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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Puzzle of the Gospels
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2015. The gospels tell a story. There are many types of story ranging from fiction through biographies to attempts at historical accounts. Even so-called ''true'' stories will be affected by the perception of the writer. It is impossible to present any book without taking the viewpoint of the author into account - which is one reason why this book will be devoting considerable time to understanding the purpose and intention of the individual gospel writers. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John present different accounts of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth, as one might expect from four people who, although they use some common material, nevertheless present this material in distinctive ways. This book will be concerned with helping you, the reader, to understand the gospel stories and how they came to be written; to bring to light the implicit references that were being made of which modern readers may be unaware; and also to consider the issue of the truth of the stoTable of ContentsPart 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Two Stories; Part 2 The Individual Gospels; Chapter 2 The Core Ideas in the Gospels; Chapter 3 The Gospel Story of Matthew; Chapter 4 The Gospel Story of Mark; Chapter 5 The Gospel Story of Luke; Chapter 6 The Gospel Story of John; Part 3 Background and Analytic Tools; Chapter 7 Analysing the Gospel Books; Chapter 8 The Search for the Historical Jesus; Chapter 9 The Four and Forty Gospels; Chapter 10 Dissecting the Evidence; Chapter 11 The Synoptic Tradition; Chapter 12 The Johannine Tradition; Part 4 Some Themes; Chapter 13 The Miracle Stories; Chapter 14 The Parables of Jesus; Chapter 15 Women in the Gospels; Chapter 16 Jesus, Community and Church; Part 5 The Question of Truth; Chapter 17 Biblical Language and Truth; Chapter 18 God and Jesus; Chapter 19 Resurrection; Chapter 20 The Significance of Jesus; Chapter 21 Jesus’ Life and Message; Chapter 22 The Last Week; Chapter 23 Bringing the Threads Together; post Postscript;
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University of Toronto Press The True Medicine Volume 4 Other Voice in Early
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With unprecedented clarity and care, Gianna Pomata brings an important text in the history of scientific authorship to the attention of modern-day readers. Published in Spain in 1587 under the name of Oliva Sabuco, True Philosophy of Human Nature, of which The True Medicine is part, was soon thereafter claimed to be the work of her father’s pen. Since the beginning of the 20th century approaches to the text have often focused uncritically on the authorial controversy, providing polarized irreconcilable interpretations. Pomata, however, explores the wider context of production and reception of True Philosophy with analytical sophistication, making it inseparable from the authorial question and tracing the most reliable historical understanding to date of this influential text. Her English translation flows accurately while avoiding anachronism and will surely become standard reference for anyone interested in the cultural history of female authorship or early modern medicine and science." * Montserrat Cabré, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain *"One of the first printed medical texts to be attributed to a female author, The True Medicine (1587) is radically innovative in its rejection of contemporary medical theory for a more pro-feminist physiology and cosmology. Although Pomata does not conclusively solve the puzzle of whether this fascinating and influential work was written by Oliva Sabuco or her father, she offers a masterly review of the evidence. This splendid translation, together with its authoritative introduction and annotations, will be of the greatest interest to scholars and teachers in the history of science and medicine, women's history, and early modern studies." * Katharine Park, Harvard University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ixAbbreviations xiIntroductionA Book that was Missing in the World 1The Precarious Fame of Doña Oliva: The Issue of Authorship 8Moon Milk: The Medical Heresy of Nueva Filosofia 30Echoes of the Querelle des Femmes in Early Modern Medicine 53Aftermath: Sabucus Hispanus in England and Beyond 64Note on the Translation 85Translation, The True Medicine 91Letter from Doña Oliva Sabuco to Sir Don Francisco Zapata 92Dialogue on the True Medicine 95Of the Two Natures: one that gives birth, one that gives growth 126Of critical, or otherwise said, decretory days 148Question of the shape of the brain’s marrow, membranes, skull, scalp, and crown of the head 152Of the chyle, or juice, and its varieties 159New and old medicine compared and contrasted: the old medicine refuted 166Comparison and refutation: on poisons 167Comparison and refutation: on purgative remedies 168Comparison and refutation: on hemorrhoids 171Comparison: on aliments 173Comparison: on supervening diseases 173Comparison: on the way the aliment enters the body 178Comparison: on crudities 182Comparison: on drink and food 184Comparison: on anger 186Comparison: on sweat 189Comparison: on idiopathy, sympathy, and consent 191Comparison: on apoplexy and epilepsy 197Comparison: on diverting disease to another place 200Comparison: on temperaments and actions 203Comparison: on the four moistures discovered by Avicenna 206Comparison: on semen 209Comparison: on the causes of diseases 210Comparison: on fevers 211All that has been said is proved with evident reasons 214Bibliography 231Index 255
