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John Burton

Born 2 March 1915

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died 23 June 2010 (aged 95)[1]

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nationality Australian
Education Newington College
University of Sydney
London School of Economics
Occupation Public Servant, author, academic
Parent(s) Rev. John Wear Burton


John Wear Burton (2 March 1915 – 23 June 2010) was an Australian public servant, High Commissioner and academic.


Contents
1Early life
2Public service
3Academic career
4Legacy
5Scholarships, fellowships and grants
6Publications
7References
8Sources

Early life[edit]

Burton was born in Melbourne, the son of the Rev John Wear Burton, a MethodistMinister.[2] He was educated at Newington College (1924–1932)[3] and went on to graduate from the University of Sydney in 1937.[4]
Public service[edit]

In 1937 he became a member of the Commonwealth Public Service from where he was granted a Commonwealth scholarship to pursue a doctorate at the London School of Economics.[5] He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941 and served as private secretary to Herbert Vere Evatt. In 1947, aged 32,[6] he became Secretary of the Department of External Affairs and held that position until June 1950.[7] At the beginning of 1951 he took up the position of Australian High Commissioner to Ceylon,[8] but resigned to return home and contest the Federal election of that year in the electorate of Lowe. As ALP candidate he was beaten by William McMahon, a future Prime Minister of Australia.[9]
Academic career[edit]

While writing his first book, The Alternative, Burton farmed outside Canberra and in 1960 was awarded a fellowship at the Australian National University. Two years later the Rockefeller Foundation awarded him a grant to study neutralism in Africa and Asia. In 1963, while a Reader in International Relations at University College University of London, he established the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict. He then went on to hold fellowships at numerous universities while living in Canberra.[10]

Legacy[edit]

In introducing Burton as a guest on Radio National, Phillip Adams said; 

"John Burton was probably the most controversial and visionary public servant of the 20th Century. Branded a pink eminence of the Labor Party by conservative critics, he was clearly one of the most important intellectuals and policy-makers associated with the Curtin Labor Government of the 1940s. As a close associate of 'Doc' Evatt and head of the department of External Affairs (now Foreign Affairs) he did more to shape Australian foreign policy towards Asia and the Pacific than any other person before or since."[11]

John Burton's theoretical work on conflict resolution has been highly influential in setting up conflict resolution as an academic discipline in its own right, which is very much needed in the modern globalised world because of the greater potential for disputes between different ethnic and religious communities. In Australia, Burton's work greatly influenced the pioneering course in conflict resolution at Macquarie University, Sydney[12]

Scholarships, fellowships and grants[edit]

Scholarship - London School of Economics (1941)
Fellowship - Australian National University (1960)
Grant - Rockefeller Foundation (1962)
Fellowship - University of South Carolina (1982)
Fellowship - University of Maryland (1983)
Fellowship - George Mason University (1982)

Publications[edit]

"The Alternative" (1954)
"Labour in transition" (1957)
"International relations: a general theory" (1965)
"Controlled communication" (1969)
"World society" (1972)
"Internationale politiek" (1974)
"Deviance, terrorism & war: the process of solving unsolved social and political problems" (1979)
"Resolving deep-rooted conflict: a handbook" (1987)
"Conflict resolution as a political system" (1988)
"On the need for conflict prevention" (1989)
"Conflict: resolution & provention [The Conflict Series vol 1]" (1990)
"Conflict: human needs theory [The Conflict Series vol 2]" (1993)
"Conflict: readings in management and resolution [The Conflict Series vol 3]" (1990)
"Conflict: practices in management, settlement and resolution [The Conflict Series vol 4]" (1990)
"Conflict resolution: its language and processes" (1996)

References[edit]

1. ^ "Death notice". Canberra Times. 25 June 2010.
2. ^ Thornley, A.W., "Burton, John Wear (1875–1970)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University
3. ^ Register of Past Students 1863–1998, Sydney: Newington College, 1999, p. 26
4. ^ "Burton, John Wear (1915–2010): From Canberra Times", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University
5. ^ Brown, Malcolm, "Burton, John Wear (1915–2010): From Sydney Morning Herald", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University
6. ^ Steketee, Mike, "Burton, John Wear (1915–2010): From Australian", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University
7. ^ CA 18: partment of External Affairs [II], Central Office, National Archives of Australia, retrieved 9 December 2013
8. ^ "Dr. Burton's new post". The West Australian. 13 February 1951. p. 2.
9. ^ McDonald, Hamish, "Burton, John Wear (1915–2010): From Sydney Morning Herald", Obituaries Australia, Australian National University
10. ^ http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8405 National Library of Australia
11. ^ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2004/1136848.htm ABC Radio National
12. ^ Tillett, Gregory (2006). Resolving conflict: A practical approach. Melbourne; oxford University Press. ISBN 0195517539.

Sources[edit]

Dunn, David J. (2004), From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution: The Work of John W Burton, London: Palgrave Macmillan





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From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution: The Work of John W. Burton2004th Edition
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1. Life and Associations -- 

2. The prelude : International relations from the edge -- 

3. Engaging international relations -- 

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5. The ontological break -- 

6. Towards provention -- 

7. On the need for -- and relevance of -- provention.

"From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution surveys John W. Burton's career, focusing on his consistent critique of a world dominated by power politics. Burton, a former career diplomat, attempted to produce a relevant, critical and practical approach to both domestic and international politics which came to be associated with the term 'provention'. 

David J. Dunn shows how Burton both strove to find a conceptual apparatus and voice that would address his major concerns, and how that compelling and radical approach contributes to our understanding of politics in a time of change and conflict."--BOOK JACKET.

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From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution: Assessing the Work of John W. Burton
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From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution surveys the development of the ideas of John W. Burton, an Australian civil servant and diplomat who became a prolific author in the fields of International Relations and Conflict Theory. This work, beginning with an introduction to his life and associations, assesses the development of Burton's ideas, at once critical of much of the conventional wisdom of International Relations as well as seeking to be innovative, helping us to understand the issues of peace and conflict in a changing world.

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Written by an Australian conflict resolution academic and practitioner, this is the best overall introductory text on conflict resolution of which I am aware. I used it as a student, and now I find it very useful as a teaching tool. 

It is easy to read and very comprehensive, covering interpersonal, neighbourhood, workplace and environmental conflicts. Its major weakness is a lack of coverage of international conflict resolution. The focus is on practical skills and processes, including conflict analysis, collaborative problem-solving, mediation, negotiation and arbitration. The underlying theory of conflict resolution is very clearly explained. It really is an excellent guide to everything you ever needed to know about conflict resolution, both for professionals and those with a more general interest in how to be more conflict resolving in their everyday lives.
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Learning from John Burton

Learning from John Burton

By Doug Cocks

From Power Politics to Conflict Resolution: The Work of John W Burton by David J Dunn, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2004

John Burton is a great Australian who has spent 60 years pursuing two ideas.  One is that bullying people does not make them behave the way you want them to behave, at least not for long; bullying does not get rid of conflicts.  

Burton’s second article of faith is that conflicts between individuals, or collectives of individuals, will often resolve themselves if the disputants, with or without some outside help, can come to see each other as having, and seeking to satisfy, similar fundamental needs.  

Corollarily, if people’s fundamental needs are being met, they will be less conflictual.  So, if you are interested in reducing conflict in some sphere of life, from the family to international relations (and not everybody is), Burton may have something to offer you---a suggestion about what not to do and another about what might be worth trying to do. 

Or, to take another slice through the same idea, if you want to forestall a looming conflict, make sure that the parties’ fundamental needs are being met.  Burton’s own term for this conflict-avoiding strategy is ‘provention’. In the context of conflict-reduction (cf avoidance), provention implies that, rather than treating the symptoms that accompany any conflict, one should treat the causes, starting with the degree to which the players’ fundamental needs are (not) being met.

All that is required to round out this necessarily simple sketch of Burton’s thinking is to ask what he means by ‘fundamental needs’.  While not wholly a disciple of the great psychologist Abraham Maslow (Dunn p106), Burton was developing his thinking about human needs around the same time (1950s – 1960s) as Maslow was presenting his comprehensive and widely accepted theory of ‘human nature’.  Both Burton and Maslow see people as striving to satisfy received physiological and psychological needs for life, safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for esteem, for respect and self-respect and for self-actualisation (personal development, realisation of latent potentialities).  As more basic needs (eg food) are met, attention switches, in a hierarchical fashion, to satisfying higher needs (eg for creative activity).  Needs, in general, are ‘that which persons must achieve if they are to avoid sustained and serious harm.’.

This model of humans as ‘need satisfiers’ has proved a useful starting point for thinking about all sorts of questions, from cultural evolution and the nature of happiness to quality of life and the responsibilities of governments.  Burton has used versions of the model throughout his writings, but his work on conflict resolution has focused particularly on people’s basic need for recognition and respect for what one is.  It is a need which expresses itself in diverse ways, most commonly by identifying with a group such as a political, linguistic, religious, ethnic or geographic group; and, as an extension of this idea, actively declaring which groups one is not in. 

It is Burton’s conclusion, after long observation, that people most commonly come into conflict because they feel that their identity is not being recognized, that they are not being treated with dignity and respect for who they are; even when the conflict appears to be about something much more material such as land or resources.  Around this conclusion Burton spent some years developing processes (eg structured ‘covert’ workshops) which allow conflicting parties to learn to recognize and acknowledge, and not just intellectually, the identity of the ‘other’.  And he claims a number of practical successes in both international and civil conflicts.

So, what are we to think of all this?  Some will see it as fairly standard ‘conflict resolution stuff’.  Such may or may not be aware that, for many people, John Burton is ‘the father of conflict resolution’ (a paternity to be shared perhaps with Johan Galtung and Kenneth Boulding?) and the very ordinariness of the above reflects the growth and spread of his original ideas.  In his academic career, which was almost wholly outside Australia, he established successful centres for the study of conflict resolution in both British and American universities.  He has received many honours, not least being the excellent volume under review.  David Dunn has traced the evolution of Burton’s thinking in great detail and, as a true believer himself, also used that story as a scaffold on which to hang his own views on many of the subtler points that arise.  His final chapter is not only an overview of Burton’s work but a good tutorial on the history of conflict-resolution thinking (read it first).

While Burton sees his model as applicable at all levels and scales of relations between people, one can't help feeling that this model, or more recent interpretations of the same perspective, are most widely accepted by the relevant professionals at the level of interpersonal relations and of relations between individuals/groups and the institutions of the wider society.  A Burtonian style of thinking is bread and butter to psychologists, counselors and social workers, (not to mention grist to the mills of hidden persuaders, spin doctors and other parasites creating false identities for people).  It does not follow of course that the institutions of contemporary societies are structured to capitalize on provention as a harmonizing strategy.  In the main they are not.

In contrast, thinking and practice at the level of international relations is still deeply mired in the realist theory of how nation-states interact: powerful states bully less powerful states, by making or threatening war, into behaving in the interests of the powerful. Moreover, this process, overall, makes for a more orderly world and it is legitimate (on Darwinian grounds) and effective for strong states to use military power to promote their national interests.  Since the 1960s, prodded by a changing world, the state-centric model has been expanded, piecemeal, to recognize a bigger  cast of international players---trade groups, issue groups, political groups etc.  But there has been no crystallization of a new paradigm, only dissatisfaction with the old.

So, while it may well be for want of something better, a solid majority of IR practitioners and the world’s politicians still appear to subscribe to versions of the original paradigm, notwithstanding strong challenges to various parts of it.  The moral challenge came first but was soon followed, thank God, by the discovery of the just war.  And then, in 1910, Norman Angell wrote The Great Illusion, a classic which refuted realist thinking on the grounds that it was bad business, so to speak.  Any economic gains from wars of conquest will almost certainly be outweighed by the costs of such things as mobilization and occupation.  A more recent critique of power politics is Gil Merom’s  (How Democracies Lose Small Wars)  insight that in modern  democracies, the nation-state’s ability to wage wars of conquest is much constrained by public opinion.  Once it is widely perceived that a war is too expensive, is producing too many body bags (Vietnam) or is too degrading (Algeria, Abu Graib) the fat lady has sung.  Public opinion can only be manipulated and stifled so far.

Where does Burton fit into this pantheon?  He is saying that not only is offensive war an immoral, uneconomic and politically problematic policy instrument, it does not work!!  Deterrence does not deter.  People are programmed to struggle indefinitely for recognition and dignity.  Ask the Irish or the Kurds or …

Why then, given that these arguments, prima facie, seem pretty fundamental, is the so-called idealist stance in international relations treated so dismissively?  One answer is vested interests.  The military-industrial complex and the armaments industry in particular likes a good war and wields great political power.  For politicians, starting wars can bring temporary political gain and boost short-term economic activity.

But why the imperviousness of the political scientists?  For them, the realist paradigm, as enunciated by Hans Morgenthau and Georg Schwartzenberger in the 1920s is still their first refuge.  Remember that it took 2000 years for the idea of slavery to slowly become unthinkable and conflict is just as metaphysical an idea, as much a ‘foundational myth’, as slavery.

Anyhow, this was the doctrine that Burton encountered for the first time when he was thrown into lecturing at University College London in 1962.  What made him different there was that he had not come up through the academic ranks, absorbing this worldview osmotically along the way.  In fact, back in Australia, Burton and Nugget Coombes were already widely regarded as the outstanding public servants of the early post-war era. As Secretary of the Department of External Affairs (at age 32), Burton is particularly remembered for his independence of mind and his policy push for greater independence from Britain in combination with more engagement with Asia.  He found that the sky doesn’t necessarily fall in if you pursue an independent foreign policy.  That last is one of the reasons why the present revival of interest in Burton’s thinking will be troubling the conservative apparatchiks.  Should they just wait for it to pass or, pre-emptively, ‘do a Manning Clark’ on him?  They will also be remembering his withering contempt for intelligence services in general and ASIO in particular; and his rebuttal of the politicisation and sidelining of the public service; and the degradation of the parliamentary process (see Dissent, Winter 2004).  How contemporary this old man’s thinking is. And Iraq hasn’t even been mentioned yet.

In London Burton brought his distilled experience of international relations, his independent mind and his independent policy inclinations to bear on realist thought.  It was found wanting.  He clashed, and clashed again, with establishment figures like Schwartzenberger and set out to bring down what he saw as a house of cards.   Was he quixotic?  Or won’t we know for another fifty years?   Enormous energy and deep conviction went into writing book after book and organising his crusade, decade after decade.  Perhaps he would have made more friends in Academe if he had been more of a compromiser and followed the canons there for assembling and asserting arguments.  But he didn’t. 

Let us agree then, Burton is not just a great Australian, an architect of the nation as a Norman Abjorensen feature once tagged him, but a great dissenter.  Both his life and his ideas have much to say to the present readership, many of us only too aware of how timid our own dissent is.

As a public servant he demonstrated that entrenched ideas can be overthrown by a small well-prepared group acting at the right time.  Perhaps it was those early successes which have sustained his unremitting struggle to see conflict resolution accepted as a sensible and practicable approach to all sorts of problems.  The paramount example of our times is not, unfortunately, conflict resolution but neo-liberalism.  Hayek and Friedman and their acolytes languished in the intellectual wilderness for decades until, with the apparent failures of Keynesianism in the 1970s, their persistence, just as unremitting as Burton’s, paid off in spades.

While every case is different, Donald Schon’s perception that what he calls ideas in good currency, are primary determinants of public policy should be part of every gloomy dissenter’s thinking.  The essence of Schon's thinking is succinctly caught in the following quotation from Beyond the Stable State.

Taken at any time, a social system is dynamically conservative in its structural, technological and conceptual dimensions.  This last represents the `system' of ideas in good currency (IIGC).  Characteristically, what precipitates a change in that system of powerful ideas is a disruptive event or sequence of events, which set up a demand for new ideas in good currency.  At that point, ideas already present in free or marginal areas of the society begin to surface in the mainstream   The broad diffusion of these ideas depends upon interpersonal networks and upon media of communication, all of which exert their influence on the ideas themselves.  The ideas become powerful as centres of policy debate and political conflict.  They gain widespread acceptance through the efforts of those who push or ride them through the fields of force created by the interplay of interests and commitments ...  When the ideas are taken up by people already powerful in society this gives them a kind of legitimacy and completes their power to change public policy.  After this, the ideas become an integral part of the conceptual dimension of the social system and appear, in retrospect, obvious.

Note the point that, at any time, society has room for only a limited number of ideas `whose time has come'.  It is as though society has limited attention capacity and when new disruptions appear, ideas for addressing some existing problem are displaced, especially if their prospects of success are limited. 

The message for all dissenters, whatever their cause, is that they are probably playing John the Baptist (ex-Methodist?) rather than JC.  More than that, they have to be content with preparing the way and with forever reworking their epistle to suit the changing times.  Its not that you don’t try your damnedest but, for most of us, the task will be keeping the idea alive, not unveiling it to a receptive and grateful society.

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This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.


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Birch and Cobb's The Liberation of Life is a curious cross disciplinary text which reflects the disparate academic backgrounds of its authors. Charles Birch is a biologist while John B Cobb is a theologian (of the "process" variety).

This book had a profound impact on me when I was a student, and I continue to feel its impact years later. In a few (fairly obvious) ways it is an almost inevitable successor to A N Whitehead's Process and Reality (1929), but it benefits greatly from a firm grounding in empirical biological science.

Where this book departs from hard science is in trying to develop a social ethic, albeit a rationally-based one, through an emphasis on cultural inheritance (as well as genetic inheritance). It also places humankind and human behavior firmly within the context of nature's ecology as a whole, and through identifying humans as now having agency in their own evolutionary trajectory.

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No doubt many positivists will be alarmed by the continual references to biblically-based traditions of "being and living," while some of a more religious persuasion may equally be concerned by the reframing of the ultimate creative force as "Life" (rather than as a more conventionally religious god concept). Moreover, it is stated that God's own life (in a consequent sense) "depends on there being some world to include."

Since this book was first published in 1981, some of the issues it addresses have become more pressing, and the chapter on A Just and Sustainable World makes very difficult (and possibly unpalatable) reading, given the ecological realities with which, most of us now accept, our world is faced. Indeed, Birch and Cobb anticipate an almost inescapable ecocatastrophe resulting from their observation that the "human race has joined forces with entropy against life." The only way to avoid this looming catastrophe, they argue, is to cooperate with our environment to enable a "smooth transition" to a new way of living which is just and sustainable.

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찰스 버치,존 캅 (지은이),양재섭,구미정 (옮긴이)나남출판2010-04-06
원제 : The Liberation of Life (1981년)




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ISBN : 9788930084666

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책소개
과학으로서의 생물학에 확고히 기반하고 있으나, 동시에 생물학의 지배적인 모델인 기계론이나 물질주의를 거부하고 “생태학적 생명 모델”을 지지한다. 이 새로운 생태학적 모델은 물질주의가 줄 수 없는 윤리적, 철학적, 그리고 인간적인 관점을 제공한다.

생물학자와 신학자인 저자들이 양 방면에서 쌓아온 일생동안의 경험과 지혜에 근거하며 강한 설득력과 긴박함을 가지고 우리시대가 당면한 중대한 문제들에 대해 이해하기 쉬운 언어로 말한다. 생물학자와 신학자의 공동 작업이었듯이, 번역 또한 생물학자인 양재섭 교수와 신학자인 구미정 교수가 함께 뜻을 모았다.

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목차


한국어판 머리말 / 존 캅
옮긴이 머리말

서론

제1장 분자생태학ㆍ개체생태학ㆍ집단생태학
바깥에서 안으로 들여다보기
분자생태학(Molecular Ecology)
개체생태학(Organismic Ecology)
집단생태학(Population Ecology)
생명의 그물과 ‘자연의 균형’
결론

제2장 진화
우연과 돌연변이
자연선택
목적을 향하여
인간의 진화
결론

제3장 생명의 모델
모델의 기능
기계론적 모델
생기론적 모델
창발적 진화론 모델
생태학적 모델을 향하여
실체적 사고에서 사건적 사고로
경계가 없는 생명
결론

제4장 인간과 자연
인간 실존의 생태학적 모델
인간의 조건: 아직도 끝나지 않은 논쟁
상향 타락
동물들도 경험을 하는가?
경험의 진화
결론

제5장 생명 윤리
왜 하필이면 윤리인가?
인간중심주의를 넘어선 윤리
동물권
인권
생명권(生命圈, Biosphere) 윤리
결론

제6장 생명 신앙
창조된 산물과 창조적 선
믿음이 있는 사람
생명을 믿는다는 것
우주적 힘인 생명
생명과 악 309
생명의 하느님 313
결론 321

제7장 인간 생명의 생물학적 조작
생명 윤리
희소한 의료자원의 사용에서 정의의 문제
인간 경험의 조작
소극적 우생학과 적극적 우생학, 그리고 복제
유전공학
결론

제8장 정의롭고 지속가능한 세계
정의
지속가능성
지속불가능하고 불의한 세계
무한성장의 이데올로기
결론

제9장 생태학적 관점에서 보는 경제개발
지배적인 모델
생태학적 모델
사회주의 경제와 시장 경제
결론

제10장 생태학적 관점으로 본 시골과 도시의 개발
정의롭고 지속가능한 농업
정의롭고 지속가능한 여성의 역할
정의롭고 지속가능한 에너지
정의롭고 지속가능한 운송수단과 도시 거주
결론

옮긴이 해제
참고문헌
찾아보기
약력
접기



저자 및 역자소개
찰스 버치 (지은이)
저자파일
최고의 작품 투표
신간알림 신청

1983년 호주 시드니대학교에서 은퇴한 후, 현재 동 대학교 명예교수로 봉직하고 있다. 자연과학자이면서도 생태철학과 생태윤리 및 생태신학에 조예가 깊은 그는, 1990년도에 ‘종교계의 노벨상’이라 일컬어지는 템플턴(Templeton)상을 수상하기도 했다. 그밖에 호주 과학학술원 특별회원, 로마클럽 회원 등을 역임하였으며, 자신의 전공분야 외에도 과정사상이나 포스트모더니즘 관련학회에서의 철학활동 및 세계교회협의회(World Council of Churches)의 종교 활동에도 주력하였다. 저작으로는,《자연과 하느님》(Nature and God, 1965),《미래 대응》(Confronting the Future, 1976),《생태 그물》[The Ecological Web, 앤드류어서(H.G. Andrewartha)와 공저, 1984] 등을 비롯하여 많은 저서와 출판물을 낸 바 있다. 접기


최근작 : <생명의 해방>

존 캅 (John B. Cobb) (지은이)
저자파일
최고의 작품 투표
신간알림 신청

교수는 오늘날 세계에서 가장 탁월한 신학자 가운데 한 사람이며, 예수의 복음에 대한 뜨거운 열정을 지닌 분이다. 그는 선교사의 아들로 일본에서 태어났으며, 제2차 세계대전 중에 군복무를 마친 후, 시카고대학교에서 철학박사학위를 받았다. 알프레드 노쓰 화이트헤드의 철학을 배운 후, 과정신학의 개척자가 된 그는 클레어몬트 신학교에서 가르치던 32년 동안 30여 권의 매우 중요한 저술들을 발표했다.



최근작 : <예수의 아바 하나님>,<영적인 파산>,<민중신학, 세계신학과 대화하다> … 총 15종 (모두보기)

양재섭 (옮긴이)
저자파일
최고의 작품 투표
신간알림 신청

서울대학교 생명과학부와 동 대학원을 거쳐 인류세포유전학으로 이학박사를, 샌프란시스코 신학대학원에서 생명윤리학으로 문학석사 학위를 덧붙여 취득하였다. 캘리포니아 공과대학 교환교수를 역임하였으며, 대구대학교 자연과학대학장과 대학원장을 거쳐 현재는 생명과학과 명예교수이다. 한국유전학회 회장, 한국생명윤리학회 편집위원장, 한국분자세포생물학회 윤리위원장 등을 역임하였으며, 자연과학과 인문학을 넘나들며 생명과 평화 문제에 매달리고 있다. 공저로《분자세포생물학》,《과학의 역사적 이해》 등이, 공역으로《필수유전학》,《왓슨 분자생물학》,《기초생명윤... 더보기


최근작 : <생명을 나누는 타원형교회>,<도시재생정책의 국제비교 연구> … 총 11종 (모두보기)

구미정 (옮긴이)
저자파일
최고의 작품 투표
신간알림 신청

이화여자대학교 철학과와 동 대학원 기독교학과를 거쳐 기독교윤리학으로 문학박사 학위를 취득하였다. 계명대학교 초빙교수와 대구대학교 필휴먼(Philhuman)생명학연구소 전임연구원 등을 거쳐 현재 숭실대학교 외래교수로 학생들을 가르친다. 여성과 자연, 생명과 평화를 화두로 삼고 다양한 인문학적 글쓰기를 통해 대중과 소통하는 중이다. 저서로《이제는 생명의 노래를 불러라》,《생태여성주의와 기독교윤리》,《한 글자로 신학하기》,《야이로, 원숭이를 만나다》,《호모 심비우스: 더불어 삶의 지혜를 위한 기독교윤리》,《핑크 리더십: 성경을 통해 깨닫... 더보기


최근작 : <구약 성서, 마르지 않는 삶의 지혜>,<두 글자로 신학하기>,<교회에서 알려주지 않는 기독교 이야기> … 총 24종 (모두보기)


출판사 제공 책소개
예언자적 예지가 빛나는 생명의 길잡이

“당신은 눈이 뜨이는 경험을 해본 적이 있는가? 어쩌면 당신은 책 한 권을 읽고 내려놓으며 이렇게 말할지도 모른다. ‘이제는 삶에 대한 나의 태도를 되짚어 봐야 겠어!’ 만약 당신이 이런 경험을 한 적이 있다면, 당신은 내가《생명의 해방》을 읽고 느낀 것을 정확히 알고 있는 것이다.”(Alternative Futures)

“최고의 책이다. 과정철학과 과정신학의 문헌에서 고전이 될 만하다.”(The Christian Century)

“당신이 1달러당 얼마의 아이디어가 들어 있는가로 책을 평가한다면, 이 책을 사는 것은 아주 드물고 귀한 거래가 된다. 생태학적 모델의 개념 위에 소중한 아이디어들이 삶에 대한 지혜의 그림을 수놓는다.”
(Christianity and Crisis)

“《생명의 해방》은 우리 시대의 중심적 문제들을 통해 세포로부터 시작해 공동체로 나아가는 흥미롭고 매력적인 여행이다.”(The Ecologist)

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무엇의, 무엇을 위한 해방인가?

이 책은 우선적으로는 생명 개념의 해방에 관한 것이고, 다음으로는 인간과 인간 이외의 존재의 생명의 해방에 관한 것이다. 이 책은 과학으로서의 생물학에 확고히 기반하고 있으나, 동시에 생물학의 지배적인 모델인 기계론이나 물질주의를 거부하고 “생태학적 생명 모델”을 지지한다. 이 새로운 생태학적 모델은 물질주의가 줄 수 없는 윤리적, 철학적, 그리고 인간적인 관점을 제공한다. 이 모델은 과학, 윤리학, 철학, 종교, 사회학, 그리고 정치경제학을 모두 아우르며 유전공학, 낙태, 안락사, 보존, 경제, 여성해방, 성장의 한계, 그리고 지구사회의 미래 지속가능성이라는 현 시대의 이슈들이 제기하는 문제들을 해결하는 새로운 전기를 제공한다. 생물학자와 신학자인 저자들이 양 방면에서 쌓아온 일생동안의 경험과 지혜에 근거하는 이 책은, 강한 설득력과 긴박함을 가지고 우리시대가 당면한 중대한 문제들에 대해 이해하기 쉬운 언어로 말한다.

화이트헤드의 철학과 찰스 하트숀의 신학이《생명의 해방》으로 거듭나다

이 책은 생태윤리와 생태신학의 초석을 다지고 종교계의 노벨상이라 불리는 템플턴상을 수상한 생물학자 찰스 버치와 과정신학과 자연신학에 정진하여 ‘가교 신학자’라는 별명을 얻은 신학자 존 캅의 공동 기획의 산물이다. 그들은 공히 알프레드 노스 화이트헤드와 그 제자인 찰스 하트숀에게 영향을 받은 과정사상가들이기 때문에 함께 이 책을 집필할 수 있었다. 공유하는 철학이 달랐더라면 학제간의 경계를 완전히 무시하는 이런 유의 책은 나오기가 어려웠을 것이라고 저자는 밝힌다. 그들은 과정사상을 통해 과학, 윤리, 신학, 사회이론, 공공정책을 통째로 보는 법을 배웠기에 하나의 주제에서 다른 주제로 넘어가면서도 일관성을 잃지 않으며 생명의 새로운 모델, 생명 윤리, 그리고 생명 신앙으로 나아가는 이 책이 나올 수 있었다.
생명에 관한 논의가 진화론과 창조론 등으로 너무 단순화되어 자칫 과학과 종교의 어리석은 충돌만 야기되는 상황에서 환원주의적·기계론적 생명관을 극복하고 생태학적 생명관을 제시함으로 생명에 대한 새로운 해석을 시도하고 있다. 만약에 진화론자들이 생태학적 생명관을 채택하게 된다면 과학과 종교의 오랜 대립이 해소될 수 있지 않을까 하는 바람에서 이 책을 구상하게 되었다는 저자들은 이러한 경험이 한국의 상황에도 도움이 되기를 기대한다.

생명의 비전, 우리 시대의 하느님을 찾아서―생태학, 진화, 인간과 자연, 생명 윤리, 정의롭고 지속가능한 세계를 탐구해가는 학제간 연구의 전형

이 책은 한마디로 생명에 대한 학제간 연구의 전형을 보여준다. 두 저자의 공통점을 찾는다면 평생 동안 학제간 다리 놓기와 통전적 학문의 추구라 할 수 있기에 이 책은 좁게는 생물학과 신학, 넓게는 자연과학과 인문과학을 대표하는 두 학자가 만나 빚어내는 우주적 대화로 가득 차 있다. 생태학적 모델에 입각하여 과학을 바라보고, 윤리와 신학, 사회이론과 공공정책을 바라보며, 이들은 하나의 새로운 신앙, 곧 ‘생명 신앙’의 깊이로까지 함께 나아간다.
이러한 대화를 통해 이 책은 독자들에게 ‘정의롭고 지속가능한 미래’의 가능성을 꿈꾸게 한다. 글자 그대로 ‘세포에서부터 공동체까지’ 다양한 수준과 차원의 생명을 폭넓게 이해하고 나면, 어느새 생명의 해방을 위해 나름대로 헌신하고자 하는 결단에로 나아갈 수 있을 것이다. 이 책이 쓰여진 30년 전에 비해 구체적인 통계나 시대상황이 변했어도 책 전체를 관통하고 있는 주제와 저자들의 일관된 생명관은 21세기의 독자들에게도 여전히 유효한 이유이다.
이 책이 생물학자와 신학자의 공동 작업이었듯이, 번역 또한 생물학자인 양재섭 교수와 신학자인 구미정 교수가 함께 뜻을 모아 작업했다. 역자들은 이 책이 번역 출간됨으로써 이른바 ‘죽임의 문화’가 지배적인 이 시대에 ‘살림의 공동체’를 건설하려는 순수한 생명의 용틀임이 일어나기를 기대하며, 실용주의를 내세워 경제 제일주의로 치닫고 있는 세태에서 조금이나마 연약한 생명을 보듬으며 탐욕을 뿌리치는 마음을 자극할 수 있다면 더할 수 없는 보람이 될 것이라고 밝힌다.

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JOHN B.COBB,JR. 지음 | 구미정 옮김 | 한국기독교연구소 | 2001년 08월 30일 출간
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저자 : JOHN B.COBB,JR.


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목차
-서론 "미지근함"이라는 영적 질병 ...17

1. 공통의 확신을 잃어버린 세대 ...27
2. 새롭게 떠오르는 문화적 지주 ...61
3. 변혁을 위해 일하시는 하느님 ...97
4. 회개를 통한 일치 ...125
5. 하느님과 함께 일하는 사람들 ...153

-결론 서로를 묶어주는 대화 ...174