Five Moral Pieces

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547564050

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Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco Pdf

In this prescient essay collection, the acclaimed author of Foucault’s Pendulum examines the cultural trends and perils at the dawn of the 21st century. In the last decade of the 20th century, Umberto Eco saw an urgent need to embrace tolerance and multiculturalism in the face of our world’s ever-increasing interconnectivity. At a talk delivered during the first Gulf War, he points out the absurdity of armed conflict in a globalized economy where the flow of information is unstoppable and the enemy is always behind the lines. Elsewhere, he questions the influence of the news media and identifies its contribution to our collective disillusionment with politics. In a deeply personal essay, Eco recalls his boyhood experience of Italy’s liberation from fascism. He then analyzes the universal elements of fascism, including the “cult of tradition” and a “suspicion of intellectual life.” And finally, in an open letter to an Italian cardinal, Eco reflects on a question underlying all the reflections in the book: What does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't believe in God? “At just 111 pages, Five Moral Pieces packs a philosophical wallop surprising in such a slender book. Or maybe not so surprising. Eco's prose here is beautiful.”—January Magazine

Author : Lydia Howard Sigourney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : American essays
ISBN : NYPL:33433074794839

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Moral Pieces by Lydia Howard Sigourney Pdf

Author : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6FGW

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Things by Their Right Names, and Other Stories, Fables, and Moral Pieces by Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Pdf

Author : Joseph Rawson Lumby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Scotland
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000044883

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Ratis Raving, and Other Moral and Religious Pieces, in Prose and Verse by Joseph Rawson Lumby Pdf

Author : George R. Lucas, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351745178

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Ethics and Military Strategy in the 21st Century by George R. Lucas, Jr. Pdf

This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy. Clausewitz’s original analysis of war relegated ethics to the side-lines in favor of political realism, interpreting the proper use of military power solely to further the political goals of the state, whatever those may be. This book demonstrates how such single-minded focus no longer suffices to secure the interest of states, for whom the nature of warfare has evolved to favor strategies that hold combatants themselves to the highest moral and professional standards in their conduct of hostilities. Waging war has thus been transformed in a manner that moves beyond Clausewitz’s original conception, rendering political success wholly dependent upon the cultivation and exercise of discerning moral judgment by strategists and combatants in the field. This book utilizes a number of perspectives and case studies to demonstrate how ethics now plays a central role in strategy in modern armed conflict. This book will be of much interest to students of just war, ethics, military strategy, and international relations.

Author : Douglas V. Porpora,Alexander G. Nikolaev,Julia Hagemann May,Alexander Jenkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226062525

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Post-Ethical Society by Douglas V. Porpora,Alexander G. Nikolaev,Julia Hagemann May,Alexander Jenkins Pdf

We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes in terms of retribution and deterrence. But the mainstream secular media rarely addresses the morality of these choices, leaving us to ask individually: Is this right? In this singular examination of the American discourse over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins investigate the opinion pages of American newspapers, television commentary, and online discussion groups to offer the first empirical study of the national conversation about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib a year later. Post-Ethical Society is not just another shot fired in the ongoing culture war between conservatives and liberals, but a pensive and ethically engaged reflection of America’s feelings about itself and our actions as a nation. And while many writers and commentators have opined about our moral place in the world, the vast amount of empirical data amassed in Post-Ethical Society sets it apart—and makes its findings that much more damning.

Author : Mary Midgley
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781845403843

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Earthy Realism by Mary Midgley Pdf

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.

Author : Cheryll Glotfelty,Karla Armbruster,Tom Lynch
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820343679

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The Bioregional Imagination by Cheryll Glotfelty,Karla Armbruster,Tom Lynch Pdf

Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature. The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is global and includes such diverse places as British Columbia’s Meldrum Creek and Italy’s Po River Valley, the Arctic and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental literary criticism. Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four sections. The essays in the “Reinhabiting” section narrate experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments. The “Rereading” essays practice bioregional literary criticism, both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis. In “Reimagining,” the essays push bioregionalism to evolve—by expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the “Renewal” section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the Internet. In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining.

