For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity–an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life’s blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. Great voices in the African American preaching tradition. On the Holy Ghost : the beautiful and the sublime, the vision and the trance – Appendix. The freedom faith – A nation within a nation – Speakers of the word – God will make a way – Crisis of faith – Epilogue. The Black church : this is our story, this is our song. The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times. A religious primer serves as an argument for why religion should become a mandatory subject in American public schools, contending that most Americans are not able to identify basic tenets of their faith and that key political challenges can be better met with faith-based resolutions. First HarperCollins Paperback edition.Ī nation of religious illiterates – Religion matters – Eden (what we once knew) – The fall (how we forgot) – Redemption (what to do?) – A dictionary of religious literacy. Religious literacy : what every American needs to know–and doesn’t. "This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of fundamentally important topics: moral relativism and objectivism, ethical egoism, value theory, utilitarianism, deontological ethics, virtue ethics, ethics and religion, and applied ethics.”–pub. moral objectivism – Ethics and egoism – Value : What is the good? – Utilitarian ethics – Deontological ethics – Virtue ethics – Morality and religion – Applied ethics. What is morally right conduct? – Moral relativism vs. Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2009. Ethical philosophy : the complete texts of Grounding for the metaphysics of morals and Metaphysical principles of virtue (part II of The metaphysics of morals). Such objects put unbearable strains on our normal ways of reasoning.“– Publisher’s website. Instead of inhabiting a world, we find ourselves inside a number of hyperobjects, such as climate, nuclear weapons, evolution, or relativity. Moving fluidly between philosophy, science, literature, visual and conceptual art, and popular culture, the book argues that hyperobjects show that the end of the world has already occurred in the sense that concepts such as world, nature, and even environment are no longer a meaningful horizon against which human events take place. In this book, Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist with one another and with nonhumans, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects”–Entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place.
But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. “Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. The Time of Hyperobjects – The End of the World – Hypocrisies – The Age of Asymmetry. What Are Hyperobjects? – Viscosity – Nonlocality – Temporal Undulation – Phasing – Interobjectivity – Part II. Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world.Ī Quake in Being: An Introduction to Hyperobjects – Part I. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world’s most precious manuscripts. UFOs: Reference Shelf Armenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2022.
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