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With characteristic wit Harry Berger Jr brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls structural misanthropology Beginning with a novel reading of Plato Berger emphasizes Socratess selfacknowledged failures The dialogues he shows offer up only to dispute a misanthropic polis The Athenian citystate they worry is founded on a social order motivated by apprehensionboth the desire to take and the fear of being taken In addition to suggesting new politicaland philosophical dimensions to Platonic thought Bergers attention to rhetorical practice offers novel ways of parsing the dialogic method itself In the books second half Berger revisits and revises his earlier accounts of Italian humanism Elizabethan drama and Dutch painting Berger shows how structural misanthropology helps us to read the competitive practices that characterize Renaissance writing and art whether in Machiavellis constitutional prostheses Shakespeares pageants of humiliation or the elbow jabs of Dutch portraiture
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Literary scholar novelist and Christian apologist C S Lewis was a remarkable and enigmatic man He is perhaps best known today for his popular series of childrens books the Chronicles of Narnia which continue to sell more than a million copies a year He also wrote science fiction in the form of interplanetary fantasies a series of three novels known as the Ransom Trilogy This book offers the first fulllength critical assessment of that trilogy placing the three volumes in the context of Lewiss life and workDavid C Downing reveals the autobiographical and theological subtexts of Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra and That Hideous Strength showing as well how much Lewis the classical and medieval scholar influenced the work of Lewis the creator of interplanetary fantasies Downing also examines the chief imaginative and intellectual sources of the trilogy and addresses persistent issues raised by reviewers and critics Was Lewiss lifelong devotion to fantasy a mark of intellectual independence or a case of arrested emotional development Were his views on women sexist even misogynist How much of his critique of modern science and technology was well informed and how much the result of prejudice or habitual suspicion of all things modernA brief appendix on The Dark Tower fragment provides what background is known about this mysterious document summarizes the story as far as Lewis developed it and comments on how this unfinished work fits in with the Ransom books published during Lewiss lifetime
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Literary scholar novelist and Christian apologist C S Lewis was a remarkable and enigmatic man He is perhaps best known today for his popular series of childrens books the Chronicles of Narnia which continue to sell more than a million copies a year He also wrote science fiction in the form of interplanetary fantasies a series of three novels known as the Ransom Trilogy This book offers the first fulllength critical assessment of that trilogy placing the three volumes in the context of Lewiss life and workDavid C Downing reveals the autobiographical and theological subtexts of Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra and That Hideous Strength showing as well how much Lewis the classical and medieval scholar influenced the work of Lewis the creator of interplanetary fantasies Downing also examines the chief imaginative and intellectual sources of the trilogy and addresses persistent issues raised by reviewers and critics Was Lewiss lifelong devotion to fantasy a mark of intellectual independence or a case of arrested emotional development Were his views on women sexist even misogynist How much of his critique of modern science and technology was well informed and how much the result of prejudice or habitual suspicion of all things modernA brief appendix on The Dark Tower fragment provides what background is known about this mysterious document summarizes the story as far as Lewis developed it and comments on how this unfinished work fits in with the Ransom books published during Lewiss lifetime
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This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St Louis Missouri Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for reexamination of school desegregation Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice probing the ways that soft racisma term the author uses to describe the nonviolent yet equally harmful types of protests that opponents of desegregation utilizedhas permeated St Louis since the days of Brown v Board of Education The chapters feature the voices of those who were central to the desegregation fight in St Louis showing how the devastating effects of school segregation and soft racism linger today
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Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions Do statebuilding and marketbuilding go hand in hand Or do they work at crosspurposes This book examines the relationship between statebuilding and marketbuilding in 25 postcommunist countries from 1990 to 2004 Based on crossnational statistical analyses surveys of business managers and case studies from Russia Bulgaria Poland and Uzbekistan Timothy Frye demonstrates that democracy is associated with more economic reform stronger state institutions and higher social transfers when political polarization is low But he also finds that increases in political polarization dampen the positive impact of democracy by making policy less predictable He traces the roots of political polarization to high levels of income inequality and the institutional legacy of communist rule By identifying when and how democracy fosters markets and states this work contributes to longstanding debates in comparative politics public policy and postcommunist studies
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It is one of the great mysteries in the archaeology of the Americas the depopulation of the northern Southwest in the late thirteenthcentury AD Considering the numbers of people affected the distances moved the permanence of the departures the severity of the surrounding conditions and the human suffering and culture change that accompanied them the abrupt conclusion to the farming way of life in this region is one of the greatest disruptions in recorded historyMuch new paleoenvironmental data and a great deal of archaeological survey and excavation permit the fifteen scientists represented here much greater precision in determining the timing of the depopulation the number of people affected and the ways in which northern Pueblo peoples copedand failed to copewith the rapidly changing environmental and demographic conditions they encountered throughout the 1200s In addition some of the scientists in this volume use models to provide insights into the processes behind the patterns they find helping to narrow the range of plausible explanationsWhat emerges from these investigations is a highly pertinent story of conflict and disruption as a result of climate change environmental degradation social rigidity and conflict Taken as a whole these contributions recognize this era as having witnessed a competition between differing social and economic organizations in which selective migration was considerably hastened by severe climatic environmental and social upheaval Moreover the chapters show that it is at least as true that emigration led to the collapse of the northern Southwest as it is that collapse led to emigration
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Jones studies the crisis in AngloAmerican relations during the Civil War and its impact on the Souths attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862 He argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy a move that would have legitimized secession and undermined the ConstitutionOriginally published in 1992 A UNC Press Enduring Edition UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print These editions are published unaltered from the original and are presented in affordable paperback formats bringing readers both historical and cultural value
