In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked.
In this exciting collection of hymns, Kim Fabricius not only skillfully guides us through the Christian year--from Advent and Christmas, through Lent, to Easter and Pentecost--he also imaginatively explores the church's perennial themes: the mystery of God, creation and providence, suffering and death, worship and prayer.
Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "e;postmodernism,"e; famously dubbed "e;the cultural logic of late capitalism"e; by Fredric Jameson in 1984.
Arguing that today's viewers move through a character's brain instead of looking through his or her eyes or mental landscape, this book approaches twenty-first-century globalized cinema through the concept of the "e;neuro-image.
In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess.
This book is a clear and lucid book that will provide children with a firm grounding in the Five Pillars of Islam: the Shahadah, Prayer, Charity, Fasting and the Hajj.
This book is a collection of Sayyid Nadwis writings and lectures which brings into sharper relief the eternal divine guidance for man embodied in the Quran.
An authoritative and accessible study guide that covers what the Book means to the believers and sets out the essential prerequisites of body, mind, and heart that serve to light up the inner life with the Qur'anic worldview; the etiquette of reciting, reading, and understanding the Qur'an; how to study the Qur'an collectively; and how to live by its teachings.
Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stephan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film.
A Textbook of Hadith Studies provides an academic introduction to the Hadith, or the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, which are second only to the Qur'an (Koran) in their authoritativeness within Islamic tradition.
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault.
Este libro desarrolla la tesis de que la filosofía crítica de Kant no ha tratado la historia sólo como un "tema", al que su cabeza "ilustrada" le habría dedicado intermitente interés en su vida.
Das vorliegende Werk ist ein weiteres Zeugnis von Brentanos lebenslanger Auseinandersetzung mit Aristoteles, seinem philosophischen Lehrer par excellence.
Hacia el año 1150, Hildegarda de Bingen reunió sus composiciones y formó con ellas un ciclo lírico completo al que llamó «Sinfonía de la armonía de las revelaciones celestiales», corpus que incluye la notación musical de la propia autora.
This, the first in-depth and comprehensive book-length study of the Russian neo-Kantian movement in English language, challenges the assumption of the isolation of neo-Kantianism to Germany.
Este libro abre un nuevo espacio para el dialogo entre teologos del pais y de otras regiones sobre un tema tan importante, actual y necesario en nuestra sociedad: el perdon, la compasion y la esperanza.
Wilhelm Windelbands umfassendes Werk 'Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Philosophie' bietet eine tiefgreifende Untersuchung über die Entwicklung der Philosophie von ihren frühesten Anfängen bis zur modernen Zeit.
