"In this book, Rhodri Hayward examines the cumulative attempts of theologians, historians and psychologists to create a consistent and rational narrative capable of containing the inexplicable. This account argues that the psychological theories we routinely use to make sense of…
"This unique book offers an original way of thinking about two of the most significant problems confronting modern theoretical physics: the unification of the forces of nature and the evolution of the universe. In bringing out the inadequacies of the prevailing approach to these…
"Each of these essays, which span fifteen years, struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adver…
Are human activities nothing but an outcome of mechanistic brain processes? The answer to this question is crucial to our general conception of the world. For if our actions are not determined in a mechanistic way we should have to radically revise the prevailing world picture a…
What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.
What does it mean to be human? Pointing beyond human-centric ideologies, the essays in this collection explore biblical texts from Genesis to Revelation in conversation with the critical theories of posthumanism.
"Working from a cultural studies perspective, author D.K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographicall…
