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The first major study of the powerful Borromeo family of Milan in the seventeenth century, uncovering their growing entanglement with the Spanish monarchy, and the ways in which the Borromeo grappled with the ethical implications of this controversial relationship, repeatedly reinventing themselves to preserve their social privilege.
Plagues and pandemics confront societies with something they often seek to deny, namely that mortality and vulnerability is not just an individual concern. The narratives examined in this book both confirm the desire to avoid this recognition as well as the different ways it asserts itself nevertheless"--
I believe that as Africans, we have an advantage in understanding the stories of Jesus because we have storytelling as a part of our culture. We like to think in story, explain things in story and listen to stories. If one of the elders of your village wishes to explain something to you that is very important, he will likely use a story or a parable of some kind to do it. When a chief wants to tell his village something that is very important,...
An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the...
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Excerpt from The Charity School Movement in Colonial Pennsylvania: Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of PennsylvaniaThe writer feels under obligation to thank all those who have aided him in any way in this work. He owes a special obligation to Prof. W. J. Hinke for his suggestions of new original sources and for the use of such original sources as are in his possession.For his constant assistance and encouragemen...
Excerpt from Mutation in Mosquitoes: Discussion and Communications From the Research Laboratory of Samuel Ellsworth WeberAmong all questions, theoretical or practical - philosophical, scientific, ethical and those of every day life - the problem as to the origin of species I may say stands second only to that of man's conception of himself and his destiny.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...
1968 beginnt eine Zeit des Aufbruchs. In der Kunsthalle Bern löst die Ausstellung einen internationalen Skandal aus. Der junge Direktor Harald Szeemann provoziert das traditionsorientierte Publikum mit modernen Kunstformen: Christo verhüllt die Kunsthalle als sein erstes Grossprojekt, Michael Heizer lässt den Asphalt vor dem Haus aufreissen und Peter Saam verbrennt seine Armeeuniform.
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This book investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Weber suggests that institutions are never entirely free of the necessity of consolidating their authority through an ambivalent process of reinstituting themselves, a process in which interpretation plays a crucial role.
Samuel Weber is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Director of the UCLA Paris Program in Critical Theory. Among his many books is Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media (Stanford, 1996).
Excerpt from The Charity School Movement in Colonial Pennsylvania: Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania
The writer feels under obligation to thank all those who have aided him in any way in this work. He owes a special obligation to Prof. W. J. Hinke for his suggestions of new original sources and for the use of such original sources as are in his possession.
For his constant assistance and encourag...
