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Author | : Umberto Eco |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9780156607520 |
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Playful parodies by the author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. Here, Eco pokes fun at the oversophisticated, overacademic, and overintellectual, and along the way makes penetrating comments about our modern mass culture and the elitist avant-garde in art in criticism.
Author | : E. Randolph Richards |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830863478 |
Download Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Brandon O'Brien and Randy Richards shed light on the ways that Western readers often misunderstand the cultural dynamics of the Bible. Identifying nine areas where commonplaces of modern Western thought diverge with the text, the authors ask us to reconsider long-held opinions about our most beloved book.
Author | : Katrina Daly Thompson |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0253024617 |
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“Bravely takes on . . . not the legendary shapeshifting creature spoken about sporadically on the Swahili coast of Tanzania, but rather popobawa discourse.” —The Journal of Modern African Studies Since the 1960s, people on the islands off the coast of Tanzania have talked about being attacked by a mysterious creature called Popobawa, a shapeshifter often described as having an enormous penis. Popobawa’s recurring attacks have become a popular subject for stories, conversation, gossip, and humor that has spread far beyond East Africa. Katrina Daly Thompson shows that talk about Popobawa becomes a tool that Swahili speakers use for various creative purposes such as subverting gender segregation, advertising homosexuality, or discussing female sexuality. By situating Popobawa discourse within the social and cultural world of the Swahili Coast as well as the wider world of global popular culture, Thompson demonstrates that uses of this legend are more diverse and complex than previously thought and provides insight into how women and men communicate in a place where taboo, prohibition, and restraint remain powerful cultural forces. “While Popobawa surely belong to one of the most interesting African legends, Katrina Daly Thompson, instead of asking where the story originated, asks about how people talk about this trickster and what these conversations really mean.” —Claudia Boehme, University of Trier “A well-researched and well-documented addition to the body of knowledge on local legends and their global manifestations.” —Journal of Folklore Research “Thompson’s movement between local and global discourses demonstrates the importance of a phenomenon that could otherwise be viewed as exotic ethnographic trivia, while her theoretical orientation makes the text as relevant to linguistic anthropologists as to African studies scholars.” —African Studies Review
Author | : M. Saverio Clemente |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2018-06-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532619243 |
Download misReading Nietzsche Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Perhaps more than any philosophy written in the past few centuries, the work of Friedrich Nietzsche has given rise to controversy, misunderstanding, and dissent. Today Nietzsche is remembered as the revolutionary author of such polemical ideas as the death of God, the revaluation of values, the will to untruth, and the Übermensch. Yet is Nietzsche’s philosophy as atheistic, relativistic, nihilistic, and immoral as some commentators have claimed? Or ought we perhaps to give more credence to Nietzsche’s own assertion that one writes books “precisely to conceal what one harbors” (BGE, 9, 289)? If “whatever is profound loves masks” (BGE, 2, 40) then might Nietzsche’s more daring claims be interpreted as clever masks behind which he conceals a deeper philosophy and on which he reveals a hidden truth? Is it not possible that the standard readings of Nietzsche are in fact misreadings—that his work invites misreading, that it is intentionally unclear, deceptive, disguised? The goal of this volume is to reread Nietzsche for all that he shows and all that he hides. It is to dig deeper into his work in order to challenge misreadings of old and invite misreadings anew—as, indeed, his work itself calls for and demands.
Author | : J. Habjan |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137352833 |
Download (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006-06-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0521678374 |
Download The Sonnets Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In his own time, Shakespeare was best known to the reading public as a poet, and even today copies of his Sonnets regularly outsell everything else he wrote. For this new edition, Stephen Orgel offers a warmly personal and original introduction to Shakespeare's best-loved and most widely read poems. Careful readings emphasize their sexual and temperamental ambiguity, their textual history and the special perils an editor faces when modernizing the original quarto's spelling, punctuation, and even layout. The edition retains the text of the Sonnets prepared by Gwynne Evans, together with his detailed notes on each, and a line-by-line commentary. Throughout, the 'voices' of the sonnets appear in all their intricacy and dramatic power.
Author | : Frederick Eden Pargiter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Download The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : James Mark Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
Download Psychological Review Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Issues for 1894-1903 include the section: Psychological literature.
Author | : David Harry Ellenson |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0827611838 |
Download Jewish Meaning in a World of Choice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Internationally recognized scholar David Ellenson shares twenty-three of his most representative essays, drawing on three decades of scholarship and demonstrating the consistency of the intellectual-religious interests that have animated him throughout his lifetime. These essays center on a description and examination of the complex push and pull between Jewish tradition and Western culture. Ellenson addresses gender equality, women’s rights, conversion, issues relating to who is a Jew, the future of the rabbinate, Jewish day schools, and other emerging trends in American Jewish life. As an outspoken advocate for a strong Israel that is faithful to the democratic and Jewish values that informed its founders, he also writes about religious tolerance and pluralism in the Jewish state. The former president of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, the primary seminary of the Reform movement, Ellenson is widely respected for his vision of advancing Jewish unity and of preparing leadership for a contemporary Judaism that balances tradition with the demands of a changing world. Scholars and students of Jewish religious thought, ethics, and modern Jewish history will welcome this erudite collection by one of today’s great Jewish leaders.
Author | : Ludo Th Verhoeven |
Publisher | : Mouton de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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