Reception History, Tradition and Biblical Interpretation: Gadamer and Jauss in Current Practice
Author: Robert Evans File Type: pdf This study seeks to make a contribution to current debates about the nature of Wirkungsgeschichte or reception history and its place in contemporary Biblical Studies. The author addresses three crucial questions the relationship between reception history and historical-critical exegesis the form of reception history itself, with a focus on the issue of which acts of reception are selected and valorized and the role of tradition, pre-judgements and theology in relation to reception history. Disagreements about these matters contribute to what many characterise as the fragmentation of the discipline of biblical studies. The study champions the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer as a theoretical resource for understanding biblical interpretation, and a way of holding together with integrity the varied activities undertaken within the discipline. Each aspect of the argument is illustrated, tested and further explored with reference to the post-history of exhortations in the New Testament to be subject. These have been widely cited and applied for 2,000 years in literature, law and politics as well as in theological traditions. In this way the study makes a contribution not just to the theory but also the practice of reception history. **
Author: Franco Berardi Bifo
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IAfter the FutureI explores a century-long obsession with the concept of the future, starting with Marinettis Futurist Manifesto, tracing it through the punk movement of the early 70s, and into the media revolution of the 90s. The future, Bifo argues, has come and gone, the concept has lost its usefulness. Now its our responsibility to decide what comes next.
Author: Michael Kinsley
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A lucid deconstruction of the politics and public figures shaping the social, financial, and military disasters of our times.This selection of Michael Kinsleys trenchant editorial writing in Slate (and elsewhere) since 1995 covers the end of the Clinton era (Monica, impeachment, etc.) and two terms of George W. Bush (911, the War on Terror, Iraq, etc.).During this time Kinsley left Washington for Seattle and founded Slate, was opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, underwent brain surgery for Parkinsons disease, and had other adventures that are reflected here. Although mostly about politics, there are articles and essays about other things, such as the future of newspapers, the existence of God, and why power women love Law and Order.This is the work of a writer at the top of his form. Kinsleys wit is a weapon that any talk-show host or elected blowhard should envy and fear, and the reader will cherish his sense of humor, which enlivens even the toughest subject matter.**
Author: Karen O. Wallace
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The mystery of Art Therapy is demystified in this book as the author offers an illuminating glimpse into her therapy practice. The author is deeply immersed in her own creative process and the respect, delicacy, and understanding that she provides her clients shines through. The poems embrace the painful aspects of her clients lives and show how by working skillfully and creatively with trauma, abuse and mental illness, her clients move forward into joy, well-being and wholeness. Her poetic reflections move us to appreciate how art can be used as an instrument of transformation by travelling through landscapes where words cannot go. Art is unique in its ability to embrace and communicate complex, deep, and subtle aspects of emotional experience. And often the best way to reflect upon and understand these artistic processes is to respond to them with more, in the same medium or a different one. Karen Wallace convincingly does both in There Is No Need to Talk about This Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio. Artistic expressions and images are apt to be a few steps ahead of the analytic minds way of sorting things out. As an art therapist, she responds to visual imagery and studio environment by writing poems. Aligned with how perception and sensibility work, this language arguably offers a fuller sense of multifaceted processes of arts therapy than conventional clinical narratives. Poems hold contradictions, pare down excess verbiage, distill seeds, and speakThe thoughts of humanness that mattered. This book will help therapists and researchers gain a more complete comprehension of their work and do something creative and life enhancing with the feelings it generates in them - living the process themselves as the most reliable way to bring it to others. - Shaun McNiff is Lesley Universitys first University Professor and author of many books including Imagination in Action Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression and Art as Research Karen Wallaces There Is No Need to Talk about This Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio is a profoundly moving work, therapeutic, evocative, wise, tender, feeling. It is painfully evocative in its words and imagery. There are lessons here for any reader who has ever had to look deeply into the darkness that lurks beneath the traumas of daily life. Karen Wallace teaches all of how to heal, how to love, how to move forward with dignity, and courage. - Norman Denzin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Editor of Qualitative Inquiry and International Review of Qualitative Research Our son Connor has autism and he saw Karen Wallace for art therapy for several years as a teen. Once he said, Karen is the only one who understands me. She worked through many issues with him and helped us as parents decode his obsession with monsters. This book provides a glimpse into the genuine caring that Karen Wallace feels for every client lucky enough to see her. - Kellie Garrett, ACC, MC, ICD.D, Speaker ~ Coach ~ Strategist **
Author: Luis Jerónimo de Oré
