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Images of Savages

Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture

By: Gustav Jahoda

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Images of Savages

Ancient Roots of Modern Prejudice in Western Culture

By: Gustav Jahoda

In Images of Savages, the distinguished psychologist Gustav Jahoda advances the provocative thesis that racism and the perpetual alienation of a racialized 'other' are a central leagacy of the Western tradition. Finding the roots of these demonizations deep in the myth and traditions of classical antiquity, he examines how the monstrous humanoid creatures of ancient myth and the fabulous "wild men" of the medieval European woods shaped early modern explorers' interpretations of the New World they encountered. Drawing on a global scale the schematic of the Western imagination of its "others," Jahoda locates the persistent identification of the racialized other with cannibalism, sexual abandon and animal drives. Turning to Europe's scientific tradition, Jahoda traces this imagery through the work of 18th century scientists on the relationship between humans and apes, the new racist biology of the 19th century studies of "savagery" as an arrested evolutionary state, and the assignment, especially of blacks, to a status intermediate between humans and animals, or that of children in need of paternal protection from Western masters. Finding in these traditional tropes a central influence upon the most current psychological theory, Jahoda presents a startling historical continuity of racial figuration that persists right up to the present day. Far from suggesting a program for the eradication of racial stereotypes, this remarkable effort nevertheless isolates the most significant barriers to equality buried deep within the Western tradition, and proposes a potentially redemptive self-awareness that will contribute to the gradual dismantling of racial injustice and alienation. Gustav Jahoda demonstrates how deeply rooted Western perceptions going back more than a thousand years are still feeding racial prejudice today. This highly original socio-historical contextualisation will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, sociology and anthropology, and to all those interested in the sources of racial prejudice.

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Routledge

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1317724909

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9781317724902

Nine Letters on Landscape Painting

Written in the Years 1815-1824; with a Letter from Goethe by Way of Introduction

By: Carl Gustav Carus

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Nine Letters on Landscape Painting

Written in the Years 1815-1824; with a Letter from Goethe by Way of Introduction

By: Carl Gustav Carus

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science. Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich. The first edition appears here in English for the first time.

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Getty Publications

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0892366745

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9780892366743

Gustav Mahler

Letters to His Wife

By: Gustav Mahler

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Gustav Mahler

Letters to His Wife

By: Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler and Alma Maria Schindler were married in... 1902. The bride was twenty-one and a half years old, her groom a few months short of forty-two. Apart from their substantial age difference, it seems to have been the very disparity of their intellectual and social backgrounds that drew them together. Mahler was attracted to Alma by her beauty, her alert mind and emotional intensity. Though aware that he possessed by far the broader outlook, he trusted in Alma's ability and willingness to learn from him."--from the Introduction"Once the stiffness of unfamiliarity has been softened by a few months of marriage, Mahler's style of correspondence with Alma is generally simple, direct, and astonishingly down-to-earth. In a manner akin to that of his musical style, he spikes his language with witticisms and double-entendres, colloquialisms and quotations from librettos and classical works of literature."--from the PrefaceThis profusely illustrated collection of Gustav Mahler's letters to his wife Alma is more comprehensive than any previous edition; it contains 350 letters, 188 of them until now unpublished. Since 1995, when the German edition of this book was first published, two events have served to expand its horizons: the publication in 1997 of the complete text of Alma's early diaries, dating from January 1898 to March 1902, and the publication in 2003 of a catalogue of all Mahler letters acquired from the Moldenhauer Archives. With the aid of this new material, the editors were also able to revise the dates assigned to many of the letters. Commentaries and annotations throughout the book have been corrected and expanded annotations included. The editors' introduction provides a biographical context for the correspondence that follows.

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Cornell University Press

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0801443407

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9780801443404

The Songs of Jean Sibelius

Poetry, Music, Performance

By: Gustav Djupsjöbacka

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The Songs of Jean Sibelius

Poetry, Music, Performance

By: Gustav Djupsjöbacka

A landmark in Sibelius scholarship, this is the first book that presents all of Sibelius's solo art songs in their musical and aesthetic context. Indispensable for scholars and performers alike. This is the first book to discuss the complete solo art songs of Jean Sibelius and to locate them in their musical, literary and artistic context. The book is organized around the poets Sibelius set to music and the literary themes associated with them, thus providing invaluable information for the scholar, student and performer. The musical and aesthetic contextualisation of the songs will help to enable new interpretations on the performance stage.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783277815

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9781783277810

Revolution and Other Writings

A Political Reader

By: Gustav Landauer

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Revolution and Other Writings

A Political Reader

By: Gustav Landauer

“Landauer is the most important agitator of the radical and revolutionary movement in the entire country.” This is how Gustav Landauer is described in a German police file from 1893. Twenty-six years later, Landauer would die at the hands of reactionary soldiers who overthrew the Bavarian Council Republic, a three-week attempt to realize libertarian socialism amidst the turmoil of post-World War I Germany. It was the last chapter in the life of an activist, writer, and mystic who Paul Avrich calls “the most influential German anarchist intellectual of the twentieth century.” This is the first comprehensive collection of Landauer writings in English. It includes one of his major works, Revolution, thirty additional essays and articles, and a selection of correspondence. The texts cover Landauer’s entire political biography, from his early anarchism of the 1890s to his philosophical reflections at the turn of the century, the subsequent establishment of the Socialist Bund, his tireless agitation against the war, and the final days among the revolutionaries in Munich. Additional chapters collect Landauer’s articles on radical politics in the US and Mexico, and illustrate the scope of his writing with texts on corporate capital, language, education, and Judaism. The book includes an extensive introduction, commentary, and bibliographical information, compiled by the editor and translator Gabriel Kuhn as well as a preface by Richard Day.

