Modern Lusts

Author : Detlef Siegfried
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789202892

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Modern Lusts by Detlef Siegfried Pdf

As a jazz musician, filmmaker, anthropologist, sexologist, and crime novelist, the boundlessly curious German autodidact Ernest Borneman exemplified the conflicting cultural and intellectual currents of the twentieth century. In this long-awaited English translation, acclaimed historian Detlef Siegfried chronicles Borneman’s journey from a young Jewish Communist in Nazi Berlin to his emergence as a celebrated (and reliably controversial) transatlantic polymath. Through an innovative structure organized around the human senses, this biography memorably portrays a figure whose far-flung obsessions comprised a microcosm of postwar intellectual life.

Author : Johanna Rickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351921220

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Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England by Johanna Rickman Pdf

Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since members of the nobility were not generally brought before the ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction over other citizens' sexual offences, Rickman's sources include collections of family papers (primarily letters), state papers, and literary texts (prescriptive manuals, love sonnets, satirical verse, and prose romances), as well as legal documents. Rickman explores how attitudes towards illicit sex varied greatly throughout the period of study, roughly 1560 - 1630. Whole some viewed it as a minor infraction, others, directed by a religious moral code, viewed it as a serious sin. seeks to illuminate the place of noblewomenin early modern aristocratic culture, both as historical subjects (considering personal circumstances) and as a social group (considering social position and status).She argues that two different gender ideals were in operation simultaneously: one primarily religious ideal, which lauded female silence, obedience, and chastity, and another, more secular ideal, which required noblewomen to be beautiful, witty, brave, and receptive to the games of courtly love.

Author : Robert Withers Memminger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Church and state
ISBN : OXFORD:600072985

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Present issues; or, Facts observable in the consciousness of the age by Robert Withers Memminger Pdf

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141901800

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For Lust of Knowing by Robert Irwin Pdf

Robert Irwin’s history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid’s military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of Knowing is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.

Author : Lucie Doležalová
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443804257

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The Charm of a List by Lucie Doležalová Pdf

Lists, one of the most archaic literary genres, stand behind many of our complex mental or rhetorical structures and they often influence the way we conceptualize the world (even if we are unaware of it). They seem plain but may conceal a complicated inner logic. They are agrammatical but may tell a story. Their basic features – selection, order, and layout – may be enough to give them enormous power: by including they exclude, by ordering they create a hierarchy, by taking on particular physical aspects they place themselves into a specific context. These and other issues are discussed in the present transdisciplinary volume collecting the best revised contributions to a workshop on lists held at the Center for Theoretical Study in Prague in November 2008. Each of the 13 articles by researchers from seven countries provides a case study on the subject of list. The fields covered include late antique, medieval and early modern history, philology, philosophy, cognitive and computer science. The contributors aim both at presenting particular cases – specific lists or list-types – and, at the same time, at addressing methodological issues: exploring the ways of researching lists in their particular disciplines, formulating relevant research themes and questions, contextualizing the subject. Since theoretical discourse on lists has not been established yet, this volume should be seen as a first step in the process, showing the variety of possible research directions on a transdisciplinary level, and raising interest in the topic, which, although it may seem a bit obscure at first, has indeed a lot to offer.

Author : Samuel Delany
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472105622

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The Tides of Lust (Modern Erotic Classics) by Samuel Delany Pdf

The Tides of Lust is a powerful, erotic and violent encounter with the voices and experiences of characters who linger in a small American seaport. Here is an insatiable African-American ship's captain, a dangerously young slave mistress, an aimless drifter and a supreme artist of the perverse. Written by acclaimed and award-winning author Samuel R. Delany, The Tides of Lust, first published in 1973, is a wild ride along the oceans of unleashed sexuality at its most exuberant. A true modern classic.

Author : Michael Hemmingson
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472108128

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House of Lust (Modern Erotic Classics) by Michael Hemmingson Pdf

Forbidden lust, sexual debauchery, and outrageous desire! Lovers come together, fall apart, and reunite across time and space. The story begins in the 1960s during the sexual revolution and continues into the many decades that follow. From Los Angeles to Paris, innocence to perversion, libidinous rock'n'roll lifestyles to avant-garde sexual art shows, we follow Kimber's erotic adventures from one life to the next, a road trip leading to the darkest, and brightest, understanding of the need for love and lust. Originally published as The House of Dreams trilogy, House of Lust brings together Michael Hemmingson's erotic classic in a single volume.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781447487500

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The Will to Power - An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values - Vol II Books III and IV by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

The will to power (German: der Wille zur Macht) is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The will to power describes what Nietzsche may have believed to be the main driving force in humans: achievement, ambition, the striving to reach the highest possible position in life; these are all manifestations of the will to power.

