Paul Kahn - Böcker

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination.Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination.Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.

What patterns do we use to represent knowledge of the world? Opening seven books side by side, Mapping Knowledge Across Time asks these difficult questions. What shapes do we use to represent creation? What do we record and what do we ignore when we map the world? How do we create a picture of the past on the page? Where do we locate the future? How do the parts of the world connect? How do these shapes and patterns arranged on book pages compare across eight centuries? What do the visualizations of knowledge from these books help us see today?The result is a tour of the information design patterns from Modernist diagrams of evolution to medieval Islamic maps, from Chinese representations of rivers to Jewish diagrams of astrological cycles. Each chapter flows back and forth between centuries and cultures, interweaving cartography with data visualization, atlases with encyclopedias. Examples unfold from these seven extraordinary book masterpieces, drawn by illuminators, carved into woodblocks, printed from copperplate, cut and pasted onto boards, demonstrating how designers drive a picture of the world into the reader’s mind. The result exposes entire visual systems that continue to inspire designers today.This book will lead you to new ways of seeing connections between the past and the present. You will encounter maps, books, diagrams, data visualization, and global views of our common world that will surprise and inspire the general reader and the specialist.

What patterns do we use to represent knowledge of the world? Opening seven books side by side, Mapping Knowledge Across Time asks these difficult questions. What shapes do we use to represent creation? What do we record and what do we ignore when we map the world? How do we create a picture of the past on the page? Where do we locate the future? How do the parts of the world connect? How do these shapes and patterns arranged on book pages compare across eight centuries? What do the visualizations of knowledge from these books help us see today?The result is a tour of the information design patterns from Modernist diagrams of evolution to medieval Islamic maps, from Chinese representations of rivers to Jewish diagrams of astrological cycles. Each chapter flows back and forth between centuries and cultures, interweaving cartography with data visualization, atlases with encyclopedias. Examples unfold from these seven extraordinary book masterpieces, drawn by illuminators, carved into woodblocks, printed from copperplate, cut and pasted onto boards, demonstrating how designers drive a picture of the world into the reader’s mind. The result exposes entire visual systems that continue to inspire designers today.This book will lead you to new ways of seeing connections between the past and the present. You will encounter maps, books, diagrams, data visualization, and global views of our common world that will surprise and inspire the general reader and the specialist.