Mestizo Spaces / Espaces Métissés – serie
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Open the Social Sciences
Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences
Häftad, 1996
286 kr
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Concerned about the worldwide state of the social sciences—the relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciences—the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the …
Aesthetic Politics
Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value
Inbunden, 1997
1697 kr
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Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice—which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political—this book looks at politics from an aesthetic …
Aesthetic Politics
Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value
Häftad, 1997
412 kr
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Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice—which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political—this book looks at politics from an aesthetic …
Civil Society and Fanaticism
Conjoined Histories
Häftad, 1997
444 kr
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Luther and Calvin applied the term fanatic to those who sought to destroy civil society in order to establish the Kingdom of God, the "false prophets" and their followers who, early on in the Reformation, began smashing images in churches and rebelling against princes. Civil Society and Fanaticism …
Dislocating the Color Line
Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative
Inbunden, 1997
1563 kr
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Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be …
Dislocating the Color Line
Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Narrative
Häftad, 1997
377 kr
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Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be …
Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft
Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Av Barry Hallen, J. Olubi Sodipo
Inbunden, 1997
1246 kr
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First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy …
Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft
Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy
Av Barry Hallen, J. Olubi Sodipo
Häftad, 1997
300 kr
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First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the indeterminacy …
Sense for the Other
The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology
Av Marc Augé
Häftad, 1998
244 kr
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If the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is anthropology still possible, and if so, to what end? The author uses these questions as a point of departure for a probing …
Daily Life of the Greek Gods
Av Giulia Sissa, Marcel Detienne
Inbunden, 2000
1472 kr
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Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the …
Daily Life of the Greek Gods
Av Giulia Sissa, Marcel Detienne
Häftad, 2000
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342 kr
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Despite the rousing stories of male heroism in battles, the Trojan War transcended the activities of its human participants. For Homer, it was the gods who conducted and accounted for what happened. In the first part of this book, the authors find in Homer's Iliad material for exploring the …
Imported State
The Westernization of the Political Order
Inbunden, 2000
1584 kr
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This book traces the rise of the modern state—a mode of organizing political power within a closed territory—in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. The result of a long process of evolution dating back to the Roman …
Imported State
The Westernization of the Political Order
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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This book traces the rise of the modern state—a mode of organizing political power within a closed territory—in post-Enlightenment Europe and its spread to the remainder of the world, especially colonial and postcolonial societies. The result of a long process of evolution dating back to the Roman …
Body Politic
Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800
Inbunden, 1997
1163 kr
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This is a remarkable history of the French Revolution told through the study of images of the body as they appeared in the popular literature of the time, showing how these images were at the very center of the metaphoric language used to describe the revolution in progress.The author draws upon …
