Cross Currents
Comparative philosophy engages thinkers worldwide to approach common problems from different perspectives. This approachable survey brings “eastern” and “western” philosophy into a global conversation. Foreign terms are translated and notes give context.
The Threat and Allure of the Magical
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)
Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.
Irresolute Heresiarch
Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.
Young Children as Active Citizens
Young Children as Citizens explores how children can participate in civic life as social actors with rights. It presents research-based case studies where policy-makers and educators listened to children’s views on public issues, enhancing a democratic society.
A philosophical exploration of desire and the divine Ground of being through Eric Voegelin’s ‘flow of presence.’ Learn how anxiety impedes this flow and how living meditatively in the present can restore it, guided by Voegelin, Goethe, and Iris Murdoch.
This book follows migrants from challenging homelands into even more challenging new worlds. Spanning historical periods, these essays use diverse approaches to reveal the experiences of immigrants, providing a fresh perspective on today’s immigration issues.
Strategies of Remembrance
This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.
This is the first comparative study of Kant and Herschel. Their model of the world dismissed the idea of a finite, static cosmos and introduced an evolutionary perspective that had a crucial influence on nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy.
Worlds in Words
These essays analyze the revival of storytelling in contemporary theatre. Using cultural and post-colonial studies, they trace how new performative techniques are changing the relationship between the text, the stage, and the audience.
A Study in Legal History Volume I
Lord Denning was the greatest English judge of the 20th century. He taught that the common law must develop to do practical justice. This book evaluates his judicial approach, his understanding of precedent, individual rights, and the control of power.
Language Acquisition and Development
This collection presents theoretically guided studies on language acquisition and pathology by leading researchers. Using a comparative perspective with data from several languages, it offers an updated picture of current issues for students and professionals.
Through the Mirror
This broad volume on Tarkovsky spans from classical film theories to theological analyses, an approach seriously neglected until now. This inspiring collection of critical essays strikes a compelling pose between cinematic and theological scholarship.
Where does inspiration come from? Is it the end result of hard work, or is it serendipitous? Leading scientific and theological practitioners explore this question, seeking convergence between two areas of human discourse often believed to be opposed.
Culture, Communion and Recovery
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
This long-overdue study illuminates the work of Jōji Yuasa, a great Japanese composer. His captivating music is an encounter between a Western avant-garde aesthetic and the productive thought of Japanese Zen, linked to deep, native roots often opaque to Western ears.
This collection explores Pietism and revivalism as attempts to resist secularizing tendencies in the modern world. Paradoxically, they were themselves modern, building a counteroffensive of rechristianization using all contemporary means of communication.
The Irish Celebrating
This collection of essays explores the dual aspects of celebrating in Ireland—‘the festive’ and ‘the tragic’. Insightful essays examine how feasts, literature, and commemorations have shaped Ireland’s past, present, and national identity.
In FATA, “the most dangerous place in the world,” a heroic tribal resistance against the Taliban and Al-Qaida has been widely ignored. Based on extensive ground research, this book reveals the indigenous people’s blood-soaked struggle for the first time.
This book frees the ‘lamp genies’ from dictionaries, discussing their role in expressing cultural aspects of language, with special reference to English. It is for anyone interested in the juice of culture that can be fruitfully extracted from dictionary entries.
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