Author: Simon Clarke
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The theory of crisis has always played a central role within Marxism, and yet has been one of its weakest elements. Simon Clarkes important new book provides the first systematic account of Marxs own writings on crisis, examining the theory within the context of Marxs critique of political economy and of the dynamics of capitalism. The book concentrates on the scientific interpretation and evaluation of the theory of crisis, and will be of interest to mainstream economists, as well as to sociologists, political scientists and students of Marx and Marxism.
Author: Michael Tomko
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The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic periods most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic periods most contentious issues.ReviewThe meticulous research and probing readings in Michael Tomkos book show how unsettling the issue of Catholic Emancipation was for the major writers of the Romantic periods. It is a stunning contribution to our larger sense of the complexity surrounding issues of toleration and secularization still more, it makes the most convincing case yet for Catholicisms centrality in Romantic politics and literary production. -- Professor Mark Canuel, University of Illinois at ChicagoAbout the AuthorMICHAEL TOMKO Assistant Professor of Literature in the department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA. He holds degrees in English literature from Swarthmore College, Oxford University, and the University of Notre Dame. His writing on the intersection of politics, religion, and romantic literature has appeared in Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation, European Romantic Review, Victorian Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle.
Author: James Nisbet
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div contentInfoDiv Winter 2013, No. 50, Pages 66-89 Posted Online January 22, 2013. div (doi10.1162GREY_a_00096) 2013 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. div htmlContentp fulltexth1 arttitlediv hlFld-TitleA Brief Moment in the History of Photo-Energy Walter De Marias Lightning Fieldh1div artAuthorsdiv hlFld-ContribAuthorspan hlFld-ContribAuthor James Nisbetspanp fulltext nospacebJames Nisbetb is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Senses of Ecology in the Art of the 1960s and 1970s.
Author: Myrto Garani
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Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius applause for his Presocratic predecessors praeclara reperta (DRN 1.732). In the present study, Garani suggests that by praising Empedocles discoveries, Lucretius points to his predecessors epistemological methods of inquiry concerning the unseen, methods upon which he himself draws extensively and creatively enhances. In this way, he successfully penetrates into the invisible natural world, deciphers its secrets, and thus liberates his pupil from superstitious fears about death and physical phenomena. To justify this proposition, Garani undertakes a systematic analysis of Lucretius integration of Empedocles methods of creating analogies in the form of literary devices -- personifications, similes, and metaphors -- and demonstrates that his intertextual engagement with Empedocles philosophical poem is direct and intensive at both the poetic and the philosophical levels.
Author: Robert N. McCauley
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Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson are considered the founders of the field of the cognitive science of religion. Since its inception over twenty years ago, the cognitive science of religion has raised questions about the philosophical foundations and implications of such a scientific approach. This volume from McCauley, including chapters co-authored by Lawson, is the first book-length project to focus on such questions, resulting in a compelling volume that addresses fundamental questions that any scholar of religion should ask. The essays collected in this volume are those that initially defined this scientific field for the study of religion. These essays deal with issues of methodology, reductionism, resistance to the scientific study of religion, and other criticisms that have been lodged against the cognitive science of religion. The new final chapter sees McCauley reflect on developments in this field since its founding. Tackling these debates head on and in one place for the first time, this volume belongs on the shelf of every researcher interested in this now established approach to the study of religion within a range of disciplines, including religious studies, philosophy, anthropology and the psychology of religion.**ReviewThis collection of influential essays in the cognitive science of religion builds a compelling case for explanatory pluralism, advocating science (to redress an imbalance in religious studies) but not scientism, methodological eclecticism not exclusivism, and (at times) reductionism but not eliminativism. McCauley writes with characteristic clarity, pace, balance, and passion. This book should be obligatory reading not only for religion scholars but for everyone in the humanities and social sciences. Harvey Whitehouse, Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK From the nestors of the cognitive science of religion (CSR), their long-awaited methodological and philosophical reflections on the foundations of CSR. They represent and embody the admirable multidisciplinary competence so necessary in analyzing religion. In the face of disciplinary snubs from conservative circles, McCauley and Lawson have forged their own path with zeal, good humor and philosophical savvy. This collection of essays is fitting witness to their visions of a new science. Armin W. Geertz, Professor of the History of Religions, Aarhus University, Denmark About the AuthorRobert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy, as well as Associated Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Anthropology, in the Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture, at Emory University, USA. E. Thomas Lawson is Honorary Professor and Research Scientist at the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University-Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Department for Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University, USA.
Author: Richard G. M. Morris
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This book presents an overview of the exciting, truly multidisciplinary research by neuroscientists and systems engineers in the emerging field of cognitive systems, providing a cross-disciplinary examination of this cutting-edge area of scientific research. This is a great example of where research in very different disciplines touches to create a new emerging area of research. The book illustrates some of the technical developments that could arise from our growing understanding of how living cognitive systems behave, and the ability to use that knowledge in the design of artificial systems. This unique book is of considerable interest to researchers and students in information science, neuroscience, psychology, engineering and adjacent fields. Represents a remarkable collection of relevant experts from both the life sciences and computer science Includes state-of-the-art reviews of topics in cognitive systems from both a life sciences and a computer science perspective Discusses the impact of this research on our lives in the near future**
Author: Stefan Kieniewicz
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Captured in this study are the complexity and fascination of one hundred and fifty years of Polish political, cultural, and socioeconmic history. The author traces the course of peasant emancipation in Poland from its beginnings during the Enlightenment to its aftermath in the cultural awakening of the peasantry during the half century prior to World War I and shows how the peasant question played a vital role in the struggle for independence in partitioned Poland. The book synthesizes, for the first time in any language, the work of leading Polish historians during the present century. It presents a clear analysis of the disintegration of the economic system based on serfdom and compulsory labor prevalent in feudal Poland and traces the emergence of modern capitalist conditions, including wage labor and independent property rights. Also analyzed is the role of foreign goverments in the emacipation process. The freeing of the serfs took place during a period when all or most of the country was under the rule of Russia, Prussia, or Austria. Although emancipation was due primarily to economic forces withing Poland, it was hastened by peasant resistance and the national struggle for political independence led by Polish patriots who demanded far-reaching social reforms. This comprehensive study provides valuable information not only to those with a particular interest in Poland but also to scholars concerned with the parallel problems in Russia andother Eastern Eurpean countries, to specialists in agrarian history, and to students of Eastern European history who lack adequate reading materials in English. **
Author: Various
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Lectures given at Columbia University 19091910bIntroductionbApproaches to Literature (Brander Matthews)bOriental LiteraturesbSemitic Literatures (Richard J. H. Gottheil)The Literature of India and Persia (A. V. W. Jackson)Chinese Literature (Friedrich Hirth)bClassical LiteraturesbGreek Literature (Edward Delavan Perry)Latin Literature (Nelseon Glenn McCrea)bLiterary EpochsbThe Middle Ages (William Witherle Lawrence)The Renaissance (Jefferson B. Fletcher)The Classical Rule (John Erskine)The Romantic Emancipation (Curtis Hidden Page)bModern LiteraturesbItalian Literature in the Eighteenth Century (Carlo L. Speranza)Spanish Literature (Henry Alfred Todd)English Literature (Ashley H. Thorndike)French Literature (Adolphe Cohn)German Literature (Calvin Thomas)Russian Literature (J. A. Joffe)The Cosmopolitan Outlook (Willam P. Trent)bConclusionbLiterary Criticism (J. E. Springarn)