Gift and the Unity of Being (Veritas)

In this wonderful book Antonio Lopez offers us no less than a short, indicative Summa theologiae for our times, which points the way to a new theological and philosophical synthesis.This synthesis pivots round the concept of “gift”, looking at the unity of being in terms of gift.

Gift and the Unity of Being

Politics & Social Sciences

López, Antonio

Social Sciences

James Clarke & Co.

This book explores the philosophical, legal, and theological roots of Western multiculturalism, that is, the encounter and coexistence of different cultures within a liberal society. Rather than concerning themselves with the particulars of cultural dialogue, the authors of this volume go deeper and question the very reality of "multiculturalism" itself.As a whole the volume devotes attention to the origins of human nature, arguing that regardless of how different another person or culture seems to be, universal human experience discloses what it means to be human and to relate to others and to God. The contributors represent different cultures and faith traditions but are united in friendship and in the conviction that the Christian faith enables an authentic approach to long-standing debates on multiculturalism.Contributors:Massimo BorghesiFrancesco BotturiMarta CartabiaCarmine Di MartinoPierpaolo DonatiCostantino EspositoStanley HauerwasAntonio LopezFrancisco Javier Martínez FernandezJohn MilbankJavier PradesDavid L. SchindlerAngelo Cardinal ScolaLorenza VioliniJoseph H. H. Weiler

Retrieving Origins and the Claim of Multiculturalism

History

Prades, Javier

World

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Spirit's Gift is the first book in English devoted to the philosophy of Claude Bruaire (1932-1986). Its focus is the notion of gift, a notion that has recently been the subject of lively debate involving Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Marcel Mauss, and others. What makes Bruaire's approach to this subject distinctive is that he treats it ontologically. This book critically examines the two main insights that govern Bruaire's ontology of gift (ontodology). First, gift is being in its spiritual way of being. "Spiritual" in this case does not stand for one quality among others, but, more radically, it is what makes being be itself. Second, being itself (ipsum esse) is gift only because, as Christian Revelation suggests, the fullness proper to pure act is first of all an absolutely free donation in itself and to itself before being donation to another (creation). The coalescence of being, freedom, and spirit grounds the claim that being is gift. Bruaire's thought is presented in dialogue with his two main sources: German Idealism (Hegel and Schelling) and Christian revelation.
Bruaire spent the bulk of his career as a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. Although not himself a Hegelian, he enjoyed and enjoys great standing as a scholar of and commentator on Hegel's philosophy. With Marion, Bruaire was a founding member of the French edition of the theological journal Communio, and he was held in high regard by the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Bruaire's metaphysical account of gift also has affinities to that offered by Karol Wojytla―-and subsequently developed under his pontificate as John Paul II.
While Bruaire's understanding of gift is decidedly philosophical, it is also of considerable theological interest, bearing as it does upon questions of Trinitarian theology, theological anthropology, and the Catholic sacrament of marriage. Rightly understood, his conception of gift sheds considerable light on the Thomistic understanding of Ipsum esse subsistens. It can also contribute to a philosophical retrieval of the category of causality and to the elucidation of the ontological ground of ethics. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
 Antonio López, F.S.C.B., is assistant professor of theology at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America.
 PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
 "This is a welcome book, well-written, well-researched, well-structured, and informed by philosophical thoughtfulness and theological discrimination. It is also a very helpful introduction to a thinker not well known in the English-speaking philosophical world." ― William Desmond, The Thomist
 "Fr. Antonio Lopez has given the English language theological guild a terrifically important book. None of the major works of Claude Bruaire (1932-1986) have been translated, and few remain in print, which means that a set of stunningly creative texts on theological anthropology, metaphysics, philosophy of body, political philosophy, and bio-medical ethics is largely unacknowledged in the academy. Lopez walks the uninitiated skillfully through Bruaire's encounters with Aquinas, Hegel, Schelling, and Heidegger, en route to a reflection on gift that in so many ways surpasses the Levinasian frenzy of the more popular French and English phenomenological texts of the last two decades. . . . Lopez handles lucidly that perennially troubled frontier in the French academy between theology and philosophy. . . . Among the most helpful aspects of Lopez's book is his organization of the complicated collection of writings that Bruaire left behind. . . . Anyone interested in contemporary theology, especially as it crosses paths with French philosophy, critical theory, and even in this case analytic theories of logic, must simply read this book, and then begin clamoring for the wider introduction of Bruaire's work into the English-speaking academy.

Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire

Philosophy

The Catholic University of America Press

Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (American Literatures Initiative, 3)

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.
 López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

NYU Press

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.
López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O’Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an “unbecoming” relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the U.S., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.

Traditional media literacy models are mostly left-brained, inherited from the legacy of alphabetic literacy, the Gutenberg press revolution, and industrial mass media production. New digital media radically alter the environment: their nonlinear, multisensory, field-like properties are more right-brain oriented. Consequently, rather than focus exclusively on deconstructing the products of design objects (such as an advertisement «text»), digital learning should respond to the design of the system itself, including cultural and cognitive bias. Mediacology proposes a design-for-pattern approach called «media permaculture», which restructures media literacy to be in sync with new media practices connected with sustainability and the perceptual functions of the right brain hemisphere. In the same way that permaculture approaches gardening by establishing the natural parameters of its ecological niche, media permaculture explores the individual’s «mediacological niche» in the context of knowledge communities. By applying bioregional thinking to the symbolic order, media permaculture redresses the standard one-size-fits-all literacy model by taking into account diverse cognitive strategies and emerging convergence media practices. Antonio López applies a practical knowledge of alternative media, cross-cultural communication, and ecology to build a meaningful theory of media education.

Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the Twenty-first Century (Counterpoints)

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez photographs and paints his most famous models. Iconic portraits of models Pat Cleveland, Grace Jones, Tina Chow, Jessica Lange and Jerry Hall dating from 1973-1981 are published here in full color and b&amp;w.

Antonio's Girls

CONGREVE

A world renowned illustrator interprets thirteen of Shahrazad's most captivating stories from the Arabian Nights, adapted from the famed translation by Sir Richard Burton

Antonios Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (English and Arabic Edition)

Teen & Young Adult

Stewart. Tabori & Chang

Antonios Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc.

This book offers a focused and practical guide to integrating the relationship between media and the environment-ecomedia-into media education. It enables media teachers to "green" their pedagogy by providing essential tools and approaches that can be applied in the classroom. Media are essential features of our planetary ecosystem emergency, contributing to both the problem of and solution to climate chaos, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, deforestation, water contamination, and so on. Offering a clear theoretical framework and suggested curriculum guide, the book provides key resources that will enable media educators to apply ecomedia concepts to their curricula. By reconceptualizing media education, this book connects ecology, environmental communication, ecomedia studies, environmental humanities, and ecoliteracy to bridge media literacy and education for sustainability. Ecomedia Literacy is an essential read for educators and scholars in the areas of media literacy, media and communication, media and cultural studies, environmental humanities, and environmental studies.

Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education)

Routledge

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Gift and the Unity of Being

Retrieving Origins and the Claim of Multiculturalism

Spirit's Gift: The Metaphysical Insight of Claude Bruaire

Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (American Literatures Initiative, 3)

Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (American Literatures Initiative, 3)

Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the Twenty-first Century (Counterpoints)

Antonio's Girls

Antonios Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (English and Arabic Edition)

Antonios Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education (Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education)