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Book The Time is Out of Joint

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  • Author : Agnes Heller
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780742512511
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Agnes Heller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Time Is Out of Joint presents an examination of Shakespeare's distinctly modern confrontation with time and temporality, the difference between the truth of the fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth, and finds that Shakespeare anticipated post-metaphysical philosophy and its central concerns at a time when modern metaphysics had not yet reached it speak. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Book Time Out of Joint

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Penguin Group USA
  • Release : 1994-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780140171730
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvelous, terrifying fun, especially if you've ever suspected that the world is an unreal construct built solely to keep you from knowing who you really are. Which it is, of course."--"Rolling Stone" Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet he's never heard of named Marilyn Monroe. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them like "bowl of flowers" and "soft drink stand." When Ragle skips town to try to find the cause of these bizarre occurrences, his discovery could make him question everything he has ever known.

Book Is Time out of Joint

Download or read book Is Time out of Joint written by Aleida Assmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

Book The Time is Out of Joint

Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Benjamin Bertram and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final decades of the sixteenth century brought tumultuous change in England. Bitter disputes concerning religious reformation divided Catholics and Protestants, radical reformers, and religious conservatives. The Church of England won the loyalty of many, but religious and political dissent continued. Social and economic change also created anxiety as social mobility, unemployment, riots, and rebellions exposed the weakness of an ideology of order. The Time is Out of Joint situates the work of four skeptics - Reginald Scot, Thomas Harriot, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare - within the context of religious and social change. These four writers responded to the dislocations of the newly formed Protestant nation by raising bold and often disturbing questions about religion and epistemology. The historical topics covered in this book - witchcraft debates, New World discovery, economic struggle, and religious reformation - reveal the diverse contexts in which skepticism appeared and the many contributions skepticism made to a nation undergoing radical change and in the process of re-thinking many of its longstanding basic assumptions.

Book Out of Joint

Download or read book Out of Joint written by Nomi Claire Lazar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible--and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories across a range of cultures and contexts, ancient and modern, to show how leaders use constructions of time to frame events. These frames carry an implicit promise to secure or subvert an expected future, shaping belief in what is possible--and what is inevitable. "Ranging imaginatively across history and geography, this elegant book probes temporal sources of order and transformation. Its analytical wisdom discloses how calendars and representations of time shape political legitimacy, dispositions, and action."--Ira I. Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time "Great political leaders, for good or ill, seek to shape our daily lives by playing with time itself. That is the central insight of this elegant, erudite volume, one that means I will henceforth listen to speeches and manifestos with new ears and new tools to rebut them."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America "Nomi Lazar gives us a fascinating exploration of the political construction of time itself, as structured by calendars, dating systems, and other mechanisms used for legitimation, revolution, and a myriad of other political purposes. A memorable and endlessly interesting book."--Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School

Book The Time is Out of Joint

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  • Author : Roy Whittaker
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1365923924
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Roy Whittaker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Widow s Tears

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  • Author : George Chapman
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1975
  • ISBN : 9780416030204
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book The Widow s Tears written by George Chapman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Specters of Marx

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  • Author : Jacques Derrida
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-10-12
  • ISBN : 1136758607
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book Specters of Marx written by Jacques Derrida and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning, identity, ethics and values. In 1993, a conference was organized around the question, 'Whither Marxism?’, and Derrida was invited to open the proceedings. His plenary address, 'Specters of Marx', delivered in two parts, forms the basis of this book. Hotly debated when it was first published, a rapidly changing world and world politics have scarcely dented the relevance of this book.

Book Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics

Download or read book Temporal Boundaries of Law and Politics written by Luigi Corrias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society’s structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection – drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines – examine.

Book History Out of Joint

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  • Author : Sande Cohen
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780801882142
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book History Out of Joint written by Sande Cohen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book That s the Joint

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  • Author : Murray Forman
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780415969192
  • Pages : 652 pages

Download or read book That s the Joint written by Murray Forman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.

Book Get Your Nose Out of Joint

Download or read book Get Your Nose Out of Joint written by Matt Doeden and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A taste of your own medicine; rub salt in the wound; warts and all. Have you ever heard these crazy expressions? People use them even when you don't have to take any medicine and you don't have any wounds or warts! That's because these sentences are idioms that mean something different than what the words in them actually say. But don't let idioms be your Achilles' heel. Let's explore a variety of idioms related to health and medicine and figure out what people really mean when they use them"--Provided by publisher.

Book The Time is Out of Joint

Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Roy Walker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Time Out of Joint

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  • Author : Philip K. Dick
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 030742975X
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Philip K. Dick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet little community, and that he really is the world’s long-standing champion of newspaper puzzle contests. It is only after a series of troubling hallucinations that he begins to suspect otherwise. And once he pursues his suspicions, he begins to see how he is the center of a universe gone terribly awry. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Book Time Out of Joint

Download or read book Time Out of Joint written by Kirk Fiereck and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this special issue investigate how queer theory might change when African texts, experiences, and concepts are placed front and center rather than treated as examples or case studies. The authors consider what the concept of customary does to the dialectic of tradition and modernity that is at the heart of much Africanist scholarship. Can queer theoretical texts travel beyond the North Atlantic world that made them without reproducing imperial ways of knowing? Can there be an African queer theory? In posing these questions, the authors encourage readers to consider queerness from and within Africa, exploring what African customary forms of gender and sexuality might do to the anti-normativity of queer theory and how presumptions within Euro-American queer scholarship contribute to Afro-pessimist and/or Afro-optimist scholarship. Contributors. Cal (Crystal) Biruk, Laura Edmondson, Kirk Fiereck, Neville Hoad, Phoebe Kisubi, Keguro Macharia, Danai Mupotsa, Edgar Nabutanyi, Eddie Ombagi, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse

Book Specters of Marx

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  • Author : Jacques Derrida
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780415910453
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Specters of Marx written by Jacques Derrida and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions the spectropoetics that Marx allowed to invade his discourse.

Book Tales from Shakespeare    Julius Caesar

Download or read book Tales from Shakespeare Julius Caesar written by Timothy Knapman and published by QED Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Caesar a powerful and respected Roman, is warned by a fortune-teller that danger is ahead. Caesar's enemies are conspiring against him