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Didaktik and/or Curriculum
An International Dialogue
Av Bjorg B. Gundem, Stefan Hopmann
Häftad, 2002
419 kr
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With the increasing interdependence and harmonization of educational systems and achievement expectations, the necessity to cooperate across national borders and differences is becoming more evident. A serious problem that has not received sufficient attention arises from different concepts of the …
Great Debate: «Bolshevism» and the Literary Left in Germany, 1917-1930
Inbunden, 1984
378 kr
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This study interprets debates within the Weimar literary Left over the relation of literature to politics. The historical key to these debates was the German revolution of 1918-1919 and the idea of «Bolshevism», i.e. a symbolic allegiance to the only successful revolutionary movement of 1917-1920. …
Elusive «I» in the Novel
Hippel, Sterne, Diderot, Kant
Inbunden, 1987
427 kr
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Hippel, author of Die Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie (1778-1781), has been widely recognized as one of the best German authors to write in the manner of Laurence Sterne. This study places Hippel in the context of the theory of the novel and historiography in the eighteenth century. It …
Romantic Manifesto
An Anthology
Inbunden, 1989
504 kr
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The vexed question of what the Romantics themselves said about Romanticism has been approached in a number of different ways, but their major public declarations have never been gathered together. Indeed, with the exception of a few of these (such as Stendhal's Racine et Shakespeare), this body of …
Gyoergy Lukács and the Literary Pretext
Inbunden, 1987
858 kr
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This volume is an introduction to those works of György Lukács that have established him as a classic authority in literary criticism: his pre-Marxist The History of the Evolution of Modern Drama (1911), still not available in English, which Eva Corredor analyzes in the original Hungarian text and …
Searching for the Figure in the Carpet in the Tales of Henry James
Reflections of an Ordinary Reader
Inbunden, 1987
551 kr
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Undertaken as if by an ordinary reader concentrating upon fundamentals of feeling and thought in the tales of Henry James, this study by Professor Newman is a probing, questioning, analytical search for the Jamesian figure, for the ultimate messages communicated by James about his life and the …
Fairy Tale Mothers
Inbunden, 1990
988 kr
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Behind every mother lurks The Great Mother with her awesome power over life and death. Numerous fairy tales deal with women's and men's fear of this power and its threat to their individuality. This fascinating study discusses the psychology of this fear and patriarchal attempts to control it by …
Communal Organization and Social Transition
A Case Study from the Counterculture of the Sixties and Seventies
Häftad, 1997
454 kr
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This unique study traces the life cycle of a counterculture commune of the late 1960s as part of a regional network and national movement. Through exhaustive field research in a setting viewed as a virtual social laboratory, it provides fascinating insights into many social concerns involving order …
Justice, Righteousness and the Social Critique of the Eighth-Century Prophets
Inbunden, 1993
1095 kr
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This is an exhaustive and perceptive analysis of the use of mispat and sdq in the Hebrew Bible and in particular the Eighth-Century Prophets. The author focuses on the social critique of these prophets and the role of mispat and sdq in this development. Further, the book offers an insightful …
Unto the Thousandth Generation
Conceptualizing Intergenerational Justice
Inbunden, 1995
760 kr
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The problem of intergenerational justice is among the most important issues in contemporary politics. Yet contemporary philosophers and political theorists have had great difficulty coming to grips with the nature and extent of our intergenerational obligations. This book examines the historical …
From Critical Theory to Critical Political Theology
Personal Autonomy and Universal Solidarity
Häftad, 2002
634 kr
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At present, in European and American civil society a new paradigm of doing not only psychology, sociology and philosophy, but also comparative religiology and theology is emerging: it is called communicative rationality and action. A new communicative theology and religiology are also arising. …
Crowd is Untruth
The Existential Critique of Mass Society in the Thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset
Inbunden, 2004
709 kr
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This book argues that the mass is the most characteristic socio-historical feature of our century. Kierkegaard was the first to anticipate and delineate this phenomenon philosophically. Heidegger appropriated much from Kierkegaard, but recast the mass into the fundamental ontology of Das Man. …
Mystery Hidden for Ages in God
Av Paul Quay
Häftad, 2002
559 kr
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Original sin, widely denied today, is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a psychic negation of the created reflections in Christ of the traits of divine love within the Trinity. Hence, only through Christ can such damage be …
Getting Beyond the Facts
Teaching Social Studies/Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century
Av Joe L. Kincheloe, Joe L. Kincheloe m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
536 kr
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In this second edition of Getting Beyond the Facts, Kincheloe presents a comprehensive view of complex-democratic social studies in the 21st century. He argues that the reform of social studies education requires a corps of rigorous social science scholars who understand the historical origins of …
Making Time
Picasso’s "Suite 347"
Inbunden, 2006
1117 kr
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In 1968, near the end of his life, Picasso made 347 etchings that show his interest in television and film, wrestling, and the female nude. Some of the prints refer to old Celestina, the cunning marriage arranger featured in Fernando de Rojas’s play. Others investigate the aging process, voyeurism, …
Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond
Inbunden, 2008
671 kr
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Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond addresses the issue of complexity mainly in the fields of humanities and social sciences. It is a continuation of Interdisciplinarity: Toward the Definition of a Metadiscipline? (Lang, 2001) in which the main question is related to the role of …
Reform Against Nature
Woman Suffrage and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920
Inbunden, 2004
616 kr
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Debates over women’s suffrage filled the pages of nineteenth-century articles, speeches, and books. Early natural rights justifications gave way to those based on women’s special characteristics – characteristics used by vehement anti-suffragists to justify women’s exclusion from the polity. These …
Canadian Federalism and Quebec Sovereignty
Third Printing
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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In this comprehensive book on Canadian federalism, the author thoroughly examines the Quebec sovereignty issue in order to determine whether or not reasonable and substantial grounds exist justifying Quebec sovereignty in the context of contemporary Canada. As a result, this book examines the …
African Women’s Theology, Gender Relations, and Family Systems Theory
Pastoral Theological Considerations and Guidelines for Care and Counseling
Inbunden, 2004
697 kr
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African women theologians have written extensively about problems in gender relations in African contexts, identifying oppressive elements and their effects on women’s self-concept and status in the church, family, and society. This book provides much-needed pastoral theological attention and a …
Soviet Pharmaceutical Business During Its First Two Decades (1917-1937)
Inbunden, 2006
860 kr
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Putting privately owned Russian pharmacies and pharmaceutical factories under state control in 1918/1919 did not improve the output and the distribution of soaps, disinfectants, hormones, vitamins, and medicines. Newly available archival records show that managers appointed by the Soviet government …
Religious Conflict and the Evolution of Language Policy in German and French Cameroon, 1885-1939
Inbunden, 2008
1023 kr
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The book was awarded the Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize in French Colonial History, 2009.This groundbreaking comparative study examines how church-state conflicts shaped the evolution of German and French language policy in Cameroon from the dawn of the colonial era to the onset of WWII. Despite …
New Perspectives on the Sierra Leone Krio
Av Mac Dixon-Fyle, Gibril Cole
Inbunden, 2005
1354 kr
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The ex-slave, Krio population of Freetown, Sierra Leone – an amalgam of ethnicities drawn from several parts of the African continent – is a fascinating study in hybridity, creolization, European cultural penetration, the retention of African cultural values, and the interface between New World …
Sex, Gender, and Religion
Josephine Butler Revisited
Inbunden, 2006
990 kr
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Sex, Gender, and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited will appeal to readers interested in women’s subjectivity and agency. Josephine Butler (1828-1906) spearheaded campaigns against state regulation of prostitution. A gifted platform speaker, she enthused a variety of British and European …
Remembering the Germans in Ghana
Inbunden, 2017
1191 kr
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Memories of the German presence in the central Volta Region of Ghana are deep and vivid. This ethnically diverse area was part of the German Togoland colony from roughly 1884 to 1914 but German-speaking missionaries established stations earlier in the mid-nineteenth century. Ghanaian oral …
Revival of Buddhist Monasticism in Medieval China
Av Huaiyu Chen
Inbunden, 2006
1225 kr
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This is the first book in any language offering a comprehensive study that places Daoxuan (596-667), one of the most important scholarly monks, in the context of medieval Chinese Buddhist history. In presenting a fresh image of medieval monastic life of Chinese Buddhism, it focuses on several key …
Understanding Prajñā
Sengzhao’s «Wild Words» and the Search for Wisdom
Inbunden, 2008
1008 kr
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Can enlightenment be attained through words? Understanding Prajñā addresses this perennial issue in the study of mysticism through the work of Sengzhao (374-414), a Buddhist scholar-monk whose essay on prajñā («wisdom») created a sensation in early medieval China. Drawing on contemporary …
Restoration of Israel
Christian Zionism in Religion, Literature, and Politics
Av Gerhard Falk
Inbunden, 2006
764 kr
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The restoration of Israel to the Holy Land was originally an English, Protestant idea. Jewish Zionism came later and succeeded only because of the Holocaust. The principal impetus for the promotion of a Jewish return to Zion was religious and began with the translation of the Bible from the Hebrew …
Sociological Perspectives on Modernity
Multiple Models and Competing Realities
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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This book examines several sociological perspectives on the defining characteristics of modernity through the construction of conceptual models. Each model specifies the prime movers of the social system and the key agencies of change and development. According to one model, technology is the …
Edith Stein and the Body-Soul-Spirit at the Center of Holistic Formation
Inbunden, 2007
1065 kr
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With a particular emphasis on the soul, this book explores Edith Stein’s holistic conception of the human being’s body-soul-spirit unity, which forms the foundation of her Christian anthropology and her view of human formation. Characterized by an unremitting attention to interconnections, Stein …
Pagans and Practitioners
Expanding Biblical Scholarship
Av Alf H. Walle
Inbunden, 2010
959 kr
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Biblical scholarship, like many other disciplines, has become increasingly isolated. As a result, the field has not borrowed as much from other areas of scholarship as it could have and has exerted a smaller impact upon the larger intellectual community. A significant portion of Pagans and …
