Story And Philosophy For Social Change In Medieval And Postmodern Writing

Author : Allyson Carr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319637457

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Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing by Allyson Carr Pdf

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and twentieth-century philosopher Luce Irigaray, and through an engagement with Hans-Georg Gadamer’s work on tradition and hermeneutics, it develops means to re-write the stories and ideas that shape society. It argues that reading for change is possible; by increasing our capacity to perceive and engage tradition, we become more capable of positively shaping the forces that shape us. Following the example of the two women whose work it explores, Story and Philosophy works through philosophy and narrative to deeply transform the allegorical, political, and continental tradition it engages. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in medieval studies, feminist studies, and critical theory.

Author : Lambert Zuidervaart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780228013631

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Shattering Silos by Lambert Zuidervaart Pdf

Questions first raised by Hannah Arendt in the 1960s take on new urgency in the post-truth era, as political leaders blithely reject facts in the public domain: Is truth politically impotent? Are politics inherently false? Is the search for truth still relevant? Shattering Silos, a companion volume to Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation and Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal, provides a path-breaking response. As in his two previous books, Lambert Zuidervaart challenges the boundaries philosophers set up between epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. Knowledge, he argues, takes different forms in various social domains, and all are subject to political struggle. A critique of contemporary society must draw on many social domains of knowledge, including the arts and religion, and should recast politics as a striving for truth in the broadest sense. Proposing a new conception of truth – one that emphasizes the unity of knowledge and truth, as well as their diversity among different social domains – Zuidervaart asks what such holism and pluralism suggest about how we understand politics and society. This book proposes a new understanding of large-scale social change, challenging how most people think about knowledge and truth. Interweaving epistemology, social criticism, and political thought, Shattering Silos aims to help redirect an allegedly post-truth society.

Author : Joshua Lee Harris,Hector A. Acero Ferrer
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666776041

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Gestures of Grace by Joshua Lee Harris,Hector A. Acero Ferrer Pdf

Gestures of Grace is a celebration of the life and career of Robert Sweetman, H. Evan Runner Chair in the History of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies (2001–present). These essays, written by students and colleagues, testify to the remarkable breadth and depth of Sweetman’s research and teaching, from his early scholarly career at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies to his time at ICS. Throughout the volume, there is extensive engagement with Sweetman’s influential historical scholarship on topics such as the emergence and development of the Dominican order in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, medieval women authors, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, and indeed on Sweetman’s own systematic contribution to the nature and promise of Christian scholarship today.

Author : Hans Bertens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780203359327

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The Idea of the Postmodern by Hans Bertens Pdf

At last! Everything you ever wanted to know about postmodernism but were afraid to ask. Hans Bertens' Postmodernism is the first introductory overview of postmodernism to succeed in providing a witty and accessible guide for the bemused student. In clear and straightforward but always elegant prose, Bertens sets out the interdisciplinary aspects, the critical debates and the key theorists of postmodernism. He also explains, in thoughtful and illuminating language, the relationship between postmodernism and poststructuralism, and that between modernism and postmodernism. An enjoyable and indispensible text for today's student.

Author : Axel Schneider,Daniel Woolf
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191036774

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing by Axel Schneider,Daniel Woolf Pdf

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of Historical Writing offers essays by leading scholars on the writing of history globally since 1945. Divided into two parts, part one selects and surveys theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to history, and part two examines select national and regional historiographies throughout the world. It aims at once to provide an authoritative survey of the field and to provoke cross-cultural comparisons. This is chronologically the last of five volumes in a series that explores representations of the past across the globe from the beginning of writing to the present day.

Author : Daniel Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Axel Schneider,Grant Hardy,Ian Hesketh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199225996

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The Oxford History of Historical Writing by Daniel Woolf,Andrew Feldherr,Axel Schneider,Grant Hardy,Ian Hesketh Pdf

A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.