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Johns Hopkins University Press Science and Religion 400 B.C. to A.D. 1550 From
Book SynopsisDespite some tensions in the thirteenth century, the Church and its theologians became favorably disposed toward science and natural philosophy and used them extensively in their theological deliberations.Trade ReviewScience and Religion should be required reading for all those teaching and researching in this area. -- Fraser F. Fleming Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 2006 Fascinating book. -- William R. Shea Archives Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 2006 Grant gives his reader a good sense of the main trends and the rich tapestry of medieval thought. Journal of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences 2008Table of ContentsIllustrationsChronology of Events1. IntroductionThe Middle Ages: A Time ofo Ignorance and Barbarism? Or a Period of Striking Innovation?Religion and Science among the Greeks prior to the Emergence of ChristianityThe Propagation of ScienceBrief Descriptions of Chapters 2–82. Aristotle and the Beginnings of Two Thousand Years of Natural PhilosophyLifeWorksAchievementsAristotle's Cosmos and Natural PhilosophyThe Scope of Natural Philosophy3. Science and Natural Philosophy in the Roman EmpireThe Pre-Socratic Natural PhilosophersThe Emergence and Development of the Sciences in the Greek WorldThe Life SciencesThe Exact SciencesGreek Science in the Roman Empire to the Sixth Century a.d.4. The First Six Centuries of Christianity: Christian Attitudes toward Greek Philosophy and ScienceThe Mystery Religions and AstrologyThe Triumph of Christianity in the Roman WorldChristianity and the Pagan Intellectual WorldCommentaries on Genesis (Hexameral Treatises): The Christian Understanding of the Creation of the World5. The Emergence of a New Europe after the Barbarian InvasionsThe Latin EncyclopedistsWestern Europe at Its NadirThe New Europe in the Twelfth CenturyThe Beginnings of the New Natural Philosophy6. The Medieval Universities and the Impact of Aristotle's Natural PhilosophyThe Translations of Aristotle's Books on Natural PhilosophyUniversities in the Middle AgesTypes of Literature in Natural PhilosophyThe Relations between Natural Philosophy and Theology in the Thirteenth CenturyIs Theology a Science?7. The Interrelations between Natural Philosophy and Theology in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesThe Influence of the Condemnation of 1277 on Natural PhilosophyThe Impact of Religion on Natural Philosophy in the Middle AgesThe Role of Natural Philosophy in TheologyThe Significance and Meaning of the Interaction between Natural Philosophy and TheologyRelations between Science and Religion in the Byzantine Empire, the World of Islam, and the Latin WestThe Byzantine EmpireIslamThe Latin WestPrimary Sources1. Roger Bacon, The "Opus Majus" of Roger Bacon2. Giles of Rome, Errores Philosophorum3. Saint Bonaventure, On the Eternity of the World (De Aeternitate Mundi)4. Saint Thomas Aquinas, On the Eternity of the World (De Aeternitate Mundi)5. Albert of Saxony, Questions on [Aristotle's] On the Heavens6. Nicole Oresme, Le Livre du ciel et du mondeAnnotated BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Theories of Memory A Reader
Book SynopsisPart III, Identities, examines the key role of memory in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings of Gender, Race/Nation, and Diaspora.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I: Beginnings1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory3. Memory and Late ModernityPart II: Positionings4. Collective Memory5. Jewish Memory Discourse6. TraumaPart III: Identities7. Gender8. Race/Nation9. DisaporaBiographical Details of Editors and Contributing EditorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Personal Identity and Fractured Selves
Book SynopsisD., Colgate UniversityTrade ReviewPersonal Identity and Fractured Selves should appeal to both general and specialized audiences. -- Emily Esch Metapsychology 2010 A good read. -- John C. Racy Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010Table of ContentsList of Contributors PrefaceIntroduction. A "Two Cultures" PhrasebookPart I: FoundationsChapter 1. How Philosophers Think about Persons, Personal Identity, and the SelfChapter 2. Toward a Neurobiology of Personal IdentityChapter 3. Case StudiesPart II: Philosophers Hold ForthChapter 4. Getting Our Stories Straight: Self-narrative and Personal IdentityChapter 5. Personal Identity and ChoiceChapter 6. Diminished and Fractured SelvesPart III: Neuroscientists Push BackChapter 7. After Locke: Darwin, Freud, and Psychiatric AssessmentChapter 8. The Fictional SelfConclusion: Common ThreadsReferencesIndex
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Random House USA Inc The Five Books of Moses Genesis Exodus Leviticus
Book SynopsisWidely acclaimed by Bible scholars and theologians of every denomination, Everett Fox's masterful translation re-creates the echoes, allusions, alliterations, and wordplays of the Hebrew original. Together with its extensive commentary and illuminating notes, this unique translation draws the reader closer to the authentic living voice of the Bible.
