… world, these beliefs affect the relationship between man and the world through dualism, the idea that there is a representation of reality that we understand through perception and a true reality accessible through reason (Rorty 1979; Baudrillard 1994). Further influences for ar…

… universes: [c] doesn’t state a necessary condition of being physical. 30 Stuff dualism holds that there are two fundamental kinds of stuff (‘Cartesian substance dualism’ is the paradigm case). Stuff monism contrasts with thing monism, the view (held for example by Spinoza) that …

… is connected to the force-content distinction, which I believe turns it into a dualism, where “dualism” is a pejorative term meaning a distinction that is so exaggerated that it becomes unintelligible how the distinguished elements can function together. I will propose a framewo…

…Shinran and his wife Eshinni also show their belief in a more Shinto-influenced dualism between the known world and a spiritual realm.1 Pure Land Buddhism Meets Modernism Returning to modernity, Shinran’s dualistic worldview embarrassed late 19th-century modernists with demytholo…

… deleted human identity with/in nature’. From this perspective, the negation of dualisms entails charting a dialectical zigzag course through the materially embodied economic geographies of gendered, racialised, decolonised and classed dynamics within the wider web of nature and …

…culations about body and soul in antiquity. In antique mind-body or mind-matter dualism, the soul is considered of a different nature than the body, which is matter, and it is moreover placed on a higher level. Dualism in this sense therefore implies a hierarchy: the nature of th…

…pha are a combination of Christianity and ancient Slavic mythology (e.g. Slavic dualism, the White God – Belbog - and the Black God – Chernobog – appear in these legends, especially in Afanasiev’s works and those of the Czech Erben13 written in the sixties). The traditions of non…

…n your way to turning the water of intui- tion into the wine of an argument for dualism. Arguments from intuition to the metaphysics of person- hood, and the metaphysics of consciousness in particular, require a leap of faith, it is generally agreed. Yet what com- mon sense tells…

…ument for the existence of the mind and body as separate substances: in a word, dualism. Indeed, few ideas have had such a radical influence on our current intellectual positions or been so deeply inculcated in our culture, as evidenced by the predominance of one opposing view kn…

…l capital: patterns of social integration, voice regulation, solidaristic individualism. Social capital – networks of trust and reciprocity - is often seen as a compensation for the weak state in transition context. We accept the view that the social capital is indeed an importan…

…988) becomes significant in a posthumanist scenario which has deconstructed the dualism Self/Others (Chapter 10). We can now address the second question: Of which “human” is the posthuman a “post”? Historically, the recognition of the human status has been regularly switched on a…

…is understood in terms other than those that pre-suppose a Cartesian mind- body dualism. Through this focus on integrated dance theatre, I examine the work of Restless Dance Company (in Adelaide, Australia) as a site of inquiry and a source of knowledge production. I critique asp…

…heritage taught them to avoid the metaphysical trappings of Cartesian mind-body dualism, for its tendency to drive a deep wedge between an “inner” world of pure consciousness and an “outer” world of social and material reality. Thus, while trying to steer clear of both the Scylla…

… such a personalistic worldview, however, angels and demons mapped onto a moral dualism: the cosmos itself is thus divided into “good” and “bad” (or evil) personal and spiritual agents.5 From these rudimentary building blocks, our ancestors envisaged a complex personalistic cosmo…

… and the life/death binary, grounded in Western philo- sophical and theological dualisms, to the critical analyses of the ways in which misogyny, trans- and queerphobia lead to ‘social death’, and how violence towards non-normative individuals strives to mark their lives and deat…