Author : Andrew Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134461349

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The Author by Andrew Bennett Pdf

This volume investigates the changing definitions of the author, what it has meant historically to be an 'author', and the impact that this has had on literary culture. Andrew Bennett presents a clearly-structured discussion of the various theoretical debates surrounding authorship, exploring such concepts as authority, ownership, originality, and the 'death' of the author. Accessible, yet stimulating, this study offers the ideal introduction to a core notion in critical theory.

Author : Steven L. McKenzie,John Kaltner
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611643480

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New Meanings for Ancient Texts by Steven L. McKenzie,John Kaltner Pdf

This book is a supplement and sequel to To Each Its Own Meaning, edited by Steven L. McKenzie and Stephen R. Haynes, which introduced the reader to the most important methods of biblical criticism and remains a widely used classroom textbook. This new volume explores recent developments in, and approaches to, biblical criticism since 1999. Leading contributors define and describe their approach for non-specialist readers, using examples from the Old and New Testament to help illustrate their discussion. Topics include cultural criticism, disability studies, queer criticism, postmodernism, ecological criticism, new historicism, popular culture, postcolonial criticism, and psychological criticism. Each section includes a list of key terms and definitions and suggestions for further reading. Contributors: Timothy Beal, Warren Carter, Norman C. Habel, Gina Hens-Piazza, Nyasha Junior, D. Andrew Kille, Hugh S. Pyper, Linda S. Schearing, Jeremy Schipper, Ken Stone, and Valarie H. Ziegler.

Author : M.C. Lemon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134717477

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Philosophy of History by M.C. Lemon Pdf

An essential introduction to a vast body of writing about history, from classical Greece and Rome to the contemporary world.

Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781939994196

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Postmodernism For Beginners by Jim Powell Pdf

If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.

Author : Petru Golban
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781912997947

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ENGLISH LITERATURE ADVANCING THROUGH HISTORY 1 - Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Medieval Periods by Petru Golban Pdf

It appears that literary work possesses eternal temporal validity due to its autonomous aesthetic value, whereas criticism provides points of view having temporary and transitory significance. Despite such claims, the vector of methodology in our series of books, dealing with the history of English literature, relies on Viktor Shklovsky, T. S. Eliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, and especially Yuri Tynyanov, whose main reasoning would be that literature is a system of dominant, central and peripheral, marginalized elements – to us, “tradition” (centre) versus “innovation” (margin) engaged in a “battle” for supremacy, demarginalization, and the right to form a new literary system – and the development or historical advancement of literature is the substitution of systems. Roman Jakobson and French structuralism, on the whole, later Linda Hutcheon, with her “system” and “constant”, and Bran Nicol with the “dominant”, to say nothing about Itamar Even-Zohar and his theory of polysystem, to a certain extent Julia Kristeva, and even Homi Bhabha – as well as our humble contribution, by means of the books in the present series, we would like to believe – maintain Tynyanov’s line of thinking and concepts alive, which have developed and emerged nowadays more like a kind of “neo-formalism”.

Author : James Sheptycki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351538572

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Transnational Crime and Policing by James Sheptycki Pdf

This collection of essays on transnational crime and policing covers a broad range of themes: the relationship between global policing and the transnational-state-system; the impact of advanced technologies on policing practice; the changing morphology of occupational policing subculture; and the transnational practices of police agencies. The essays include case studies and are based on empirical fieldwork that began in the early 1990s and continued for over a decade well into the post 9-11 period. This collection also provides valuable accounts of the 'secret social world' of transnational police, demonstrates that the developmental trajectory of transnational practices was already established prior to the 'age of Homeland Security' and addresses the controversial issue of how transnational policing in all of its complex manifestations might be made politically accountable in the interests of the general global commonwealth.

Author : Martha C. Howell,Walter Prevenier
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801485606

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From Reliable Sources by Martha C. Howell,Walter Prevenier Pdf

A lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.

Author : L. Patterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137084514

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Temporal Circumstances by L. Patterson Pdf

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046424373

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Forthcoming Books by Rose Arny Pdf