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Book Abhandlung   ber die menschlichen Pflichten

Download or read book Abhandlung ber die menschlichen Pflichten written by Christian Garve and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philosophische Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen zu Ciceros B  chern von den Pflichten

Download or read book Philosophische Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen zu Ciceros B chern von den Pflichten written by Christian Garve and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neo Latin Literature in Sweden in the Period 1620 1720

Download or read book Neo Latin Literature in Sweden in the Period 1620 1720 written by Hans Helander and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha

Download or read book The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha written by James R. Davila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes a substantial corpus of Old Testament pseudepigrapha, proposing a methodology for understanding them first in the social context of their earliest (Christian) manuscripts and inferring still earlier Jewish or other origins only as required by positive evidence.

Book Writing and Madness

Download or read book Writing and Madness written by Shoshana Felman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Book Philosophische Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen zu Ciceros B  chern von den Pflichten

Download or read book Philosophische Anmerkungen und Abhandlungen zu Ciceros B chern von den Pflichten written by Christian Garve and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foucault and Derrida

Download or read book Foucault and Derrida written by Roy Boyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida pose a serious challenge to the old established, but now seriously compromised forms of thought. In this compelling book, Roy Boyne explains the very significant advances for which they have been responsible, their general importance for the human sciences, and the forms of hope that they offer for an age often characterized by scepticism, cynicism and reaction. The focus of the book is the dispute between Foucault and Derrida on the nature of reason, madness and 'otherness'. The range of issues covered includes the birth of the prison, problems of textual interpretation, the nature of the self and contemporary movements such as socialism, feminism and anti-racialism. Roy Boyne argues that whilst the two thinkers chose very different paths, they were in fact rather surprisingly to converge upon the common ground of power and ethics. Despite the evident honesty, importance and adventurousness of the work of Foucault and Derrida, many also find it difficult and opaque. Roy Boyne has performed a major service for students of their writings in this compelling and accessible book.

Book Speech Acts in Literature

Download or read book Speech Acts in Literature written by Joseph Hillis Miller and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L. Austin's How to Do Things with Words, repeatedly expels literature from the domain of felicitous speech acts, literature is an indispensable presence within Austin's book. It contains many literary references but also uses as essential tools literary devices of its own: imaginary stories that serve as examples and imaginary dialogues that forestall potential objections. How to Do Things with Words is not the triumphant establishment of a fully elaborated theory of speech acts, but the story of a failure to do that, the story of what Austin calls a "bogging down." After an introductory chapter that explores Austin's book in detail, the two following chapters show how Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man in different ways challenge Austin's speech act theory generally and his expulsion of literature specifically. Derrida shows that literature cannot be expelled from speech acts—rather that what he calls "iterability" means that any speech act may be literature. De Man asserts that speech act theory involves a radical dissociation between the cognitive and positing dimensions of language, what Austin calls language's "constative" and "performative" aspects. Both Derrida and de Man elaborate new speech act theories that form the basis of new notions of responsible and effective politico-ethical decision and action. The fourth chapter explores the role of strong emotion in effective speech acts through a discussion of passages in Derrida, Wittgenstein, and Austin. The final chapter demonstrates, through close readings of three passages in Proust, the way speech act theory can be employed in an illuminating way in the accurate reading of literary works.

Book Enthusiasm

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  • Author : Susie I. Tucker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN : 9780608129228
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Enthusiasm written by Susie I. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jacques Derrida and the Humanities

Download or read book Jacques Derrida and the Humanities written by Tom Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a trans-disciplinary collection dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida and his work in the humanities.

Book Island Rivers

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  • Author : John R. Wagner
  • Publisher : ANU Press
  • Release : 2018-06-19
  • ISBN : 1760462179
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Island Rivers written by John R. Wagner and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?

Book Design as Politics

Download or read book Design as Politics written by Tony Fry and published by Berg. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future. Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.

Book Translation and Geography

Download or read book Translation and Geography written by Federico Italiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation and Geography investigates how translation has radically shaped the way the West has mapped the world. Groundbreaking in its approach and relevant across a range of disciplines from translation studies and comparative literature to geography and history, this book makes a compelling case for a form of cultural translation that reframes the contributions of language-based translation analysis. Focusing on the different yet intertwined translation processes involved in the development of the Western spatial imaginary, Federico Italiano examines a series of literary works and their translations across languages, media, and epochs, encompassing: poems travel narratives nautical fictions colonial discourse exilic visions. Drawing on case studies and readings ranging from the Latin of the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Latin American poetry, this is key reading for translation theory and comparative/world literature courses.

Book Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture

Download or read book Madness and Creativity in Literature and Culture written by Corinne Saunders and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the relation between literature and madness from the Medieval to the Modern period. The essays examine how literature represents the experience of madness and cultural responses to it, and how madness may inspire creativity. The volume also illuminates the history of medicine, demonstrating the shifts and continuities in clinical understandings of and social attitudes to mental illness from the Middle Ages through to the "enlightened" notions of the Eighteenth Century to the development of psychoanalysis.

Book Contribution to the Correction of the Public s Judgments on the French Revolution

Download or read book Contribution to the Correction of the Public s Judgments on the French Revolution written by J. G. Fichte and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England is well documented among Anglophone scholars; however, the debate over the Revolution in Germany is much less well known. Fichte's Contribution played an important role in this debate. Presented here for the first time in English, Fichte's work provides a distinctive synthesis of Locke's "possessive individualism," Rousseau's general will, and Kant's moral philosophy. This eclectic blend results in an unusual rights theory that at times veers close to a form of anarchism. Written in 1792–93, just before Fichte moved to Jena to develop his philosophical system in a series of works—above all the Wissenschaftslehre of 1794—the Contribution provides invaluable insight into Fichte's early development. In addition, Fichte's work predates much of Kant's political philosophy, and can shed light on the rich dialogue in German political thought in the 1790s.

Book Phaedon

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  • Author : Moses Mendelssohn
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1789
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book Phaedon written by Moses Mendelssohn and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: