Subject: M-FEM: Matter and Spirit
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 09:42:58 +0900 (JST)
From: "Gerry Yokota-Murakami" <gyokota-AT-lisa.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp>


Back from a month of traveling (do folks around here call it St.
Petersburg or Leningrad? I heard the decision to go back to St. Pete
was made by referendum) and to repeat, as I threatened, the second
half of my earlier posting on Ludic and Red Feminism -- since I got
such a nice response to the first half!
  
> And as long as we're talking about love, 
[I quoted Ebert quoting Samora Machel]
> may I ask for pointers to
> discussions about the possibility of deconstructing the dualistic view of 
> matter and spirit, or more simply put, reconsideration of the taboo against
> anyone who calls herself or himself a materialist holding any ideas
> about God and/or spirit? E.g., recommended readings looking at
> liberation theology in both theory and practice, etc.? Other areas to
> look at besides liberation theology?
More provocatively put, any discussions out there about the idea of
matter being as much of a construct as the idea of spirit? (Shades of
Chuang Tzu.)
 
Gerry
-- 
Gerry Yokota-Murakami
Faculty of Language and Culture
Osaka University
1-8 Machikaneyama
Toyonaka, Japan 560
gyokota-AT-lisa.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp