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Countercurrents

Author : Raymond Adolph Prier
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791409411
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Countercurrents written by Raymond Adolph Prier and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their readings of texts, the authors address the topics of theory, narrative, aesthetics, the idea of the text, and of specific moments in cultural history. The chapters cover a range of authors: Plato, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Chariteo, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Kleist, Gode, Edith Wharton, Pirandello, Kafka, Sartre, Saint-John Perse, Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson. They also deal with philosophers: Peirce, Nietzsche, Saussure, Husserl, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Heidegger, Jakobson, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. The book opens up our relationships to the past and the usefulness or otherwise of the metaphors we use in our attempt to understand and participate in it. Although Countercurrents deals diversely with literary periods, authors, and critics, it speaks within the civilized and civilizing universe of our language and the texts we create. Running beneath the antihumanistic flotilla that skims the surface of texts for theory, the authors plumb for treasures from the ocean's floor.

Currents and Countercurrents

Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824874498
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Currents and Countercurrents written by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch’uk (613–696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.

Counter-currents

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Counter-currents written by Agnes Repplier and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Counter-currents

Author : Edgar A. Pieterse
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1770097953
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Counter-currents written by Edgar A. Pieterse and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors."--Introduction.

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

Author : Fred Turner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226817431
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book From Counterculture to Cyberculture written by Fred Turner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.

Counter-Currents

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359763990
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Currents written by Agnes Repplier and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Visions of Modern America

Author : Eric William Rose
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516592272
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Modern America written by Eric William Rose and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Counter-Currents

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781355322269
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Counter-Currents written by Agnes Repplier and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676031
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism written by Samir Amin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism – a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia – and, by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics – each crucial to understanding Russia’s singular and complex political history. He first looks at the development (or lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia’s geopolitical isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia’s perceived “backwardness.” Yet Russia’s unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in which the Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long road to socialism. Samir Amin’s great achievement in this book is not only to explain Russia’s historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism. This book offers a cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an enlightening means to transcend reductionist arguments about “revolution” so common on the left. Samir Amin’s book – and the actions that could spring from it – are more necessary than ever, if the world is to avoid the barbarism toward which capitalism is hurling humanity.

The System of Equatorial Countercurrents in the Ocean

Author : Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Khanaĭchenko
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The System of Equatorial Countercurrents in the Ocean written by Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Khanaĭchenko and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Counter-currents

Author : Sophie Winthrop Weitzel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counter-currents written by Sophie Winthrop Weitzel and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Counter-currents

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Counter-currents written by Agnes Repplier and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science

Author : Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science written by Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Counter Currents

Author : Elsie Janis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Counter Currents written by Elsie Janis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science" was written and delivered as an Oration, a florid rhetorical composition, expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners. It succeeded in doing this, and also in being as curiously misunderstood and misrepresented as if it had been a political harangue. This gave it more local notoriety than it might otherwise have attained, so that, as I learn, one ingenious person made use of its title as an advertisement for a production of his own.

Chemical Oceanography, Third Edition

Author : Frank J. Millero
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849322808
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Chemical Oceanography, Third Edition written by Frank J. Millero and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemical Oceanography, Third Edition, is a survey of essential concepts that contains a wealth of new data and maps, resulting in a more in-depth examination of oceanic biogeochemical processes. The most up-to-date compilation of essential concepts and data available on the subject, this book responds to the need for a thorough, yet straightforward approach to the subject for students, researchers, and other professionals in marine science, geochemistry, and environmental chemistry. The third edition of Chemical Oceanography incorporates significant findings on the properties of oceans from recent, large-scale oceanographic programs and valuable new data derived from additional experiments. It also discusses the interactions of metals with inorganic and natural organic ligands and the effect of speciation of metals on bioavailability and toxicity. The section on carbonate systems now examines the input of fossil fuel CO2 into the ocean and its effect on the pH of the world oceans. Frank J. Millero, a world-renowned marine researcher and professor of undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Miami for nearly 40 years, presents a time-tested and user-friendly resource specifically designed for both classroom use and self-study.