Author: Fredric Jameson File Type: pdf Now in paperback, Fredric Jamesons most wide-ranging work seeks to crystallize a definition of postmodernism. Jamesons inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from high art to low from market ideology to architecture, from painting to punk film, from video art to literature. **Review Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as Americas most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism) and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study.Jonathan Arac A classic of late 20th-century Euroamerican critical thought. (Ned Lukacher, Choice) An encyclopedic grasp of modern culture. (Stuart Hall, Marxism Today) For anybody hoping to understand not just the cultural but the political and social implications of postmodernism . . . Jamesons book is a fundamental, nonpareil text. (Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times (London)) Fredric Jameson is Americas leading Marxist critic, a prodigiously energetic thinker whose writings sweep magisterially from Sophocles to science fiction. . . . Postmodernism is an intellectual blockbuster. (Terry Eagleton, The Irish Times) No one theorist illustrates the recent history of postmodernisms history so well as Fredric Jameson. (Michael Berube, Voice Literary Supplement) The scope and profundity of Postmodernism, covering theory, architecture, film, video, and economics, is truly staggering. . . . Brilliant . . . (Siauddin Sardar, The Independent (London)) From the Back Cover Fredric Jameson, internationally recognized as a literary theorist and as Americas most notable Marxist intellectual, has established a leading place in discussions of postmodernism. Jameson brings to the subject an immense range of reference both to artworks and to theoretical discussions a strong hypothesis linking cultural changes to changes in the place of culture within the whole structure of life produced by a new phase of economic history (multinational capitalism) and a severely scholarly wish to analyze and understand, rather than praise or blame, the object of his study.--Jonathan Arac

Author: John Henry McDowell File Type: pdf This volume collects some of John McDowells influential papers, written at various times over the last two decades. One group of essays deals mainly with issues in the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato. A second group of papers contains more direct treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Some of the essays in the second group exploit Wittgensteinian ideas about reason in action, and they open into the third group of papers, which contains readings of central elements in Wittgensteins difficult later work. A fourth group deals with issues in the philosophy of mind and with questions about personal identity and the special character of first-personal thought and speech. ReviewIn a characteristic passage...[McDowell] is discussing knowledge, but the passage could stand at the head of almost any of the immensely influential essays collected in these two volumes. Reading them together, one is struck by how much they have in common, despite the breadth of issues that they address, ranging from ethics to metaphysics, the theory of knowledge, mind, and language. Time and again, McDowell aims to dissolve a philosophical problem by showing that it rests on a false assumption...What form do McDowells exorcisms take? They vary, of course, to suit the nature of the problem addressed. But there is a typical McDowellian move, which consists of the rejection of an approach that is so pervasive in contemporary philosophical thinking as to seem inescapable. This approach involves treating such phenomena as perception, knowledge, memory, and the content of thought as composite as consisting of different factors that can obtain independently. And part of the reason why this approach can seem so inescapable is that it starts with reflections that are no more than common sense.--Richard Holton (Times Literary Supplement ) About the AuthorJohn McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Author: David Nicolle File Type: pdf Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of France, that endured throughout the Middle Ages whilst the Byzantine Empire was even more extensive and enduring. The Serbians won themselves a brief but extensive local empire in the 14th century while the Bulgarians established an effective and cultured state. Other players in the confusing Balkan scene included the Albanians Wallachians Moldavians Transylvanians Croatians and many others. How did they organise their armies and fight their wars and why did they ultimately fail? This title answers these questions ably supported by numerous illustrations and eight colour plates.From the PublisherPacked with specially commissioned artwork, maps and diagrams, the Men-at-Arms series is an unrivalled illustrated reference on the history, organisation, uniforms and equipment of the worlds military forces, past and present. About the AuthorDavid Nicolle PhD was born in 1944 and was educated at Highgate School. For eight years he worked in the BBC Arabic Service. In 1971 he went back to school, gaining an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a PhD from Edinburgh University. For some years he taught art and architectural history at Yarmuk University, Jordan. David has written many Osprey titles, including MAA 140 Armies of the Ottoman Turks, MAA 320 Armies of the Caliphates 8621098, and Campaign 43 Fornovo 1495.

Author: Charles H. Talbert File Type: pdf Answers to the usual introductory questions do not yield sufficient harvest to enable an intelligent reading of Acts. The approach of Reading Acts is to ask how ancient Mediterranean auditors would have heard Acts when it was read in their presence. To be successful Talbert divides this approach into two parts- how Acts would have been heard in its precanonical context and in its canonical context.