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Politics, Order and History
This volume brings together critical review papers, many specially commissioned, on key themes and questions in the work of the political scientist, philosopher and religious thinker Eric Voegelin (1901-1985). Areas covered include: (1) Political science: 'Political Religions': manifestations in Nazi Germany and in contemporary European and North American nationalism; (2) International relations: the 'Cold War' in critical perspective; (3) Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle in the reading of Eric Voegelin: contemporary assessments; (4) Sociology: Correspondence of Voegelin and Alfred Schütz; (5) New Testament studies and Christology: questions and developments for Voegelin's interpretations; (6) Old Testament studies: questions and developments from Voegelin's Israel and Revelation; (7) Historical sociology: Revelation and order in axial-age societies; (8) Philosophy of history: Voegelin and Toynbee in contrast; (9) Literary studies: Voegelin in contrast with contemporary literary theory; critical readings of Milton, Greek tragedy.
The Philosophical I
Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should be kept separate from the personal experience of philosophers. Each contributor traces the fundamental influences-both philosophical and otherwise-that have shaped his or her identity. In this postmodern world, the self is often viewed as irreparably fragmented and fractured, but the reflections in this volume point to a self that is a continuous, though dynamic, storyline. What shines through in each of these essays is that philosophy is a profoundly personal adventure.
Politics and Apocalypse
Apocalypse. To most, the word signifies destruction, death, the end of the world, but the literal definition is "revelation" or "unveiling," the basis from which renowned theologian René Girard builds his own view of Biblical apocalypse. Properly understood, Girard explains, Biblical apocalypse has nothing to do with a wrathful or vengeful God punishing his unworthy children, and everything to do with a foretelling of what future humans are making for themselves now that they have devised the instruments of global self-destruction. In this volume, some of the major thinkers about the interpretation of politics and religion— including Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Carl Schmitt— are scr...
An Ontology of Consciousness
The object of this study is to find a coherent theoretical approach to three problems which appear to interrelate in complex ways: (1) What is the ontological status of consciousness? (2) How can there be 'un conscious,' 'prereflective' or 'self-alienated' consciousness? And (3) Is there a 'self' or 'ego' formed by means of the interrelation of more elementary states of consciousness? The motivation for combining such a diversity of difficult questions is that we often learn more by looking at interrelations of problems than we could by viewing them only in isola tion. The three questions posed here have emerged as especially prob lematic in the context of twentieth century philosophy. 1. Th...
Theorizing Scriptures
Historically, religious scriptures are defined as holy texts that are considered to be beyond the abilities of the layperson to interpret. This volume takes a look at the social, cultural and racial meanings invested in these texts.
Walking Integrity
Mays, president of Morehouse College for over 25 years, "inspired generations of students to strive for moral and academic excellence and to work for racial justice in America." Mays was born in Ninety Six, South Carolina.--Jacket.
White Men's Magic
Characterizing Olaudah Equiano's eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of "scriptural story" that connects the Bible with identity formation, Vincent L. Wimbush's White Men's Magic probes not only how the Bible and its reading played a crucial role in the first colonial contacts between black and white persons in the North Atlantic but also the process and meaning of what he terms "scripturalization." By this term, Wimbush means a social-psychological-political discursive structure or "semiosphere" that creates a reality and organizes a society in terms of relations and communications. Because it is based on the particularities of Equiano's narrative, Wimbush's theoretical work is not only grounded but inductive, and shows that scripturalization is bigger than either the historical or the literary Equiano. Scripturalization was not invented by Equiano, he says, but it is not quite the same after Equiano.
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
This two volume set LNBI 10208 and LNBI 10209 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, IWBBIO 2017, held in Granada, Spain, in April 2017. The 122 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 309 submissions. The scope of the conference spans the following areas: advances in computational intelligence for critical care; bioinformatics for healthcare and diseases; biomedical engineering; biomedical image analysis; biomedical signal analysis; biomedicine; challenges representing large-scale biological data; computational genomics; computational proteomics; computational systems for modeling biological processes; data driven biology - new tools, techniques and resources; eHealth; high-throughput bioinformatic tools for genomics; oncological big data and new mathematical tools; smart sensor and sensor-network architectures; time lapse experiments and multivariate biostatistics.
History of Logic and Semantics
This volume pays homage to the historian of logic Angel d’Ors (1951-2012), by bringing together a set of studies that together illuminate the complex historical development of logic and semantics. Two main traditions, Aristotelian and terminist, are showcased to demonstrate the changes and confrontations that constitute this history, and a number of different authors and texts, from the Boethian reception of Aristotle to the post-medieval terminism, are discussed. Special topics dealt with include the medieval reception of ancient logic; technical tools for the medieval analysis of language; the medieval theory of consequence; the medieval practice of disputation and sophisms; and the post-medieval refinement of the terminist tools. Contributors are E.J. Ashworth, Allan Bäck, María Cerezo, Sten Ebbesen, José Miguel Gambra, C.H. Kneepkens, Kalvin Normore, Angel d’Ors, Paloma Pérez-Ilzarbe, Stephen Read, Joke Spruyt, Luisa Valente, and Mikko Yrjönsuuri. These articles were also published in Vivarium, Volume 53, Nos. 2-4 (2015).
Culturas olvidadas. Historias de rincones remotos
En un mundo globalizado, cada vez son menos las regiones libres de la aculturación occidental que mantienen su forma de vida tradicional. Estos rincones remotos nos permiten trasladarnos a otros mundos, a otras realidades, conocer otras cosmovisiones y fascinarnos a través del viaje, el cual, en estos casos,cuesta discernir si es más físico o psicológico. Mediante pequeñas historias de viaje,se narra lo cotidiano de esos rincones remotos. Lo cotidiano de estas culturas olvidadas. Aquello que, pese a que ocurre cada día en algún lugar del mundo, deja al viajero occidental sumido en el más absoluto de los asombros.Estos son los últimos suspiros de mundos que se desvanecen y merecen ser contados antes de que pasen a ser un mero recuerdo de la increíble diversidad cultural que un día pobló este planeta. Y qué mejor forma de acercarnos a ellos que con pequeñas historias, que conforman grandes aventuras.
