Loewen, G. V.

Overview

Works:	28 works in 66 publications in 1 language and 2,037 library holdings
Roles:	Author

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by G. V Loewen

Evaluating the scholarly achievement of Professor Elvi Whittaker : essays in philosophical anthropology by Gregory V Loewen( )

7 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,033 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This interdisciplinary anthology examines the relation between fieldwork, knowledge, values and regional identities from a wide range of angles and perspectives. It contains 12 essays that discuss and develop understandings of the relationship between metaphysics and ethics

Place meant : hermeneutic landscapes of the spatial self by Gregory V Loewen( )

6 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 384 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

What does place mean for human beings? What does it mean to exist in space? How do we place ourselves not only in physical space, but within the interior landscape of consciousness? Place Meant explores these and related questions through the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, geography, folklore, and history

A socio-ethnographic study of the academic professionalization of anthropologists by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

5 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

How can we explain the persistence of irrational beliefs? : essays in social anthropology by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

5 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Adventures in the aporetic : anthropological alterities by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hermeneutical apprenticeships : essays, epigrams, verse by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 72 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Three apodeictic dialogues : examples of conceptual mirrors in religion, psychology, and social organization by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 58 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The concept of certainty may be approached contextually through the use of dialogue. In three creative dialogues involving characters that are often seen as representing each other's antipodes -- 'a theist' and an 'atheist, ' a 'therapist' and 'the rapist, ' and two multi-voiced group personae, 'casual ties' and 'casualties' -- this text negotiates the overlapping aspects of consciousness that each must have in its alter. Coming to know the other in oneself while at the same time othering ourselves is one process of knowing more fully the truth of the human condition. The dialogues are bookended by a meditative and philosophical introduction concerning human finitude and the role of the otherness of death, and a scholarly conclusion about the vicissitudes within the use of human language. Drawing on sources from anthropology, archaeology, socio-linguistics, and critical philosophy, and using both conversation and academic exposition, Three Apodeictic Dialogues offers a unique perspective on some of the disconcerting questions that animate belief, desire, and communication."--Back cover

Sacred science : ritual and miracle in modern medicine by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

6 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 56 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sacred Science' is an analysis of post-war discourses concerning health and illness. These discourses are an attempt to grasp the meaning of health in our modern human condition, and as such they provide both new insights into the genealogy of conceptualizations of both health and illness, but also serve as a viable hermeneutic summary of many important textual moments in the recent history of health studies, including Foucault, Gadamer, Illich, Sontag, and others. This book is the result of a phenomenological disquisition of the ideas employed by health scholars and philosophers, and its import rests both on its uniqueness in the relevant fields and its new ideas, including 'indefinitude', 'deontic facticity', and illness as the experience of the simultaneous `inexistence' of both life and death

The bungle book : some errors by which we live by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 54 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and freedom are analyzed and put into conversation with the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, and Midgely

Social scientific interpretations of religion : comparing the hermeneutic methodologies of James, Weber, Heidegger, and Durkheim by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

6 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The study of religion is at once an examination of the historical consciousness of the texts that define the object, such as those of James, Weber, Heidegger, Durkheim, and others, while at the same time making meaning anew. This work accomplishes the renewal of the profound dialogue as it takes place within human history

The Role of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity : the Role of Art in the Construction of Personal Identity by Gregory V Loewen( )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 23 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Loewen looks at the ways art can preserve the self as an archived project. Does art reflect personal growth and can one's view on it change over time? Why do people identify with particular works of art and not others? The pertinent question in this book is how art reflects the personal identity of its creator and how responses to works of art can divulge information about the audience as well. Art can also serve to memorialize the changes that the self goes through while living. He also argues that artistic expression provides a forum for our truest selves to become represented

On the afterlife : you will get there from here by Gregory V Loewen( )

4 editions published between 2012 and 2014 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In On the Afterlife: You Will Get There from Here, author G.V. Loewen presents a new, fascinating model of the concepts of the afterlife, from early human societies to our own. Based on four?types,? this theory stands apart from any kind of personal evaluation or judgment, whether or not the reader believes in the afterlife? either in the form of a return to life in this world, or a continuation of life in some other realm? or not. A fifth?type? is designated by the concept of?nothingness,? an integral element of understanding what happens when we die. Beginning with a discourse on how we

Becoming a modest society : on distinguishing ourselves by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Reason of unreason : and the risus sardonicus of rationality by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sociological vision : an interpretive introduction by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fetish, cult and disenchantment : sociological studies of the projected self by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hermeneutic pedagogy : Teaching and learning as dialogue and interpretation by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

SHOOTING AT MORALS by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

2 editions published in 2017 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The big secrets : ten things every young person should know about and why by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Our memory of things : a phenomemnemonics of the object by Gregory V Loewen( Book )

1 edition published in 2012 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Using the insights and data of archaeology, art history, literature and psychology, social philosopher G.V. Loewen introduces the concept of "phenomemnemonics" the phenomenological study of objects that we use to remember"--Page [4] of cover