Reading Huizinga

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089641807
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Huizinga by : Willem Otterspeer

Download or read book Reading Huizinga written by Willem Otterspeer and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: This study by the renowned Dutch scholar Willem Otterspeer shows the same hallmark passion with which Huizinga immersed himself in history. For Huizinga, philology was the mother of all interpretative endeavour, the master skill from which all branches of humanities originate and to which they all ultimately return. Reading and writing were both part of a collective ritual that channeled human passion into beautiful forms, while passion, and how to master it, remained the fundamental fact of human life. Throughout this analysis of Huizinga's oeuvre, Otterspeer remains faithful to his main philosophical tenets, in which contrast and harmony, memory and desire, are the warp and weft of his work. And again, this is precisely what Otterspeer does. Reading and writing, passion and detachment, method and mysticism are here combined in a way that would have delighted Huizinga himself. This book is the English translation of the original Dutch edition: 'Orde en trouw' (2006).

Rereading Huizinga

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048534097
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Rereading Huizinga written by Peter Arnade and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is a reappraisal of the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizinga's 1919 masterwork for the centenary of its publication in the field of medieval history, art history, and cultural studies.

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858070
Total Pages : 311 pages
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Download or read book Erasmus and the Age of Reformation written by Johan Huizinga and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic work on the sixteenth-century scholar/humanist. Originally published in 1984. 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.

Men and Ideas

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858089
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Men and Ideas written by Johan Huizinga and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History," throughout its pages. Huizinga's conception of cultural history informs both his essays on historiographic questions and those on such figures as John of Salisbury, Abelard, Joan of Arc, Erasmus, and Grotius. Originally published in 1984. 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.

The Good Son

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Publisher : Cormorant Books
ISBN 13 : 1770865934
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Good Son written by Carolyn Huizinga Mills and published by Cormorant Books. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe Emmerson has a secret, one she’s kept for years. Her quiet world is shaken when her past finally catches up with her: the investigation into the murder of a six-year-old neighbour is re-opened thirty years after the fact, threatening to destroy her and everyone she’s fought so hard to protect. She was just a child when it happened, scared and confused, and she’s never been entirely sure what she saw. But she kept her brother’s suspected involvement in the murder from the police, and the knowledge that she withheld a crucial piece of information haunts her. As the past collides with the present, Zoe is forced to face a most difficult truth.

Homo Ludens

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Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807046814
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (468 download)

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Download or read book Homo Ludens written by Johan Huizinga and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1971-06-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s). In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or “man the player” through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come.

Fortunes of History

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128290
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis Fortunes of History by : Donald R. Kelley

Download or read book Fortunes of History written by Donald R. Kelley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the “long nineteenth century”—the years from the French Revolution to those just after the First World War. He provides a comprehensive analysis of the theories and practices of British, French, German, Italian, and American schools of historical thought, their principal figures, and their distinctive methods and self-understandings. Kelley treats the modern traditions of European world and national historiography from the Enlightenment to the “new histories” of the twentieth century, attending not only to major authors and schools but also to methods, scholarship, criticisms, controversies, ideological questions, and relations to other disciplines.

America; a Dutch Historian's Vision, from Afar and Near

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Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America; a Dutch Historian's Vision, from Afar and Near written by Johan Huizinga and published by New York : Harper & Row. This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Shadow of Tomorrow

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ISBN 13 : 9781950970117
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Tomorrow by : Johan Huizinga

Download or read book In the Shadow of Tomorrow written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Totalitarian Temptation

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Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037906
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book The New Totalitarian Temptation written by Todd Huizinga and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe’s migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters. The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order. The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the world’s political order, but the social order as well—discarding basic truths about human nature and the social importance of tradition in favor of a human rights policy defined by radical autonomy and unfettered individual choice. And the global governance ideology at the heart of the EU is inherently antidemocratic. EU true believers are not swayed by the common sense of voters, nor by reality itself. Because the global governancers aim to transfer core powers of all nations to supranational organizations, the EU is on a collision course with the United States. But the utopian ideas of global governance are taking root here too, even as the European project flames into rancor and turmoil. America and Europe are still cultural cousins; we stand or fall together. The EU can yet be reformed, and a commitment to democratic sovereignty can be renewed on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Burgundians

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789543452
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Burgundians written by Bart Van Loo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.

