Reading Israel, Reading America: The Politics of Translation Between Jews, Asscher Omri

Автор: Chinick P. C.
Название: Red Asscher Living in Fear
ISBN: 0991197305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991197309
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In 1943, Anya Pavlovitch, a Russian expatriate working for the U.S. War Department, is asked to return to Shanghai, a city that holds painful memories and is currently occupied by Japanese forces. She must accompany a misogynistic Naval Intelligence Officer, Macdonald "Mac" Benson, recruited by the OSS. Mac Benson, a field operative pulled back to Washington after a mishap, is determined to reclaim himself and avoid the confinement of a desk job. In Shanghai, Anya reunites with people from her past while Mac associates with unscrupulous characters, one in particular who holds the key to Anya's past. Her shenanigans put the two at odds. When the head of Shanghai's opium trade kidnaps Mac, Anya must musters the courage to rescue him and redeem herself.

Автор: Moses Omri
Название: Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, Psychic Life
ISBN: 0804789142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804789141
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"Characters" are those fictive beings in novels whose coherent patterns of behavior make them credible as people. "Character" is also used to refer to the capacity—or incapacity—of individuals to sustain core principles. When characters are inconsistent, they risk coming across as dangerous or immoral, not to mention unconvincing. But what is behind our culture's esteem for unwavering consistency? Out of Character examines literary characters who defy our culture's models of personal integrity. It argues that modernist writers Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and T. S. Eliot drew inspiration from vitalism as a way of reinventing the means of depicting people in fiction and poetry. Rather than regarding a rigid character as something that inoculates us against the shifting tides of circumstance, these writers insist on the ethical necessity of forming improvisational, dynamic social relationships. Charting the literary impact of William James, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and, in particular, Henri Bergson, this book contends that vitalist understandings of psychology, affect, and perception led to new situational and relational definitions of selfhood. As Moses demonstrates, the modernists stirred by these vital life lessons give us a sense of what psychic life looks like at its most intricate, complex, and unpredictable.

Автор: Elisha, Omri
Название: Moral ambition
ISBN: 0520267516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520267510
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Описание: Examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians. Focusing on two Tennessee megachurches, this title reaches beyond political controversies over issues such as abortion and public prayer to highlight the ways that evangelicals at the grassroots of the Christian Right promote faith-based causes.

Автор: Omri Boehm
Название: The Binding of Isaac: A Religious Model of Disobedience
ISBN: 0567656934 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567656933
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Traditional interpretations in both Judaism and Christianity argue that the Akedah presents not only an ethical question but also an ethical reply. But for the intervention of the angel, Abraham would have killed his son. Obedience to God take precedence over morality as humanly conceived. Yet, the angel of YHWH that appears to Abraham is a later addition to the text; thus, in the original narrative Abraham actually disobeys the divine command to slay his son, and sacrifices a ram instead. The first part of the book shows how the "original" version of the narrative did not contain the angelic figure. The second part of the book re-examines various religious interpretations of the text to show that exegetes such as Maimonides and his followers did point out Abraham's disobedience. According to these writers the esoteric layer of the story in fact declares that disobedience to God's command was Abraham's true affirmation of faith. In the third part of the book, Boehm re-opens the philosophical debate between Kant and Kierkegaard. Boehm concludes the book by contending that the monotheistic model of faith presented by Abraham was actually a model of disobedience.