Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology
Author: Christopher B. Barnett File Type: pdf Over the last several decades, technology has emerged as an important area of interest for both philosophers and theologians. Yet, despite his status as one of modernitys seminal thinkers, Sren Kierkegaard is not often seen as one who contributed to the field. Kierkegaard and the Question Concerning Technology argues otherwise. Christopher B. Barnett shows that many of Kierkegaards criticisms of the present age relate to the increasing dominance of technology in the West, and he puts Kierkegaards thought in conversation with subsequent thinkers who grappled with technological issues, from Martin Heidegger to Thomas Merton. Barnett shows that Kierkegaards writing, with its marked emphases on personal upbuilding, stands as a place where deeper, non-technical modes of thinking are both commended and nurtured. In doing so, Barnett presents a Kierkegaard who remains relevant--perhaps all too relevant--in todays digital age.Review As an accomplished author, Christopher B. Barnett has an astonishing range that captivates our interest. In this book, Barnett renews the conviction that Kierkegaard still remains relevant as our critical contemporary and edifying companion on this pilgrimage of life. Barnett has achieved the most in-depth treatment of Kierkegaards critique of technological culture since Jacques Ellul. Joshua Furnal, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Radboud University, The Netherlands, and author of Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard (2016)In his new book, Christopher B. Barnett not only shows that Kierkegaard was an important influence on several of the major 20th-century critics of technology, such as Heidegger and Ellul, he also shows that the Dane anticipated key points of their specific warnings as to the dangers of modern technology. Through a careful analysis of the material culture of 1840s Denmark and a sensitive reading of the relevant texts, Barnett shows how Kierkegaard was able to identify elements of the technological mind-set, its promise and its perils, that have now become defining features of our social and intellectual environment. George Pattison, 1640 Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow, Scotland, and author of A Phenomenology of the Devout Life A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part I (2018) About the Author Christopher B. Barnett is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard, Pietism and Holiness (2011) and From Despair to Faith The Spirituality of Sren Kierkegaard (2014), and as well as the editor and translator of Kierkegaard Discourses and Writings on Spirituality (2019), which will be part of the well-known Classics of Western Spirituality series. He is also coeditor of Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick (2016) and Scorsese and Religion (2019).
Author: Dustin Harp
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Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia. The volume includes original chapters on diverse topics illustrating where theorization and research currently stand with regard to the politics of gender and media, what work is being done in feminist theory, and how feminist scholarship can contribute to our understanding of gender as a mediated experience with implications for our contemporary global society. It opens for discussion how the research, theory, and interventions challenge concepts of gender in mediated discourses and practices and how these fit into the evolving state of contemporary feminisms. Contributors engage with discussions about contemporary feminisms as they are understood in media theory and research, particularly in a field that has changed rapidly in the last decades with digital communication tools and through cross-disciplinary work. Overall, the book illustrates how the politics of gender operate within the current media landscapes and how feminist theorizing shapes academic inquiry of these landscapes. **About the Author Dustin Harp is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an affiliated faculty member of the Womens and Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Her research explores power at the intersections of women and marginalized communities, journalism, and mass media. Jaime Loke is Assistant Professor in the Bob Schieffer School of Communication at Texas Christian University, USA. Her research interests rest on the intersection of women and minorities, mass media, and the new online public spheres from a critical and cultural theoretical perspective.** Ingrid Bachmann is Associate Professor in the School of Communications at La Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where she chairs the Journalism Department. She primarily focuses on the role of the news media in the definition of identities and meanings within the public sphere.
Author: Edwin D. Babbitt
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Including among other things The Harmonic Laws of the Universe the Etherio-Atomic Philosophy of Force Chromo Chemistry Chromo Therapeutics and the General Philosophy of the fine ForcesTogether with Numerous Discoveries and Practical Applications. Illustrated. Engravings.
Author: M. David Litwa
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Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a humans claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall. Some who claimed divinity stated a simple and direct truth. Though reviled on earth, misunderstood, and even killed, they received vindication and rose to the stars. This book tells the stories of six self-deifiers in their historical, social, and ideological contexts. In the history of interpretation, the initial three figures have been demonized as cosmic rebels the first human Adam, Lucifer (later identified with Satan), and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three have served as positive models for deification and divine favor Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. In the end, the line separating demonization from deification is dangerously thin, drawn as it is by the unsteady hand of human valuation. **
Author: Jack Canfield
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30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life AN OYSTER CANT PRODUCE PEARLS WITHOUT FIRST SUFFERING WITH A GRAIN OF SAND Each of the chapters in Pearls of Wisdom 30 Inspirational Ideas to Lead Your Best Life gives guidance to readers on how to turn their own grains of sand into pearls. With four New York Times Best-Selling Authors, including Chicken Soup for the Souls Jack Canfield, Chris and Janet Attwood, and Marci Shimoff plus 25 of the best up and coming self-help authors, each chapter contains a fresh idea for a positive life change. With each chapter as diverse as the cast of authors who have come together to create this unique book, every reader is certain to find an idea here, that will transform his or her life. Pearls of Wisdom combines traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from the struggles they deal with in their current situations to a higher, enlightened life not merely an existence. For anyone who has thought, Am I really living the best possible life I could? Pearls of Wisdom grants the answers for any of lifes questions, straight from the words of the masters of self-help themselves.
Author: Benny Lewis
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Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languagesall self-taughtruns the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time language hacker, someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World is a new blueprint for fast language learning. Lewis argues that you dont need a great memory or the language gene to learn a language quickly, and debunks a number of long-held beliefs, such as adults not being as good of language learners as children.**
Author: Stephen Cushion
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Millions of words have been written about the Cuban Revolution, which, to both its supporters and detractors, is almost universally understood as being won by a small band of guerillas. In this unique and stimulating book, Stephen Cushion turns the conventional wisdom on its head, and argues that the Cuban working class played a much more decisive role in the Revolutions outcome than previously understood. Although the working class was well-organized in the 1950s, it is believed to have been too influenced by corrupt trade union leaders, the Partido Socialist Popular, and a tradition of making primarily economic demands to have offered much support to the guerillas. Cushion contends that the opposite is true, and that significant portions of the Cuban working class launched an underground movement in tandem with the guerillas operating in the mountains. Developed during five research trips to Cuba under the auspices of the Institute of Cuban History in Havana, this book analyzes a wealth of leaflets, pamphlets, clandestine newspapers, and other agitational material from the 1950s that has never before been systematically examined, along with many interviews with participants themselves. Cushion uncovers widespread militant activity, from illegal strikes to sabotage to armed conflict with the state, all of which culminated in two revolutionary workers congresses and the largest general strike in Cuban history. He argues that these efforts helped clinch the victory of the revolution, and thus presents a fresh and provocative take on the place of the working class in Cuban history. **
Author: Daniel Goffman
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Despite the fact that its capital city and over one third of its territory was within the continent of Europe, the Ottoman Empire has consistently been regarded as a place apart, inextricably divided from the West by differences of culture and religion. A perception of its militarism, its barbarism, its tyranny, the sexual appetites of its rulers and its pervasive exoticism has led historians to measure the Ottoman world against a western standard and find it lacking. In recent decades, a dynamic and convincing scholarship has emerged that seeks to comprehend and, in the process, to de-exoticize this enduring realm. Dan Goffman provides a thorough introduction to the history and institutions of the Ottoman Empire from this new standpoint, and presents a claim for its inclusion in Europe. His lucid and engaging book--an important addition to New Approaches in European History--will be essential reading for undergraduates. **