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Inside North Korea’s Theocracy - Ra Jong Yil - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Inside North Korea’s Theocracy - Ra Jong Yil - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea''s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government. First published in Korean in 2016, Inside North Korea''s Theocracy offers a fascinating and rare look at the lives of several of the regime''s key leaders. Its primary focus is Jang Song-thaek, a talented and reform-minded member of the political ruling class who was executed in 2013. Jang was the son-in-law of North Korean founder, Kim Il-sung; brother-in-law of its second leader, Kim Jong-il; and uncle to its current leader, Kim Jong-un. The author traces Jang''s life from his youth as a brilliant student in Pyongyang to his eventual marriage to Kim Kyong-hui and his rising power as a businessman to, ultimately, his untimely death. In addition to biographical sketches of Jang, his wife, and brother-in-law, Ra Jong-yil provides first-hand impressions of life in North Korea and illuminates the inner workings of its government.

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The History of al-Tabari Vol. 31 - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The History of al-Tabari Vol. 31 - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

This section of the History of al-?abari covers the caliphate of Mu?ammad al-Amin, who succeeded his father, Harun al-Rashid on March 24, 809, and was killed on September 25, 813. The focus of this section is a single event, the civil war between al-Amin and his half-brother al-Ma?mun. Before his death, al-Rashid had arranged for the succession in a series of documents signed at Mecca and deposited for safekeeping in the Ka''bah. Al-Amin was to become caliph; al-Ma?mun was to govern Khurasan with virtual autonomy from Baghdad. Al-Amin could neither remove his brother from office nor interfere with his revenues or military support. Furthermore, al-Ma?mun was named as al-Amin''s successor, and al-Amin was forbidden to alter the succession. If either brother violated these conditions, he was to forfeit his rights. It soon became apparent that the good will to carry out these arrangements did not exist. Disagreement broke out when al-Amin insisted that many of the forces that had accompanied al-Rashid and al-Ma?mun to Khurasan return to Baghdad. When the majority of army commanders obeyed the new caliph''s orders, al-Ma?mun was enraged and countered with measures to secure his position. Angry letters were exchanged, with al-Amin pressing his brother to make concessions that al-Ma?mun regarded as contrary to the succession agreement. By March 811, military conflict was imminent. Al-Amin demanded that certain border districts be returned to the control of Baghdad. When al-Ma?mun refused, al-Amin despatched an expedition to seize the districts. Al-Amin''s resort to force ended in disaster. Al-Ma?mun''s forces, led by ?ahir ibn al-?usayn and Harthamah ibn A''yan, quickly closed in on Baghdad. In a siege lasting over a year, Baghdad suffered extensive damage from the fighting and from bombardment by siege engines. Gangs of vagrants and paupers, organized by al-Amin into irregular units, fought a kind of urban guerrilla war. But, with Tahir and Harthamah enforcing the siege and with most of al-Amin''s associates having switched their loyalties to the winning side, the caliph was forced to sue for terms. These were worked out among representatives of al-Amin, Tahir, and Harthamah. However, when the caliph boarded the boat that was to take him into Harthamah''s custody, troops loyal to Tahir assaulted and capsized the boat. Al-Amin fell into the Tigris, was apprehended, and was executed that night on orders from Tahir. Thus ended this phase of the civil war. Al-Ma?mun was now caliph. Al-?abari i''s history of these years includes accounts by participants in the event, diplomatic letters betweenal-Amin and al-Ma?mun, Tahir''s long letter toal-Ma?mun on the circumstances of al-Amin''s death, and a dramatic eyewitness account of al-Amin''s last hours. Also noteworthy is a 135-verse poem describing the devastation of Baghdad. The section ends with a series of literary anecdotes on the character of al-Amin.

