Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms of theories and philosophies which bear very little resemblance to how life is actually lived and experienced. In Thinking in the World, Jill Bennett and Mary Zournazi curate writings and conversations with some of the most influential thinkers in the world and ask them not just why we should engage with the world ,but also how we might do this.
Rather than simply thinking about the world, the authors examine the ways in which we think in and with the world. Whether it's how to be environmentally responsible, how to think in film, or how to dance with a non-human, the need to engage meaningfully in a lived way is at the forefront of this collection.
Thinking in the World showcases some of the most compelling arguments for a philosophy in action. Including wholly original, never-before-released material from Michel Serres, Alphonso Lingis, and Mieke Bal, the different chapters in this book constitute dialogues and approachable essays, as well as impassioned arguments for a particular way of approaching thinking in the world.
Edited by:
Jill Bennett,
Mary Zournazi
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9781350069220
ISBN 10: 1350069221
Series: Thinking in the World
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 26 December 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Introduction. Thinking in the world Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Mary Zournazi (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part 1. Thinking worlds Chapter 1. Revolutions in thinking Michel Serres (Stanford University, USA) and Mary Zournazi Chapter 2. The thinking that is in the world Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Part II. Senses of place Chapter 3. A phenomenology of thinking in place Edward Casey (SUNY, Stony Book, USA) and Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia) Chapter 4. Attunement as architectural meaning Alberto Perez-Gomez (McGill University, Canada) Part III. Extended minds and bodies Chapter 5. Embodying thought in skilful action John Sutton (Macquarie University, Australia), Doris McIlwain (Macquarie University, Australia), Wayne Christensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Andrew Geeves (Independent Scholar, Australia) Chapter 6. What does the stick do for the blind? Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford, UK) Part IV. Technologies Chapter 7. The distributed-centered subject Hélène Mialet (York University, Canada) Chapter 8. Dancing with the nonhuman Petra Gemeinboeck (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part V. Creativity Chapter 9. Thinking in film Mieke Bal (Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Chapter 10. Thinking through the cello Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK) Chapter 11. Aesthetic intelligence Jill Bennett and Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Part VI. Spectrums of experience Chapter 12. Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony with autist Jamie Burke, or remembering the sensorimotor future Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA) Chapter 13. The philosophical role of illness Havi Carel (University of Bristol, UK) Part VII. Economies, ecologies, politics Chapter 14. Thinking love and politics in the world Michael Hardt (Duke University, USA) and Mary Zournazi Chapter 15. Thinking with interdependence: from economy/environment to ecological livelihoods Ethan Miller (Bates College, Maine, USA) and J.K. Gibson-Graham (Western Sydney University, Australia)
Jill Bennett is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her books include World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time (2003), Empathic Vision (2005), Practical Aesthetics (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and New Media Art and Living in the Anthropocene (2013). Mary Zournazi is an Australian writer and philosopher. She teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia and is the author of several books, including Hope - New Philosophies for Change (2003), Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception (I.B. Tauris, 2013). Her book Keywords to War (2008) was made into a radio documentary for ABC Radio National in Australia, and it was nominated for the Australian UN Media Peace Prize in 2008.
Reviews for Thinking in the World: A Reader
This volume is a remarkable collection of essays for its creative approach to the topic of thinking. The various essays effectively demonstrate the ways in which thinking does not merely take place in the brain but is embodied in our material and practical engagement with the world. Here is a book to help us understand the ways we and the world are mutually obliged. A book leading us toward the ecological sensibility that we must learn quickly from the lively world that, for the moment, continues to host us. * Ross Gibson, Centenary Professor of Creative & Cultural Research, University of Canberra, Australia * Attuned to contemporary technologies that open new ways to engage mind-world relationships, this outstanding collection of critical and innovative phenomenological analyses provides a rich set of exciting interventions that respond in original ways to (both senses of) the question that Heidegger famously formulated: What is Called Thinking? / What Calls for Thinking?
