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Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher’s most
distinguished pieces, Blumenberg’s Rhetoric proffers a decidedly
diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled
‘Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency,
Relevance, even actualitas) of Rhetoric’ ("Anthropologische
Annäherung an die Aktualität der Rhetorik"), first published in
1971. Following Blumenberg’s lead, the contributors consider and
tackle their topics rhetorically—treating (inter alia) the
variegated discourses of Phenomenology and Truthcraft, of
Intellectual History and Anthropology, as well as the interplay of
methods, from a plurality of viewpoints. The diachronically
extensive, disciplinarily diverse essays of this
publication—notably in the current lingua franca—will
facilitate, and are to conduce to, further scholarship with respect
to Blumenberg and the art of rhetoric. With contributions by Sonja
Feger, Simon Godart, Joachim Küpper, DS Mayfield, Heinrich
Niehues-Pröbsting, Daniel Rudy Hiller, Katrin Trüstedt, Alexander
Waszynski, Friedrich Weber-Steinhaus, Nicola Zambon.
In a bold new argument, Ulrika Carlsson grasps hold of the figure
of Eros that haunts Soren Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony, and
for the first time, uses it as key to interpret that text and his
second book, Either/Or. According to Carlsson, Kierkegaard adopts
Plato's idea of Eros as the fundamental force that drives humans in
all their pursuits. For him, every existential stance-every way of
living and relating to the outside world-is at heart a way of
loving. By intensely examining Kierkegaard's erotic language, she
also challenges the theory that the philosopher's first two books
have little common ground and reveals that they are in fact
intimately connected by the central and explicit topic of love. In
this text suitable for both students and the Kierkegaard
specialist, Carlsson claims that despite long-held beliefs about
the disparity of his early work, his first two books both relate to
love and Part I of Either/Or should be treated as the sequel to The
Concept of Irony.
The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the
1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the
individuals and groups that constituted the Roman community, and
the various ways in which members of that community interacted.
There simply is, however, no overview that takes into account the
multifarious progress that has been made in the past thirty-odd
years. The purpose of this handbook is twofold. On the one hand, it
synthesizes what has heretofore been accomplished in this field. On
the other hand, it attempts to configure the examination of Roman
social relations in some new ways, and thereby indicates directions
in which the discipline might now proceed.
The book opens with a substantial general introduction that
portrays the current state of the field, indicates some avenues for
further study, and provides the background necessary for the
following chapters. It lays out what is now known about the
historical development of Roman society and the essential
structures of that community. In a second introductory article,
Clifford Ando explains the chronological parameters of the
handbook. The main body of the book is divided into the following
six sections: 1) Mechanisms of Socialization (primary education,
rhetorical education, family, law), 2) Mechanisms of Communication
and Interaction, 3) Communal Contexts for Social Interaction, 4)
Modes of Interpersonal Relations (friendship, patronage,
hospitality, dining, funerals, benefactions, honor), 5) Societies
Within the Roman Community (collegia, cults, Judaism, Christianity,
the army), and 6) Marginalized Persons (slaves, women, children,
prostitutes, actors and gladiators, bandits). The result is a
unique, up-to-date, and comprehensive survey of ancient Roman
society.
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the
diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black
explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while
reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the
controlled realm of reason that rationality claims to establish.
This approach operates a critical shift by examining
psychoanalytical texts from the literary perspective of black
desiring subjectivities and experiences. This combination of
psychoanalysis and the politics of literary interpretation of black
texts helps determine how contemporary African American and black
literature and queer texts come to defy and challenge the racial
and sexual postulates of psychoanalysis or indeed any theoretical
system that intends to define race, gender and sexualities. The
Desiring Modes of Being Black includes essays on James Baldwin,
Sigmund Freud, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Assotto Saint, and
Rozena Maart. The metacritical reading they unfold interweaves
African American Culture, Fanonian and Caribbean Thought, South
African Black Consciousness, French Theory, Psychoanalysis, and
Gender and Queer Studies.
George Berkeley's investigation of human epistemology remains one
of the most respected of its time - this edition contains the
treatise in full, complete with the author's preface. One of
Berkeley's most important beliefs was that of immaterialism. The
meaning being that nothing material exists unless it is perceived
by something or someone. Distinct from solipsism - the belief that
only the self exists - Berkeley's view is that material items are
ideas formed by distinct conscious minds; the concept of reality
being simply the summation of shared ideas rather than physical
objects fascinated philosophers of the era. Much of Berkeley's
philosophy is framed by then-new discoveries in the field of
physics. The concepts of color and light thus have a frequent
bearing on the overall thesis; disagreeing with Isaac Newton on the
subject of space, it was later that Berkeley's contrarian opinions
on matters such as calculus and free-thinking gained him further
renown.
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Walking
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Henry David Thoreau
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In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of
nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature,
physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending
more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a
self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away
from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find
other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society.
This new edition of Thoreau's classic work includes annotations and
a biographical essay.
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