Author: Paul Patton File Type: pdf Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compares their work. This is done via a number of key themes, including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time, event, and love, as well as relating these themes to their respective approaches to Philosophy, Literature, Politics and Mathematics. Contributors Eric Alliez, Branka Arsic, Gregg Lambert, Leonard Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, Tamsin Lorraine, Jeff Nealon, Paul Patton, Arkady Plotnitsky, John Protevi, Daniel W. Smith**

Author: Sunil Khilnani File Type: epub An entertaining and provocative account of Indias past, written by one of the countrys leading thinkersFor all Indias myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, bringing to life fifty extraordinary men and women who changed both India and the world. Journeying across India in pursuit of their storiesvisiting slum temples, ayurvedic call centers, Bollywood studios, textile mills, and Mughal fortressesKhilnani offers trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, artists, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs. Some of these historical figures are famous. Some are unjustly forgotten. And all, Khilnani convinces us, are deeply relevant today. As their rich and surprising lives take the reader through twenty-five hundred winding years of Indian and world history, Khilnani brings wit, feeling, historical rigor, and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.We encounter the Buddha not as the usual beatific icon but as a radical young social critic. We meet the ancient Sanskrit linguist who inspires computer programmers today. We hear the medieval poets, ribald and profound, who mocked rituals and caste and whose voices resonate in contemporary poetry. And we see giants of the twentieth-century Independence movementamong them Mohandas Gandhi Ambedkar, the Untouchable lawyer turned constitution maker and the legendary singer M. S. Subbulakshminot as cardboard cutouts but as complex and striving human beings. At once a provocative and sophisticated reinterpretation of Indias history and an incisive commentary on its present-day conflicts and struggles, Incarnations is an authoritative, sweeping, and often moving account of a nation coming into its own.

Author: James Heft File Type: pdf How do Catholic intellectuals draw on faith in their work? And how does their work as scholars influence their lives as people of faith?For more than a generation, the University of Dayton has invited a prominent Catholic intellectual to present the annual Marianist Award Lecture on the general theme of the encounter of faith and profession. Over the years, the lectures have become central to the Catholic conversation about church, culture, and society.In this book, ten leading figures explore the connections in their own lives between the private realms of faith and their public calling as teachers, scholars, and intellectuals.This last decade of Marianist Lectures brings together theologians and philosophers, historians, anthropologists, academic scholars, and lay intellectuals and critics.Here are Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., on the tensions between faith and theology in his career Jill Ker Conway on the spiritual dimensions of memory and personal narrative Mary Ann Glendon on the roots of human rights in Catholic social teaching Mary Douglas on the fruitful dialogue between religion and anthropology in her own life Peter Steinfels on what it really means to be a liberal Catholic and Margaret OBrien Steinfels on the complicated history of women in todays church. From Charles Taylor and David Tracy on the fractured relationship between Catholicism and modernity to Gustavo Gutierrez on the enduring call of the poor and Marcia Colish on the historic links between the church and intellectual freedom, these essays track a decade of provocative, illuminating, and essential thought. James L. Heft, S.M., is President and Founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and University Professor of Faith and Culture and Chancellor, University of Dayton. He has edited Beyond Violence Religious Sources for Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Fordham). **

Author: Mark Conner File Type: pdf There is currently great interest in how social cognitions are related to health behaviour but - often - little practical understanding of the area. Predicting Health Behaviour brings together current research and practical details of how models of social cognition can be applied in health research. Predicting Health Behaviour provides the theoretical background and examples of how to apply the most common social cognition models to the explanation of health behaviours. Each chapter has been written by key researchers in the area, and they follow a common structure which enables this book to be read as a user-manual. Each chapter provides a general review of relevant research, applying the model to a variety of health behaviours (such as dietary choice, screening behaviour and sex) and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of models including the health belief model, protection motivation theory, the theory of planned behaviour, health locus of control and self-efficacy. The final chapter includes a critique of the general approach, and signposts future directions for research. Predicting Health Behaviour examines how toullassess the advantages and disadvantages of using each of these modelsllappropriately apply each model to their worklladequately analyse and report the resultslulIt will be important reading for health professionals, and researchers and students of health and health psychology.ReviewThe explosion of interest in health psychology means thatmany students and researchers will find it helpful to have a single source for a scholarly review. - British Journal of Developmental Psychology ...will prove helpful for health promoters and others working in the field of health behaviour. - Health Matters ...this book achieves exactly what it set out to do. - British Journal of Educational Psychology ...a really excellent volume which should be owned by all serious health psychologists and should be highly recommended for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health psychology. - Psychology Teaching Review For readers who do not know already- and many do- this is an excellent book...the chapters are all of a very high standard- a testament to the valueof edited books by experienced and active research academics...Ask yourself how many other books have left you knowing more about what theory has contributed to your understanding of health behaviour and wherethe literature is going, and you will appreciate the books distinctive contribution. - British Journal of Health PsychologyThis book would be an excellent place for professionals from fields like nursing, public health, clinical health psychology, and medicine to begin their study of social-cognitive perspectives on health behaviour. The book is also highly recommended for experienced health behaviour researchers, because of its valuable reviews of the theories and research findings and its suggestions for the future. - Journal of Health Psychology