A Humanist On The Frontier

Author : Marcell Sebők
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000430509

Get Book

A Humanist on the Frontier by Marcell Sebők Pdf

A Humanist on the Frontier explores the remarkable life of Sebastian Ambrosius, a sixteenth-century Lutheran minister and intellectual from Késmárk (now Kežmarok) in present-day Slovakia, formerly on the borderland of the Kingdom of Hungary. Through an examination of Ambrosius’ publications and correspondence, this book throws new light on the dynamics of urban communities in Upper Hungary, communication within the humanist Republic of Letters in both Central European and wider European networks, and ecclesiastical controversies. Adopting methods of microhistory and cultural history, it also reconstructs Ambrosius’ life by positioning him in various contexts that trace his relationship to, and interpretations of, themes of power, tradition, vocation, communication and identity. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern European history, as well as those interested in microhistory, cultural history, and the Republic of Letters.

Author : Geoffrey Leonard Heawood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:250878367

Get Book

The Humanist-Christian Frontier by Geoffrey Leonard Heawood Pdf

Author : William V. Spanos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438465982

Get Book

Toward a Non-humanist Humanism by William V. Spanos Pdf

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern. In his book The End of Education: Toward Posthumanism, William V. Spanos critiqued the traditional Western concept of humanism, arguing that its origins are to be found not in ancient Greece’s love of truth and wisdom, but in the Roman imperial era, when those Greek values were adapted in the service of imperialism on a deeply rooted, metaphysical level. Returning to that question of humanism in the context of the United States’ war on terror in the post-9/11 era, Toward a Non-humanist Humanism points out the dehumanizing dynamics of Western modernity in which the rule of law is increasingly made flexible to defend against threats both real and potential. Spanos considers and assesses the work of thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, and Slavoj Žižek as humanistic reformers and concludes with an effort to imagine a different kind of humanism—a non-humanist humanism—in which the old binary of friend versus foe gives way to a coming community without ethnic, cultural, or sexual divisions. William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of many books, including American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam and Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851–1857, both also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000950908

Get Book

Skepticism and Humanism by Paul Kurtz Pdf

As we begin the third millennium there is cause for cautious optimism regarding the human prospect. Democratic revolutions and the doctrine of universal human rights have captured the imagination of large sectors of humanity, while major advances in science and technology continue to conquer disease and extend life, contributing to rising standards of living, affluence, and cultural freedom on a worldwide basis. Paradoxically, at the same time ancient authoritarian fundamentalist religions have grown in vitriolic intensity along with bizarre New Age, media-driven paranormal belief systems. Also surprising is the resurgence of primitive tribal and ethnic loyalties, unleashing wars of intolerance and bitterness. In Skepticism and Humanism, Paul Kurtz locates these threatening developments within a long-standing and largely unchallenged theological worldview. He proposes, as an alternative to religion, a new cultural paradigm rooted in scientific naturalism, rationalism, and a humanistic outlook. An estimated 60 percent of scientists are atheists or agnostics. However, the skeptical world view has been given little currency even in advanced societies, because of a cultural prohibition against the criticism of religion. At the same time, science has become increasingly narrow and specialized so that few people can draw on its broader intellectual and cultural implications. Skepticism and Humanism attempts to meet this need. It defends skepticism as a method for developing reliable knowledge by using scientific inquiry and reason to test all claims to truth. It also defends scientific naturalism-an evolutionary view of nature, life, and the human species. Kurtz sees the dominant religious doctrines as drawn from an agricultural/nomadic past, and emphasizes the need for a new outlook applicable to the postindustrial information age. At the same time, he rejects postmodernism for abandoning science and embracing a form of nihilism. There can be no doubt that as a new global civilization emerges, scientific naturalism, rationalism, and secular humanism have something significant to say about the meaning of life. Skepticism and Humanism shows how they can to foster democratic values and social prosperity. The book will be important for philosophers, scientists, and all those concerned with contemporary issues.

Author : Douglas Brode,Shea T. Brode
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442249882

Get Book

Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek by Douglas Brode,Shea T. Brode Pdf

When it premiered on NBC in September 1966, Star Trek was described by its creator, Gene Roddenberry, as “Wagon Train to the stars.” Featuring a racially diverse cast, trips to exotic planets, and encounters with an array of alien beings who could be either friendly or hostile, the program opened up new vistas for television. Along with The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, Star Trek represented one of the small screen’s rare ventures into science fiction during the 1960s. Although the original series was a modest success during its three-year run, its afterlife has been nothing less than a cultural phenomenon. To celebrate the show’s debut fifty years later, it’s time to reexamine one of the most influential programs in history. In Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The Original Cast Adventures, Douglas and Shea T. Brode present a collection of essays about the series and its various incarnations over the years. Contributors discuss not only the 1960s show but also its off-shoots, ranging from novels and graphic novels to toys and video games, as well as the films featuring Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew. Essays address the show’s religious implications, romantic elements, and its role in the globalization of American culture. Other essays draw parallels between the series and the Vietnam War, compare Star Trek II to Milton’s Paradise Lost, posit Roddenberry as an auteur, and consider William Shatner as a romantic object. With its far-reaching and provocative essays, this collection offers new insights into one of the most significant shows ever produced. Besides television and film studies, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek—a companion volume to The Star Trek Universe—will be of interest to scholars of religion, history, gender studies, queer studies, and popular culture, not to mention the show’s legions of fans.