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The History of al-Tabari Vol. 28 - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The History of al-Tabari Vol. 28 - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The initial years (126-145) of al-Man?ur''s reign presented several significant challenges to nascent ?Abbasid hegemony, and the resulting confrontations constitute the central focus of this section of ?abari''s Tarikh. After Abu Jafar succeeded his brother Abu Al-?abbas as caliph, the second of the ?Abbasid dynasty, he moved against his recalcitrant uncle, ?Abd Allah ibn ?Ali, and against the potential threat that he perceived in the person of the commander in Khurasan, Abu Muslim. Eliminating the latter and containing the former freed the caliph to address a series of other onslaughts and insurrections. Starting with the year 144, however, ?abari turned to this volume''s principal preoccupation, to which half of the book is devoted. Judging by the attention given to it, he clearly perceived the Hasanid rebellions of Muhammad b. Abdallah (the Pure Soul) and of his brother Ibrahim to be the most substantial attack on Abbasid authority to arise in the first years of that dynasty. ?abari''s description of the prolonged search for Muhammad and Ibrahim and of the caliphal vengeance visited upon their father and family provides an extended prelude to the vivid battle and death scenes in Medina and Bakhamra. Yet, elaboration of these events does not eclipse mention of all other Abbasid activity. To bridge the account of Muhammad''s defeat and that of Ibrahim''s uprising, ?abari inserted a narrative interlude depicting the site selection and preliminary construction of al-Man?ur''s most celebrated achievement, the City of Peace, Baghdad.

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A Survivor Named Trauma - Myra Sklarew - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

A Survivor Named Trauma - Myra Sklarew - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Combines personal accounts with insights from psychology to understand the continuing impact of Holocaust trauma in Lithuania. A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent generations deal with their histories-whether as descendants of perpetrators or victims, of those who rescued others or were witnesses to genocide? Or those who were separated from their families in early childhood and do not know their origins? Myra Sklarew''s study draws on interviews with survivors, witnesses, rescuers, and collaborators, as well as descendants and family members, gathered over a twenty-five-year period in Lithuania. Returning to the land of her ancestors, Sklarew found a country still deeply affected by the Nazi Holocaust and decades of Soviet domination. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to readers interested in neuroscience and neuropsychology, Holocaust studies, Jewish history, and personal memoir.

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Frustrated Nationalism - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Frustrated Nationalism - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today. The nation-state is seen by many today as the key unit of analysis for international organization and cooperation in the modern age, but not all groups that want to make up and control their own nation-state are able to do so: historical factors, domestic politics, and international relations often prevent them from obtaining sovereign power. Groups that have tried to create a nation-state and failed to do so can be referred to as being "frustrated." Frustrated Nationalism offers case studies by an international collection of scholars who describe the efforts of many of those groups to achieve sovereign status, or at least to obtain greater control over the policies that affect them, their strategies, and their outcomes.

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The End of Dissatisfaction? - Todd Mcgowan - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The End of Dissatisfaction? - Todd Mcgowan - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so. Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC Exploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zðizûek, Joan Copjec, and Theresa Brennan to argue that we are in the midst of a large-scale transformation-a shift from a society oriented around prohibition (i.e., the notion that one cannot just do as one pleases) to one oriented around enjoyment. McGowan identifies many of the social ills of American culture today as symptoms of this transformation: the sense of disconnection, the increase in aggression and violence, widespread cynicism, political apathy, incivility, and loss of meaning. Discussing these various symptoms, he examines various texts from film, literature, popular culture, and everyday life, including Toni Morrison''s Paradise, Tony Kushner''s Angels in America, and such films as Dead Poets Society and Trigger Effect. Paradoxically, The End of Dissatisfaction? shows how the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

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On Being Buddha - Paul J. Griffiths - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

On Being Buddha - Paul J. Griffiths - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

What is it like to be a Buddha? Is there only one Buddha or are there many? What can Buddhas do and what do they know? Is there anything they cannot do and cannot know? These and associated questions were much discussed by Buddhist thinkers in India, and a complex and subtle set of doctrinal positions was developed to deal with them. This is the first book in a western language to treat these doctrines about Buddha from a philosophical and thoroughly critical viewpoint. The book shows that Buddhist thinkers were driven, when theorizing about Buddha, by a basic intuition that Buddha must be maximally perfect, and that pursuing the implications of this intuition led them into some conceptual dilemmas that show considerable similarity to some of those treated by western theists. The Indian Buddhist tradition of thought about these matters is presented here as thoroughly systematic, analytical, and doctrinal. The book''s analysis is based almost entirely upon original sources in their original languages. All extracts discussed are translated into English and the book is accessible to nonspecialists, while still treating material that has not been much discussed by western scholars.

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Ecological Literacy - David W. Orr - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Ecological Literacy - David W. Orr - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth''s limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological catastrophes meet what some call sustainable development. While a great deal of attention has been given to what governments, corporations, utilities, international agencies, and private citizens can do to help in the transition to sustainability, little thought has been given to what schools, colleges, and universities can do. Ecological Literacy asks how the discovery of finiteness affects the content and substance of education. Given the limits of the earth, what should people know and how should they learn it?

