SUNY series in Constructive Postmodern Thought – serie
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Varieties of Postmodern Theology
Av David Ray Griffin, William A. Beardslee m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
455 kr
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Sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions.This book sorts out the confusion created by the use of the term "postmodern" in relation to widely divergent theological positions. Four different types of postmodern theology …
Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People
Häftad, 1991
455 kr
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This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary …
Ecological Literacy
Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World
Av David W. Orr
Häftad, 1991
711 kr
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The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological catastrophes meet what …
Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism
Av Steve Odin
Häftad, 1996
504 kr
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The first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatismThe thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift …
Being and Value
Toward a Constructive Postmodern Metaphysics
Häftad, 1996
504 kr
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Shows the vital relationship between human life and the philosophical placement of value, emphasizing the now-occurring transition from the old mechanical world view to the postmodern alternative inspired by ecology.Being and Value begins with a discussion on metaphysics, showing the vital …
Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality
A Postmodern Exploration
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Examines why parapsychology has been held in disdain by scientists, philosophers, and theologians, explores the evidence for ESP, psychokinesis, and life after death, and suggests that these phenomena provide support for a meaningful postmodern spirituality.In this book, David Ray Griffin, best …
Transforming Human Culture
Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis
Av Jay Earley
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Explains how human social evolution has led both to worthwhile achievements and moral horrors and provides perspective on today's planetary crisis by viewing it as a transition within the larger picture of social evolution.
Knowing and Value
Toward a Constructive Postmodern Epistemology
Häftad, 1998
391 kr
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Offers a postmodern theory of knowledge based on an ecological worldview that stresses real relations and the pervasiveness of values.Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing …
Tacit Mode
Michael Polanyi's Postmodern Philosophy
Häftad, 2000
463 kr
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Explores the thought of twentieth-century philosopher Michael Polanyi.The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, …
Religion and Scientific Naturalism
Overcoming the Conflicts
Häftad, 2000
487 kr
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Articulates a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible.Winner of the 2000 Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize In this book, David Ray Griffin argues that the perceived conflict between science and religion is …
Virtue of Nonviolence
From Gautama to Gandhi
Inbunden, 2003
1040 kr
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A study in comparative virtue ethics.Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern …
Virtue of Nonviolence
From Gautama to Gandhi
Häftad, 2005
371 kr
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A study in comparative virtue ethics.Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern …
Higher Education in the Making
Pragmatism, Whitehead, and the Canon
Av George Allan
Häftad, 2004
463 kr
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Argues for a pragmatic canon always in need of renovation.George Allan argues that the so-called "culture wars" in higher education are the result of the dogmatic and unyielding certainty that both canonists and anti-canonists bring to any discussion of how best to organize an undergraduate …
Mothership Connections
A Black Atlantic Synthesis of Neoclassical Metaphysics and Black Theology
Inbunden, 2004
1286 kr
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Contributes a black Atlantic perspective to postmodernism, theology, and metaphysics.Bringing a black Atlantic approach to constructive postmodern efforts to understand and transcend modern worldviews and modern world orders, Mothership Connections draws upon the work of scholars in the tradition …
Reenchantment of Science
Postmodern Proposals
Häftad, 1988
455 kr
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Describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science.This book describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism, based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne …
Spirituality and Society
Postmodern Visions
Häftad, 1988
455 kr
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This book takes a genuinely new spiritual stance reflecting the emergence of a post-modern science and differing from the relativistic nihilism that calls itself postmodern but is really modernism extended to its limit.Based on a direct experience of reality as divine, this postmodern spirituality …
God and Religion in the Postmodern World
Essays in Postmodern Theology
Häftad, 1988
455 kr
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Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.The naturalistic theism presented in this book is addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be …
Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology
Av David Ray Griffin, Huston Smith
Inbunden, 1989
1111 kr
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Proposes religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity.In this book, Huston Smith and David Ray Griffin propose religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity. Huston Smith proposes the perennial philosophy or primordial tradition, and David Ray Griffin …
Sacred Interconnections
Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art
Häftad, 1990
401 kr
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Shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art.This book shows the interconnections between postmodernism, religion, politics, economics, and art. It shows that the awareness of interconnectedness is at the center of the postmodern sensibility. Sacred …
Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis
Policy, Process, and Presidential Vision
Av David Ray Griffin, Richard A. Falk
Häftad, 1993
352 kr
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Argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics.This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. …
Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism
Av Steve Odin
Inbunden, 1996
1111 kr
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The first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatismThe thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift …
Jewish Theology and Process Thought
Av Sandra B. Lubarsky, David Ray Griffin
Inbunden, 1996
1087 kr
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Presents essays by Jewish thinkers who have found process thought to be a useful framework for contemporary Jewish thought and a set of conversations between Jewish and Christian thinkers on the appropriateness of process thought for Judaism and Christianity.This collection constitutes the first …
Jewish Theology and Process Thought
Av Sandra B. Lubarsky, David Ray Griffin
Häftad, 1996
422 kr
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Presents essays by Jewish thinkers who have found process thought to be a useful framework for contemporary Jewish thought and a set of conversations between Jewish and Christian thinkers on the appropriateness of process thought for Judaism and Christianity.This collection constitutes the first …
Earth Summit Ethics
Toward a Reconstructive Postmodern Philosophy of Environmental Education
Av J. Baird Callicott, Fernando J. R. da Rocha
Häftad, 1996
345 kr
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An international group of environmental philosophers and educators propose ways universities can produce and promote ecological literacy and environmental ethics.On the eve of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Fernando J. R. da Rocha challenged environmental philosophers to suggest and …
Kazantzakis and God
Häftad, 1997
386 kr
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Examines the concept of God which emerges from the writings of Nikos Kazantzakis and argues that he was a process theist.
Society Fit for Human Beings
Av E. M. Adams
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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Argues for a humanistic cultural reformation to counter our materialistic values and science-dominated intellectual life and shows how this would affect our lives and transform our society.A Society Fit for Human Beings contends that there is a profound incoherence in the foundations of modern …
Knowing and Value
Toward a Constructive Postmodern Epistemology
Inbunden, 1998
1111 kr
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Offers a postmodern theory of knowledge based on an ecological worldview that stresses real relations and the pervasiveness of values.Modern thought, finally free from premodern excesses of belief, immediately fell prey to excesses of doubt. This book points toward a postmodern approach to knowing …
Tacit Mode
Michael Polanyi's Postmodern Philosophy
Inbunden, 2000
1111 kr
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Explores the thought of twentieth-century philosopher Michael Polanyi.The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, …
Spiritual Titanism
Indian, Chinese, and Western Perspectives
Häftad, 2000
422 kr
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A comparative philosophical consideration of the extremes of humanism, or "Titanism," this book critiques trends in Eastern and Western philosophy and examines solutions to them.This work in comparative philosophy uses the concept of Titanism to critique certain trends in both Eastern and Western …
World in Process
Creativity and Interconnection in the New Physics
Häftad, 2000
401 kr
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Shows how modern physics supports basic claims of process philosophy.World in Process provides not only an up-to-date description of the ideas of modern physics and cosmology, but also connects those ideas to process thought. To make these connections, a brief introduction to process philosophy is …
