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Performatism, or the End of
Postmodernism is the first book to offer a systematic
theory of culture after postmodernism. The book
maintains that we have entered a new, monist epoch
in which aesthetically imposed belief replaces
endless irony as the dominant force in culture.This
new cultural dominant—performatism—works by
artificially “framing” readers or viewers in such a
way that they have no choice but to accept the
external givens of a work and identify with the
characters within it...
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In
Betrayal of Spirit: Jew-hatred, the
Holocaust, and Christianity
Thomas Idinopulos draws on a
unique combination of personal experience and theological
reflection to examine how anti-Semitism invaded, occupied,
and dominated the human mind throughout history. His
insightful theological interpretation of the history of
Jew-hatred in Christendom provides a way of understanding
how anti-Judaism differs from anti-Semitism, and reveals how
anti-Semitism created the possibility of, but was not a
direct cause of, the Holocaust.
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What happens to the traditional
and well-established notion of “modernity” when we
can no longer rely on a single center of the world?
How does our conception of rights change when
confronted with the “democracy of others”? Modernity Out of Joint
deals with these pressing issues through an acute survey of
two widely influential paradigms of contemporary democratic
theory: J. Habermas’ discourse ethics and A.K. Sen’s
capabilities approach.
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For readers skeptical about religion but drawn to ritual,
In Medias Res offers a liturgical cycle for the seasons
and for life passages, sketching a religion of nature in
which nature is vulnerable to history. Unlike many books of
ritual for skeptics, the focus is not on rational statements
of belief but on artistic coherence – language and action
that will continue to yield meaning over time.... In Medias Res presents both a performable
body of ritual and a valuable method for liturgical writing.
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Eric Gans’
originary hypothesis, in contrast to virtually all
contemporary thought in the Western academy, posits an
origin to humanity, an origin that discloses to us our
ethical limits and possibilities. This collection
demonstrates the extraordinary power and range of the
hypothesis in dealing with questions of aesthetics,
morality, theoretical method, and historical and political
thought. The
Originary Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic
Inquiry brings together a series of new essays by
collaborators of Gans and Gans himself that demonstrate the
sophistication and applicability of Gans’ hypothesis as
well as its ability to transcend formalistic and narrowly
disciplinary approaches to the arts and social sciences.
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In a work that
is likely to become the definitive introduction to critical
legal theory by a leading theorist of the critical legal
studies movement, the author has been the first to put
together in a systematic way the insights of American legal
realism with Continental phenomenology and semiotics. His
version of legal reasoning presents it as "work in a medium"
deploying a set of "argument-bites" analogous to the words
of a language. The result is simultaneous freedom and
constraint. Kennedy then turns his approach to a critique of
current European legal theory, with an essay on Hart and
Kelsen and another on the approach of the European jurists
pre-occupied with "coherence" and with the "European social
model" in the current process of harmonization of European
law.
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