Описание: This book provides new views of longstanding structural questions in the Oresteia, of its repeated language for time, and of its rich ritual constructions. Its wider appeal may well lie in being thoroughly multidisciplinary, in repeatedly finding inspiration in current anthropological work of time, ritual, and agency.
Описание: During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen (1882–1974) incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. He exemplified the hope among Jews that science would pave the way to full and equal integration. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation. Kaufman reveals the ways in which Kallen shaped the direction of discussions on race, ethnicity, modernism, and secularism that influenced the entire American Jewish community. An ardent secularist, Kallen was also a serious religious thinker whose Jewish identity, as unique and idiosyncratic as it was, exemplifies the modern responsiveness to the moral ideal of ""authenticity."" Kaufman shows how one man's quest for authenticity contributed to a gradual shift in Jewish self perception in America and how, in turn, his struggle led to America's embrace of Kallen's well-known term ""cultural pluralism.
Описание: This book provides in-depth examination of the recent confrontation between Islamists and secularists in Egypt and Tunisia. Presenting a new approach to understand Islamism and secularism, the research addresses the variables that could affect the outcome of transitional negotiations.
Alexander's phalangites clash with Persian foot-soldiers in three key battles of the Ancient World.
In this highly illustrated study, a noted authority assesses the origins, combat role and battlefield performance of Alexander's phalangites and their Persian opponents in three key battles of the era--the Granicus River, Issus and Gaugamela--at the dawn of a new way of waging war. In August 334 BC, Alexander the Great invaded the Persian Empire and systematically set about its conquest. At the core of Alexander's army were 10,000 members of the phalanx, the phalangites. Armed with a long pike and fighting in formations up to 16 ranks deep, these grizzled veterans were the mainstay of the Macedonian army. Facing them were the myriad armies of the peoples that made up the Persian Empire. At the center of these forces was the formation known as the Immortals: 10,000 elite infantry, armed with spears and bows.
Автор: Felix O Murchadha Название: The Time of Revolution: Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger ISBN: 1472570766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472570765 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event is explored through Heidegger's discussion of temporality and historicity. Beginning with his magnum opus, Being and Time, Heidegger is shown to have undertaken a radical rethinking of time in terms of human action, understood as involving both doing and making and as implicated in an interplay of the opportune moment (kairos) and temporal continuity (chronos).
Developing this theme through his key writings of the early 1930s, the book shows how Heidegger's analyses of truth and freedom led to an increasingly dialectical account of time and action culminating in his phenomenology of the - artistic and political - 'work'. A context is thus given for Heidegger's political engagement in 1933. While diagnosing the moral failure of this engagement, the book defends Heidegger's account of the time of human action and shows it to foreshadow his later thought of a 'new beginning'.
Автор: N J Stevenson Название: Chronology of Fashion ISBN: 1408126370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781408126370 Издательство: A & C Black Рейтинг: Цена: 4008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Chronology of Fashion traces the history of fashion from the late 18th century up to the present. Highly illustrated, this book should be a must for anyone interested in fashion and its development.
Автор: Browne Anthony Название: Life and Loss: A Family Confronts Multiple Sclerosis ISBN: 1939696313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939696311 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3102.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Life and Loss: A Family Confronts Multiple Sclerosis is a highly personal love story about a family caring for a daughter stricken with this disease that has no cure. The family confronts the disease, dealing with failures and successes as they try to help their loved one improve her quality of life. Unfortunately, she succumbs as the family exhausts all their energy and resources to help make her life comfortable.
Her father shares the story of how the family progressed through the various stages of the disease with their loved one. Learning about the effects of Multiple Sclerosis was not enough to prepare the family for everything they would experience. There is so much more that wasn't addressed by the healthcare professionals.
Her father tells the story to help others in the same or similar circumstances with the lessons he and his family gathered.
Автор: Palmer Dean Название: Chronos: Revolution ISBN: 1632210401 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781632210401 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Will shook his head and barely got the words out. "I can't lose Joel, too. I can't." Phanuel reached out and placed his hand on Will's shoulder. "You must let him go, Will. If you don't, all will be lost." Tears streamed down Will's cheeks. "Do you mean to tell me that the only way to end all this...is for me to sacrifice my own son?" The fierce angel shed his own tears. "You'll be in the best company, my friend...the best. I've never seen the Father weep like He did that day...the day He sacrificed His Son on the cross...but He did it anyway." Revolution, the thrilling and moving conclusion to the Chronos trilogy, details the heart-pounding adventure of Joel Stark, the third generation caught in the curse of the mysterious, fearsome time devices. Heir to the Seer's powers, his struggle is not merely against flesh and blood, but also against "rulers, authorities, and spiritual forces of evil." His desperate quest to save humanity from the greatest destructive power in human hands takes him from Washington, D.C. to Jerusalem, from the present to the future, and from the earth to deep space, as history and destiny come full circle. Dean Palmer completed a master's "with distinction" at Liberty University's School of Divinity, contrasting the Bible's influence in the American and French Revolutions in his thesis. His extensive travels included a year as a diplomat in Saudi Arabia.
Gerald J. Beyer's Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to embody Catholic social teaching (CST) in their campus policies and practices. Beyer argues that the corporatization of the university has infected U.S. higher education with hyper-individualistic models and practices that hinder the ability of Catholic institutions to create an environment imbued with bedrock values and principles of CST such as respect for human rights, solidarity, and justice. Beyer problematizes corporatized higher education and shows how it has adversely affected efforts at Catholic institutions to promote worker justice on campus, equitable admissions, financial aid, retention policies, diversity, and inclusion policies that treat people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons as full community members, promote just investment, and back stewardship of resources and the environment.
Just Universities represents a unique contribution to the discussion of mission and identity in Catholic higher education, which almost exclusively focuses on issues such as curriculum, philosophy of education, and religious rituals on campus while overlooking the obligation to promote justice and human dignity both beyond and within the institution's walls. By both critiquing failures to embody Catholic social teaching on campuses, commending already existent promising practices, and proposing ways in which Catholic colleges can foster stronger commitment to CST, Just Universities illustrates how Catholic social teaching can undergird a just model of higher education in the age of the corporatized university.
Описание: Resistant Islands offers an overview of Okinawan history, focusing on the colonization by Japan, its fate during World War II, and its status as a US military base. This new edition includes an analysis of events since the book first published, including the deployment of MV-22 Ospreys, the approval of the new base, and the "all-Okinawa movement."
Описание: Offers a rare glimpse into the intellectual and emotional life of an educated European woman at a particularly dangerous time in Spanish colonial history.