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Melancholic freedom : agency and the spirit of politics / David Kyuman Kim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kim, David Kyuman.
- Series:
- Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
- Reflection and theory in the study of religion series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Conduct of life.
- Motivation (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In'Melancholic Freedom', the author navigates the various dimensions of human agency, exploring not only the current cultural and ideological climate of agency, but also the very core of agency itself.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Melancholic Freedom; Introduction; Agency as the Spirit of Politics; Modernity, Agency, and Melancholy; Thinking the Religious, the Moral, and the Political Together; 2. Love of the Good among the Ruins; Introduction; Agency, Articulation, and the Good; Modern Moral Identity and the Melancholy of Agency; Love of the Good among the Ruins and the Logic of Epiphany; 3. Through a Self Darkly; Amazing Grace?; Rekindling a Love of the Good, or Being Good in a Heartless World; When Not Seeing Is Believing; What's Love Got to Do with It?; 4. The Agency That Difference Makes
- Prelude: After Freedom?Difference and the Remains of Equality; The Arts of Resistance and the Agency That Difference Makes; The Religious Imagination and the Performative Agent; 5. A World Not Well Lost; 6. Agency as a Vocation; Calling All Agents; Cultivation of the Self, or Agency as a Way of Life; A Revolution of the Spirit: Attunement to Discontent and Hope; On the Spiritual Aspirations of Melancholic Freedom; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-186) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029560-0
- 0-19-537246-8
- 9786611165185
- 0-19-804317-1
- 1-281-16518-2
- 1-4356-2022-4
- OCLC:
- 922953176
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