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Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film (1945-1955) /
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Entrenched in the myth of being victim of the Nazi aggression, Austrian elites pursued a politics of memory that symbolically shook off any responsibility for the emergence, development and consequences of National Socialism. Authors of the vast majority of films produced early after 1945 were not interested in dealing with the recent Nazi past of their country. There were, however, exceptions. Through detailed analysis of the narratives, stylistic patterns and reception of films that were set during or immediately after World War II, this book explains how cinema corroborated Austrian national self-stereotypes, at the same time offering a critique of the Nazi regime.
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1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004734630
Plato on democracy and political techne /
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In Plato on Democracy and Political technē Sørensen argues that the question of democracy's 'epistemic potential' was one that Plato took more seriously than is usually assumed. While he famously rejected democracy on the basis of its inherent inability to accommodate political expertise ( technē ), he did not think that this failure on democracy's part was necessarily inevitable but a concept that required further examination. Sørensen shows that in a number of his most important dialogues ( Republic, Gorgias, Statesman, Protagoras, Theaetetus ), Plato was ready to take up the question of democracy's epistemic potential and to enter into strikingly technical and sophisticated discussions of what both rule by technē and rule by the people would have to look like in order for the two things to be compatible.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004326194 :
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Anthropology in the Age of Technology : The Philosophical Contribution of Günther Anders /
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This book is the first to discuss, for an English-speaking audience, the ideas of the German-Jewish man of letters, thinker, and activist Günther Anders. Anders is one of few philosophers to deal intensely with the moral consequences of Auschwitz and Hiroshima. He can rightly be called the philosopher of the atomic age, and his thinking a philosophy of modern technology. In biting manifestoes, sharp aphorisms, and penetrating essays, in stirring diary notes and political fables, Anders strikes out the age in which we live. As a twentieth-century visionary, he exposes the absence of the moral and social imaginations that is necessary to prevent our history from ending in a total catastrophe. In the gap between our technical creations and our utter inability to imagine their destructive potential lies the basis for the unstoppable activity of this practical philosopher. From every possible angle, he attempts to comprehend this modern schizophrenia in its roots and consequences. Anders is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He tried to describe and analyze the variety of manifestations of the "self-destructive progress of our technical civilization," which makes humanity into an "anti-quated" sort. He diagnosed countless important problems, ranging from the world of media to the dictates of the world of machinery, and he investigated their social, political, and philosophical meaning. To read his writings is more than becoming acquainted with a rich and colorful philosopher. It is more than an encounter with a moving and passionate individual. It is ultimately a confrontation with oneself, with our own guilt and responsibility, with our personal hopes and fears, with our lack of imagination and with our need to recover it.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004495708
9789042014022
Religio-philosophical discourses in the Mediterranean world : from Plato, through Jesus, to late antiquity /
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This first volume of the new Brill series "Ancient Philosophy andamp; Religion" is a collection of articles by scholars of Classics, Ancient Philosophy, and Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. The articles are based on papers presented at two colloquia on the interface between Ancient Philosophy and Religion at the universities of Aarhus and Cambridge. They focus extensively on Platonic philosophy and piety and sketch an emerging religio-philosophical discourse in ancient Judaism (both in the Sibylline Oracles and 4 Maccabees). Furthermore, this volume studies Seneca's religio-philosophical understanding of 'consolation', compares early depictions of Jesus with those of ancient philosophers, and, finally, reconsiders responses of pagan philosophers to Christianity from the second century to Late Antiquity.
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1 online resource (viii, 420 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004323131 :
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"Zerstört die Werke der Weiblichkeit" : Maria Magdalena, Salome und andere Jüngerinnen Jesu in christlich-gnostischen Schriften /
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This book considers the place of the women disciples of Jesus in Christian Gnostic documents. It examines their significance and representation in Nag Hammadi documents (GosThom, GosPhil, SophJesChr, DialSav, 1ApocJas) and other early gnostic sources (GosMary, Pistis Sophia), in Patristic anti-Gnostic documents, and in Manichaean Psalms. In these documents, mostly composed during the second and third centuries C.E., Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and Mary, Arsinoe, Mary, the mother of Jesus, and other anonymous women appear as female disciples. A central issue of the book is the relation between the central role of these women disciples and the apparently contradictory statements about femininity and masculinity which appear in the same texts. The negative view of femininity proves to offer a background to the high assessment of the role of particular women. These female disciples transcend their femininity and become "male".
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004439887
9789004114494
Een drukkend gewicht : Leven en werk van de zeventiende-eeuwse veelschrijver Simon de Vries /
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Wie was 'den beruchten Utrechtschen schoolmeester Simon de Vries'? Tot nu toe kon niemand daar een bevredigend antwoord op geven. Reeds in de achttiende eeuw was het leven van deze zeventiende-eeuwse auteur van minstens 57 titels in nevelen gehuld. Een groot deel van zijn oeuvre bestaat uit 'Reader's-digest-achtige' compilatiebundels waarin de zeventiende-eeuwse lezer antwoord kreeg op tal van vragen: Hoe zien mensen eruit na de wederopstanding? Lopen er mannetjes op de maan? Wat is een Grobianus? Kan er vlees uit de aarde groeien? Welk land herbergt de meeste schoenmakers? Waarom hebben de vrouwen in Nieuw-Guinea zulke grote neusgaten? In zekere zin is De Vries te beschouwen als een voorloper van achttiende-eeuwse verlichte broodschrijvers als Gerrit Paape en Jacob Campo Weyerman. Toch was deze voorstander van heksenverbrandingen bepaald geen verlicht auteur. Hij leefde dan ook in een andere tijd en schreef voor een ander lezerspubliek. In 1691 nam hij de handschoen op tegen Balthasar Bekker en zijn omstreden boek De betoverde weereld waarin het geloof in heksen en duivels werd bestreden. Door zijn venijnige aanval op Bekker lijkt De Vries zich bij het nageslacht voorgoed onmogelijk te hebben gemaakt. De latere achttiende-eeuwse auteurs van populaire lectuur wensten niet met zijn naam te worden verbonden. Hij werd door hen gekarikaturiseerd als een bijgelovig schrijver van ouderwetse pulplectuur. Toch had deze schrijver nog wel wat meer in zijn mars. In deze studie wordt onder andere uitvoerig ingegaan op de levensomstandigheden waarin De Vries verkeerde, zijn denkbeelden, zijn contacten met uitgevers, zijn conflict met Balthasar Bekker, het lezerspubliek van De Vries' boeken en de receptie van zijn werk in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw. Met dit boek treedt eindelijk de geheimzinnige 'Utrechtse schoolmeester' in het volle licht. De lezer maakt hierin kennis met een geheel ander type auteur als Hooft, Vondel, Huygens of Cats; en met teksten van een geheel andere aard dan die doorgaans uit de 'Renaissance' worden verwacht.
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1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004655188
Evolution, cognition, and the history of religion : a new synthesis : festschrift in honour of Armin W. Geertz /
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Evolution, Cognition, and the History of Religion: A New Synthesis comprises 41 chapters that push for a new way of conducting the study of religion, thereby, transforming the discipline into a genuine science of religion. The recent resurgence of evolutionary approaches on culture and the increasing acknowledgement in the natural and social sciences of culture's and religion's evolutionary importance calls for a novel epistemological and theoretical framework for studying these two areas. The chapters explore how a new scholarly synthesis, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment, may develop. Different perspectives and themes relating to this overarching topic are taken up with a main focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004385375 :
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Salvation is from the Jews : The Image of Jews and Judaism in Biblical Interpretation, from Anti-Jewish Exegesis to Eliminationist Antisemitism /
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"Unheil," curse, disaster: according to German scholar Gerhard Kittel, this is the Jewish destiny attested to in scripture. Such interpretaions of biblical texts provided Adolf Hitler with the theological legitimatization necessary to realizing his "final solution." But theological antisemitism did not begin with the Third Reich. Ferdinand Baur's nineteenth-century Judaism-Hellenism dichotomy empowered National Socialist scholars to construct an Aryan Jesus cleansed of his Jewish identity, building on Baur's Enlightenment prejudices. Anders Gerdmar takes a fresh look at the dangers of the politicization of biblical scholarship and the ways our unrecognized interpretive filters may generate someone else's apocalypse.
