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Book SynopsisClayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leading-edge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of New Materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and religion.
Trade ReviewAn exciting new title from one of the most original theologians of his generation. Clayton Crockett unfolds with unrelenting inventiveness the implications of the simple but revolutionary premise that everything changes. To be is to be transformed, in physics as in life, in theology as in biology. From the transformation of energy to the energy of transformation, from 'being' to 'God,' if you like. Don’t miss it! -- John D. Caputo, author of
In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, ExhortationsSomehow Clayton Crockett breaks open a perspective as spacious as the cosmos and as timely as our globally warming moment. This magnificent volume energizes the matter—the physical and biological material—of the new materialism, conducting it with utterly legible brilliance through current politics and economics, through decolonial and plural worlds of spirit, through radical theology. At every twist,
Energy and Change intensifies the possibility, the precarious chance, of the change all sane earthlings now require. -- Catherine Keller, author of
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last ChancesEnergy is constant and yet it changes. It is constant because it changes and changes because it is constant. This paradox has been inscribed at the heart of physics and philosophy since the pre-Socratics and up to Einstein. Through an erudite and thoughtful exploration, Crockett offers a radical theological approach to this cosmological enigma. -- Catherine Malabou, author of
Morphing Intelligence: From IQ Measurement to Artificial BrainsIn characteristically exuberant prose and across nearly every discipline,
Energy and Change interprets and contests the convulsive neoliberal ideologies accelerating our ecological disaster. Amplifying the work of 'new materialism' with a full-fledged philosophy of energy, this is the book that fans of Clayton Crockett have been waiting for. -- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, MonstersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: New Materialism and Energy Transformation
1. The Dynamics of Nature
2. Vital Matters: Bioenergetics and Life
3. Political Economy and Political Ecology: Energy, General Economy, and Exchange
4. Of Spirit in Amerindian, Vodou, and Chinese Traditions
5. Radical Theology and the Nature of God
Notes
Index