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Schocken Books The Promise of Politics
Book SynopsisIn The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt examines the conflict between philosophy and politics. In particular, she shows how the tradition of Western political thought, which extends from Plato and Aristotle to its culmination in Marx, failed to account for human action. The concluding section of the book, “Introduction into Politics,” examines an issue that is as timely today as it was when Arendt first wrote about it fifty years ago-the modern prejudice against politics. When politics is considered as a means to an end that lies outside of itself, argues Arendt, when force is used to create “freedom,” the very existence of political principles is imperiled.
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Schocken Books Jews and Power Jewish Encounters
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounter seriesTaking in everything from the Kingdom of David to the Oslo Accords, Ruth Wisse offers a radical new way to think about the Jewish relationship to power. Traditional Jews believed that upholding the covenant with God constituted a treaty with the most powerful force in the universe; this later transformed itself into a belief that, unburdened by a military, Jews could pursue their religious mission on a purely moral plain. Wisse, an eminent professor of comparative literature at Harvard, demonstrates how Jewish political weakness both increased Jewish vulnerability to scapegoating and violence, and unwittingly goaded power-seeking nations to cast Jews as perpetual targets.Although she sees hope in the State of Israel, Wisse questions the way the strategies of the Diaspora continue to drive the Jewish state, echoing Abba Eban's observation that Israel was the only nation to win a war and then sue for peace. And then she draws a pe
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Beacon Press Embracing Hope
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Northwestern University Press The Art of Reading as a Way of Life On Nietzsches
Book SynopsisTraces the reception and translation of Nietzsche's corpus and then some of Nietzsche's boldest textual experiments in the art of reading as a way of life, including those in The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Anti-Christ, and Ecce Homo.
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Northwestern University Press The Thought of John Sallis Phenomenology Plato
Book SynopsisJohn Sallis is one of America's preeminent and most original contemporary philosophers. The absence, until now, of a comprehensive work on Sallis has constituted a glaring oversight in philosophical scholarship. The Thought of John Sallis is both an introduction for students new to his work and a valuable resource for scholars needing a systematic consideration of Sallis's wide-ranging thought.
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Northwestern University Press Tracing Expression in MerleauPonty Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe French philosopher Renaud Barbaras remarked that late in Maurice Merleau-Pontyâs career, âœThe phenomenology of perception fulfills itself as a philosophy of expression.â In Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology and Ontology, VÃronique M. FÃti addresses the guiding yet neglected theme of expression in Merleau-Pontyâs thought. She traces Merleau-Pontyâs ideas about how individuals express creative or artistic impulses through his three essays on aesthetics, his engagement with animality and the âœnew biologyâ in the second of his lecture courses on nature of 1957â58, and in his late ontology, articulated in 1964 in the fragmentary text of Le visible et lâinvisible (The Visible and the Invisible). With the exception of a discussion of Merleau-Pontyâs 1945 essay âœCezanneâs Doubt,â FÃti engages with Merleau-Pontyâs late and final thought, with close attention to both his scientific and philosophical interlocutors, especially the continental rationalist
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Northwestern University Press Moral Emotions Reclaiming the Evidence of the
Book SynopsisWinner, 2015 CSCP Symposium Book Award Moral Emotions builds upon the philosophical theory of persons begun in Phenomenology and Mysticism and marks a new stage of phenomenology. Author Anthony J. Steinbock finds personhood analyzing key emotions, called moral emotions. Moral Emotions offers a systematic account of the moral emotions, described here as pride, shame, and guilt as emotions of self-givenness; repentance, hope, and despair as emotions of possibility; and trusting, loving, and humility as emotions of otherness.
