Download or read book Plato s Cratylus written by David Sedley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this reappraisal of the dialogue, Professor Sedley argues that the etymologies which take up well over half of it are not an embarrassing lapse or semi-private joke on Plato's part. On the contrary, if taken seriously as they should be, they are the key to understanding both the dialogue itself and Plato's linguistic philosophy more broadly. The book's main argument is so formulated as to be intelligible to readers with no knowledge of Greek, and will have a significant impact both on the study of Plato and on the history of linguistic thought.
Download or read book The Multiple Identities of the Middle East written by Bernard Lewis and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2001-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East is the birthplace of ancient civilizations, but most of the modern states that occupy its territory today are of recent origin, as are many key concepts of communal and individual identity and loyalty that the peoples of the region now confront. In The Multiple Identities of the Middle East, eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis elucidates the critical role of identity in the domestic, regional, and international tensions and conflicts of the Middle East today. Examining religion, race and language, country, nation, and state, Lewis traces the rapid evolution of the identities of the Middle Eastern peoples, from the collapse of the centuries-old Ottoman Empire in 1918 to today's clash of old and new allegiances. He shows how, during the twentieth century, imported Western ideas such as liberalism, fascism, socialism, patriotism, and nationalism have transformed Middle Easterners' ancient notions of community, their self-perceptions, and their aspirations. To this fascinating historical portrait, Lewis brings an understanding of the region and its peoples, as well as a profound sympathy for the plight that the modern world has imposed on them. The result is an invaluable tool in our understanding of an area that is of increasing global importance and concern today.
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Download or read book Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer written by Frank Cioffi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that troubles and preoccupies us about the anxieties and anguishes of social and private life? Have advances in the disciplines of psychoanalysis, psychology or the social sciences in general ministered to our needs in these areas? In this forcefully argued collection of essays, Frank Cioffi examines Wittgenstein's reflections on the comparative claims of clarification and empirical enquiry. Though writing out of admiration and indebtedness, he expresses reservations as to the limits Wittgenstein places on the relevance and desirability of empirical knowledge. His discusssions extend from Wittgenstein's reflections on human sacrifice and other ritual practices dealt with by Frazer to Freud's account of the sources of anxiety, depression, dreams and laughter. He asks both whether it is empirical investigation or more lucid reflection that these phenomena demand, and what kind of question this itself is.
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Download or read book Symbol and Theory written by John Skorupski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists have always been concerned with the difference between traditional (or 'primitive') and scientific modes of thought and with the relationships between magic, religion and science. John Skorupski distinguishes two broadly opposed approaches to these problems: the 'intellectualist' regards primitive systems of thought and actions as cosmologies, comparable to scientific theory, which emerge and persist as attempts to control the natural world; the 'symbolist' regards them as essentially representative or expressive of the pattern of social relations in the culture in which they exist. Dr Skorupski considers in particular the notions of ritual, ceremony and symbol. He shows how their understanding involves and suggests more general philosophical problems of relativism, interpretation, translation, and the connections between belief and action. These are difficult and important problems and require an unusual combination of imagination and interdisciplinary exercise. This book is intended especially for philosophers, social anthropologists, social theorists and students of comparative religion.
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Download or read book Kusaiean English Dictionary written by Kee-Dong Lee and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kusaie is a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, lying roughly midway between Pohnpei and the Marshalls. Its language is distinct from those of the other island groups of Micronesia, though it has many cognates with Marshallese. Designed to be a companion volume to the author's Kusaiean reference grammar, this dictionary will be of use to anyone wanting to learn the Kusaiean language or to linguists involved in comparative and historical studies of Austronesian linguistics.
Download or read book Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices written by Anthony Grafton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparative intercultural study of the techniques applied by scholars throughout the world to deal with problematic texts and artifacts.
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