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16Holy Shit: Excremental Philosophy, Religious Ontology, and Spiritual RevelationInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 15 (1). 2021.Žižek seems to find great inspiration in Christianity. It is central to The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why Is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, The Puppet and the Dwarf, and The Monstrosity of Christ. Indeed, even in his more singularly philosophical and political texts we find that Christianity is often vital to his overall argumentative strategy. This is somewhat surprising given his declared position as an atheist. Yet what seems to appeal to him in Christianity is that, as a religion, it …Read more
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18The Shape of Thought: Subject, Executor, AuthorInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 14 (1). 2020.Descartes conspicuous realisation in the 17 th century that reason alone could not validate itself led inexorably to the idea that God must be the form of metaphysical force that could supply the ultimate support that would allow us to know our own thoughts for certain. Similarly, Hume’s extraordinary insight in the 18 th century that our experiences are not intrinsically connected in terms of how we enjoy them led him to require that something natural must be posited to hold them together and p…Read more
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2Cosmopolitan Promises, Multicultural RealitiesIn Richard Scholar (ed.), Divided Cities: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2003, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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5The Genetic View of Berkeley's Religious MotivationWentworth Press. 2019.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of …Read more
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28Questions of Cultural IdentitySAGE Publications. 1996.Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of these issues. Stuart Hall outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling, and yet so problematic. Individual contributors interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity, providing both theoretical and substantive insights into its contemporary manifestations. Rather than privileging any one approach to the problem of identity, the book opens up a number of significant questions and offers insights…Read more
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5In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart— three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic
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6The ancient Greek roots of human rightsUniversity of Texas Press. 2021.A work of intellectual history, the book traces the notion of human rights as articulated in the Enlightenment to the evolution of humane discourse and empathetic thought in Ancient Greece.
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33James P. Mackey. The Christian Experience of God as Trinity. Pp. viii+ 310.(London: SCM Press Ltd, 1983.)£ 7.50Religious Studies 21 (1): 128-129. 1985.
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20Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations§§243–315 – By Stephen Mulhall (review)Philosophical Investigations 31 (3): 272-280. 2008.No Abstract
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11Law Week Soccer CompetitionEthos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. 2005."Law week soccer competition: 16-19 May 2005." Ethos: Official Publication of the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, (198), pp. 25.
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28In Knowledge and Its Limits, Timothy Williamson argues that knowledge is a purely mental state, that is, that it is never a complex state or condition comprising mental factors and non-mental, environmental factors. Three of his arguments are evaluated: arguments from (1) the non-analyzability of the concept of knowledge, (2) the “primeness” of knowledge, and (3) the (alleged) inability to satisfactorily specify the “internal” element involved in knowledge. None of these arguments succeeds. More…Read more
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93Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying PracticesSAGE Publications. 1997.This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in…Read more
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6A 'Reading' of Marx's 1857 Introduction to the GrundrisseCentre for Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham. 1973.
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20Wisdom: from philosophy to neuroscienceAlfred A. Knopf. 2010.A compelling investigation into one of the most coveted and cherished ideals, "Wisdom" also chronicles the efforts of modern science to penetrate the mysterious nature of this timeless virtue.
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Drake UniversityRegular Faculty
Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Meta-Ethics |
Asian Philosophy |