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The Religion of Dostoevsky

By: Alexander Boyce Gibson

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Why has Dostoevsky influenced so much of the religious thinking of our times? His impact on modern theologians--Barth, for example--has been great, and thousands of his readers have been stirred by his extraordinary power to register metaphysical insights in narrative form. This fresh and subtle study of Dostoevsky's life and writing demonstrates that the great Russian's relevance for our day lies in his perception that religious faith and philosophic doubt are inseparable in his illustration that the practice of religion and intellectual scruples belong together and actually enhance each other. Gibson records what is known, from outside the novels, of his successive engagements and disengagements with the Christian faith. He then traces chronologically the path of Dostoevsky's developing thoughts and feelings as presented in the novels themselves, and his sentiments as distributed among his characters. Especially illuminating is the author's analysis of the dichotomies that make up the fascinating puzzle of Dostoevsky's complexity. Overlapping but never coinciding are the two perspectives of reflective artist and journalist-reporter. Buttressing Dostoevsky's dialectical method of thinking was the literary device of the "double," the character with contradictory ways of thought and behavior. Gibson shows how all these factors structured Dostoevsky's depiction of mental, moral, and religious ambiguities. This stimulating guide, which takes the reader from Notes from Underground through The Brothers Karamazov, explores the polarities of reason and faith as the irreconcilables that Dostoevsky constantly tries to reconcile. Everyone who has found his own vision of ethics or of religion expanded by Dostoevsky's work will find this literary study provocative and informative.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532604769

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Nature's Metaphysics

Laws and Properties

By: Alexander Bird

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Nature's Metaphysics

Laws and Properties

By: Alexander Bird

Bird, a world-leader in the field, offers an original approach to key issues in philosophy. He discusses hot topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of science.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199227012

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9780199227013

Consecutive Interpreting

An Interdisciplinary Study

By: Alexander V. Kozin

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Consecutive Interpreting

An Interdisciplinary Study

By: Alexander V. Kozin

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting. It combines phenomenological and empirical analyses to build a communication theory of interpreting. The author begins by reviewing mainstream research on consecutive interpreting and then dissociates himself from it, conducting a three-tier analysis of interpreting data. He concludes by presenting an alternative theory of consecutive interpreting. As he makes clear from the outset, a new and combined methodology for consecutive interpreting needs to be constructed to satisfy both the relation of the phenomenon to experience as well as its social foundation. He also stresses the potential within the humanities for wider employment of the phenomenological empirical method. This book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, translation, phenomenology, social interaction and communication

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309

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Springer

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3319617265

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9783319617268

Christianity and Ethics

By: Archibald B.C. Alexander

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Christianity and Ethics

By: Archibald B.C. Alexander

Reproduction of the original: Christianity and Ethics by Archibald B.C. Alexander

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3734070392

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9783734070396

The Greek Mode of Thought in Western Philosophy

By: Alexander Sissel Kohanski

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The Greek Mode of Thought in Western Philosophy

By: Alexander Sissel Kohanski

Maintaining that the Greek mode of thought is, in essence, the tendency to establish principles of mediation on rational grounds, the author argues that the course of philosophy from Parmenides to Hegel reveals that reason itself always gives rise to sceptical criticism that overturns whatever principles of mediation have been established.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838631398

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9780838631393

Heidegger and Politics

The Ontology of Radical Discontent

By: Alexander S. Duff

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Heidegger and Politics

The Ontology of Radical Discontent

By: Alexander S. Duff

In this fresh interpretation of Heidegger, Alexander S. Duff explains Heidegger's perplexing and highly varied political influence. Heidegger and Politics argues that Heidegger's political import is forecast by fundamental ambiguities about the status of politics in his thought. Duff explores how, in Being and Time as well as earlier and later works, Heidegger analyzes 'everyday' human existence as both irretrievably banal but also supplying our only tenuous path to the deepest questions about human life. Heidegger thus points to two irreconcilable attitudes toward politics: either a total and purifying revolution must usher in an authentic communal existence, or else we must await a future deliverance from the present dispensation of Being. Neither attitude is conducive to moderate politics, and so Heidegger's influence tends towards extremism of one form or another, modified only by explicit departures from his thought.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316445267

