Author: Giles Fraser File Type: pdf O Zarathustra, you are more pious than you believe, with such unbelief! Some god in you has converted you to your goodness. (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised -- Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and rarely understood -- Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists -- Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation -- Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsches thought is revealed to be a series of experiments in redemption -- However, when placed in direct confrontation with the enormity of modern understandings of destruction, Nietzsches prescriptions for human salvation look like the imaginings of a more comfortable age -- Drawing upon the work of Kundera, Nussbaum, Girard and Cavell, Fraser traces the successive failures of Nietzsches salvation theology to an inability fully to face the depths of human suffering -- Though Nietzsches powerful attack upon Christianity has remained influential for over a century, few have attempted to mount a sustained theological critique of his thought -- Redeeming Nietzsche challenges assumptions of Nietzsches secularity and opens up a new front in Nietzsche scholarship. O Zarathustra, you are more pious than you believe, with such unbelief! Some god in you has converted you to your goodness. (Thus Spake Zarathustra) Best known for having declared the death of God, Nietzsche was a thinker thoroughly absorbed in the Christian tradition in which he was born and raised. Yet while the atheist Nietzsche is well known, the pious Nietzsche is seldom recognised and rarely understood. Redeeming Nietzsche examines the residual theologian in the most vociferous of atheists. Fraser demonstrates that although Nietzsche rejected God, he remained obsessed with the question of human salvation. Examining his accounts of art, truth, morality and eternity, Nietzsches thought is revealed to be a series of experiments in redemption. However, when placed in direct confrontation with the enormity of modern understandings of destruction, Nietzsches prescriptions for human salvation look like the imaginings of a more comfortable age. Drawing upon the work of Kundera, Nussbaum, Girard and Cavell, Fraser traces the successive failures of Nietzsches salvation theology to an inability fully to face the depths of human suffering. Though Nietzsches powerful attack upon Christianity has remained influential for over a century, few have attempted to mount a sustained theological critique of his thought. Redeeming Nietzsche challenges assumptions of Nietzsches secularity and opens up a new front in Nietzsche scholarship.
Author: Thomas Schuttenhelm
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With extracts from the composers letters, writings, interviews and broadcasts, and supported by evidence from his sketchbooks and manuscripts, The Orchestral Music of Michael Tippett explores Tippetts intentions and argues that the experiences that triggered his creative impulses are integral to understanding his music. In his discussion of Tippetts creative process, Thomas Schuttenhelm attempts to recapture the circumstances under which Tippetts orchestral works were created, to document how his visionary aspirations were developed and sustained throughout the creative cycle, and to chart how conception was transmuted from idea through to performance. Analysing Tippetts orchestral works throughout his long career, from the Symphonic Movement of 1931 to his final masterpiece The Rose Lake in 19913, Schuttenhelm explores each work in detail to provide a comprehensive commentary on one of the most influential British composers of the twentieth century.
Author: Craig Clunas
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Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy relatives of the emperors in Ming dynasty China (13681644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently-excavated tombs, this innovative study puts the aristocracy back at the heart of accounts of Chinas culture, from which they have been excluded until very recently. Screen of Kings challenges much of the received wisdom about Ming China. Craig Clunas sheds new light on many familiar artworks, as well as work that have never before been reproduced. New archaeological discoveries have furnished the author with evidence of the lavish and spectacular lifestyles of these provincial princes and demonstrate how central the imperial family was to the high culture of the Ming era.Written by the leading specialist in the art and culture of the Ming period, this book will illuminate a key aspect of Chinas past, and will significantly alter our understanding of the Ming. It will be enjoyed by anyone with a serious interest in the history and art of this great civilization.**
Author: Rachel Kushner
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From the National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castros revolutiona place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. The first novel to tell the story of the Americans who were driven out in 1958, this is a masterful debut with a unique and necessary lens into US-Cuba relations. Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdomthree hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a childs dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around themthe mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana, a thousand kilometers and a world away from the American colony, a cabaret dancer meets a French agitator named Christian de La Maziere, whose seductive demeanor cant mask his shameful past. Together they become enmeshed in the brewing political underground. When Fidel and Raul Castro lead a revolt from the mountains above the cane plantation, torching the sugar and kidnapping a boat full of yanqui revelers, K.C. and Everly begin to discover the brutality that keeps the colony humming. Though their parents remain blissfully untouched by the forces of history, the children hear the whispers of what is to come. Kushners first novel is a tour de force, haunting and compelling, with the urgency of a telex from a forgotten time and place. **
Author: Paul D. Tieger
