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Africa's Social and Religious Quest
A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of the African Situation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This well-crafted book probes the key dimensions of Africa’s existential predicament. It constitutes an intellectual response to a gnawing “African situation”—the starting point for grasping Africa’s social and religious quest. Beyond split explanations of external versus internal factors...
Haskalah and Beyond
The Reception of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the Emergence of Haskalah Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Haskalah and Beyond deals with the Hebrew Haskalah (Enlightenment) — the literary, cultural, and social movement in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe. It represents the emergence of modernism and perhaps the budding of some aspects of secularism in Jewish society, following the efforts of the...
by Michael Sperber
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. Examining a diversity of authors, artists, historical figures, and psychopaths over the course of modern history, this...
Die Schwarze Spinne
The Black Spider
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Die Schwarze Spinne is a religious allegory about morals and religious living in the mid-nineteenth century, written by Jeremias Gotthelf. This work is an interlinear translation of Gotthelf's Die Schwarze Spinne with introductions to both the author and the work itself. In a small Swiss community,...
Reason and the Rule of Faith
Conversations in the Tradition with John Paul II
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, these essays are the fruit of a series of seminars sponsored by the Center for Catholic Studies and the Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With a special focus on the works of John Paul II...
by Steven Strong, Evan Strong
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people. Steven Strong and Evan Strong continue in their investigation into the global impact of Aboriginal people sailing from, never to, Australia no less than 50,000 years ago, paying...
Kierkegaard's Philosophy
Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 1995
Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ourselves. In the second group, Soren Kierkegaard stands alone as a towering figure, a man who revolutionized our concept of the human condition. His insights go to the core of the dilemmas that...
by F. Russell Sullivan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
In this work, Sullivan analyzes the relationship between faith and reason in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Kierkegaard is widely considered to be an irrationalist. Sullivan argues that he views faith as reasonable in a distinct way that must be uncovered. In some of his pseudonymous works, Kierkegaard...
The Triumph of Hate
The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
The Triumph of Hate explains the religious, philosophical, sociopolitical, and historical roots of the rise of Hitler and his movement. Beginning with Paul’s rejection of traditional Judaism, the book accounts for the animosity and estrangement that has shaped the tragic history of Christians and...
Running is Life
Transcending the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and others. Running takes the motion we are all born with (that is the essence of life) and with the individual...
Why Are You Here?
A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Why Are You Here?: A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function,...
English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants
Transnational Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book highlights important but insufficiently documented dimensions of the experience of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States. It focuses on successes and challenges of what might be perceived as “living in two worlds.” The central theme, post-migration transnational...
The Black Book
Wittgenstein and Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Black Book: Wittgenstein and Race attempts to highlight the importance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work for contemporary African American and Africana philosophy. Richard A. Jones argues that Wittgenstein’s early Tractarian views on logical atomism and his later more holistic views from his work...
by Sandro Segre
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This book provides a compact and up-to-date presentation of Jürgen Habermas’ oeuvre, with particular reference to his theory of communicative action. It formulates the concepts of communicative rationality and validity claims, indicates the conditions of a perfect communicative rationality, and...