Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacksーand to a renewed...

“Powerful and original . . . Being and Time changed the course of philosophy.” ー Richard Rorty, New York Times Book Review“Possibly the greatest Western philosopher since Hegel . . . Heidegger’s greatest work.” ーThe Guardian“Heidegger’s masterwork” ーThe EconomistMartin Heidegger’s 'Being and Time', first publishe...

Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht’s magistrates, under constant pressure from the Reformed Church, attempted to exclude Catholics from the urban public sphere. However, by mobilizing their soci...

In the southeast of Indonesia, on the Moluccas, theologians are developing contextual theologies for the Moluccan Protestant church. The Moluccas were colonized by the Dutch for more than three centuries. As an effort of religious decolonization, Moluccan theologians aim to better connect Christianity with the cultu...

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by Marxist and psychoanaly...

The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country's most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal's work over the next five years. Inspired by Marxist and psychoanaly...

From a semio-pragmatic perspective and drawing on an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach, this book analyses how the audiovisual thinking process manifests itself in essay films. It explores how issues of subjectivity and identity, whether individual, social, political or cultural, prompt thought through the ...

Qu’est-ce qui dresse le cinéma contre les accélérations du tout numérique ? Les aurores après la tempête ne se voient plus que sur les écrans des salles de cinéma. Numérisés, les capitaux et les catastrophes détruisent le monde des matins tranquilles. La guerre est dans le temps. C’est à la chaîne que le numérique f...

En posant le problème de la puissance à partir de la perspective de son abandon et du courage si singulier qu’implique un tel geste, Simone Weil parvient à éviter l’écueil de l’absolutisme politique. L’étude anthropologique d’une vie politique et sociale en son essence profondément violente dans la mesure où elle es...

God’s diplomat, the pope of the ecumenical movement, but also an acerbic theologian and a difficult person: this is how journalists characterised Willem Adolf Visser ’t Hooft (1900-1985). He was one of the best-known Dutch theologians outside the Netherlands and he left his mark on the world church. Even at an early...

In Ripples of Hope, Robert M. Press tells the stories of mothers, students, teachers, journalists, attorneys, and many others who courageously stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers and who helped bring about change through primarily nonviolent means. Global in application and focusing on Ke...

Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his storyーup to a certain point. “When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground,” he said, “and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened.” It is precisely this pointーthat of a people fa...

Chris Fraser presents a rich and broad-ranging study of the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century BC. He offers novel and informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early Chinese thought while also delving into neglected texts such as th...

Une analyse philosophique ambitieuse de l'expérience de l'injustice. Comment transformer les définitions communes de la justice sociale afin qu'elles puissent rendre compte des formes aujourd'hui les plus caractéristiques de l'injustice sociale ? Comment leur faire rendre compte des luttes effectives contre l'injust...

Nothing is more distressing to the modern person than the experience of an unsurpassable limit of the calculable. Nothing disturbs us more deeply than incalculable time, unpredictable time--the time of the advent of the unpredictably new. In a series of interventions into contemporary political crises, McGrath react...

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