Tragedy and Enlightenment

Tragedy and Enlightenment PDF Author: Christopher Rocco
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520331362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Reading Sappho

Reading Sappho PDF Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520206014
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Essays that aim to draw attention to Sappho's importance as a poet and to offer a sense of the lively debate and competiting critical positions within Sappho studies.

Tragedy and Enlightenment

Tragedy and Enlightenment PDF Author: Christopher Rocco
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520331362
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire

Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire PDF Author: Clifford Ando
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520220676
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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"As he illuminates the relationship between the imperial government and the empire's provinces, Ando deepens our understanding of one of the most striking phenomena in the history of government."--BOOK JACKET.

Evil in Modern Thought

Evil in Modern Thought PDF Author: Susan Neiman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691168504
Category : Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Classical and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Religion

Classical and Contemporary Readings in the Philosophy of Religion PDF Author: John Hick
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Religion as illustion / Ludwig Feuerbach -- Against proofs in religion / S2ren Kierkegaard -- Evil and a finite God / John Stuart Mill -- Mysticism : The will to believe / William James -- Religion versus the religious / John Dewey -- Cosmic teleology / F.R. Tennant -- Revelation and its mode / William Temple -- The existence of God / Bertrand Russell & F.C. Copleston -- The eternal thou / Martin Buber --. - Two types of philosophy of religion : Existential analyses and religious symbols / Paul Tillich -- On death and the mystical / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- The formally possible doctrines of God : Time, death and everlasting life / Charles Hartshorne -- Personal survival and the idea of another world / H.H. Price -- An empiricist's view of the nature of religious belief / R.B. Braithwaite -- A form of religious naturalism / John Herman Randall -- Gods.

Re-Reading Sappho

Re-Reading Sappho PDF Author: Ellen Greene
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520206038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
The essays in this volume review the seemingly endless permutations wrought on Sappho through centuries of readings and re-writings.

The Modern World

The Modern World PDF Author: Edgar E. Knoebel
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 696

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(Classics of Western Thought).

Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought

Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought PDF Author: Jeffrey A. Bernstein
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438483961
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 431

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Book Description
Leo Strauss's readings of historical figures in the philosophical tradition have been justly well explored; however, his relation to contemporary thinkers has not enjoyed the same coverage. In Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought, an international group of scholars examines the possible conversations between Strauss and figures such as Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, and Hans Blumenberg. The contributors examine topics including religious liberty, the political function of comedy, law, and the relation between the Ancients and the Moderns, and bring Strauss into many new and original discussions that will be of use to those interested in the thought of Strauss, the history of philosophy and political theory, and contemporary continental thought.

Warriors Into Traders

Warriors Into Traders PDF Author: David W. Tandy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520226917
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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A look at the shift in the economic model of ancient Greece at the brink between what we consider to be the "dark ages" and the "golden age." The newly emerged economic elite of this period introduced or reemphasized a variety of "tools of exclusion."

Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations

Classical and Modern Thought on International Relations PDF Author: R. Jackson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403979529
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
In the tradition of the English School of International Relations theory, this project from Robert Jackson seeks to show how continuities in international politics outweigh the changes. The author demonstrates how the world is neither one of anarchy, as put forward by realists, nor is it a fully cosmopolitan order, as argued by those on the other side of the theoretical spectrum. Instead, it is a world of states who acknowledge a set of moral constraints that exists between them.