Author: Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826458335
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Beyond this pivotal place in the history of scientific thought, Charles Darwin's writings and his theory of evolution by natural selection have also had a profound impact on art and culture and continue to do so to this day. This book is a comprehensive survey of this enduring cultural impact throughout the continent. With chapters written by leading international scholars that explore how literary writers and popular culture responded to Darwin's thought, the book also includes a complete timeline of his cultural reception in Europe and bibliographies of major translations in each country.
Author: Susan Plann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520204713
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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"This book provides very important evidence that changes in institutional attitudes toward manual language can be traced to broader changes in the accepted conceptions of the nature of language. . . . [It] will prove to be a milestone in the developing discipline of deaf history."--Harlan Lane, author of The Mask of Benevolence
Author: Margaret Starbird
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9781591430124
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Using New Testament "gematria, " symbolic number values encoded in the Greek phrases, the author reveals that the sacred couple was one of the essential pillars of early Christian teachings, before being denied by the architects of institutional Christianity and obscured by later Church doctrine.
Author: Fabritio Caroso
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Fabritio Caroso was dancing master to some of the greatest princely families of Italy, and Nobiltà di dame, his sumptuous collection of ballroom dances and their music, reflects an age that believed that the person of high rank should be a work of art, uniting strength and beauty. Caroso's detailed instructions (including rules for steps, style and etiquetter, and forty-eight actual choreographies) are unequalled by any contemporary manual in their specificity and clarity. Most dances are preceeded by an engraving showing the opening position and illustrating many aspects of dress, posture, and gesture. A full scholarly apparatus, giving new information unavailable elsewhere, makes the book even more valuable to dancers and to students of dance and music at the junction of the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
Author: Katharine Hodgkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134448244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.
Author: Narciso Carbó y de Aloy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 42
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Author: Derek Flitter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040281311
Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 272
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Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.
Author: Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521344255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A critical account of Ricoeur's theory of narrative interpretation and its contribution to theology.
Author: Ivan Jaksic
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438407750
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Many philosophers have been appointed to top-level political positions during Chile's modern history. What makes Chilean philosophers unique in the context of Latin America and beyond, is that they have developed a sophisticated rationale for both their participation and withdrawal from politics. All along, philosophers have grappled with fundamental problems such as the role of religion and politics in society. They have also played a fundamental role in defining the nature and aims of higher education. The philosophers' production constitutes a substantial, albeit largely unknown, portion of the intellectual history of Chile and Latin America. This book describes in detail the evolution of philosophical work in Chile, and pays close attention to the relationship between philosophical activity and contemporary social and political events. Various Chilean philosophical sources are discussed for the first time in the literature on Chilean ideas. The work of such intellectuals as Andres Bello, Valentin Letelier, Enrique Molina, Jorge Millas, Juan Rivano, Juan de Dios Vial Larrain, and many others is examined in relation to the principal political and educational issues of their time. The book also develops a distinction between the two main currents of Chilean philosophy, namely, a "professionalist" current that seeks the independence of the field from social and political involvements, and a "critical" current that seeks to relate philosophical activity to national realities.
Author: Francesca Miller
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874515589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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A clear and detailed study of Latin American women’s history from the late nineteenth century to the present.
