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A modern classic that has sold millions of copies worldwide, Experiencing God helps readers know and do God's will and is now revised and updated with seventy percent of its material newly written.

Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential on as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this original study examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to reveal a rich tradition of personal as well as political freedom that emerged from the movement. Making extensive use of interviews with movement participants to discover the language of freedom at the grass-roots level, King m...

Analysis of the impact of America on forming Arendts ideas, along with Arendts own understanding of American history, society, and key thinkers alive and dead.

This collection looks at the confluence of a politician, a process and a problem - Barack Obama, the 2008 US presidential election and the problem of race in contemporary America. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice.

This perceptive study of a major cultural movement shows how Southern writers of 1930 t0 1955 tried to come to terms with Southern tradition, and discusses the resulting body of significant literature - fiction, poetry, memoirs, and historical writing.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of 'superior races' to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great...

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed that theories of race, notions of racial and cultural superiority, and the right of 'superior races' to expand territorially were themes that connected the white settler colonies, the other imperial possessions, and the fascist ideologies of post-Great...

The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen, including papers on Parmenides on thinking (E. Hussey, R. Dilcher), Empedocles' Love (D. O'Brien), tripartition of the soul in Plato (T. Buchheim), Aristotle - especially the Parva Naturalia - (C. Rapp, T. Johansen, P.-M. Morel), Peripatetics after Aristotle (R. Sharples), Hellenistic Philosophy (C....

Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle's "On memory and recollection” and Plotinus' "On perception and memory” (IV 6), the latter also wrote at length about memory in his "Problems connected with the soul” (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). In both authors memory is treated as a 'modest' faculty: both authors assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs, and basic cognitive capacities are a...

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The contemporary American South is a region of economic expansion, political sophistication, and, particularly, cultural ferment. Its literature is well-known and celebrated. But what of the popular cultural forms of expression that have done so much to reflect the curious tensions between the traditional South--white-dominated, rural, religous--and contemporary multicultural forms and discourses? This collection offers a wealth of exciting ne...

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Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle's "On memory and recollection" and Plotinus' "On perception and memory" (IV 6), the latter also wrote at length about memory in his "Problems connected with the soul" (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). In both authors memory is treated as a 'modest' faculty: both authors assume the existence of a persistent subject to whom memory belongs, and basic cognitive capacities are a...

With ever-increasing research and information we, as a nation, are learning about global warming. A Digital Hydrogen Solar Era takes a hard look at the necessity of changing not only our actions but our thought processes to save our Planet Earth. Richard King's book delves into the facts of how we have come to this crisis. Our civilization is facing a terminal challenge: global warming coupled with increasing populations will bring extincti...