RELIGION
A Partial Enlightenment
A Cultural History of the Soul
What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection
Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present Kocku von Stuckrad
Avram Alpert
Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0231-20003-5 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-20002-8 2021 264 pages
This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20037-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20036-3 December 2021 368 pages
Touch
Contingency and the Limits of History
Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
How Touch Shapes Experience and Meaning
Richard Kearney
Liane Carlson
Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate plea to recover a tangible sense of community and the joys of life with others. $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19953-7 $75.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19952-0 2021 216 pages 20 illus.
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Liane Carlson returns to an older definition of contingency found in Christian theology that understands it as the lot of mortal creatures, who suffer, feel, bleed, and change, in contrast to a necessary, unchanging, impassible God. Far from dying out, Carlson reveals, this theological past persists in continental philosophy, where thinkers have imagined contingency as a type of radical destabilization brought about by the body’s collision with a changing world. $65.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19052-7 2019 304 pages
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