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Heavenly Merchandize

How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

By: Mark Valeri

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Heavenly Merchandize

How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

By: Mark Valeri

Focusing on the economic culture of colonial New England, Heavenly Merchandize views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England. --From publisher's description.

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Princeton University Press

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0691162174

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English Biography in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mark Longaker

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English Biography in the Eighteenth Century

By: Mark Longaker

The growth and maturity of life-writing, especially in the works of Johnson and Boswell, with an incidental picture of the times.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512803707

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Nature's Return

An Environmental History of Congaree National Park

By: Mark Kinzer

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Nature's Return

An Environmental History of Congaree National Park

By: Mark Kinzer

From exploitation to preservation, the complex history of one of the Southeast's most important natural areas and South Carolina's only national park Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation's largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands, but in truth its history is far different. In Nature's Return, Mark Kinzer examines the successive waves of inhabitants, visitors, and landowners of this region by synthesizing information from property and census records, studies of forest succession, tree-ring analyses, slave narratives, and historical news accounts. Established in 1976, Congaree National Park contains within its boundaries nearly twenty-seven thousand acres of protected uplands, floodplains, and swamps. Once exploited by humans for farming, cattle grazing, plantation agriculture, and logging, the park area is now used gently for recreation and conservation. Although the impact of farming, grazing, and logging in the park was far less extensive than in other river swamps across the Southeast, it is still evident to those who know where to look. Cultivated in corn and cotton during the nineteenth century, the land became the site of extensive logging operations soon after the Civil War, a practice that continued intermittently into the late twentieth century. From burning canebrakes to clearing fields and logging trees, inhabitants of the lower Congaree valley have modified the floodplain environment both to ensure their survival and, over time, to generate wealth. In this they behaved no differently than people living along other major rivers in the South Atlantic Coastal Plain. Today Congaree National Park is a forest of vast flats and winding sloughs where champion trees dot the landscape. Indeed its history of human use and conservation make it a valuable laboratory for the study not only of flora and fauna but also of anthropology and modern history. As the impact of human disturbance fades, the Congaree's stature as one of the most important natural areas in the eastern United States only continues to grow.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611177677

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Weird Indiana

Your Travel Guide to Indiana's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Marimen,James A. Willis,Troy Taylor

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Weird Indiana

Your Travel Guide to Indiana's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

By: Mark Marimen,James A. Willis,Troy Taylor

Discover the places in Indiana where tourists usually don't venture-- it's chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402754523

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Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics

By: Joseph B. Kadane,Mark J. Schervish,Teddy Seidenfeld

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Rethinking the Foundations of Statistics

By: Joseph B. Kadane,Mark J. Schervish,Teddy Seidenfeld

This important collection of essays is a synthesis of foundational studies in Bayesian decision theory and statistics. An overarching topic of the collection is understanding how the norms for Bayesian decision making should apply in settings with more than one rational decision maker and then tracing out some of the consequences of this turn for Bayesian statistics. There are four principal themes to the collection: cooperative, non-sequential decisions; the representation and measurement of 'partially ordered' preferences; non-cooperative, sequential decisions; and pooling rules and Bayesian dynamics for sets of probabilities. The volume will be particularly valuable to philosophers concerned with decision theory, probability, and statistics, statisticians, mathematicians, and economists.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521649757

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Rethinking Rural Studies

By: David L. Brown,Mark Shucksmith

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Rethinking Rural Studies

By: David L. Brown,Mark Shucksmith

Rethinking Rural Studies presents an explicitly trans-disciplinary perspective on rural social science. David L. Brown and Mark Shucksmith identify emerging issues and research avenues on the topic, highlighting opportunities for rural studies to contribute towards greater collective wellbeing.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1800881789

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Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels

Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot

By: Mark J. Temmer

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Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels

Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot

By: Mark J. Temmer

European literary history teems with prejudices. Nowhere perhaps is bias more evident than in the field of Anglo-French relations of the eighteenth century. In England looms the formidable figure of Samuel Johnson, while the French-speaking world is dominated by Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot. Samuel Johnson thought little of Voltaire and never mentioned Diderot. That he wanted to banish Rousseau to the American colonies is well known. All three men were, in Johnson's mind, infidels to the Christian order of society. In Samuel Johnson and Three Infidels, Mark Temmer reevaluates dogmatic views and critical commonplaces that have encrusted these relationships by comparing representative works of the three Continental authors to corresponding works and realities embodied and created by Samuel Johnson. After reviewing existing harmonies and dissonances between France and England, Temmer turns to the lives of Johnson and Rousseau, interpreting them as ontological masterpieces made visible mainly in Rousseau's Confessions and in biographies of Johnson by James Boswell and Hester Piozzi, both of whom insist on remarkable affinities between the two men. In the words of Mrs. Piozzi, they were "alike as sensations of frost and fire." Despite their opposing doctrines, Temmer reveals a pietism in Rousseau that often matches in intensity Johnson's otherworldly yearnings. Temmer moves from this comparison into a discussion of Candide and Rasselas, works published within months of each other in 1759. Integrating Voltaire's satire and Johnson's moral tale into the philosophical history of the age, Temmer goes on to uncover shared moments of laughter and music, ringing out against the gray background of a life in which, for both men, "much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed." Finally, exploring Johnson's Life of Richard Savage and Diderot's Le Neveu de Rameau, Temmer suggests the strong possibility that Diderot's masterpiece may have been influenced by Johnson's biography as well as by Savage's own An Author to be Lett. In this book, Temmer moves beyond the boundaries that have traditionally defined eighteenth-century scholarship on either shore of the English Channel. Creating a cross-cultural conversation bounded only by the lives and interests of his subjects, Temmer relates Johnson to Continental literature and defines his innovative role in a tradition that leads to Hegel, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333751

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Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

By: Mark Christian Thompson

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Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

By: Mark Christian Thompson

Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between left-wing and right-wing interests: for the left, jazz marked the death knell of authoritarian Prussian society; for the right, jazz was complicit as an American import threatening the chaos of modernization and mass politics. This conflict was resolved in the early 1930s as the left abandoned jazz in the face of Nazi victory, having come to see the music in collusion with the totalitarian culture industry. Mark Christian Thompson recounts the story of this intellectual trajectory and describes how jazz came to be associated with repressive, virulently racist fascism in Germany. By examining writings by Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, T.W. Adorno, and Klaus Mann, and archival photographs and images, Thompson brings together debates in German, African American, and jazz studies, and charts a new path for addressing antiblack racism in cultural criticism and theory.

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State University of New York Press

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1438469888

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Station 12

By: Mark Gallant

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Station 12

By: Mark Gallant

Station 12 is the Boston-based headquarters for the F.A.P.A., a special-ops division of the Justice Department. Its agents are highly-trained, highly-skilled operatives who work under the cover of darkness, charged with protecting an unsuspecting public from things that go bump in the night. Entangled in the realm of the occult, Brady Rizzatto and Jake Donovan (two of the departments top agents) are constantly fighting for their lives against vampires, zombies, werewolves, and any other creature of legend that might cross their path. Their adventures are chronicled here for the first time, as Brady and Jake find themselves on the trail of a renegade vampire who may hold the secret to a decades-old contagion, as well as determine if a mysterious new ally is really friend or foe.

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1467065978

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The Unilateral Presidency and the News Media

The Politics of Framing Executive Power

By: Mark Major

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The Unilateral Presidency and the News Media

The Politics of Framing Executive Power

By: Mark Major

Media coverage of presidential actions can not only serve journalistic purposes, but can also act as a check against unilateral decision making. The book seeks to uncover how the news media has worked to curtail overreaching power within the executive branch, demonstrating how the fourth estate keeps presidential overreach at bay.

