Bücher von Robert Jensen

A concise summary of the key ideas that Wes Jackson--one of the founders of the sustainable agriculture movement--has developed over the past five decades.

Die Schlusselfrage dieses Buches ist: Was brauchen wir,um stabile und gerechte menschliche Gemeinschaften zuschaffen, die ein gutes Leben im Austausch mit und Respektvor der Erde ermglichen?Robert Jensens Antwort ist Feminismus und Patriarchatskritik. Er ruft uns auf, mit radikalfeministischen Argumenten gegen institutionalisiertemnnliche Dominanz zu protestieren. Dazu gehrt eine rigorose Ablehnung derIdee, dass Mnner das Recht htten, Sexualitt und Reproduktion von Frauen zukontrollieren, sowie die Aufforderung, Gewalt, auf der das patriarchale Systembasiert, grundstzlich abzulehnen. Das Ende des Patriarchats zeigt auf, wie eine radikalfeministische Theorie und Praxisuns helfen kann, das Ziel einer gerechten und lebenswerten Gesellschaft zu erreichen.

A thought-provoking reassessment of religious faith and progressive politics from an author whose “wonderful writing is both a surprise and a relief” (Naomi Klein). In All My Bones Shake, author and political activist Robert Jensen sheds light on the spiritual unrest at the root of our nation’s current political, economic, cultural, and ecological chaos. While popular media has reduced the issue of faith to a talking-heads debate between atheists and believers, Jensen shows the conflict to be far more complex. While fundamentalists on both sides have fought to an intellectual standstill and moderates seem content to ignore the battle, Jensen pushes for a progressive approach to theological questions, offering a path of faith that doesn’t negate the modern scientific world or threaten the rights of marginalized people. More than a simple study of the religious debate in America, All My Bones Shake marks a new communion: a way to use theology to create a sustainable society and meet the uncertainty of our lives with confidence.

In this fundamental rethinking of the rise of modernism from its beginnings in the Impressionist movement, Robert Jensen reveals that market discourses were pervasive in the ideological defense of modernism from its very inception and that the avant-garde actually thrived on the commercial appeal of anti-commercialism at the turn of the century. The commercial success of modernism, he argues, depended greatly on possession of historical legitimacy. The very development of modern art was inseparable from the commercialism many of its proponents sought to transcend. Here Jensen explores the economic, aesthetic, institutional, and ideological factors that led to its dominance in the international art world by the early 1900s. He emphasizes the role of the emerging dealer/gallery market and of modernist art historiographies in evaluating modern art and legitimizing it through the formation of a canon of modernist masters. In describing the canon-building of modern dealerships, Jensen considers the new "e;ideological dealer"e; and explores the commercial construction of artistic identity through such rhetorical concepts as temperament and "e;independent art"e; and through such institutional structures as the retrospective. His inquiries into the fate of the juste milieu, a group of dissidents who saw themselves as "e;true heirs"e; of Impressionism, and his look at a new form of art history emerging in Germany further expose a linear, dealer- oriented history of modernist art constructed by or through the modernists themselves.