Download or read book The Self destruction of the West written by Damien François and published by Editions Publibook. This book was released on 2007 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voilà désormais plus de 10 000 ans que la civilisation occidentale s'est installée et voilà 10 000 ans qu'elle viole le sens même de la nature : la vie. En s'appropriant sans concession ce qui l'entourait, l'homme de l'Ouest a vu son horizon ployer sous la charge de la destruction qu'il lui avait lui-même réalisée. Sommes-nous des lycanthropes ou des vampires? Ces monstres si terrifiants qui sortent de notre imagination sont-ils en réalité la copie de notre comportement dévastateur? Prédateurs, nous pompons sans remords les énergies qui nous entourent. Jusqu'où ira-t-on?.
Download or read book Bien commun written by Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Kolloquium and published by Saint-Paul. This book was released on 2004 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was bedeutet "Gemeinwohl" (bonum commune) im Zeitalter der Globalisierung? Hat der Begriff Orientierungskraft, oder ist er eine leere Formel? Braucht es ihn überhaupt noch, angesichts der Ausformulierung vieler seiner zentralen Gehalte in nationalen Verfassungen und internationalen Abkommen? Ist nicht in "postmoderner" Zeit das Gewicht auf formale Verfahren zu legen, anstatt auf materiale Werte? Dient der Rückgriff auf das lange hochgehaltene Prinzip bloss beschwichtigender Verschleierung, oder erinnert dieses an normative Gehalte, auf die nicht verzichten kann, wem an humaner Gestaltung menschlicher Existenz liegt? Und ist der Begriff, in abendländischer Tradition heraugereift, universell überhaupt bedeutungsvoll, also für interkulturelle Kommunikation geeignet? Die hier versammelten Beiträge suchen und fnden Antworten. Sie spiegeln das 21. interdisziplinär, international und kontrovers gehaltene Forschungskolloquium der Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (2002)
Download or read book African Literatures as World Literature written by Alexander Fyfe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous success of writers such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie demonstrates that African literatures are now an international phenomenon. But the apparent global legibility of a small number of (mostly Anglophone) writers in the diaspora raises the question of how literary producers from the continent, both past and present, have situated their work in relation to the world and the kinds of material networks to which this corresponds. This collection shows how literatures from across the African continent engage with conceptualizations of 'the world' in relation to local social and political issues. Focusing on a wide variety of geographic, historical and linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek answers to the following questions: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary texts and traditions? What are that world's limits, boundaries and possibilities? How do literary modes and forms such as realism, narrative poetry or the political essay affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today.
Download or read book Multiculturalism and International Law written by Sienho Yee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the role and influence of multiculturalism in general theories of international law; in the composition and functioning of international organizations such as the ICJ, the ILC, the UN, and the ICC; and in the progressive development of substantive international law regarding issues such as anti-terrorism, cultural identity, the Danish cartoons controversy, indigenous peoples, and cultural exemptions at the WTO. With Forewords from Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Shigeru Oda, this authoritative volume contains contributions from 36 distinguished scholars from every continent of the world tackling multiculturalism and international law an ever more topical issue in honour of, appropriately, Edward McWhinney, an eminent scholar who has spent a substantial part of his life promoting multiculturalism.
Download or read book A Reference Grammar of French written by R. E. Batchelor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reference Grammar of French is a lively, wide-ranging and original handbook on the structure of the French language. It includes new information on register, pronunciation, gender, number, foreign words (Latin, Arabic, English, Spanish, Italian), adjectives and past participles used as nouns, texting, word order, frequency of occurrence of words, and usage with all geographical names. Examples come not only from France, but also from Quebec, Belgium and Switzerland. Readers will appreciate the initial passages illustrating the grammatical features of a given chapter. Also included is a user-friendly introduction to the French language, from its Latin origins to modern times. A full glossary explains any terms that might confuse the less experienced reader, and the index leads the student through the detailed labyrinth of grammatical features. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for students and teachers who want to perfect their knowledge of all aspects of French grammar.
