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Ideology draws on the social, political and cultural theory of Jurgen Habermas, Gilles Deleuze and Slavoj Zizek in order to explore the possibility of developing a 'critical conception of ideology'. The book is concerned with two main themes: the relationship of ideology to the 'real' and the relationship between ideology and the 'ethical'.

This volume provides three short works of Tacitus: Agricola--the fullest ancient account of Rome's conquest of Britain and of the public career of a senator in the service of a Roman emperor--Germany, a valuable source on the ancient land and its people, and Dialogue on Orators, an examination in the tradition of Cicero's rhetorical essays of the decline of oratory in Rome's early empire. Together, these works illuminate an important phase in ...

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Clear guidance on a vast array of ways to approach God, why some prayers are not answered, how to deal with doubts about God's ability to answer prayer, what not to do when praying. Your prayer life will never be the same.

Prominent social critic Henry Giroux explores how new forms of media are challenging the very nature of politics in his most poignant and striking book to date.The emergence of the spectacle of terror as a new form of politics raises important questions about how fear and anxiety can be marketed, how terrorism can be used to recruit people in support of authoritarian causes, and how the spectacle of terrorism works in an age of injustices, dee...

Provides an account of military events in the Bible. This work recounts the Bible's military episodes, covering a vast period, from the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites, through the conquest of the kingdom by David and Solomon and the split of the kingdom into Judah and Israel, to the Maccabees' rebellion against Seleucid domination.

For a long time Franz Brentano has been widely perceived almost exclusively as the re-discoverer of intentionality and the founder of the continental phenomenology. It was only during the last 30 years that his immense importance for the development of analytic philosophy (and also the arbitrariness of the very division between analytic and continental philosophy) became clear. This volume is devoted to Brentano's influence on the Polish Analy...

How do ordinary objects persist through time and across possible worlds? How do they manage to have their temporal and modal properties? These are the questions adressed in this book which is? "guided tour of theories of persistence". The book is divided in two parts. In the first, the two traditional accounts of persistence through time (endurantism and perdurantism) are combined with presentism and eternalism to yield four different views, a...

The Summit Audio Program contains listening comprehension activities, rhythm and intonation practice, recorded readings, and targeted pronunciation activities that focus on accurate and comprehensible pronunciation. To prepare students to communicate with a variety of speakers, regional and non-native accents are included. A two-level high-intermediate/advanced course, Summit is the perfect next step for learners who have completed a beginning...

Die Studie vermittelt detailliert, dass Gender nicht losgelöst von anderen Identitätskategorisierungen sprachlich hergestellt wird bzw. in die sprachliche Konstruktion von Gender auch bestimmte Alters-, Sexualitäts-, Schicht- und Racevorstellungen mit einfließen bzw. reproduziert werden. Sie entwickelt auf theoretischer Ebene einen konstruktivistischen Ansatz personaler sprachlicher Benennungen. Es handelt sich um ein linguistisches Grundlagen...

As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions were neither endlessly varied, nor haphaardly organied. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation, and were organied in discoverable, predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis, Wildavsky ar...

Dezentralisierung und Flexibilisierung der betrieblichen Organisation führen für Arbeitskräfte zu neuen Anforderungen an Selbstabstimmung und Kooperation. Dabei bleibt die informelle Kooperation im Arbeitsprozess unverzichtbar, sie erhält sogar einen neuen Stellenwert. Dies wird aber in der betrieblichen Praxis kaum berücksichtigt: So wird versucht, den neuen Anforderungen durch eine Formalisierung der Kooperation zu begegnen, indem etwa eine ...

Call Center sind komplexe Einheiten: Aus den Bestellannahme-Stellen der 80er Jahre sind Kundenservice-Center geworden, die alle denkbaren Kommunikationskanäle bedienen. Um diese Call Center zu managen, braucht man ein effizientes Controlling - für das die aktuell genutzten Methoden jedoch nicht ausreichen. Die Folge: Fehlsteuerungen, Unmut der Kunden, Verlust von Zeit und Geld. Die Berater Dr. Florian Schümann und Horst Tisson stellen in "Cal...

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Twenty discourses from the Pali Canon--including those most essential to the study and teaching of early Buddhism--are provided in fresh translations, accompanied by introductions that highlight the main themes and set the ideas presented in the context of wider philosophical and religious issues. Taken together, these fascinating works give an account of Buddhist teachings directly from the earliest primary sources. In his General Introductio...

This collection of previously untranslated court documents, testimonials, and letters portrays the Spanish Inquisition in vivid detail, offering fresh perspectives on such topics as the Inquisition's persecution of Jews and Muslims, the role of women in Spanish religious culture, the Inquisition's construction and persecution of witchcraft, daily life inside an Inquisition prison, and the relationship between the Inquisition and the Spanish mo...

Six Myths about the Good Life focuses on the values that are worth aiming for in our lives, a topic central to what has been called Philosophy of Life. We all have ideas about the good life. We think that pleasure makes life better. We want to be happy. We think that achievements make a difference. There is something to all these ideas, but if taken simply and generally they all miss out on something. Six Myths about the Good Life explores wha...

This series offers central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations distinguished by their accuracy and use of clear and nontechnical modern vocabulary. Annotation and commentary accessible to undergraduates make the series an ideal vehicle for the study of Aquinas by readers approaching him from a variety of backgrounds and interests.

Stanley Lombardo's deft abridgment of his 2005 translation of the Aeneid preserves the arc and weight of Virgil's epic by presenting major books in their entirety and abridged books in extended passages seamlessly fitted together with narrative bridges. W. R. Johnson's Introduction, a shortened version of his masterly Introduction to that translation, will be welcomed by both beginning and seasoned students of the Aeneid , and by students of R...

Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, ambitions, and political legacy of the American Progressivism movement (1886â1924). A general introduction offers a history of the movement and a brief discussion of recent historiographical debates, headnotes introduce each selection and provide historical and political context.