Author : Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826207502

Get Book

Vocation and Identity in the Fiction of Muriel Spark by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe Pdf

"Selecting novels representative of distinct phases in Muriel Spark's career, Rodney Stenning Edgecombe explores their themes, style, and structure in a detailed way for the first time. Edgecombe's approach brings to life the delicate nuances, rich allusions, and complicated ironies of Spark's fiction. His careful reading of the novels makes this a penetrating assessment of an important writer."--Publishers website.

Author : Oskar Peterlini
Publisher : Oskar Peterlini
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788890007729

Get Book

Autonomy and the Protection of Ethnic Minorities in Trentino-South Tyrol by Oskar Peterlini Pdf

Author : Joel Hawkes,Alexander Christie,Tom Nienhuis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031105289

Get Book

American Science Fiction Television and Space by Joel Hawkes,Alexander Christie,Tom Nienhuis Pdf

This collection reads the science fiction genre and television medium as examples of heterotopia (and television as science fiction technology), in which forms, processes, and productions of space and time collide – a multiplicity of spaces produced and (re)configured. The book looks to be a heterotopic production, with different chapters and “spaces” (of genre, production, mediums, technologies, homes, bodies, etc), reflecting, refracting, and colliding to offer insight into spatial relationships and the implications of these spaces for a society that increasingly inhabits the world through the space of the screen. A focus on American science fiction offers further spatial focus for this study – a question of geographical and cultural borders and influence not only in terms of American science fiction but American television and streaming services. The (contested) hegemonic nature of American science fiction television will be discussed alongside a nation that has significantly been understood, even produced, through the television screen. Essays will examine the various (re)configurations, or productions, of space as they collapse into the science fiction heterotopia of television since 1987, the year Star Trek: Next Generation began airing.

Author : Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110775969

Get Book

Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics by Jens Andermann,Gabriel Giorgi,Victoria Saramago Pdf

The Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics offers a comprehensive overview of Latin American aesthetic and conceptual production addressing the more-than-human environment at the intersection between art, activism, and critique. Fields include literature, performance, film, and other audiovisual media as well as their interactions with community activisms. Scholars who have helped establish environmental approaches in the field as well as emergent critical voices revisit key concepts such as ecocriticism, (post-)extractivism, and multinaturalism, while opening new avenues of dialogue with areas including critical race theory and ethnicity, energy humanities, queer-*trans studies, and infrastructure studies, among others. This volume both traces these genealogies and maps out key positions in this increasingly central field of Latin Americanism, at the same time as they relate it to the environmental humanities at large. By showing how artistic and literary productions illuminate critical zones of environmental thought, articulating urgent social and material issues with cultural archives, historical approaches and conceptual interventions, this volume offers cutting-edge critical tools for approaching literature and the arts from new angles that call into question the nature/culture boundary.

Author : Heather J. Allen,Andrew R. Reynolds
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816537716

Get Book

Latin American Textualities by Heather J. Allen,Andrew R. Reynolds Pdf

Textuality is the condition in which a text is created, edited, archived, published, disseminated, and consumed. “Texts,” therefore, encompass a broad variety of artifacts: traditional printed matter such as grammar books and newspaper articles; phonographs; graphic novels; ephemera such as fashion illustrations, catalogs, and postcards; and even virtual databases and cataloging systems.\ Latin American Textualities is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at textual history, textual artifacts, and digital textualities across Latin America from the colonial era to the present. Editors Heather J. Allen and Andrew R. Reynolds gather a wide range of scholars to investigate the region’s textual scholarship. Contributors offer engaging examples of not just artifacts but also the contexts in which the texts are used. Topics include Guamán Poma’s library, the effect of sound recordings on writing in Argentina, Sudamericana Publishing House’s contribution to the Latin American literary boom, and Argentine science fiction. Latin American Textualities provides new paths to reading Latin American history, culture, and literatures. Contributors: Heather J. Allen Catalina Andrango-Walker Sam Carter Sara Castro-Klarén Edward King Rebecca Kosick Silvia Kurlat Ares Walther Maradiegue Clayton McCarl José Enrique Navarro Andrew R. Reynolds George Antony Thomas Zac Zimmer

Author : Roy P. Fairfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000030078369

Get Book

Humanistic Frontiers in American Education by Roy P. Fairfield Pdf

Author : Matthieu de Nanteuil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031537363

Get Book

Marx and Europe by Matthieu de Nanteuil Pdf

Author : Jonathan Haynes
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : England
ISBN : 0838632408

Get Book

The Humanist as Traveler by Jonathan Haynes Pdf

The first full-length study of George Sandy's Relation, one of the most interesting and important travel books of the English Renaissance.

Author : Jennifer Harrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498573368

Get Book

Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction by Jennifer Harrison Pdf

If there is one trend in children’s and YA literature that seems to be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young people confront in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624661464

Get Book

Renaissance Humanism by Anonim Pdf

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only about the ancient world--one of their habitual passions--but also about the self, how civic experience was configured, the arts, the roles and contributions of women, the new science, the 'new' world, and so much more. --Christopher S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University