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Author : Émile Benveniste
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912808021
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society written by Émile Benveniste and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Émile Benveniste
Publisher : Hau
ISBN 13 : 9780986132599
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society written by Émile Benveniste and published by Hau. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1969, Émile Benveniste's Vocabulaire--here in a new translation as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society--has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship. A comprehensive and comparative history of words with analyses of their underlying neglected genealogies and structures of signification--and this via a masterful journey through Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, Latin, and Greek languages--Benveniste's dictionary is a must-read for anthropologists, linguists, literary theorists, classicists, and philosophers alike. This book has famously inspired a wealth of thinkers, including Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Agamben, François Jullien, and many others. In this new volume, Benveniste's masterpiece on the study of language and society finds new life for a new generation of scholars. As political fictions continue to separate and reify differences between European, Middle Eastern, and South Asian societies, Benveniste reminds us just how historically deep their interconnections are and that understanding the way our institutions are evoked through the words that describe them is more necessary than ever.
Author : Silvana Rabinovich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003836151
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Notes for a Decolonial Political Theology written by Silvana Rabinovich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of ethics, poetics and politics, this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology. The author proposes counter-hegemonic forms of reading, which deconstruct domination by embracing fragility. The book opens with a diapason of prejudicelessness as a decolonial key, focusing on prejudices that hinder critical attention to a colonial political theology that perpetuates hatred. The first set of notes aims to ‘de-orientalize the Semite’ by reading midrashic and biblical texts in the present context, the second seeks to decolonize language by exploring the power of translation, and the third ponders decolonial theo-logics to outline a justice of the other. Connecting a number of fields, authors, and epistemologies, the book addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and brings together Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and Latin American perspectives. It engages with a range of thinkers, including Benjamin and Arendt, and features an interview with Enrique Dussel. This is an important methodological proposal for interdisciplinary and intercultural political theology and a valuable contribution towards rethinking the paradigm of political theology beyond its Eurocentric and colonialist premises.
Author : Alberto Moreiras
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023651
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Uncanny Rest written by Alberto Moreiras and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.
Author : Richard Copabianco
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538162539
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Heidegger and the Holy written by Richard Copabianco and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holy (Being-as-the-holy) is a distinctive theme in Heidegger’s work that is perhaps well-known to readers, yet not attended to sufficiently in contemporary Heidegger studies. The essays in this volume, authored by an international group of scholars, offer readers an opportunity to consider the many dimensions and possibilities of the notion of “the holy” (das Heilige) in his thinking. The authors in this volume document the multiple texts and contexts of Heidegger’s discussions of the holy, and they offer detailed readings and their own particular interpretations and applications. The chapters, taken together, make a significant contribution not only to Heidegger scholarship but also to our understanding of our fundamental human situation in relation to Being-as-the holy.
Author : Vanessa Grotti
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030565858
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean written by Vanessa Grotti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.
Author : Laurent de Sutter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509545433
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book After Law written by Laurent de Sutter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination. He shows that at a certain moment in our history a choice was made to treat law as a decisive feature of civilization, but this choice was neither obvious nor necessary. Other political, social, religious or cultural possibilities could have been chosen instead – from ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, from medieval Japan to China, from Islam to Judaism, other cultures have devised sophisticated tools to help people live together without having to deal with norms, rules and principles. This is a lesson worth reflecting on, especially at a time when the rule of law and the functioning of justice are increasingly showing their sinister side – and their impotence. Is there life beyond law?
Author : Sherratt A. Sherratt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472567
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Economy and Society in Prehistoric Europe written by Sherratt A. Sherratt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a classic collection of Andrew Sherratt's work on the economic foundations of prehistoric Europe, which have put forward important new ideas about the development of farming, pastoralism, early technology and trade. In a series of contributions that have included wide-ranging syntheses and detailed local studies, he discusses their implications for the understanding of settlement-patterns, social structures, material culture, and less tangible aspects of prehistoric life such as the spread of languages and the use of narcotics.
