Download or read book History s Fools written by David Martin Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War announced a new world order. Liberal democracy prevailed, ideological conflict abated, and world politics set off for the promised land of a secular, cosmopolitan, market-friendly end of history. Or so it seemed. Thirty years later, this unipolar worldview-- premised on shared values, open markets, open borders and abstract social justice--lies in tatters. What happened? David Martin Jones examines the progressive ideas behind liberal Western practice since the end of the twentieth century, at home and abroad. This mentality, he argues, took an excessively long view of the future and a short view of the past, abandoning politics in favour of ideas, and failing to address or understand rejection of liberal norms by non-Western 'others'. He explores the inevitable consequences of this liberal hubris: political and economic confusion, with the chaotic results we have seen. Finally, he advocates a return to more sceptical political thinking-- with prudent statecraft abroad, and defence of political order at home--in order to rescue the West from its widely advertised demise. History's Fools is a timely account of the failed project to shape the world in the West's image, and an incisive call for a return to 'true' politics.

Download or read book Babel s Tower Translated written by Phillip Michael Sherman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Babel's Tower Translated, Phillip Sherman explores the narrative of Genesis 11 and its reception and interpretation in several Second Temple and Early Rabbinic texts (e.g., Jubilees, Philo, Genesis Rabbah). The account of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is famously ambiguous. The meaning of the narrative and the actions of both the human characters and the Israelite deity defy any easy explanation. This work explores how changing historical and hermeneutical realities altered and shifted the meaning of the text in Jewish antiquity.

Download or read book A Fool s Babel written by T.A. RICHARDS II and published by Create Space. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure continues and we find the retired Special Forces soldier, Major Phillip Raynes at the university teaching classes and conducting archeological excavations. He is adored by his students and admired by his colleagues. His discoveries have made him famous and have unfortunately placed him in the spotlight. The government and a secret and very dangerous organization watch him carefully as he uncovers the exact location of the ancient Tower of Babel. Its discovery could unravel the very mystery of inter-dimensional travel and provide a way to realistically bend space and time. Now the hunt begins and Phillip and his friends find themselves in the middle of a dangerous quest for this powerful device. Who will be the first to find it and more importantly what will they use it for? In the midst of this hunt Phillip continues to suffer from the beast-like symptoms caused by the WB1N5 virus. Will he become part of the Fenris pack that hunts him and his team? Or will he become something else entirely?

Download or read book Fool written by Peter K. Andersson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Henry VIII’s court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure—a gaunt and morose-looking man with a shaved head and, in one case, a monkey on his shoulder. This is William or "Will" Somer, the king’s fool, a celebrated wit who reportedly could raise Henry’s spirits and spent many hours with him, often alone. Was Somer an “artificial fool,” a cunning comic who could speak freely in front of the king, or a “natural fool,” someone with intellectual disabilities, like many other members of the profession? And what role did he play in the tumultuous and violent Tudor era? Fool is the first biography of Somer—and perhaps the first of a Renaissance fool. After his death, Somer disappeared behind his legend, and historians struggled to separate myth from reality. Unearthing as many facts as possible, Peter K. Andersson pieces together the fullest picture yet of an enigmatic and unusual man with a very strange job. Somer’s story provides new insights into how fools lived and what exactly they did for a living, how monarchs and courtiers related to commoners and people with disabilities, and whether aspects of the Renaissance fool live on in the modern comedian. But most of all, we learn how a commoner without property or education managed to become the court’s chief mascot and a continuous presence at the center of Tudor power from the 1530s to the reign of Elizabeth I. Looking beyond stereotypes of the man in motley, Fool reveals a little-known world, surprising and disturbing, when comedy was something crueler and more unpleasant than we like to think.

Download or read book The Fall of Babel written by Josiah Bancroft and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way. (Los Angeles Times). "Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy: gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action packed, warm, witty, and thought provoking." —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe As Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, erupting inside ringdoms and leaving chaos in its wake, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. Caught in a charade, Senlin desperately tries to sabotage the rampaging Hod King, even as Marat's objective grows increasingly clear. The leader of the zealots is bound for the Sphinx's lair and the unimaginable power it contains. In the city under glass at the Tower's summit, Adam discovers a utopia where everyone inexplicably knows the details of his past. As Adam unravels the mystery of his fame, he soon discovers the crowning ringdom conceals a much darker secret. Aboard the State of Art, Edith and her crew adjust to the reality that Voleta has awoken from death changed. She seems to share more in common with the Red Hand now than her former self. While Edith wars for the soul of the young woman, a greater crisis looms: They will have to face Marat on unequal footing and with Senlin caught in the crossfire. And when the Bridge of Babel is finally opened, and the Brick Layer's true ambition revealed, neither they nor the Tower will ever be the same again. Also by Josiah Bancroft: The Books of Babel Senlin Ascends Arm of the Sphinx The Hod King The Fall of Babel

