Author: Owen Anderson File Type: pdf Teaching piety and the highest good have been goals from the beginning of the Academy. Princeton University and Theological Seminary had their start in these same ideas. This book explores the concepts of reason and faith at early Princeton by examining how this institution was shaped by a pursuit of piety and the knowledge of God. Princeton University (originally the College of New Jersey) emerged out of the First Great Awakening and its commitment to teaching vital piety. Reason, as the faculty by which humans understand, was affirmed and developed in the pursuit of the knowledge of God. Faith, as belief in what is not seen, was affirmed against the challenges of Deism and Naturalism. No other institution at the time combined reason, faith, and historic Christianity in this way. The implication is that early Princeton represents a high-water mark in education worthy of our consideration. **About the Author Owen Anderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University, USA

Author: Dell Upton File Type: pdf An original study of monuments to the civil rights movement and African American history that have been erected in the U.S. South over the past three decades, this powerful work explores how commemorative structures have been used to assert the presence of black Americans in contemporary Southern society. The author cogently argues that these public memorials, ranging from the famous to the obscure, have emerged from, and speak directly to, the regions complex racial politics since monument builders have had to contend with widely varied interpretations of the African American past as well as a continuing presence of white supremacist attitudes and monuments. **Review A profoundly original book based on very deep scholarship. It advances a strong argument that is likely to generate serious debate.Kirk Savage, author of Monument Wars Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (Kirk Savage) Engrossing, trenchant, and broad-minded, Dell Uptons lucid analysis of both notorious and unfamiliar African-American history monuments underscores their centrality to the national conversation about race relations. Scholars, public officials, and general readers all have much to learn from it.Michele H. Bogart, author of The Politics of Urban Beauty New York and Its Art Commission (Michele H. Bogart) At a time when public display of the Confederate flag has generated a lively debate over race relations, Dell Upton offers fresh insights into the motives behind the construction of Civil War and Civil Rights Era monuments in the South.Steven F. Lawson, author of Running for Freedom (Steven F. Lawson) Finalist for the 2016 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change Book Award. (Benjamin L. Hooks Book Award Institute for Social Change 2016-08-18) Thoroughly researched, well illustrated, brilliantly analyzed . . . Researchers and students, as well as political observers, will find this study thorough, insightful, and of great use in comprehending the vital role that monumental art can and does play in American culture.Choice (Choice) About the Author *Dell Upton*is professor of architectural history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has studied the Southern landscape for four decades. His books include Another City Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic and Holy Things and Profane Anglican Parish Churches in Colonial Virginia. He lives in Culver City, CA.

Author: Iwona Janicka File Type: pdf The turn of the Millennium demonstrated a fully-fledged revival and fusion of various left-wing social movements with differing agendas. Movements for womens, black, indigenous, LGTB and animal liberation as well as ecological, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups unified against the global capital. Considering the diverse emphases of these movements, is there a philosophical framework that could help us understand their nature and their modes of operation in the 21st century? This book provides a set of conceptual tools offering a theoretical model of slow social transformation, a modality of social change that explicitly differs from the irruptive model of a revolution or a paradigm-changing event. Instead, it proposes the two concepts of mimetic contagion and solidarity with singularity which allow us to understand what is currently happening in the activist milieu. By bringing together some of todays most important thinkers, including Butler, Girard, Badiou, and Sloterdijk this book suggests a philosophical lens to look at the alternative living projects that contemporary left-wing activists undertake in practice. At the heart of their projects lie the pressing concerns that these contemporary philosophers currently debate. Breaking from the conceptual apparatus of the Marxian tradition, Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism instead takes Hegelian concepts and feeds them through the thought of contemporary theorists in order to form an original, productive, and inclusive scaffold with which to understand todays world of social and political movements. **

Author: Simon Critchley File Type: pdf A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchleys influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism, taking in the work of Kant, Levinas, Badiou and Lacan. *Infinitely Demanding * culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization.ReviewA little book with a big idea. (Times Literary Supplement )Highly recommended. (Choice )A stimulating analysis highly recommended. (Library Journal )Simon Critchley is the most powerful and provocative philosopher now writing about the complex relations of ethical subjectivity and reinvigorated democracy. (Cornel West ) ReviewA little book with a big idea. A new political ethics that confronts the injustices of liberal democracy.Infinitely Demanding is the clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchleys influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics. Part diagnosis of the times, part theoretical analysis of the impasses and possibilities of ethics and politics, part manifesto, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy and argues that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics. Exploring the problem of ethics in Kant, Levinas, Badiou, and Lacan that leads to a conception of subjectivity based on the infinite responsibility of an ethical demand, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism. Infinitely Demanding culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization. The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchleys influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is called for is an ethics of commitment that can inform a radical politics, Critchley considers the possibility of political subjectivity and action after Marx and Marxism, taking in the work of Kant, Levinas, Badiou and Lacan. Infinitely Demanding culminates in an argument for anarchism as an ethical practice and a remotivating means of political organization.From the Trade Paperback edition.