Author : Timothy C. Campbell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 081664442X

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Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi by Timothy C. Campbell Pdf

Wireless technology has become deeply embedded in everyday life, but its impact cannot be fully understood without probing the contributions of the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), who ushered in the beginning of wireless communication. Marconi produced and detected sound waves over long distances, using the curvature of the earth for direction, and laid the foundations for what we know as radio—the original mobile, voice-activated, and electronic media community. Timothy C. Campbell demonstrates that Marconi’s invention of the wireless telegraph was not simply a technological act but also had an impact on poetry and aesthetics and linked the written word to the rise of mass politics. Reading influential works such as F. T. Marinetti’s futurist manifestos, Rudolf Arnheim’s 1936 study Radio, writings by Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Campbell reveals how the newness of wireless technology was inscribed in the ways modernist authors engaged with typographical experimentation, apocalyptic tones, and newly minted models for registering voices. Wireless Writing in the Age of Marconi presents an alternative history of modernism that listens as well as looks and bears in mind the altered media environment brought about by the emergence of the wireless. Timothy C. Campbell is associate professor of Italian at Cornell University.

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487531904

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Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation by Robin Healey Pdf

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Author : Christian K. Wedemeyer,Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195394344

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Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions by Christian K. Wedemeyer,Wendy Doniger Pdf

This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called Chicago School in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithic Chicago School. Although Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as the most astute historian of religions of the day; the two never met, and their approaches to the study of religions differed significantly. Several dominant issues run through the essays collected here: the relationship between the two men's writings and their lives, and in Eliade's case, the relationship between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men's contributions to the field continue to provoke controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new light on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `scholars' legacies.

Author : Andrew Hollingsworth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532679865

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God in the Labyrinth by Andrew Hollingsworth Pdf

In God in the Labyrinth, Andrew Hollingsworth uses Umberto Eco's semiotic concept of the model encyclopedia as the basis for a new model and approach to systematic theology. Following an in-depth analysis of the model encyclopedia in Eco's semiotics, he demonstrates the implications this model has for epistemology, hermeneutics, and doctrinal development. This work aims to bridge the unfortunate gap in research that exists between the fields of systematic theology and semiotics by demonstrating semiotic insights for theological method.

Author : Mary Rose Bumpus,Rebecca Bradburn Langer
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819219947

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Supervision of Spiritual Directors by Mary Rose Bumpus,Rebecca Bradburn Langer Pdf

This collection of essays is one of the first books in the field that help with the training of supervisors. Written by spiritual directors who have years of experience in supervision, this book engages some of the leading voices in the field in an exploration of a wide variety of issues, including: gender and sexuality; ethical dilemmas; working with constituents of diverse races and ethnicities; working with the differently abled; the parameters of supervision; and the supervision of beginning directors.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780156032391

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On Literature by Umberto Eco Pdf

In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of [his] passion" for the word. Eco's luminous intelligence and encyclopedic knowledge dazzle throughout. And when he reveals his own ambitions and superstitions, his authorial anxieties and fears, one feels like a secret sharer in the garden of literature to which he so often alludes. Illuminating, accessible, stimulating, this collection exhibits Eco's diversity of interests and depth of knowledge in pieces such as these and many more: A Reading of the Paradiso On the Style of The Communist Manifesto Wilde: Paradox and Aphorism A Portrait of the Artist as Bachelor Borges and My Anxiety of Influence On Symbolism On Style The American Myth in Three Anti-American Generations Umberto Eco is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. His collections of essays include Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels in Hyperreality, and How to Travel with a Salmon. He is also the author of the bestselling novels The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and Baudolino. His most recent novel is The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. He lives in Milan. Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401203234

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Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility by Anonim Pdf

This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, “digisporas” and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon’s New Map, American legislation on Chinese immigration, Gianni Amelio’s film Lamerica, Keith Piper’s online installations and Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios, the collection aims to follow three different theoretical trajectories. First, it seeks to rethink our concepts of mobility in order to open them up to the complexity that structures the thoughts and practices of a global order. Second, it critically examines the privileged position of concepts and metaphors of mobility within postmodern theory. In juxtaposing conflictual theoretical formulations, the book sets out to present the competing responses that fuel academic debates around this issue. Finally, it evaluates the influence of our increasingly mobile conceptual frameworks and everyday experience on the redefinition of politics that is currently under way, especially in the context of Post-Marxist theory. Its hope is to contribute to the production of alternative political positions and practices that will address the conflicting desires for attachment and movement marking postmodernity.