Reconstructing The Classics

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123281276

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Reconstructing the Classics by Edward Bryan Portis Pdf

To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher’s work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, the surrounding literature, and the individual theorist’s views on human nature and rational motivation. In this third edition of his classic text, Edward Portis provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning. Fully updated since the previous edition almost a decade ago, Portis expands his coverage to include a complete chapter on Max Weber. Further, Portis strengthens his lucid introductions to the greatest theorists of Western political thought, proving them indispensable guides for both the politically engaged citizen and the practicing social scientist. He also provides suggestions, updated for this edition, for further reading in political theory.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544359786

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Reconstructing the Classics by Edward Bryan Portis Pdf

To truly understand the substance and value of any great philosopher’s work, students must examine political theory against the backdrop of history, the surrounding literature, and the individual theorist’s views on human nature and rational motivation. In this third edition of his classic text, Edward Portis provides students with the framework they need to fully appreciate the original texts they are reading and apply the concepts they are learning. Fully updated since the previous edition almost a decade ago, Portis expands his coverage to include a complete chapter on Max Weber. Further, Portis strengthens his lucid introductions to the greatest theorists of Western political thought, proving them indispensable guides for both the politically engaged citizen and the practicing social scientist. He also provides suggestions, updated for this edition, for further reading in political theory.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis
Publisher : Chatham House Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007877900

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Reconstructing the Classics by Edward Bryan Portis Pdf

This work asserts the necessity of studying the works of seminal thinkers of the past in order to comprehend and articulate the fundamental theoretical assumptions that underlie all political behaviour. The author explains that what the classic thinkers offer to practicing political scientists and students alike are conceptual options, alternatives to one another and to the unstated conventional wisdom of our cultural context, tools for the clarification of one's own thought and observations of contemporary phenomena.

Author : Ana Carden-Coyne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191609381

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Reconstructing the Body by Ana Carden-Coyne Pdf

The First World War mangled faces, blew away limbs, and ruined nerves. Ten million dead, twenty million severe casualties, and eight million people with permanent disabilities - modern war inflicted pain and suffering with unsparing, mechanical efficiency. However, such horror was not the entire story. People also rebuilt their lives, their communities, and their bodies. From the ashes of war rose beauty, eroticism, and the promise of utopia. Ana Carden-Coyne investigates the cultures of resilience and the institutions of reconstruction in Britain, Australia, and the United States. Immersed in efforts to heal the consequences of violence and triumph over adversity, reconstruction inspired politicians, professionals, and individuals to transform themselves and their societies. Bodies were not to remain locked away as tortured memories. Instead, they became the subjects of outspoken debate, the objects of rehabilitation, and commodities of desire in global industries. Governments, physicians, beauty and body therapists, monument designers and visual artists looked to classicism and modernism as the tools for rebuilding civilization and its citizens. What better response to loss of life, limb, and mind than a body reconstructed?

Author : Richard A. Hall,Maria Antonieta Reyes,Josh Plock
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476680859

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We Are Gotham by Richard A. Hall,Maria Antonieta Reyes,Josh Plock Pdf

The television series Gotham gave viewers a unique perspective on the fascinating world of Batman, the legendary comic book character. More than a simple "origin story," the series introduces viewers to a pre-Batman Gotham City, where young hero-cop James Gordon fights a one-man war on crime. In a city where crime is evolving from traditional organized crime to a city plagued by flamboyant and psychotic "super villains," there is a desperate need for a Batman. All of this is witnessed by Bruce Wayne, who was orphaned after his parents were murdered. This book details how characters and story lines throughout the series touch on modern America: our ethics and flaws, our fears and aspirations. Chapters also explore the show's unique twists to classic depictions of the franchise's characters, who have been adored by millions of fans across the decades. Throughout the text, the authors examine Gotham for its insight into 21st-century America, concluding in the exhilarating and frightening conclusion that "We ARE Gotham."

