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This book reconsiders the place of magic at the foundations of
modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books,
philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, Andrew Moore
shows us that magic was ubiquitous in early modern England. Rather
than a "decline of magic," this study traces a broad cultural
fascination with supernatural power. In the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, poets, philosophers, jurists, and monarchs
debated the reality and the morality of magic, and, by extension,
the limits of human power. In this way, early modern English
writing about magic was closely related to the scientific and
political philosophical writing from the period, which was likewise
reimagining humanity's relationship to nature. Moore reads Thomas
Hobbes's Leviathan alongside contemporary writing by the notorious
witch hunters Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne. He reminds us that
Francis Bacon's scientific works were addressed to King James I,
whose own Daemonologie insists on the reality of witchcraft. The
fantastical science fiction of Margaret Cavendish, he argues, must
be understood within a tradition that includes works like
Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and the peculiar autobiography
of criminal astrologer Simon Forman. By considering these disparate
works together Moore reveals the centrality of magic to the early
modern project.
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare's
political outlook by comparing some of the playwright's best-known
works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolo
Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By
situating Shakespeare 'between' these two thinkers, the distinctly
modern trajectory of the playwright's work becomes visible.
Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of
kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic.
Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics
through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and
political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare's corpus as
a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and
deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a
revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and
Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three
thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our
mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and
organizing human bodies-caring for their needs, making space for
the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of
violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare's
plays that illuminate the playwright's major political
preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.
For seven seasons, AMC's Mad Men captivated audiences with the
story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and
professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller
coaster ride through America's tumultuous 1960s. More than just a
television show about one of advertising's "bad boys," the series
investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring
whether or not the American Dream is a sustainable vision of human
flourishing and happiness. This collection of essays investigates
the show's engagement with the philosophic and political
foundations of American democracy.
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
The themes of God, Mind and Knowledge are central to the philosophy
of religion but they are now being taken up by professional
philosophers who have not previously contributed to the field. This
book is a collection of original essays by eminent and rising
philosophers and it explores the boundaries between philosophy of
religion, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. Its
introduction will make it accessible to newcomers to the field,
especially those approaching it from theology. Many of the book's
topics lie at the focal point of debates - instigated in part by
the so-called New Atheists - in contemporary culture about whether
it is rational to have religious beliefs, and the role these
beliefs can or should play in the life of individuals and of
society.
Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us
closer to environmental disaster? Why did biology choose carbon, in
a variety of compounds, as its energy carrier and storage
substance? From the smallest life forms, through multicellular
organisms, and up to whole ecosystems, this economy of carbon
compounds is fundamentally sustainable. Yet today, many are working
to expunge carbon-based energy carriers from human economies,
replacing them with solutions based on other elements and minerals.
In The Decarbonization Delusion, independent scientist and writer
Andrew Moore shows that the race to decarbonize is leading us
further down the road to environmental degradation. Instead of
banishing carbon, Moore argues that we should look to life on
Earth, which has used carbon in highly sustainable ways for 3.5
billion years, as a model for how humans can use carbon
sustainably. The Decarbonization Delusion begins by discussing
carbon's role in the inception of the universe and its critical
importance in biology. Moore identifies many intriguing features of
biology's use of carbon that are crucial to creating sustainable
human economies on Earth. Throughout, Moore draws on extensive
research and original calculations to disprove common fallacies
about carbon-based energy carriers and their alternatives. For
example, he shows that the widely perceived superiority of battery
technology over carbon-based fuels is, in most regards, a serious
misconception that, if not corrected, could have grave
environmental consequences. Politicians, industrial leaders, and
even some scientists have contributed to the widespread belief that
carbon should have no place in our energy economies. In The
Decarbonization Delusion, Moore argues against this idea, asking us
to re-think our assumptions and approach sustainable energy
development in a more scientific and dispassionate fashion.
Acute and chronic pain places a huge burden on our society.
Approximately 10% of the population in Western countries report
suffering from chronic pain, and both chronic and acute pain are
responsible for high absenteeism in the workplace. It is therefore
crucial that we have effective ways of treating pain. Unfortunately
though, we have no objective measures of pain - no blood tests, no
urine dipsticks. We have to rely on what the patient tells us. So
how then do we know what are and what are not effective pain
treatments? It is here that the principles of evidence-based
medicine have been of great value - helping us to understand the
most effective forms of pain treatment. Bandolier's Little Book of
Pain is a unique portable guide to evidence-based pain treatments.
For each possible treatment, the book provides the evidence
supporting the efficacy of the treatment, along with a clinical
bottom line, for those requiring immediate information. Written by
world leaders in the field of evidence-based pain treatments, the
book will be indispensable for the multi-disciplinary professionals
managing acute and chronic pain in primary and secondary care.
The question of realism (that is, whether God exists independently of human beings) is central to contemporary theology and church life. It is also an important topic in the philosophy of religion. This book discusses the relationship between realism and Christian faith. It uses the resources of philosophy and theology to argue for a conception of realism in which God's independent reality is shown through Christian life practices.
This book is a thorough, practical review of the challenges facing
clinicians treating skin microbes and how to combat these
therapeutic dilemmas. It expresses the critical public health
concern of antimicrobial resistance and shows how microorganisms
are developing the ability to halt the progress of antimicrobials
like antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals. Chapters are grouped
together in five sections for ease of use. The first three sections
of the book convey foundational information on the mechanisms of
antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals resistance, as well as the
implications of lack of vaccination. The fourth section then turns
to the specifics of drug resistance for protozoan and helminth
infections focusing primarily on initial and subsequent resistance
to treatment. The book closes with a discussion on the potential
solutions of innovative therapy including new delivery mechanisms,
broad-spectrum antibiotics, phytocompounds, and biofilms. Chapters
feature magnified, microscopic photos for identifying structures as
they appear on the skin. Part of the Updates in Clinical
Dermatology series, Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin
is an important resource relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, and
is written for all medical healthcare professionals.
The question of realism (that is, whether God exists independently of human beings) is central to contemporary theology and church life. It is also an important topic in the philosophy of religion. This book discusses the relationship between realism and Christian faith. It uses the resources of philosophy and theology to argue for a conception of realism in which God's independent reality is shown through Christian life practices.
The doctrine of God is central to theology for it determines the
way in which other regions of Christian doctrine are articulated,
yet work on this topic in its own right has been occluded recently
by treatments of the Trinity or divine passibility. This collection
of specially commissioned essays presents major treatments of key
themes in the doctrine of God, motivated by but not restricted to
the work of Professor Paul S. Fiddes to whom it is offered as a
Festschrift. It includes invigorating discussions of the biblical
and non-biblical sources for the doctrine of God, and the section
on 'Metaphysics and the Doctrine of God' examines some of the most
important conceptual questions arising in contemporary theological
debate about the being and nature of God, and God's relations to
the world. The final section of the book on 'God and Humanity' will
be highly relevant to scholars working in the fields of theological
anthropology, moral and political theology, on inter-faith
relations, on theology and literature, or who are interested in the
impact of contemporary science on the doctrine of God. The
introduction relates the essays in the book to the work of
Professor Fiddes and to wider debates in Christian doctrine. This
volume brings together a team of internationally distinguished
scholars from a wide range of theological, philosophical, and
religious perspectives, and it will stimulate fresh thinking and
new debate about this most central of topics in Christian theology.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a German poet and author of prose.
His "Reisebilder" (Travel Sketches), "Die Harzeise" (Journey
through the Harz Mountains), and the volume of collected poems
"Buch der Lieder" (Book of Songs) are classics of German
literature. --- His general interest in legends and folk tales is
evident in his "Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski," in which he
tells, inter alia, the story of the Flying Dutchman that became the
source for an opera by Richard Wagner. --- Many of his poems have
been set to music by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert
Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and other composers.
"The Mysteries Marseille" recounts the love of Philippe Cayol,
poor, untitled, republican, and of young Blanche de Cazalis, the
niece of De Cazalis, a millionaire, politician and all-powerful in
Marseille. Philippe's brother, Marius, devotes himself to
protecting the two lovers - and the child Blanche gave birth to
before entering a convent - from the anger of De Cazalis. --- "The
Mysteries of Marseille" appeared as a serialized story in "Le
Messager de Provence" in 1867, while Zola was writing "Therese
Raquin." As a work of his youth, it was thus also a commissioned
work on which Zola "cut his teeth." In it, he himself saw the
"amount of will and work" that he had to expend to elevate himself
to "the literary effort of the Rougon-Macquart novels." --- Indeed,
in this popular novel, typical of the genre in its various and
unexpected twists and turns, we can already see his style, his
palate for real life, his indignation about injustice, and his art
of depicting social strata (the wealthy, the clergy, the deviants,
the common man) as well as events (the revolution of 1848, the
cholera epidemic). With this canvas as a background, he has painted
a breathtaking adventure, the thrilling story of an impossible
love, that resembles the love of liberty.
"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La
Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of
the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andre
Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel
Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the
symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the
two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of
freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan
constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve
intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search
of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying
one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture
most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete,
and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art
for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific
struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not
think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois
Mauriac)
"At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, ... I arranged three
chapters of this book (Anti-Duhring) as a pamphlet, which he
translated and published in 1880, under the title: Socialisme
utopique et Socialisme scientifique. From this French text, a
Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German
friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian,
Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian transla-tions, based upon the
German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English
edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not
aware that any other Socialist work, not even our Communist
Manifesto of 1848, or Marx's Capital, has been so often translated.
In Germany, it has had four editions of about 20,000 cop-ies in
all." Frederick Engels: from the Preface to the 1892 English
Edition]
Andrew Moore's new book, Blue Alabama, focuses on the American
South, depicts the economic, social and cultural divisions that
characterize the South and the love of history, tradition and land
that binds its citizens. Following upon in-depth explorations of
the economically ravaged city of Detroit (2007 - 2009) and the
mythic high plains region along the 100th Meridian (2011 - 2014),
Blue Alabama continues the artist's investigation of "the inner
empire" of the United States.
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