Insights To Universal History

Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 019285352X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History: A Very Short Introduction written by John Arnold and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-02-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with an examination of how historians work, this "Very Short Introduction" aims to explore history in a general, pithy, and accessible manner, rather than to delve into specific periods.

Author : Amélie Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521874637
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim written by Amélie Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work in the philosophy of history.

Author : Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209294
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Opera and Consciousness. written by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of consciousness has developed considerably over the past ten years, with an emphasis on seeking to explain subjective experience. Our understanding of key questions relating to the performing arts, in theory and practice, benefits from the insights of consciousness studies. Theatre, Opera and Consciousness discusses selected concerns of theatre history from a consciousness studies perspective, develops a new perspective on ethical implications of theatre practice, reassesses the concept of the guru, and offers a new approach to the actor’s cool-down. The book expands the framework from theatre to opera, and presents a new consideration of the spiritual aspects of singing in opera, conducting for opera, and the opera experience for singers and spectators alike.

Author : Nigel Kelly
Publisher : Pearson Education South Asia
ISBN 13 : 9789812443663
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insight History 1 written by Nigel Kelly and published by Pearson Education South Asia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan F. Buck-Morss
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973340
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History written by Susan F. Buck-Morss and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2009-02-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates. Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and as it reaches for a common humanity.

Author : Jürgen Osterhammel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169802
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transformation of the World written by Jürgen Osterhammel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century," taking readers from New York to New Delhi, from the Latin American revolutions to the Taiping Rebellion, from the perils and promise of Europe's transatlantic labor markets to the hardships endured by nomadic, tribal peoples across the planet. Osterhammel describes a world increasingly networked by the telegraph, the steamship, and the railways. He explores the changing relationship between human beings and nature, looks at the importance of cities, explains the role slavery and its abolition played in the emergence of new nations, challenges the widely held belief that the nineteenth century witnessed the triumph of the nation-state, and much more. This is the highly anticipated English edition of the spectacularly successful and critically acclaimed German book, which is also being translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, and French. Indispensable for any historian, The Transformation of the World sheds important new light on this momentous epoch, showing how the nineteenth century paved the way for the global catastrophes of the twentieth century, yet how it also gave rise to pacifism, liberalism, the trade union, and a host of other crucial developments.

Author : Bernard Lonergan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690445
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insight, Volume 3 written by Bernard Lonergan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1992-04-06 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it. In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but also you will possess a fixed base, and invariant pattern, opening upon all further developments of understanding.' The editors of the Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan have established the definitive text for Insight after examining all the variant forms in Lonergan's manuscripts and papers. The volume includes introductory material and annotation to enable the reader to appreciate more fully this challenging work.

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Deep Freedom Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universal History of Legal Thought written by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and published by Deep Freedom Books. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay explores the contradictory coexistence between two approaches to law that have been dominant in all major legal traditions: law as the normative order chosen by the legitimate and effective holders of power in the state and law as a normative order implicit in social life -- a series of detailed models of what relations among people can and should look like in different parts of social experience. The rudimentary form of the first approach is legal thought as the interpretation of law laid down by the sovereign. The simplest form of the second approach is legal thought as authoritative doctrine developed by jurists and judges in the absence of legislation or as its most important source. The central problems of legal theory result from the impossibility of reconciling these two views of law. The solution to those problems is not theoretical; it is practical: the changes in the organization of society, the economy, and the state that would make democratic self-government a reality -- rather than the sham that it continues to be -- and transform the character of both legislation and legal doctrine. Such a practical solution, however, requires, to guide it, a revolution in our thinking about the institutional and ideological regimes, expressed as law, that shape social life. The foremost task of legal thought today, and the answer to the enigmas of its universal history, is to contribute to the development of that way of thinking.

Author : Ronda Chervin
Publisher : CMJ Publishers and Distrib.
ISBN 13 : 9781891280405
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage to Insight written by Ronda Chervin and published by CMJ Publishers and Distrib.. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyage To Insight is an invitation to all those seeking Truth. Designed in the format of a workbook, it helps the seeker take a personal voyage to better understanding oneself. With quotes from some of the greatest thinkers in history, it guides its reader chapter by chapter to answering the questions that make up one's philosophy of life. The author herself has taken this voyage and offers these words to the reader: Insight leads to greater happiness, for light is better than darkness.

Author : Douglas Northrop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118977513
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to World History written by Douglas Northrop and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to World History presents over 30 essays from an international group of historians that both identify continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence in world and global history, and point to directions for further debate. Features a diverse cast of contributors that include established world historians and emerging scholars Explores a wide range of topics and themes, including and the practice of world history, key ideas of world historians, the teaching of world history and how it has drawn upon and challenged "traditional" teaching approaches, and global approaches to writing world history Places an emphasis on non-Anglophone approaches to the topic Considers issues of both scholarship and pedagogy on a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale