Rethinking Pluralism: Ritual, Experience, And Ambiguity - Softcover

Seligman, Adam B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199915288 ISBN 13: 9780199915286

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through ritual and shared experience better attune to contemporary problems of living with difference. It retrieves key aspects of earlier discussions of ambiguity evident in rabbinic commentaries, Chinese texts, and Greek philosophical and dramatic works, and applies those texts to modern problems. The book is a work of recuperation that challenges contemporary constructions of tradition and modernity. In this, it draws on the tradition of pragmatism in American philosophy, especially John Dewey's injunctions to heed the particular, the contingent and experienced as opposed to the abstract, general and disembodied. Only in this way can new forms of empathy emerge congruent with the deeply plural nature of our present experience. While we cannot avoid the ambiguities inherent to the categories through which we construct our world, the book urges us to reconceptualize the ways in which we think about boundaries - not just the solid line of notation, but also the permeable membrane of ritualization and the fractal complexity of shared experience.

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Adam B. Seligman is a Professor of Religion at Boston University. A respected scholar in civil society and community engagement, he has authored or edited more than two dozen books. He has taught at universities in the United States, Israel, Japan and Hungary, where he was a Fulbright Fellow from 1990 to 1992.Prof. Seligman founded the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life in Sarajevo in 2001 and facilitated its growth into Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion (CEDAR). He has received the prestigious Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize in 2020 for his work.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199915288
• ISBN 13: 9780199915286
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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