Explores the analogy between metallurgy and human reproduction as expressed in African beliefs about processes of transformation, gender, and power. This work appeals to readers interested in questions of technology, gender, and culture.
"... a great read. It is masterfully presented, and is an ideal text both for advanced undergraduates and graduate students." ΓÇöInternational Journal of African Historical Studies"... a detailed, critical guide to fifty years of African philosophy... " ΓÇöTeaching Philosophy"Masolo offers an expansive and lucidly panoramic view of the origin and developments in African philosophy." ΓÇöAfrica Today"The excellence of this book lies in the wealth of perspectives that it brings to the discussion on what constitutes philosophy, rationality, and meaningful reflection. It is both thought provoking and illuminating." ΓÇöEthicsA Kenyan philosopher surveys themes and debates in African philosophy over the last five decades. MasoloΓÇÖs purview includes Francophone and Anglophone philosophers in both the analytic and phenomenological traditions.
"... Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." ΓÇöCenter for Southern Folklore Magazine"It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [DundesΓÇÖ] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." ΓÇöForum for Modern Language StudiesOften controversial, Alan DundesΓÇÖs scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture.
... a landmark in research of African oral traditions."e;-African Arts... a significant contribution to the understanding of Yoruba religious belief, magic, and art."e; -Journal of Religion in AfricaYoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition.
Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger''s thought from the existential analysis of Being and Time to the overcoming of metaphysics in his later philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical problems underpinning Leibniz''s theory of logical judgment, Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted in a certain conception of Being. He explores the significance of Western logic as a system-building technical tool and as a cultural phenomenon that is centuries old.
Memorial books compiled by Holocaust survivors tell of Jewish life in interwar Poland.
The book that no bassoonist can live without.
A new edition issued in paperback of the critically acclaimed biography of Charles Sanders Peirce.
Aims to establish oral literature as a landmark of artistic achievement, and situate it within the framework of contemporary African culture. This book is divided into three sections, and presents types of oral literature practiced in Africa, the principal concerns of the literature, and its relation to other forms of traditional art.
" -Voice Literary SupplementHeath's study of film draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, and Marxism, presenting film as a signifying practice and the cinema as a social institution of meanings.
Former Foreign Service officer Korn's account of the 1973 killing in Sudan of American diplomats Cleo Noel and George Moore Dy the radical Palestinian Black September movement. Nowhere is the new world order more apparent than in the writing of history, be it reexaminations of US cold war policy or a study like this, in which virtue and villainy seem much more ambiguous than they did a few years ago. The Khartoum setting is redolent with history ("Chinese" Gordon vs. the Mahdi, etc.), but its implications (which ultimately have made Sudan one of today's foremost sanctuaries for terrorists) aren't part of Korn's story - nor, apparently, of one victim's innocent remark that "as long as I am in Sudan, I will never be in danger." Though we learn much here about Noel and Moore (both unquestionably capable and dedicated civil servants), the two exist at a remove, too idealized Dy the author to be truly sympathetic. Korn mixes engrossing chapters of on-the-spot action - detailing the kidnapping of the two officers and their murder after the Nixon Administration had refused to bargain with the kidnappers - with more disappointing background chapters ("To Be a Foreign Service Officer"; "To Be an Arabist"). Though loaded with factual detail (of the Embassy driver's actions and loyalty to his US employers; of the background of a Marine on duty at the time of the killings; of the city's climate; of the layout of the embassy building), Korn's chronicle - part professional report, part thriller, and part essay on the Foreign Service - lacks sufficient emphasis on the gray eminence of US foreign policy, which defined us for much of the Third World. Korn apparently wanted to write a hymn to virtue and patriotism - but his song seems old-fashioned, a tune from another era. (Kirkus Reviews)
Focuses on the relationship between American pragmatism and ethics. This book elaborates pragmatism's distinctive contribution to understandings of moral experience, inquiry, and judgment. It shows that moral imagination can be conceived as a process of aesthetic perception and artistic creativity. It sheds light on the nature of moral judgment.
Somalia has been called 'a nation of poets'. This volume aims to make available, in English translation, the universal of Somali poetry. It includes the following poets: Raage Ugaas, Xirsi Garaad Faarax Wiilwaal and others. It covers the oral and written medium, the pronunciation of Somali words, alliteration and scansion, a bibliography and more.
Bishop's deft translation, depict Petrarch's many-sided character in his own words, while twelve drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury provide a rich embellishment for this entertaining book.
Features a cohort of talented poets born in Russia between 1935 and 1940. This anthology also contains notes, biographical sketches, a detailed bibliography, and an introduction. It is of interest to teachers, students, and readers of modern Russian literature.
A book that surveys the social, religious, and cultural significance of food in Russian and Soviet life. It offers insights into what food ways reveal about Russia's history and culture, from Kievan times to post Soviet Russia.
A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry since 12th century BC.
Peter Bergmann's fine intellectual biography provides the first down-to-earth appraisal of Nietzsche's place among the individuals, events, and concerns of the Bismarckian age.