Author : George Bornstein,Ralph G. Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0472103717

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Palimpsest by George Bornstein,Ralph G. Williams Pdf

Distinguished scholars discuss editorial theory and how it is applied across the humanities

Author : Erwin C. Hargrove
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015047135408

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The President as Leader by Erwin C. Hargrove Pdf

"Hargrove argues that political leadership must contain a moral element if it is to be fully effective ... He suggests a model with which to analyze, compare, and evaluate political leaders, and then assesses the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan according to the model's normative implications."--Jacket.

Author : Jussi Parikka
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745661391

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What is Media Archaeology? by Jussi Parikka Pdf

This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology? examines the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory and opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. The author contextualizes media archaeology in relation to other key media studies debates including software studies, German media theory, imaginary media research, new materialism and digital humanities. What is Media Archaeology? advances an innovative theoretical position while also presenting an engaging and accessible overview for students of media, film and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in the interdisciplinary ties between art, technology and media.

Author : Edward Bryan Portis,Adolf G. Gundersen,Ruth Lessl Shively
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791445925

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Political Theory and Partisan Politics by Edward Bryan Portis,Adolf G. Gundersen,Ruth Lessl Shively Pdf

Political theorists typically define political action in terms of rational potential rather than conflict, and for this reason neglect the partisan nature of political experience. This volume redresses this neglect, focusing on the interrelated questions of whether the task of political theory is to find some means of containing partisan politics and whether political theory is itself separate from partisan politics.

Author : Kimberly McCreight
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471111303

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Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight Pdf

Ever wondered what goes on inside your daughter's head? Stressed single mother and law partner Kate is in the meeting of her career when she is interrupted by a telephone call to say that her teenaged daughter Amelia has been suspended from her exclusive Brooklyn prep school for cheating on an exam. Torn between her head and her heart, she eventually arrives at St Grace's over an hour late, to be greeted by sirens wailing and ambulance lights blazing. Her daughter has jumped off the roof of the school, apparently in shame of being caught. A grieving Kate can't accept that her daughter would kill herself: it was just the two of them and Amelia would never leave her alone like this. And so begins an investigation which takes her deep into Amelia's private world, into her journals, her email account and into the mind of a troubled young girl. Then Kate receives an anonymous text saying simply: AMELIA DIDN'T JUMP. Is someone playing with her, or has she been right all along?

Author : Terence Bateman
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451472110

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Reconstructing Theology by Terence Bateman Pdf

Francis Schussler Fiorenza is one of the pivotal contemporary Roman Catholics working in the field of systematic theology and has made vital contributions to the discipline. This book - the first of its kind - provides an overview of Fiorenza's theological biography, from early influences and original insights to a comprehensively systematic project to reconstruct the foundations of theology, and explicates the major contours of Fiorenza's vital contributions to theological method, foundational, systematic and constructive theology, and the practical function of religion in society and politics. As the author argues, Fiorenza's vision is one of unrivaled clarity and coherence; even more, it follows a path of the shifting patterns in theology over the past half century, thus shedding light upon the internal constitution of recent Catholic and Protestant theology.

Author : Andreas P. Antonopoulos,Menelaos M. Christopoulos,George W. M. Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 967 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110725247

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Reconstructing Satyr Drama by Andreas P. Antonopoulos,Menelaos M. Christopoulos,George W. M. Harrison Pdf

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

Author : Tieji Xiong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819964031

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An Academic History of China’s Han Dynasty by Tieji Xiong Pdf

Author : David John Frank,Jay Gabler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 0804753768

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Reconstructing the University by David John Frank,Jay Gabler Pdf

Detailed study of transformations in the teaching and research priorities of universities worldwide, examining how these changes correspond to globally institutionalized understandings of reality.

Author : Duchess Harris,Nel Yomtov
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781532173448

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Reconstructing the South by Duchess Harris,Nel Yomtov Pdf

Reconstructing the South studies the aftermath of the Civil War, discusses how racist laws kept former slaves in inferior positions compared with whites, and explores how the actions of people in the mid-1800s continue to impact African Americans today. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.