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Book Synopsis Deface the Currency by : Samuel Alexander
Download or read book Deface the Currency written by Samuel Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a creative re-enactment of the life, death and ideas of the most influential Cynic of antiquity, Diogenes of Sinope. Lost after 2500 years, the dialogues attributed to him are here recovered through informed historical re-imagination, and in a series of six "acts" Alexander takes his protagonist from his market-place teachings through to the final condemnation of his works, and execution of his person. In this quasi-Socratic tragedy, Diogenes' ideas of simplicity, moderation and natural living are too revolutionary for an oligarchical system to tolerate, and yet prove too resilient to be permanently silenced. Alexander is faithful to the spirit of ancient authors and deftly works in subtle allusions to ancient sources - yet writes ever with an eye to present problems. His Diogenes becomes an essential voice for the revolutionary and potentially apocalyptic transitions of our own time." - William Desmond, author of "The Greek Praise of Poverty"
Book Synopsis Defacing the Currency by : Bob Black
Download or read book Defacing the Currency written by Bob Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Black's first book in sixteen years. It's been sixteen years since Anarchy After Leftism because it has taken that long for the anarchist space to catch up to him. This 350+ page collection of formerly and freshly published articles also includes a lengthy denouncement of Noam Chomsky as (not) anarchist intellectual, and engagements with democracy, technology,anarchism, and the law. Bob Black is an obsessed, intelligent, and hostile thinker whose writings are, if not the most, then among the most clear contemporary anarchist thinking. His passionate denunciations against the Left are a compelling call to arms. He names names, understands decades of political context, and has the desire to build a rational case for new and experienced readers. That he does it well, especially the naming of names, is why he is despised. Those who despise him confuse the man with the idea, but the idea is unassailable. On the one hand there is anarchism, a leftist, historical-above-all-else, ideology. On the other is anarchy, a life lived autonomously and cooperatively.
Book Synopsis Keep the Change by : Harley J. Spiller
Download or read book Keep the Change written by Harley J. Spiller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Book Synopsis Defacing the Past by : Dario Calomino
Download or read book Defacing the Past written by Dario Calomino and published by Spink Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Royal Numismatic Society's Lhotka Memorial Prize Defacing the Past: Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome is published by Spink in collaboration with the British Museum to accompany the author's current exhibition in Gallery 69a.
Download or read book The Cynics written by R. Bracht Branham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophical and cultural significance of Cynicism from antiquity to the present. Arguably the most original and influential branch of the Socratic tradition, Cynicism has become the focus of renewed scholarly interest in recent years, thanks to the work of Sloterdijk, Foucault, and Bakhtin, among others. The contributors to this volume—classicists, comparatists, and philosophers—draw on a variety of methodologies to explore the ethical, social and cultural practices inspired by the Cynics. The volume also includes an introduction, appendices, and an annotated bibliography, making it a valuable resource for a broad audience.
Download or read book Cynicism written by Ansgar Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly—“I hate to be a cynic, but..."—before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute. The Cynicism of the ancient Greeks, however, was very different. This Cynicism was a marginal philosophy practiced by a small band of eccentrics. Bold and shameless, it was committed to transforming the values on which civilization depends. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the “fearless speech” of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent “purification” of Cynicism by the Stoics; Renaissance and Enlightenment appropriations of Cynicism, drawing on the writings of Shakespeare, Rabelais, Rousseau, de Sade, and others; and the transition from Cynicism (the philosophy) to cynicism (the modern attitude), exploring contemporary cynicism from the perspectives of its leftist, liberal, and conservative critics. Finally, he considers the possibility of a radical cynicism that admits and affirms the danger it poses to contemporary society.
Book Synopsis Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia by : Denis Skopin
Download or read book Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia written by Denis Skopin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared "public enemies" from group photographs in Stalin’s Russia. The book is based on long-term empirical research in Russian archives and includes 57 photographs that are exceptional in terms of historical interest: all these images bear traces of editing in the form of various marks, such as blacking-out, excisions or scratches. The illustrative materials also include a group of photographs with inscriptions left by officers of Stalin’s secret police, the NKVD. To approach this extensive visual material, Denis Skopin draws on a wealth of Stalin-era written sources: memoirs, diaries and official documents. He argues that this kind of political iconoclasm cannot be confused with censorship nor vandalism. The practice in question is more harrowing and morally twisted, for in most cases the photos were defaced by those who were part of victim’s intimate circle: his/her colleagues, friends or even close family members. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, visual culture, Russian studies and Russian history and politics.
Book Synopsis Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age by : Robert D. Morritt
Download or read book Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age written by Robert D. Morritt and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes from the Greek Bronze Age is the result of much that the author has read over several years. It is a study of the thoughts and works of early thinkers, from Hecataeus the early cartographer, to Herodotus’ survey of the then “known world,” the thoughts of Anaxagoras, Xenophon’s descriptions, and the sayings of Xenophanes. Simones work on the art of memory, “The Loci” and its influence so many years later on Giordano Bruno declared as a heretic are also explored. This book will interest readers who enjoy history, archaic scientific observations and those who desire a good read, rather than that found within a turgid Classical monograph. The author hopes that the reader will enjoy this book as much as he enjoyed writing it.
