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  • Theology of Money

    by Philip Goodchild, Creston Davis, Kenneth Surin ...
    Series series New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
    Theology of Money is a philosophical inquiry into the nature and role of money in the contemporary world. Philip Goodchild reveals the significance of money as a dynamic social force by arguing that under its influence, moral evaluation is subordinated to economic valuation, which is essentially abstract and anarchic. His rigorous inquiry opens into a complex analysis of political economy, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Political Myth

    On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes

    by Roland Boer, Creston Davis, Philip Goodchild, Kenneth Surin ...
    Series series New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
    In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bible, from Genesis through Joshua. He contends that the “primal story” that runs from Creation, through ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Freedom Not Yet

    Liberation and the Next World Order

    by Kenneth Surin, Creston Davis, Philip Goodchild ...
    Series series New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
    The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly polarized and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority of its citizens require liberation from their present socioeconomic circumstances. The Marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation and change at the level of the political must occur in order to achieve this liberation, and for this endeavor Marxist ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • An Insurrectionist Manifesto

    Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics

    by Ward Blanton, Clayton Crockett, Noëlle Vahanian, Catherine Keller, Jeffrey Robbins, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Monstrosity of Christ

    Paradox or Dialectic?

    by Slavoj Zizek, John Milbank ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A militant Marxist atheist and a “Radical Orthodox” Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia.“What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted Christianity without transcendence, as that he is offering in the end (despite what he sometimes claims) a heterodox version of Christian ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Labor of Job

    The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor

    by Antonio Negri, Creston Davis, Philip Goodchild, Kenneth Surin ...
    Translated by Matteo Mandarini ...
    Series series New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
    In The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The story revolves around his quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. Conventional ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Theology and the Political

    The New Debate, sic v

    by Rowan Williams, Terry Eagleton ...
    Series Book 5 - [sic] Series
    The essays in Theology and the Political—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore the spiritual dimensions of ontology, considering the relationship between ontology and the political in light of the thought of figures ranging from Plato to Marx, Levinas to Derrida, and Augustine to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Philosophical Temperaments

    From Plato to Foucault

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Thomas Dunlap ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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  • A Brief History of Thought

    A Philosophical Guide to Living

    by Luc Ferry ...
    Series series Learning to Live
    "Succinct and accessible" this international bestselling survey is "perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the waters of philosophy" (Matt Haig, Washington Post).From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy ... Read more

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Courage to Be

    by Paul Tillich ...
    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    The imminent philosopher and theologian examines religion in light of science and philosophy in modern society.Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the prob-lem of ... Read more

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