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Springer

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1137387890

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Blind Justice

By: Mark Anthony Taylor

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Blind Justice

By: Mark Anthony Taylor

Its just your typical detective story: local baddies start dropping like flies, hard drugs begin appearing on the streets, and rumors of a ruthless kingpin named Protagoras begin striking fear into criminals and police alike. But Detective Blake Justice is anything but typical. With a hulking frame, toothpick in mouth, and bulletproof vest he wears everywhere, Justice can handle any situation. But theres also his new partner, his paranoid mother, the elementary librarian, the gas station employee, his long-haired Dachshund, and a prostitute. For a detective who sees the world as good and evil, Justice will depend on an unlikely cast of characters to help him expose the person behind the rumors and bring a violent psychopath to Justiceerjustice.

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The King Of California

J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

By: Mark Arax,Rick Wartzman

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The King Of California

J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire

By: Mark Arax,Rick Wartzman

The fascinating story of a cotton magnate whose voracious appetite for land drove him to create the first big agricultural empire of the Central Valley of California, and shaped the landscape for decades to come. J.G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields." The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s,drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world. Indeed, the sophistication of Boswell 's agricultural operation -from lab to field to gin -- is unrivaled anywhere. Much more than a business story, this is a sweeping social history that details the saga of cotton growers who were chased from the South by the boll weevil and brought their black farmhands to California. It is a gripping read with cameos by a cast of famous characters, from Cecil B. DeMille to Cesar Chavez.

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PublicAffairs

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0786752793

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The Bilderberg Group

Facts & Fiction

By: Mark Dice

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The Bilderberg Group

Facts & Fiction

By: Mark Dice

Every spring since 1954, a group of approximately one hundred of the world’s most powerful businessmen, politicians, media moguls, and international royalty meet in secret for several days to discuss the course of the world. Called the Bilderberg Group after the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeck, Holland where their first meeting was held, this off the record annual gathering is said to be where the globalist puppet masters plot and scheme. Does this group of power elite develop new political, economic, and cultural policies that are then covertly implemented by their underlings? Do they choose who our world leaders will be, including the next president of the United States? Is the Bilderberg Group a shadow government? Are they the Illuminati? Why has the mainstream media had a complete blackout regarding their meetings for decades? Who attends? And who pays for it? Is this “just another conference?” Or, are the “conspiracy theorists” right? What is the evidence? How were they first discovered? What are they doing? And should the public be concerned? Secret society expert Mark Dice will show you the hidden history, financial records, and some of the insider leaks showing how this small group’s consensus has staggering effects on the political landscape of the world, global economies, wars, and more, as he uncovers The Bilderberg Group: Facts & Fiction.

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0988726890

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The Price of Redemption

The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England

By: Mark A. Peterson

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The Price of Redemption

The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England

By: Mark A. Peterson

Beginning with the first colonists and continuing down to the present, the dominant narrative of New England Puritanism has maintained that piety and prosperity were enemies, that the rise of commerce delivered a mortal blow to the fervor of the founders, and that later generations of Puritans fell away from their religious heritage as they moved out across the New England landscape. This book offers a new alternative to the prevailing narrative, which has been frequently criticized but heretofore never adequately replaced. The authors argument follows two main strands. First, he shows that commercial development, rather than being detrimental to religion, was necessary to sustain Puritan religious culture. It was costly to establish and maintain a vital Puritan church, for the needs were many, including educated ministers who commanded substantial salaries; public education so that the laity could be immersed in the Bible and devotional literature (substantial expenses in themselves); the building of meeting houses; and the furnishing of communion tables--all and more were required for the maintenance of Puritan piety. Second, the author analyzes how the Puritans gradually developed the evangelical impulse to broadcast the seeds of grace as widely as possible. The spread of Puritan churches throughout most of New England was fostered by the steady devotion of material resources to the maintenance of an intense and demanding religion, a devotion made possible by the belief that money sown to the spirit would reap divine rewards. In 1651, about 20,000 English colonists were settled in some 30 New England towns, each with a newly formed Puritan church. A century later, the population had grown to 350,000, and there were 500 meetinghouses for Puritan churches. This book tells the story of this remarkable century of growth and adaptation through intertwined histories of two Massachusetts churches, one in Boston and one in Westfield, a village on the remote western frontier, from their foundings in the 1660s to the religious revivals of the 1740s. In conclusion, the author argues that the Great Awakening was a product of the continuous cultivation of traditional religion, a cultural achievement built on New Englands economic development, rather than an indictment and rejection of its Puritan heritage.

