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Witnesses for the Future
To the horrors of war and genocide in the twentieth century there were witnesses, among them Hermann Cohen, Emmanuel Levinas, Ernst Bloch, Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, and Hans Jonas. All defined themselves as Jews and philosophers. Their intellectual concerns and worldviews often in conflict, they nevertheless engaged in fruitful conversation: through the dialogue between Zionist activism and heterodox forms of Marxism, in the rediscovery of hidden traditions of Jewish history, at the intersection of ethics and metaphysics. They shared a common hope for a better, messianic future and a deep interest in and reliance on the cultural sources of...
Made in Brazil
Made in Brazil: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of twentieth-century Brazilian popular music. The volume consists of essays by scholars of Brazilian music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Brazil. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Brazilian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Brazil, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Samba and Choro; History, Memory, and Representations; Scenes and Artists; and Music, Market and New Media.
Exploring Translation Theories
Exploring Translation Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of the core contemporary paradigms of Western translation theory. The book covers theories of equivalence, purpose, description, uncertainty, localization, and cultural translation. This second edition adds coverage on new translation technologies, volunteer translators, non-lineal logic, mediation, Asian languages, and research on translators’ cognitive processes. Readers are encouraged to explore the various theories and consider their strengths, weaknesses, and implications for translation practice. The book concludes with a survey of the way translation is used as a model in postmodern cultural studies and sociologies, ex...
Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections
Preliminary Material /Gonzalo Araoz , Fátima Alves and Katrina Jaworski -- Rewriting the Asylum /Diane Carpenter -- The Disordered Self: Philosophy, Memoir and Madness /Marlene Benjamin -- From Lay Concepts to Therapeutic Itineraries: Sociological Study about Mental Suffering and Mental Illness /Fátima Alves -- Claiming Madness to Explain Deviance: Young Afghani Asylum Seekers in Distress /Eleni Bolieraki -- Self-Fulfillment or Self-Erosion? Depression as Key Pathology of Late Modernity /Bert van den Bergh -- Reframing the 'Mad' Intentions of Those Who Suicide /Katrina Jaworski -- Madness and Psychotherapy through the Looking Glass: Scheherazade's Talking Cure /Alexandra Cheira -- William Blake and The Road to Hell: Demystifying the Cultural Iconoclasm of the Hells Angels /Jennifer Hedgecock -- Order and Disorder: Rational Acumen and Emotional Incompetence in the Television Detective Story /E. Deidre Pribram -- Radio Nikosia: Mutiny on the Ship of Fools /Martín Correa-Urquiza.
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, this book uses a Brazilian quilombola community (descendants of enslaved Africans) as a case study to explore how memories, knowledge, and experience are transformed into cultural heritage.
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MusiCS em Perspectivas
MusiCS em Perspectivas traz quinze artigos demonstrativos da diversidade da produção acadêmica dos integrantes do grupo de pesquisa MusiCS - Música, Cultura e Sociedade (UDESC/CNPq), contemplando temas transversais e interdisciplinares, perpassados pelas principais atividades musicais - poética (composição), prática (interpretação e performance) e teoria (musicologia e história) - e pela perspectiva da temporalidade na interação com a cultura e a sociedade.
Identity and Difference
Besides national productions, transnational films that result from agreements with ex-colonies now engage with the legacy of Portugal's colonial history and its powerful myths of cultural identity such as lusophony and lusotropicalism. This volume analyses the negotiations of ideas on identity and difference in both production modes.
Unoriginal Genius
Marjorie Perloff here explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of "unoriginal" writing. Paradoxically, she argues, such citational and often constraint-based poetry is more accessible and, in a sense, "personal" than was the hermetic poetry of the 1980's and 90's. --
