Intolerable

Author : Kamal Al-Solaylee
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443401845

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Intolerable by Kamal Al-Solaylee Pdf

In the 1960s, Kamal Al-Solaylee’s father was one of the wealthiest property owners in Aden, in the south of Yemen, but when the country shrugged off its colonial roots, his properties were confiscated, and the family was forced to leave. The family moved first to Beirut, which suddenly became one of the most dangerous places in the world, then Cairo. After a few peaceful years, even the safe haven of Cairo struggled under a new wave of Islamic extremism that culminated with the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981. The family returned to Yemen, a country that was then culturally isolated from the rest of the world. As a gay man living in an intolerant country, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where he became a prominent journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Intolerable is part memoir of an Arab family caught in the turmoil of Middle Eastern politics over six decades, part personal coming-out narrative and part cultural analysis. This is a story of the modern Middle East that we think we know so much about.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Communication
ISBN : 1571811362

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Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

It seems more urgent than ever before to fend off the rising wave of intolerance and at the same time determine the nature of tolerance and its limits. As Ricoeur says in his Foreword: "Tolerance is a tricky subject: too easy or too difficult. It is indeed too easy to deplore intolerance, without putting oneself into question, oneself and the different allegiances with which each person identifies." In order to explore these complexities, he has gathered together a number of prominent thinkers from various parts of the world and areas of activity and invited them to reflect on the "obstacles and limits to tolerance." The Declaration of Principles on Tolerance, issued by the United Nations in 1995, rounds up this remarkable collection of essays. Contributors: Norberto Bobbio, Vaclav Havel, Jeanne Hersch, Bernard Williams, Octavio Paz, Ghislain Waterlot, Antoine Garapon, Mario Bettati, Yehudi Menuhin, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Hans Küng, Wole Soyinka, Ionna Kuçuradi, Monique Canto-Sperber, Paul Ricoeur, Desmond Tutu. DIOGENES LIBRARY

Author : Margaret Kuo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442218420

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Intolerable Cruelty by Margaret Kuo Pdf

Intolerable Cruelty thoughtfully explores key issues in modern Chinese history, including state-society relations, social transformation, and gender relations in the context of the Republican Chinese experiment with liberal modernity. Investigating both the codification process and the subsequent implementation of the Republican Civil Code of 1929–1930, Margaret Kuo reconsiders the dominant narratives of the 1930s and 1940s as “dark years” for Chinese women. Instead, she convincingly recasts the history of these years from the perspective of women who actively and successfully engaged the law to improve their lives.

Author : Jason Szabo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0813547105

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Incurable and Intolerable by Jason Szabo Pdf

Terminal illness and the pain and anguish it brings are experiences that have touched millions of people in the past and continue to shape our experience of the present. Hospital machines that artificially support life and monitor vital signs beg the question: Is there not anything that medical science can offer as solace? Incurable and Intolerable looks at the history of incurable illness from a variety of perspectives, including those of doctors, patients, families, religious counsel, and policy makers. This compellingly documented and well-written history illuminates the physical, emotional, social, and existential consequences of chronic disease and terminal illness, and offers an original look at the world of palliative medicine, politics, religion, and charity. Revealing the ways in which history can shed new light on contemporary thinking, Jason Szabo encourages a more careful scrutiny of today's attitudes, policies, and practices surrounding "imminent death" and its effects on society.

Author : C. Matthew McMahon,Anthony Burgess
Publisher : Puritan Publications
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626631083

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Gradual Reformation Intolerable by C. Matthew McMahon,Anthony Burgess Pdf

How hard is it to encourage the people of God toward biblical Reformation and actually see it occur? Is there room for a new Reformation today? What should Christians think concerning revival today and reforming in the power of the Gospel? Could there actually be a present day “biblical reformation”? In the first part of the work, beginning with Leviticus 26:23-24, McMahon demonstrates that Reformation ought not to be gradual, but immediate. Gospel truth dictates spiritual action and God requires his church to be reformed by him through the power of the transforming word of God. In the second part, Anthony Burgess explains Judges 6. From this text he demonstrates both individual devotion and meaningful reform within the church. Set in an era marked by deep religious and societal shifts, Burgess's work stands out as a powerful request for spiritual reformation. He pushes believers to move beyond mere routine practices and emphasizes a genuine holiness that combines belief with action. He draws attention to the current importance of a swift reform, highlighting the risks of inaction and secular distractions. Reformation in this way, he says, should be immediate. He meticulously details the qualities vital for real reformation, acting both as a tender minister and a biblical critic against those who reject reform in the church. He spotlights the importance of understanding, passion, authenticity, humility, courage, and wisdom while also warning against the pitfalls of shallow faith. This work isn't just a historical or theological study; it serves as a biblical guide for those yearning for spiritual growth and reform before the eyes of King Jesus.

Author : Christopher J. Insole
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467445276

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The Intolerable God by Christopher J. Insole Pdf

The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God but struggled intensely with theological questions. Drawing on a new wave of Kant research and texts from all periods of Kant’s thought — including some texts not previously translated — Insole recounts the drama of Kant’s intellectual and theological journey. He focuses on Kant’s lifelong concern with God, freedom, and happiness, relating these topics to Kant’s theory of knowledge and his shifting views about what metaphysics can achieve. Though Kant was, in the end, unable to accept central claims of the Christian faith, Insole here shows that he earnestly wrestled with issues that are still deeply unsettling for believers and doubters alike.

