A Place of Springs
Home > Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Gender studies, gender groups > A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)
A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)

A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Available


X
About the Book

In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence to Eternity, she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is an original and creative feminist reading of the Quaker tradition, considering George Fox and the writings of Quaker women, exploring the themes of inner light and beauty as alternatives to violence and the obstacles to building such an alternative world. After showing how seventeenth-century Quakers offered a different option for modernity, she maps the philosophical and ethical implications of engaging with the world through beauty and its transforming power. Written for everyone interested in contemporary spirtuality, it explains how Quaker ideas can provide a way to transform our violent world into one that celebrates life rather than death, peace rather than violence. This work is the second of two posthumous publications to complete Grace M. Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty collection, which began with Foundations of Violence (Routledge, 2004).

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: The Anxieties of Beauty 1. Beauty and the Beast: Ambiguities and Openings 2. Beauty Denied Part 2: Beauty, Quakers and the Inner Light 3. Beauty and Spirituality 4. Quakers and the Inner Light 5. Choose Life! Early Quaker Women 6. Fanny Henshaw and the Question Self-Deception 7. Before the Rooster Crows: The Betrayal of Knowledge in Modernity Part 3: Beauty, Desire and Engaged Spirituality 8. In the Eye of the Beholder 9. Beauty and the Body 10. Beauty, Desire and Need 11. Flourishing: Towards an Ethic of Feminist Theory 12. On Changing the Imaginary Index

About the Author :
University of Manchester, UK University of Kent, UK University of Calgary, Canada

Review :
'This is a critically important volume, the third in Grace Jantzen's grand and compelling invitation to a new moral imaginary. It is about choosing life over modernity's preoccupation with death, about opening ourselves to beauty and the need to be vulnerable that is part of that aesthetic. From her own engaged 21st century Quaker perspective, Jantzen offers us this new paradigm that both transcends modernity with its anxieties and fears about beauty, and subverts it with her focus on the inner spiritual dynamic of the Quaker conception of Light. Whilst we always may hope for what else might have been in the writing we will now never see, this book seals our ability to respond and encourages us to do so with urgency. In good Quaker tradition, this is prophecy at its best.' - 'Ben' Pink Dandelion, Professor of Quaker Studies, University of Birmingham, UK


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780415469999
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Death and the Displacement of Beauty
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0415469996
  • Publisher Date: 08 Dec 2009
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 234
  • Weight: 557 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)
Taylor & Francis Ltd -
A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

A Place of Springs: (Death and the Displacement of Beauty)

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!