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Historians as Nation Builders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Historians as Nation Builders

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988-06-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

A selection of papers from a conference held in honour of Professor Hugh Seton-Watson on the occasion of his retirement in l983. The aim of the contributors is to illustrate the role of the historian in the political life of Central and East European nations.

Rethinking the Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Rethinking the Mediterranean

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"This text examines the ancient and medieval history of the Mediterranean Sea and the lands around it"--Provided by publisher.

The Baltic World
  • Language: en

The Baltic World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ignaz Friedman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Ignaz Friedman

Allan Evans's groundbreaking biography of Ignaz Friedman gives the reader the behind and the between of the life and career of this extraordinary pianist. Friedman's repertory emphasized the major works of Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, but he was perhaps best known for his interpretation of the Chopin mazurkas, which by all accounts he played with the same rhythmic nuance as their composer. Evans examines Friedman's life as a cultured Jewish musician from Poland; his studies in Leipzig and Vienna; his marriage to Manya Schidlowsky -- a Russian countess and relative of Tolstoy; and his performing career, teaching, and retirement in Australia.

Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity

Charles Taylor is currently one the most renowned and influential contemporary philosophers. He is also widely quoted and discussed both in the social sciences and humanities. Taylor earns this attention through his remarkable capacity for presenting his conceptions in the broadest possible intellectual and cultural context. His philosophical intuition is fundamentally antinaturalistic, and tends toward developing broad syntheses without a trace of systematizing thinking, or any anarchic postmodernist methodology. His thought unites the past with the present, while culture is treated as a broad mosaic of discourses. Religion, art, science, philosophy, politics and ethics are all fields throu...

Re-Figuring Hayden White
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Re-Figuring Hayden White

Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career, including tropes, narrative, figuralism, and the historical sublime while exploring the place of White's work in the philosophy of history, postmodernism, and ethics. They also discuss his role as historian and teacher and apply his ideas to specific historical events.

Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century

Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality – took their inspirations from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl’s phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary directions mingled readily in common vindication of full reality. In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave disseminating throughout all domains of thought. Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl’s shift to the genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), while the foundational underpinnings of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).

Curiosity and Information Seeking in Animal and Human Behavior
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Curiosity and Information Seeking in Animal and Human Behavior

The purpose of the book is to deliver a critical review of the literature and author's research data relevant for understanding the phenomena of curiosity, information seeking behavior, and novelty seeking. The book is designed to be a comprehensive and systematic lecture of areas related to the main subject in a way that will enable the reader to grasp the notion of development in terms of the evolutionary time scale and ontogenesis. Each of the subjects is explained on the basis of three perspectives: ultimate factors, integrative levels, and proximate mechanisms. This work is intended to integrate approaches adopted within psychology, ethology, and behavioral neuroscience. The major uniqueness is related to the integrative levels framework, which is not very often utilized the the contemporary books on the subject. This is why the book offers holistic, complete presentation of the area that it does cover. It should be of interests of students of psychology, animal behavior, as well teachers and educators. It provides refreshing cues for creative thinking about human curiosity. The present edition includes new data and the discussion of the new literature on the subject.

Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Rethinking Postmodern Subjectivity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

What is postmodern literary subjectivity? How to talk about it without falling in the trap of negative hyper-essentialism or being seduced by exuberant lit speak? One way out of this dilemma, as this book suggests, is via a redefinition of the concept in the context of Emmanuel Levinas and his radical ethics. By defining subjectivity as an ethically charged act of language, Levinas provides a fresh perspective on the often trivialized aspects of postmodern poetics such as referentiality and affect construction strategies. The foregrounding of the ethical dimension of those poetic elements has far-reaching consequences for how we read postmodern texts and understand postmodernism in general. Thus, to prove the benefits of the Levinasian approach, the author applies it to the work of the canonical American postmodernist, Donald Barthelme, and explains the distinctly ethical character of his apparently surfictional experiments.

Influence of funding on advances in librarianship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Influence of funding on advances in librarianship

Addresses the influence of research funding on advances in libraries and librarianship from two perspectives: funding agents and specific initiatives.