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PM Press

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1604864133

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9781604864137

Attraction and Danger of Alien Religion

Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Karl-Gustav Sandelin

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Attraction and Danger of Alien Religion

Studies in Early Judaism and Christianity

By: Karl-Gustav Sandelin

Early Judaism and early Christianity emerged during the Hellenistic and early Roman imperial era. They were, naturally, confronted with the Hellenistic and the Roman religion. The question therefore arose as to whether Jews or Christians were free to participate in religious activities alien to the religious heritage of their own. In his articles, Karl-Gustav Sandelin presents documentary material showing that this problem was a burning issue within Judaism from the beginning of the Hellenistic period until the end of the first century C.E. Several Jewish individuals converted to the Hellenistic or the Roman religion. Such behavior was also discussed and generally condemned, for example by the Books of Maccabees and authors such as Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus. A similar problem is to be found in the New Testament, notably in the letters of Paul, especially in the first letter to the Corinthians and in the Revelation of John.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161517423

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9783161517426

Catholic Church and Christian State: A Series of Essays on the Relation of the Chruch to the Civil Power

Vol. I

By: Joseph Adam Gustav Hergenröther

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Catholic Church and Christian State: A Series of Essays on the Relation of the Chruch to the Civil Power

Vol. I

By: Joseph Adam Gustav Hergenröther

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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338549883X

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9783385498839

The Complete Opera Book

By: Gustav Kobbé

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The Complete Opera Book

By: Gustav Kobbé

Reproduction of the original: The Complete Opera Book by Gustav Kobbé

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3752333154

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9783752333152

Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects

By: Kurt Gustav Goblirsch

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Consonant Strength in Upper German Dialects

By: Kurt Gustav Goblirsch

The present study examines the problem of fortis and lenis in approximately 150 dialects of southern Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland, Alsace, and the German-speaking minorities in Italy, Hungary and the former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Upper German dialects are of particular interest from this point of view, because voice and aspiration, the features traditionally associated with strength, are generally absent. Changes related to strength such as lenition, vowel lengthening, simplification of geminates, and sandhi phenomena receive special attention. The findings are put into their appropriate context by comparison to the results of research on the status of strength in standard German and the modern Germanic languages. Although the realization of strength is language-specific and varies according to word-position, it can be equated with consonant length in standard German and Upper German dialects.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027272867

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Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss

Correspondence 1888-1911

By: Gustav Mahler,Richard Strauss

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Gustav Mahler--Richard Strauss

Correspondence 1888-1911

By: Gustav Mahler,Richard Strauss

Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911—the year of the first performance of Der Rosenkavalier—they kept in touch. Mahler himself described their relationship as that of two miners tunneling from opposite directions with the hope of eventually meeting. This first publication of their correspondence, which includes twenty-five previously unknown Strauss letters, offers a portrait of two men who were as antithetical in their musical means and goals as in their temperaments and personalities, but who exercised a strong fascination for one another. These sixty-three letters show both composers advancing in their careers as they battled against adverse conditions in the musical world at the turn of the century. They present Mahler's energetic support of Strauss's Symphonia Domestica, which Mahler conducted in 1904 and, in turn, Strauss's championing of Mahler's music, especially the Second and Third Symphonies. The correspondence is fully annotated and is supplemented with a major essay by Herta Blaukopf. "Unfailingly absorbing. . . . An indispensable addition to the literature on these composers."—Norman Del Mar, Times Literary Supplement

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University of Chicago Press

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0226057682

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9780226057682

What and How to Read. A Guide to Recent English Literature

By: Gustav Adolph Fidelio Van Rhyn

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What and How to Read. A Guide to Recent English Literature

By: Gustav Adolph Fidelio Van Rhyn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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3385397014

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9783385397019

Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 in Full Score

By: Gustav Mahler

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Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 in Full Score

By: Gustav Mahler

Two brilliantly contrasting masterworks ? one scored for a massive ensemble, the other for small orchestra and soloist ? reprinted from authoritative Viennese editions.

