abstract:This article considers the role of testimony in William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience in order to highlight the unique style and structure of the text and its effect on readers. Understanding Varieties as a performative, multivocal, creative experiment in pedagogy and teaching puts the book in conversation with more contemporary theorists of liberatory education...
abstract:Panpsychism, the view that the material elements of the universe have mental properties, has until quite recently remained in the periphery of the philosophical mainstream due to its blatant contradiction of normative Cartesian dualities, which divided the world into mental properties (that inhere in human beings alone) and material properties, that are devoid of value and sentience....
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08093575 2008; 14; 129 Body Society Bryan S. Turner Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore pp. 256, ISBN 978 0 521 67587 1 paperback, $24.99 Reviewed by Bryan S. by Richard Shusterman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of...