online archive
1:00PM
JUL 9 2007
Religion and nature, politics and law
From the inaugural issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, an introduction to the journal, and Stephen R. Kellert Yale): Connecting with Creation: The Convergence of Nature, Religion, Science and Culture; Kocku von Stuckrad (Amsterdam): Finding Data: Some Reflections on Ontologies and Normativities; Adrian Ivakhiv (Vermont): Religion, Nature and Culture: Theorizing the Field; Roger S. Gottlieb (WPI): Religious Environmentalism: What it is, Where it’s Heading and Why We Should be Going in the Same Direction; and Penelope S. Bernard (Rhodes): Re-Uniting with the Kosmos.
From Secular Web, section one on Mind and Will of God or Blind Nature? Philosophers Debate the Evidence. A review of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination by Daniel B. Smith. A review of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha. The Gregarious Brain: Williams syndrome — a genetic accident that causes cognitive deficits and a surplus of unguarded affability — is revealing much about what makes us social beings.
A review of The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael Sandel. The Dangers of Utopia: Alan Ryan reviews Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray (and more). Why the Left is right: A review of Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism by Eric Hobsbawm (and more and more). A review of Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State by Kevin Olson. The people has its political reason, of which political theory knows nothing: A review On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau.
From CUP, an excerpt from Objectivity and the Rule of Law by Matthew Kramer; an excerpt from The Nature of Customary Law: Legal, Historical and Philosophical Perspectives; an excerpt from An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure by Robert Cryer, Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson and Elizabeth Wilmshurst; and an excerpt from Financial Stability, Economic Growth, and the Role of Law by Douglas W. Arner.
