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"Attentive Distance" in Love, in Light of Simone Weil's Thought
(2019-04-01)This article is a reflection on lived out love, as it might be experienced by lovers, in light of French philosopher Simone Weil’s writings on love. In entering a dialogue with Weil on the subject of love, the interconnectedness ... -
Beyond Ecological Democracy: Black Feminist Thought and the End of Man
(2017-04-01)Wildlife Services is a subbranch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that primarily operates in the Western half of the United States, receiving 100 million dollars of federal funding annually. One of the “services” that ... -
Brigadoon: Lerner and Loewe’s Scotland
(2009)Since the 1950s, Brigadoon has been accepted as a representation of Scotland. Brigadoon’s Scotland consists of a highland landscape with lochs, mists, castles populated by fair maidens, warlike yet sensitive kilted men and ... -
The Choral Music of Hamish MacCunn
(2013)The career of Hamish MacCunn illustrates the vital importance of choral music, including festival commissions, to British composers. Since the time of Handel choral music had played an integral role in the musical fabric ... -
Contemporary Italian Women Philosophers: Stretching the Art of Thinking
(2021-09)A unique portrayal of the theoretical positions of eleven Italian women thinkers who share the practice of philosophy and extend philosophical work and interests beyond the realm of the discipline strictly defined. Gathering ... -
Engaging with Research and Resources in Music History Courses
(2014)With the ever-expanding sea of resources available to students today, it is now more important than ever to teach students how to navigate, assess, and interpret resources. Given the ease of access to information, students ... -
Gregory of Nyssa and Jacques Derrida on the Human-Animal Distinction in the Song of Songs
(2014-01-01)Jacques Derrida despairs of finding animals among philosophers. “Thinking concerning the animal, if there is such a thing, derives from poetry. There you have a thesis” (2008, 7; cf. 40). The poetic imagination, in contrast ... -
Gregory of Nyssa on Language, Naming God's Creatures, and the Desire of the Discursive Animal
(2012-01-01)The controversy between Gregory of Nyssa and Eunomius of Cyzicus over the origin and nature of human language might profitably be mapped across the tension between the two creation narratives in the opening chapters of ... -
Hannah Arendt: The Recovery of the Political, The Recovery of Hope
(2018-01-01)In this article, I contend that Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the political as the space of appearance of many, unique and distinct individuals, is particularly instructive for our time. Her work urges us to recover the ... -
Insights from Parents about Caring for a Child with Birth Defects
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2013-08-07)Birth defects affect 1 in 33 babies. Having a child with a birth defect impacts the whole family. Parents of children who have birth defects face unique challenges and desire to make life better for their kids. They also ... -
The Intersection of Social Work and Syrian Women with Refugee Status: A Transnational Matricentric Feminist Perspective.
(ProQuest, 2021)Social workers have a history of engagement with refugees since the inception of the profession. However, many social workers engage with clients without knowing about their refugee status, and globalization and forced ... -
‘Io non sono sola’ Una Conversazione con Mimma
(2014-01-01)This essay is based on a meeting and interview with Mimma that took place on November 22, 2013, in Borgo Vercelli, Vc, Italy. Annita Bonardo, (born in 1920), “Mimma,” participated in the partisan activity of the Italian ... -
'Marvel at the Intelligence of Unthinking Creatures!': Contemplative Animals in Gregory of Nazianzus and Evagrius of Pontus.
(2013-01-01)In The Animal that Therefore I Am, Derrida queries what (or who) feeds at the limit between the human and the animal. What is it that is nourished by this distinction? Who stands to benefit from maintaining a single line, ... -
Narrating the Self through the Other: On the Thought of Adriana Cavarero
(2015-01-01)This essay focuses on Cavarero’s understanding of identity as relational. It relies on Arendt’s crucial distinction between “who” and “what,” the former capturing the uniqueness of each by exposing the embodied and deeply ... -
Numerical Methods: An Inquiry-Based Approach With Python
(2020-09-22)This book is an inquiry-based approach to a first semester undergraduate Numerical Methods or Numerical Analysis course. The book covers floating point arithmetic, function approximation via Taylor series, numerical root ... -
Review of Creaturely Theology -- Edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and David Clough
(2011-01-01)The collected essays comprising Creaturely Theology are announced as a bold entry of properly theological voices into a new ‘wave’ of conversation about animals—one concerned with how (as opposed to whether) animals matter ... -
Sacred Connections: Using Faith-based Narratives to Create Matricentric Empowerment Spaces for Syrian Refugee Women
(Journal of Social Work and Christianity, 2020-04-24)Christian social workers are called by both faith and professional ethics to welcome refugees. The Syrian conflict has created the largest refugee crisis the world has ever known, and while women and children are extremely ... -
The Logos of God and the End of Man: Giorgio Agamben and the Gospel of John on Animality As Light and Life.
(2014-01-01)The Gospel of John begins with a Logos, a Word sounding out the earliest origins of creation and measuring up even to God. After asserting that everything in existence resonates with echoes of the Logos, having come into ... -
The Political Ecology of Dignity: Human Dignity and the Inevitable Returns of Animality.
(2017-05-24)Human dignity names a two-tier political ecology: one moral-political community whose members bear a special status of inviolability, and another larger community where violence and degradation are routine. Because ecological ... -
They Fell Silent When We Stopped Listening: Apophatic Theology and 'Asking the Beasts'
(2016-01-01)Fredric Jameson poignantly notes that for those of us formed by the cultures of the West, it is easier to imagine the destruction of the biosphere and the extinction of the majority of earth’s species than the end of global ...