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Crossing Borders
Robert C. Holub critically investigates the histories of reception theory, poststructuralism, and deconstruction in postwar Germany and the United States. He looks at how imported theories assume a place in the political discourse of a country, and how indigenous intellectual traditions and prejudices affect, modify, or even distort foreign theories. Holub addresses many timely questions: Why did reception theory, so prominent in Germany in the 1960s and 1970s, fail to have an impact on American academics until the 1980s? Why did postructuralism, and specifically the writings of Michel Foucault, fail to find a home in German academia while becoming an important theoretical voice in the Unite...
Why Hermeneutics?
In this little volume, Anthony Thiselton makes an impassioned appeal for closer attention to the philosophy of hermeneutics. Emilio Betti provocatively observes that hermeneutics ought to constitute an obligatory course for most degrees in the humanities. Hermeneutics, he insists, teaches patience, tolerance, respect for other views, understanding, and humility, while holding one's own views with firmness and generosity. Yet many teaching institutions do not yet recognize this. With this in mind, Thiselton first considers and responds to those who argue that hermeneutics is not necessary. Then he considers anew more sophisticated thinkers on the subject. Types of texts and hermeneutical models, he argues, are almost infinite, a fact many biblical scholars do not recognize. In the field of biblical hermeneutics, too many view the Bible as one thing, or as a monochrome landscape--it is not. The culmination of Thiselton's case consists in a sustained reflection on the impressive work of Paul Ricoeur, selecting thirteen points of genuine advance his work makes. With a glossary of fifty technical terms this is a volume that will prove helpful to student and scholar alike.
Global Goals
In Global Goals, author Andy DeRoche carefully examines the life of Eric Weinrich, who played in over 1,000 NHL games and represented the United States in more international hockey tournaments than any other player. Based on thorough research, this book details the actions of Eric “Weino” Weinrich on and off the ice during his over 30 years playing hockey. It also puts his career into the context of the final years of the Cold War in terms of US relations with the USSR. In addition to being a great athlete, “Weino” was a cultural ambassador who befriended former Soviet players such as Alexei Kasatonov. DeRoche is an old-fashioned historian who has written many previous books or artic...
African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80
Recruiting and motivations for enlistment -- Perceptions of African security force members -- Education and upward mobility -- Camp life -- African women and the security forces -- Objections and reforms -- Travel and danger -- Demobilization and veterans.
The Unsettled Land
This book engages with current debates on land and politics in Africa and provides a much needed historical narrative of the Zimbabwean case.
The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching
The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching evaluates and addresses multifaceted, multilevel needs of students and teachers within teaching German as a foreign, as well as a second, language through taking a transcultural approach. Each contribution starts with the author situating themselves in the geographical and institutional context in which they teach as well as the way in which they teach, for example, in person or online. This acknowledges the Handbook’s internationally widespread contributors, from countries with different histories in terms of cultural, linguistic and educational diversity more generally and the teaching of German in particular. The chapters reflect their ...
Terrorism in Africa
Part of a series, this work is concerned with international terrorism, and deals with its manifestation in Africa. Among the events and topics covered are: the Entebbe rescue mission; African guerillas and indigenous governments; South Africa, terrorism and state disintegration; and more.
Le génocide des Tutsi Rwanda, 1994 : Lectures et écritures
Cet ouvrage espère très humblement fournir des pistes de réflexion sur un sujet des plus graves qui soit. Il entend revisiter avec les lecteurs les racines d'un mal hérité d'un courant de pensée colonial et qui a donné lieu aux pires atrocités. Les auteurs explorent, d'une part, diverses avenues afin de saisir les enjeux juridiques, sociaux et politiques qui ont permis que des êtres humains veuillent exterminer leurs semblables ; d'autre part, ils se penchent aussi et surtout sur les indispensables préalables qui permettront aux survivants de refaire confiance au monde. La reconnaissance des torts est sans doute la pierre angulaire qui rend envisageable la reconstruction de soi et l'ultérieure réconciliation avec le monde extérieur. Les auteurs s'intéressent ainsi à l'articulation de paroles en souffrance (celles des survivants), recueillies dans des entrevues, dans des tribunaux gacaca, dans des forums sur Internet ou encore dans des récits de témoignage.
