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The nature of the relationship between early modern political philosophy and revealed religion has been much debated. The contributors to Piety and Humanity argue that this relationship is one of dissonance rather than concord. They claim that the early modern political philosophers found revealed religion--especially Christianity--to be a threat to the modern political project, and that these philosophers therefore attempted to transform reve...

The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative to explain everything from political traditions to cyberspace. This unique collection of original essays helps further that project by surveying stories of and about all kinds of American politics--from welfare, race, and immigration, to workfare,...

The relationship between politics and storytelling is one with a well-established lineage, but public policy analysis has only recently begun to develop its own appreciation of the power of narrative to explain everything from political traditions to cyberspace. This unique collection of original essays helps further that project by surveying stories of and about all kinds of American politics--from welfare, race, and immigration, to workfare,...

Zwei literarische Debüts, beide mit dem Konnotat des Skandals versehen, stehen im Zentrum dieser Untersuchung. Dabei werden zunächst die medialen und systematischen Funktionen und Prozesse beobachtet, in denen sich die Konstituierung der Autorschaften Gottfried Benns und Rainald Goetz' sowie ihrer Werke insbesondere als kommunikative und mediale Ereignisse vollziehen. Ferner begründet die vergleichende Betrachtung medialer Implementierungen in...

Politics and Economics in the Russian Far East addresses the key issue of what the Russian Far East and its Northeast Asian neighbours can do to further closen economic and co-operative relationships. The question of to what extent the state should intervene to stimulate economic growth in the Russian Far East is covered, as are the options for a more laissez-faire approach. The possibilities for economic co-operation with the more successful ...

Over the years Charles Tilly has had an indelible influence on a remarkable number of key questions in social science and history. In the fields of social change, states and institutions, urbanization, and historical sociology, his seminal work has spawned whole new lines of inquiry and research. In one volume, this book offers the best and most influential of Tilly's important work, with a new introduction by the author that relates his analy...

In diesem Band werden verschiedene Facetten der "Multimedia"-Kommunikation aus medien- und kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Perspektive aufgearbeitet. Theoretische Beiträge aus der Sicht unterschiedlicher Forschungstraditionen der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft werden ergänzt durch Beiträge von Praktikern zum Electronic Publishing, zur Qualifizierung in Medienberufen und zum interaktiven Fernsehen. Darüber hinaus werden aktuelle empiri...

In diesem Buch wird auf der Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung in einer lokalen Ökoszene erstmals rekonstruiert, wie das Moralsystem von Umweltschützern historisch entstanden ist, welches seine typischen Elemente sind und wie es sich in der Gegenwart aufrecht erhält.

Neither American history nor American society anticipated, sanctioned or encouraged the development of either black intellectuals or a black middle class. This text considers the role of the American Negro Academy, an organization founded in 1897 to help develop a leadership class of black America.

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Toi Derricotte's fourth collection of poetry. Tender probes sexuality, spirituality, emotion, child abuse, mother hatred, and the physical and psychological ravages of violence. These poems are raw and upsetting in subject matter, yet extremely readable.

Goethe hat als literarischer Wegbegleiter des modernen Liebesdiskurses das emphatische Gefühlserlebnis zum zentralen Lebenssinn erhoben, neben dem alle anderen Aktivitäten und Beziehungen zweitrangig werden. Diese Aufwertung des Liebeserlebens gilt bis heute ungebrochen. Eine andere Grundstruktur der von Goethe gestalteten Liebesbeziehungen, die nicht so offen zu Tage liegt, läuft jedoch dem gegenwärtigen Verständnis von Liebe zuwider und wird...

Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day. This book helps teachers to understand those issues, and how they fit in with recent government policies and initiatives.Each chapter looks at:* relevant statements of policy or initiative* how these statements fit into the context of specific schools* the challenges they present for those involved in schools* how schools can respond to these challenges* learning across co...

Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics." --Utne Reader"Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly elegantly topples many shibboleths in Beyond Growth. Daly challenges the conventional notion that growth is always good, and he bucks environmentalist orthodoxy, arguing that ...

This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists. For this new edition Magee has added three new chapters and made many minor revision...

ALAN BOOTH'S CLASSIC OF MODERN TRAVEL WRITING Traveling only along small back roads, Alan Booth traversed Japan's entire length on foot, from Soya at the country's northernmost tip, to Cape Sata in the extreme south, across three islands and some 2, 000 miles of rural Japan. The Roads to Sata is his wry, witty, inimitable account of that prodigious trek. Although he was a city person-he was brought up in London and spent most of his adult life...

The Martin Buber-Carl Rogers Debate offers a corrected and extensively annotated version of this central text in human sciences. Focusing on the sole meeting between these two central figures in twentieth-century intellectual life, Anderson and Cissna return to the original 1957 audio tape and to a variety of other primary sources as they correct and clarify the historical record.The authors highlight hundreds of errors, major and minor, in pr...

Almost one hundred years after the publication of Freud's ground-breaking Interpretation of Dreams, this book re-examines the complex and mutual relationships of psychoanalysis and postmodern society.

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Over 1700 entries, including books, articles, theses, and dissertations. The bibliography, arranged by author, is comprehensive since 1945, with greater selectivity for earlier years.