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Confidence Games(4th Edition)
Money and Markets in a World without Redemption (Religion and Postmodernism)
by Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 395 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79168-5, ISBN: 0-226-79168-8

"Awash in a sea of data that seems to have no meaning and bombarded by images and sounds transmitted from around the globe 24/7, people are no longer sure what is real and what is fake. Artists recycle ads in their paintings and businesses use images of artists in their ads; politicians mount campaigns based on hit films; and bankers make billions trading incomprehensible financial products backed by nothing more than abstract figures an ..."

The Moment of Complexity(2nd Edition)
Emerging Network Culture
by Professor Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79118-0, ISBN: 0-226-79118-1

""The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the M ..."

Abiding Grace(1st Edition)
Time, Modernity, Death (Religion and Postmodernism)
by Professor Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-56908-6, ISBN: 0-226-56908-X

"Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end? Abiding Grace navigates the competing Hegelian and Kierkegaardian trajectories born out of the Reformation and finds Taylor arguing from spaces in between, showing how both narratives have shape ..."

After God
(Religion and Postmodernism)
by Mark C. Taylor, Mc Taylor
Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79171-5, ISBN: 0-226-79171-8

"Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in After God, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike.The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Pa ..."

Erring(Updated)
A Postmodern A/theology
by Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79142-5, ISBN: 0-226-79142-4

""Erring is a thoughtful, often brilliant attempt to describe and enact what remains of (and for) theology in the wake of deconstruction. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, Derrida, and others, Mark Taylor extends—and goes well beyond—pioneering efforts. . . . The result is a major book, comprehensive and well-informed."—G. Douglas Atkins, Philosophy and Literature "Many have felt the need for a study which would explicate in coherent and acc ..."

Seeing Silence
(Hardcover)
by Mark C. Taylor
Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2020 by The University Of Chicago Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-69352-1, ISBN: 0-226-69352-X

"But in his account, our way to "hearing" silence is to "see" it: Taylor explores variations of silence by considering the work of leading modem and postmodern visual artists, from Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt to James Turrell and Anish ..."

Hiding(1st Edition)
by Mark C. Taylor, Jack Miles
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79159-3, ISBN: 0-226-79159-9

"The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range o ..."

Last Works
Lessons in Leaving
by Mark C. Taylor
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-22439-9, ISBN: 0-300-22439-7

"A powerful consideration of the lessons imparted in the final works of essential writers and philosophers For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive and personal exploration of last works, Mark C. Taylor poignantly explores the fina ..."

Speed Limits(Reprint)
Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
by Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2015 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21679-0, ISBN: 0-300-21679-3

"A leading thinker asks why “faster” is synonymous with “better” in our hurried world and suggests how to take control of our runaway lives We live in an ever-accelerating world: faster computers, markets, food, fashion, product cycles, minds, bodies, kids, lives. When did everything start moving so fast? Why does speed seem so inevitable? Is faster always better? Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, ..."

Seeing Silence
(Paperback or Softback)
by Professor Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2022 by The University Of Chicago Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-82003-3, ISBN: 0-226-82003-3

Nots(1st Edition)
(Religion and Postmodernism)
by Professor Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 292 Pages, Published 1993 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79131-9, ISBN: 0-226-79131-9

""Nots" is a virtuoso exploration of negation and negativity in theology, philosophy, art, architecture, postmodern culture, and medicine. In nine essays that range from nihility in Buddhism to the embodiment of negativity in disease, Mark C. Taylor looks at the surprising ways in which contrasting concepts of negativity intersect. In the first section of this book, Taylor discusses the question of the "not" in the religious thought of A ..."

The Picture in Question(1st Edition)
Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
by Professor Mark C. Taylor, Mark Tansey
Paperback, 151 Pages, Published 1999 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79129-6, ISBN: 0-226-79129-7

"A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and complexity theory to create paintings that please the eye while provoking the mind. Taylor's clear accounts of t ..."

Mystic Bones(1st Edition)
by Mark C. Taylor
Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79037-4, ISBN: 0-226-79037-1

"The desert has long been a theme in Mark C. Taylor’s work, from his inquiries into the religious significance of Las Vegas to his writings on earthworks artist Michael Heizer. At once haunted by absence and loss, the desert, for Taylor, is a place of exile and wandering, of temptation and tribulation. Bones, in turn, speak to his abiding interest in remnants, ruins, ritual, and immanence. Taylor combines his fascination in the detritus ..."

Altarity(1st Edition)
by Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 406 Pages, Published 1987 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79138-8, ISBN: 0-226-79138-6

"Readers familiar with Mark C. Taylor's previous writing will immediately recognize "Altarity" as a remarkable synthetic project. This work combines the analytic depth and detail of Taylor's earlier studies of Kierkegaard and Hegel with the philosophical and theological scope of his highly acclaimed "Erring." In "Altarity," Taylor develops a genealogy of otherness and difference that is based on the principle of creative juxtaposition. ..."

Speed Limits
Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
by Mark C. Taylor
408 Pages, Published 2014 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21018-7, ISBN: 0-300-21018-3

"Drawing together developments in religion, philosophy, art, technology, fashion, and finance, Mark C. Taylor presents an original and rich account of a great paradox of our times: how the very forces and technologies that were supposed to ..."

Speed Limits(1st Edition)
Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left
by Mark C. Taylor
Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2014 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20647-0, ISBN: 0-300-20647-X

Religion, Culture, and Public Life Ser.
Refiguring the Spiritual
by Mark C. Taylor
227 Pages, Published 2012 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-52777-4, ISBN: 0-231-52777-2

"Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy Mark C. Taylor ... artists, Refiguring the Spiritual, which was sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and the Visual Arts ... Podcasts of these conversations are available at www. ircpl.org. ... Rewiring the Real: Literature, Religion, Technology, which will appear next year, will complement the analysis of the ... in this book with a study of four leading novelists: W ..."

Grave Matters(1st Edition)
by Mark C. Taylor, Dietrich Christian-Lammerts
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2004 by Reaktion Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-117-4, ISBN: 1-86189-117-2

""Cemeteries", writes Mark C. Taylor, "are where I go to commune with 'my' ghosts. The journey to the cemetery is always solitary even when I am with people who are closest to me. In the graveyard, the we is dispersed and the I stripped bare." In Grave Matters, Taylor's ghosts become our own. His thoughtful, poignant essay interweaves personal narrative, historical analysis, cultural commentary and philosophical reflection. Dietrich Chri ..."

Disfiguring(1st Edition)
Art, Architecture, Religion (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
by Mark C. Taylor
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79133-3, ISBN: 0-226-79133-5

"Disfiguring is the first sustained interpretation of the deep but often hidden links among twentieth-century art, architecture, and religion. While many of the greatest modern painters and architects have insisted on the spiritual significance of their work, historians of modern art and architecture have largely avoided questions of religion. Likewise, contemporary philosophers and theologians have, for the most part, ignored visual art ..."

Imagologies(1st Edition)
Media Philosophy
by Mark C. Taylor, Esa Saarinen
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-10338-1, ISBN: 0-415-10338-X

"Imagologies: Media Philosophy is no ordinary book. Provocative, irritating and stimulating, this is a work to be engaged, questioned and pondered. As the web of telecommunications technology spreads across the globe, the site of economic development, social change, and political struggle shifts to the realm of media and communications. In this remarkable book, Mark Taylor and Esa Saarinen challenge readers to rethink politics, economics ..."

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