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The Eldest Brother and New Testament Christology - Harald Aarbakke - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Eldest Brother and New Testament Christology - Harald Aarbakke - Bog - Peter Lang Publishing Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Eldest Brother and New Testament Christology explores the origin of cultural representations of Jesus as an eldest brother. Through ethnographic surveys, author Harald Aarbakke shows that the role of the eldest brother in different African societies is often accompanied by additional roles, among them mediator, protector, and leader. Aarbakke also searches for an exegetical basis for this understanding of Jesus, and argues that an eldest brother Christology can be substantiated by the cultural and literary context of certain New Testament texts (Matthew 25:31–46 and 28:10, Mark 3:31–35, John 20:17, Romans 8:28–30, Colossians 1:15–20, and Hebrews 2:10–18).

DKK 854.00
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From Big Brother to Big Brother - Eden Liddelow - Bog - Academica Press - Plusbog.dk

From Big Brother to Big Brother - Eden Liddelow - Bog - Academica Press - Plusbog.dk

The Nietzschean revolution governed the twentieth century, preaching the revaluation of all values, the privileging of interpretations over facts, the dominance of art. The 'crisis of consciousness' is our normality. Nihilism is both good and bad, in Nietzsche's view and my own. It opposes all the conventional thinking and moralistic repressions of periods before the telescreen age. But not so many people can believe in nothing, and Nietzsche wasn't one of them. What have we been believing in when we thought we weren't believing in anything? The book asserts that while Nietzsche's insights were necessary, in 2012 we have to revalue his value. Novels do this probably more effectively than the screen to which, since Orwell's 1984 from the time of the fictive Big Brother to the almost as fictive TV program we have become vulnerable. They show what goes on behind the scenes as the individual evaluates contemporary life: his/her crisis or repudiation- of value, meaning and desirability. The book observes the social and artistic waves still emanating in our century from the philosophical Big Bang of Descartes institution of doubt at the heart of mankind's existence - with special attention to Nietzsche, the Russians, Plato, existentialism, Dada, Mickey Mouse, popular fundamentalisms, End-Timers, surveillance (Orwell's and ours) and particularly neo-liberalism. The following chapters each investigate a civilisation - Britain, the USA, France and Australia - examining six novels closely, each within their social context, from 1948 (Orwell's 1984) to century's end. How do individuals handle the proliferating doubt which has split consciousness, in the screen age, into an unstable oscillation between theory and impulse? We see the impulse on the telescreen: another theory may lie behind it. We don't really think much. The idea of falsehood, like sacred, no longer features particularly in the telecreen age West, nor a concept of disvalue (Susan Sontag's term, following Nietzsche). Art is both worshiped and banalised. The Ancient Chinese Warriors T shirt, the Botticelli Primavera mouse mat, the Fra Angelico Annunciation mug and address book - the category postmodern permits all. But is this phenomenon simply nihilist? Art is brought closer to us, but power and its meaning are being called into question. Nietzsche was right to unmask the pieties of the late 19th century as decadent conventions. But in the dawning knowledge that nihilism and fundamentalism (of religions or markets) are two sides of the same coin, and that like both Big Brothers we are engaged in the abolition of the natural as well as of the sacred, are we now best served by an ethic that denies any notion of the good outside the will to power? For, in Terry Eagleton's words, Confronted with an implacable political enemy, and a fundamentalist one at that, the West will no doubt be forced to reflect more and more on the foundations of its own civilisation. The book is lively, and keen to go past the straitjackets of belief for that is what theories are that the 20th century was so attached to. We have been treating values as options. But what values might be necessary to this new century? The book concludes with a portrait of the telescreen age's real Superman.

DKK 929.00
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Other and Brother - Neta Stahl - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Other and Brother - Neta Stahl - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In a groundbreaking exploration of modern Jewish literature, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus, the ultimate ''''Other'''' in medieval Jewish literature. Stahl argues that twentieth-century Jewish writers relocated Jesus from his traditional status as the Christian Other to a position as a fellow Jew, a ''''brother,'''' and even as a means of reconstructing themselves. Other and Brother analyzes the work of a wide array of modern Jewish writers, beginning in the early twentieth century and ending with contemporary Israeli literature. Stahl takes the reader through dramatic changes in Jewish life beginning with the Haskalah (or Jewish Enlightenment) and Emancipation, and subsequently Zionism and the Holocaust. The Holocaust and the formation of the state of Israel caused a major transformation in the Jewish attitude toward Jesus. The emergence of quasi-messianic Zionist ideas of returning to the land of Israel, where the actual Jesus was born, helped other features of the image of Jesus to become a source of attraction and identification for Hebrew poets and Hebrew and Yiddish prose writers in the first half of the twentieth century.Stahl''s nuanced and insightful historiography of modern Hebrew and Jewish literature will be a valuable resource to anyone interested in the role of Jesus in Jewish culture.