Author : Isabell Lorey
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767332
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Democracy in the Political Present written by Isabell Lorey and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism.” In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a fundamental critique of masculinist concepts of the people, representation, institutions, and the multitude. In doing so, she unfolds an original concept of a presentist democracy based on care and interrelatedness, on the irreducibility of responsibilities—one which cannot be conceived of without social movements’ past struggles and current practices.
Author : Pierre Dardot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474238629
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Common written by Pierre Dardot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible principle: the common. In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century. In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history, theology, and sociology. Instead of conceptualizing the common as an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developed by Dardot and Laval traces the active lives of human beings: only a practical activity of commoning can decide what will be shared in common and what rules will govern the common's citizen-subjects. This re-articulation of the common calls for nothing less than the institutional transformation of society by society: it calls for a revolution.
Author : Benjamin W. Fortson, IV
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444359681
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Indo-European Language and Culture written by Benjamin W. Fortson, IV and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition provides a comprehensive overview of comparative Indo-European linguistics and the branches of the Indo-European language family, covering both linguistic and cultural material. Now offering even greater coverage than the first edition, it is the definitive introduction to the field. Updated, corrected, and expanded edition, containing new illustrations of selected texts and inscriptions, and text samples with translations and etymological commentary Extensively covers individual histories of both ancient and modern languages of the Indo-European family Provides an overview of Proto-Indo-European culture, society, and language Designed for use in courses, with exercises and suggestions for further reading included in each chapter Includes maps, a glossary, a bibliography, and comprehensive word and subject indexes
Author : Daniela Carpi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311065461X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity written by Daniela Carpi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation, composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in- or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social norms and values. The monster-evoking transgression is most often indistinguishable from reactions to the experience of otherness, merging the limits of humanity with the limits of a given culture. The topic entails a large intersection among the cultural domains of law, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and technology. Monstrosity has indeed become a necessary condition of our existence in the 21st century: it serves as a representation of change itself. In the process of analysis there are three theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, representational, ontological. The volume therefore aims at examining the concept of monstrosity from three main perspectives: technophobic, xenophobic, superdiversity. Today’s globalized world is shaped in the unprecedented phenomenon of international migration. The resistance to this phenomenon causes the demonization of the Other, seen as the antagonist and the monster. The monster becomes therefore the ethnic Other, the alien. To reach this new perspective on monstrosity we must start by examining the many facets of monstrosity, also diachronically: from the philological origin of the term to the Roman and classical viewpoint, from the Renaissance medical perspective to the religious background, from the new filmic exploitations in the 20th and 21st centuries to the very recent ethnological and anthropological points of view, to the latest technological perspective , dealing with artificial intelligence.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466665
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Repetition, Communication, and Meaning in the Ancient World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features an international group of experts on the literature, philosophy, and religion of the ancient Mediterranean world. Each paper makes a unique contribution, and together, the papers draw an engaging portrait of the idea of “repetition.”
Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226831310
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Hospitality, Volume II written by Jacques Derrida and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others. Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures, Derrida asks a series of related questions about responsibility and “the foreigner”: How do we welcome or turn away the foreigner? What does the idea of the foreigner reveal about kinship and the state, particularly in relation to friendship, citizenship, migration, asylum, assimilation, and xenophobia? Central to his project is a rigorous distinction between conventional, finite hospitality, with its many conditions, and the aspirational idea of hospitality as something offered unconditionally to the stranger. This volume collects the second year of the seminar, which considers an Islamic problematic of hospitality, the relevance of forgiveness, and the work of Emmanuel Levinas.
Author : Krešimir Vuković
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311069011X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Wolves of Rome written by Krešimir Vuković and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study is a fresh interpretation of the Roman foundation myth and one of the most important Roman festivals – the Lupercalia, an annual celebration of youth and sexuality by Roman men and women. Written with clarity and force the book spans the whole of Roman history and takes the Lupercalia back to its Indo-European roots by presenting clear parallels between Roman and Indian traditions.
Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199287910
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World written by J. P. Mallory and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors introduce Proto-Indo-European describing its construction and revealing the people who spoke it between 5,500 and 8,000 years ago. Using archaeological evidence and natural history they reconstruct the lives, passions, culture, society and mythology of the Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Author : Ana R. Chelariu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031040511
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage written by Ana R. Chelariu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture.
