Countercurrents

Author : Raymond Adolph Prier
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791409414

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In their readings of texts, the authors address the topics of theory, narrative, aesthetics, the idea of the text, and of specific moments in cultural history. The chapters cover a range of authors: Plato, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Chariteo, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Kleist, Gode, Edith Wharton, Pirandello, Kafka, Sartre, Saint-John Perse, Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson. They also deal with philosophers: Peirce, Nietzsche, Saussure, Husserl, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Heidegger, Jakobson, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. The book opens up our relationships to the past and the usefulness or otherwise of the metaphors we use in our attempt to understand and participate in it. Although Countercurrents deals diversely with literary periods, authors, and critics, it speaks within the civilized and civilizing universe of our language and the texts we create. Running beneath the antihumanistic flotilla that skims the surface of texts for theory, the authors plumb for treasures from the ocean's floor.

Author : Robert E. Buswell, Jr.
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824874490

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Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered his small band of monks to wander forth for the welfare and weal of the many, a command that initiated one of the greatest missionary movements in world religious history. But this account of a monolithic missionary movement spreading outward from the Buddhist homeland of India across the Asian continent is just one part of the story. The case of East Asian Buddhism suggests another tale, one in which the dominant eastward current of diffusion creates important eddies, or countercurrents, of influence that redound back toward the center. These countercurrents have had significant, even profound, impact on neighboring traditions. In East Asia perhaps the most important countercurrent of influence came from Korea, the focus of this volume. Chapters examine the role played by the Paekche kingdom in introducing Buddhist material culture (especially monastic architecture) to Japan and the impact of Korean scholiasts on the creation of several distinctive features that eventually came to characterize Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. The lives and intellectual importance of the monks Sungnang (fl. ca. 490) and Wonch’uk (613–696) are reassessed, bringing to light their role in the development of early intellectual schools within Chinese Buddhism. Later chapters discuss the influential teachings of the semi-legendary master Musang (684–762), the patriarch of two of the earliest schools of Ch’an; the work of a dozen or so Korean monks active in the Chinese T’ient’ai tradition; and the Huiyin monastery.

Author : Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Khanaĭchenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Ocean currents
ISBN : UCSD:31822010415891

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The System of Equatorial Countercurrents in the Ocean by Nikolaĭ Konstantinovich Khanaĭchenko Pdf

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066442224

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This is an invaluable collection of nine essays on critical matters of the time by American essayist Agnes Repplier. Contents The Cost of Modern Sentiment Our Loss of Nerve Christianity and War Women and War The Repeal of Reticence Popular Education The Modest Immigrant Waiting Americanism

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Homeopathy
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2L2K

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Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583676035

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Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by Samir Amin Pdf

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism – a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia – and, by extension, the future of socialism itself. Amin manages to combine an analysis of class struggle with geopolitics – each crucial to understanding Russia’s singular and complex political history. He first looks at the development (or lack thereof) of Russian capitalism. He sees Russia’s geopolitical isolation as the reason its capitalist empire developed so differently from Western Europe, and the reason for Russia’s perceived “backwardness.” Yet Russia’s unique capitalism proved to be the rich soil in which the Bolsheviks were able to take power, and Amin covers the rise and fall of the revolutionary Soviet system. Finally, in a powerful chapter on Ukraine and the rise of global fascism, Amin lays out the conditions necessary for Russia to recreate itself, and perhaps again move down the long road to socialism. Samir Amin’s great achievement in this book is not only to explain Russia’s historical tragedies and triumphs, but also to temper our hopes for a quick end to an increasingly insufferable capitalism. This book offers a cornucopia of food for thought, as well as an enlightening means to transcend reductionist arguments about “revolution” so common on the left. Samir Amin’s book – and the actions that could spring from it – are more necessary than ever, if the world is to avoid the barbarism toward which capitalism is hurling humanity.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119545395

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Exempting Barges from Compulsory Pilotage by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : SRLF:E0000816389

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Sailing Directions (enroute) for Scotland by United States. Defense Mapping Agency. Hydrographic Center Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Barges
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7E15

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Exempting Barges from Compulsory Pilotage by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Pdf

Author : Edgar A. Pieterse
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781770097957

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"The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. The recent proliferation of public construction, public squares and public housing along the N2 towards the airport is little more than a mirage compared with the direction of more underlying trends. Cape Town's grim future is born out of the confluence of the globalised economic and ecological collapse that is fast becoming the defining feature of the twenty-first century. It is manifested most starkly in the dire situation that faces the majority of the city's residents, who are excluded from the formal economy and must rely on substandard public services and their own makeshift shelters. The scenario is serious enough to draw everyone's attention but should be set against the broader issues of long-term economic resilience and environmental sustainability to achieve a low-carbon society - so we have our work cut out for us. The purpose of this volume is to demystify these challenges and present readers with a creative portfolio of thinking, practice and strong vision to show that we can find alternatives - and, moreover, that these alternatives are already emerging in (marginal) sections of the state, civil society and the business sectors."--Introduction.

Author : Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00133448

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Currents and Counter-currents in Medical Science by Holmes Pdf

Author : Agnes Repplier
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Counter-currents by Agnes Repplier Pdf

The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. It has no affiliations with art, which stands aloof from it,—a new experience for the world. It dominates periodical literature, minor fiction, and serious verse; but it has so far given nothing of permanent value to letters. It is in high favour with politicians, and is echoed loudly from all party platforms. It has unduly influenced our attitude toward the war in Europe, and toward our defences at home. It is a force to be reckoned with, and to be controlled. It is capable of raising us to a better and clearer vision, or of weakening our judgment and shattering our common sense. If we value our safety, we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:4064066453299

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pdf

"Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science" was written and delivered as an Oration, a florid rhetorical composition, expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners. It succeeded in doing this, and also in being as curiously misunderstood and misrepresented as if it had been a political harangue. This gave it more local notoriety than it might otherwise have attained, so that, as I learn, one ingenious person made use of its title as an advertisement for a production of his own.

Author : Frank J. Millero
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0849322804

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Chemical Oceanography, Third Edition by Frank J. Millero Pdf

Chemical Oceanography, Third Edition, is a survey of essential concepts that contains a wealth of new data and maps, resulting in a more in-depth examination of oceanic biogeochemical processes. The most up-to-date compilation of essential concepts and data available on the subject, this book responds to the need for a thorough, yet straightforward approach to the subject for students, researchers, and other professionals in marine science, geochemistry, and environmental chemistry. The third edition of Chemical Oceanography incorporates significant findings on the properties of oceans from recent, large-scale oceanographic programs and valuable new data derived from additional experiments. It also discusses the interactions of metals with inorganic and natural organic ligands and the effect of speciation of metals on bioavailability and toxicity. The section on carbonate systems now examines the input of fossil fuel CO2 into the ocean and its effect on the pH of the world oceans. Frank J. Millero, a world-renowned marine researcher and professor of undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Miami for nearly 40 years, presents a time-tested and user-friendly resource specifically designed for both classroom use and self-study.

Author : Sophie Winthrop Weitzel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNZLC

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