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Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang

After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world’s largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume… Read More »Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China

Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity by Joerg Rieger & Terra Schwerin Rowe (editors)

There is growing consensus that life on the planet is in peril if climate change continues at its current pace. At stake is not only the future of many species… Read More »Liberating People, Planet, and Religion: Intersections of Ecology, Economics, and Christianity

Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology by Bill Ross

Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos… Read More »Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

The Evolution of Meaning - A Universal Learning Process

In this first volume of his book series The Evolution of Meaning, Dempsey introduces a theory of meaning based in thermodynamics and information processing. If the acquisition of meaningful information… Read More »The Evolution of Meaning: A Universal Learning Process

An Actological Theology by Malcolm Torry

An actology—introduced by the first book in this series, Actology: Action, Change and Diversity in the Western Philosophical Tradition—understands reality as action in changing patterns. Actological Readings in Continental Philosophy… Read More »An Actological Theology

More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature by Melanie Sehgal & Alex Wilkie (Editors)

In a present marked by planetary crisis, a radical rethinking of aesthetics is necessary. This inspirational collection proposes a new way of thinking about aesthetics as fundamental to cultivating more… Read More »More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature

Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

For the last quarter-century, author and activist Brian D. McLaren has been writing at the intersection of religious faith and contemporary culture. In Life After Doom, he engages with the… Read More »Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart

The God of Tomorrow: Whitehead And Teilhard on Metaphysics, Mysticism, And Mission

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead came from very different religious backgrounds yet a study of their ideas shows a number of important and helpful synergies. This book… Read More »The God of Tomorrow: Whitehead And Teilhard on Metaphysics, Mysticism, And Mission

Both One and Many: Spiritual Philosophy beyond Theism, Materialism, and Relativism by Oliver Griebel

Meister Eckhart might have liked it. Indeed, many-one thinking is the idea that there is the one ultimate origin, coherence, spirit of it all . . . but not without… Read More »Both One and Many: Spiritual Philosophy beyond Theism, Materialism, and Relativism

Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change

The age of denial is over, we are told. Yet emissions continue to rise while gimmicks, graft, and green- washing distract the public from the climate violence suffered by the… Read More »Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change