Situasi yang mengguncang masyarakat kita dewasa ini ditandai dengan “emosi-emosi”. Politik, agama, ekonomi, dan bahkan kisah keseharian dalam hidup seorang petani, nelayan, para ojek dan buruh, tukang bangunan dan tukang sapu, semuanya tidak luput dari emosi, gejolak perjuangan, keberanian, kemarahan, ketakutan, cemburu, kesalahan, dan bahkan rasa ngeri. Sebagian episode emosi ini bersentu…
Buku ini diterbitkan sebagai kontribusi terhadap pemahaman perkembangan ilmu dan penelitian bidang sosial dan humaniora. Mengacu pada judulnya Paradigma Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Penelitian Ilmu-ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora di Indonesia, buku ini dimulai dengan pembahasan pemahaman tentang konsep paradigma yang diperkenalkan Thomas S. Kuhn serta tanggapan ilmuwan sosial dan humaniora Indonesia. Buk…
Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions ‘negative liberty’ and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left – free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life. The triumph of liberalism has had the effect of subordinating human association and the common good to narrow self-interest and short-te…
Rowland showcases here the dominant contemporary approaches to doing Catholic theology. Chapter 1 offers a summary of the two International Theological Commission (ITC) documents on the discipline of Catholic theology. These documents set out the general principles which should govern any approach to Catholic theology (at least according to the ITC). The subsequent chapters each focus on one of…
The meeting of different cultures, philosophies and religions today calls for an intensive and qualified discourse on the part of all concerned. Intercultural Philosophy seeks to develop such a discourse through a new orientation of thought that will allow for a discussion of all philosophical problems from an intercultural perspective. In this important new work, Ram Adhar Mall approaches the …
In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment. Developing the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Nicholas argues that we rely too heavily on a conception of rationality that is divorced from tradition and, therefore, incapable of judging ends. Without the …
Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, …