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Antigone in the Americas - Andres Fabian Henao Castro - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Antigone in the Americas - Andres Fabian Henao Castro - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles'' classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas. Sophocles''s classical tragedy, Antigone , is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone , when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone , one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.

DKK 357.00
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Antigone in the Americas - Andres Fabian Henao Castro - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Antigone in the Americas - Andres Fabian Henao Castro - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Argues for a decolonial reinterpretation of Sophocles'' classical tragedy, Antigone, that can help us to rethink the anti-colonial politics of militant mourning in the Americas. Sophocles''s classical tragedy, Antigone , is continually reinvented, particularly in the Americas. Theater practitioners and political theorists alike revisit the story to hold states accountable for their democratic exclusions, as Antigone did in disobeying the edict of her uncle, Creon, for refusing to bury her brother, Polynices. Antigone in the Americas not only analyzes the theoretical reception of Antigone , when resituated in the Americas, but further introduces decolonial rumination as a new interpretive methodology through which to approach classical texts. Traveling between modern present and ancient past, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro focuses on metics (resident aliens) and slaves, rather than citizens, making the feminist politics of burial long associated with Antigone relevant for theorizing militant forms of mourning in the global south. Grounded in settler colonial critique, black and woman of color feminisms, and queer and trans of color critique, Antigone in the Americas offers a more radical interpretation of Antigone , one relevant to subjects situated under multiple and interlocking systems of oppression.

DKK 913.00
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Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations - Charles Freeland - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations - Charles Freeland - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux. This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century-Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux. Each was fiercely independent, belonging to no school, academy, or political persuasion. What do they have in common? While the book''s three central essays do not initially set out to establish comparisons between these writers, common ground emerges: a shared combat against culture, a shared non-representational artistic practice. Their writing, poetry, and painting offer not a portrayal of things or ideas but rather an emanation or apparition of the unknown and the infinite, one charged with deepening art''s relation to life.

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Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations - Charles Freeland - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Apparitions, Daemons, and Emanations - Charles Freeland - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

A study of non-representational art and poetry in the work of Bataille, Klossowski, and Michaux. This book presents a new study of the visual arts and poetry in the work of three well-known French writers and artists from the mid-twentieth century-Georges Bataille, Pierre Klossowski, and Henri Michaux. Each was fiercely independent, belonging to no school, academy, or political persuasion. What do they have in common? While the book''s three central essays do not initially set out to establish comparisons between these writers, common ground emerges: a shared combat against culture, a shared non-representational artistic practice. Their writing, poetry, and painting offer not a portrayal of things or ideas but rather an emanation or apparition of the unknown and the infinite, one charged with deepening art''s relation to life.

DKK 357.00
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Antal and Her Path of Love - Vidya Dehejia - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Antal and Her Path of Love - Vidya Dehejia - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

This book is a translation and study of the poems of a ninth-century woman saint and mystic. The Introduction is designed to make the translations accessible to a non-specialist audience, while the Notes provide insights into the poems and useful explications of allusions and convention with which readers who do not possess a specialized knowledge of Tamil Vaisnava bhakti may be unfamiliar.

DKK 351.00
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Nietzsche and Politicized Identities - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Nietzsche and Politicized Identities - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche''s thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities. Contemporary political struggles often find their origins in conflicts based on race, religion and region, gender and sexuality, or class. Given the need for conceptual resources to meet such challenges, this volume of essays explores the extent to which Friedrich Nietzsche''s philosophy can be of use to us in these struggles. In Nietzsche and Politicized Identities , emerging and leading Nietzsche scholars offer fresh insights into various central questions: How do our politicized identities form and develop their legitimacy? What sorts of functions do such identities serve? What political ideals does Nietzsche advocate? What conceptual tools for reanimating liberatory political projects does Nietzsche promote? How might we organize politically to affirm life and acknowledge the tragic as we avoid the pull of nihilism? The essays within this volume engage these questions and offer fresh, at times surprising, answers.

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The Republican Hero - Michael Lusztig - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The Republican Hero - Michael Lusztig - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic. Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post-heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions. The general tenor of modern thinking is that heroes do matter but that the modern age is characterized by a narrowing of moral horizons once illuminated by heroes, secular and spiritual. Michael Lusztig argues that the modern world is not post-heroic. He makes the case that the modern age is the most heroic age, if measured in terms of the Aristotelian currency of balance and completeness. To this end, he identifies four main hero-types-the epic, magnanimous, Romantic, and common. Each can rightfully be called a republican hero: each contributes to the promotion or protection or provision of republican values. Each exemplifies the heroic virtues of their age. However, taken conjunctively, each contributes to what Lusztig conceives as the complete republican hero of the modern age.

