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Ben-Yehuda's POCKET ENGLISH-HEBREW, HEBREW-ENGLISH DICTIONARY
derives from the eight-volume DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS OF THE
HEBREW LANGUAGE by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew,
and from the new studies by his son, Ehud Ben-Yehuda, and David
Weinstein.
This new work is designed expressly for the widest possible
variety of interests and professions -- for students, teachers,
travelers, home and office libraries. In it you will find over
30,000 vocabulary entries, alphabetically arranged. There is a
comprehensive but compact explanation of grammar, including tables
of irregular verbs. There are keys to proper pronunciation,
abbreviations, up-to-date technical terms, examples of idiomatic
usage, tables of numerals, weights, measures and currency.
This absorbing biography chronicles the life and work of one of the
most important entertainers of the twentieth century. Eddie Cantor
(1892-1964) starred in theater, film, radio, and television. His
immense popularity across a variety of media, his pride in his
Jewish heritage, and his engagement with pressing political issues
distinguished him from other headliners of his era. Paying equal
attention to Cantor's humor and politics, Weinstein documents his
significance as a performer, philanthropist, and activist. Many
show business figures quietly shed their Jewish backgrounds or did
not call attention to the fact that they were Jewish. Cantor was
different. He addressed the vital issues of his times, including
acculturation, national identity, and antisemitism. He was
especially forceful in opposing Nazism and paid a price for this
activism in 1939, when a sponsor cancelled the actor's radio
program. In this carefully researched book, Weinstein uncovers
sketches and routines filled with Jewish phrases, allusions, jokes,
songs, and stories. Cantor frequently did not mark this material as
"Jewish," relying instead on attentive audiences to interpret his
coded performances. Illustrated with thirty photographs, The Eddie
Cantor Story examines the evolution, impact, and legacy of Cantor's
performance style. His music and comedy not only shaped the history
of popular entertainment, but also provide a foundation for ongoing
efforts to redefine Jewish culture and build community in
contemporary America.
Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among
the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental
Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship,
though not normally considered together, is studied here to
demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and
distinctive modes of working, they responded polemically in the
guise of traditional scholarship to their shared trauma. For each,
the political calamity of European fascism was a profound
intellectual crisis, requiring an intellectual response which
Weinstein and Zakai now contextualize, ideologically and
politically. They exemplify just how extensively, and sometimes how
subtly, 1930s and 1940s scholarship was used not only to explain,
but to fight the political evils that had infected modernity,
victimizing so many. An original perspective on a popular area of
research, this book draws upon a mass of secondary literature to
provide an innovative and valuable contribution to
twentieth-century intellectual history.
Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among
the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental
Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship,
though not normally considered together, is studied here to
demonstrate how, despite their different disciplines and
distinctive modes of working, they responded polemically in the
guise of traditional scholarship to their shared trauma. For each,
the political calamity of European fascism was a profound
intellectual crisis, requiring an intellectual response which
Weinstein and Zakai now contextualize, ideologically and
politically. They exemplify just how extensively, and sometimes how
subtly, 1930s and 1940s scholarship was used not only to explain,
but to fight the political evils that had infected modernity,
victimizing so many. An original perspective on a popular area of
research, this book draws upon a mass of secondary literature to
provide an innovative and valuable contribution to
twentieth-century intellectual history.
The "Art of Life" is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of
practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate
this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought.
Mill divides the Art of Life into three "departments": "Morality,
Prudence or Policy, and Aesthetics." In the volume's first section,
Rex Martin, David Weinstein, Ben Eggleston, and Dale E. Miller
investigate the relation between the departments of morality and
prudence. Their papers ask whether Mill is a rule utilitarian and,
if so, whether his practical philosophy must be incoherent. The
second section contains papers by Jonathan Riley and Wendy Donner,
who explore the relation between the departments of morality and
aesthetics. They discuss issues ranging from supererogation to
aesthetic pleasure and humanity's relationship with nature. The
papers in the third section consider the Art of Life's axiological
first principle, the principle of utility. Elijah Millgram contends
that Mill's own life refutes his claim that the Art of Life has a
single axiological first principle. Philip Kitcher maintains that
Mill has a dynamic axiology requiring us to continually refine our
conception of the good. In the final section, three papers address
what it means to put the Art of Life into practice. Robert
Haraldsson locates an 'Art of Ethics' in On Liberty that is in
tension with the Art of Life. Nadia Urbinati plumbs the classical
roots of Mill's view of the good life. Finally, Colin Heydt
develops Mill's suggestion that we regard our own lives as works of
art.
This rich and provocative study assesses Herbert Spencer's pivotal
contribution to the emergence of liberal utilitarianism and shows
that Spencer, as much as J. S. Mill, provided liberal
utilitarianism with its formative contours. Like Mill, Spencer
tried to reconcile a principle of liberty and strong moral rights
with a utilitarian, maximizing theory of good. In this powerful and
sympathetic account, David Weinstein argues that Spencer's moral
and political thought exhibits greater systematic integrity than
received views of his thought acknowledge. However, Weinstein also
examines the problems and flaws in Spencer's version of liberal
utilitarianism, and shows that, precisely because of these flaws,
it is engaging and deserving of our critical attention. This
challenging study will be of interest to graduates and scholars in
the fields of political theory, moral and political philosophy, and
the history of political thought.
The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill,
James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both
theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British
imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth
century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to
bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this
legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and
imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in
the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of
current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians
conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and
political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as
slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our
understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and
promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue
between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those
critical of it.
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Utilitarianism and Empire (Hardcover)
Bart Schultz, Georgios Varouxakis; Contributions by David Theo Goldberg, H. S Jones, Javed Majeed, …
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R3,687
Discovery Miles 36 870
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The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill,
James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both
theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British
imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth
century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to
bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this
legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and
imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in
the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of
current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians
conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and
political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as
slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our
understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and
promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue
between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those
critical of it.
This rich and provocative study assesses Herbert Spencer's pivotal
contribution to the emergence of liberal utilitarianism and shows
that Spencer, as much as J. S. Mill, provided liberal
utilitarianism with its formative contours. Like Mill, Spencer
tried to reconcile a principle of liberty and strong moral rights
with a utilitarian, maximizing theory of good. In this powerful and
sympathetic account, David Weinstein argues that Spencer's moral
and political thought exhibits greater systematic integrity than
received views of his thought acknowledge. However, Weinstein also
examines the problems and flaws in Spencer's version of liberal
utilitarianism, and shows that, precisely because of these flaws,
it is engaging and deserving of our critical attention. This
challenging study will be of interest to graduates and scholars in
the fields of political theory, moral and political philosophy, and
the history of political thought.
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the name DuMont was
synonymous with the new medium of television. Many people first
watched TV on DuMont-brand sets, the best receivers money could
buy. More viewers enjoyed their first programs on the DuMont
network, which was established in 1946. This book examines DuMont's
programs and personalities.
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