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Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace

By: Martin C. Kerby

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Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace

By: Martin C. Kerby

Sir Philip Gibbs was one of the most widely read English journalists of the first half of the twentieth century. This coverage of his writing offers a broad insight into British social and political developments, government and press relations, propaganda, and war reporting during the First World War.

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268

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Springer

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1137573015

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9781137573018

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

By: Raymond Martin,John Barresi

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The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

An Intellectual History of Personal Identity

By: Raymond Martin,John Barresi

This book traces the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. From Plato and Aristotle to Freud and Foucault, Raymond Martin and John Barresi explore the works of a wide range of thinkers and reveal the larger intellectual trends, controversies, and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. The authors open with ancient Greece, where the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and the materialistic atomists laid the groundwork for future theories. They then discuss the ideas of the church fathers and medieval and Renaissance philosophers, including St. Paul, Philo, Augustine, Aquinas, and Montaigne. In their coverage of the emergence of a new mechanistic conception of nature in the seventeenth century, Martin and Barresi note a shift away from religious and purely philosophical notions of self and personal identity to more scientific and social conceptions, a trend that has continued to the present day. They explore modern philosophy and psychology, including the origins of different traditions within each discipline, and explain both the theoretical relevance of feminism and gender and ethnic studies and also the ways that Derrida and other recent thinkers have challenged the very idea that a unified self or personal identity even exists. Martin and Barresi cover a number of issues broached by philosophers and psychologists, such as the existence of a fixed and unchanging self and whether the concept of the soul has a use outside of religious contexts. They address the question of whether notions of the soul and the self are still viable in today's world. Together, they reveal the fascinating ways in which great thinkers have grappled with these and other questions and the astounding impact their ideas have had on the development of self-understanding in the west.

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402

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Columbia University Press

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0231137451

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9780231137454

Naturalization of the Soul

Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Barresi,Raymond Martin

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Naturalization of the Soul

Self and Personal Identity in the Eighteenth Century

By: John Barresi,Raymond Martin

Naturalization of the Soul charts the development of the concepts of soul and self in Western thought, from Plato to the present. It fills an important gap in intellectual history by being the first book to emphasize the enormous intellectual transformation in the eighteenth century, when the religious 'soul' was replaced first by a philosophical 'self' and then by a scientific 'mind'. The authors show that many supposedly contemporary theories of the self were actually discussed in the eighteenth century, and recognize the status of William Hazlitt as one of the most important Personal Identity theorists of the British Enlightenment, for his direct relevance to contemporary thinking. Now available in paperback, Naturaliazation of the Soul is essential reading for anyone interested in the issues at the core of the Western philosophical tradition.

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220

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Routledge

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1134606028

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9781134606023

Book's by Martin C. Kerby

Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace

Sir Philip Gibbs and English Journalism in War and Peace

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self

Naturalization of the Soul

Naturalization of the Soul

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