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Personality psychology is a locally developed textbook for students
taking an introductory course in personality psychology either at
undergraduate level as part of a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of
Social Sciences or a Bachelor of Psychology (B.Psych) degree, or as
a Psychology Honours module. Theory is presented with application
to research and therapy, and with specific relevance to the South
African context. Pedagogical features such as case studies, 'in
your own experience' activities, 'research issue' boxes,
'controversy' boxes, 'end-of-chapter review' questions, and an
end-book glossary support student learning.
In, Love and Politics Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the
final rejection of an alienated life, in which humans are prevented
from developing their human powers; Eros, in contrast, is an
overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties, a world
in which human beings extend their powers and senses. Nicholas
uniquely interprets Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary
Aristotelianism as a response to alienation defined as the divorce
of fact from value. However, this account cannot address alienation
in the form of the oppression of women or people of color.
Importantly, it fails to acknowledge the domination of nature that
blackens the heart of alienated life. Alienation must be seen as a
separation of the human from nature. Nicholas turns to Aristotle,
first, to uncover the way his philosophy embodies a divorce of
human from nature, then to reconstruct the essential elements of
Aristotle's metaphysics to defend a philosophical anthropology
based on Eros. Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a
Foundation for Liberation presents a critical theory that
synthesizes MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism, Frankfurt
School Critical Theory, and Social Reproduction Theory. It will be
of great interest to political theorists and philosophers.
In Reason, Tradition, and the Good, Jeffery L. Nicholas addresses
the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just society, a
society in which people can attain fulfillment. Developing the
critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Nicholas argues that we
rely too heavily on a conception of rationality that is divorced
from tradition and, therefore, incapable of judging ends. Without
the ability to judge ends, we cannot engage in debate about the
good life or the proper goods that we as individuals and as a
society should pursue. Nicholas claims that the project of
enlightenment-defined as the promotion of autonomous reason-failed
because it was based on a deformed notion of reason as mere
rationality, and that a critical theory of society aimed at human
emancipation must turn to substantive reason, a reason constituted
by and constitutive of tradition. To find a reason capable of
judging ends, Nicholas suggests, we must turn to Alasdair
MacIntyre's Thomistic-Aristotelianism. Substantive reason comprises
thinking and acting on the set of standards and beliefs within a
particular tradition. It is the impossibility of enlightenment
rationality to evaluate ends and the possibility of substantive
reason to evaluate ends that makes the one unsuitable and the other
suitable for a critical theory of society. Nicholas's compelling
argument, written in accessible language, remains committed to the
promise of reason to help individuals achieve a good and just
society and a good life. This requires, however, a complete
revolution in the way we approach social life.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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++++British LibraryT113199Anonymous. By Nicholas Ling. Sometimes
attributed to John Bodenham, who planned the collection. With an
additional titlepage, engraved, and three final advertisement
leaves.London: printed by J. H. for W. Freeman, 1707. 8],316,
12]p.; 12
This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for
Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting
world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of
case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of
contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume
presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor
changes dramatically with variations in social, political and
economic conditions, as well as location and time period,
reaffirming the unique contribution of anthropology to economic
research. Individual sections include discussions on household
labor, firms and corporations, and state and transnational
conditions. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars,
students and interested readers of international economics,
anthropology, development issues, labor studies and sociology.
In "Reason, Tradition, and the Good, " Jeffery L. Nicholas
addresses the failure of reason in modernity to bring about a just
society, a society in which people can attain fulfillment.
Developing the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Nicholas
argues that we rely too heavily on a conception of rationality that
is divorced from tradition and, therefore, incapable of judging
ends. Without the ability to judge ends, we cannot engage in debate
about the good life or the proper goods that we as individuals and
as a society should pursue.Nicholas claims that the project of
enlightenment--defined as the promotion of autonomous
reason--failed because it was based on a deformed notion of reason
as mere rationality, and that a critical theory of society aimed at
human emancipation must turn to substantive reason, a reason
constituted by and constitutive of tradition. To find a reason
capable of judging ends, Nicholas suggests, we must turn to
Alasdair MacIntyre's Thomistic-Aristotelianism. Substantive reason
comprises thinking and acting on the set of standards and beliefs
within a particular tradition. It is the impossibility of
enlightenment rationality to evaluate ends and the possibility of
substantive reason to evaluate ends that makes the one unsuitable
and the other suitable for a critical theory of society. Nicholas's
compelling argument, written in accessible language, remains
committed to the promise of reason to help individuals achieve a
good and just society and a good life. This requires, however, a
complete revolution in the way we approach social life. "Jeffery
Nicholas has written an important and valuable book that invites
its readers to discover the difficulties of late modern Western
thought from the perspective of twentieth-century critical theory,
and to consider a response to those difficulties drawn from the
work of Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor." --Christopher
Stephen Lutz, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for
Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting
world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of
case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of
contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume
presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor
changes dramatically with variations in social, political and
economic conditions, as well as location and time period,
reaffirming the unique contribution of anthropology to economic
research. Individual sections include discussions on household
labor, firms and corporations, and state and transnational
conditions. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars,
students and interested readers of international economics,
anthropology, development issues, labor studies and sociology.
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