Author : Javier Gomez
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514421826

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These Demons Are Intolerable! by Javier Gomez Pdf

This manuscript was written from the heart to allow me to dream, free of memories mixed with my fantasies, which confused me in understanding what was real or a dream. I am now at peace knowing I am more confused because I am dreaming excessively more.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541920460

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What Acts Were Intolerable Acts? US History Textbook | Children's American History by Baby Professor Pdf

History reading and learning can be made so much fun and effective when the right resources are used. By right resources, we mean books that are visually appealing and at the same time, easy to understand. An example would be this American History Book for Seventh Graders. Use this as an introduction to the subject or as a reviewer prior to an exam. Grab a copy today!

Author : Maurizio Lazzarato
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781635901818

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The Intolerable Present, the Urgency of Revolution by Maurizio Lazzarato Pdf

An acute reappraisal for our time of the very concept of revolution. In order to be effective, union struggles, struggles for national liberation, worker mutualism, or struggles for emancipation were strategies that were necessarily connected to revolution. Starting from the historic defeat of the global Revolution in the mid-1970s, this book draws a portrait—whose elaboration is still lacking—of the concept of revolution. What conditions could lead us to speak of revolution once again? In The Intolerable Present, the Urgency of Revolution, Maurizio Lazzarato ponders the fundamental importance of the passage from the historical class struggle (the conflict between capital and labor) to the more recent class struggles that open onto plural trajectories: social, sexual, gender, and race struggles. Expanding the notion of class as a rejoinder to the normative appropriation of minority politics, the revolution is returned as the horizon where subjection can be resorbed. In this sense, Marxist, feminist, anticolonial, and postcolonial theories provide the necessary critical tools to understand the relations between classes and minorities, between the global North and the global South, and between the time of revolutions and the eruption of new subjectivities.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541969438

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The Great Revolt : Causes, Leaders, Intolerable Acts and Battles of the American Revolution | American World History Grades 3-5 | U.S. Revolution & Founding History by Baby Professor Pdf

Reading an entire textbook on the American Revolution might be too overwhelming for kids. However, breaking them down into bite-sized information might prove to be more effective. In this ebook, your child will analyze the causes of the Great American Revolt and the leaders that made important decisions. Children will also learn about the Intolerable Acts and the different battles that took place during the era. Grab a copy today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1674
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021473539

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The Romish Horseleech: Or an Impartial Account of the Intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation, in an Historical Remembrance of Some of Those Prodigious Summs of Money Heretofore Extorted from All Degrees During the Exercise of the Papal Power Here. To which is Annexed an Essay of the Supremacy of the King of England. [By Thomas Staveley.] MS. Note by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michel Foucault,Prisons Information Prisons Information Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517902355

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Intolerable by Michel Foucault,Prisons Information Prisons Information Group Pdf

A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP member Hélène Cixous and writings by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents--public announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press conference statements, interviews, and round table discussions--trace the GIP's establishment in post-1968 political turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time, Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault's concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of his intellectual development and the genesis of his most influential book, Discipline and Punish. Presenting the account of France's most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison resistance movements today.

Author : Margaret Kuo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9781442218406

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Intolerable Cruelty by Margaret Kuo Pdf

Intolerable Cruelty thoughtfully explores key issues in modern Chinese history, including state-society relations, social transformation, and gender relations in the context of the Republican Chinese experiment with liberal modernity. Investigating both the codification process and the subsequent implementation of the Republican Civil Code of 1929-1930, Margaret Kuo reconsiders the dominant narratives of the 1930s and 1940s as "dark years" for Chinese women. Instead, she convincingly recasts the history of these years from the perspective of women who actively and successfully engaged the law to improve their lives.

Author : Robert Ramsey,Matthew Stone,John Romano,Ethan Coen,Joel Coen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0571221653

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Intolerable Cruelty by Robert Ramsey,Matthew Stone,John Romano,Ethan Coen,Joel Coen Pdf

Presents the screenplay for the romantic comedy about a crafty divorce lawyer and a woman attempting to make her fortune through a series of wealthy marriages.

Author : Amanda Beech
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781915103031

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The Intolerable Image by Amanda Beech Pdf

On how art can be understood as a space within which the project of reason is pursued. Modern and contemporary art have often defined themselves against the conceptual and linguistic mediations of reason, claiming that their practices offer a different and more direct access to the real or the material. Employing a unique configuration of philosophy, art theory, and a consideration of specific artworks together with analysis of popular culture, current political events, and Hollywood cinema, artist, and theorist Amanda Beech challenges this deep-seated orthodoxy, asking how art can instead be understood as a space within which the project of reason is pursued. Developing out of the idealism of theological-sacral art, sustained in Romanticism and entrenched by poststructural antirealist critiques, the notion that art is opposed to reason defined the political and social hopes of the avant-garde, was manifested in the crisis of a self-conscious conceptualism, and remains implicit in the ontologies of immanence, anti-representationalism, and new materialist theories of affect championed in contemporary works today. But the grounds for art’s autonomy as nonreason have never been secure, Beech argues, and are associated with a tragic sensibility and ultimately with naive and conservative beliefs about the nature of the image. Worse still, while it asserts its natural right to the field of unreason and its access to a real that language cannot touch, contemporary art in fact continues to be of service to persistent and dominant ideologies. Considering the various possible relationships between reason and realism, Beech asks what kinds of "picturing" they involve, and what forms of epistemology they mobilise. When we can no longer maintain the assumption that it necessarily exceeds the normative linguistic practices of reason and is more "real" than other ways of addressing the world, what might the practice of art become?