Author: Michael Allen Gillespie File Type: pdf In this wide-ranging and thoughtful study, Michael Allen Gillespie explores the philosophical foundation, or ground, of the concept of history. Analyzing the historical conflict between human nature and freedom, he centers his discussion on Hegel and Heidegger but also draws on the pertinent thought of other philosophers whose contributions to the debate is crucialparticularly Rousseau, Kant, and Nietzsche.

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Author: Abe Kobo File Type: epub Following his nations defeat in the Pacific War, Kuki Kyuzo, a Japanese youth, struggles to return home to Japan from Manchuria. What follows is a wild journey involving drugs, smuggling, chases, and capture. Kyuzo finally makes his way back to Japan but finds himself unable to disembark. His nation remains inaccessible to him, and now he questions its very existence. Beasts Head for Home is an acute novel of identity, belonging, and the vagaries of human behavior from an exceptional Japanese modern author.**ReviewAbe Kobo is one of the most respected postwar Japanese fiction writers and internationally recognized for the unique style, philosophical depth, and experimental quality of his fiction. Although Beasts Head for Home is not one of Abes most well-known works, readers will be eager to see how he wrote about an important historical moment from an essentially realist perspective. An excellent translation of a novel in need of an English-language version. (Travis Workman, author of Imperial Genus The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan) The earliest work by one of Japans foremost writers to appear in English, Beasts Head for Home tells the story of a young Japanese man who undertakes a harrowing journey in an attempt to reach Japan after the collapse of the Japanese Empire. The story is particularly affecting to read in this historical moment with so much forced migration all over the world. Calichmans translation is flawless. (J. Keith Vincent, translator of Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki) Calichmans superb translation of Abes semiautobiographical novel brings us a Kafkaesque world of displacement where settlers of Manchuria undergo the loss of home, identity, and belonging after the collapse of the Japanese empire. Beasts Head for Home is a haunting and gripping story and an indispensable read for anyone interested in postcolonial studies, settler colonial studies, and the history of empire. (Katsuya Hirano, author of The Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan ) With subtle echoes of a samurai classic, Abes autobiographical novel is a memorable portrait of statelessness, exile, and wandering. (Kirkus Reviews) This novel is an excellent entry point into Abes writing, with much of his signature tone and style. He is a master of controlling the readers emotional investment while crafting an increasingly suffocating atmosphere of dread, resulting in a devastating reading experience. (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) In a time when the world is increasingly faced with an obsession with borders and anxieties regarding what is called the refugee crisis, this timely new translation of Kobo Abes novel provides a necessary coming to terms with the experience of the ravages of war on the displaced. . . . Abe exposes the very fluidity with which our sense of belongingness, even ownership, must continually be tested and reckoned with. (Lawrence Lacambra Ypil Cha An Asian Literary Journal) An excellent introduction to Abes work. (Tonys Reading List) Beasts Head for Home is as riveting and as unforgiving as the frigid Civil War wilderness in which it is set. (Peter Gordon Asian Review of Books) About the AuthorAbe Kobo (19241993) was one of Japans greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative fiction and plays of the absurd. Richard F. Calichman is professor of Japanese studies at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is also the translator and editor of The Frontier Within Essays by Abe Kobo (Columbia, 2013).

Author: Marcus Moberg File Type: pdf Christian metal has always defined itself in contrast to its non-Christian, secular counterpart, yet it stands out from nearly all other forms of contemporary Christian music through its unreserved use of metals main musical, visual, and aesthetic traits. Christian metal is a rare example of a direct combination between evangelical Christianity and an aggressive and highly controversial form of popular music and its culture. Christian Metal History, Ideology, Scene is the first full exploration of the phenomenon of Christian metal music, its history, main characteristics, development, diversification, and key ideological traits from its formative years in the early 1980s to the present day. Marcus Moberg situates it in a wider international evangelical cultural environment, accounts for its diffusion on a transnational scale, and explores what religious meanings and functions Christian metal holds for its own musicians and followers. Engaging with wider debates on religion, media and popular culture, Christian Metal History, Ideology and Scene is a much-needed resource in the study of religion and popular music. **