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Cultural Criticism, Philosophy "The loss of wider purpose in our cosmology is no technical deficit. Though we loathe nostalgia of all kinds, and history does not run backwards, nevertheless we feel a deeper absence, even to the point of the encounter with the 'abyss of meaning.' Gazing into it, however, we find after all that it cuts both ways, there is an absence of ultimate order and meaning, no primer at the outset, no summa upon completio...

When Kandace and Gregory (aka Maggie and Josh) said "I do" they had no idea the sexcapades that were in store for them. They had no idea how many Swingers they would "do, " how many friends they would make, and how many international locations they would sexplore together. For the first twenty years of their marriage, Maggie and Josh loosely followed the guidelines from their traditional Christian upbringing. They created a strong monogamous b...

Originally written in forty consecutive days of fortunate inspiration, 'What is God?' asks some of the most basic and sobering existential questions of our times. These are the questions to which each of us, as human beings, attempts to attach some meaning during our brief lifetimes: Why believe, and why this or that belief? How are our notions of God used and abused by the religious and scientific mind alike? What motivates the recently popul...

Sixteen-year-old Kristen has had quite enough of following her evangelical parents' copious rules. But although up to her neck in both disobedience and discipline, she, nevertheless, suddenly finds herself at the heart of a mystery more profound than anything her willful imagination could have conjured. A challenge so deep that it will affect not only her own fate, but that of the species itself. And, ironically, it will require all of the pow...

Sixteen-year-old Kristen has had quite enough of following her evangelical parents' copious rules. But although up to her neck in both disobedience and discipline, she, nevertheless, suddenly finds herself at the heart of a mystery more profound than anything her willful imagination could have conjured. A challenge so deep that it will affect not only her own fate, but that of the species itself. And, ironically, it will require all of the pow...

Sacred Science is an analysis of post-war discourses concerning health and illness. These discourses are an attempt to grasp the meaning of health in our modern human condition, and as such they provide both new insights into the genealogy of conceptualizations of both health and illness, but also serve as a viable hermeneutic summary of many important textual moments in the recent history of health studies, including Foucault, Gadamer, Illich...