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This thesis argues that confrontation between the nationalist community and British troops in Northern Ireland was virtually inevitable, despite the celebrated honeymoon period" that followed the deployment of troops in August 1969. The thesis will show that the army"s attitudes, experience and culture led it to move rapidly from a neutral, peacekeeping" posture to counter-insurgency operations before an insurgency had begun. It will also show that the deployment itself was the culmination of a series of ill-conceived and usually counterproductive decisions by British governments torn between a deeply-ingrained fear of becoming involved in Irish conflicts and a belief that Irish problems could be solved by exporting British norms and institutions. Such poor decisions continued after the deployment and helped to create a vacuum that the army filled with a strategy derived from its own recent experiences of colonial policing operations. The settlement of 1921-22 led British authorities to believe that the Irish question had been permanently removed from British politics. However Britain"s abdication of its constitutional responsibilities for Northern Ireland allowed the Unionist government to institutionalise sectarian discrimination while limiting the Westminster government"s options for future intervention. When the province erupted into violence in 1968 Britain continued to hope that the problem could be resolved without British intervention. But when the Stormont government coercion against nationalist protest led to endemic sectarian violence, the British government found it had no choice but to send in the army. While this British army was experienced at using force to restore order in colonial conflicts it was utterly unsuited to aid the civil power within the United Kingdom. Moreover, key elements of the army nursed a latent hostility to any manifestation of Irish nationalism. The result was that early attempts at maintaining good relations with the nationalist community in Belfast did not last, and ...

Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-touching Philosophy with Richard Kearney -- The Ana-Structure of the Fourth Reduction -- Hospitality and Healing -- Anacarnation -- The Essays -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Touching Nature -- Chapter 1: Thinking Like a Jaguar: Carnal Hermeneutics, Touch, and the Limits of Language -- Thinking Like a Jaguar -- Thinking Like a Human Thinking Like a Jaguar -- Carnal Hermeneutics and the Limits of Language -- Kearney's Hermeneutic Arc -- Touch -- Not Speaking, Like a Jaguar -- Silence -- Bodying Forth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Sensing the Call of Other Animals: Carnal Hermeneutics, and the Ethico-Moral Imagination -- What Constitutes One as Another? -- Genesis and Modernity -- Compassion as Carnal: Animals in the Ethico-Moral Imagination -- Unnatural Born Killers -- Carnal Ecology: Humans and Other Animals -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: The Embodied Human Being in Touch with the World: Richard Kearney, and Hedwig Conrad-Martius in Conversation -- Excarnation and Incarnation: For an Ecological Hospitality -- Transcendence and Retroscendence: For an Embodied Hermeneutics -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Touching the Sacred -- Chapter 4: Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred, and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney -- The Persona and the Person -- Persona and/as Expression -- The Reduction(s) -- Phenomenology and Sacrality -- The (Religious) Implications of Carnal Sacrality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Deep Calls to Deep -- Introduction -- Historical Prelude -- Moral Imagination-Depth Ethics -- From the Depthless Present to Eschatological Hope -- Carnal Hermeneutics-Depth Ontology -- The Horizontal Interweaving of the Sensible and the Intelligible.

Introduction: how much more than the possible? / Henry Isaac Venema -- Asserting personal capacities and pleading for mutual recognition / Paul Ricoeur -- Religious belief: the difficult path of the religious / Paul Ricoeur -- Remembering Paul Ricoeur / David Pellauer -- Capable man, capable God / Richard Kearney -- The source of Ricoeur's double allegiance / Henry Isaac Venema -- The golden rule and forgiveness / Gaëlle Fiasse -- Toward which recognition? / Jean Greisch -- Paul Ricoeur and development ethics / David M. Kaplan -- Narrative matters among the Mlabri: interpretive anthropology in international development / Ellen A. Herda -- The place of remembrance: reflections on Paul Ricoeur's theory of collective memory / Jeffrey Andrew Barash -- Refiguring virtue / Boyd Blundell -- Emplotting virtue: narrative and the good life / Brian Treanor -- Preserving the eidetic moment: reflections on the work of Paul Ricoeur / David Rasmussen

How can sincere, well-meaning people unintentionally perpetuate discrimination based on race, sex, sexuality, or other socio-political factors? To address this question, Lara Trout engages a neglected dimension of Charles S. Peirce's philosophy - human embodiment - in order to highlight the compatibility between Peirce's ideas and contemporary work in social criticism. This compatibility, which has been neglected in both Peircean and social criticism scholarship, emerges when the body is fore-grounded among the affective dimensions of Peirce's philosophy (including feeling, emotion, belief, do.

Continental Philosophy Beyond "the" Continent / Brian Treanor -- Prometheus' Gift of Fire and Technics: Contemplating the Meaning of Fire, Affect, and Californian Pyrophytes in the Pyrocene / Marjolein Oele -- The West as Slaughterbench: Thinking without Revolutions in the American West / Christopher Lauer -- The End(s) of the West: The Time of Apocalypse in the Westerns of Cormac McCarthy / Amanda Parris -- The Trees of the West: Our Elders, Our Teachers / Andrew Jussaume -- Thinking Wolves / Thomas Thorpe -- Robert Smith, Entropic Art, and the West / Shannon M. Mussett -- "Westering" and "BreakingThrough": Zen Buddhism on Cannery Row / Gerard Kuperus -- Life in Interregnum: Deleuze, Guattari, and Atleo / Russell Duvernoy -- Monstrous Topologies: Edward Abbey, Reiner Schürmann, and the Fate of the American West / Josh Hayes -- Turtle Island Anarchy / Jason Wirth.

Front -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation -- Reflections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Human Place in the Natural World -- Creation, Creativity, and Creatureliness: The Wisdom of Finite Existence -- Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality -- The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety -- Face of Nature, Gift of Creation: Thoughts Toward a Phenomenology of Ktisis -- Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien -- Creature Discomforts: Levinas's Interpretation of Creation Ex Nihilo -- Refl ections from Thoreau's Concord -- Creation and the Glory of Creatures -- Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburbs -- Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Forrest Clingerman and Brian Treanor, series editors

This collection of essays examines the various intersections between philosophical hermeneutics and environmental philosophy. Adopting a broad and inclusive understanding of our relation with the environment, it investigates a number of important topics for contemporary environmental thought, including the self, history, ethics, culture, and narrative.