Download or read book Classical Cynicism written by Luis Navia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a school of philosophy with a defined set of beliefs and convictions, classical Cynicism represents an unconventional sect of philosophers and a way of life. This is a complete account of classical Cynicism from its beginnings in the Socratic circle to its extinction in late Roman times. In this thoroughly documented study, Navia explores various issues related to the sources of information about the Cynics, the development of Cynicism, and the principal representatives of classical Cynicism. Exploring the relationship between classical Cynicism and cynicism as understood in its ordinary modern sense, the author argues that despite their common designation, they represent significantly different philosophical attitudes. This book explicates the main ideas associated with classical Cynicism and argues that, its shortcomings notwithstanding, classical Cynicism furnishes us with a wealthy source of philosophical enlightenment. Individual chapters are devoted to Antisthenes, Diogenes, and Crates, the three principal classical Cynics. Attention is given to the development and application of certain fundamental Cynic ideas and to the transformation of these ideas throughout the eight centuries during which Cynicism was an influential philosophical movement. The book provides abundant references to primary and secondary sources and includes a bibliography of over five hundred entries.
Book Synopsis Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse by : Thomas H. Olbricht
Download or read book Rhetoric, Ethic, and Moral Persuasion in Biblical Discourse written by Thomas H. Olbricht and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays from the Heidelberg conference on rhetoric and the New Testament.
Book Synopsis The Currency of Empire by : Jonathan Barth
Download or read book The Currency of Empire written by Jonathan Barth and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence. The Currency of Empire examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence. Thanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.
Book Synopsis Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research by : Neal Harris
Download or read book Pathology Diagnosis and Social Research written by Neal Harris and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory. As this volume will elaborate, the pathology diagnosing imagination enables a “thicker” form of social critique, fostering research that pushes beyond the parameters of liberal social and political thought. Faced with impending climatic catastrophe, the accelerating inequities of neoliberalism, the ascent of authoritarian movements globally, and one-dimensional computational modes of thought, a viable form of normative social critique is now more important than ever. The central aim of this volume is thus to champion the pathology diagnosing imagination as a vehicle for conducting such timely social criticism.
Book Synopsis The Collected Papers of J. L. Moles - Volume 1 by : John Marincola
Download or read book The Collected Papers of J. L. Moles - Volume 1 written by John Marincola and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Moles (1949–2015) made fundamental contributions to the fields of ancient (especially Cynic) philosophy, Greek and Roman historiography and biography, Latin poetry, and New Testament studies. These two volumes gather together all of his major articles and reviews, along with six previously unpublished papers. The papers display Moles’ individual and sometimes iconoclastic approach, his impressive range in both Classical and New Testament texts, and his unrivalled abilities in close reading. This is volume 1.
Book Synopsis Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond by : Jan Felix Gaertner
Download or read book Writing Exile: The Discourse of Displacement in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond written by Jan Felix Gaertner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume explores how Greek and Latin authors perceive and present their own (real or metaphorical) exile and employ exile as a powerful trope to express estrangement, elicit readerly sympathy, and question political power structures.
Book Synopsis Survival of a Black Man: Against all Odds by : Harry Johnson
Download or read book Survival of a Black Man: Against all Odds written by Harry Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book (Survival of a Black Man: Against all odd) give a riveting account of how Systemic Racism is running rapid in our country’s workforce and how the Unions, Government, and State Agencies like the Department of Fair Housing and Employment are failing to protect the people their department was created to protect. This is a daily problem in our workforce today. By reading this book it will educated on the ins and outs of all aspects of the Child Support Division and our Civil Court system. It will also let you know how one man mistreatment and belittlement he received during his twenty years of employment. Racism has no place in the today’s workplaces in America, but yet it continues rear its ugly face in every nook and cranny across our country. Diversity makes up our country and our workplaces should reflect our country. My co-worker and the public kept stressing me but the Lord continued to bless me. I love my country, but do my country Love me? This is an amazing and powerful read, it will affect every emotion in your body, because it affect every emotion in Harry's body, after all he was the man that took brunt of all the cheating, lying, mistreatment, belittlement and agony. Enjoy Harry's story, but do not enjoy his agony too much because he suffered a lot both mentally and physically. Enjoy and God Bless You! BLM!
Book Synopsis Evaluating Global Orders by : Nicholas Rengger
Download or read book Evaluating Global Orders written by Nicholas Rengger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines conceptualisations of the field of 'global order' and the way in which this is imagined and evaluated.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Identity by : Ronald L. Jackson II
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Identity written by Ronald L. Jackson II and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries offer a comprehensive overview of the definitions, politics, manifestations, concepts, and ideas related to identity.
