Jonna Bornemark

En filosofisk kritik mot samtidens mätbarhetssamhälle. Vi lever i en tid av siffror och statistik med en övertro på att alla problem går att lösa genom att spalta upp, mäta och kvantifiera. När vårt förnuft bara handlar om att räkna blir såväl våra liv som samhället i stort alltmer omänskligt. Allt och alla blir siffror och det finns inget utrymme för omdöme eller eftertanke. Vi kan idag därför tala om ett pedanternas världsherravälde.0I Det omätbaras renässans gör filosofen Jonna Bornemark just det. I boken tar hon sig an allt från vårdkris och New public management till vår syn på konst och religion. Med hjälp av tre renässansfilosofer visar hon på möjliga utvägar till ett mer humanistiskt, levande och rent av magiskt liv.

Det omätbaras renässans. En uppgörelse med pedanternas världsherravälde

Kroppslighetens mystik

Horisonten finns alltid kvar

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Phenomenology of Eros

Petra Andersson

Ulla Ekström von Essen

Societal views on animals are rapidly changing and have become more diversified: can we use them for our own pleasure, and how should we understand animal agency? These questions, asked both in theoretical discourses and different practices, are also relevant for our understanding of horses and the human–horse relation. Equine Cultures in Transition stands as the first volume to bring together ethical questions of the new field of human–horse studies. For instance: what sort of ethics should be developed in relation to the horse today: an egalitarian ethics or an ethics that builds upon asymmetrical relations? How can we understand the horse as a social actor and as someone who, just like the human being, becomes through interspecies relations? Through which methods can we give the horse a stronger voice and better understand its becoming? These questions are not addressed from a medical or ethological perspective focused on natural behaviour, but rather from human acknowledgement of the horse as a sensing, feeling, acting, and relational being; and as a part of interspecies societies and relations. Providing an introductory yet theoretically advanced and broad view of the field of post humanism and human animal studies, Equine Cultures in Transition will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as human–animal studies, political sociology, animals and ethics, animal behaviour, anthropology, and sociology of culture. It may also appeal to riders and other practitioners within different horse traditions.

Ethical Questions

Equine Cultures in Transition

Hans Ruin

The distinction between the secular and the sacred or holy seems at first to constitute a definitive line, the establishment of which also defines Western modernity. Yet this apparently strict demarcation is today not only questioned, but also increasingly difficult to maintain. In order to understand and conceptualize what is happening in the intersection between religion, politics, and aesthetics, we need to rethink the very meaning of the sacred in its full ambiguity, to explore again in thinking the vicissitudes and possibilities of this complex phenomenon, and to learn to move more freely through the category itself. The book contains contributions by researchers from many different fields, philosophers, theologians, political scientists, and literary historians, who also comment on each other. It establishes new connections and trajectories for mapping and understanding the nature and meaning of the sacred both as a social, an aesthetic, and a religious phenomenon. With contributions by: Bettina Bergo, Ward Blanton, Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback, Karolina Enquist Kallgren, Mattias Martinson, Paivi Mehtonen, Elena Namli, Jacob Rogozinski, Hans Ruin, Muniz Sodre, Fredrika Spindler and Jon Wittrock.

Phenomenology, Politics

Ambiguity of the Sacred

Jonna Bornemark

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