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Northwestern University Press The History of Philosophy A Readers Guide
Book SynopsisEmphasizes the usefulness of striking up a conversation with the past. This book offers guidance on reading philosophical works with intellectual empathy, suggests 100 essential works to establish a canon, illustrates the role of philosophers in history and society, and examines the nature of history itself.Table of ContentsPreface; Part 1: Philosophical Propaedeutics; One: Introduction: On the Historical Study of Philosophy; Two: 100 Great Philosophical Works; Three: The History of Philosophy in Outline; Part 2: Philosophical Perspectives; Four: On Reading Philosophical Books; Five: The Origin of Philosophy and the Theatre of the World; Six: Two Views of History and the History of Philosophy; Part 3: Philosophical Practics; Seven: Philosophical Writing; Eight: Philosophical Literacy.
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The University Press of Kentucky In Search of the Good Life
Book SynopsisIn In Search of the Good Life, renowned philosopher Fred Dallmayr traces the development of this notion, illuminating the connections between Greek philosophy, Judeo-Christian tradition, Eastern religions, and postindustrial social criticism.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Virtues of Ignorance Complexity
Book SynopsisExamining the relationship between the land and the future generations who will depend on it, they propose that, while we cannot improve upon nature, by putting this new perspective to work in our professional and personal lives we can live sustainably on Earth.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Philosophy of War Films
Book SynopsisPresents essays by prominent scholars that examine the impact of representing war in film and the influence that cinematic images of battle have on human consciousness, belief, and action. The contributors explore a variety of topics, including the aesthetics of war, the effect war has on personal identity, and ethical problems presented by war.Trade ReviewLaRocca offers a synoptic anthology of essays that brings to our attention how war films can provoke contemplation and meditation because of the ways that such films inevitably focus on the mortality and vulnerability of human beings. The essays, written by an outstanding array of international scholars, work out various ways in which the genre can compel our thinking to become philosophical. This collection of essays constitute a significant contribution to not only the philosophy of the war film, but also to philosophy of film itself."" - Daniel Flory, Montana State University""War is a pervasive condition, a constitutive part of human experience. The war film genre is extensive and multiform. It is no surprise, then, that war films are provocations to philosophical thought. This important and timely edited collection has an extensive introduction that seeks answers to vital questions: What sort of a phenomenon is a war film? What do we think we mean when we speak of a war film? What are war films for? Can war as such be represented by film? The essays that follow illuminate myriad ethical, aesthetic, epistemological and ontological issues as they related to a broad range of representations of war."" - Guy Westwell, Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London""The philosophical reflections compiled in this book look at war films from a variety of perspectives. I commend editor David LaRocca for bringing together scholars who each, in different ways, engage the interdisciplinary mission of the inquiry into how war is depicted on screen. What is the philosophy of film, and then, of war films specifically? Do war films harbor a philosophy - of death, violence, love - or does philosophy enrich the understanding of the cinematic of war? The Philosophy of War Films explores these questions and many more, connecting the reality of war with the art of filmmaking."" - Mieke Bal, University of Amsterdam""This volume offers rich and deeply thought-out consideration of the representation of war on film and of the ways filmic and now digital representation is deeply entangled with how we experience and think about war (up close or at a distance) in actual life. The book reaches back in film history but is especially provocative on war and its representation in the last decade - the situation we are living with now. The essays are fresh and surprising, showing the whole subject of war and film to be far more interesting, complex, and disturbing than in the standard thinking about war genre films that we are used to."" - Charles Warren, Boston University
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University of Minnesota Press A Thousand Plateaus
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press In Motion At Rest