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Courier Corporation

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0486261662

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9780486261669

Hermeneutics and Its Problems

With Selected Essays in Phenomenology

By: Gustav Shpet

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Hermeneutics and Its Problems

With Selected Essays in Phenomenology

By: Gustav Shpet

This book details a history of the methodology of textual interpretation from Ancient Greece to the 20th century. It presents a complete English translation of Hermeneutics and Its Problems, written by Russian philosopher Gustav Gustavovich Shpet, along with insightful commentary. Written in 1918, Shpet's text remained unpublished in its original Russian until the collapse of the Soviet Union. This engaging translation will be of value to anyone interested in early phenomenology, Russian intellectual history, as well as the divergence of phenomenology and the analytic philosophy of language. The volume also features translations of five key essays written by Shpet. The first presents an extended elaboration of a non-egological conception of consciousness on Husserlian grounds that considerably predates the well-known arguments of early Sartre and Gurwitsch. The second details the rudiments of a phenomenological philosophy of history that traces a central theme back to Parmenides. The next two reveal Shpet’s abiding philosophical interest in combating skepticism and what he took to be the reigning neo-Kantian model by which philosophy is a handmaiden to mathematical physics. The final one features a terse statement of Shpet’s overall philosophical viewpoint, written during the early years of the Stalinist period. Shpet offers an example of one facet of philosophy from a phenomenological viewpoint, demonstrating the progress as well as the deficiencies of successive eras along the historical journey. In doing so, he also gradually reveals the need for a theory of signs, interpretation, and understanding. This collection brings together key documents for assessing Shpet’s hermeneutic phenomenology and his perceived need to develop a phenomenological philosophy of language.

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Springer

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3319989413

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9783319989419

James Kelman

By: H. Gustav Klaus

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James Kelman

By: H. Gustav Klaus

One of the most powerful and provocative writers to have emerged in Britain in recent years, James Kelman has engendered a good deal of criticism over his use of 'bad' language. This text examines his work, exploring the social and political issues that he raises.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746310641

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9780746310649

Dialectical Materialism

A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union

By: Gustav A. Wetter

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Dialectical Materialism

A Historical and Systematic Survey of Philosophy in the Soviet Union

By: Gustav A. Wetter

Dialectical Materialism (1958) surveys the history of dialectical materialism from its Hegelian beginnings to the death of Stalin, and its sequel in the celebrated XXth Party Congress of the C.P.S.U. It also presents a systematic account of the theory as it was formulated and discussed by the philosophers of the Soviet Union.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040184332

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9781040184332

The Mahler Family Letters

By: Gustav Mahler

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The Mahler Family Letters

By: Gustav Mahler

Hundreds of the letters that Gustav Mahler addressed to his parents and sisters survive, yet they have remained virtually unknown. Spanning the mid-1880s through 1910, the letters record the excitement of a young man with a burgeoning career as a conductor and provide a glimpse into his day-to-day activities rehearsing and conducting operas and concerts in Budapest and Hamburg, and composing his first symphonies and songs. On the private side, they document his parents' illnesses and deaths and the struggles of his siblings Alois, Justine, Otto, and Emma." "The letters also give Mahler's impressions of contemporaries such as Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Hans von Bulow, as well as his personal feelings about significant events, such as his first big success - the completion of Carl Maria von Weber's Die drei Pintos in 1889. In the fall of 1894, the character of the letters changes when Justine and Emma come to live with Mahler in Hamburg and then Vienna, removing the need to communicate by letter about quotidian matters. At this point, the letters relay noteworthy events such as Mahler's campaign to be named director of the Vienna Court Opera, his conducting tours throughout Europe, and his courtship of Alma Schindler."--BOOK JACKET.

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New York : Oxford University Press

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0195140656

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9780195140651

Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

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Optimal Control of Nonlinear Processes

With Applications in Drugs, Corruption, and Terror

By: Dieter Grass,Jonathan P. Caulkins,Gustav Feichtinger,Gernot Tragler,Doris A. Behrens

Dynamic optimization is rocket science – and more. This volume teaches researchers and students alike to harness the modern theory of dynamic optimization to solve practical problems. These problems not only cover those in space flight, but also in emerging social applications such as the control of drugs, corruption, and terror. This volume is designed to be a lively introduction to the mathematics and a bridge to these hot topics in the economics of crime for current scholars. The authors celebrate Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle – that crowning intellectual achievement of human understanding. The rich theory explored here is complemented by numerical methods available through a companion web site.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540776478

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9783540776475

Science of Mythology

Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

By: Carl Gustav Jung,Karl Kerényi

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Science of Mythology

Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

By: Carl Gustav Jung,Karl Kerényi

When Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi got together to collaborate on this book, their aim was to elevate the study of mythology to a science. Kerenyi wrote on two of the most ubiquitous myths, the Divine Child and The Maiden, supporting the core 'stories' with both an introduction and a conclusion. Jung then provided a psychological analysis of both myths. He defined myth as a story about heroes interacting with the gods. Having long studied dreams and the subconscious, Jung identified certain dream patterns common to everyone. These 'archetypes' have developed through the centuries, and enable modern people to react to situations in much the same way as our ancestors. From nuclear annihilation to AIDS and Ebola, we continue to engage the gods in battle. Science of Mythology provides an account of the meaning and the purpose of mythic themes that is linked to modern life: the heroic battles between good and evil of yore are still played out, reflected in contemporary fears.

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Psychology Press

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0415267420

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9780415267427

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