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In business & in life, communication is the key tto success. And, as made clear in this book, learning to use the power of Personality Type is the key to communicating more effectively. Now in the same successful format as the bestsellers Do What You Are & Nurture by Nature, The Art of Speed Reading People offers a revolutionary new tool for sizing up people & speaking their language. A salesperson pitching a customer. A manager trying to motivate an employee. A teacher attempting to make a point with a student. In any of these situations, the power to read another person can be a powerful advantage. Drawing on the same scientifically validated Personality Type model that many Fortune 500 companies use, this book shows how anyone can quickly identify key personality characteristics through a persons appearance, vocabulary, body language, occupation, education, & interests. The Art of SpeedReading People is the ultimate communication resource - the next best thing to having X-ray vision. **Amazon.com Review Do you communicate ineffectively with some people and powerfully with others? The reason may be a difference in personalities and communication preferences. The Art of Speedreading People is a crash course in communication strategies, showing you how to observe behavioral clues to gain valuable insights into peoples personalities and communication styles. The result you become a more effective and convincing communicator, and you are more likely to receive the response you want. This book is like a practical communications seminar based on the psychology model called Personality Typing, which is focused on identifying key personality traits in order to communicate most effectively. First, you analyze your own personality type and determine your placement on the scales of extrovertintrovert, sensorintuitive, thinkingfeeling, and judgingperceiving. The book then teaches you about the clues that indicate other peoples personality type, including speaking style, body language, and occupation. You test yourself by reading a few scenarios and personality typing the characters described. You put the system to work by learning approaches to speedreading people in person and on the phone using skill-building exercises. Finally, you learn how to communicate effectively with people who are a different type or temperament than you. The Art of Speedreading People is intriguing and useful, especially for those who work in a sales, service, teaching, or managerial position, or any job where effective and positive communication is paramount. From Booklist The authors have taken a well-respected aspect of psychology called personality typing and devised the art of speed reading people as a powerful tool for quickly and accurately identifying key personality traits for effective communication. The book also serves as an infomercial for the authors consulting practice. Tieger and Barron-Tieger aim to accurately identify key characteristics of personality that are present in all people, through understanding how people are energized, what kind of information they naturally notice and remember, how they make decisions, and how they organize the world around them. The first section of the book is devoted to the underlying principles of personality type, the second section addresses communicating with people in their favorite style, and the final section deals with understanding and appreciating the subtleties and preferred communication styles of the 16 types identified by the concept of personality type. Although some readers may not agree with all of the authors views, this book provides useful insight into the ongoing challenge of effective communication. Mary Whaley
Author: Chloe A. Gill-Khan
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After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nations with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of integration, have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities at this present time, the Muslim. The argument of this book, therefore, is a question despite the legal, political and social commitments that emerged from the events of the Holocaust, why do both nations continue to govern minorities on the sites of the law and race? Through comparative readings of British Asian and Franco-Maghrebian literatures, the author examines the contours and patterns of British and French post-war governance and racism over four decades. Departing from prevailing theories in postcolonial studies that situate post-war racism within the narrative of colonialism or the politics of the nation-state, The Politics of Integration shows how we must re-appraise the inter-war histories of minorities if we are to ask more meaningful questions about the present. We are invited to take stock of how well theorization of post-war ethnic populations and their politics have served us in terms of asking what does history tell us, and how and where do we - Europe and its minorities - go from here? As such, the book will appeal to scholars in multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences such as history, philosophy, literature, cultural and postcolonial studies. **About the Author Chloe A. Gill-Khan is Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, The Aga Khan University, London. Previously, she was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Author: Carl B. Boyer
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Boyer and Merzbach distill thousands of years of mathematics into this fascinating chronicle. From the Greeks to Godel, the mathematics is brilliant the cast of characters is distinguished the ebb and flow of ideas is everywhere evident. And, while tracing the development of European mathematics, the authors do not overlook the contributions of Chinese, Indian, and Arabic civilizations. Without doubt, this is--and will long remain--a classic one-volume history of mathematics and mathematicians who create it. --William Dunham Author, Journey Through Genius, The Great Theorems of Mathematics When we read a book like A History of Mathematics, we get the picture of a mounting structure, ever taller and broader and more beautiful and magnificent--and with a foundation, moreover, that is as untainted and as functional now as it was when Thales worked out the first geometrical theorems nearly 26 centuries ago. --From the Foreword by Isaac Asimov One of the most useful and comprehensive general introductions to the subject. --J. W. Dauben The City University of New York Both readable and scholarly, this book can serve as a fine introduction to the topic and also a reference book. --J. David Bolter University of North Carolina Author of Turings Man Revised to make it more accessible to a general audience, A History of Mathematics paints a vivid picture of humankinds relationship with numbers. Updated and expanded, it now offers broadened coverage of twentieth century advances in probability and computers, and updated references to further reading. A feature that will be of interest to every reader is an appendix containing an extensive chronological table of mathematical and general historical developments.
