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Peeters Publishers Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond.
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants that took place in Basel, Switzerland, in September 2012. The theme of the volume, "Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond", indicates that research in Arabic and Islamic Studies is not only carried out in Europe but also in many non-European regions of the world. Furthermore, it expresses that Muslim history no longer represents an exclusive field of research remote from public attention. Nevertheless, the focus of Arabic and Islamic Studies is still highly specialized, calling on researchers to devote their academic lives to learning and practicing the major (and minor) languages of Islamic history and culture. In this regard, Arabic and Islamic Studies need to find an equilibrium, again and again, between disciplinary immersion and intellectual openness. The present collection contributes to these endeavors and struggles while reflecting the highly variegated nature of research in Islamic and Arabic Studies.
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Peeters Publishers The End of Postwar: Essays on the Work of Ian
Book SynopsisIn the autumn of 2015 the Dutch-English publicist Ian Buruma gave direction to the thinker’s programme `The End of Postwar’, organised by the Flemish Royal Academy. The programme was triggered by Buruma’s publication Year zero: a history of 1945, which focuses on the coming into being of a new global order in the aftermath of World War Two. The birth of a welfare state and the European unification process were its two most remarkable achievements. Both, however, have been under constant pressure since the beginning of the 21st century. Two workshops and a two-day symposium brought together thinkers from the scientific, cultural and political worlds in order to reflect on the central theme of `The end of postwar: which future for Europe?’. This collection of essays reflects the debates, which dealt with issues such as the re-invention of the welfare state, the breach of the postwar consensus, the durability of humanism and the role of a United Europe as an answer to history.
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Leiden University Press In Praise of Ambiguity: Erasmus, Huizinga and the
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Amsterdam University Press Tocqueville, Jansenism, and the Necessity of the
Book SynopsisBefore being declared heretical in 1713, Jansenism was a Catholic movement focused on such central issues as original sin and predestination. In this engaging book, David Selby explores how the Jansenist tradition shaped Alexis de Tocqueville’s life and works and argues that once that connection is understood, we can apply Tocqueville’s political thought in new and surprising ways. Moving from the historical sociology of Jansenism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France to contemporary debates over the human right to education, the role of religion in democracy, and the nature of political freedom, Selby brings Tocqueville out of the past and makes him relevant to the present, revealing that there is still much to learn from this great theorist of democracy.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Tocqueville in his Time Chapter 1. Jansenism and Republicanism in France, 1648-1789 Chapter 2. Tocqueville, Jansenism, and French Political Culture, 1789-1859 Chapter 3. The Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age (I): The Politics of Providence in the Author’s Introduction to Democracy in America Chapter 4. The Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age (II): Tocqueville's Modern Republicanism and the Dogma of the Sovereignty of the People Chapter 5. The Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age (III): The Enlightened Interest of the Americans Chapter 6. The Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age (IV): The Freedom of Education and the "Twin Tolerations" in France, 1843-1850 Chapter 7. The Necessity of the Political in a Democratic Age (V): Tocqueville Antinomies, the Political Utility of Religion, and the American Double Foundation Conclusion: Building a Republic for the Moderns Bibliography
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Stolpe Publishing City, Civility and Capitalism: A Historical
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Stolpe Publishing The Sounding Cosmos: A Study in the Spiritualism
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Stolpe Publishing The Return of Consciousness: A New Science on Old
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Stolpe Publishing Man and Technology: How Innovation Forms Our
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Lund University Press,Sweden Humboldt and the Modern German University: An
Book SynopsisThis book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the Humboldtian tradition was transformed and how it gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the study investigates the ways in which Humboldt’s ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs. Ultimately, it shows that Humboldt’s ideals are not timeless – they are historical phenomena and have always been determined by the predicaments and issues of the day. Nevertheless, many of the key concepts and fundamental ideas have endured throughout the twentieth century, though they have been interpreted in different ways.An electronic version of this book is available under a creative commons licence: manchesteropenhive.com/view/9789198376814/9789198376814.xmlTrade Review'Sophisticated in its concepts and methods, lucid in its exposition, balanced and perceptive in its judgements, Johan Ostling's book exemplifies a new and rich approach to the history of universities.'Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, Cambridge -- .Table of ContentsPrologue: Unter den Linden 61 The history of the university2 Wilhelm von Humboldt and his idea3 The discovery of Humboldt4 The rebirth of the university5 Tradition under debate6 From Berlin to BolognaBibliographyIndex
