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Author : Elton T. E. Barker
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199542716
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Entering the Agon written by Elton T. E. Barker and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacket.
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Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Entering the Agon written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Steinberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131639560X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Objectivity written by Peter J. Steinberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern political conflict characteristically reflects and represents deep-seated but also unacknowledged and un-analyzed disagreements about what it means to be 'objective'. In defending this proposition, Peter J. Steinberger seeks to reaffirm the idea of rationalism in politics by examining important problems of public life explicitly in the light of established philosophical doctrine. The Politics of Objectivity invokes, thereby, an age-old, though now widely ignored, tradition of western thought according to which all political thinking is inevitably embedded in and underwritten by larger structures of metaphysical inquiry. Building on earlier studies of the idea of the state, and focusing on highly contested practices of objectivity in judgement, this book suggests that political conflict is an essentially discursive enterprise deeply implicated in the rational pursuit of theories about how things in the world really are.
Author : Simon Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190695625
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities written by Simon Stern and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does materiality matter to legal scholarship? What can affect studies offer to legal scholars? What are the connections among visual studies, art history, and the knowledge and experience of law? What can the disciplines of book history, digital humanities, performance studies, disability studies, and post-colonial studies contribute to contemporary and historical understandings of law? These are only some of the important questions addressed in this wide-ranging collection of law and humanities scholarship. Collecting 45 new essays by leading international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities showcases the work of law and humanities across disciplines, addressing methods, concepts and themes, genres, and areas of the law. The essays explore under-researched domains such as comics, videos, police files, form contracts, and paratexts, and shed new light on traditional topics, such as free speech, intellectual property, international law, indigenous peoples, immigration, evidence, and human rights. The Handbook provides an exciting new agenda for scholarship in law and humanities, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the intersections of law and humanistic inquiry.
Author : Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027296618
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Narratives We Organize By written by Barbara Czarniawska and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of texts that explore the analogy between organizing and narrating, between action and text. The raw material of everyday organizational life consists of disconnected fragments, physical and verbal actions that do not make sense when reported with simple chronology. Narrating is organizing this raw and fragmented material with the help of such devices as plot and characters. Simultaneously, organizing makes narration possible, because it orders people, things and events in time and place. The collection, written by organization researchers from many different countries, explores this analogy in both directions, reporting studies that show how narratives are made in situ, and applying narrative analysis (structuralist and poststructuralist) to stories already in existence. Barbara Czarniawska is Skandia Professor of Management Studies at GRI, School of Economics and Commercial Law, Göteborg University, Sweden. Pasquale Gagliardi is Professor of Sociology of Organization at the Catholic University of Milan, and Managing Director of ISTUD- Istituto Studi Direzionali, Milan-Stresa, Italy.
Author : Scott Porter Consigny
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034244
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Gorgias, Sophist and Artist written by Scott Porter Consigny and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato as a shallow opportunist, and Aristotle as an inept stylist, but the Greek teacher of rhetoric Gorgias of Leontini (483-375 BCE) has been again attracting attention from scholars. Consigny (English, Iowa State U.) articulates a coherent account of the enigmatic thinker and writer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Dirk R. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490397
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche's Anti-Darwinism written by Dirk R. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Nietzsche's complex connection to Charles Darwin has been much explored, and both scholarly and popular opinions have tended to assume a convergence in their thinking. In this study, Dirk Johnson challenges that assumption and takes seriously Nietzsche's own explicitly stated 'anti-Darwinism'. He argues for the importance of Darwin for the development of Nietzsche's philosophy, but he places emphasis on the antagonistic character of their relationship and suggests that Nietzsche's mature critique against Darwin represents the key to understanding his broader (anti-)Darwinian position. He also offers an original reinterpretation of the Genealogy of Morals, a text long considered sympathetic to Darwinian naturalism, but which he argues should be taken as Nietzsche's most sophisticated critique of both Darwin and his followers. His book will appeal to all who are interested in the philosophy of Nietzsche and its cultural context.
Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199554196
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Talking about Laughter written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen studies, including some previously unpublished, by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow dramatists. Each chapter deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of the dramatist, the genre, and its interactions with the society of classical Athens.
Author : Z J Galos
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3758390583
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (583 download)
Download or read book The Greek Muse written by Z J Galos and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zsolt has had an interaction with his Muses from an early age, especially through the Internet, where he meets Rita, who pleads to be saved from being held prisoner. He decides to help Rita and travels to Greece. Takis, a PI, assists Zsolt with his rescue plans and follows up to neutralize Minos, the Bull-Man, who sets conditions to disclose Rita's whereabouts. The set conditions are tough and follow the Secret Rites of Eleusis, but with the help of friends, they have a chance to get through. Minos in his lair throws lavish parties that usually end in an orgy. and Rita is terrorized to eat part of the victim's heart, the Bull-Man has ripped from his next victim. Midge, the dwarf and second in command had been caught by Spiros, Takis 'brother, who operates a security unit. He'll cooperate to open the gates to Villa 'M' for the attackers and help Rita escape from her gilded cage. The date is set and the countdown begins. Zsolt and Myrto will dig through the labyrinth below to reach Rita's cage, while Takis and his brother will enter Villa 'M' above ground in a synchronized. way. Zsolt and Takis are prepared to face Minos head-on.
