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The contributions to this volume are at once eclectic in the scope of their topics and unified in their thematic structure. Contributors explore questions in such diverse areas as science, religion, technology, politics, and cultural and literary theory, all within the context of the tensions that are the product of the often competing responsibilities inherent in our participation in the public and private spheres. As readers, we are exposed to challenges to the integrity of our personal and interpersonal lives that post-modernity constantly and variously imposes. In a world that often seems dominated by the transitory and the insubstantial, the fleeting and the fluid, the impersonal and the shallow, meaning and permanence of value are rare commodities, and the sanctity of the individual is unremittingly threatened. The essays are well researched and written with pungency as well as, on occasion, with a keen sense of delight. There is a welcome lack of pedantry. The contributors, as well as the editor in her understanding of how best to arrange these offerings, are deeply caring scholars who can, and do, cut through intellectualist jargon to get at the core of what is truly worthwhile in life. The goal is analysis not so much as an instrument in the service of an abstract truth, but more as a catalyst toward discovery (or recovery) of what is immediately authentic. - Dr John Phillips, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

""The contributions to this volume are at once eclectic in the scope of their topics and unified in their thematic structure. Contributors explore questions in such diverse areas as science, religion, technology, politics, and cultural and literary theory, all within the context of the tensions that are the product of the often competing responsibilities inherent in our participation in the public and private spheres. As readers, we are exposed to challenges to the integrity of our personal and interpersonal lives that post-modernity constantly and variously imposes. In a world that often seems dominated by the transitory and the insubstantial, the fleeting and the fluid, the impersonal and the shallow, meaning and permanence of value are rare commodities, and the sanctity of the individual is unremittingly threatened.""The essays are well researched and written with pungency as well as, on occasion, with a keen sense of delight. There is a welcome lack of pedantry. The contributors, as well as the editor in her understanding of how best to arrange these offerings, are deeply caring scholars who can, and do, cut through intellectualist jargon to get at the core of what is truly worthwhile in life. The goal is analysis not so much as an instrument in the service of an abstract truth, but more as a catalyst toward discovery (or recovery) of what is immediately authentic.""– Dr John Phillips, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

“The contributions to this volume are at once eclectic in the scope of their topics and unified in their thematic structure. Contributors explore questions in such diverse areas as science, religion, technology, politics, and cultural and literary theory, all within the context of the tensions that are the product of the often competing responsibilities inherent in our participation in the public and private spheres. As readers, we are exposed to challenges to the integrity of our personal and interpersonal lives that post-modernity constantly and variously imposes. In a world that often seems dominated by the transitory and the insubstantial, the fleeting and the fluid, the impersonal and the shallow, meaning and permanence of value are rare commodities, and the sanctity of the individual is unremittingly threatened.“The essays are well researched and written with pungency as well as, on occasion, with a keen sense of delight. There is a welcome lack of pedantry. The contributors, as well as the editor in her understanding of how best to arrange these offerings, are deeply caring scholars who can, and do, cut through intellectualist jargon to get at the core of what is truly worthwhile in life. The goal is analysis not so much as an instrument in the service of an abstract truth, but more as a catalyst toward discovery (or recovery) of what is immediately authentic.”– Dr John Phillips, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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Susan G. Cumings (PhD, Emory University) is a former Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies at Georgia College and State University. Her areas of research are feminist disability studies, autobiography, visual aesthetics, and the role of creative non-fiction as a medium for critical theory. She has served for over fifteen years on the Executive Board of the Southern Humanities Council, an interdisciplinary gathering of academics, artists, writers, and musicians. Her most recent publications include ""Hand Sewn"" (Dos Passos Review) and ""On Writing in a Collaborative Spirit: Nancy Mairs's Ethic of Community"" (On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs: A Critical Anthology). Dr Cumings teaches English, Philosophy, and Women's and Gender Studies at the College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York.

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