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is innovative work of the highest order, very smartly and incisively bringing onto the field two teams that very seldom meet in inter-league play: the philosophers and the sociologists of sports. But in these pages there are also crucial interventions staged in cultural studies, race theory, globalization discourse, and media studies. In Motion, At Rest is a book that speaks to many audiences, without giving up its singular focus on the athletic body." —Jeffrey Nealon, Penn State University"As subtle and illuminating as any of Deleuze’s disquisitions on the Wlms he discusses in his Cinema books."—Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Sport and the Event1. Ron Artest: The Black Body at Rest (Alain Badiou)2. Eric Cantona: The Body in Motion (Gilles Deleuze)3. Zinedine Zidane: Coup de Boule (Jacques Derrida)Epilogue: Being, Event, and the Philosophy of SportAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Lure of Whitehead
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: An Adventure of ThoughtNicholas Gaskill and A. J. NocekPart I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and RealityIsabelle Stengers2. Scientism and the Modern WorldJeffrey A. Bell3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?Bruno Latour4. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicholas BaierNathan BrownPart II. The Metaphysics of Creativity5. Whitehead’s Involution of an Outside ChancePeter Canning6. Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of BecomingRoland Faber7. The Event and the Occasion: Deleuze, Whitehead, and CreativityKeith Robinson8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and ZGraham Harman9. Whitehead’s Curse?James Williams10. Cutting away from Smooth Space: Alfred North Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum in Parametric SoftwareLuciana ParisiPart III. Process Ecology11. Possessive Subjects: A Speculative Interpretation of NonhumansDidier Debaise12. Another RegardErin Manning13. Of “Experiential Togetherness”: Toward a More Robust EmpiricismSteven Meyer14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of SocietiesMichael Halewood15. Imaginative Chemistry: Synthetic Ecologies and the Construction of LifeA. J. NocekContributorsIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Way Things Go
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brilliant feat of cultural connecting: of cross-reading, from epistemology to objects and vice versa, and a perfect counterpoint to the lazy, sub-Buddhistic essentialism blighting so much contemporary thinking about things in general and things in particular."—Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder, Men in Space, and C"A page-turner."—Leonardo Reviews"Instead of a monograph, we are left with a refreshing hybrid of scholarship, speculative criticism, and reeling proclamation to which it will be a pleasure to return."—Critical Inquiry"Quirky yet surprisingly gripping."—American LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsInstruction ManualThe Way Things Go100: I Don't Know about the Coming Singularity80: Lost and Found61: That Swell New Thing37: Risky Things15: Materials and Their Methods0: Nothing but RemainsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Inanimation
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Doubled LivesPart I. Autobiography1. Automatic Life, So Life: Descartes2. Order Catastrophically Unknown: Freud3. The Blushing Machine: DerridaPart II. Translation4. Living Punctuations: Cixous and Celan5. Naming the Mechanical Angel: Benjamin6. Raw War: Schmitt, Jünger, and JoycePart III. Resonance7. Bloodless Coup: Bataille, Nancy, and Barthes8. The Audible Life of the Image: Godard9. Meditations for the Birds: DescartesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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MJ - Ohio University Press Reading the Book of Nature
Book SynopsisEdwin Jones sets out to show that a phenomenological analysis of meaning can contribute to a theory of creativity in several ways. It can clarify the concept of creative expression and resolve its paradoxical appearance. Creativity must have its roots in already existing meanings and at the same time has to generate new meanings.To
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Ohio University Press Anthropology and Historiography of Science
Book SynopsisWhether history or anthropology is the most fundamental social science remains still a controversial and undecided issue. For a proper understanding of this instructive controversy, the presuppositions of these two disciplines need to be critically and philosophically reviewed.Trade Review“A pleasure to read … full of the author’s obvious intellect and genuine depth of understanding and interest in the subjects concerned, without a hint of partisan apologetics…. This is an intelligent balanced and deeply satisfying book.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press The American Moralist On Law Ethics and
Book SynopsisThe essays collected here, somewhat autobiographical in their effect, range from a discussion of the despair of the Cold War and Vietnam in 1966 to reflections on the euphoria over the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe in 1990.Trade Review“…The American Moralist is a cogent and discursive compendium of the principled foundations and perennially recurring challenges to American civil life.” * The Hellenic Journal *
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MJ - Ohio University Press The American Moralist On Law Ethics and
