Author: Bill Anthes File Type: pdf For over three decades, contemporary Native American artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disciplined practice in multiple media, having shown his paintings, drawings, prints, and text-based conceptual art throughout numerous national and international galleries and public spaces. In the first book-length study of this important artist, Bill Anthes analyzes Heap of Birdss art and politics in relation to the international contemporary art scene, Native American history, and settler colonialism. Foregrounding how Heap of Birds roots his practice in Cheyenne spirituality and an indigenous way of seeing and being in the world, Anthes describes how Heap of Birds likens his art to sharp rocksweapons delivering trenchant critiques of the loss of land, life, and autonomy endured by Native Americans. Whether appearing as interventions in public spaces or in a gallery, Heap of Birdss carefully honed artworks pose questions about time, modernity, identity, power, and the meaning and value of contemporary art in a global culture.**

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Author: John R. Shook File Type: pdf The question of how far Deweys thought is indebted to Hegel has long been a conundrum for philosophers. This book shows that, far from repudiating Hegel, Deweys entire pragmatic philosophy is premised on a philosophy of spiritinspired by Hegels project. Two essays by Shook and Good defending this radical viewpoint are joined by the definitive text of Deweys 1897 Lecture at the University of Chicagoon Hegels Philosophy of Spirit. Previously cited by scholars only from the archival manuscript, this edited Lecture is now available to fully expose the basic concern shared by Hegel and Dewey for the full and free development of the individual in the social context. Deweys and Hegels philosophies are at the center of modern philosophys hopes for advancing human freedom.ReviewDeweys reception of Hegel is the decisive historical event inaugurating the American Pragmatist assimilation of German Idealism, which has become one of the most exciting themes in contemporary American philosophy. With the publication and critical annotation of this archival but important source in which Dewey systematically explores one of Hegels greatest works, American scholars will now have a remarkable new resource in carrying out this momentous adventure in philosophical synthesis.-John H. ZammitoollShook and Good are the pioneers of a new and suggestive interpretation of Hegels deep and enduring influence on Dewey. They show how Deweys preference for a humanistichistoricist reading of Hegel over the usual metaphysicaltheological reading ensconced by the British neo-Hegelians is actually quite compatible with contemporary Hegel scholarship. Combining Deweys remarkable 1897 Lecture on Hegel with two impressive essays helping to interpret the text opens up new territory for scholars.2. This volume offers for the first time a scholarly version of Deweys insightful 1897 lecture on Hegel along with their two essays by Shook and Good that go a long way in furthering our understanding of Hegels influence on Dewey, especially his thinking on religion, art, and the function of philosophy.3. Shook and Good show us that the better er understand that Hegel was a better empiricist than the British Empiricist and that the Absolute Spirit is not supernal (for example, God or logical categories) aslolRepresents an important and original contribution to scholarly research in American philosophy and in Dewey studies. It also provides further evidence of the important role that Hegelian Idealism plays in American heritages of philosophy, and contributes to our understanding of the distinctive use made of Hegel in Deweys thought.An outstanding and useful work.-Theodore GeorgeAbout the AuthorJohn Shook is Research Associate in philosophy at the University at Buffalo and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York. James A. Good is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Lone Star College, North Harris in Houston, Texas.

Author: Courtney Hall Lee File Type: pdf The figure of the Virgin Mary comes loaded with baggage and preconceptions. She is usually depicted as the perfect, obedient, and highly esteemed woman, much like the Victorian notion of the angel in the house. For many black women, nothing could be more inaccessible. This book considers the relationship between African American women and Mary of Nazareth. After examining the history of black American motherhood during slavery and beyond, this book then gives an overview of the existing views of Mary in both the church and the academy. Lee then brings African American women and Mary together, creating a womanist Mariology by using womanist biblical and theological interpretation, as well as considering black motherhood during the age of Black Lives Matter.