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The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

This book investigates the link between human capabilities and the preconditions for social progress through an engagement with the theological anthropology of Swiss theologian Emil Brunner (1889–1966). It places Brunner’s thought in dialogue with selected contributors from the contemporary social sciences examining approaches from economics sociology and philosophy as put forward by Gary S. Becker Christian Smith and Martha Nussbaum. This dialogic format helps to crystallise both agreements and differences and thus facilitate greater understanding between theology and other disciplines. Questions explored in the discussion relate to the emergence of human nature (the person) and the capabilities human beings possess as well as how these develop in a social context. The author focuses in particular on the impact of sin (the Fall) and considers the mixed blessings of economic progress. By providing pointers on how to bring back the human person in social disciplines the book hopes to contribute to improved understanding of the ethical dimension of social progress and human flourishing. It will be of particular interest to scholars of analytic and systematic theology but also scholars from economics and social sciences with openness to theological engagement. | The Fall of Humankind and Social Progress Engagements with Emil Brunner

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Rosa Luxemburg in Action For Revolution and Democracy

Rosa Luxemburg in Action For Revolution and Democracy

Neither a work concerned only with her Marxist writings nor a personal biography concerned with her private life this book examines Rosa Luxemburg’s ideas on revolution and democracy and how the two are bound together by her views on the importance of political action. Stretching historically from 1863 to the present this book covers in great detail the history and developments within the German SPD during her time the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions the German Revolution the outbreak of World War I and the imperialism that fuelled it. It then moves on to consider political and historical developments after her death and examines her arguments on revolution and democracy in the light of the post-revolutionary government in Nicaragua: the one violent revolution that sought to establish social democracy (but failed). Also covered are aspects of Rosa Luxemburg’s life her important writings and actions the relevant Marxist debates in which she was involved including for example Bernstein’s arguments on social democracy through reform and with Lenin on revolutionary organization. A welcomed and timely collection presenting an important examination of the political and social context in which Luxemburg developed her activities and views and a complete understanding of the history of social democracy the revolutionary times of a century ago and the relevance of their events and ideas for more recent revolutions for democracy in the twenty-first century. | Rosa Luxemburg in Action For Revolution and Democracy

GBP 48.99
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Morals and Revelation

Morals and Revelation

Originally published in 1951 this book discusses morality and religion with special attention being paid to the theologian Emil Brunner. It critically examines the state of ethical thinking in the first half of the twentieth century and examines the question of freedom and guilt particularly in relation to psychological theories. The issue of collective guilt is also subjected to close analysis. The problem of our knowledge of God is also discussed with the focus on mysticism and revelation. | Morals and Revelation

GBP 29.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Writing

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Writing

This unique state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive systematic discussion of second language (L2) writing and L2 learning. Led by experts Rosa Manchón and Charlene Polio top international scholars synthesize and contextualize the salient theoretical approaches methodological issues empirical findings and emerging themes in the connection between L2 writing and L2 learning and set the future research agenda to move the field forward. This will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of second language acquisition (SLA) applied linguistics education and composition studies. | The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Writing

GBP 205.00
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The German Social Democratic Party 1875-1933 From Ghetto to Government

The German Social Democratic Party 1875-1933 From Ghetto to Government

Originally published in 1981 this book covers the development of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from its inception to the end of the Weimar republic. Within a historical framework it analyses the role and operation of the SPD in the changing social and political climate of Germany and describes the party’s internal struggles throughout the period. The party continually debated its aims and the means to achieve them. Conducted by people such as Kautsky Bernsteina dn Rosa Luxemburg with close links to Marx Engels and other leaders of the international socialist movement this debate within the party was one of the most fundamental socialist controversies whose relevance remains today. | The German Social Democratic Party 1875-1933 From Ghetto to Government

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Critical Voices Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905

Critical Voices Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive original research in order to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a diversity of sources including diaries letters and periodicals to highlight the many different forms their criticism took. Focusing in particular on the work of three women - Alice Meynell Florence Fenwick-Miller and Elizabeth Robins Pennell - Clarke argues that in order to understand fully art debates of the time it is essential we broaden our understanding of the role of women in the construction of art history. John Singer Sargent James MacNeill Whistler Edgar Degas Mary Cassatt Elizabeth Butler William Holman Hunt Frederic Leighton Walter Sickert Henrietta Rae and Rosa Bonheur are among the artists considered. | Critical Voices Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880-1905

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Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement

Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement

In contrast to research that focuses on the underperformance of young Black males in the British education system the dominant notion of this volume is educational success. By aiming to understand how young Black—notably African and Caribbean—male education plays out in different educational spaces this book provides new insights around intersections between and across different structural forces and educational contexts. Examining the political cultural and structural factors that shape the educational journey of young Black men in the British education system the book will cover topics such as: Race gender and class and the attainment gap Contextualising Black men’s educational narratives The role of family and parenting in achieving success The role of community resource in achieving success Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success will be of interest to researchers academics and postgraduate students in the fields of multicultural education and gender and sexuality in education as well as educators concerned with how Black male masculinities play out in educational discourses. Cecile Wright is Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Work University of Nottingham UK. Uvanney Maylor is Professor of Education in the Institute for Research in Education at the University of Bedfordshire UK. Thomas Pickup is a Principal Policy and Project Officer in local government in the UK. | Young British African and Caribbean Men Achieving Educational Success Disrupting Deficit Discourses about Black Male Achievement