Book SynopsisThe essays collected here, somewhat autobiographical in their effect, range from a discussion of the despair of the Cold War and Vietnam in 1966 to reflections on the euphoria over the ending of the Cold War in Eastern Europe in 1990.Trade Review“…The American Moralist is a cogent and discursive compendium of the principled foundations and perennially recurring challenges to American civil life.” * The Hellenic Journal *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Wittgenstein and Critical Theory
Book SynopsisProvides us with a strong means of developing such a method for literary criticism - a method that points the way forward beyond postmodern criticisms and to a categorically new approach to literary texts. This title discusses at length the implications of Wittgenstein for literary criticism and theory.Trade Review“Susan Brill is a persistent scholar who has drawn together a wide net, and though her chosen task was to suggest Wittgensteinian strategies for reading literature and to caution literary critics about overinvested theories, her own literary and philosophical desire has been to be as inclusive and open as possible to the dynamics of texts without losing her own value center. Scholarship would surely be a better enterprise if more did what she has done with the persistence she has shown.”-- C.W. Spinks, Trinity University, Philosophy and Literature“This adventurous book clearly has another purpose, to display ways in which Wittgenstein’s philosophy can be used as a set of critical tools within the contexts of modern–postmodern debates; of psychological criticism; of canon formation, preservation and change; of feminism; and of poststructural literary theory. As such, it casts new light, and is a welcome addition.”-- Garry L. Hagberg, Bard College, The Philosophical Quarterly
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MJ - Ohio University Press Trollope Victorian Moral Philosophy
Book SynopsisSince the publication of The Moral Trollope by Ruth apRoberts in 1971, literary critics have generally agreed that Trollope’s morality is worthy of study.Trade Review“Nardin’s readings of specific aspects of the novels, readings she contextualizes among those by other recent scholars, are provocative.” * Choice *“Jane Nardin’s interesting and important new book puts discussion of moral action in Anthony Trollope’s novels, especially his later novels, into the context of Victorian moral philosophy. …Trollope and Victorian Moral Philosophy does a great service for us Trollopians who love Trollope but were formerly unfamiliar with the schools of Victorian moral philosophy that provide reference points for Trollope’s moral ideas and sometimes define their terms. Nardin’s book is a valuable addition to Trollope criticism.” * Review (Virginia Tech) *
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Kregel Academic & Professional 40 Questions about Divine Election
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University of Missouri Press Voeglin in Toronto
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University of Missouri Press The Unheeded Cry
Book SynopsisHow can science teach us that animals feel no pain when our common sense observations tell us otherwise? Bernard Rollin offers welcome insight into questions like this in his groundbreaking account of the difficult and controversial issues surrounding the use of animals.Trade ReviewBernard Rollin’s The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Science is just what is needed to make people think seriously about why some scientists do what they do to non-human animals"" - Animal Behaviour""Being both a professor of philosophy and a professor of physiology and biophysics, Bernard Rollin is uniquely qualified to discuss the development of attitudes among scientists and to influence them."" - The Journal of Medical Ethics
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Quest Books,U.S. The Conquest of Illusion
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Quest Books,U.S. Freedom Alchemy for a Voluntary Society
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University of Chicago Press On Asthma Volume 1 Medical Works of Moses
Book SynopsisMoses Maimonides (1135-1204) remains one of the most celebrated rabbis in the history of Judaism, having written extensively on law, philosophy, religion and medicine. This text, the first volume of Maimonides' complete medical writings, is a complete regimen of health for an unnamed patient.
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Brigham Young University Press On Asthma Volume 2 Critical Editions of Hebrew
Book SynopsisOffers Gerrit Bos' critical editions of all three surviving medieval Hebrew translations of Maimonides' work: one allegedly prepared by the fourteenth-century physician Samuel Benveniste; a second by Joshua Shatibi from Jativa between the years 1379 and 1390; and a third by an anonymous translator, possibly in the thirteenth century.
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Rizzoli International Publications Taking Time Conversations Across a Creative
Book SynopsisThis collection of conversations on the subject of time between a legendary couturier and leaders in the worlds of art, design, and popular culture will inspire readers to take greater control over their life and develop their creativity.