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Amsterdam University Press The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThe essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West. Mews's groundbreaking work has revealed the wide world of medieval letters: looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews has demanded that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. In Mews' Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered, and politicized.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Communities of Learning (Clare Monagle) Section 1: Twelfth-century Learning Chapter 1: Carnal Compassion: Peter Abelard's conflicted approach to empathy (Juanita Feros Ruys) Chapter 2:From Wisdom to Science: A witness of the theological studies in Paris in the 1240s (Riccardo Saccenti) Chapter 3: Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et liberio arbitrario (Marcia Colish) Chapter 4: Words of Seduction - a Letter from Hugh Metel to Bernard of Clairvaux (Rina Lahav) Chapter 5: The Emotional Landscape of Abelard's Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha (Carol Williams) Section 2: Sanctity and Material Culture Chapter 6: Dirty Laundry: Thomas Becket's hair-shirt and the making of a Saint (Karen Bollermann and Cary Nederman) Chapter 7: Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun (Earl Jeffrey Richards) Chapter 8: The Cult of Thomas Aquinas's Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism (Marika Räsänen) Section 3: Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200 Chapter 9: Food for the Journey: The thirteenth-century French version of Guiard of Laon's sermon on the twelve fruits of the Eucharist (Janice Pinder) Chapter 10: A Sense of Proportion: Jacobus extending Boethius around 1300 (John Crossley) Chapter 11: Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere? An Italian debate (Sylvain Piron) Chapter 12: Attuning to the Cosmos: The ethical man's mission from Plato to Petrarch (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides) Section 4: Gender, Power and Virtue in Early Modernity Chapter 13: The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources (Karen Green) Chapter 14: In Praise of Women: Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne (Carolyn James) Chapter 15: The Invention of the French Royal Mistress (Tracy Adams) Epilogue (Peter Howard) Index
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Amsterdam University Press Sovereignty as a Vocation in Hobbes's Leviathan:
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbes’s political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiant—in sum, magnanimous—statecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent and other-regarding virtue. It proposes that concerns over the virtues of the natural person bearing the office of the sovereign suffuse Hobbes’s political philosophy, defining both his theory of new foundations and his critiques of law and obligation. These aspects of Hobbes’s thought are new to Leviathan, as they respond to limitations in his early works in political theory, Elements and De Cive—limitations made apparent by the civil wars and the regicide of Charles I. Though new, this book argues that they tap into ancient political and philosophical ideas, foremostly the variously celebrated, mystified, and maligned figure of the orator founder.Table of ContentsNew Foundations, Statecraft, and Virtue in Hobbes’s Leviathan: Sovereignty as a Vocation One: Introduction Two: Leviathan against the Borough Corporation Three: Rhetorical Action and Constitutive Politics Four: Rhetorical Action in Leviathan Five: New Foundation in Leviathan Six: Law and Natural Justice Seven: Obligation, Resistance, and Sovereign Virtue Bibliography Index
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Central European University Press In the Name of History
Book SynopsisIn this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name—"in the name of history." Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived as a way to a better future: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996, and the ongoing movement for reparations for slavery in the United States. Scott shows how in these cases history was not only used to explain the past but to produce a particular future. Yet both past and future were subject to the political realities of their time and defined in terms of moral absolutes, often leading to deep contradictions. These three instances demonstrate that history is not an impartial truth, rather its very meaning is constructed by those who act in its name.Trade Review"Scott, by contrast, takes as her subject not truth but ethics. Specifically, she is concerned with how the act of representing the past—or the “historical operation,” as she calls it, borrowing from Michel De Certeau—advances the cause of justice. The opening claim of In the Name of History is that the historian, by engaging in this particular “operation,” is always also defining the relationship between what is no longer and what lies ahead. The history we produce may reveal our consistent fallibilities as humans but, even more, it establishes as past what we want to leave behind, premised on the assumption that we can do better and will. That is particularly so in the case of historically focused tribunals, the subject of two of Scott’s three major examples in this short but intense book." -- Sophia Rosenfeld * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The "historical operation" Chapter 1: The Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946 Chapter 2: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 1996 Chapter 3: The Movement for Reparations for Slavery in the United States Epilogue: The "lessons of history"
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Brief History Of Economics, A: Artful Approaches
Book SynopsisBlending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field.A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions — lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery — allows readers to place economics within a broader community of ideas. Magically, the author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an orderly universe, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Thorstein Veblen, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to the Great Depression, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities to Reaganomics.Often humorous, Canterbery's easy style will make the student's first foray into economics lively and relevant. Readers will dismiss “dismal” from the science.Trade Review"No one interested in economics - and it's an interest all shrewd citizens should cultivate - will want to miss Ray Canterbery... He has established himself as an incisive and interesting scholar who greatly prefers truth to the orthodox applause... Canterbery always has a good foundation of fact, analysis and judgement to support his positions." John Kenneth Galbraith Harvard University "Canterbery's unique style of presentation and breadth of vision manages to breathe new life into the study of dead economists... Really helps the reader conjure up a vision of the economic times... A fine addition to the history of thought literature." Michael C Carroll Journal of Economic IssuesTable of ContentsFeudalism and the evolution of economic society; Adam Smith's great vision; Bentham and Malthus - the hedonist and the "pastor"; the distribution of income - Ricardo versus Malthus; the cold water of poverty and the heat of John Stuart Mill's passions; Karl Marx; Alfred Marshall - the great Victorian; Thorstein Veblen takes on the American captains of industry; the jazz age -aftermath of war and prelude to Depression; John Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression; the many modern Keynesians; the monetarists and the new classicals deepen the counterrevolution; economic growth and technology; Schumpeter and capitalism's motion; the many faces of capitalism - Galbraith, Heilbroner and the institutionalists; the rise of the casino economy; the global economy; climbing the economist's mountain to high theory; the future of economics.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Brief History Of Economics, A: Artful Approaches
