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Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

By: Maximilian Forte

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Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

By: Maximilian Forte

In the drive to accumulate ever more global power for the US state and its allies, both political and corporate, the quest for totalization confronts the challenge of "overreach". To operate using smaller efforts to carry larger loads, US strategists have devised what they call "force multipliers". Force multiplication is about "leverage" using partners and proxies in an expanding network. Forces are conceptualized in multi-dimensional terms. Anything in the world of cultural systems, social relationships, and material production can become force multipliers for imperialism, Chapters in this volume present diverse examples of force multiplication, ranging from Plan Colombia to Bulgarian membership in NATO and the US-Israeli relationship, from the New Alliance for Food Security to charitable aid and the control of migration, to the management of secrecy.

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0986802166

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Joseph Ratzinger

Life in the Church and Living Theology: Fundamentals of Ecclesiology

By: Maximilian Heinrich Heim

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Life in the Church and Living Theology: Fundamentals of Ecclesiology

By: Maximilian Heinrich Heim

This is a major work on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger by a highly regarded German theologian, priest and writer. Since his election to the Papacy, Ratzinger's theology, and in particular his ecclesiology (theology of the Church), has been in the limelight of theological and ecumenical discussions. This work studies in detail Ratzinger's ecclesiology in the light of Vatican II, against the ongoing debate about what Vatican II really meant to say about the life of the Church, its liturgy, its worship, its doctirne, its pastoral mission, and more.

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Ignatius Press

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1586171496

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9781586171490

Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter

By: Maximilian de Molière

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Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter

By: Maximilian de Molière

Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506–1557), humanist and privy councillor to popes and kings, has remained an enigmatic figure among Christian Hebraists whose views were little understood. This study leverages Widmanstetter's remarkable collection consisting of hundreds of Jewish manuscripts and printed books, most of which survive to this day. Explore in the first half the story of Jewish book production and collecting in sixteenth-century Europe through Widmanstetter's book acquisitions, librarianship, and correspondence. Delve into his unique perspective on Jewish literature and Kabbalah as the latter half of the study contextualizes the marginal notes in his library with his published works.

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679

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BRILL

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9004689524

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9789004689527

Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation

By: Maximilian Burkard

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Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation

By: Maximilian Burkard

This book focuses on a selection of Machiavelli’s literary pieces, among which are the Mandragola, Belfagor, the Vita di Castruccio, the Epistola, and the Pastorale. As research into literary motif, it raises, across five essays, new evidence on Machiavelli’s sources and suggestions as to where he drew from them (including the works of Livy, Virgil, and Boccaccio). Of the two other essays included, one intimates the way in which Shakespeare seems to have reappropriated Machiavelli’s Mandragola in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, in addition to Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale. The other is concerned with Mantegna’s Minerva Overcoming the Vices and proposes interpretative contexts for several of the painting’s iconographic details. This book will be of interest not only to those specialising in Machiavellian and Shakesperean literature, and the artwork of Mantegna, but also to those curious about how and why pre-Christian works have been drawn upon by subsequent Christian authors.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527570347

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Good Intentions

By: Maximilian Forte

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Good Intentions

By: Maximilian Forte

How do "good intentions" pave the road for empire? Whether it is iatrogenic violence, voluntourism, the misappropriation of gay rights, or NGOs serving as the Trojan Horses of US dominance and neoliberal social reengineering, contributors to this volume expose and analyze the many ways in which the new imperialism involves partitioning the world into tutors and wards, saviours and victims. Underlying the seduction of imperial elite-lore are established modes of socialization and enculturation, ranging from the elaborate and persistent demonization of chief opponents of US empire to the lionization of military actors commonly rendered as heroes. Also scrutinized in this volume are the domestic social and political costs, reaching as far as the displacement of urban populations to make way for the expansion of the informatic industries of empire, paving the way for the unprecedented dominance of corporations in our daily lives.

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0986802158

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Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

Force Multipliers: The Instrumentalities of Imperialism

Joseph Ratzinger

Joseph Ratzinger

Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter

Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter

Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation

Essays on Machiavelli’s Conventional Piety, Literary Inspirations, and Pre-Christian Preoccupation

Good Intentions

Good Intentions

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