Spotlights, 4.16, Energy and Change, with Clayton Crockett

This episode of Spotlights features Clayton Crockett, PhD, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Director of the interdisciplinary Religious Studies program at the University of Central Arkansas. He has authored or edited a number of books at the intersection of theology, philosophy, science, and politics, including Religion, Politics and the Earth (with Jeffrey Robbins); The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion; Derrida After the End of Writing; and Radical Political Theology. We discuss his most recent book, Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology (Columbia University Press, 2022), which develops a concept of energy as both physical and spiritual, integrating understandings of energy from a wide range of sources, such as thermodynamics, ecology, new materialist philosophy, political economy, Chinese traditions, Amerindian traditions, Vodou, process theology, and more. You can learn more about the book on the publisher's website: cup.columbia.e...

[@Shevock]

I was an adjunct professor for 6.5 years. Everybody deserves a middle class salary and benefits for that work. Good of you to look at the positive. But academic freedom ought not be tied to poverty. Maybe i can go back to it when i retire. Good scholarship though. Thanks for your work.

[@SamRobertMickey]

Thanks, I appreciate it.