Introduction: Staring into the abyss -- Situating the self in the abyss -- The mystical abyss: via negativa -- The dialectical abyss: the restless negative of Hegel -- The colonial abyss: groundlessness of being -- Creolizing cosmopolitics: poetics from the deep
This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self's reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of pol…
The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent t…
This book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self's reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of pol…
"Il ne fait aucun doute que le baratin soit un phénomène bien réel et loin d'être marginal. Compte tenu de l'évolution technologique des moyens de communication et de l'augmentation subséquente de la quantité d'information disponible provenant de sources les plus diverses, exper…
To some, nihilism is losing its crisis connotations and becoming simply an unobjectionable characteristic of human life. Carr argues that this transformation ultimately absolutizes community preference and reflects an increasing inability to criticize and change the existing str…
To some, nihilism is losing its crisis connotations and becoming simply an unobjectionable characteristic of human life. Carr argues that this transformation ultimately absolutizes community preference and reflects an increasing inability to criticize and change the existing str…
Many people wander through life with no direction or personal goals, even successful individuals with good jobs and hefty salaries. Modern-day Renaissance man Phil Cooke, a media consultant, offers some great ideas about how to discover your true purpose in life and to work towa…
One Big Thing is about finding out what you were born to do with your life and how to use it to revolutionize your business or ministry--and change the world.
Each of us must discover our unique, highest-and-best pursuit, and it must be linked to who we are and what we value most. Without a clear sense of identity, vision, and purpose, we tend to wander aimlessly from plan to plan, from hopeful beginning to unfulfilled promise. It nee…
