Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism

Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism

by C. Crockett, J. Robbins
Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism

Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism

by C. Crockett, J. Robbins

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Overview

"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy, and financial crisis corporate capitalism has created, as Crockett Clayton and Jeffrey Robbins suggest, is a new theological materialism where Being is conceived as energy both subjectively and objectively. All my graduate students will have to read this book carefully if they want to become philosophers." - Santiago Zabala, ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona "This is a book of an extraordinary timeliness, written in an accessible and strikingly informative way. It is excellently poised to become a synthetic and agenda setting statement about the implications of a new materialism for the founding of a new radical theology, a new kind of spirituality. I consider this therefore quite a remarkable book which will be influential in ongoing discussions of psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and theology. Moreover, it will be, quite simply, the best book about spirituality and the new materialism on the market today. While all of the work of the new materialists engage at one level or another the question of a new spirituality, I do not think there is anything comparable in significance to what Crockett and Robbins have provided here." - Ward Blanton, University of Kent "This book will perhaps be most appreciated by the reader with an intuitive cast of mind, able to recognize the force of an argument in its imaginative suggestiveness . . . New Materialism is about energy transformation, we are told, energy which cannot be reduced to matter because it resonates with spirit and life . . . Yet the book strikes a fundamental note of hard reality: 'if we want our civilization to live on earth a little longer we will have to recognize our coexistence with and in earth'." - Christian Ecology Link

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137268921
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/19/2012
Series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
Edition description: 2012
Pages: 181
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Author Clayton Crockett: Clayton Crockett is an associate professor of Religion and Director of the Religious Studies Program, University of Central Arkansas Author Jeffrey W. Robbins: Jeffrey W. Robbins is an associate professor of Religion and American Studies, Lebanon Valley College

Table of Contents

Series Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

1 Digital Culture 1

2 Religion 17

3 Politics 37

4 Art Michael W. Wilson 55

5 Ethics 69

6 Energy Kevin Mequet 87

7 A Radical Proposal for Nuclear Energy Kevin Mequet 101

8 Being (a Brain) 111

9 Logic 127

Conclusion: The Event 145

Notes 155

Index 175

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