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Over the last 100 years perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than black males The subject of myriad studies and dozens of government boards and commissions black men have been variously depicted as the progenitors of pop culture and the menaces of society their individuality often obscured by the narrow images that linger in the public mind Ten years after the Million Man March the largest gathering of black men in the nations history Washington Post staffers began meeting to discuss what had become of black men in the ensuing decade How could their progress and failures be measured Their questions resulted in a Post series which generated enormous public interest and inspired a succession of dynamic public meetings It included the findings of an ambitious nationwide poll and offered an eyeopening window into questions of race and black male identityquestions gaining increasing attention with the emergence of Senator Barack Obama as a serious presidential contender At the end of the day the project revealed that black men are deeply divided over how they view each other and their country Now collected in one volume with several new essays as well as an introduction by Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist Edward P Jones these poignant and provocative articles let us see and hear black men like theyve never been seen and heard before
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Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of earlynineteenthcentury decorum they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness Ian Duncan Studies in Hogg and his WorldBoth stories of The Three Perils of Woman are generically diverse selfconsciously impure Hogg described them as domestic tales apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy though one but which struggles through to what may be a happy ending What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency They have become urgent once again and will continue to be so and if
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The first case study deals with the mad cow fiasco of 1996 one of the most expensive and tragic examples of poor risk management in the last twentyfive years For ten years the British government failed to acknowledge the possibility of a link between mad cow disease and CreuzfeldtJakob disease the human equivalent until increased scientific evidence and public pressure forced them to take action resulting in the slaughter of more than one million cattle The second study looks at what is commonly known as hamburger disease caused by a virulent form of the E coli bacterium which has struck thousands and killed over thirty people in the last few years Despite its widespread effects it is unclear whether scientific knowledge on preventing the disease is reaching the public Other case studies include the use of a genetically engineered hormone to increase milk production in cows health risks associated with silicone breast implants public controversies surrounding dioxins and PCBs and the introduction of agricultural biotechnology These case studies show that institutions routinely fail to communicate the scientific basis of various highprofile risks These failures to inform the public make it difficult for governments industry and society to manage risk controversies sensibly and often result in massive costs With its detailed analyses of specific risk management controversies Mad Cows and Mothers Milk will help us avoid future mistakes
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1929 The Gifford Lectures Contents Escape from Peril Philosophys Search for the Immutable Conflict of Authorities The Art of Acceptance and the Art of Control Ideas at Work The Play of Ideas The Seat of Intellectual Authority The Naturalization of Intelligence The Supremacy of Method The Construction of Good and The Copernican Revolution See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing
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Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day Eastern Europes lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination anxiety promise and peril for Germans looking eastwards Across the generations a varied cast of German writers artists philosophers diplomats political leaders generals and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined often in very different ways a special German mission in the East forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the Wild West and Manifest Destiny Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined and repeatedly redefined themselves and their own national identity In particular what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe between East and West Paradoxically the East came to be viewed as both an attractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped dangerous wild dirty and uncultured Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers to the violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis German imaginings of the East represent a crucial yet unfamiliar part of modern European history and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union
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While the technological hype that dominated the 1990s eventually collided with reality and subsided one of the periods most tenacious ideas has not the conviction that the future of books is in jeopardy Yet the promiseor perilof widespread textual availability on the Internet along with the economic pressures of globalization has had the unexpected beneficial effect of sparking interest in the relatively young discipline of the history of the bookThe essays collected in Literary Cultures and the Material Book cast a wide netfrom China and Russia to South America and New Zealandto investigate the vital relationship between actual physical books and the study of literary cultures How books are created sold and experienced as material objects is a fascinating and little understood element of literary culture and the contributors to this volume build on the pioneering work of earlier scholars to bring the discipline into the present As books enter uncharted and uncertain territory in the twentyfirst century understanding their impact on our globalized culture is more important than ever
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Over the last two centuries and indeed up to the present day Eastern Europes lands and peoples have conjured up a complex mixture of fascination anxiety promise and peril for Germans looking eastwards Across the generations a varied cast of German writers artists philosophers diplomats political leaders generals and Nazi racial fanatics have imagined often in very different ways a special German mission in the East forging a frontier myth that paralleled the American myths of the Wild West and Manifest Destiny Through close analysis of German views of the East from 1800 to our own times The German Myth of the East reveals that this crucial international relationship has in fact been integral to how Germans have defined and repeatedly redefined themselves and their own national identity In particular what was ultimately at stake for Germans was their own uncertain position in Europe between East and West Paradoxically the East came to be viewed as both an attractive land of unlimited potential for the future and as a place undeveloped dangerous wild dirty and uncultured Running the gamut from the messages of international understanding announced by generations of German scholars and sympathetic writers to the violent racial utopia envisaged by the Nazis German imaginings of the East represent a crucial yet unfamiliar part of modern European history and one that remains fundamentally important today in the context of an expanded European Union
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Rarely in modern times has religion been associated with empiricism except to its own peril This book represents a comprehensive and systematic effort to retrieve and develop the tradition of American religious empiricism for religious inquiryReligion and Radical Empiricism offers a challenging account of how and why reflection on religious truthclaims must seek justification of those claims finally in terms of empirical criteria Ranging through many of the major questions in philosophy of religion the author weaves together a study of the varieties of empiricism in all its historical forms from Hume to Quine She finds in James and Dewey in Wieman Meland and Loomer of the Chicago School in Whitehead and in Abhidharma Buddhism constructive elements of a radically empirical approach to the controversial topic of religious experience This work provides a strong counterargument to critics of revisionary theism to caricatures of philosophy as conversation and to any collapse of the category of experience into its linguistic forms
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