Download or read book Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Arnold Koster written by Paul Spanring and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discipleship is the heartbeat of the Christian Church. This book explores how ""following Jesus"" was understood and lived by the Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Baptist Arnold Ksster during the Third Reich era. Baptists and Lutherans often define the tension of being in the world but not of it in terms of two separate realms: the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the world. However, their understanding of these and their delicate connection is quite nuanced. Within the Lutheran tradition, the two kingdoms are held in tension, which in turn leads to a precarious interaction of state and church. In the (Ana)Baptist tradition, a much stricter duality is emphasized, resulting in a more radical and separatist stance. This book seeks to understand and compare the historical development of these two viewpoints and to discover how these traditions, represented in the lives of two individual followers, responded to the ideological onslaught of neopaganism and the enforced political conformity of the Third Reich. Compared to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, little is known of the Baptist preacher Arnold Ksster. His ministry as a pastor of the Baptist church in Vienna lasted from 1928-1960. During the Nazi regime, he consistently preached critically and prophetically against its underlying ideology. "

Download or read book The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bruegel and the Creative Process 1559 1563 written by Margaret A. Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art Bruegel produced between 1559 and 1563 presents a rare opportunity to investigate a concentrated period of productivity by one of the world's greatest artists. In this brief period Bruegel produced some of his most original works-the first pictorial collection of contemporary customs in Carnival and Lent, the first painting with children's activities as its subject in Children's Games, the first large-scale painting of a proverb collection, the unique and enigmatic Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), and the extraordinary Triumph of Death, his disturbing vision of men and women fighting off the onslaught of death. In this comprehensive study, Margaret A. Sullivan accounts for this burst of creativity, its intensity, innovation and brevity, by taking all aspects of the creative process into consideration-from the technical demands of picture-making to the constraints imposed by the dangerous religious and political situation.

Download or read book Conversations written by Syrithe Pugh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries – often more so. This volume seeks to recapture that sense of intimacy and immediacy, as scholars from both sides of the modern disciplinary divide come together to eavesdrop on the conversations conducted through allusion and intertextual play in works from Petrarch to Milton and beyond. The essays include discussions of Ariosto, Spenser, Du Bellay, Marlowe, the anonymous drama Caesars Revenge, Shakespeare and Marvell, and look forward to the grand retrospect of Shelley’s Adonais. Together, they help us to understand how poets across the ages have thought about their relation to their predecessors, and about their own contributions to what Shelley would call ‘that great poem, which all poets...have built up since the beginning of the world’.

Download or read book The Works of the Gawain Poet written by Ad Putter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new volume of the works of the Gawain poet, destined to become the definitive edition for students and scholars. This volume brings together four works of the unknown fourteenth-century poet famous for the Arthurian romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in their original Middle English. In one of the great tales of medieval literature, Gawain, the noblest knight of King Arthur's court, must keep a deadly bargain with a monstrous knight and resist the advances of his host's beautiful wife. The dream vision of Pearl depicts a bereaved father whose lost child leads him to glimpse heaven. And in moral poems based on stories from the Bible, Cleanness warns against sins of the flesh and of desecration, while Patience encourages readers to endure suffering as God's will. Little is known about the so-called 'Gawain poet', who wrote during the late fourteenth century. It is believed that he came from south-east Cheshire, an important cultural and economic centre at the time, and he was clearly well-read in Latin, French and English. Although he is not named as the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Patience, Cleanness, the four works have been attributed to him based on a careful comparison of their language, date and themes. Myra Stokes was formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol University. Her books include Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman and The Language of Jane Austen. Ad Putter teaches at the English Department and the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Bristol, where is Professor of Medieval English Literature. His monographs include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance and An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, and he is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend.

Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum June 1689 to 1733 written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book June 1689 to 1733 written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay Toward the Amendment of the Last English translation of the Bible written by Robert Gell and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay toward the Amendment of the last English translation of the Bible The first part on the Pentateuch written by Robert GELL (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tower of Babel in Genesis written by James Austin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader back to the Tower of Babel and discusses themes and ideas present that resonate throughout Genesis, the Bible, and into modern history. The reader will more fully understand why the Tower of Babel narrative appears where it does in biblical history. Furthermore, the reader will learn why this event in human history remains one of the single most important events in the interaction of humanity and the divine.

Download or read book A Fool s Babel written by T. A. Richards II and published by Create Space. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever heard the expression, ‘If I told you, I would have to kill you?’ Most of the time it is said as a joke and used to spread merriment and good cheer. No one takes it seriously and usually people just laugh it off. In my case however, there would be no laughing but there certainly would be killing. But it wouldn’t be me that did the killing; it would be the government. We all know that the government has secrets and we all know that they would do whatever was necessary to keep those secrets. They would kill you in your sleep or while you were driving your car and make it look like an accident. They would even invade a sovereign nation and execute an ‘evil’ dictator. History and even current events can testify to the lengths our government would go to keep and protect their secrets. What if some of the secrets involved an ancient virus that our government wanted to use as a bioweapon? You know as well as I do that nothing would stop them from keeping that information out of the news stream. What if I told you that the government took it even further and tried to ‘enhance’ the virus? It’s completely believable, isn’t it? But what would happen if the virus mutated and completely changed the host into a ferocious killing machine? This sounds like something our government could use against its war of terror, doesn’t it? Without giving you a lot of details I can tell you that this type research is not new to our government. For decades they’ve been conducting research in hidden facilities all over the world. I’ve been on more than one mission to ‘clean up’ the mess made when the research gets out of hand. This story however, is beyond the scope of anything I had ever encountered before. The destruction I saw was almost unbelievable and the creatures I fought seemed more supernatural than natural.