fordham university press mär 2013 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines human relationships with pets without assuming that such relations are either unnatural and to be avoided, or benign. We need to find ways to relate respectfully. For respectful relationships to be a real possibility, though, humans must make the effort to understand the beings with whom they live, work, and play.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This phenomenological study begins by presenting trust as a characteristic form of interpersonal and communal relationship. In the second chapter, the scope is narrowed to someone's reliance on one or more trustworthy individuals. Chapters 3 to 5 explore specific aspects of trust, insofar as we confide in social structures or movements, the impersonal regularities and events of nature, or our own particular talents, motivations, and possibilities. In a world that is ravaged by the omnipresence of suffering and the most outrageous manifestations of evil, no philosopher can avoid the question of what kind of trust may be profound and strong enough to overcome the ultimate anxiety or despair that threatens all human existence. In the Western tradition of belief, thinking, faith, and searching for the first and ultimate, that question is approached here through reflection upon the radical difference between trust (or faith) in the universe (the totality) and faith (or trust) in God.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Centering on cross-fertilization between the writings of Shakespeare and Donne, the essays in this volume examine relationships that are broadly cultural, theoretical, and imaginative. They emphasize the intersection of physical dimensions of experience with transcendent ones, whether moral, intellectual, or religious. They juxtapose lyric and sermons interactively with narrative and plays. The essays are grouped under four headings: 'Time, Love, Sex, and Death' (Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker, Catherine Gimelli Martin, Jennifer Pacenza), 'Moral, Public, and Spatial Imaginaries' (Mary Blackstone and Jeanne Shami, Douglas Trevor), 'Names, Puns, and More' (Marshall Grossman, David Lee Miller, Julian Lamb), and 'Realms of Privacy and Imagination' (Anita Gilman Sherman, Judith H. Anderson).