Author: Lenn E. Goodman File Type: pdf How should we speak of bodies and souls? In Coming to Mind, Lenn E. Goodman and D. Gregory Caramenico pick their way through the minefields of materialist reductionism to present the soul not as the brains rival but as its partner. What acts, they argue, is what is real. The soul is not an ethereal wisp but a lively subject, emergent from the body but inadequately described in its terms. Rooted in some of the richest philosophical and intellectual traditions of Western and Eastern philosophy, psychology, literature, and the arts and the latest findings of cognitive psychology and brain scienceComing to Mind is a subtle manifesto of a new humanism and an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the human person. Drawing on new and classical understandings of perception, consciousness, memory, agency, and creativity, Goodman and Caramenico frame a convincing argument for a dynamic and integrated self capable of language, thought, discovery, caring, and love. **Review We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. New atheists and reductive materialists conduct gladiatorial debates against defenders of faith and enemies of reductionism. Lots of heat is produced, but, alas, little light is shed. How marvelous it is, then, to see this fine new book by Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico. Here is a learned, illuminating, and decidedly non-polemical treatment of the classic questions of soul, mind, and brainan exemplary work of scholarship. (Robert P. George coauthor of Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics) This profound study clearly summarizes and evaluates the essential philosophical and theological as well as psychological discourses concerning the human body and soul down through the ages and provides, in the process, a new way of defining and understanding the human soul aided by the more recent discourses of neuroscience and ethology. The authors convincingly demonstrate how the human soul may be understood as utterly real and natural without requiring belief in a divine basisalthough the book also addresses religious understandings of the subject with both wit and wisdom. (Frederick Mathewson Denny Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado at Boulder) By reinvigorating the classical but nowadays distrusted idea of a human soul at work behind the physical machinations of man Coming to Mind dares to go where few currently venture to tread. Yet it grounds its deliberations in a deep understanding of the intellectual tradition of the West, both in its cultural dimension and in its scientific engagement with the natural world. Most admirably, its persuasive and instructive deliberations are set out in lucid and accessible prose. All in all, a rare achievement. (Nicholas Rescher University of Pittsburgh) Drawing sophisticated connections between contemporary emergence theory and Aristotelian ontology, Lenn E. Goodman and Gregory Caramenico employ a range of philosophical arguments and scientific detail to argue for the reality of the soul in an original and congenial style. High marks. (Philip Clayton Claremont School of Theology) About the Author Lenn E. Goodman is professor of philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. His books include Creation and EvolutionIslamic Humanism In Defense of Truth Jewish and Islamic Philosophy Crosspollinations in the Classic Age Avicenna On Justice and Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself. He lives in Nashville, TN.D. Gregory Caramenico is an independent scholar and researcher in New York City.

Author: Ingo Schmidt File Type: pdf Recent years have seen a surge of interest in Marxian political economy and especially Marxs great work Capital. 150 years after the books original publication, are there readings of Capital that can help us find new pathways to progressive or revolutionary change? In this wide-ranging new volume, leading thinkers reflect on Capitals legacy, its limitations and its continuing relevance for today, highlighting issues including ecology, gender, race, labour, communism, the Third World and imperialism. The contributors also aim to identify the connections between Capital and various socialist projects of the past, and draw lessons from those experiences that might contribute to the reinvention of socialist politics today. Contributors include Ingo Schmidt, Carlo Fanelli, William Pelz, Anej Korsika, Prabhat Patnaik, Silvia Federici, Paul Thompson, Chris Smith, Peter Gose, Justin Paulson, Jeff Noonan, Hannah Holleman and Peter Hudis. **Review 2017 is a good year for rethinking revolution and the meaning of capitalism. This book celebrates and interrogates Marxs Capital on its 150th anniversary for its meaning today, as the neoliberal counterrevolution mutates into ever more grotesque political and economic forms. For reading Marx in our time, Schmidt and Fanelli have gathered a series of vital interventions on some of the most important theoretical and political themes in Marx for the struggles that lie in front of us. (Greg Albo, York University) Rather than simply an exegesis of Marxs Capital, Reading Capital Today takes Marxs opus of a century and a half ago as the foundation of all critical social theory, and thus the point of departure with which to elucidate todays changing capitalist conditions. The contributors address not only capital and labor, and early experiments in socialism, but also questions of gender, ecology, and imperialism. What we learn is that reading Marxs Capital in the present as history can renew our vision of a more egalitarian world beyond capitalism that of socialism in the twenty-first century. (John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review) About the Author Ingo Schmidt is academic coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University, Canada. His books include Social Democracy after the Cold War and The Three Worlds of Social Democracy. Carlo Fanelli is an instructor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, in Ontario.