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1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004530140
Tensions within and between religions and human rights /
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This volume contains theoretical and empirical articles on tensions within and between religion and human rights. There are conflicts in the past histories of Christianity and Islam in regard to human rights, but also in contemporary history. There are also tensions in the sphere of human rights, like the relation between natural law and human rights, morality and law, liberty and equality, civil rights and socio-economic rights, and more specific ones, like the rights of humans and citizens, religious freedom and the separation of church and state, religious freedom and freedom of speech, and the state and religion on social welfare provisions. The volume aims at theoretical clarification and empirical exploration on data from 14 countries. Contributors include: Jean-Pierre Wils, Piet Hein van Kempen, Mathias Rohe, Johannes (Hans) van der Ven, Anders Sjöborg, Raymond J. Webb, Jack Curran, Marion Reindl, Leo W.J.M. van der Tuin, Clement D. Fumbo, and Hans-Georg Ziebertz.
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Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd conferences of the Empirical Research Program Religion and Human Rights, held in 2008 and 2010 at the Radboud University Nijmegen. :
1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004218697 :
1877-881X ; :
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The ancient synagogue from its origins to 200 C.E. : a source book /
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Despite the recent explosion of research on ancient synagogues, investigators in the field have hitherto been forced to cull relevant evidence from a vast assortment of scholarly publications. This volume gathers for the first time all of the primary source material on the early synagogues up through the Second Century C. E. In the case of literary, epigraphic and papyrological evidence, catalog entries contain the texts in their original language and in English translation. For archaeological remains, entries provide technical descriptions along with plans and photographs. All listings are accompanied by bibliographic citations and interpretative comments. An Introduction frames the current state of synagogue research, while extensive indices and cross-references allow for easy location of specific allusions. An appendix to the catalog contains source materials on Jewish temples outside of Jerusalem.
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Includes one fold-out mappages. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-311) and indexes. :
9789047430711 :
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Other logics : alternatives to formal logic in the history of thought and contemporary philosophy /
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Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy challenges the widespread idea of formal logic as inherently monolithic, universal, and ahistorical. Written by both leading and up-and-coming scholars, and edited by Admir Skodo, Other Logics offers a wide variety of historical and philosophical alternatives to this idea, all arguing that logic is a historical, concrete, and multi-dimensional phenomenon. To name a few examples, Frank Ankersmit lays down a representationalist logic, Alessandra Tanesini forcefully argues for the possibility of logical aliens, Christopher Watkin analyzes how leading contemporary French philosophers view the idea of logic, and Aaron Wendland unearths Heidegger's critique of formal logic. In Other Logics readers will find provocative interventions in a highly contested field in contemporary philosophy. Contributors include: Frank Ankersmit, Christopher Watkin, Giuseppina D'Oro, Alessandra Tanesini, Admir Skodo, Aaron Wendland, Ervik Cejvan, Anders Kraal, Christopher Fear, Karim Dharamsi, Johan Modée, and Thord Svensson.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004270183 :
0922-6001 ;
Etymologische Untersuchungen zu den tocharischen Adjektiven : Band II /
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Wo kommt B-tocharisch ātstse ,dicht' oder A-tocharisch märtār ,kurz' her? Hier finden Sie die Antwort auf diese und viele andere strittige Fragen zur sprachlichen Vorgeschichte des Tocharischen. Dieses Buch bietet eine äußerst ausführliche etymologische Analyse von 210 synchron undurchsichtigen tocharischen Adjektiven und liefert viele neue und originelle Erklärungen für mehrere bisher obskure tocharische Wörter. Die vorgeschlagenen Etymologien geben uns neue Einblicke in die tocharische Phonologie und Morphologie und ermöglichen uns, die phylogenetische Beziehung zwischen dem Tocharischen und den anderen indogermanischen Sprachzweigen besser zu verstehen. Zugleich leistet dieses Buch einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer verbesserten Rekonstruktion des Urindogermanischen. Where does Tocharian B ātstse 'dense' or Tocharian A märtār 'short' come from? Here, you will find the answer to this question and to many other debated issues concerning the linguistic prehistory of Tocharian. This book offers an extremely detailed etymological analysis of 210 synchronically opaque Tocharian adjectives and provides plenty of novel and original explanations for several so far obscure Tocharian words. The proposed etymologies give us new insights into Tocharian phonology and morphology and help us better understand the phylogenetic relationship between Tocharian and the other Indo-European branches. At the same time, this book makes a significant contribution to an improved and up-to-date reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European.
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1 online resource (450 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004740808