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd A Philosophers take on economics
Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at presenting a common-sense, first-principles, philosophical perspective on a vital subject that seems to have lost its way. There is such a thing as justice, there is such a thing as truth; and these two need not be lost forever.Trade ReviewEconomics is not about measuring artificial constructs such as GDP, or inflation, nor whether stock prices follow a geometric brownian motion. Economics concerns human welfare, and the best mechanism to achieve the fairest outcome which preserves our civilisation.” Dr Kim Sawyer; “I’m really enjoying reading John’s book “A Philosophers take on Economics”, absolutely spot on for what is happening today. I’m pretty sure it’s the only book I’ve read by an economist (philosopher) that I could understand! And I sub-majored in economics many years ago at Melbourne Uni.” Grant Tenni; “I ‘Saw the Cat’ whilst reading John Tippett’s book in April. Now a proud ‘Georgist’ currently reading Progress and Poverty.” Gerald Vandermeer
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Temple University Press,U.S. Animal Sacrifices
Book SynopsisThe issues of animal rights and the use of animals in scientific experimentation are fraught with controversy. Defining the bases of such strong emotional response towards an ethical issue, this book presents the teachings of the major religions of the world concerning animals and, more specifically, their use in science.Trade Review"This is a challenging and impressive book raising important ethical questions with uncommon force and clarity." —Ethics "Animal Sacrifices is a riveting volume.... This latest work carries on Regan’s high standard of scholarship and readability.... Lucid, accessible, and thought provoking. This book is really a page-turner, for ones curiosity is quickly piqued by the stands religions—which most of us only vaguely understand—have taken on this issue." —Judge Lisa A. Richette, The Catholic Standard and Times
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Temple University Press,U.S. Gender Thinking
Book SynopsisA comprehensive philosophical exploration of the concept of gender. Asking the question, what is gender? - that is, what sort of thing do we take femininity and masculinity to be? - it considers how gender thinking is interwoven with ideas about human nature.Trade Review"This is quite an extraordinary piece of sustained 'thoughtwork,' laying out its own weave of analysis, synthesis, and proposal in conversation with a wonderful array of other works and positions. The depth and care of engagement with the problem and promise of rethinking humankind with respect for gender marks is as an accomplishment that makes a crucial point: that thinking about the human without thinking as gendered creatures about gender is both impossible and, as we might say, in bad faith. Thus, the book helps us take a step toward rectifying what we think about, who and what we think as, when we engage in the curious reflexivity of thinking about our own humanity."—Elizabeth Minnich, Union Institute, author of Transforming KnowledgeTable of Contents Preface A Prologue on Democracy 1. The Two Sides of Gender ThinkingPositive Gender Thinking • Critical Gender Thinking • Implications for Our Study 2. On Conceiving the HumanThe "Human" • "Nature" • Following Nature • Gender as an Anthropological Theme 3. Gender and HumanityThe Problem: How to Behave • How Gender Qualifies Gender • Gender and Central Human Projects • Gender and Other Human Kinds Compared • Human Nature as an Endowment of Diversities 4. The Sex "Basis" of GenderThe Problem of Junction Between Intentional and Descriptive Concepts • The Structure of Embodiment • Qualifications of Intention by Sex • Gender and Biological Facts • Human Nature as Animal Nature: Human Biology and Anthropology • Human Nature as animal nature: The Beast Within • The Case of Sexual Jealousy • Human Nature as Sexual Consistency: The Racial Parallel 5. Gender, Valuation, and SelfhoodThe Attractions of Gender and "Finer Feelings": Kant • The Structure of Valuing • A Puzzle: How can a Valuer Value a Different Way of Valuing? • The Gendering of Ethics: Gilligan • Pornography and Other Pathologies of Gender Valuation • Androgyny and Perplexity • Gender Character and "True Self" • Gendered Selfhood and the Asymmetry Problem in High Noon • Human Nature as a Set of Gendered Métiers 6. Gender and DualityThe Problem: How to Think • Structures of Duality • Metaphysical Gender-Duality Theories: Hegel and Levinas • Theological Gender-Duality Theories: The Shakers and Paul • Social-Scientific Gender-Duality Theories: Freud and Lévi-Strauss • Human Nature as a Harmony of the Sexes and Genders 7. Gender and ProcreationThe Relevance of Procreation to Gender and Human Nature • The Structure of Procreative Activity • Generationality, Potentiation, and Determination • Gender and Issues of Procreative Choice Conclusion: Realizing SexRealized Imaginatively • Realized Intellectually • Realized Spiritually • Realized Practically Notes Index
