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Highlights the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions. Exploring the major religious cultures, this book looks at the constructive aspects to the relation between humor and religion, with humor seen as a pathway to spiritual wisdom. It also explores why humor and spirituality fit well together.

Includes a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema, using concepts and methodologies from pragmatics, conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This book is a linguistic investigation of the dialogue of Italian cinema covering a selection of films from the 1950s onwards.

Catholics, especially in the US, are sharply divided over what constitutes faithful Catholicism. This title offers an exploration of the tension between two opposing views of the meaning of faith held by Catholics around the world.

A staple of undergraduate courses in Classical Studies, Latin, English and Comparative Literature, Ovid's "Metamorphoses" is arguably one of the most important, canonical Latin texts. This title offers guidance on: literary, historical and cultural context; key themes; reading the text; reception and influence; and, further reading.

Presents a re-appraisal of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction. This book examines how the phenomenological lineage is received in deconstruction, especially the relation between deconstruction and Derrida's radical readings of Hegel, Husserl, Levinas and Heidegger.

Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's "Concept of Anxiety" to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.

A sociological study of the recontextualisation of Islam as school knowledge in the UK education system. It explores the conceptualisation of school-based Islam on two levels: as a symbolic category in English religious education as a consequence of policy shifts, and as pedagogic discourse at the local community level in state and Muslim schools.

Providing a complex and challenging education in research, the PhD is unlike other degrees and at its heart is the key educational role of supervisor. This book explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience.

Presents an examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought. This book aims to underscore the relevance of Ancient Philosophy for contemporary debates in Continental Philosophy. It also presents scholarship in the field of modern European thought.

A systemic functional linguistics study that analyses how a wide range of modalities, other than language, make and communicate meaning. It analyses the meaning making potential of not only language, but modalities like laughter, music, colour, and architectural spaces.

An analysis of the distinctive political writings of George Orwell. It focuses on his concept of political power and its relevance. By looking at Orwell as a political thinker, it derives a 'political message' from his works that may qualify as contributions to the liberal political thought.

Draws together a group of international policy analysts and researchers to examine the Academies policy and implementation. This book shows how the Academies Programme in England is an important site for examining the growth of neoliberal ideas and practices in the framing and delivery of public services such as education.

A radical reconsideration of a major and popular genre influenced by the thought of the significant French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.

This text provides an introduction to Marxist literary criticism. It comprises studies of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Eagleton, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Lukacs and Jameson.

Offers an overview of research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning. This book focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. It also focuses on various corpus-based tools for LSP learning. It illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data.

A collection of essays that rectifies a long-standing misconception in the history of the relation between Hegel and analytic philosophy. It offers 'analytic' readings of Hegel, Hegelian readings of the analytic tradition, historical explorations of Hegel's confrontation with Kant and of the analytic tradition's debt to Hegel.

Presenting an account of 'Aristotle's Ethics', this book argues for the importance of the concept of 'techne' in constructing an understanding of Aristotle's moral philosophy. It explores the importance of 'techne' in the Platonic and pre-Platonic intellectual context in which Aristotle was writing.

In a fresh interpretation of Parmenides' philosophical poem "On Nature", this book considers Parmenides as a thinker of mortal singularity, a thinker who is concerned with the fate of irreducibly unique individuals. It also includes a substantial overview and bibliography of contemporary scholarship on Parmenides.

Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms.

The issue of veiling has been intensively debated in Western society and has implications for religious liberty, inter-communal relationships and cultural interaction. This book seeks to generate open and objective discussion of this highly important, though controversial, subject, with contributions from female practitioners of Islam.

Examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII. This title offers a comprehensive account of the diverse experiences of the states in Pacific Asia.

Covers the fundamental areas of philosophical logic. This guide explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, extensional and intensional extensions of classical logic, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality.

Sets the resources of the philosophical tradition to the task of interpreting violence in its diverse expressions. This title states that philosophy can remain a vital partner in the twin tasks of diagnosis and action.