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  • Seeing Silence

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    This wide-ranging study explores the many meanings of silence through the work of visual artists, philosophers, theologians, writers, and composers.Mark C. Taylor's prolific output has delved into topics ranging from media to metaphysics and from postmodern theology to posthuman bodies. His latest explores the significance of silence amid the buzzing networks of our modern age. Have we forgotten ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speed Limits

    Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A contemplation on "the durability of our fast-tracked, multitasked modern world . . . a stimulating cautionary report for the digital age."— Kirkus ReviewsWe live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better?Drawing together ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Abiding Grace

    Time, Modernity, Death

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end?Abiding Grace navigates the competing Hegelian and Kierkegaardian trajectories born out of the Reformation and finds Taylor arguing from spaces in between, ... Read more

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  • Image

    Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination

    by Mark C. Taylor, Thomas A. Carlson, Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    Series series TRIOS
    The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been advanced by technologies that expand and reshape vision and enable us to create, store, transmit, and display ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Erring

    A Postmodern A/theology

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    " Erring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extends—and goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed."—G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and Literature"Many have felt the need for a study ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Human

    A Philosophy for the Future

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe has deeply entrenched foundations: a belief in human exceptionalism and human mastery over the Earth. Accelerating technological changes ranging from genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology to biobots, neuroprosthetics, and artificial intelligence are creating new worlds in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Last Works

    Lessons in Leaving

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A powerful consideration of the lessons imparted in the final works of essential writers and philosophersFor many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Friendship in Twilight

    Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

    by Jack Miles, Mark C. Taylor ...
    In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor—acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years—have spent their lives ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Friendship in Twilight

    Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life

    by Jack Miles, Mark C. Taylor ...
    In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor—acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years—have spent their lives ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Intervolution

    Smart Bodies Smart Things

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    Series series No Limits
    Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial?Science fiction has long imagined a future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us—especially people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases—have functionally become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Field Notes from Elsewhere

    Reflections on Dying and Living

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. "These experiences have changed me in ways I am still struggling to understand," ... Read more

    $28.99 USD