Book SynopsisBlending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field.A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding the economists' visions — lucidly and vividly unveiled by Canterbery — allows readers to place economics within a broader community of ideas. Magically, the author links Adam Smith to Isaac Newton's idea of an orderly universe, F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Thorstein Veblen, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath to the Great Depression, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities to Reaganomics.Often humorous, Canterbery's easy style will make the student's first foray into economics lively and relevant. Readers will dismiss “dismal” from the science.Trade Review"No one interested in economics - and it's an interest all shrewd citizens should cultivate - will want to miss Ray Canterbery... He has established himself as an incisive and interesting scholar who greatly prefers truth to the orthodox applause... Canterbery always has a good foundation of fact, analysis and judgement to support his positions." John Kenneth Galbraith Harvard University "Canterbery's unique style of presentation and breadth of vision manages to breathe new life into the study of dead economists... Really helps the reader conjure up a vision of the economic times... A fine addition to the history of thought literature." Michael C Carroll Journal of Economic IssuesTable of ContentsFeudalism and the evolution of economic society; Adam Smith's great vision; Bentham and Malthus - the hedonist and the "pastor"; the distribution of income - Ricardo versus Malthus; the cold water of poverty and the heat of John Stuart Mill's passions; Karl Marx; Alfred Marshall - the great Victorian; Thorstein Veblen takes on the American captains of industry; the jazz age -aftermath of war and prelude to Depression; John Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression; the many modern Keynesians; the monetarists and the new classicals deepen the counterrevolution; economic growth and technology; Schumpeter and capitalism's motion; the many faces of capitalism - Galbraith, Heilbroner and the institutionalists; the rise of the casino economy; the global economy; climbing the economist's mountain to high theory; the future of economics.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd History Of Chinese Thoughts On Public Finance, A
Book SynopsisThis book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It addresses the onset and evolution of Chinese thoughts on public finance across the different periods, such as thoughts on public finance during the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, and thoughts from the early feudalistic period; offers an account about the thriving and declining of China's ancient thoughts on public finance; and deals with the emergence of capitalistic theories from the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Fifteen Lectures On Traditional Chinese Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is edited based on a series of lectures on Chinese cultural history delivered at the Peking University in 2004. It stands out with its distinctive methodology and unique stand, and is popular with readers, with 17 reprints for the Chinese edition since 2006.Before the 1980s, traditional culture was often the target of criticisms and put in a negative light in China. After the 1980s, due to the belief that traditional culture can contribute to modernization, people decided to 'take its essence and discard its dregs'. As of today, most books on this theme have been written in accordance with this principle.However, in this book, the author argues that many problems have emerged from the modernization of the Western society, and thus the need for reflection and re-examining. Traditional Chinese culture is a source for comparison and reflection. As such, when we discuss traditional culture nowadays, not only should we excavate its long-hidden meanings, but we should also develop contrastive resources to facilitate our collaborative development in future.The discussions in this book adopt a vertical structure that begins with how Chinese define a human, followed by topics on the human body, Qi, food, male and female, home and state, the relationship between heaven and human beings, ritual systems, historical consciousness, thinking patterns, the art of expressing sentiments, commitments to the politics of virtues and achievements, and cultural practices. In every chapter, there is also a horizontal method of comparison on Chinese, Western and Indian cultures, to foreground the particularities and advantages of the Chinese culture.Apart from elaborating on the major characteristics of traditional Chinese culture, there is also a discussion on how the modern disdain for and misunderstandings of the traditional culture originated from the West. The author also elaborates on Montesquieu's views of China and the various misconceptions and misunderstandings of the traditional Chinese legal systems. Finally, it ends with the author's thoughts on the revitalization of the Chinese civilization.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Great Dragon Fantasy, The: A Lacanian Analysis Of
Book SynopsisChina has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus shows how the fervor for discovering “essential characteristics” of Chinese thought reveals a hidden psychological mechanism.Table of ContentsThe Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought; "Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed Dragon"; New Enlightenment as Modernization; "Traumatic"; Encounters with Postmodernism; Liberals and New Leftists as "Discursive Enemies"; China's New Nationalism and Its Obscene Core; Traversing the Fantasmatic Past and Future.
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State University of New York Press Messengers of Infinity
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Academic Studies Press Central Asia and the Silk Road
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