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Book Reason s Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geneviève Fraisse
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1994-05-28
  • ISBN : 9780226259703
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Reason s Muse written by Geneviève Fraisse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-05-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French Revolution proclaimed the equality of all human beings, yet women remained less than equal in the new society. The exclusion of women at the birth of modern democracy required considerable justification, and by tracing the course of this reasoning through early nineteenth-century texts, Genevieve Fraisse maps a moment of crisis in the history of sexual difference. Through an analysis of literary, religious, legal, philosophical, and medical texts, Fraisse links a range of positions on women's proper role in society to specific historical and rhetorical circumstances. She shows how the Revolution marked a sharp break in the way women were represented in language, as traditional bantering about the "war of the sexes" gave way to serious discussions of the political and social meanings of sexual difference. Following this discussion on three different planes—the economical, the political, and the biological—Fraisse looks at the exclusion of women against the backdrop of democracy's inevitable lie: the affirmation of an equality so abstract it was impossible to concretely apply. This study of the place of sexual equality in the founding moment of democracy offers insight into a persistent question: whether female emancipation is to be found through the achievement of equality with men or in the celebration of female difference.

Book Reasons of State

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  • Author : G. John Ikenberry
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-03-05
  • ISBN : 1501726331
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Reasons of State written by G. John Ikenberry and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the United States. Reasons of State examines the response of the United States to these and other challenges and identifies both the capacities of the American state to deal with rapid international political and economic change and the limitations that constrain national policy.

Book The Sacred Muse

Download or read book The Sacred Muse written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reasons for reviving the action of Convocation  Printed for the Chester and Manchester Church Union

Download or read book Reasons for reviving the action of Convocation Printed for the Chester and Manchester Church Union written by Church of England. Convocation and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rhetoric of Reason

Download or read book The Rhetoric of Reason written by James Crosswhite and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to skeptics within higher education and critics without, James Crosswhite argues powerfully that the core of a college education should be learning to write a reasoned argument. A trained philosopher and director of a university-wide composition program, Crosswhite challenges his readers—teachers of writing and communication, philosophers, critical theorists, and educational administrators—to reestablish the traditional role of rhetoric in education. To those who have lost faith in the abilities of people to reach reasoned mutual agreements, and to others who have attacked the right-or-wrong model of formal logic, this book offers the reminder that the rhetorical tradition has always viewed argumentation as a dialogue, a response to changing situations, an exchange of persuading, listening, and understanding. Crosswhite’s aim is to give new purpose to writing instruction and to students’ writing, to reinvest both with the deep ethical interests of the rhetorical tradition. In laying out the elements of argumentation, for example, he shows that claiming, questioning, and giving reasons are not simple elements of formal logic, but communicative acts with complicated ethical features. Students must learn not only how to construct an argument, but the purposes, responsibilities, and consequences of engaging in one. Crosswhite supports his aims through a rhetorical reconstruction of reason, offering new interpretations of Plato and Aristotle and of the concepts of reflection and dialogue from early modernity through Hegel to Gadamer. And, in his conclusion, he ties these theoretical and historical underpinnings to current problems of higher education, the definition of the liberal arts, and, especially, the teaching of written communication.

Book The Muzzled Muse

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  • Author : Margreet de Lange
  • Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
  • Release : 1997-04-10
  • ISBN : 9027298009
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Muzzled Muse written by Margreet de Lange and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-04-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The long history of censorship is a parallel and equally powerful history of literature. Censors bear witness to the power of the word even more forcefully than the writers and the readers they consider dangerous.” (Index on Censorship 6/1996) A critical assessment of literature produced under censorship needs to take into account that the stategies of the censors are answered by strategies of the writers and the readers. To recognize self-censoring strategies in writing, it is necessary to know the specific restrictions of the censorship regime in question. In South Africa under apartheid all writers were confronted with the question of how to respond to the pressure of censorship. This confrontation took a different form however, depending on what group the writer belonged to and what language he/she used. By looking at white writers writing in Afrikaans and white and black writers writing in English, this book gives the impact of censorship on South African literature a comparative examination which it has not received before. The book considers works by J.M.Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, André Brink, and others less known to readers outside South Africa like Karel Schoeman, Louis Krüger, Christopher Hope, Miriam Tlali and Mtutuzeli Matshoba. It treats the censorship laws of the apartheid regime as well as, in the final chapter, the new law of the Mandela government which shows some surprising similarities to its predecessor. Margreet de Lange teaches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University and coordinates the University’s interdisciplinary program of South African Studies. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. “De Lange expertly sketches in the historical and literary backgrounds as she goes, taking us right up to the recent (unsatisfactory) revision of the censorship laws, making The Muzzled Muse a vitally important summary of literary censorship in South Africa, and a handbook of what to guard against in the future.” Shaun de Waal, Mail & Guardian Sept. 26 to October 1, 1997

Book Reasons for Decision in the Matter of Enbridge Pipelines Inc  Line 4 Extension Project

Download or read book Reasons for Decision in the Matter of Enbridge Pipelines Inc Line 4 Extension Project written by Canada. National Energy Board and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 29 June 2007, Enbridge Pipelines Inc. applied to the National Energy Board (NEB) for approvals related to the proposed Line 4 Extension Project. The purpose of the applied-for project is to extend Line 4 upstream from Hardisty to Edmonton. This document presents the decision of the National Energy Board regarding Enbridge Pipeline's application for these approvals.--Includes text from document.

Book Plato s Reasons

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  • Author : Christopher W. Tindale
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2023-12-01
  • ISBN : 1438495552
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Plato s Reasons written by Christopher W. Tindale and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his "standing" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.

Book Genealogies of Religion

Download or read book Genealogies of Religion written by Talal Asad and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-08-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation—from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign—is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invokved to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes—for Westerners and non-Westerners alike—particular forms of "history making."

Book Reflections on the Defence of the Account of the Reasons

Download or read book Reflections on the Defence of the Account of the Reasons written by Joseph Hallet and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rhyming Dictionary  Answering  at the Same Time  the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language  Etc

Download or read book A Rhyming Dictionary Answering at the Same Time the Purposes of Spelling and Pronouncing the English Language Etc written by John Walker (the Philologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A rhyming dictionary     Fourth edition  improved

Download or read book A rhyming dictionary Fourth edition improved written by John WALKER (the Philologist.) and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Few Plain Reasons why we should believe in Christ  etc

Download or read book A Few Plain Reasons why we should believe in Christ etc written by Richard Cumberland and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Rhyming Dictionary

Download or read book A Rhyming Dictionary written by John Walker and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reasons for Decision in the Matter of Enbridge Pipelines Inc

Download or read book Reasons for Decision in the Matter of Enbridge Pipelines Inc written by Canada. National Energy Board and published by Canadian Museum of Civilization/Musee Canadien Des Civilisations. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 30 May 2007, Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (Enbridge or the Applicant) filed an application pursuant to section 52 of the National Energy Board Act (the NEB Act) for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Alberta Clipper Expansion Project (Alberta Clipper or the Project). Under the NEB Act, the factors to be considered and the criteria to be applied in coming to a decision on public interest or the present and future public convenience and necessity may vary with the circumstances, including the application, the location, the commodity involved, the various segments of the public affected by the decision, societal values at the time, and the purpose of the applicable section of the NEB Act. The Board's decisions are made in the public interest and are based on respect for the rights of those affected, concern for the environment and a commitment to safety and security.--Document.

Book Art  Its Laws  and the Reasons for them

Download or read book Art Its Laws and the Reasons for them written by Samuel P. Long and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.