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This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy movement, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject today. Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy’s question of who comes after the subject.
Rejection (Psychology) --- Outcasts. --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Social isolation --- Brigands and robbers --- Ethnology --- Outlaws --- Cixous. --- Derrida. --- Incompossible. --- Nancy. --- Post-Secular. --- Posthuman. --- Reject. --- Subject.
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"The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people's motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity"--
Material culture --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- aesthetic surgery. --- ageing medicine. --- aging. --- anthropology. --- appearance. --- cognitive enhancers. --- cultural. --- engaging. --- enhancement technologies. --- ethnographic insights. --- evolution. --- historical. --- hormone supplements. --- humanity. --- lifestyle drugs. --- medical science. --- medical. --- page turner. --- plastic cosmetic. --- prosthetics. --- realistic. --- reject enhancement. --- replacing body parts. --- science and math. --- scientists. --- sexual enhancers. --- social science. --- social. --- surgery. --- technological capacity. --- technologies.
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This book examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, often evangelical, theological traditions and turned to scientific psychologies to formulate new ideas about mind and spirit and new practices for spiritual growth. Christopher G. White looks in particular at how a group of liberal believers-including William James and G. Stanley Hall-turned away from traditional Christian orthodoxies and built a revised religious identity based on new psychological motifs and therapies. Unsettled Minds is the first book to explain the dramatic rise of new spiritualities of the mind, spiritualities that, by the early twenty-first century, were turning eagerly to scientific and clinical psychological studies to reimagine religion and the problems of religious uncertainty.
Psychology, Religious --- Psychology and religion --- Christianity --- Liberalism (Religion) --- Religion and psychology --- Religion --- Psychology of religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- United States --- Religion. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- american history. --- american psychology. --- american sociology. --- christian orthodoxy. --- clinical psychology. --- evangelical traditions. --- faith and religion. --- faith and spirituality. --- g stanley hall. --- liberal believers. --- mind and spirit. --- nonfiction. --- psychological therapy. --- psychology. --- reject religion. --- religious believers. --- religious doubt. --- revised identity. --- scientific psychologies. --- search for meaning. --- spiritual growth. --- spiritual rejection. --- spirituality. --- theology. --- william james.
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Motivated variously by the desire to reject consumerism, to live closer to the earth, to embrace voluntary simplicity, or to discover a more spiritual path, homesteaders have made the radical decision to go "back to the land," rejecting modern culture and amenities to live self-sufficiently and in harmony with nature. Drawing from vivid firsthand accounts as well as from rich historical material, this gracefully written study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present examines the lives and beliefs of those who have ascribed to the homesteading philosophy, placing their experiences within the broader context of the changing meanings of nature and religion in modern American culture. Rebecca Kneale Gould investigates the lives of famous figures such as Henry David Thoreau, John Burroughs, Ralph Borsodi, Wendell Berry, and Helen and Scott Nearing, and she presents penetrating interviews with many contemporary homesteaders. She also considers homesteading as a form of dissent from consumer culture, as a departure from traditional religious life, and as a practice of environmental ethics.
Nature and civilization --- Country life --- Spirituality --- Nature --- Civilization and nature --- Civilization --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Religious aspects. --- Religious interpretations --- United States --- Religious life and customs. --- Country life -- Religious aspects.. --- Nature -- Religious aspects.. --- Spirituality -- United States.. --- Country life -- United States.. --- Nature and civilization -- United States.. --- United States -- Religious life and customs. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- america. --- american culture. --- back to the land. --- close to earth. --- environmental ethics. --- faith and spirituality. --- firsthand accounts. --- helen nearing. --- henry david thoreau. --- homesteaders. --- homesteading philosophy. --- interviews. --- john burroughs. --- living in nature. --- living simply. --- modern homesteading. --- nature and religion. --- nonfiction. --- off the grid. --- ralph borsodi. --- reject consumerism. --- scott nearing. --- self sufficient living. --- spiritual path. --- spiritual practices. --- wendell berry.
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