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Immemorial Silence

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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MacKendrick (philosophy, Le Moyne College) explores language and silence and their temporality and atemporality through works of philosophy, literature, and religion, where eternity and silence have long been matters of concern. Among the authors she considers are Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, four poets, St. Augustine, and Meister Eckhart. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

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0791448789

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The Matter of Voice

Sensual Soundings

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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The Matter of Voice

Sensual Soundings

By: Karmen MacKendrick

Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions, essential to sense yet in excess of it. They can be neither reduced to neurology nor silenced in abstraction. They complicate the logos of the beginning and emphasize the enfleshing of all words. Through explorations of theology and philosophy, pedagogy, translation, and semiotics, all interwoven with song, The Matter of Voice works toward reintegrating our thinking about both speaking and authorial voice as fleshy combinings of meaning and music.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823270017

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Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Theological Seductions

By: Karmen Mackendrick

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Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Theological Seductions

By: Karmen Mackendrick

Divine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and it subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.

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0823242897

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Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

On the Love of Commentary

By: Scott Wilson,Michael Moore,Anna Klosowska,Jordan Kirk,Karmen MacKendrick,Eileen Joy,David Hancock,Gary Shipley,Mathew Abbott

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Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

On the Love of Commentary

By: Scott Wilson,Michael Moore,Anna Klosowska,Jordan Kirk,Karmen MacKendrick,Eileen Joy,David Hancock,Gary Shipley,Mathew Abbott

Volume 5 of the journal Glossator. Contents: What Separates the Birth of Twins - Jordan Kirk Prosopopeia to Prosopagnosia: Dante on Facebook - Scott Wilson When You Call My Name - Karmen MacKendrick All That Remains Unnoticed I Adore: Spencer Reece's Addresses - Eileen A. Joy Plato's Symposium and Commentary for Love - David Hancock Dreaming Death: the Onanistic and Self-Annihilative Principles of Love in Fernando Pessoa's Book of Disquiet - Gary J. Shipley On Not Loving Everyone: Comments on Jean-Luc Nancy's "L'amour en éclats [Shattered Love]" - Mathew Abbott The Grace of Hermeneutics - Michael Edward Moore Tearsong: Valentine Visconti's Inverted Stoicism - Anna Klosowska

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1466430958

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The Matter of Voice

Sensual Soundings

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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Sensual Soundings

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Material Mystery

The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

By: Karmen MacKendrick

Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption. But it is possible, Karmen MacKendrick shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force. Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the middle ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity—intellectual, artistic, and theological—generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world''s matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention—particularly Wisdom''s combination of care and delight.

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0823294560

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Immemorial Silence

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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Immemorial Silence

By: Karmen MacKendrick

Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of intertwined ideas. Exploring silence as the absence of language, which is nonetheless inherent in language itself, and eternity as the outside of time, cutting through time itself, the book unfolds a series of connections between these temporal and linguistic themes.

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State University of New York Press

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0791491102

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Word Made Skin

Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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Word Made Skin

Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh

By: Karmen MacKendrick

Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. But just where, if at all, do words and bodies touch? In a trio of paired chapters, each juxtaposing an illustrative story or case study to a theoretical exploration, MacKendrick examines three somatic figures of speech: the touch, the fold, and the cut. In the first pairing, resurrection stories in the Gospel of John are set against a chapter on touch, which draws on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy to argue that touch is, paradoxically, the most lasting of the sensory modes in which the resurrected body is presented. T. S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" is then paired with a Deleuzean meditation on the fold. The final pair of chapters examines the sacred heart, an extraordinarily popular Catholic devotional image with an intriguing set of devotees-medieval mystics, sweet old ladies, and tattooed punks-in light of theoretical work of Foucault on the idea of inscribed bodies, of the cut. Theologically and philosophically sophisticated, indeed masterly, the book never loses its ground in real, specific bodily experience, performing both at the highest levels of abstraction and at the most quotidian levels of everyday life.

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0823224074

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9780823224074

Seducing Augustine

Bodies, Desires, Confessions

By: Virginia Burrus,Mark D. Jordan,Karmen MacKendrick

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Seducing Augustine

Bodies, Desires, Confessions

By: Virginia Burrus,Mark D. Jordan,Karmen MacKendrick

Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text. Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes--secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity. Rather than expose Augustine's sexual history, they explore how the Confessions conjoins the erotic with the hidden, the imaginary, and the fictional. Rather than bemoan the repressiveness of his text, they uncover the complex relationship between seductive flesh and persuasive words that pervades all of its books. Rather than struggle to escape the control of the author, they embrace the painful pleasure of willed submission that lies at the erotic heart not only of the Confessions but also of Augustine's broader understanding of sin and salvation. Rather than mourn the fateful otherworldliness of his theological vision, they plumb the bottomless depths of beauty that Augustine discovers within creation, thereby extending desire precisely by refusing satisfaction. In unfolding their readings, the authors draw upon other works in Augustine's corpus while building on prior Augustinian scholarship in their own overlapping fields of history, theology, and philosophy. They also press well beyond the conventional boundaries of scholarly disciplines, conversing with such wide-ranging theorists of eroticism as Barthes, Baudrillard, Klossowski, Foucault, and Harpham. In the end, they offer not only a fresh interpretation of Augustine's famous work but also a multivocal literary-philosophical meditation on the seductive elusiveness of desire, bodies, language, and God.

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0823231933

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Material Mystery

The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies

By: Karmen MacKendrick

Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption. But it is possible, Karmen MacKendrick shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force. Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the middle ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity—intellectual, artistic, and theological—generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world's matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention—particularly Wisdom's combination of care and delight.

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0823294579

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Fragmentation and Memory

Meditations on Christian Doctrine

By: Karmen MacKendrick

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Fragmentation and Memory

Meditations on Christian Doctrine

By: Karmen MacKendrick

With questions from the 1885 Baltimore Catechism of the Catholic Church as the starting point for each chapter, the author offers postmodern reflections on many of the central doctrines of the Church, including the oneness of God, original sin, love and its connection to mortality, and the doctrine of bodily resurrection.

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082323696X

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Augustine and Gender

By: Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski

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Augustine and Gender

By: Kim Paffenroth,Maggie Ann Labinski

The relationship between Augustine of Hippo and the subject of gender raises important questions. Augustine and Gender address these issues head-on. This volume offers original interpretations of the many ways that gender appears throughout Augustine’s thought and works. Contributions draw from a wide range of sources including Augustine’s sermons, letters, treatises, and dialogues. Readers will discover detailed analyses about the nature of desire and emotion, the politics of sex and marriage, the possibilities of human speech and exegesis, and the hope of education and community. In addition, this book is a persuasive demonstration of the benefits of bringing together Augustinian scholars with the most pressing concerns of the present.

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Lexington Books

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1666954861

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Book's by Karmen MacKendrick

Immemorial Silence

Immemorial Silence

The Matter of Voice

The Matter of Voice

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

The Matter of Voice

The Matter of Voice

Material Mystery

Material Mystery

Immemorial Silence

Immemorial Silence

Word Made Skin

Word Made Skin

Seducing Augustine

Seducing Augustine

Material Mystery

Material Mystery

Fragmentation and Memory

Fragmentation and Memory

Augustine and Gender

Augustine and Gender

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