On the Eighth Day

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666701149
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book On the Eighth Day written by Matt Hoven and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a 1980s Edmonton Oilers game, fans unveiled a banner claiming, “On the 8th day, God created Gretzky.” Intersections between religious belief and sporting participation are nothing new, where players, coaches, and fans are known to pray, cross themselves, and point to the heavens during a game. But what should be the relationship between sports and religious faith? On the Eighth Day introduces the theology of sport from a Catholic standpoint. It wrestles with sport’s universal appeal, its rich symbolism, and its spiritual and moral characteristics. Sport is a place where embodied games can be sacramental; where traditions of the past speak to contemporary peoples; and where truth and justice are demanded in a world affected by sin. The eighth day recalls the playful, re-creative work of God the Creator embodied in Christ’s resurrection. In this sense, this book marks out a “new day” in Christian attitudes toward modern sport and the continuing call to redeem sport in service of human flourishing. Comprehensive yet accessible, the book will engage thoughtful lay sports fans and academic students alike.

Transmitting Jewish History

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Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684580617
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Transmitting Jewish History written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This series of interviews brings together exceptional material on Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's personal and intellectual journey, true reflection on the rupture and transmission, the fabric of history, and of Jewish being in today's world. This work also attests to the astonishing breakthrough of the issues of Jewish history in "general history.""--

Reading Matter

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351494732
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Reading Matter written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects. Although speculation on the significance of objects often tends to be casual, there are professionals--anthropologists, historians, semioticians, Marxists, sociologists, and psychologists--who analyze material culture in a systematic way and attempt to elicit from it reliable information about people, societies, and cultures. One reason that analyzing objects has been problematical for scholars is the lack of a sound methodology governing multidisciplinary research. Reading Matter addresses this problem by defining a comprehensive set of methodological approaches that can be used to analyze and interpret material culture and relate it to personality and society.Berger offers discussions of the main concepts found in semiotic, historical, anthropological, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and sociological analysis. He provides practical descriptions of the working methods of each discipline and demarcates their special areas of investigation. Berger's lively discussions include a wealth of illustrative examples that help to clarify the complex and often difficult theories that underlie interpretations of material culture. In the second part of his analysis, Berger uses these disciplines to investigate one subject--fashion and an important aspect of fashion, blue jeans, and what the author calls the denimization phenomenon. Here he shows how different methods of reading material culture end up with different perspectives on things--even when they are dealing with the same topic.The author's focus is on the material culture of post-literate societies and cultures, both contemporary and historical. This comparative approach enables the reader to trace the evolution of objects from past to present or to see how American artifacts spread to different cultures, acquiring a wholly new meaning in the process. Reading Matter is an important contribution to the study of popula

Imaginary Boundaries of Justice

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847312136
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Boundaries of Justice written by Ronnie Lippens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become increasingly difficult to speak or even think social or legal justice in an age when words have left their moorings. Perhaps images are more stable than words; maybe images and imagery possess a certain viscosity,even a sensory quality, which prevents them from evaporating. This 'maybe' is what this book is about. The contributors to this collection explore the issue of how the Imaginary (images, imagery, imagination) has a role in the production and reproduction of 'visions' of legal and social justice. It argues that 'visions' of justice are inevitably bounded. Boundaries of 'visions' of justice, however, are also 'imaginary'. They emerge within imaginary spaces, and, as they are 'imaginary', they are inherently unstable. The book captures an emerging interest (in the humanities and social sciences) in images and the visual, or the Imaginary more broadly. This collection will appeal to scholars and students of social and legal theory, visual culture, justice and governance studies, media studies, and criminology.

Encyclopedia of Video Games [3 volumes]

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440870209
Total Pages : 1365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Video Games [3 volumes] written by Mark J. P. Wolf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 1365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, the Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming is the definitive, go-to resource for anyone interested in the diverse and expanding video game industry. This three-volume encyclopedia covers all things video games, including the games themselves, the companies that make them, and the people who play them. Written by scholars who are exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of video game studies, it notes genres, institutions, important concepts, theoretical concerns, and more and is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of video games of its kind, covering video games throughout all periods of their existence and geographically around the world. This is the second edition of Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, originally published in 2012. All of the entries have been revised to accommodate changes in the industry, and an additional volume has been added to address the recent developments, advances, and changes that have occurred in this ever-evolving field. This set is a vital resource for scholars and video game aficionados alike.

The Johns Hopkins University Circular

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Circular written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.