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This collection of facsimile reprints brings together the most
important recent scholarship examining the major stages in
Heidegger's philosophical career.
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The myth of Orpheus articulates what social theorists have known
since Plato: music matters. It is uniquely able to move us, to
guide the imagination, to evoke memories, and to create spaces
within which meaning is made. Popular music occupies a place of
particular social and cultural significance. Christopher Partridge
explores this significance, analyzing its complex relationships
with the values and norms, texts and discourses, rituals and
symbols, and codes and narratives of modern Western cultures. He
shows how popular musics power to move, to agitate, to control
listeners, to shape their identities, and to structure their
everyday lives is central to constructions of the sacred and the
profane. In particular, he argues that popular music can be
important edgework, challenging dominant constructions of the
sacred in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of musicians
and musical genres, as well as a number of theoretical approaches
from critical musicology, cultural theory, sociology, theology, and
the study of religion, The Lyre of Orpheus reveals the significance
and the progressive potential of popular music.
An exploration of the murder that occurred at Rocky Point Park in
Warwick, Rhode Island in 1893.
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Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life
through their sagas. Folklorist Helen Adeline Guerber brings to
life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and
monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from
the comic to the tragic, these legends tell of passion, love,
friendship, pride, courage, strength, loyalty, and betrayal.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague?
Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it?
For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.
Based on new research, and informed by recent developments in
literary and historical studies, The Theatres of War reveals the
importance of the theatre in the shaping of response to the
Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815). Gillian Russell
explores the roles of the military and navy as both actors and
audiences, and shows their performances to be crucial to their
self-perception as actors fighting on behalf of an often distant
domestic audience. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of
1793-1815 had profound consequences for British society, politics,
and culture. In this, the first in-depth study of the cultural
dimension of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Gillian Russell
examines an important dimension of the experience of these wars -
theatricality. Through this study, the theatre emerges as a place
where battles were celebrated in the form of spectacular
reenactments, and where the tensions of mobilization on an hitherto
unprecedented scale were played out in the form of riots and
disturbances. This book is intended for scholars, postgraduates,
and undergraduates studying theatre and theatre history, cultural
studies, Romanticism, social and political (British)
This volume takes as its object not religion as such but a set of
interventions that raised to scholarly consciousness some of the
intellectual problems and political stakes in the representation of
religion. Its point of departure is Wilfred Cantwell Smith's early
critique of European and North American productions of 'religion'
as an object of knowledge. Selections take up something of the form
and consequences of Smith's argument as the task of making explicit
the historically determined status of religion's use as a category
for describing and differentiating humans, their behaviors and
social practices. Thematic links are made between classic
interventions in Religious Studies and related fields of critical
inquiry (including essays by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Joan
Wallach Scott, and Jonathan Z. Smith) and their contemporary
interlocutors. Framed innovatively by the themes of cultural and
scholarly mapping, the critique of texts and textuality, and
sexualized, racialized, and gendered constructions of the body,
with each section prefaced by original contributions from leading
scholars in the field (e.g. Amy Hollywood and Burton Mack),
Readings in the Theory of Religion will prove indispensable to
students and scholars in every sub-field of critical and cultural
studies of religion.
'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer
detail and breadth of scale' BBC History Magazine
This newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas
of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154
maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the
trials and tribulations which have haunted their story.
The themes covered include:
- Prejudice and Violence- from the destruction of Jewish
independence between 722 and 586 BC to the flight from German
persecution in the 1930s. Also covers the incidence of anti-semitic
attacks in the Americas and Europe.
- Migrations and Movements- from the entry into the promised land
to Jewish migration in the twenty- first century, including new
maps on recent emigration to Israel from Europe and worldwide.
- Society, Trade and Culture- from Jewish trade routes between
800 and 900 to the situation of world Jewry in the opening years of
the twenty- first century.
- Politics, Government and War- from the Court Jews of the
fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of
Israel.
This new edition is also updated to include maps showing Jewish
museums in the United States and Canada, and Europe, as well as
American conservation efforts abroad. Other topics covered in this
revised edition include Jewish educational outreach projects in
various parts of the world, and Jews living under Muslim rule.
Forty years on from its first publication, this book is still an
indispensible guide to Jewish history.
In the nineteenth century, German Liberalism grew into a powerful
political movement vociferous in its demands for the freedom of the
individual, for changes to allow the participation of all men in
the political system and for a fundamental reform of the German
states. As elsewhere in Europe, Liberalism was linked not only with
a strong social commitment, but also with the formation of a
national state. In this concise and authoritative study of
liberalism in German, Dieter Langewiesche analyses the foundation
and development of German liberalism from the nineteenth to the
twentieth century. He takes into account the most recent research
and scholarship in this field, examining the role of individual
German states, the local roots of liberalism, the links between
liberalism and its social bases of support, especially from
bourgeois groups, and the forms of political organisation adopted
by the liberals. The author addresses issues fundamental to an
understanding of liberalism in Germany and the formation of the
modern German state.
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