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Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda Enrique Dussel Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic inter alia it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists among which: the presence of the past the ascendance of new technologies multiculturalism terrorism and also vulnerability interdependence solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing it interrogates the ethics aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English. | Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

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Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm E. P. Thompson Raymond Williams Henri Lefebvre Georg Lukács Lucien Goldmann Günther Anders M. N. Roy Angela Davis C. L. R. James Rosa Luxemburg Eve Mitchell and Cedric J. Robinson the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism racism and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies cultural studies Internet research sociology philosophy political science and economics. This is the first of five Communication and Society volumes each one outlining a particular aspect of the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society. | Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory Media Communication and Society Volume One

GBP 31.99
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Sexuality Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

Sexuality Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and George Lamming are offered in tandem with discussion of innovative lesser-studied authors such as Andrew Salkey Oscar Dathorne and Rosa Guy. Whereas this body of work has tended to be characterised as minimally engaged with sexuality and overly reliant on patriarchal heteronormative frameworks the book takes a different approach. First it unpacks the motivations behind the masculinist bent of much of this writing emphasising the anxieties underlying such assertion. It exposes both the gendered and sexual imperatives of the nationalist project and the destabilising effects of migration on masculine performance. Second it brings to life a range of critically neglected same-sex desires. Framing such longing as both narratively and nationally disruptive it recovers the marginalised erotic relations that challenge fantasies of national cohesion. As a result the book opens up existing mappings of Caribbean fiction. Drawing on queer theory feminism and masculinity studies it highlights the ways in which sex both exceeds and threatens the imagined unity on which the nationalist vision depends. | Sexuality Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature

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Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism

Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism

In the past two decades Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and financial crisis in 2007–8. It intersects with the emergence of Post-Marxism since the 1980s represented by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas Chantal Mouffe Ranajit Guha and Alain Badiou. This handbook explores the development of Marxism and Post-Marxism setting them in dialogue against a truly global backdrop. Transcending the disciplinary boundaries between philosophy economics politics and history an international range of expert contributors guide the reader through the main varieties and preoccupations of Marxism and Post-Marxism. Through a series of framing and illustrative essays readers will explore these traditions starting from Marx and Engels themselves through the thinkers of the Second and Third Internationals (Rosa Luxemburg Lenin and Trotsky among others) the Tricontinental and Subaltern and Post-Colonial Studies to more contemporary figures such as Huey Newton Fredric Jameson Judith Butler Immanuel Wallerstein and Samir Amin. The Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy cultural studies and theory sociology political economics and several areas of political science including political theory Marxism political ideologies and critical theory.

GBP 42.99
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Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. This is an inspiring story of the personal and professional growth of a black scholar from his life as an immigrant to the USA to a world-renowned expert who has made a leading contribution to the study of African American life history language and culture. In this engaging memoir Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity like being elected president of the Black Student Association at the University of California Santa Cruz; learning from black expeditions to the South Carolina Sea Islands Jamaica Belize and Ghana; and meeting or interviewing civil rights icons like Huey P. Newton Rosa Parks and South African Dennis Brutus. He worked with Rachel Jeantel Trayvon Martin’s good friend and key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder—Zimmerman’s exoneration sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. With a foreword by poet John Agard this is the account of a former Director of African and African American Studies whose work has increased our understanding of the richness of African American language and our awareness of the education and criminal justice challenges facing African Americans. It is key reading for students and faculty in linguistics mixed race studies African American studies and social justice. | Speaking my Soul Race Life and Language

GBP 24.99
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Jungian Reflections On Grandiosity From Destructive Fantasies to Passions and Purpose

Jungian Reflections On Grandiosity From Destructive Fantasies to Passions and Purpose

In Jungian Reflections on Grandiosity: From Destructive Fantasies to Passions and Purpose Francesco Belviso presents a dual view of grandiosity as a destructive obsession that when approached with curiosity and awareness has the potential of fueling our lives with a sense of purpose while being a positive force in the world. Explaining Jungian psychological concepts in an engaging style the book begins by examining the origins of grandiose fantasies in children and how grandiosity persists well into adulthood in our dreams fantasies and strivings. Exploring its relation to narcissism and delusions the book describes how grandiosity can hijack many areas of our lives—as we chase fame beauty knowledge youth and even morality—often with disastrous consequences. The book’s second half explores how grandiosity can help us identify our passions and callings ending with a discussion on how to pursue them with integrity and courage. Weaving stories from Greek mythology to Dante’s poetry from the heroic lives of Rosa Parks to Captain Sully from fairy tales to our everyday decisions about careers finances selfies and dating and from the lives and nighttime dreams of his patients and his own Belviso invites us to explore the larger-than-life aspirations that stir us all. This book offers ideas and tools to better understand our ambitions challenging us to come to terms with our limitations and find personally meaningful paths forward. Jungian Reflections on Grandiosity will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian studies as well as analytical psychologists and analysts in practice and in training. It will also be of interest to those wishing to explore Jungian ideas and the role of grandiosity in public and private life. | Jungian Reflections On Grandiosity From Destructive Fantasies to Passions and Purpose

GBP 36.99
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