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Integral Research and Innovation

Transforming Enterprise and Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

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Integral Research and Innovation

Transforming Enterprise and Society

By: Ronnie Lessem,Alexander Schieffer

The core question underlying Integral Research and Innovation is: 'How can social research be turned into social or indeed "integral" innovation?' Complementing their acclaimed Transformation Management, this second book in the Transformation and Innovation Series explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. The authors show how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises. At a time when business practitioners and others responsible for organizational development are desperate for usable knowledge the authors contend that social science research is failing to support business and management generally. Instead, academic researchers engage in esoteric arguments about research methodology which do not contribute usefully to the resolution of real world problems. Drawing on their experience of environments where researchers and practitioners do engage constructively, resulting in research that is active, participative, and genuinely innovative, Professor Lessem and Dr Schieffer are in territory that is far beyond that covered by standard works on research methodology. This is a book not just for academics and researchers wanting to make a meaningful contribution, but also for reflective practitioners from the corporate organizational, and consultancy based worlds who operate in the area of interface between business and management, education, learning, and society, and who need to know how research can be used to make a real difference.

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CRC Press

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1317115392

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9781317115397

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

By: Emily I. Dolan,Alexander Rehding

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The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

By: Emily I. Dolan,Alexander Rehding

Despite its importance as a central feature of musical sounds, timbre has rarely stood in the limelight. First defined in the eighteenth century, denigrated during the nineteenth, the concept of timbre came into its own during the twentieth century and its fascination with synthesizers and electronic music-or so the story goes. But in fact, timbre cuts across all the boundaries that make up musical thought-combining scientific and artistic approaches to music, material and philosophical aspects, and historical and theoretical perspectives. Timbre challenges us to fundamentally reorganize the way we think about music. The twenty-five essays that make up this collection offer a variety of engagements with music from the perspective of timbre. The boundaries are set as broad as possible: from ancient Homeric sounds to contemporary sound installations, from birdsong to cochlear implants, from Tuvan overtone singing to the tv show The Voice, from violin mutes to Moog synthesizers. What unifies the essays across this vast diversity is the material starting point of the sounding object. This focus on the listening experience is radical departure from the musical work that has traditionally dominated musical discourse since its academic inception in late-nineteenth-century Europe. Timbre remains a slippery concept that has continuously demanded more, be it more precise vocabulary, a more systematic theory, or more rigorous analysis. Rooted in the psychology of listening, timbre consistently resists pinning complete down. This collection of essays provides an invitation for further engagement with the range of fascinating questions that timbre opens up.

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Oxford University Press

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0190637250

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9780190637255

Dyslexia and Mental Health

Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

By: Neil Alexander-Passe

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Dyslexia and Mental Health

Helping people identify destructive behaviours and find positive ways to cope

By: Neil Alexander-Passe

Dyslexia is a complex condition that affects not only learning but every part of life. Experience or fear of social stigma can lead people with dyslexia to camouflage the difficulties they face, to withdraw and to adopt negative coping strategies, particularly if they lack adequate support, identification and intervention. This can have lasting impact on their emotional health. Neil Alexander-Passe is an experienced researcher and a special needs teacher in secondary mainstream education. He also has dyslexia. Neil uses his personal and professional experience to shed light on the complexities surrounding dyslexia and examines psychological theories such as ego-defence mechanisms and learned helplessness that reveal how people deal with its emotional impact. He offers guidelines and advice, illustrated with real life examples, about how to help people with dyslexia avoid harmful coping strategies and learn to deal with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem in more effective and psychologically positive ways. This book will help educational and clinical psychologists, teachers, mental health specialists, counsellors and therapists understand the emotional complexities of dyslexia.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1784500682

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The Origins of Liberty: An Essay in Platonic Ontology

