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Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally
been omitted from Spanish language education in the US - especially
in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English.
Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning
include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed
opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race
and power are enacted through language. Spanish So White is written
specifically for secondary and post-secondary teachers who identify
as White and second language learners of Spanish. It supports the
development of language education that centers a racially dynamic
Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and
institutional forms of racism. Author Adam Schwartz shares stories
of his own socialization into Whiteness and Spanish-English
bilingualism. He invites readers into the work of reconciling
privileges they too may share as White Spanish-language learners
and teachers.
Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally
been omitted from Spanish language education in the US - especially
in curricula designed for imagined 'native' speakers of English.
Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning
include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed
opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race
and power are enacted through language. Spanish So White is written
specifically for secondary and post-secondary teachers who identify
as White and second language learners of Spanish. It supports the
development of language education that centers a racially dynamic
Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and
institutional forms of racism. Author Adam Schwartz shares stories
of his own socialization into Whiteness and Spanish-English
bilingualism. He invites readers into the work of reconciling
privileges they too may share as White Spanish-language learners
and teachers.
For most of modern history, Roman Catholics in Britain were a
"rejected minority," facing hostility and estrangement from a
culture increasingly at odds with traditional Christianity. Yet
British Catholicism underwent a remarkable intellectual and
literary renewal, especially in the twentieth century, drawing a
disproportionate number of the age's leading minds into its ranks.
The Third Spring unravels this paradox of a renascent Catholic
culture within a post-Christian society. It does so through
detailed profiles of the spiritual journeys and religious and
cultural beliefs of four seminal members of that twentieth-century
revival: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and
David Jones.
Hoplitkrigsforelse i arkaisk og klassisk tid
Noctes Atticae is a fascinating collection of articles on
Greco-Roman Antiquity, presented to Jorgen Mejer on his sixtieth
birthday. It includes 34 contributions by distinguished scholars
and addresses a wide variety of topics such as ancient philosophy,
Greek and Roman literature, Greek archeology, textual criticism and
history, as well as the Nachleben and reception of Antiquity.
Holism grows out of the philosophical position that an object or
phenomenon is more than the sum of its parts. And yet analysis--a
mental process crucial to human comprehension--involves breaking
something down into its components, dismantling the whole in order
to grasp it piecemeal and relationally. Wading through such
quandaries with grace and precision, "The Institutions of Meaning
"guides readers to a deepened appreciation of the entity that
ultimately enables human understanding: the mind itself.
This major work from one of France's most innovative
philosophers goes against the grain of analytic philosophy in
arguing for the view known as anthropological holism. Meaning is
not fundamentally a property of mental representations, Vincent
Descombes says. Rather, it arises out of thought that is holistic,
embedded in social existence, and bound up with the common
practices that shape the way we act and talk.
To understand what an individual "believes" or "wants"--to
apply psychological words to a person--we must take into account
the full historical and institutional context of a person's life.
But how can two people share the same thought if they do not share
the same system of belief? Descombes solves this problem by
developing a logic of relations that explains the ability of humans
to analyze structures based on their parts. Integrating insights
from anthropology, linguistics, and social theory, "The
Institutions of Meaning "pushes philosophy forward in bold new
directions.
As a logical concept, identity refers to one and the same thing. So
why, Vincent Descombes asks, do we routinely use "identity" to
describe the feelings associated with membership in a number of
different communities, as when we speak of our ethnic identity and
religious identity? And how can we ascribe the same "identity" to
more than one individual in a group? In Puzzling Identities, one of
the leading figures in French philosophy seeks to bridge the abyss
between the logical meaning of identity and the psychological sense
of "being oneself." Bringing together an analytic conception of
identity derived from Gottlob Frege with a psychosocial
understanding stemming from Erik Erikson, Descombes contrasts a
rigorously philosophical notion of identity with ideas of
collective identity that have become crucial in contemporary
cultural and political discourse. He returns to an argument of
ancient Greek philosophy about the impossibility of change for a
material individual. Distinguishing between reflexive and
expressive views of "being oneself," he shows the connections
between subjective identity and one's life and achievements. We
form profound attachments to the particular communities by which we
define ourselves. At the same time, becoming oneself as a modern
individual requires a process of disembedding oneself from one's
social milieu. This is how undergoing a crisis of identity while
coming of age has become for us a normal stage in human life.
Puzzling Identities demonstrates why a person has more than one
answer to the essential question "Who am I?"
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