Beste resultaten voor: Intellectual history

In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. In examining the intellectual history in contemporary... Lees meer.

There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome the sin of their o... Lees meer.

How does long-term intellectual change occur. Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge. In this ambitious study El as Jos Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of th... Lees meer.

Superb A tour de force. Ebrahim Moosa Provocative Aydin ranges over the centuries to show the relative novelty of the idea of a Muslim world and the relentless efforts to exploit that idea for political ends. Washington PostWhen President Obama visited Cairo to addre... Lees meer.

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Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory contemporary practitioners of modern i... Lees meer.

The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt Thinking the Twentieth Century unites the conflicted intellectual history of an epoch into a soaring narrative. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas - a time when for g... Lees meer.

Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about... Lees meer.

The book presents a set of portraits of some of the century s most influential thinkers all participants at Eranos. Carl Jung Erich Neumann Mircea Eliade Martin Buber Walter Otto Paul Tillich Gershom Scholem Herbert Read Joseph Campbell Erwin Schrodinger Kar... Lees meer.

The retrieval in 1990 of what is probably the sole surviving copy of Uriel da Costa s book outlawed and burnt in 1624 is an almost miraculous boon for humanity. Da Costa s Exame supplemented by da Silva s Tratado merits a prominent place in the history of thought J... Lees meer.

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive global view of human movements and events. Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work while also recommending how to confront the challenges an... Lees meer.

This book is a collection of essays by leading practitioners of modern European intellectual history reflecting on the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the field. The essays each attempt to assess their respective disciplines giving an account of their... Lees meer.

Though intersectionality theory has emerged as a highly influential school of thought in ethnic studies gender studies law political science sociology and psychology no scholarship to date exists on the evolution of the theory. Intersectionality theory has emerg... Lees meer.

Centuries before W B Yeats wove Indian Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays Irish writers found kinship in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland s complex colonial heritage. Centuries b... Lees meer.

The first comprehensive history of Italian revolutionary group Giustizia e Libert When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libert founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929... Lees meer.