent in …
Fragmentation and Memory
Meditations on Christian Doctrine
Häftad, 2008
425 kr
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Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing "God" and the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But religious thought has always been more interesting—indeed, a rich source of endlessly unfolding …
Failing Desire
Häftad, 2018
401 kr
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Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of …