DKK 1030.00
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What AI Can Do - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What AI Can Do - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The philosopher Spinoza once asserted that no one knows what a body can do, conceiving an intrinsic bodily power with unknown limits. Similarly, we can ask ourselves about Artificial Intelligence (AI): To what extent is the development of intelligence limited by its technical and material substrate? In other words, what can AI do? The answer is analogous to Spinoza’s: Nobody knows the limit of AI. Critically considering this issue from philosophical, interdisciplinary, and engineering perspectives, respectively, this book assesses the scope and pertinence of AI technology and explores how it could bring about both a better and more unpredictable future. What AI Can Do highlights, at both the theoretical and practical levels, the cross-cutting relevance that AI is having on society, appealing to students of engineering, computer science, and philosophy, as well as all who hold a practical interest in the technology.

DKK 901.00
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Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In present-day political and moral philosophy the idea that all persons are in some way moral equals is an almost universal premise, with its defenders often claiming that philosophical positions that reject the principle of equal respect and concern do not deserve to be taken seriously. This has led to relatively few attempts to clarify, or indeed justify, ''basic equality'' and the principle of equal respect and concern.Such clarification and justification, however, would be direly needed. After all, the ideas, for instance, that Adolf Hitler and Nelson Mandela have equal moral worth, or that a rape victim owes equal respect and concern to both her rapist and to her own caring brother, seem to be utterly implausible. Thus, if someone insists on the truth of such ideas, he or she owes his or her audience an explanation. The authors in this volume-which breaks new ground by engaging egalitarians and anti-egalitarians in a genuine dialogue-attempt to shed light into the dark. They try to clarify the concepts of "basic equality", "equal moral worth","equal respect and concern", "dignity," etc; and they try to (partially) justify-or to refute-the resulting clarified doctrines. The volume thus demonstrates that the claim that all persons have equal moral worth, are owed equal concern and respect, or have the same rights is anything but obvious. This finding has not only significant philosophical but also political implications.

DKK 1113.00
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Why Do Actors Train? - Brad Krumholz - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Why Do Actors Train? - Brad Krumholz - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

How are we to understand the actor’s work as a fully embodied process?'Embodied cognition' is a branch of contemporary philosophy which attempts to frame human understanding as fully embodied interaction with the environment. Engaging with ideas of contemporary significance from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, Why Do Actors Train? challenges the outmoded dualistic notions of body and mind that permeate common conceptions of how actors work. Theories of embodiment are drawn up to shed important light on the ways and reasons actors do what they do. Through detailed, step-by-step analyses of specific actor-training exercises, the author examines the tools that actors use to bring life and meaning to the stage. This book provides theatre practitioners and scholars alike with a new lens to re-examine the craft of acting, offering a framework to understand the art form as one that is fundamentally grounded in embodied experience.

DKK 808.00
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How To Do Things With Shakespeare - - Bog - John Wiley and Sons Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How To Do Things With Shakespeare - - Bog - John Wiley and Sons Ltd - Plusbog.dk

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE “This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la différance !” DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO “Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response.” BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

DKK 940.00
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Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Knowing What To Do - Sophie Grace Chappell - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. His question is ''How are we to know what to do?'', and the answer he defends is ''By developing our moral imaginations''. The series of studies presented in Knowing What To Do contribute to the case that the moral imagination is a key part of human excellence or virtue by showing that it plays a wide variety of roles in our practical and evaluative lives. There is no short-cut or formulaic way of knowing what to do; but the longer and more painstaking approach is more rewarding anyway. This approach involves developing our repertoire of natural human capacities for imagination, open deliberation, and contemplative attention to the world, the people, and the reality of value around us.

DKK 863.00
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Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - Claudia (director Of The Division Of Byzantine Research Rapp - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc -

Brother-Making in Late Antiquity and Byzantium - Claudia (director Of The Division Of Byzantine Research Rapp - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc -

Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis that pronounces two men as brothers. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religious and social history, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, this book is the first exhaustive treatment of the phenomenon.

DKK 879.00
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Why Do Linguistics? - Dr Tim Marr - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Why Do Linguistics? - Dr Tim Marr - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? Providing the essential tools with which to analyse and talk about language, this book demonstrates the relevance of linguistics to our understanding of the world around us. This second edition includes:- Discussion of key areas of contemporary interest, such as neo-pronouns, translanguaging, and communication in the digital arena-Two brand new chapters exploring language and identity, and language and social media- A range of new and international examples- New and updated references and suggested readings- Tasks to aid learning at the end of each chapter - A glossary of key terms.Introducing a set of practical tools for language analysis and using numerous examples of authentic communicative activity, such as overheard conversations, social media posts, advertisements and public announcements, Why Do Linguistics? explores language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, showing how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction. Also accompanied by a new companion website featuring audio, video and other supportive resources for students and teachers, this book will help you to become an informed, active noticer of language.

DKK 804.00
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