In this new accessible philosophy of friendship, Mark Vernon links the resources of the philosophical tradition with numerous illustrations from modern culture to ask what friendship is, how it relates to sex, work, politics and spirituality. Unusually, he argues that Plato and Nietzsche, as much as Aristotle and Aelred, should be put centre stage. Their penetrating and occasionally tough insights are invaluable if friendship is to be a full, not merely sentimental, way of life for today.

The films of Pedro Almodovar have demonstrated great crossover appeal in their ability to attract both mainstream and marginal audiences and to command critical as well as commercial success. The contributors to this anthology of critical essays seek, through close readings of the director's 10 feature films, to analyze the multiple contexts of Almodovar's phenomenal international success. This volume offers a corrective to the glib approaches that have dominated previous discussions of Almodovar's films, which have treated them, on the one hand, as simply the latest contribution to the travel poster image of passionate, romantic Spain, or, on the other, as historical joyrides through the global pop culture scene. As the first comprehensive study of Almodovar's cinema to be published in North America, the book is also noteworthy for the range of critical and theoretical methodologies that the contributors bring to the study of his works. Drawing upon disciplines that run from psychoanalysis, feminism, queer theory, film and media studies, and cultural theory to the empirical study of audience response, the authors nevertheless share a concern to illuminate the specifically Spanish context of the director's films. While this volume serves the important function of introducing American audiences to post-Franco Spanish culture, it also pursues the complementary goal of projecting contemporary Spain into the critical debate on the forms and functioning of postmodern culture and society.

Have evolution, science and the trappings of the modern world killed off God irrevocably? And what do we lose if we choose not to believe in him? From Newton and Descartes to Darwin and the discovery of the genome, religion has been pushed back further and further while science has gained ground. But what fills the void that religion leaves behind? This book is an attempt to look at these questions and to suggest a third way between the easy consolations of religion and the persuasive force of science that the everyday modern reader can engage with.

Have evolution, science and the trappings of the modern world killed off God irrevocably? And what do we lose if we choose not to believe in him? From Newton and Descartes to Darwin and the discovery of the genome, religion has been pushed back further and further while science has gained ground. But what fills the void that religion leaves behind? This book is an attempt to look at these questions and to suggest a third way between the easy consolations of religion and the persuasive force of science that the everyday modern reader can engage with.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Romanism and the Republic, by Isaac J. Lansing. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766142701.

1890. A discussion of the purposes, assumptions, principles and methods of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. This volume contains fourteen discourses on Romanism and the Republic. These discourses are accurately transcribed into this work, which results in a style of public address, rather than the more finished form of deliberate literary execution. With confidence as to facts and inferences, the author submits this incomplete discussion to the public as a contribution to the demands of a great conflict.

Persecutions Of The M. E. Church, And Its Reorganization, Etc.

Persecutions Of The M. E. Church, And Its Reorganization, Etc.

A discussion of the purposes, assumptions, principles and methods of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. This volume contains fourteen discourses on Romanism and the Republic. These discourses are accurately transcribed into this work, which results in a style of public address, rather than the more finished form of deliberate literary execution. With confidence as to facts and inferences, the author submits this incomplete discussion to the public as a contribution to the demands of a great conflict.