Read more
The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and freedom are analyzed and put into conversation with the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, and Midgely.
List of contents
Introduction: The Usual Suspects
The Unusual Is Suspect
Unexpect the Expected
Chapter 1: The Singular Self
1.1Narcissus
1.2Why Is "I" So Important?
1.3They Are Therefore I Am
Chapter 2: The Machine Messiah
2.1Soulless Solace
2.2The Mindless
2.3Killjoy Was Here
Chapter 3: Wanted Dead or Alive: God
3.1The Afterlife of God
3.2Dead Souls Again
3.3Fans or Fanatics?
Chapter 4: No Place like Home
4.1Random "Birthrights"
4.2Cloudy Skies
4.3Where Is the Heart?
Chapter 5: Either in or out of Love
5.1Fantasy and Phantasm
5.2Crisis in the Life of a Lover
5.3Not Yours, Not Mine
Chapter 6: "Freedom of Thought," Thought Freedom
6.1Corporeal Consciousness
6.2Incorporeal Conscience
6.3Liberty's Pirouette
Conclusion: Non-Sense: Making Sense of Nonsense
Stop Making Sense
Start Being Sensible
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Social philosopher G. V. Loewen is the author of over thirty-five books on ethics, religion, aesthetics and social theory. His ten-volume adventure saga 'Kristen-Seraphim' brings many of these wider themes into general readership.
Summary
The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The “suspects” of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the “senses” of home, love, and freedom are analyzed and put into conversation with the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, and Midgely.