By: Alexander Zistakis

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The Origins of Liberty: An Essay in Platonic Ontology

By: Alexander Zistakis

Unlike the vast majority of existing literature on Plato, this book seeks to argue that liberty constitutes the central notion and preoccupation of Platonic thought and that his theory of ideas is indeed a theory of liberty. Moreover, this book contends that Plato’s thought can be understood to be both one of liberty and a theory of liberation. Bound up in its efforts to reveal both the ideal liberty and the conditions and possibility of its existence in the so-called ‘real world,’ the thought of liberty tends to be all-encompassing. Consequently, this book seeks to expose how liberty can be understood to influence Plato’s ontological form of analysis in relation to politics, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as its influence on the structural unity of all three. Understood from such a perspective, this book frames Platonic philosophy as primarily an investigation, an articulation and as a way of establishing the relationship between the individual and the collective. Importantly, this relationship is acknowledged to be the natural and original framework for any conception and exercise of human liberty, especially within democratic theory and politics. By treating Plato’s philosophy as a continuous effort to find modes and dimensions of liberation in and through different forms of this relationship, this book hopes to not only engage in the discussion about the meaning of Platonic ontological-political insights on different grounds, but also to provide a different perspective for the evaluation of its relevance to the main contemporary issues and problems regarding liberty, liberation, democracy and politics. This book will be of interest to both undergraduate students, experienced scholars and researchers, as well as to the general public who have an interest in philosophy, classics, and political theory.

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Vernon Press

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1622734211

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Women in Romanticism

Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley

By: Meena Alexander

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Women in Romanticism

Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley

By: Meena Alexander

What did it mean to write as a woman in the Romantic era? How did women writers test and refashion the claims or the grand self, the central 'I, ' we typically see in Romanticism? In this powerful and original study Meena Alexander examines the work of three women: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) the radical feminist who typically thought of life as 'warfare' and revolted against the social condition of women; Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) who lived a private life enclosed by the bonds of femininity, under the protection of her poet brother William and his family; Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the daughter that Wollstonecraft died giving birth to, mistress then wife of the poet Percy Shelley, and precocious author of Frankenstein. Contents: Introduction: Mapping a Female Romanticism; Romantic Feminine; True Appearances; Of Mothers and Mamas; Writing in Fragments; Natural Enclosures; Unnatural Creation; Revising the Feminine; Versions of the Sublime R

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Rowman & Littlefield

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038920885X

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9780389208853

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Being the History of the Express Business and the Earlier Rail-Road Enterprises in the United States, Together with Some Reminiscences of the Old Mail Coaches and Baggage Wagons

By: Alexander Stimson

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Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Being the History of the Express Business and the Earlier Rail-Road Enterprises in the United States, Together with Some Reminiscences of the Old Mail Coaches and Baggage Wagons

By: Alexander Stimson

This fascinating history of the U.S. Express business, prior to the advent of the Pony Express and focused largely on the eastern half of the country, was originally published in 1860. The book is packed with advertisements throughout, for everything imaginable: architects, bankers, revolvers, foreign wines, books, clothing, insurance companies, fireworks, tin cans, produce, washing machines, stoves, accountants, and much more.

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1429020059

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Book's by Alexander Boyce Gibson

The Religion of Dostoevsky

The Religion of Dostoevsky

Nature's Metaphysics

Nature's Metaphysics

Consecutive Interpreting

Consecutive Interpreting

Christianity and Ethics

Christianity and Ethics

The Greek Mode of Thought in Western Philosophy

The Greek Mode of Thought in Western Philosophy

Heidegger and Politics

Heidegger and Politics

Integral Research and Innovation

Integral Research and Innovation

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre

Dyslexia and Mental Health

Dyslexia and Mental Health

The Origins of Liberty: An Essay in Platonic Ontology

The Origins of Liberty: An Essay in Platonic Ontology

Women in Romanticism

Women in Romanticism

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

Express Office Hand-Book and Directory,

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