...For most of his life, Allen Jones has been torn between God and the streets, feeling at one and the same time the pull of the spiritual life and an irresistible attraction to risk and danger. His father, used to give him this tough talk, but knew his father loved the street life he tried to protect...

...This chapter explores Abraham Lincoln's political faith in the Peoria Address as an ultimate moral justification of American public life, one that combines the moral and religious teachings of the Bible with the Founders' republicanism. It argues that the Peoria Address was the most mature...

...Ever since its emergence at the turn of the seventeenth century, the aesthetic body of Dutch still life painting has been hamstrung by iconography. Viewed through the magnific lens of Britannica Online, iconography is “the science of identification, description, classification...

...In the United States, life without parole (LWOP) has become the leading alternative to the death penalty. However, we have compelling reason to be suspicious what passes for the abolition of the death penalty. If, with the death penalty, we have the calculation of the precise moment a life will end...

... Bogotá Cavell Stanley Heideggerianism Nietzschean Pascal Blaise life event Gilles Deleuze future time newness Whether cinema, as Deleuze claims, is Bergsonian, remains an open question; that Deleuze himself was a Bergsonian, however, is beyond doubt. Still, we should ask ourselves: What...

...This book has articulated how central will be our understanding of the relation of nature and grace for the proper contemplation and living of Christian life, and for the Christian's participation in cultural and public life. It has considered the implications of the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas...

...New, medically formulated anxieties about death were exacerbated by the belief that the conditions of modern life, especially the population densities of major cities, facilitated the mutual contamination between life and death. This chapter examines ways in which urban space, and Paris...

... for those committed personally and spiritually to Catholic tradition and its Marianist embodiment, but also for a compelling vision of intellectual life and university purpose. This chapter articulates the ideas that have both shaped and resulted from UD's practices, aimed at enlivening Catholic...

...The contemporary abortion debate is too often dominated by dichotomous thinking, including and especially a false dichotomy between women's reproductive rights and respect for fetal life. In this chapter I argue that it is possible to embrace a pro-choice ideology while respecting fetal life...

...The final chapter reads the third-to-last line of Shelley’s The Triumph of Life, “as if that look must be the last,” as an aside that asks what occurs after that last look. In a post-Waterloo poem that imagines a hallucinatory end-of-the-world scenario amidst...

...Following the claim made by Jacques Derrida in one of his last books that the great “gigantomachia” of Western philosophy is not that between forms and particulars, being and becoming, but that between being and life, the preface argues that Plato’s Statesman...

... and the concomitant necessity of trying to imitate that age through laws. Once again, we see that what is at issue in the relationship between the two ages, as well as in the relationship between a regime without law and a regime with it, are two different valences or valuations of life—the values...

...The final chapter takes many of the insights from the previous chapters in order to show, through a more general reading of Plato’s dialogues, how Plato attempts always to move from what is commonly called life, that is, from a more biological conception of life, a life of the body or of the animal...

...This chapter focuses on two leading powers of thought and life and asks to what extent they influence or even determine the philosophy that emerges from the thinker's life. Provisionally, one can indicate those powers by using the traditional pair of reason and faith, but in order to set...

... and the “truth” of the world, he contends that Christianity provides access to a phenomenology of immanence that is able to overcome certain problems in the phenomenological project by speaking of the immediacy of Life as the origin of all affectivity. According to Henry, it is through Christ that we participate...

...This chapter describes the question of survival through an attempt to protect or archive the past, and to preserve it by iterations, translation, and finally transformation. Life cannot be thought of without repetition. Considering life without death is pure phantasm. The theory of living...

...In the 1886 preface to the reissuing of The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche makes a claim that he looks at science from the optic of art and art from that of life. What does he mean by this? Does The Birth of Tragedy actually do that? Where, when and how? A subtext...

...The second of Nietzsche’s Untimely Meditations, entitled “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life”, contains some of Nietzsche’s earliest reflections on the relation between life and wisdom. This relation figures prominently in pivotal sections of Thus Spoke...

... to the contemporary debates on biopolitics. animality abnormal animal anomalies Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche agricultural metaphors in Übermensch animality and the transition to Agamben Giorgio the animal abnormal animal anomalies ascetic ideal and life and the animal biopolitics Derrida Jacques “Faith...