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Swedenborg Foundation Divine Love Wisdom Portable The Portable New
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Mercer University Press On the Generation of Animals
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Spring Publications The Psychology of Abortion
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Selections from the Thoughts
Book SynopsisIncluded in this volume are fourteen of the fragments intended for Pascal's Jansenist-inspired defense of the Christian religion. Using the Chevalier edition, these are grouped to present a logical development of three themes, The State of Man in Ignorance of God, The Wager, and The Christian Life.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION VII PRINCIPAL DATES IN THE LIFE OF BLAISE PASCAL XV PART I-THE STATE OF MAN IN IGNORANCE OF GOD 1 Section A-General Plan 1 Section B-The Two Infinites 3 Section C-The Self 11 Section D-Human Reason and Judgment 17 Section E-Man’s Nature 31 Section F-Observations on Man in Society 45 Section G-Moral Values and Justice 52 PART II- THE WAGER 61 Section A-Against Atheists and Skeptics 61 Section B-Momentous Importance of Religion 70 Section C-Christian Faith and Why We Must Choose It 80 PART III-THE CHRISTIAN LIFE 96 Section A-Truths of Reason and of the Heart 96 Section B-Original Sin and Grace 98 Section C-The Mystery of Jesus 109 Section D-The Christian’s Fears and Joys 116 BIBLIOGRAPHY 123
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Hays (Nicolas) Ltd ,U.S. Pythagoras His Life and Teachings a Compendium of
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Inner Traditions Bear and Company Sexual Secrets Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Book SynopsisSexual Secretsis the definitive guide to sex and mysticism, revealing the wisdom of the sages of India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan whose teachings on sexuality unveil how physical love can be the pathway to spiritual liberation. Containing more than 600 illustrations--the most comprehensive collection of images expressing the erotic sentiment--and with more than one million copies sold in more than 19 languages, Sexual Secretsunlocks for everyone the experience of ecstasy once sealed in the ancient texts and art of the East. In celebration of its 20th year in print, Sexual Secretshas been completely revised and redesigned and includes 200 color illustrations to complement Penny Slinger''s unsurpassed black-and-white illustrations, which evoke all the major cultures of the East. Working from contemporary models and from ancient pieces originally commissioned by kings and emperors, Slinger blends images of the West with the sentiments of the East to further enhance the experience of the text and to help in the transmission of the secrets--a celebration of creative sexuality.Trade Review"For twenty years Sexual Secrets has been the spiritual person's guide to celestial copulation. Flesh meets faith inside this book and each is the better for it." * ForeWord *"A remarkably complete book stocked with the knowledge of esoteric Asian traditions never before seen by Western eyes." * The Village Voice *"Monumentally researched, comprehensively detailed, and profusely illustrated. . . . Sexual Secrets is a timely, well-rounded masterpiece. This reviewer's reaction can be summed up in two words: BUY IT!" * Yoga Journal *"For twenty years Sexual Secrets has been the spiritual person's guide to celestial copulation. Flesh meets faith inside this book and each is the better for it." * ForeWord *"The book touches on every aspect of sacred sexuality that you could imagine and even those you might not. If you want to find the key to understanding the 'alchemy of ecstasy,' Sexual Secrets is definitely the place to look." * Healing Retreats & Spas *"For twenty years Sexual Secrets has been the spiritual person's guide to celestial copulation. Flesh meets faith inside this book and each is the better for it." * ForeWord, October 1999 *"A massive compendium, furnishing just about everything you always wanted to know." * The Book Reader *"An intriguingly illustrated, thoroughly researched collage designed to enhance sexual consciousness." * New Age Magazine *"Sexual Secrets gathers together the best parts from several different traditions of erotic lore." * Sheela Ardrian, New Witch, Autumn 2002 *"What distinguishes the couple's efforts from the plethora of books on the subject of Eastern eroticism are their depth of research and their breadth of presentation. Opulent cocktailable sexbiggies." * The Village Voice *Table of ContentsSexual Secrets: 20th Anniversary Edition The Alchemy of Ecstasy New discoveries on the origins of the secrets Preface to the 20th anniversary edition Publisher's Preface Introduction Part One: Brahma The Creative Part Two: Shiva The Transcendental Shiva The Buddha The Yellow Emperor Part Three: Vishnu The Preserver Summary of secrets Glossary Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
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Ignatius Press Refutation of Moral Relativism Interviews with an
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