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29 produkter
Pragmatism and Other Writings
Häftad, 2000
133 kr
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The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. 'Pragmatism' grew out of a set of lectures and the full …
Historical Guide to Herman Melville
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2005
633 kr
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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville''s relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated …
The Interpretation of Otherness
Essays on Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 1979
1914 kr
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In a unique and probing analysis, this study examines the function of literary criticism in religious studies and explores the relation of literature to religion in the works of major American writers.
New World Metaphysics
Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience
Häftad, 1981
254 kr
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From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and motifs to express the meaning of their encounter with America. …
The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 1989
635 kr
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This important new work is at once a provocative defence of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be revaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and …
A Historical Guide to Herman Melville
Av Giles Gunn, Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2005
987 kr
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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated …
New World Metaphysics
Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 1981
131 kr
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From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and motifs to express the meaning of their encounter with America. …
Interpretation of Otherness
Literature, Religion, and the American Imagination
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 1979
780 kr
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In a unique and probing analysis, this study examines the function of literary criticism in religious studies and explores the relation of literature to religion in the works of major American writers.
Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 1987
380 kr
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Giles Gunn''s important new work is at once a provocative defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist …
Historical Guide to Herman Melville
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2005
633 kr
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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville''s relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated …
Beyond Solidarity
Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 2001
975 kr
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In this text Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify. Drawing on the work of Williams and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard …
Beyond Solidarity
Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2001
321 kr
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In this text Giles Gunn asks how human solidarity can be reconceived when its expressions have become increasingly exceptionalist and outmoded, and when the pressures of globalization divide as much as they unify. Drawing on the work of Williams and Henry James, John Dewey, Primo Levi, Richard …
Thinking Across the American Grain
Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 1992
340 kr
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In Thinking Across the American Grain Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive response to the intellectual challenges of postmodernism. Gunn reclaims and refurbishes elements of …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 2013
2510 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2013
749 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often …
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
Av Giles Gunn, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic "misshaping" of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations …
Ideas to Live For
Toward a Global Ethics
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2015
485 kr
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Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such …
Ideas to Live for
Toward a Global Ethics
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2015
372 kr
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Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such …
Pragmatist Turn
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 2017
982 kr
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In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their …
Pragmatist Turn
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2017
430 kr
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In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their …
Pragmatist Turn
Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2017
1230 kr
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In The Pragmatist Turn , renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their …
Early American Writing
Av Various, Giles Gunn
E-bok, 1994
88 kr
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Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn''s anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are …
Ideas to Die For
The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Av Giles Gunn
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are …
Global Studies: A Historical and Contemporary Reader
Av Giles Gunn
Häftad, 2018
2136 kr
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Introduces students to the ways that the world has been woven into a system of interrelated, but far from completely integrated, processes, interactions, and transformations since long before the beginning of the Common Era. The readings reflect patterns of transmission, dispersion, and exchange …
Ideas to Live for
Toward a Global Ethics
Av Giles Gunn
Inbunden, 2015
902 kr
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Over the course of his distinguished interdisciplinary career, Giles Gunn has sustained his focus on the continuing threats to our collective sense of the human that seem to result from the link between the collision of fundamental values and the increase of systemic violence. He asks whether such …
