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Ideas to Live For: Toward a Global Ethics (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Giles B. Gunn
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Description for Ideas to Live For: Toward a Global Ethics (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Hardcover. Essays previously published between 1987 and 2012. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such threats can be at least mitigated, even if not removed, by understanding as opposed to force and what resources a more pragmatic cosmopolitanism might provide for doing so. How, in other words, might our sense of the human be reconstructed, not around suspicion or antipathy toward others, but around an epistemological and ... Read more
Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such threats can be at least mitigated, even if not removed, by understanding as opposed to force and what resources a more pragmatic cosmopolitanism might provide for doing so. How, in other words, might our sense of the human be reconstructed, not around suspicion or antipathy toward others, but around an epistemological and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Religion and Culture
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813937298
SKU
V9780813937298
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About Giles B. Gunn
Giles Gunn, author of The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture, among other books, is Professor of Global Studies and English and Affiliate Professor of Religious Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Reviews for Ideas to Live For: Toward a Global Ethics (Studies in Religion and Culture)
“Giles Gunn is one of our most inventive and informed humanists. The essays collected here represent effectively the culmination of Gunn’s work as a religious studies scholar, pragmatist philosopher, American studies scholar, critical theorist, and global studies scholar. This volume is a shortcut to understanding a long, diverse, and influential career."" —John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California, author of ... Read more