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Publisher : Umbr(a) Journal
ISBN 13 : 0966645235
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (666 download)
Download or read book Umbr(a): Polemos written by and published by Umbr(a) Journal. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Pfaller
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474422942
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Interpassivity written by Robert Pfaller and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. Applicable to both art and everyday life, the concept allows him to tackle a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion. Pfaller criticises dominant assumptions, offers an escape from prevailing ideologies and exposes how cultural capitalism promotes commodities with the promise of happiness.
Author : Wesley C. Swedlow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144114935X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Against the Personification of Democracy written by Wesley C. Swedlow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the forefront. By using Lacan to read key figures in political philosophy, the book demonstrates why democratic theory -- representative or radical - is not only ineffective when it comes to the best form of political cohabitation, but also productive of destructive and self-defeating forces. The book begins with the debate between Hobbesian and Lockeian notions of subjectivity to argue that the nature of political subjectivity is a function of the problem of desire. It then considers the question of the proper structure of political cohabitation in light of Hannah Arendt's insights into what happened to the stateless in World War II, leading to a distinction between the person in a bare and unadorned form and the public persona that is represented in most forms of democracy. Lacan is used to reread the question of political subjectivity, but, unlike radical democratic theory, the book argues against agonistic, representative, and thus endless democracy. Such a political formation is seen as an instigation and ultimate disappointment to desire (the persona), which leads to general negative outcomes, including genocide, concentration camps, and the removal of rights. Arguing against Zizek's proposal that a radical Act can save us politically, the book proposes a universal political formation as the only way out of the dilemma of political desire. This formation is not dependent on public personas, but rooted in actual persons meeting in their locality and sovereign to no one. An indispensable text for anyone interested in political theory, political philosophy, and democratic theory, Against the Personification of Democracy critiques positive theories of sovereignty through its analysis of political subjectivity and the problem of desire. More importantly, it provides a truly universal theory of democratic cohabitation that escapes political desire and thus the scapegoats of democratic failure, not to mention the anxiety of the impossibility of the democratic promise.
Author : Étienne Balibar
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823288579
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book On Universals written by Étienne Balibar and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many on the Left have looked upon “universal” as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism’s failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around particulars, positionalities, identities, immanence, and multiple modernities. In this book, one of our most important political philosophers builds on these critiques of the tacit exclusions of Enlightenment thought, while at the same time working to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common. In the contemporary quarrel of universals, Balibar shows, the stakes are no less than the future of our democracies. In dialogue with such philosophers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jacques Rancière, he meticulously investigates the paradoxical processes by which the universal is constructed and deconstructed, instituted and challenged, in modern society. With critical rigor and keen historical insight, Balibar shows that every statement and institution of the universal—such as declarations of human rights—carry an exclusionary, particularizing principle within themselves and that every universalism immediately falls prey to countervailing universalisms. Always equivocal and plural, the universal is thus a persistent site of conflict within societies and within subjects themselves. And yet, Balibar suggests, the very conflict of the universal—constituted as an ever-unfolding performative contradiction—also provides the emancipatory force needed to reinvigorate and reimagine contemporary politics and philosophy. In conversation with a range of thinkers from Marx, Freud, and Benjamin through Foucault, Derrida, and Scott, Balibar shows the power that resides not in the adoption of a single universalism but in harnessing the energies made available by claims to universality in order to establish a common answerable to difference.
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Author : Sara Elise Phang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610690206
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome [3 volumes] written by Sara Elise Phang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex role warfare played in ancient Greek and Roman civilizations is examined through coverage of key wars and battles; important leaders, armies, organizations, and weapons; and other noteworthy aspects of conflict. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social, and Military Encyclopedia is an outstandingly comprehensive reference work on its subject. Covering wars, battles, places, individuals, and themes, this thoroughly cross-referenced three-volume set provides essential support to any student or general reader investigating ancient Greek history and conflicts as well as the social and political institutions of the Roman Republic and Empire. The set covers ancient Greek history from archaic times to the Roman conquest and ancient Roman history from early Rome to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE. It features a general foreword, prefaces to both sections on Greek history and Roman history, and maps and chronologies of events that precede each entry section. Each section contains alphabetically ordered articles—including ones addressing topics not traditionally considered part of military history, such as "noncombatants" and "war and gender"—followed by cross-references to related articles and suggested further reading. Also included are glossaries of Greek and Latin terms, topically organized bibliographies, and selected primary documents in translation.
Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195375181
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the many uses of the slogan of freedom by ancient Greeks, beginning with the Peloponnesian war and continuing throughout the Hellenistic period, and shows in detail how the Romans appropriated and adjusted Greek political vocabulary and practices to establish the pax Romana over the Mediterranean world.
Author : Walter Pohl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311059756X
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Transformations of Romanness written by Walter Pohl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
Author : Gerard Gertoux
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329750667
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Trojan War: Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence written by Gerard Gertoux and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trojan War is the foundation of Greek history. If Greek historians had little doubt of its existence they remained extremely sceptical regarding its mythological origin. Archaeology has confirmed one essential point: there was indeed a general conflagration in the Greek world around 1200 BCE, the assumed period of that war, which caused the disappearance of two powerful empires: Mycenaean on one hand and Hittite with its vassals on the other hand. The inscriptions of Ramses III's year 8 describe actually a general invasion of the Mediterranean by the "Sea Peoples". A precise chronological reconstruction shows that there was a confrontation between a Greek heterogeneous confederation, consisting of pirates, and a set of vassal kingdoms of the Hittite empire, such as Troy and Ugarit, which ended with their complete mutual destruction in 1185 BCE, the climax of the Trojan War. This conclusion was already that of Eratosthenes.
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Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Dioniso written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919913
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book War and Society in the Roman World written by Dr John Rich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure.
Author : John O'Neill
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415125
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Hegel's Dialectic of Desire and Recognition written by John O'Neill and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation in life, labor, and language—a narrative that has been subject to extensive commentary in philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and feminist thought. The texts focus on a central topos in Western thought, the story of self-consciousness awakened in nature and in history. John O'Neill argues that current postmodern rejections of the Hegelian-Marxist narrative demand an understanding of the texts included here. Without Hegel and Marx in our toolbox, he argues, we will flounder in a world marked by the split between postmodern indifference and premodern passion. The book makes a strong selection from the history of Hegelian-Marxist debate, hermeneutical and critical theory, and Freudian/Lacanian and feminist commentary on the dialectic of desire and recognition, on the levels of social psychology and political economy. Included are articles by Karl Marx, G. W. F. Hegel, Alexandre Kojève, Jean Hyppolite, Jean-Paul Sarte, Georg Lukács, Jürgen Habermas, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Howard Adelman, Shlomo Avineri, Jessica Benjamin, Edward S. Casey and J. Melvin Woody, Henry S. Harris, George Armstrong Kelly, Ludwig Siep, Judith N. Shklar, and Henry Sussman. The texts and commentaries show how the Hegelian-Maxist narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation is a contested story, one in which class, race, and gender issues are drawn into a historical romance that is being rewritten in contemporary cultural politics.
Author : Mitchell G. Ash
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521389204
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Psychology in Twentieth-Century Thought and Society written by Mitchell G. Ash and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1989-11-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Elder Pliny's Chapters on the History of Art written by Pliny (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Callimachus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604369
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Callimachus: Hymn to Demeter written by Callimachus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callimachus was one of the most influential writers in the ancient world and had a profound effect on the subsequent course of Greek and Roman literature. Dr Hopkinson here thoroughly analyses Callimachus' Sixth Hymn, The Hymn to Demeter providing the first full edition and commentary on the work in English.
Author : Leon Battista Alberti
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dinner Pieces written by Leon Battista Alberti and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485889
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Indian Critiques of Gandhi written by Harold Coward and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920–1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi's contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement—the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs—and analyzes Gandhi's ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Discussion of the General Epistle of St James written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1903 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