Author: John M. Headley
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The Europeanization of the World puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the unique gifts it has bequeathed to the world-in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy-at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. John Headley argues that the Renaissance and the Reformation provided the effective currents for the development of two distinctive political ideas. The first is the idea of a common humanity, derived from antiquity, developed through natural law, and worked out in the new emerging global context to provide the basis for todays concept of universal human rights. The second is the idea of political dissent, first posited in the course of the Protestant Reformation and later maturing in the politics of the British monarchy. Headley traces the development and implications of this first idea from antiquity to the present. He examines the English revolution of 1688 and party government in Britain and America into the early nineteenth century. And he challenges the now--common stance in historical studies of moral posturing against the West. Headley contends that these unique ideas are Western civilizations most precious export, however presently distorted. Certainly European culture has its dark side--Auschwitz is but one example. Yet as Headley shows, no other civilization in history has bequeathed so sustained a tradition of universalizing aspirations as the West. The Europeanization of the World makes an argument that is controversial but long overdue. Written by one of our preeminent scholars of the Renaissance and Reformation, this elegantly reasoned book is certain to spark a much-needed reappraisal of the Western tradition. **Review Headley flies in the face of post-1960s criticism of the West to argue that the Renaissance and the Reformation laid the groundwork for the worlds present understanding of human rights and constitutional democracy. . . . Headley offers considerable evidence for these Western contributions to pushing diverse cultures toward a new, globalized way of life. . . . In a brief epilogue, [he] sets aside his scholarly mien to launch a devastating critique of American policies at home and abroad since 2001. . . . A densely written defense of the Western tradition.--*Kirkus Reviews* This is a provocative, compelling, and successful book that traces the culture-transcending qualities of the idea of a common humanity and political dissent in Europe. . . . Balanced and deeply intelligent, Headleys book recasts the role of European civilization in shaping our future.--A.R. Brunello, *Choice* John Headleys lucid study of the intellectual origins of human rights and democracy in the European tradition rewards the careful reader. . . . Headley has written an excellent book, penetrating and well-written. The two sections on the United States described above arc in brief, isolated sections, and have little to do with the rest of the book. The reader stands to gain a great deal from this senior scholars broad analysis of these distinctly European values.--John F. Kicza, *Renaissance Quarterly* There is much in this book for Renaissance scholars, historical sociologists, and students of contemporary history. For the . . . historically oriented sociologist, the book is an important contribution to understanding the European heritage.--Gerard Delanty, *American Historical Review* From the Inside Flap A wonderful book! The author dives deep into his extensive work on the Renaissance in order to explore the roots of human rights and democracy in the European heritage, and then extends his insights into the contemporary period. The scholarship and theoretical sophistication make this book a must-read for all thoughtful people, especially those concerned with political theory and globalization.--Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology This is an important book. The argument that there is something unique about European civilization from a global perspective is highly relevant to contemporary political and cultural debate. The scholarship placing the sources of this uniqueness in the history of the European Renaissance as it encountered and conceptualized other worlds is of the first order.--Joan-Pau Rubies, London School of Economics and Political Science This is a short book that addresses a very large topic. It is an exceedingly fair-minded, judicious, and learned attempt to deal with an important and controversial topic, and it treats the matter in a challenging and thought-provoking fashion. My judgment is that Professor Headley has succeeded admirably.--Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa
Author: Suzanne Macleod
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Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and shaping of museums.Museum Making Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions examines this re-making by exploring the inherently spatial character of narrative in the museum and its potential to connect on the deepest levels with human perception and imagination. Through this uniting theme, the chapters explore the power of narratives as structured experiences unfolding in space and time as well as the use of theatre, film and other technologies of storytelling by contemporary museum makers to generate meaningful and, it is argued here, highly effective and affective museum spaces. Contributions by an internationally diverse group of museum and heritage professionals, exhibition designers, architects and artists with academics from a range of disciplines including museum studies, theatre studies, architecture, design and history cut across traditional boundaries including the historical and the contemporary and together explore the various roles and functions of narrative as a mechanism for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive environments.About the AuthorSuzanne MacLeod is Senior Lecturer in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.Laura Hourston Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham.Jonathan Hale is an architect and Reader in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham.
Author: Nigel Edley
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Men and Masculinity The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity which outlines the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. Providing readers with a framework for understanding these issues, it explores the ways that masculinity has been understood in the Social Sciences and Humanities to date. Addressing theories which view masculinity as being in a permanent state of flux and crisis, it explores such problem areas as ul lthe male body l lmen and work l lmen and fatherhood l lmale sexuality l lmale violence. l ul With a glossary of key terms, case studies reflecting the most important studies in the field of masculinity research and suggestions for further study, Men and Masculinity The Basics is an essential read for anyone approaching the study of masculinity for the first time. **