Author : Francis Macdonald Cornford
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Attic Comedy written by Francis Macdonald Cornford and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Esti Dvorjetski
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900415681X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Leisure, Pleasure and Healing written by Esti Dvorjetski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with leisure, pleasure and healing at the spas in the eastern Mediterranean basin since the biblical era throughout the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods focusing on daily life, healing cults, medical recommendations and treatments at the curative spas.
Author : Elaine Fantham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656177
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Seneca's Troades written by Elaine Fantham and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition. Arguing that the Troades was not intended for stage production, the author also discusses the atmosphere of Rome at the time the play was written, when both political and poetic life were felt to be in decline. Although Seneca's plays reflect his experience of tyranny, corruption, and compromise, they are enriched by his contract with the nobler world of poetry. Demonstrating how Seneca loved and imitated the Augustan poets, Professor Fantham reveals the originality that is part of his imitation. Professor Fantham discusses not only the particular characteristics of Seneca's generation but the interplay of his moral and poetic concerns in relationship to his subject--the Trojan captivity.By analyzing his reactions to accounts of this theme in Homer, Euripides, and Augustan epic, she explains his methods and motives in composition. Comparison of the play with Seneca's other works and with other drama exposes some inconsistency, formulaic writing, and excess of ingenuity. It also reveals the influence of epic in loosening his dramtic form and makes apparent his immense vitality. Elaine Fantham is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto and author of Comparative Studies in the Republican Latin Imagery (Toronto). Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556241
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Friendship in Twilight written by Jack Miles and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of plague, fundamental questions become immediate and personal. The pandemic, droughts, floods, fire, political violence: the world has been grimly reminded of the proximity and inevitability of death. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor—acclaimed public intellectuals and scholars of religion, one a Christian and the other an atheist, close friends for fifty years—have spent their lives grappling with questions of ultimate concern. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down at home and facing an uncertain future, Miles and Taylor embarked on an extended conversation about living and dying in an imperiled world. A Friendship in Twilight is their plague journal. In raw and searching letters, written daily from the first lockdowns through the Capitol riot, Miles and Taylor reflect on life during overlapping crises. Amid the menace of the pandemic and the unceasing political turmoil, they debate the lessons that a catastrophic present can teach about the future and how to read, think, live, and face up to death. Confronting the vulnerability of their aging bodies and the frailty of American democracy, the two friends discuss why and how philosophical reflection matters for a wounded world. Their conversations are imbued with an ever-present sense of urgency about the worth of a life, the fragility of existence, and the uncertainty of endings. Seamlessly moving from heartfelt emotion to philosophical speculation, current events to great art and literature, this book is a powerful and moving testament to the precarity of life and to enduring friendship.
Author : Herman Siemens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066974
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy written by Herman Siemens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Nietzsche's works and ideas are relevant across the many branches of philosophy, the themes of contest and conflict have been mostly overlooked. Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy redresses this situation, arguing for the importance of these issues throughout Nietzsche's work. The volume has three key lines of inquiry: Nietzsche's ontology of conflict; Nietzsche's conception of the agon; and Nietzsche's warrior-philosophy. Under these three umbrellas is a collection of insightful and provocative essays considering, among other topics, Nietzsche's understanding of resistance; his engagement with classical thinkers alongside his contemporaries, including Jacob Burckhardt; his views on language, metaphor and aphorism; and war, revolt and terror. In bringing together such topics, Conflict and Contest in Nietzsche's Philosophy seeks to correct the one-sided tendencies within the existing literature to read simply 'hard' and 'soft' analyses of conflict. Written by scholars across the Anglophone and the European traditions, within and beyond philosophy, this collection emphasises the entire problematic of conflict in Nietzsche's thought and its relation to his philosophical and literary practice.
Author : C.B. Wilde
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1915603455
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Trion written by C.B. Wilde and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trion is under siege. One young boy tries to save the city and his family with the only weapons he has – courage and imagination.
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Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Japanese Religions written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-12 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy L. Cerepaka
Publisher : Annulus Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cursed Lands (epic fantasy/sword and sorcery) written by Timothy L. Cerepaka and published by Annulus Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, the Dragon Gods founded the land of Yores. They drove out the monsters which lived within it and gave the land to their followers, who thanked the Dragon Gods and pledged to worship them for eternity. As time went on, however, the Yoresians grew proud and ceased worshipping the Dragon Gods, trusting instead in their magic. Thus, the Dragon Gods abandoned the Yoresians, which has turned out to be a mistake, for now the land of Yores is under attack from a powerful evil and the Yoresians cannot stand against it. Twin siblings Sarzen and Helnia, a warrior and a mage, set out to find the Dragon Gods, who they believe are their people's only hope of survival. But the quest ahead of them is fraught with dangers they can't even imagine, including a revelation about themselves that will shake their view of themselves and their leaders forever. KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic
