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  • Byung-Chul Han

    A Critical Introduction

    by Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, Robert Wyllie ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues that they lead to burnout and self-absorption and that we must redevelop contemplative practices which slow us down and open us up. He has brought to his thought forms of deep cosmopolitanism developed ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Wonder Strikes

    Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond

    by Steven E. Knepper ...
    The first book-length examination of the prominent contemporary philosopher William Desmond's approach to aesthetics, art, and literature.William Desmond argues that philosophy, religion, and art begin in wonder. Desmond is widely recognized for his original metaphysics and his provocative philosophy of religion. Desmond's extensive writings on aesthetics, art, and literature, however, have ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Intimate Strangeness of Poetry

    William Desmond and Literature

    Edited by Steven E. Knepper ...
    The Irish philosopher William Desmond studied literature before becoming one of the most exciting metaphysicians of our day. He continues to write, as he sometimes puts it, “between system and poetics.” Desmond claims a poetic register is necessary to evoke the richness of being, and that literature is a vital conversation partner for philosophy.This is the first collection to explore how Desmond ... Read more

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  • Keywords for Southern Studies

    by Erich Nunn, Leigh Anne Duck, Melanie Benson Taylor, Deborah Cohn, Martyn Bone, Coleman Hutchinson, Houston A. Baker Jr., Steven Knepper, John T. Matthews, Michael Bibler, Sylvia Shin-Huey Chong, Briallen Hopper, Claudia Milian, Wanda Rushing, Anna Brickhouse, Eric Lott, Harilaos Stecopoulos, Jayna Brown, Matthew Guterl, Ted Atkinson, Natalie J. Ring, Suzanne Jones, Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, Thomas F. Haddox, Eric G. Anderson, Dr. Keith Cartwright ...
    Series series
    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Thoughtful Muse

    Autobiography in Occasional Verse

    by William Franke ...
    The verses in this book were written in re-creational moments of reflection, whether on specific incidents or on constants of existence perceived in particular places under unique circumstances. They aim to preserve and convey some vestige of these revelatory experiences. They strive to raise the attendant illuminations into a heightened consciousness that opens upon the universal relatedness of ... Read more

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  • Rhapsody and Redolence

    The Crystal Decade

    by Carol Scott, Caitlin Smith Gilson ...
    This is a work of doing, of poesis, an enacting philosophy and theology through immediacy. It seeks to call to mind our original interrogative stance in Being, as did the Eleatic poem, the dialogic power of Plato, even Heidegger's indwelling. Should the philosopher want to recover philosophical wonder, then this is the road to be traveled; thought needs raw unmanageable experience. Ordered thought ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reassessing the 1930s South

    by Bryan Giemza, Rebecca Sharpless, Ted Atkinson, Lisa Dorrill, Robert Ferguson, Richard F. Haynes, Ella Howard, Doug Thompson, Emily Senefeld, Anthony Stanonis, Scott Mathews, Steven Knepper ...
    Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South as an exceptional region that stood separate from American norms. Reassessing the 1930s South brings ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Heart of Flesh

    William Desmond and the Bible

    by William Franke ...
    Series Book 40 - Veritas
    The Irish philosopher William Desmond is one of the most compelling and adventurous Christian thinkers of our time. The essays gathered here undertake a journey through the Bible with Desmond that ranges across biblical theology, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and literary studies. Some of the essays examine the place of the Bible in Desmond's thought, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Disappearance of Rituals

    A Topology of the Present

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer ... Read more

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    by Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...
    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Shining Thread of Hope

    The History of Black Women in America

    by Darlene Clark Hine, Kathleen Thompson ...
    At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's history.A Shining Thread of Hope chronicles the lives of black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of ... Read more

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  • The God We Never Knew

    Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

    by Marcus J. Borg ...
    How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic yet fully contemporary understanding of God. In a compelling, readable way, he leads us from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD