Individual bodily experience has been excluded from Western general social-scientific discourse and this has led to prejudices about the relation between individuals and the concept of society. Scientific concepts like pluralization, generalization, and abstraction are described against the background of classifications imposed on individual bodies. The central argument is that social science hardly develops because it fails to distinguish generalizations from abstractions, despite linguistic...

In 1992, a vessel full of illegal migrants travels from Haiti to the United States. A storm forces them to land in the bayous of New Orleans, among them a woman with a baby boy. The trafficker, wanting to eliminate witnesses, murders all of them except the little boy. Joseph, a trapper, finds the boy and holds him. He is arrested for their murder and ends up in Orleans Parish Prison. In 2004, New Orleans, an evil Vodou (Bokor) priest, seeks subjects to perform in his spell-binding trance ritu...

When the Japanese soldier Ishi Gunjiro is confronted with the atrocities committed by officer Suma of the Japanese army in Nanjing in 1937, he decides to keep documents and photographs as proof of the officer’s crimes. Amidst the murders and struggles, Gunjiro stumbles across a young boy who hides in the bushes along the shores of the Yangzi. He prevents the boy, Wen Ting, is discovered by the Japanese. After the war, it seems Suma has disappeared.

More than 60 years later, in 2004, Suma ...

Guanyin, compassie is een individuele keuze.

Eerste Nederlandse vertaling van de 100 gedichten van Guanyin, de Chinese vrouwelijke Boeddha. Chinees religies betreffen zowel syncretische, traditionele, conservatieve als vrije stromingen. In het boek is een socio-culturele toelichting en benadering opgenomen, die pleit voor een vrijer en ruimer begrip omtrent bronnen van Oosters religies. De filosofische en levensbeschouwelijke analyses laten zien dat in de Guanyin gedichten en in de Chinese r...