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Stanford University Press

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0804729123

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Economic Theory in Retrospect

By: Mark Blaug

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Economic Theory in Retrospect

By: Mark Blaug

This book, first published in 1997, is a history of economic thought from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521577012

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9780521577014

The Project

By: Mark Macy

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The Project

By: Mark Macy

The Project" takes a penetrating look at what it really means to be human. Macy supports secrets to man's ancient heritage with hard scientific evidence and rich legends from various cultures.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1606937499

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Approaches to interpreting Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein”. Frankenstein’s monster, the creation of terror, and genre-related questions

A GRIN Anthology

By: Gabriele Grenkowski,Mark Schauer,Sandra Kuberski,Céline Sun

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Approaches to interpreting Mary Shelley's “Frankenstein”. Frankenstein’s monster, the creation of terror, and genre-related questions

A GRIN Anthology

By: Gabriele Grenkowski,Mark Schauer,Sandra Kuberski,Céline Sun

Anthology from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: This anthology contains six term papers. The first paper deals with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of the “noble savage“ and the use of this concept by Mary Shelley as a main theme in her famous novel "Frankenstein". In academia, 15 years can see a variety of interpretations of even the most famous scholarly novels. In the second text, witness the best academia has debating the gender and sexual orientation of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, along with his motives and feelings. The third paper shall examine the way in which Mary Shelley creates an atmosphere of terror in her novel. Therefore both the preface of the 1818 version of Frankenstein, written by Percy B. Shelley, as well as the 1831 introduction by Mary Shelley shall be analyzed on the author’s original intention and the idea behind Frankenstein. The transgression of limits is a central theme of the novels by Dostoyevsky and Shelley. The stories examine the world of thought and action of two characters feeling trapped within certain limits and trying to break through them, while in their failures other limitations manifest themselves. That's the topic of the fourth text. Based on the thesis, that the works of James Whale and Richard Brinsely Peake use comic relief in various ways and differ amongst each other, the fifth paper attempts to investigate in which way, respectively to what extent “Presumption” and “The bride of Frankenstein” adapt Shelley’s novel whereby the emphasis will be on the incidence of comic relief and the impact of using such a rhetorical device. The last paper answers questions like: What is Shelley's style of writing? Which elements does the novel Frankenstein consist of, and what makes it differ from other Gothic novels? The paper's aim is to answer these questions and to give information about the question: Is Frankenstein a typical Gothic novel?

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GRIN Verlag

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3389072705

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Mark Twain Speaking

By: Mark Twain

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Mark Twain Speaking

By: Mark Twain

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587297191

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9781587297199

Empire Building

Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

By: Mark Crinson

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Empire Building

Orientalism and Victorian Architecture

By: Mark Crinson

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415139414

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9780415139410

Altarity

By: Mark C. Taylor

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Altarity

By: Mark C. Taylor

Readers familiar with Mark C. Taylor's previous writing will immediately recognize Altarity as a remarkable synthetic project. This work combines the analytic depth and detail of Taylor's earlier studies of Kierkegaard and Hegel with the philosophical and theological scope of his highly acclaimed Erring. In Altarity, Taylor develops a genealogy of otherness and difference that is based on the principle of creative juxtaposition. Rather than relying on a historical or chronological survey of crucial moments in modern philosophical thinking, he explores the complex question of difference through the strategies of contrast, resonance, and design. Taylor brings together the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Bataille, Kristeva, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida, and Kierkegaard to fashion a broad intellectual scheme. Situated in an interdisciplinary discourse, Altarity signifies a harnessing of continental and American habits of intellectual thought and illustrates the singularity that emerges from such a configuration. As such, the book functions as a mirror of our intellectual moment and offers the academy a rigorous way of acknowledging the limitations of its own interpretive practices.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226791386

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