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Few English-speaking readers are familiar with the life or the writings of the sixteenth-century Franciscan chronicler Luis Jeronimo de Ore, particularly his neglected Relacion, about the early Spanish presence in territories now part of the United States. His account of La Floridaan area that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries included present-day Florida as well as territory north to Virginia and west into Kansasreflects the desire of the Spanish Crown and various religious orders to explore and to establish a presence in the region. This edition of Luis Jeronimo de Ores work presents readers with a new introduction and an annotated translation that place the text in the broader context of international politics. The narrative develops our understanding of the early Spanish presence in the continental United States while documenting frontier life and the contacts with Native Americans in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard. **
Author: Dante
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Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dantes juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy. Patrick Diehls translation offers in a single volume the bulk of Dantes shorter poetry. The collection, omitting only those poems Dante incorporated into the Vila nuova, contains several masterpieces of medieval poetry and gives us a fascinating look at the poets development. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. **Language Notes Text English, Italian
Author: Ron Sun
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This book is a definitive reference source for the growing, increasingly more important, and interdisciplinary field of computational cognitive modeling, that is, computational psychology. It combines breadth of coverage with definitive statements by leading scientists in this field. Research in computational cognitive modeling explores the essence of cognition and various cognitive functionalities through developing detailed, process-based understanding by specifying computational mechanisms, structures, and processes. Given the complexity of the human mind and its manifestation in behavioral flexibility, process-based computational models may be necessary to explicate and elucidate the intricate details of the mind. The key to understanding cognitive processes is often in fine details. Computational models provide algorithmic specificity detailed, exactly specified, and carefully thought-out steps, arranged in precise yet flexible sequences. These models provide both conceptual clarity and precision at the same time. This book substantiates this approach through overviews and many examples.
Author: Pak Chega
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Two years after Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chegas (17501805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. Both books presented notions of wealth and the economy for critical review the former caused a stir across Europe, the latter influenced only a modest group of Choson (13921897) Korea scholars and other intellectuals. Nevertheless, the ideas of both thinkers closely reflected the spirit of their times and helped define certain schools of thoughtin the case of Pak, Northern Learning (Pukhak), which disparaged the Choson Neo-Confucian state ideology as inert and ineffective. Years of humiliation and resentment against the conquering Manchus blinded many Korean elites to the scientific and technological advances made in Qing China (16441911). They despised its rulers as barbarians and begrudged Qing Chinas status as their suzerain state. But Pak saw Koreas northern neighbor as a model of economic and social reform. He and like-minded progressives discussed and corroborated views about the superiority of Chinas civilization. After traveling to Beijing in 1776, Pak wrote Discourse on Northern Learning , in which he favorably introduced many aspects of Chinas economy and culture. By comparison, he argued, Koreas economy was depressed, the result of inadequate government policies and the selfishness of a privileged upper class. He called for drastic reforms in agriculture and industry and for opening the country to international trade. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and in the many details he supplies on Chinese farming, trade, and other commercial activities, his work provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China. Students and specialists of Korean history, particularly social reform movements, and Choson-Qing relations will welcome this new translation.
Author: Eugene Ford
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The groundbreaking account of U.S. clandestine efforts to use Southeast Asian Buddhism to advance Washingtons anticommunist goals during the Cold War How did the U.S. government make use of a Buddhist policy in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented range of U.S. and Thai sources and conducted numerous oral history interviews with key informants. Ford uncovers a riveting story filled with U.S. national security officials, diplomats, and scholars seeking to understand and build relationships within the Buddhist monasteries of Southeast Asia. This fascinating narrative provides a new look at how the Buddhist leaderships of Thailand and its neighbors became enmeshed in Cold War politics and in the U.S. governments clandestine efforts to use a predominant religion of Southeast Asia as an instrument of national stability to counter communist revolution. **
Author: NSVRC
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A project of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against RapeChild sexual abuse violates the trust, safetyand age-appropriate development thatshould be a natural part of each childs life.Even worse, this especially offensive crime ismost commonly committed by adultsknown to the child, in fact, often by thosevery people entrusted with the childs care.Its frequency and deeply harmful impactmake it one of our most heinous socialproblems with heartbreaking long-termcosts and consequences for individuals,families and communities.