G. V. Loewen

The Bungle Book (eBook, PDF)

Some Errors by Which We Live

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to "unexpect the expected" and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761888888
• Artikelnr.: 74849414

Autorenporträt

G. V. Loewen is a social philosopher and is currently chair of the Department of Sociology in St. Thomas More College, the liberal arts college of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Usual Suspects
The Unusual Is Suspect
Unexpect the Expected
Chapter 1: The Singular Self
1.1Narcissus
1.2Why Is "I" So Important?
1.3They Are Therefore I Am
Chapter 2: The Machine Messiah
2.1Soulless Solace
2.2The Mindless
2.3Killjoy Was Here
Chapter 3: Wanted Dead or Alive: God
3.1The Afterlife of God
3.2Dead Souls Again
3.3Fans or Fanatics?
Chapter 4: No Place like Home
4.1Random "Birthrights"
4.2Cloudy Skies
4.3Where Is the Heart?
Chapter 5: Either in or out of Love
5.1Fantasy and Phantasm
5.2Crisis in the Life of a Lover
5.3Not Yours, Not Mine
Chapter 6: "Freedom of Thought," Thought Freedom
6.1Corporeal Consciousness
6.2Incorporeal Conscience
6.3Liberty's Pirouette
Conclusion: Non-Sense: Making Sense of Nonsense
Stop Making Sense
Start Being Sensible
Notes
References
Index