Late Ancient Knowing: Explorations in Intellectual History, Chin Catherine M., Vidas Moulie

Автор: Joel Whitebook
Название: Freud: An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: 0521864186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521864183
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Freud`s enduring appeal, as a thinker and as an individual, extends to both general readers and professionals. This highly readable biography, the first in English since 1998, addresses current issues in psychoanalysis, philosophy, gender studies, and social theory from a Freudian perspective, and illuminates the life of the man himself.

Автор: Pfau Thomas
Название: Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
ISBN: 0268038406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268038403
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency--will, person, judgment, action--from antiquity through Scholasticism and on to eighteenth-century moral theory and its critical revision in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Featuring extended critical discussions of Aristotle, Gnosticism, Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham, Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Hume, Adam Smith, and Coleridge, this study contends that humanistic concepts they seek to elucidate acquire meaning and significance only inasmuch as we are prepared positively to engage (rather than historicize) their previous usages. Beginning with the rise of theological (and, eventually, secular) voluntarism, modern thought appears increasingly reluctant and, in time unable to engage the deep history of its own underlying conceptions, thus leaving our understanding of the nature and function of humanistic inquiry increasingly frayed and incoherent. One consequence of this shift is to leave the moral self-expression of intellectual elites and ordinary citizens alike stunted, which in turn has fueled the widespread notion that moral and ethical concerns are but a special branch of inquiry largely determined by opinion rather than dialogical reasoning, judgment, and practice. A clear sign of this regression is the present crisis in the study of the humanities, whose role is overwhelmingly conceived (and negatively appraised) in terms of scientific theories, methods, and objectives. The ultimate casualty of this reductionism has been the very idea of personhood and the disappearance of an adequate ethical language. Minding the Modern is not merely a chapter in the history of ideas; it is a thorough phenomenological and metaphysical study of the roots of today`s predicaments. "[A] learned, deeply important, and accomplished study . . . that calls upon a set of interpretive and communal traditions that, far from being fossilized, contain radical and renovating power, but whose power can be called on, extended, elaborated, and applied to the present and future only if one knows that those traditions can and do remain alive and available, and that we ignore or pronounce them `past` at our peril. The sweep and comprehensiveness of the work are remarkable. This is not a history of philosophy at all. It is a call for us to rededicate ourselves to a serious, demanding practice of humanistic studies." --James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Автор: Kanarfogel Ephraim
Название: The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz
ISBN: 081433024X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814330241
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In <em>The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz,</em> author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that of Sephardic Jews, Kanarfogel’s study shows that the intellectual interests of Ashkenazic rabbinic figures were much broader than Talmudic studies alone. <br><br>Kanarfogel begins by highlighting several factors that have contributed to relatively narrow perceptions of Ashkenazic rabbinic culture and argues that the Tosafists, and Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship more generally, advocated a wide definition of the truths that could be discovered through Torah study. He explores differences in talmudic and halakhic studies between the Tosafist centers of northern France and Germany, delves into aspects of biblical interpretation in each region, and identifies important Tosafists and rabbinic figures. Kanarfogel also examines the composition of liturgical poetry <em>(piyyut) </em>by Tosafists, interest in forms of (white) magic and mysticism on the part of a number of northern French Tosafists, and a spectrum of views on the question of anthropomorphism and messianism. <br><br>Overall, Kanarfogel demonstrates that the approach taken by Tosafists was broader, more open, and more multi-disciplinary than previously considered. Medieval and Jewish history scholars will appreciate Kanarfogel’s volume, which is the culmination of several decades of research on the subject.

Автор: Fuller,Steve
Название: Sociology Intellectual Life
ISBN: 1412928389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412928380
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: A powerful, polemical and at times controversial sociological exploration of academic and intellectual life. Is public intellectual life `bullshit` as Fuller suggests?

Автор: Fung
Название: The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity
ISBN: 1107547679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547674
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions.

Автор: Rubin, Joan Shelley
Название: The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History
ISBN: 0199764352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199764358
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History brings together in one two-volume set the record of the nation`s values, aspirations, anxieties, and beliefs as expressed in both everyday life and formal bodies of thought.

Автор: Kamrava, Mehran
Название: Iran`s intellectual revolution
ISBN: 0521725186 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521725187
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Since the 1979 revolution in Iran Kamrava argues that three competing ideologies have emerged - conservative, reformist and secular. These developments, which amount to an intellectual revolution, will have profound and far-reaching consequences for the future of the Islamic republic, its people and very probably for countries beyond its borders.