Return Statements

Return Statements PDF Author: Gregg Lambert
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474413927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Gregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place since 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously, and explores the relationship between them. Lambert reflects on statements of these returns from contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He discovers a unique - and forboding - sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective.

Return Statements

Return Statements PDF Author: Gregg Lambert
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474413927
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Gregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global 'post-secular' turn that has been taking place since 9/11. He asks how these two 'returns to religion' can be taking place simultaneously, and explores the relationship between them. Lambert reflects on statements of these returns from contemporary philosophers including Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He discovers a unique - and forboding - sense of the term 'religion' that belongs exclusively to our contemporary perspective.

Joycean Cultures, Culturing Joyces

Joycean Cultures, Culturing Joyces PDF Author: Vincent John Cheng
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This volume presents a cultural criticism that analyzes the politics, art, fashion, and constructions of the body inscribed and transcribed in the Joycean text. The essays illustrate the dynamic interaction of art, culture, and criticism. They simultaneously explore the impact that Joyce's own culture, both high and low, had on his art, while assessing Joyce's reciprocal influence on our own contemporary culture. Following the paths of a long and pluralistic tradition of Joyce criticism, the new methodologies in this volume create, or culture, a new Joyce for the nineties.

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking

Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking PDF Author: Ian Hickey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000867358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Seamus Heaney’s Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney’s poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses. They reveal how Heaney adopts a demiurgic role throughout his career, creating a poetic universe that draws on diverse mythic cycles from Greco-Roman to Irish and Norse to Native American. In doing so, this collection is in dialogue with recent work on Heaney’s engagement with myth. However, it is unique in its wide-ranging perspective, extending beyond Ancient and Classical influences. In its focus on Heaney’s personal metamorphosis of several mythic cycles, this collection reveals more fully the poet’s unique approach to mythmaking, from his engagement with the act of translation to transnational influences on his work and from his poetic transformations to the poetry’s boundary-crossing transitions. Combining the work of established Heaney scholars with the perspectives of early-career researchers, this collection contains a wealth of original scholarship that reveals Heaney’s expansive mythic mind. Mythmaking, an act for which Heaney has faced severe criticism, is reconsidered by all contributors, prompting multifaceted and nuanced readings of the poet’s work.

The Meaning of Religion

The Meaning of Religion PDF Author: F. Kristensen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401765804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Omphalos

Omphalos PDF Author: Philip Henry Gosse
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530470082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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"[...]on as certitudes, are at variance with the simple literal sense of the words of God. I am not assuming here that the Inspired Word has been rightly read; I merely say that the plain straightforward meaning, the meaning that lies manifestly on the face of the passages in question, is in opposition with the conclusions which geologists have formed, as to the antiquity and the genesis of the globe on which we live. Perhaps the simple, superficial sense of the Word is not the correct one; but it is at least that which its readers, learned and unlearned, had been generally content with before; and which would, I suppose, scarcely have [...]".

The Assyrian Sacred Tree

The Assyrian Sacred Tree PDF Author: Mariana Giovino
Publisher: Saint-Paul
ISBN: 9783525530283
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Revised thesis (doctoral) - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.

Taking Ancient Mythology Economically

Taking Ancient Mythology Economically PDF Author: Silver
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004674330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The primary objective of this study is to decipher the 'codes' or polysemous signs of many prominent myths of the Graeco-Roman and Near Eastern worlds and thereby to expose their hidden economic meaning. The study is highlighted by analyses of the following themes: Birth of Athena from Zeus' Head, Perseus and the Gorgon, and Gilgamesh in the Cedar Forest; Oedipus of Thebes and the biblical myth of the Five Golden Tumors; Semele the daughter of Kadmos; Heroic Twins; Labors of Herakles; Cain, Janus, and the Rainbow; Dogs as Merchants and Male Prostitutes; Virgin Priestesses in Treasuries; Danae and the Birth of Perseus and the biblical myth of the 'House of Rahab'; Circuiting Gods; Contest Between Athena and Poseidon for Supremacy in Athens; and Hermes versus Apollo, David and his Lyre at King Saul's Court, and Gilgamesh the Infernal Musician. A striking result of these studies is the extent to which ancient myths are saturated by economic content, especially commercial idioms and the standardized gestures required of contractors. It becomes quite clear that the ancients were far more aware of and interested in the economy than many contemporary scholars give them credit for.

Political Gender

Political Gender PDF Author: Sally Ledger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317866711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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In recent years, feminist scholars, through their insistence on the key role of gender in critical analysis, have brought about a profound revitalization of literary and cultural studies. This text draws together work by leading exponents in the field. The essays explore the operations of gender in the production of knowledge and the formation of cultural representations in a wide variety of contexts, from German romantic poetry to the literature of AIDS, from Victorian ethnography to tabloid constructions of race. All of the essays engage in problems of representation, intervening in current debates in critical theory.

Omphalos

Omphalos PDF Author: Philip Henry Gosse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible and evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Patterns in Comparative Religion

Patterns in Comparative Religion PDF Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496208323
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to Mircea Eliade, they miss the one irreducible element in religious phenomena--the element of the sacred. Eliade abundantly demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures from ancient to modern times; how certain beliefs, rituals, symbols, and myths have, with interesting variations, persisted.