Le roi Akhenaton : chronique de l'ancienne Égypte /
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"Les lecteurs ... seront, certes, reconnaissants à madame Weynants-Ronday d'avoir pris la charge ... d'une traduction ..." --Avertissement.
Translation of : King Akhnaton : a chronicle of Ancient Egypt. :
vii, 414 pages, 1 L. ; 20 cm.
Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations /
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In this volume, Costache endeavours to map the world as it was understood and experienced by the early Christians. Progressing from initial fears, they came to adopt a more positive view of the world through successive shifts of perception. This did not happen overnight. Tracing these shifts, Costache considers the world of the early Christians through an interdisciplinary lens, revealing its meaningful complexity. He demonstrates that the early Christian worldview developed at the nexus of several perspectives. What facilitated this process was above all the experience of contemplating nature. When accompanied by genuine personal transformation, natural contemplation fostered the theological interpretation of the world as it had been known to the ancients.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004468344
9789004465954
In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing.
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For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing , contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad's revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur'anic notion of a divine "sign" validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.
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1 online resource. :
9789004382541
Life after God: An Encounter with Postmodernism /
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In this volume, Mark Bevir argues that postfoundationalism is compatible with humanism and historicism. He shows how postmodernists, especially Derrida and Foucault, drew on structuralism and the avant-garde in ways that led them to downplay human agency and historical context. He then explores how we today might recover and rethink humanism and historicism. And, finally, he discusses the critical and ethical practices that such ideas might inspire.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004513556
9789004513549
All Things Arabia : Arabian Identity and Material Culture /
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By employing the innovative lenses of thing theory and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia's things from-cultural objects to commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things-in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004435926
9789004435919
Final Frontiers : Eine Medienarchäologie des Meeres /
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Das Meer ist die größte Medientheoriemaschine der Welt. Denn "Welt" muss auf See immer erst medientechnisch ermöglicht werden. Die primäre Infrastruktur, durch die das Meer operationalisiert und historisiert wird, ist das Schiff. Bernhard Siegerts groß angelegte Medienarchäologie des Meeres handelt vom Schiff und vom Meer als der Final Frontier des menschlichen Habitats, des Rechts, des Krieges, der Ästhetik, des Bildes und des Zeichens, durch die diese ihr eigenes Medienapriori reflektieren. Von der res nullius bis zum Torpedoboot, von der Verstaatlichung des Meeres im niederländischen Seestück bis zur Deterritorialisierung der Signifikanten auf dem Mississippi-Dampfer, vom Urschleim bis zum Nanoplankton, vom Undarstellbaren bis zum Verrat an der symbolischen Ordnung: All diese Figuren des Meeres lassen den medialen (Ab-)grund miterscheinen, durch dessen Ausschluss sie sich konstituieren: sei es die Materialität des Mediums, der Bildgrund, der Pirat, das Rauschen oder der Dreck. See Less
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1 online resource (600 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783846768990