Author : Mike Wells
Publisher : Mike Wells Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781311319173

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The African Trilogy, Book 2 (Lust, Money & Murder #8) by Mike Wells Pdf

In an extraordinary twist of fate, Elaine Brogan and Luna Faye end up joining forces with Giorgio Cattoretti to try to take down Raj Malik. At the end of Book 1, Elaine learned that Raj was smuggling diamonds out of a secret mine in Central Africa. Her mission is to go to Chad and find the location of the mine at all costs. Can she pull it off? And can she really trust Giorgio Cattoretti? Note: This book was previously titled: Lust, Money & Murder, Book 8 - Blood Diamonds. Keywords: thriller, suspense, crime, mystery, short books, long books, series, Russia, Italy, Mafia, Secret Service, spy novel, spy thriller, espionage, female sleuth, female agent, kick ass female, FBI, counterfeiting, revenge, danger, dramatic, intrigue, provocative, racy, breathtaking, cliff-hanger, page-turner, gripping, captivating, fascinating, box set, bargain, discount, discounted, half-price, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, budget, cheap, good buy, competitive, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, easy on the pocketbook, economical, half-priced, low tariff, low-cost, low-priced, lowered, marked down, on sale, reduced, reduced price, special price, holiday special, Christmas special, New Year’s special, winter sale, on sale, slashed, budget, low budget, low cost books, seasonal, seasonal pricing, seasonal discount, fifty percent off, 50 percent off, savings, cost savings

Author : Sherine Hafez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814773055

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An Islam of Her Own by Sherine Hafez Pdf

As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either “religious” or “secular” discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’ as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on women’s Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a women's Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular.

Author : Elizabeth Newman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621894728

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Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body by Elizabeth Newman Pdf

The disunity of the church is a social and theological scandal for it betrays the prayer of Jesus that we "will be one . . . so that the world will believe" (John 17:21). As a Baptist whose academic background focused on the Orthodox Church and whose teaching has included Catholic and Protestant contexts, this division is for Elizabeth Newman personal and professional. Attending to the Wounds on Christ's Body rests on the conviction that the broad tradition of Christianity already contains resources to heal the church, namely the saints of the church. Newman examines especially how Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) speaks to the whole church today in the midst of political, economic, and ecclesial brokenness. Teresa's reliance upon three scriptural figures--dwellings, marriage, and pilgrimage--helps make sense of an ecclesial way of life that is inherently unitive, a unity that stands in contrast to that of the nation-state or the global market. Teresa's scriptural journey offers an alternative at once liturgical, political, and economic. This Doctor of the Church provides "medicine" that can repair wounds of division that separate brothers and sisters in Christ.

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520933699

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Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow by Karol Berger Pdf

In this erudite and elegantly composed argument, Karol Berger uses the works of Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven to support two groundbreaking claims: first, that it was only in the later eighteenth century that music began to take the flow of time from the past to the future seriously; second, that this change in the structure of musical time was an aspect of a larger transformation in the way educated Europeans began to imagine and think about time with the onset of modernity, a part of a shift from the premodern Christian outlook to the modern post-Christian worldview. Until this historical moment, as Berger illustrates in his analysis of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, music was simply "in time." Its successive events unfolded one after another, but the distinction between past and future, earlier and later, was not central to the way the music was experienced and understood. But after the shift, as he finds in looking at Mozart's Don Giovanni, the experience of linear time is transformed into music's essential subject matter; the cycle of time unbends and becomes an arrow. Berger complements these musical case studies with a rich survey of the philosophical, theological, and literary trends influencing artists during this period.

Author : Andrew M. McGinnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567655806

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The Son of God Beyond the Flesh by Andrew M. McGinnis Pdf

The so-called extra Calvinisticum-the doctrine that the incarnate Son of God continued to exist beyond the flesh-was not invented by John Calvin or Reformed theologians. If this is true, as is almost universally acknowledged today, then why do scholars continue to fixate almost exclusively on Calvin when they discuss this doctrine? The answer to the “why” of this scholarly trend, however, is not as important as correcting the trend. This volume expands our vision of the historical functions and christological significance of this doctrine by expounding its uses in Cyril of Alexandria, Thomas Aquinas, Zacharias Ursinus, and in theologians from the Reformation to the present. Despite its relative obscurity, the doctrine that came to be known as the “Calvinist extra” is a possession of the church catholic and a feature of Christology that ought to be carefully appropriated in contemporary reflection on the Incarnation.

Author : Ayesha Ramachandran
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226288796

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The Worldmakers by Ayesha Ramachandran Pdf

Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. 'The Worldmakers' moves beyond histories of globalisation to explore how 'the world' itself - variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order - was self-consciously shaped by human agents.

Author : Michael Hanna
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781925346992

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Jesus the Crown of Our Free Will by Michael Hanna Pdf

Choices and destiny go hand in hand, and for the sake of our survival, we make so many choices in our lives. However, many a time, our minds, some how, come to a stand still in the midst of a crowded and blurred world, re'ecting even for a few minutes on a question seems to be closely related to an eternal notion.Yet it's a strange and unfamiliar question, because of its close af'liation with a choice that may take us to a place beyond the Grave. No matter how often we trying to brush aside any thought or rid of any concern about our destiny, everyone, sooner is the better, has to draw the red line, and take the ? nal decision of what is our reaction would be when our ?nal will at last gaze at death face to face!Nevertheless, the time has come to search into this reality and make my own choice as well, and that is to write about the other free will, or rather the most valuable spiritual gift of free will, the one philosopher tend to ignore, and dispose of. Since such writings are not possible to be all inclusive in humble limited pages, I have tried, instead, to focus and bring together the Christian one, the most relevant one.I thank You gracious Lord, for You have bestowed on such mere souls the wonderful gift of righteous rebellion.