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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World - Luke Fowler - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World - Luke Fowler - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.

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From Menarche to Menopause - Yewoubdar Beyene - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

From Menarche to Menopause - Yewoubdar Beyene - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

While menopause is a universal fact of life, the physiological and psychological effects for women are not the same in all cultures. In this comparative and cross-cultural ethnographic study, Beyene examines the concept and experience of menopause among Greek and Mayan peasant women, uncovering some startling information. Available research and experience thus far suggests that non-Western, nonindustrialized women often do not have the same psychological or physiological reactions to menopause as Western, industrialized women do. By comparing the reproductive histories of one group of peasant women to another, the author makes it possible to isolate historical, cultural and environmental factors relating to variations or similarities in response to menopause. Her findings underscore the plasticity of the human aging experience, particularly among women. The book presents a biocultural view linking the experience of menopause to diet and fertility patterns, and provides new insights and hypotheses on the reproductive cycle and aging in women.

DKK 348.00
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Nietzsche and Politicized Identities - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Nietzsche and Politicized Identities - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche''s thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities. Contemporary political struggles often find their origins in conflicts based on race, religion and region, gender and sexuality, or class. Given the need for conceptual resources to meet such challenges, this volume of essays explores the extent to which Friedrich Nietzsche''s philosophy can be of use to us in these struggles. In Nietzsche and Politicized Identities , emerging and leading Nietzsche scholars offer fresh insights into various central questions: How do our politicized identities form and develop their legitimacy? What sorts of functions do such identities serve? What political ideals does Nietzsche advocate? What conceptual tools for reanimating liberatory political projects does Nietzsche promote? How might we organize politically to affirm life and acknowledge the tragic as we avoid the pull of nihilism? The essays within this volume engage these questions and offer fresh, at times surprising, answers.

DKK 374.00
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Out of Control - Richard A. Cohen - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Out of Control - Richard A. Cohen - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion. After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza''s answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas''s is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control , Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontations between them in ethics, politics, science, and religion. Spinoza is the control, the inexorable defensive logic of administrative rationality, where freedom is equated to necessity-a seventeenth-century glimpse of Orwellian doublespeak and Big Brother. Levinas is the way out: transcendence not of God, being, and logic but of the other person experienced as moral obligation. To alleviate the suffering of others-nothing is more important! Spinoza wagers everything on mathematical truth, discarding the rest as ignorance and illusion; for Levinas, nothing surpasses the priorities of morality and justice, to create a world in which humans can be human and not numbers or consumers, drudges or robots. Situating these two thinkers in today''s context, Out of Control responds to the fear of dehumanization in a world flattened by the alliance of positivism and plutocracy. It offers a nonideological ethical alternative, a way out and up, in the nobility of one human being helping another, and the solidarity that moves from morality to justice.

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Citizens' Power in Latin America - Pascal Lupien - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Citizens' Power in Latin America - Pascal Lupien - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies. Citizens'' Power in Latin America takes the reader into the heart of communities where average citizens are attempting to build a new democratic model to improve their socioeconomic conditions and to have a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Based on groundbreaking fieldwork conducted in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile, Pascal Lupien contrasts two models of participatory design that have emerged in Latin America and identifies the factors that enhance or diminish the capacity of these mechanisms to produce positive outcomes. He draws on lived experiences of citizen participants to reveal the potential and the dangers of participatory democracy. Why do some democratic innovations appear to succeed while others fail? To what extent do these institutions really empower citizens, and in what ways can they be used by governments to control participation? What lessons can be learned from these experiments? Given the growing dissatisfaction with existing democratic systems across the world, this book will be of interest to people seeking innovative ways of deepening democracy.

