Fatal strategies

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Cary Wolfe

"Unique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, and others, and ranges across fields from feminist philosophy of science to the theory of ideology. Offering American readers a comprehensive introduction to systems theory and responding to the widespread charge of relativism leveled against it, Wolfe's work will enhance and inspire new kinds of critical thought."--BOOK JACKET.

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James Lovelock

Uiteenzetting van de theorie dat de aarde, zee en atmosfeer één groot organisme zijn dat zichzelf door een feedback-mechanisme in stand houdt, en een beoordeling van de huidige 'gezondheidstoestand' van het mechanisme.

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Jean Bardy

Que reste-t-il aujourd'hui de "l'évolution créatrice" de Bergson? Les progrès prodigieux accomplis par les sciences - biologie, physique, thermodynamique- semblent devoir marquer du sceau de la caducité un livre écrit alors que la théorie de la relativité vient de faire son apparition tandis que la biologie comme science n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts. Pourtant "l'évolution créatrice" surprend le lecteur à plus d'un titre. A l'heure où une "Réforme de la pensée" s'impose de plus en plus, la réconciliation de la science et de la philosophie est devenue urgente.

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Tom Beaudoin

Beaudoin, himself a member of Generation X, explores fashion, music videos, and cyber-space and concludes that his generation has fashioned a theology radically different from but no less potent or valid than that of their elders. Beaudoin's investigation of popular culture uncovers four themes that underpin his generation's theology. First, all institutions are suspect - especially organized religion. Recoiling from perceived hypocrisy, yet hungering for spiritual experience, this generation has taken religion into their own hands. Second, personal experience is everything. GenXers want to discover everything for themselves, and every form of intense personal experience - including sex - is potentially spiritual. Third, suffering is also spiritual. Images of a suffering Jesus have a personal meaning for this generation that they don't have for their elders. Finally, this generation sees ambiguity as a central element of faith. Rather than retreating from doubt, they embrace it.