This first English translation of Lélia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally fascinating subject.
First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is the first English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a "e;problem"e; or as a matter of "e;logic,"e; but precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the essence of truth and the essence of philosophy. On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the ancient Greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beitrage zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text.
In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger's approval and reissued in 1986 as part of his Gesamtausgabe, volume 15. Topics considered include the Greek understanding of presence, the ontological difference, the notion of system in German Idealism, the power of naming, the problem of technology, danger, and the event. Heidegger's engagements with his philosophical forebears-Parmenides, Heraclitus, Kant, and Hegel-continue in surprising dialogues with his contemporaries-Husserl, Marx, and Wittgenstein. While providing important insights into how Heidegger conducted his lectures, these seminars show him in his maturity reflecting back on his philosophical path. An important text for understanding contemporary philosophical debates, Four Seminars provides extraordinarily rich material for students and scholars of Heidegger.
"How extraordinary it is that compassion and tenderness may flourish in the cruellest conditions; how stubbornly and bravely people survive them. This is not a depressing book but an inspiriting and encouraging one." ΓÇöDoris Lessing"The sixteen life stories are riveting.... testimony to the complexity of the human spirit[,] to miracles of survival and endurance in the most hellish of conditions.... Till My Tale Is Told remind[s] us of the importance of remembrance and testimony about this particularly brutal chapter of human history."ΓÇöThe WomenΓÇÖs Review of BooksArrest, interrogation, imprisonment, trial and sentencing, transport, labor camps, internal exile, sometimes release, often followed by re-arrest and re-imprisonment and, for those who outlived Stalin, eventual reprieve and rehabilitation these are the outlines of the experiences recorded by 16 courageous Russian women whose moving testimonies, most of them written in secret and at great personal risk, are presented here.
The sixties began optimistically, with Americans full of hope and expectation, voting to support a new, young, charismatic leader who promised to "move America forward." Tragically, something went wrong. Instead of finding its Utopia, America became a country struggling desperately to escape its Armageddon. President Kennedy''s New Frontier fell far short of its promise in tangible domestic legislation and his foreign policy decisions pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear holocaust, while President Johnson''s dream of a Great Society foundered in the quicksand of the Vietnam war. This revealing history of the Kennedy-Johnson years begins with the presidential primaries of 1960 and concludes with Johnson''s final weeks as a lame duck President. An expert and objective history of an exciting periodΓÇöits social, cultural, and economic facets as well as its political developments.
Drawing on a number of literary theories (but avoiding most of their jargon), the author makes a case for fantasy as a significant movement within postmodern literature rather than as a simple exercise of nostalgia. It examines fantasies by Ursula K Le Guin, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, and Gene Wolfe, among others.
This searing memoir of the author's concentration camp experience ';is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience' (Newsweek). ';Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.' At the Mind's Limitsis the story of one man's incredible struggle to understand the reality of horror. In five autobiographical essays, Amery describes his survivalmental, moral, and physicalthrough the enormity of the Holocaust. Above all, this masterful record of introspection tells of a young Viennese intellectual's fervent vision of human nature and the betrayal of that vision. ';These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain... all the way to its stoic conclusion.' Primo Levi ';The testimony of a profoundly serious man.... In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true.' Irving Howe, The New Republic
Authoritative and wide-ranging.
They range from studies of the intellectual roots of the peacemaking tradition to concrete examples of peacemaking in the community, with special attention to feminist peacemmaking traditions and women's experience.
A brilliant and witty postmodern critique of ethics, framed as a contemporary restaging of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.John D. Caputo undertakes a passionate, poetic, and satiric search for the basis of an ethics in the postmodern situation. Restaging Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, Caputo defends the notion of obligation without ethics, of responsibility without the support of ethical foundations. Retelling the story of Abraham and Isaac, he strikes the pose of a postmodern-day Johannes de Silentio, accompanied by communications from such startling figures as Johanna de Silentio, Felix Sineculpa, and Magdalena de la Cruz. In dialogue with the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Derrida, and Lyotard, Caputo forges a challenging, original account of what is possible and what is not possible for a continentalist ethics today."e;Against Ethics is a bold work. . . . A counterethics whose multiple voices will be heard long after the trivializing arguments of many analytic ethicists have vanished and the arcane formulations of many postmoderns have been jettisoned."e; -Edith Wyschogrod"e;Caputo provides a brilliant new analysis of the limits of ethics. . . . Essential reading for anyone concerned with the philosophical issues raised in postmodernity."e; -Drucilla Cornell"e;One of the most important works on philosophical ethics written in recent years. . . . Caputo speaks with a passion and concern that are rare in academic philosophy."e; -Mark C. Taylor"e;Against Ethics is beautifully written, clever, learned, thought-provoking, and even inspiring."e; -Theological Studies"e;Writing in the form of his ideas, Caputo offers the reader a truly exquisite reading experience. . . . His iconic style mirrors a truly refreshing honesty that draws the reader in to play."e; -Quarterly Journal of Speech
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