Author: Christian Matari
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789935906700
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Over a century after the seedship Lazarus completed its near 1,200 year journey, the Terran colonies found themselves in conflict with a hostile alien race. In a world decimated by a long, drawn-out war where a never-ending stream of fresh clones are fed to the Terran war machine, a genetically engineered squad of soldiers must fight to survive against all odds. When society is ruled from behind the scenes by massive corporate conglomerates that control powerful secret organizations and even the very Republic itself, the clones will come to question the world they live in, their fellow soldiers, and even the very nature of their existence. What's more, they must struggle to establish their own identities in a world that has little respect for human life, and even less for that of a clone.
Being Born
Author: Alison Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584634
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality—and comparatively little has been said about being born and how it shapes our existence. Alison Stone sets out to overcome this oversight by providing a systematic philosophical account of how being born shapes our condition as human beings. Drawing on both feminist philosophy and existentialist concerns about the structure of meaningful human existence, Stone offers an original perspective on human existence. She explores how human existence is shaped by the way that we are born. Taking natality into account transforms our view of human existence and illuminates how many of its aspects are connected with our birth. These aspects include dependency, the relationality of the self, vulnerability, reception and inheritance of culture and history, embeddedness in social power, situatedness, and radical contingency. Considering natality also sheds new light on anxiety, mortality, and the temporality of human life. This book therefore bears on death and the meaning of life, as well as many debates in feminist and continental philosophy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584634
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
All human beings are born and all human beings die. In these two ways we are finite: our lives begin and our lives come to an end. Historically philosophers have concentrated attention on our mortality—and comparatively little has been said about being born and how it shapes our existence. Alison Stone sets out to overcome this oversight by providing a systematic philosophical account of how being born shapes our condition as human beings. Drawing on both feminist philosophy and existentialist concerns about the structure of meaningful human existence, Stone offers an original perspective on human existence. She explores how human existence is shaped by the way that we are born. Taking natality into account transforms our view of human existence and illuminates how many of its aspects are connected with our birth. These aspects include dependency, the relationality of the self, vulnerability, reception and inheritance of culture and history, embeddedness in social power, situatedness, and radical contingency. Considering natality also sheds new light on anxiety, mortality, and the temporality of human life. This book therefore bears on death and the meaning of life, as well as many debates in feminist and continental philosophy.
Ethnic Enterprise in America
Author: Ivan Light
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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 1972.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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 1972.
The Birth of the Imagination
Author: Bruce Holsapple
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Introduction: A life that is here and now -- Growth of a poet's mind -- The disjointing process, Kora in hell: improvisation -- Getting from sentiment to form -- Painting the wind -- A renaissance twilight with triphammers -- Imagining America -- A new order of knowing -- The verse line -- Form, structure, and vernacular
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826357601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Introduction: A life that is here and now -- Growth of a poet's mind -- The disjointing process, Kora in hell: improvisation -- Getting from sentiment to form -- Painting the wind -- A renaissance twilight with triphammers -- Imagining America -- A new order of knowing -- The verse line -- Form, structure, and vernacular
Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Author: Guy Halsall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139434241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. Two chapters serve as an extended introduction to the topic, while the following six chapters offer varied treatments of humour and politics, looking at different times and places, but at the Carolingian world in particular. Together, they raise important and original issues about how humour was employed to articulate concepts of political power, perceptions of kingship, social relations and the role of particular texts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139434241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Although the topic of humour has been dealt with for other eras, early medieval humour remains largely neglected. These essays go some way towards filling the gap, examining how early medieval writers deliberately employed humour to make their cases. The essays range from the late Roman empire through to the tenth century, and from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon England. The subject matter is diverse, but a number of themes link them together, notably the use of irony, ridicule and satire as political tools. Two chapters serve as an extended introduction to the topic, while the following six chapters offer varied treatments of humour and politics, looking at different times and places, but at the Carolingian world in particular. Together, they raise important and original issues about how humour was employed to articulate concepts of political power, perceptions of kingship, social relations and the role of particular texts.
Feminisms
Author: Robyn R. Warhol
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813523897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
"Everything you might want to know about the history and practice of feminist criticism in North America". -Feminist Bookstore News
The Scots Law Times
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
In Spite of Plato
Author: Adriana Cavarero
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415914475
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts--mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides--in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415914475
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
This pathbreaking work pursues two interwoven themes. Firstly, it engages in a deconstruction of Ancient philosopher's texts--mainly from Plato, but also from Homer and Parmenides--in order to free four Greek female figures from the patriarchal discourse which for centuries had imprisoned them in a particular role. Secondly, it attempts to construct a symbolic female order, reinterpreting these figures from a new perspective. Building on the theory of sexual difference, Cavarero shows that death is the central category on which the whole edifice of traditional philosophy is based. By contrast, the category of birth provides the thread with which new concepts of feminist criticism can be woven together to establish a fresh way of thinking.
The Law Library
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni
Author: Francesca Southerden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199698457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), a major figure in Italian 20th-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is the way in which it reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199698457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This is the first book-length study in English on Vittorio Sereni (1913-83), a major figure in Italian 20th-century poetry. It argues that a key innovation of Sereni's poetry is the way in which it reworks the boundaries of poetic space to construct a lyric 'I' radically repositioned in the textual universe with respect to its predecessors.
Liberation, Method and Dialogue
Author: Roberto S. Goizueta
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532643888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book analyzes the theological method of liberation theologian Enrique Dussel and, by comparing it with the meta-method of Bernard Lonergan, establishes a paradigm for international theological dialogue. The author suggests that Dussel’s non-reductionist understanding of liberation and Lonergan’s understanding of the subject-as-subject provide a methodological foundation for critical dialogue between Latin American and North American theologians. The methodological maturation of liberation theology rehearsed in this study suggests how the insights of Latin American theology demand the development of an indigenous form of North American theology of liberation.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532643888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
This book analyzes the theological method of liberation theologian Enrique Dussel and, by comparing it with the meta-method of Bernard Lonergan, establishes a paradigm for international theological dialogue. The author suggests that Dussel’s non-reductionist understanding of liberation and Lonergan’s understanding of the subject-as-subject provide a methodological foundation for critical dialogue between Latin American and North American theologians. The methodological maturation of liberation theology rehearsed in this study suggests how the insights of Latin American theology demand the development of an indigenous form of North American theology of liberation.