Basic concepts of Ancient Philosophy

"Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy" presents a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger in 1926 at the University of Marburg. First published in German as volume 22 of the "Collected Works", the book provides Heidegger's most systematic history of Ancient philosophy beginning with Thales ...

Museum and difference

Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference - notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race - have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. "Museums and Difference" offers the perspectives of ...

Kant and the new philosophy of religion

While earlier work has emphasized Kant's philosophy of religion as thinly disguised morality, this timely and original reappraisal of Kant's philosophy of religion incorporates recent scholarship in the philosophy of religion, particularly as it touches questions of phenomenology and Christianity. Chris L. Firestone ...

The three Yugoslavias

state-building and legitimation, 1918-2005

Yugoslavia exploded onto the front pages of world newspapers in the early 1990s. The War of Yugoslav Succession of 1991-1995 convinced many that interethnic violence was endemic to politics in Yugoslavia and that the Yugoslav meltdown had occurred because of ancient hatreds. In this thematic ...

Heidegger´s religious origins

destruction and authenticity

In Heidegger's Religious Origins, Benjamin D. Crowe explores the meaning and relevance of Heidegger's early theological development, especially his intellectual ties with Martin Luther. Devoting particular attention to Heidegger's philosophy of religion in the turbulent aftermath of World War I, Crowe shows ...

Using and abusing the Holocaust

In this new volume, Langer - one of the most distinguished scholars writing on Holocaust literature and representation - assesses various literary efforts to establish a place in modern consciousness for the ordeal of those victimized by Nazi Germany's crimes against humanity. Essays discuss the film ...

Flock and flow

predicting and managing change in a dynamic marketplace

Is it possible any longer to "read" markets fast enough to respond to them? A world of discrete parts is now one interconnected web of ceaseless calculation and response. Marketing has become a thing of speed and turbulence, with all the players moving simultaneously. For ...

Heidegger and the greeks

interpretive essays

Martin Heidegger's sustained reflection on Greek thought has been increasingly recognized as a decisive feature of his own philosophical development. At the same time, this important philosophical meeting has generated considerable controversy and disagreement concerning the radical originality of Heidegger's view of the ...

Augustine and postmodernism

confessions and circumfession

Sexing the Church

gender, power and ethics in contemporary catholicism

The regulation of human sexuality in contemporary Catholicism, a topic that monopolizes public conversation about the Catholic Church, is also a central concern of Catholic theological discussions of religious ethics. Aline H. Kalbian traces the history of the connection between moral theology and sexual ethics ...

The Palestinian National Movement

politics of contention, 1967-2005

This innovative study examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. The PLO leadership has sought to prevent the rise of any alternative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that can challenge ...

Modern Algeria

the origins and development of a Nation

The second edition of Modern Algeria brings readers up to date with the outcome of the 2004 Algerian elections. Providing thorough coverage of the 1990s and the end of the Algerian Civil War, it addresses issues such as secularist struggles against fundamentalist Islam, ethnic and ...

Ladino rabbinic literature and Ottoman sephardic culture

In this pathbreaking book, Matthias B. Lehmann explores Ottoman Sephardic culture in an era of change through a close study of popularized rabbinic texts written in Ladino, the vernacular language of the Ottoman Jews. This vernacular literature, standing at the crossroads of rabbinic elite and ...

The question of sacrifice

In this concentrated and detailed look at questions surrounding the act of sacrifice, Dennis King Keenan discusses both the role and meaning of sacrifice in our lives. Building on recent discussions on the gift and transcendence, Keenan covers new ground with this exploration of the ...

The war in the empty air

victims, perpetrators, and postwar germans

Sixty years after the end of World War II, its impact on German civilians remains a subject that is still difficult to broach in public discourse. The war experiences of ordinary Germans have been little studied, as if the memories of the defeated were not ...

The texture of the divine

imagination in medieval islamic and jewish thought

Economics

The text's international perspective has been strengthened and extended to focus on the implications of economic principles for business strategy in an era of global competition. International issues appear consistently throughout the text in examples that illustrate basic economic concepts. In addition, economic data ...

Surmounting the barricades

women in the Paris commune

This book vividly evokes radical women's integral roles within France's revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune. It demonstrates the breadth, depth, and impact of communard feminist socialisms far beyond the 1871 insurrection. Examining the period from the early 1860s through that ...

Environmental justice in America

a new paradigm

Latin America philosophy

currents, issues, debates

The ten essays in this lively anthology move beyond a purely historical consideration of Latin American philosophy to cover recent developments in political and social philosophy as well as innovations in the reception of key philosophical figures from the European Continental tradition. Topics such as ...