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Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile

The Lord’s Hint of Laughter in the Bhagavadgītā and Beyond

By: Antonio Rigopoulos,Gianni Pellegrini

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Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile

The Lord’s Hint of Laughter in the Bhagavadgītā and Beyond

By: Antonio Rigopoulos,Gianni Pellegrini

Behind Kṛṣṇa's Smile offers a wholly original perspective on the celebrated Bhagavadgītā, or "Song of God." The book investigates Kṛṣṇa's hint of laughter (prahasann iva) in Bhagavadgītā 2.10, which is generally understood to be the turning point of the famous poem, signaling the outpouring of his grace and teaching to Arjuna. Remarkably, it is from this verse that Śaṅkara and other leading theologians begin to write their commentaries. In addition to exploring the momentousness of Kṛṣṇa's hint of laughter and its impact on the poem's central teachings, Behind Kṛṣṇa's Smile provides a crucial interpretation of Kṛṣṇa's prahasann iva in the Vedānta commentarial tradition, from Śaṅkara up to modern times. The book also considers the meanings of the stock phrase prahasann iva in the larger epic framework of the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa. Moreover, the book offers the first comprehensive review of the significance of Kṛṣṇa's smile in Kṛṣṇaite iconography and literature, demonstrating that there is a unified canon bringing together the literary and performative dimensions of Kṛṣṇa’s hint of laughter.

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State University of New York Press

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1438499698

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9781438499697

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

By: Gianni Toniolo

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The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

By: Gianni Toniolo

This Oxford Handbook provides a fresh overall view and interpretation of the modern economic growth of one of the largest European countries, whose economic history is less known internationally than that of other comparably large and successful economies. It will provide, for the first time, a comprehensive, quantitative "new economic history" of Italy. The handbook offers an interpretation of the main successes and failures of the Italian economy at a macro level, the research--conducted by a large international team of scholars --contains entirely new quantitative results and interpretations, spanning the entire 150-year period since the unification of Italy, on a large number of issues. By providing a comprehensive view of the successes and failures of Italian firms, workers, and policy makers in responding to the challenges of the international business cycle, the book crucially shapes relevant questions on the reasons for the current unsatisfactory response of the Italian economy to the ongoing "second globalization." Most chapters of the handbook are co-authored by both an Italian and a foreign scholar.

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822

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Oxford University Press

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0199324158

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9780199324156

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

By: Carlo Bastasin,Gianni Toniolo

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The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

By: Carlo Bastasin,Gianni Toniolo

Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present day. They show how, thirty years after unification, Italy began a long phase of convergence with more advanced economies so that by the late twentieth century Italy's per capita income reached the levels of Germany, France and the UK. From the mid-1990s, however, the Italian economy declined first in relative and then absolute terms. The authors describe the intertwined financial and institutional crises that eroded trust in the political system and in the economy at the exact juncture when new technologies and markets transformed the global economy. Longstanding problems of uneven levels of education and obsolete bureaucratic and judicial practices deepened the division between economically vibrant regions and the rest, causing polarization, political instability and rising public debt. Italy's contemporary malaise makes the country a test-case for understanding the implications of protracted declines in productivity and the flattening of GDP growth for the stability of western democracies, resulting in populism, mistrust and political instability.

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191

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Cambridge University Press

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1009235354

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9781009235358

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

By: Gianni Marchesi,Nicolò Marchetti

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Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

By: Gianni Marchesi,Nicolò Marchetti

The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and development of these artifacts has been a complicated and problematic task. In this volume—first published in Italian in 2006 and here translated, revised, and updated—Gianni Marchesi and Nicolò Marchetti provide a complete relative chronology for these remarkable objects. Having established the chronological sequence through an examination of the archaeological contexts of the excavated pieces and the analysis of their inscriptions, the authors then consider the significance of the changes, over time, in the subject matter of figurative arts, noting a gradual shift from a stage in which the entire officialdom of early polities was celebrated to a stage in which the figure of the king alone becomes the main and then almost the only object of celebration. Near the end of the Early Dynastic period, which was a time of continual political upheaval, new iconographic details were introduced in order to characterize the royal figure, and a distinctive royal iconography began to be developed. Starting from these observations, the authors proceed to investigate the ideology of early polities in Mesopotamia and the role and functions of the king. Along with a new chronology of Early Dynastic rulers and an outline of Early Dynastic history, discussions of significant monuments and inscriptions are offered. In addition, all known inscriptions on royal statues are edited and provided with detailed commentaries. First published in 2006 as La statuaria regale nella Mesopotamica Protodinastica (Rome: Bardi Editore).

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Penn State Press

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1575066513

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9781575066516

Studi Interculturali 2, 2014

By: Gianni Ferracuti

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Studi Interculturali 2, 2014

By: Gianni Ferracuti

Gianni Ferracuti: Jose Ortega y Gasset e il modernismo: Cento anni di Meditaciones del Quijote. Giuseppe D'Acunto: Ortega y Gasset: la metafora come parola esecutiva. Mario Faraone: Prompted by motives of curiosity: l'orientalismo interculturale di William Beckford, autore di Arabian Tales nell'Inghilterra del XVIII secolo. Pier Francesco Zarcone: Martin Buber e l'anarchismo. Guido Bulla: Who is it that can tell me who I am?. Shakespeare, Stow, White: radici interculturali della Letteratura Australiana di lingua inglese. Rosanna Sirignano: Popular wisdom and marriage customs in a Palestinian village: Proverbs and sayings in Hilma Granqvists work. Mirza Mejdanija: L'ultima stagione dei racconti sveviani. Irma Hibert: Posmodernidad, globalizacion, identidad. Edina Spahi

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270

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Lulu.com

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1326001213

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9781326001216

Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile

The Lord’s Hint of Laughter in the Bhagavadgītā and Beyond

By: Antonio Rigopoulos,Gianni Pellegrini

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Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile

The Lord’s Hint of Laughter in the Bhagavadgītā and Beyond

By: Antonio Rigopoulos,Gianni Pellegrini

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Behind Kṛṣṇa’s Smile

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The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

The Oxford Handbook of the Italian Economy Since Unification

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia

Studi Interculturali 2, 2014

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