The Privilege Of Being Banal
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Author |
: Elayne Oliphant |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2020-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 022673126X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226731261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privilege of Being Banal by : Elayne Oliphant
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than "heritage." In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism's circulation in non-religious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant's aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person's experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.
Author |
: Elayne Oliphant |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2021-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226731438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022673143X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privilege of Being Banal by : Elayne Oliphant
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than “heritage.” In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism’s circulation in nonreligious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant’s aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person’s experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.
Author |
: Calvin Trillin |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2005-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0374529744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780374529741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Remembering Denny by : Calvin Trillin
"In this contemplation of his friend's life, Calvin Trillin attempts to chart the mysterious course of a career that had seemed full of limitless promise. He also embarks upon a provocative investigation of America in the 1950s - exploring the assumptions inherited by the "silent generation" as well as how those assumptions fared during the subsequent transformation of American society in the years that followed. Remembering Denny is not only a memoir of friendship, but also a meditation on our country's evolving sense of self."--Jacket.
Author |
: Elizabeth K. Minnich |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 295 |
Release |
: 2024-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798881802929 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Evil of Banality by : Elizabeth K. Minnich
In this expanded edition of The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich argues for a tragic yet hopeful explanation of “extensive evil,” her term for systematic, normalized harm-doing on the scale of genocide, slavery, sexualized dominance. The book now includes a new preface, new chapter, and expanded afterword addressing ongoing extensive evils, the paradox of lying, and the importance of developing the thinking without which conscience remains mute. Extensive evils are actually carried out not by psychopaths, but by people like your quiet next-door neighbor, your ambitious colleagues. There simply are not enough moral monsters to do the long hard work of extensive evils, nor enough saints for extensive good. In periods of extensive evil, people little different from you and me do its work for no more than a better job, a raise, the house of the family “disappeared” last week. So how can there be hope? Such evils are neither mysterious nor demonic. If we avoid romanticizing both the worst and best of which humans are capable, we can recognize and say no to extensive evil, practice and sustain extensive good, where they must take root – in ordinary lives.
Author |
: Neil Tarrant |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2022-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226819433 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226819434 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Defining Nature's Limits by : Neil Tarrant
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth. Unlike earlier studies, Defining Nature’s Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains how the church developed a program that sought to codify what was proper belief through confession, inquisition, and punishment and prosecuted what they considered superstition or heresy that stretched beyond the boundaries of religion. These efforts were continued by the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542. Although it was designed primarily to combat Protestantism, from the outset the new institution investigated both practitioners of “illicit” magic and inquiries into natural philosophy, delegitimizing certain practices and thus shaping the development of early modern science. Describing the dynamics of censorship that continued well into the post-Reformation era, Defining Nature's Limits is revisionist history that will interest scholars of the history science, the history of magic, and the history of the church alike.
Author |
: Hussein Ali Agrama |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2012-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226010687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226010686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Questioning Secularism by : Hussein Ali Agrama
What, exactly, is secularism? What has the West's long familiarity with it inevitably obscured? In this work, Hussein Ali Agrama tackles these questions. Focusing on the fatwa councils and family law courts of Egypt just prior to the revolution, he delves deeply into the meaning of secularism itself and the ambiguities that lie at its heart.
Author |
: Penelope D. Johnson |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2009-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226401973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226401979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Equal in Monastic Profession by : Penelope D. Johnson
In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were "different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession." Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualitative reading of medieval monastic documents with a quantitative analysis of a lengthy thirteenth-century visitation record which allows an important comparison of nuns and monks. A fascinating look at the world of medieval spirituality, this work enriches our understanding of women's role in premodern Europe and in church history.
Author |
: Elayne Oliphant |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2021-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 022673112X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226731124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Privilege of Being Banal by : Elayne Oliphant
France, officially, is a secular nation. Yet Catholicism is undeniably a monumental presence, defining the temporal and spatial rhythms of Paris. At the same time, it often fades into the background as nothing more than “heritage.” In a creative inversion, Elayne Oliphant asks in The Privilege of Being Banal what, exactly, is hiding in plain sight? Could the banality of Catholicism actually be a kind of hidden power? Exploring the violent histories and alternate trajectories effaced through this banal backgrounding of a crucial aspect of French history and culture, this richly textured ethnography lays bare the profound nostalgia that undergirds Catholicism’s circulation in nonreligious sites such as museums, corporate spaces, and political debates. Oliphant’s aim is to unravel the contradictions of religion and secularism and, in the process, show how aesthetics and politics come together in contemporary France to foster the kind of banality that Hannah Arendt warned against: the incapacity to take on another person’s experience of the world. A creative meditation on the power of the taken-for-granted, The Privilege of Being Banal is a landmark study of religion, aesthetics, and public space.
Author |
: Peter Cajka |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2021-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226762050 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022676205X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Follow Your Conscience by : Peter Cajka
Introduction -- The conscience problem and Catholic doctrine -- Political origins : totalitarianism, world war, and mass conscription -- The State's paperwork and the Catholic Peace Fellowship -- Sex, conscience and the American Catholic Church 1968 -- Psychology and the self -- The conscience lobby -- Beyond the Catholic Church.
Author |
: Abou Farman |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 443 |
Release |
: 2020-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452961903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452961905 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Not Dying by : Abou Farman
An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects have gained increasing legitimacy and power in the world of science and technology. With recent rapid advances in biology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, secular immortalists hope for and work toward a future without death. On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and philosophical exploration of immortality as a secular and scientific category. Based on an ethnography of immortalist communities—those who believe humans can extend their personal existence indefinitely through technological means—and an examination of other institutions involved at the end of life, Abou Farman argues that secular immortalism is an important site to explore the tensions inherent in secularism: how to accept death but extend life; knowing the future is open but your future is finite; that life has meaning but the universe is meaningless. As secularism denies a soul, an afterlife, and a cosmic purpose, conflicts arise around the relationship of mind and body, individual finitude and the infinity of time and the cosmos, and the purpose of life. Immortalism today, Farman argues, is shaped by these historical and culturally situated tensions. Immortalist projects go beyond extending life, confronting dualism and cosmic alienation by imagining (and producing) informatic selves separate from the biological body but connected to a cosmic unfolding. On Not Dying interrogates the social implications of technoscientific immortalism and raises important political questions. Whose life will be extended? Will these technologies be available to all, or will they reproduce racial and geopolitical hierarchies? As human life on earth is threatened in the Anthropocene, why should life be extended, and what will that prolonged existence look like?