Edited collection for publication summer 1997.
Last call for papers.
Impure philosophy -- philosophy which moves across the boundaries between areas or ways of thinking: disciplines, traditions, scholastic or critical identities. It questions the supposed oppositions between them. It threatens the purity of intellectual pursuits predicated on such oppositions. It moves across territories in such a way as to violate and disrupt their segregation or purity.
This collection will focus on the matter of what, if anything, is distinctive about humans (as opposed to other beings, such as angels, gods, computers, non-human animals). Questions such as: What is it for an angel to want to be human? or What is it for humans to want to be godlike? will be addressed. Work is sought on the implications of different philosophical views of our humanity, old and new -- Are there such things as universal human rights? What is (or are) the end (or ends) of a human life? Contributions will raise the questions: Is it the case that there is something impure about our humanity? Is it that impure writing rebels against ways of thinking about the human which suppose that there is something pure about human beings (such as the faculty of reason) which distinguished the human?
Such questions open the way to thinking the human as distinctively impure.
_Impurity, Authenticity & Humanity_ invites work of an impure flavour from philosophers and from other writers.
Deadline for submission of final material for publication: 1 September 1996.
Essays, proposals, or requests for further information should be addressed to the editor:
Dr Mozaffar Qizilbash
23 Basil Mansions
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London SW3 1AP
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E-mail: greenway@angelaki.demon.co.uk
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_Impurity, Authenticity & Humanity_ is an _Angelaki_ thematic collection. Established in September 1993, _Angelaki_ is an independent international journal of the theoretical humanities. The journal publishes thematic collections interspersed with general (non-theme) issues. For more information about _Angelaki_ please contact the managing editor:
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