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Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch
In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, "selfless love" can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up, rather than undermine, the lover's self. It proposes that while the implausibility of selfless love was furthered by the modern deconstruction of the self, bo...
The End of the House of Alard
The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to present the second volume in our Catholic Women Writers series, which will attempt to bring new attention to prose work of Catholic women writers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Sheila Kaye-Smith was a best selling author who had published over 50 books in her lifetime, few of which remain in print since her death in 1956. The End of the House of Alard (1922) documents the choices made by the final generation of the aristocratic Alard family and the ways in which they, both willingly and reluctantly, bring the long line of their ancestral blood to a complete and sudden end. For some of them, the end of the Alard line is as painful to e...
Schöpfung durch Verlust
Die menschliche Verwundbarkeit stellt eine unerhörte Macht dar im persönlichen und politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen, kulturellen und religiösen Leben. Das hat nicht zuletzt die Corona-Pandemie gezeigt. Wie menschliche Gemeinschaften mit dieser Vulnerabilität umgehen, ist gesellschaftlich relevant und zugleich prekär. Denn Vulnerabilität fordert zum Handeln auf und setzt destruktive und kreative Kräfte frei. Die DFG-Forschungsstudie "Schöpfung durch Verlust" liefert einen Beitrag zu jenem Wissenschaftsdiskurs, der "Vulnerabilität" in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem Schlüsselbegriff interdisziplinärer Forschung machte. Sie bietet eine ausführliche Analyse des Vulnerabilitätsdiskurses und bringt mit dem Philosophen und Religionstheoretiker Georges Bataille (1897-1962) erstmals eine sakraltheoretische Perspektive ein. Warum sind Menschen bereit, Opfer zu bringen und Verletzungen in Kauf zu nehmen für das, was ihnen heilig ist?
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology
"This two volume set includes 213 entries with over 4,700 references to additional works on gender and information technology"--Provided by publisher.
The Dry Wood
In the English-speaking world, the Catholic Literary Revival is typically associated with the work of G. K. Chesterton/Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But in fact the Revival’s most numerous members were women. While some of these women remain well known⎯Muriel Spark, Antonia White, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day - many have been almost entirely forgotten. They include: Enid Dinnis, Anna Hanson Dorsey, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon, Rumer Godden, Caroline Gordon, Clotilde Graves, Caryll Houselander, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Jane Lane, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Kathleen Raine, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, Edith Sitwell, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Josephine Ward, and...
Golden Gulag
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and sta...
Wild Cats
Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild. It provides a thorough review of major issues in cat conservation such as habitat loss and management of big cats in livestock areas; field and laboratory research; international trade; the role of zoos; and reintroduction. High priority are identified to further the cause of cat conservation.
Companion to Sexuality Studies
An inclusive and accessible resource on the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality Companion to Sexuality Studies explores the significant theories, concepts, themes, events, and debates of the interdisciplinary study of sexuality in a broad range of cultural, social, and political contexts. Bringing together essays by an international team of experts from diverse academic backgrounds, this comprehensive volume provides original insights and fresh perspectives on the history and institutional regulatory processes that socially construct sex and sexuality and examines the movements for social justice that advance sexual citizenship and reproductive rights. Detailed yet accessible cha...
