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Voodoo Rainbow
In this volume, the well-known ethnologist and photographer Henning Christoph presents spectacular photographs of a culture that has been unjustly discredited for centuries - Voodoo. Its West African homeland Benin is the scene of beliefs that revolve around the protection, healing and defence of man, who sees himself as part of a universe defined by countless gods, the Vodun.
Art Against Stigma
This exemplary book on the fight against the stigma of psychiatric illness reveals in two ways how art is involved. More than 20 psychiatrists, art historians, art therapists as well as artists describe the historic path of destigmatization, which is accompanied by a representative selection of about 100 pictures crossing all borders. Yet the position of the various authors in itself reflects the evolution from the anonymous "case" to the "artist", whose mental illness is a part of his privacy, thus separated from the value of the artwork.
Soul of Africa
In this volume, the well-known photographer and ethnologist Henning Christoph presents selected images from over forty years of field research in West Africa and the diaspora. Many of the ceremonies and rituals shown here are taboo for outsiders and until now have not been photographed or published in this form. For the first time, an important part of the exhibits that Christoph collected for the Museum Soul of Africa in Essen, Germany, which he founded in 2000, will also be presented.
Philosophy after Marx
Christoph Henning writes a concise history of misreadings of Marx in the 20th century. Focussing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx-interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. Henning sketches a historical trajectory in which a theory of socialist politics enters the fields of economics, sociology, critical theory and theology, before finally – overloaded with intellectually dead freight – entering into philosophy. In so doing, he takes a hermeneutic approach to how misreadings in a specific field proliferate into further misreadings across a variety of fields, leading to an accumulation of questionable preconceptions. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Marxism had previously got it wrong. English translation of Philosophie nach Marx. 100 Jahre Marxrezeption und die normative Sozialphilosophie der Gegenwart in der Kritik, Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2005.
The Moralization of the Markets
Nothing affects the modern economy (and society) more than decisions made in the market place, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that decisions made in production are affected by choices consumers make, consumers have long been viewed, not only by academic economists, as individual, isolated rational actors that make or refrain from purchases purely on the basis of narrow financial considerations. Markets are not and never were morally neutral. Market relations have always had an often taken-for-granted moral underpinning. The moralization of the markets refers to the dissolution and replacement of the conventional moral underpinni...
Sacred Waters
A rich, multifaceted appraisal of Mami Wata and other water deities in Africa and beyond
Cosmopolitan Responsibility
The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges, such as climate change, unfair global trade, or world poverty. Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings, the book discusses the impact of individual action, the challenge of special obligations, and the possibility of moral overdemandingness in order to lay the ground for an action-guiding ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility. This thought-provoking book will be of interest to any reflective reader concerned about justice and responsibilities in a globalised world. Jan-Christoph Heilinger is a moral and political philosopher. He teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and at Ecole normale supérieure, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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