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  • Revelation and Authority

    Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition

    by Benjamin D. Sommer ...
    Series series The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
    At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a “participatory theory of revelation” as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence the authority of the law. Benjamin Sommer maintains that the Pentateuch’s authors intend not only to convey God’s will but to express Israel’s ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Jewish Concepts of Scripture

    A Comparative Introduction

    by Benjamin D Sommer ...
    What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way?In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

    by Benjamin D. Sommer ...
    Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Imagining the Jewish God

    by Leonard Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jonathan Boyarin, Zachary Braiterman, Laynie Browne, Michael Castro, James Chapson0, Alison Creighton1, Marcia Falk2, Norman Finkelstein3, Lewis Freedman4, Jeff Friedman5, Lenn Goodman6, Susan Handelman7, Michael Heller8, Jack Hirschman9, Leonard V. Kaplan0, Shaul Magid1, Michael Marmur2, David Novak3, Randi Rashkover4, Noam Reisner5, Jerome Rothenberg6, Jonathan Wyn Schofer7, Howard Schwartz8, Bill Sherman9, Benjamin Sommer0, Gerald Stern1, Rabbi Rebecca Alpert2, Martin Kavka3, Jay Michaelson4, Alicia Ostriker5, Kenneth Seeskin6 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and ... Read more

    $153.89 USD

  • Bilingual Aesthetics

    A New Sentimental Education

    by Doris Sommer, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesthetics Sommer invites readers to make mischief with meaning, to play games with language, and to allow errors to stimulate new ways of thinking. Today’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    50th Anniversary Edition

    by Paulo Freire ...
    First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing.This ... Read more

    $24.79 USD

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  • Pedagogy of Freedom

    Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage

    by Paulo Freire ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    In Pedagogy of Freedom Paulo Freire travels ever more deeply into the territory where learning and activism are the essence of human life. This profound new book shows why an engaged way of learning and teaching is central to the creation of the individual, culture, and history.Freire finds in today's emerging global society a new context in which education cannot be indifferent to the ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Moral Relativism

    by Professor Steven Lukes ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Moral relativism attracts and repels. What is defensible in it and what is to be rejected? Do we as human beings have no shared standards by which we can understand one another? Can we abstain from judging one another's practices? Do we truly have divergent views about what constitutes good and evil, virtue and vice, harm and welfare, dignity and humiliation, or is there some underlying ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Epistemologies of the South

    Justice Against Epistemicide

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • On Ambivalence

    The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways

    by Kenneth Weisbrode ...
    A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD