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Douglas Thorne is a powerful man, feared by his adversaries and respected by his clients and peers. As one the leading tax and estate-planning attorneys in the San Francisco Bay area, he is in demand among the wealthiest and most powerful. The cases he is assigned grow increasingly more complex and challenging. Professionally, it would appear that he has it allbut Thorne is still unsatisfied. He aspires to even greater fame and power, as only the leading estate planners who have been named partner enjoy. He longs for more than just respect. He wants power. Thorne delves deep within the hidden world of tax planning and estate management, a world most never see. As various players battle for c...
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Overthe last twenty years materialist thinkers in the continental tradition haveincreasingly emphasized the category of immanence. Yet the turn toimmanence has not meant the wholesale rejection of the concept oftranscendence, but rather its reconfiguration in immanent or materialist terms:an immanent transcendence. Through an engagement with the work ofDeleuze, Irigaray and Adorno, Patrice Haynes examines how the notion ofimmanent transcendence can help articulate a non-reductive materialism by whichto rethink politics, ethics and theology in exciting new ways. However,she argues that contrary to what some might expect, immanent accounts of matterand transcendence are ultimately unable to do justice to materialfinitude. Indeed, Haynes concludes by suggesting that a theisticunderstanding of divine transcendence offers ways to affirm fully materialimmanence, thus pointing towards the idea of a theological materialism.
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