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First published in 1921, this book examines the changes in styles
of warfare between the medieval period and the Renaissance.
Frederick Lewis Taylor links the transformations in intellectual
and cultural life in this period with contemporary military
innovations. His discussion focuses on the Italian wars between
Spain, France and the Netherlands between 1494 and 1529, both
because the aggression of competing states in a small area led to
frequent wars, and because the influence of the Renaissance was
strongest in its birthplace, the Italian peninsula. Taylor traces
the stages in the development in all aspects of military
operations, and also investigates the development of a theoretical
study of war. His work remains one of the most complete reviews in
English of the Italian wars of this period, and explains the
origins of the style of warfare which would dominate Europe in the
following centuries.
This is a memorial for Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, a pioneering
political scientist, international relations specialist and peace
scholar of the 20th century. Born in Prague, he was a professor at
MIT, Yale and Harvard and spent a decade at the Social Science
Center Berlin (WZB). He was a global leader in the theory and
scientific analysis of international relations and comparative
politics who published on nationalism, social communication,
European integration, war and peace, arms control, social
cybernetics, general systems analysis, and global modelling. He
pioneered the development and analysis of large-scale political and
social data across nations and over time and proposed a widespread
access to these data and their scientific evaluation. This book
offers biographical data on Karl W. Deutsch, reproduces chapters
from his PhD thesis and his book Nerves of Government. Colleagues
from the USA (A.S. Markovits, H. Alker, R.L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.,P. J.
Katzenstein, T.R. Cusack, C.L. Taylor), Germany (D. Senghaas, R.
Wildenmann, R. Mackensen, K. v. Beyme) and the Czech Republic (M.
Hroch) offer Collegial Critiques and Memorials. It provides a
comprehensive bibliography of his publications and memorials for a
great scholar, a superb academic teacher and world citizen. * Karl
Wolfgang Deutsch was a major global pioneer in Political Science,
internationalrelations and peace research in the 20th century. *
His most creative contributions were the concept of social
mobilization, the use of cyberneticsto study human relationships,
the introduction of politics in world modeling, and the role of
communication in governance.* He was president of the American
Political Science Association (1969-70) and of theInternational
Political Science Association (1976-79) and was a Director of the
SocialScience Research Center Berlin (1977-87). * Academics,
including graduate students, exploring nationalism, political
integration,social communications, cybernetics, and global modeling
will find this volume instructive.
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Princeton's Mark Lewis Taylor has always worked at the intersection
of the political and theological. Now, in this intense and exciting
work, he explores in a systematic way how those two dimensions of
human reality can be conceived anew and together. Taylor argues
that the decline of political discourse, the justification of
torture and preemptive war, mass incarceration, the misuse of
religion to justify atrocity, and most especially the sheer weight
of suffering in the worldall these developments urge us to
reconceive theology itself. In conjunction with the latest insights
of political theory, decolonial thought, and spectral theories in
contemporary philosophy, Taylor suggests that the political is the
context of the theological and a realm in which we can discern,
beyond simple categories of transcendence and immanence, a
transimmanence that is theologically illuminative and politically
liberating.
The new edition of Mark Lewis Taylor's award-winning The Executed
God is both a searing indictment of the structures of "Lockdown
America" and a visionary statement of hope. It is also a call for
action to Jesus followers to resist US imperial projects and power.
Outlining a "theatrics of state terror," Taylor identifies and
analyzes its instruments - mass incarceration, militarized police
tactics, surveillance, torture, immigrant repression, and capital
punishment - through which a racist and corporatized Lockdown
America enforces a global neoliberal economic and political
imperialism. Against this, The Executed God proposes a
"counter-theatrics to state terror," a declamation of the way of
the cross for Jesus followers that unmasks the powers of US state
domination and enacts an adversarial politics of resistance, artful
dramatic actions, and the building of peoples' movements. Heralded
in its first edition, this new edition is thoroughly revised,
updated, and expanded, offering a rethinking of what being a
Christian is and how Christianity should act to bring about what
Taylor terms "a liberating material spirituality" to unseat the
state that kills.
In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new
architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical,
social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There
gleaming skyscrapers tower over struggling ghettos, abandoned
businesses mar upscale shopping areas, and tall-steeple churches
sometimes languish where storefront mosques thrive. Exploring the
religious significance of this new urban landscape, a group of
theologians, members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian
Theology, traveled to select cities and found an exciting, vibrant,
and multivoiced religious spirit at work. In these essays five
leading American theologians delve deeply into the contemporary
spiritual geographies of five cities, capturing, through a mix of
personal and historical narrative, political analysis, and
theological rumination, a sense of this new sacred space and the
spirit aborning there.
Princeton theologian Mark Taylor analyzes right-wing Christian
movements in the United States amid the powers of religion,
politics, empire, and corporate classes in post-9/11 USA.The real
gift of Taylor's book is his argument that this militant Christian
faith must be viewed against a backdrop of the American political
romanticism and corporatist liberalism of U.S. past and present.
Taylor uses the best of cultural and historical studies, while
deftly drawing lessons for American readers from theologian Paul
Tillich's analysis of power and religion during the rise of fascism
and nationalism in Germany of the 1930s.The result is an innovative
framework for interpreting how Christian nationalists, Pentagon war
planners and corporate institutions today are forging alliances in
the U.S. that have dramatic and destructive global impact. Moving
beyond lament, Taylor also leaves readers with a new romance of
revolutionary traditions and a new more radical liberalism,
revitalizing American visions of spirit that are both prophetic and
public for U.S. residents today.
Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and
momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep
pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North
America's leading theologians whose close collaboration over
several years bring us this exciting volume. Reconstructing
Christian Theology introduces theology in such a way that readers
can discern the relevance of historical materials, pose theological
questions, and begin to think theologically for themselves.
Further, like other projects of the Workgroup on Constructive
Theology, this volume stems from a deep desire to model a credible,
creative, and engaged contemporary theology. So each chapter
tackles major Christian teaching, juxtaposes it with a significant
social or cultural challenge, and then reconstructs each in light
of the other. The result is an innovative and compelling way to
learn how theology can contribute to rethinking the most pressing
issues of our day.
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