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Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern
Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes
and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed
books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of
verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks,
boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments.
Calligraphers left messages on the implements ordinarily used for
writing on paper. These inscriptions—terse compositions in verse
or epigrammatic prose—relate in complex ways to the objects on
which they are written. Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the
relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by
examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to
mid-Qing dynasties. He considers how the literary qualities of
inscriptions interact with the visual and physical properties of
the things that bear them. Kelly argues that inscribing an object
became a means for authors to grapple with the materiality and
technologies of writing. Facing profound social upheavals, from
volatility in the marketplace to the violence of dynastic
transition, writers turned to inscriptions to reflect on their
investments in and dependence on the permanence of the written
word. Shedding new light on cultures of writing in early modern
China, The Inscription of Things broadens understandings of the
links between the literary and the material.
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Vatican Cookbook (Hardcover)
Vatican City; David Geisser; Contributions by Edwin Niederberger, Thomas Kelly
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Since the mid 1990s, theoretical and empirical research on how
social capital affects well-being has blossomed in the field of
economic development. Based on noted theoretical and empirical work
in other social sciences, this concept is now becoming a vital new
tool for economists. The chapters in this volume explore the
challenges and opportunities raised by this concept for
researchers, practitioners and teachers. Social Capital and
Economic Development is based upon a consistent, policy-based
vision of how social capital affects well-being in developing
countries. The book includes a comparison of experimental and
empirical evidence on social capital and a range of field-based
evidence, from environmental to cultural to nation-building and on
how investment in social capital can improve well-being. The
contributions are from leading development economists as well as
non-economic social scientists with expertise in this field.
Development academics, practitioners, and environmental economists
will find this coherent volume of great interest, as well as those
involved in public policy in the developing world.
Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern
Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes
and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed
books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of
verse onto cups, ladles, animal horns, seashells, walking sticks,
boxes, fans, daggers, teapots, and musical instruments.
Calligraphers left messages on the implements ordinarily used for
writing on paper. These inscriptions—terse compositions in verse
or epigrammatic prose—relate in complex ways to the objects on
which they are written. Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the
relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by
examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to
mid-Qing dynasties. He considers how the literary qualities of
inscriptions interact with the visual and physical properties of
the things that bear them. Kelly argues that inscribing an object
became a means for authors to grapple with the materiality and
technologies of writing. Facing profound social upheavals, from
volatility in the marketplace to the violence of dynastic
transition, writers turned to inscriptions to reflect on their
investments in and dependence on the permanence of the written
word. Shedding new light on cultures of writing in early modern
China, The Inscription of Things broadens understandings of the
links between the literary and the material.
Concentrating mainly on the process philosophy developed by Alfred
North Whitehead, this series of essays brings together some of the
newest developments in the application of process thinking to the
physical and social sciences. These essays, by established scholars
in the field, demonstrate how a wider and deeper understanding of
the world can be obtained using process philosophical concepts, how
the distortions and blockages inevitably inherent in substantivist
talk can be set aside, and how new and fertile lines of research in
the sciences can be opened as a result.
The first comprehensive monograph on Mickalene Thomas, a key figure
in 21st-century contemporary art Over the past two decades,
Mickalene Thomas's critically acclaimed and extensive body of work
has spanned painting, collage, photography, video, and the
immersive installations that have become her signature. With
influences ranging from nineteenth-century painting to popular
culture, Thomas's art articulates a complex and empowering vision
of aspiration and self-image through gender and race while
expanding on and subverting common definitions of beauty,
sexuality, and celebrity. This book, made in close collaboration
with Thomas, is the first to survey the breadth of her
extraordinary career. Publication coincides with the opening of
Mickalene Thomas's first global exhibition, Beyond the Pleasure
Principle, at Levy Gorvy galleries in New York, London, Paris, Hong
Kong, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris.
Ulrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his adventures
as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of chivalric
life. Ulrich von Liechtenstein's extraordinary account of his
adventures as a knight-errant is one of the most vivid images of
chivalric life to have come down to us. His knightly autobiography
was written in the mid-thirteenth century,and gives an account of
the "journey of Venus" which he undertook in 1226 in honour of his
lady, in which he claimed to have broken 307 spears in jousts
against all comers in the space of a month. Some of it is obviously
quietlyexaggerated, written for his friends' entertainment many
years later, and he is not above a sly dig at the conventions of
courtly love, but he completely accepts its basic ideas. It is full
of lively episodes and good stories, aswell as verses in honour of
his lady; if the tale has been polished up for effect, it is
nonetheless a thoroughly entertaining account of how a knight saw
his ideal career in the jousting field. If the name is unexpectedly
familiar to modern readers, it is because it was borrowed by the
hero of the film A Knight's Tale; Ulrich would have certainly
approved of his exploits. Introduction by KELLY DEVRIES.
Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively
influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people.
Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. We
tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and more
favorably than the evidence warrants. But what is it, exactly, for
a person or thing to be biased? In Bias: A Philosophical Study,
Thomas Kelly explores a number of foundational questions about the
nature of bias and our practices of attributing it. He develops a
general framework for thinking about bias, the norm theoretic
account, and shows how that framework illuminates much that we say
and think about bias in both everyday life and the sciences. He
argues provocatively that both morality and rationality sometimes
require us to be biased; that groups of people can be biased even
if none of their members are; that we are often rationally required
to believe that those who disagree with us are biased, even if we
know absolutely nothing about why they believe as they do or about
their psychologies; and that whether someone counts as biased is
often a relative matter. He defends the possibility of what he
calls 'biased knowing' and argues that the phenomenon has
significant implications for both philosophical methodology and
scepticism. A central aim of the book is to expand the range of
issues that have thus far been considered under the heading 'the
philosophy of bias' by putting new theoretical questions on the
table and proposing bold answers that can serve as starting points
for future inquiry.
This volume presents the first English translation of one of the
most original literary products of the German medieval period. It
is introduced with a sketch of the poet's life, an evaluation of
his work as autobiography and as fiction, and a survey of the
extensive criticism that has been devoted to it. Service of Ladies
has been put into English not only as a significant document of its
time and place, but more especially because it is a piece of
literature which is perhaps as entertaining today as it was seven
centuries ago when Ulrich was reciting it to the laughter and
applause of the knights and ladies of his native Styria.
Since its first publication in 1941, A Testament of Devotion, by the renowned Quaker teacher Thomas Kelly, has been universally embraced as a truly enduring spiritual classic. Plainspoken and deeply inspirational, it gathers together five compelling essays that urge us to center our lives on God's presence, to find quiet and stillness within modern life, and to discover the deeply satisfying and lasting peace of the inner spiritual journey. As relevant today as it was a half-century ago, A Testament of Devotion is the ideal companion to that highest of all human arts-the lifelong conversation between God and his creatures. I have in mind something deeper than the simplification of our external programs, our absurdly crowded calendars of appointments through which so many pantingly and frantically gasp. These do become simplified in holy obedience, and the poise and peace we have been missing can really be found. But there is a deeper, an internal simplification of the whole of one's personality, stilled, tranquil, in childlike trust listening ever to Eternity's whisper, walking with a smile into the dark."
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Thomas Kelly
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Hymns (Paperback)
Thomas Kelly
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