Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (Cultural Memory in the Present) [1 ed.] 0804734119, 9780804734110

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Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (Cultural Memory in the Present) [1 ed.]
0804734119, 9780804734110

This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the "gift,&qu

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An emerging consensus maintains that the exile was not as extensive as the Old Testament claims. However, that it held s

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Demonstrates how the experience of East-Central and Eastern Europe needs to be integrated into evolving scholarship on t

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Welcoming Finitude provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on

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These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality,"

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Welcoming Finitude provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on

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This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski’s essential question: "How does the actor ‘touch that which is unt

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Welcoming Finitude provides a philosophical (i.e., phenomenological) examination of the experience of liturgy, based on

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How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as t

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Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-f

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