Download or read book The Letters and Dispatches from 1702 to 1712 Ed by General George Murray written by John Duke of Marlborough Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reframing Postcolonial Studies written by David D. Kim and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored. Thebook points urgently to the many ways in which our society must reinvent itself to enable equitable justice for all.”— Robert J.C. Young, Julius Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA “Drawing on urban theory, art history, literary analysis, environmental humanities and linguistics, this book is ambitious and wide-ranging, asking us what it is to live creatively and critically with the residues of colonial appropriation and sedimentation while in open dialogue with the subjects who still live in its wake.” — Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, University College London, UK This book constitutes a collective action to examine what foundational concepts, interdisciplinary methodologies, and activist concerns are pivotal for the future of common humanity, as we bear the weight of our postcolonial inheritance in the twenty-first century. Written by scholars of different generations, the chapters interrogate how current intellectual endeavors are in contact with individual and community-based actions outside of the academy. Going beyond the perennial debates on the tension between theory and praxis or on the disparity between activism and scholarship, they examine literary texts, visual artworks, language and immigration policies, public monuments, museum exhibitions, moral dilemmas, and political movements to deepen our contemporary postcolonial action on the edge of conceptual thinking, methodological experimentation, and scholarly activism. Reframing Postcolonial Studies is the first volume whose rationale is formulated in explicitly intergenerational, future-oriented terms.
Download or read book Canadian Colorist and Textile Processor written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters and Dispatches of John Churchill First Duke of Marlborough from 1702 1712 written by John Churchill Duke of Marlborough and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Defence of French written by Robin Adamson and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to find out whether French, one of the great languages of the world, is in crisis or not. It traces the history and development of language defence in France and examines the sometimes contradictory attitudes of French people to their beloved language. It assesses the necessity for and the usefulness of the many activities in defence of French and suggests what its future might be.
Download or read book Beyond Negritude written by Paulette Nardal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.
Download or read book Le grand secret written by Maya & Bertrand Sanchez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who is My Neighbor written by Thomas D. Williams and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is My Neighbor? makes an original, compelling case for human rights as moral entitlements grounded in the dignity of the human person.
Download or read book Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers written by Geoffrey M. Vaughan and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the work and influence of Leo Strauss in a variety of ways that will be of interest to readers of political philosophy. It will be of particular interest to Catholics and scholars of other religious traditions. Strauss had a great deal of interaction with his contemporary Catholic scholars, and many of his students or their students teach or have taught at Catholic colleges and universities in America. Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers brings together work by scholars from two continents, some of whom knew Strauss, one of whom was his student at the University of Chicago. The first section of essays considers Catholic responses to Strauss’s project of recovering Classical natural right as against modern individual rights. Some of the authors suggest that his approach can be a fruitful corrective to an uncritical reception of modern ideas. Nevertheless, most point out that the Catholic cannot accept all of Strauss’s project. The second section deals with areas of overlap between Strauss and Catholics. Some of the chapters explore encounters with his contemporary scholars while others turn to more current concerns. The final section approaches the theological-political question itself, a question central to both Strauss’s work and that of the Catholic intellectual tradition. This section of the book considers the relationship of Strauss’s work to Christianity and Christian commitments at a broader level. Because Christianity does not have an explicit political doctrine, Christians have found themselves as rulers, subjects, and citizens in a variety of political regimes. Leo Strauss’s return to Platonic political philosophy can provide a useful lens through which his Catholic readers can assess what it means for there to be a best regime.
Download or read book The Writings of Charles De Koninck written by Charles De Koninck and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of The Writings of Charles De Koninck carries on the project begun by volume 1 of presenting the first English edition of the collected works of the Catholic Thomist philosopher Charles De Koninck (1906–1965). Ralph McInerny (1929–2010) was the project editor and prepared the excellent translations. This volume begins with two works published in 1943: Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary, De Koninck's first study in Mariology, and The Primacy of the Common Good Against the Personalists (with The Principle of the New Order), which generated a strong critical reaction. Included in this volume are two reviews of The Primacy of the Common Good, by Yves R. Simon and I. Thomas Eschmann, O.P., and De Koninck's substantial response to Eschmann in his lengthy “In Defence of St. Thomas.” The volume concludes with a group of short essays: “The Dialectic of Limits as Critique of Reason,” “Notes on Marxism,” “This Is a Hard Saying,” “[Review of] Between Heaven and Earth,” and “Concept, Process, and Reality.”
Download or read book Understanding Community Today written by Edmund Aku PhD. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today that it has become customary to refer simultaneously to both the global and ethnic entities as a community, it has become necessary to reexamine the meaning of this belabored concept. That is exactly the burden of this book. It intends to find a meaning for a community that bridges the parallel trends of globalization and ethnic awareness to thereby enrich all parties. I believe I found a reliable metaphor for community in another concept: the “person.” The search for this new understanding of community entails considering it vis-à-vis society. Both terms are usually used interchangeably, but as will soon be clear to us and as shown by research studies, they are not exactly identical. Effort is made in this work to avoid the limitations of the traditional application of the term “community.” Its features are reappreciated with this in view, taking into account also the multiethnic interest of this study. I incorparate the concept of “community of communities” to depict both the diversity among component communities and the unity that binds and characterizes them as a political entity.