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The Disintegration of Community - Francisco Gallegos - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

The Disintegration of Community - Francisco Gallegos - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher''s social, cultural, and political writings. The Disintegration of Community analyzes the social and cultural writings of Jorge Portilla (19191963) in order to demonstrate the continued relevance of his thought. Carlos Alberto Sánchez and Francisco Gallegos situate Portilla''s otros ensayos -a series of essays originally published with his more widely known Fenomenología del relajo -at the center of the contemporary debates on the politics of social and cultural identity, the nature of community, and the political role of affect and moods. Sánchez and Gallegos address questions as timely today as they were for Portilla: What drives the impulse toward political nationalism? What sustains the myths that organize our political lives? Under what conditions do communities disintegrate? To answer these questions, the authors seek to think with Portilla by analyzing his writing and to think after Portilla by bringing his critical spirit to bear on the present. An appendix with original English translations of Portilla''s three otros ensayos enables the reader to do the same.

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Heidegger's Ways - Hans Georg Gadamer - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Heidegger's Ways - Hans Georg Gadamer - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

A particularly insightful commentary on Heidegger''s thinking, as well as a fascinating look at Gadamer himself. The combination of author and subject matter found here makes an unusually interesting text on the Continental European Philosophy of the twentieth century. As Heidegger''s former student, colleague and lifelong friend, Gadamer offers a particularly insightful commentary on Heidegger''s thinking. Not only do the essays focus on Heidegger''s thought, but they also often begin with a description of the philosophical scene in which he first appeared, giving the reader a genuine feel for the kind of impact he made. But the essays do not leave off in the past; rather, they lead into the present, giving Heidegger a voice which continues to have a revolutionary impact. The text does not only provide a commentary on Heidegger; it also provides a fascinating look at Gadamer himself. The narratives provide us with an intimate look at both the author and his hermeneutics at work, and his commentary on Heidegger''s thought is a commentary on his own thought as well.

DKK 357.00
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Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World - Luke Fowler - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Democratic Policy Implementation in an Ambiguous World - Luke Fowler - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail. The hard part of government is not passing new laws but implementing those laws. Implementation is where high-minded ideas are pushed and prodded into the chaos that is the real world. Often, this leads to unintended consequences as ideas are transformed into actions. For better or worse, policy implementation occurs within organized anarchies marred by ambiguity where who pays attention to what and when is the most important determinant of outcomes. While the new law serves as a cue, implementers must figure out how to make it functional in the best way possible and how to institutionalize it to establish new norms that endure. In unpacking an argument of how and why patterns of policy implementation manifest as they do, Luke Fowler takes the reader through a journey of how policymakers, organizations, and entrepreneurs shape the way implementers understand policies and translate them into action under ambiguous circumstances. The result is a complex picture of why some policies work in practice and others do not.

DKK 357.00
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Pragmatist Ethics - James Jakob Liszka - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Pragmatist Ethics - James Jakob Liszka - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Argues that the path to the good life does not consist in working toward some abstract concept of the good, but rather by ameliorating the problems of the practices and institutions that make up our practical life. Grounded in American pragmatism, Pragmatist Ethics proposes a rethinking of ethics. Rather than looking to the good-a concept for which consensus is difficult to achieve-pragmatists instead advocate for tending to the problems of the day. James Jakób Liszka examines how daily practices and institutions are originally conceived and then evolve to solve certain problems, and that their failure to do so is the source of most problems. Liszka argues that the ethical goal, therefore, is to improve upon these practices and that the sort of practical reasoning that characterizes practices can be enhanced by a more scientific, empirical approach. But how do we know when changes to practices and institutions are progressive? Problems will plague the best of communities; the better community is the one that succeeds best at solving its problems. Pragmatist Ethics examines various accounts of improvement and progress, concluding that the problem-solving effectiveness of communities is the key to progressive changes.

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Disciplining English - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Disciplining English - - Bog - State University of New York Press - Booktok.dk

Offers historical and present-day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it. These provocative essays explore the unwritten, often unacknowledged codes, conventions, and ideologies overseeing the evolution and current practice of English as a "discipline." The first section of the book offers historical perspectives: how "composition" became distinguished from "literature," how key intellectuals shaped the discipline, and how various specialties-Renaissance literature, American literature, "theory"-became subfields. The second section focuses on how certain aesthetic categories of art and universal experience persist today in the actual teaching and writing of "English." While it is fashionable to say that we are living in the age of poststructuralism, or that literary theory has delivered us from idealized conceptions of authorship and inherent meaning, these essays examine how these conceptions nevertheless remain and are transmitted: in different types of classroom settings, in textbooks, and in the self-fashioning of academic careers. At a time when the role and function of English departments have become matters of both academic and public debate, this book will be a welcome resource for students, professionals, and anyone interested in the Culture Wars of the past two decades.

DKK 357.00
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