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The Paradox of Tragedy - D.d. Raphael - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Paradox of Tragedy - D.d. Raphael - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1960, The Paradox of Tragedy raises the fundamental question, why do we enjoy tragic drama with its themes of death and disaster? Aristotle’s theory of catharsis is still widely accepted as a satisfactory explanation of this paradox. In the first of its two connected essays, D.D. Raphael argues that Aristotle’s account of tragic emotions is distorted by a faulty psychology and fails to solve the problem. Raphael offers instead a new theory of Tragedy, as a conflict between two forms of the sublime, in which the sublimity of human heroism is exalted above the sublimity of overwhelming power. The spirit of the Tragedy is liable to conflict with doctrines of Biblical theology, and the difficulties of fusing the two are explored with illustrations from Greek, Biblical, English, and French literature. The second essay discusses the wider topic of philosophical drama, considering in what sense tragic and other forms of serious drama may be called philosophical, and also pointing out the dramatic shape of much of Plato’s philosophy. In this discussion, the question of religious Tragedy reappears in a different perspective. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy in general and political philosophy in particular.

DKK 1040.00
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The Chomsky Update (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) - Raphael Salkie - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Chomsky Update (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) - Raphael Salkie - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Noam Chomsky has been described as ‘arguably the most important intellectual alive’. His revolutionary work in linguistics has aroused intense scholarly interest, while his trenchant critique of United States foreign policy and his incisive analysis of the role of intellectuals in modern society have made him a prominent public figure. Raphael Salkie’s timely book introduces the two parts of Chomsky’s work and explores the connections between them. He provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Chomsky’s linguistics, laying out his basic assumptions and aims – in particular, his consistent drive to make linguistics a science – and looking at a sample of Chomsky’s recent work. He examines the implications for other fields such as philosophy and psychology, as well as the main challenges to Chomsky’s position. Raphael Salkie also sets out the key themes in Chomsky’s political writings and his libertarian socialist views. He contrasts the ‘official line’ on US foreign policy – the view that the US is a ‘well-meaning, blundering giant’ – with Chomsky’s carefully argued alternative view. By focusing on Chomsky’s conception of human nature and human freedom the author draws out the links between the two sides of Chomsky’s work, in the belief that both sides raise issues which can profitably be explored. The author also provides a carefully annotated guide to further reading. As an experienced teacher of linguistics with a commitment to political activism, Raphael Salkie is uniquely qualified to present this introduction to one of the seminal thinkers of our time. First published in 1990.

DKK 1092.00
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Poison - Raphael Israeli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Poison - Raphael Israeli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This is the story of an amazing manifestation of a modern blood libel against the Jews and Israel, involving not only Arabs and Muslims, but also the European media and world organizations. Based on rich documentation from all angles: Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, European, American, and International, Raphael Israeli aims to draw our attention toward another piece in the multi-faceted puzzle of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and of international antisemitism. By bringing this Middle Eastern version of the perennial theme of blood libel before their readers, the author hopes to instruct people of good will of the dangers inherent in protracted conflicts, such as the one opposing Israelis and Arabs, which can provoke war, misery, destruction, and violence, but also recriminations born out of hallucinations and ill-will. This is a multi-disciplinary book which should interest not only students of antisemitism, Judaism, and Israel, but also psychologists, journalists, political scientists, and scholars of communications, the Middle East, international relations, and the Israeli-Arab dispute.

DKK 883.00
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Les Jugements de la Critique sur la 'Folie' de J.-J. Rousseau - Claude Wacjman - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Les Jugements de la Critique sur la 'Folie' de J.-J. Rousseau - Claude Wacjman - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

Peut-on penser que l' ecriture soit une terre d'acceuil face aux douleurs de l'exil? Exil de la realite du deplacement et de l'errance geographique; exil imaginaire, signe du repli consecutif a l'exil interieur? Les plaintes et les souffrances qui l'accompagnent sont difficiles a comprendre. Les symptomes qui les accompagnent son incredibles et douloureusement projectifs pour le lecteur, lorsqu'ils ne deviennent pas stigmatisants. Ces questions concluent plus de deux siecles de travaux sur l'oeuvre et le personnage de Rousseau, autant de conditions necessaires a exprimer rejet ou admiration, gene ou adhesion face a l'homme et a son ecriture. Ce livre propose de retracer le voyage auquel s'est livre la critique dans ce domaine, prenant appui sur diverses sources et differents materiaux, depuis les temoignages des contemporains de Rousseau, jusqu'aux exegetes de son seul texte dans une optique psychanalitique, en passant par les tenants d'une explication physiologique de la maladie ou les detracteurs adeptes de la folie pure. Pour fonder une connaissance du texte de Rousseau et en tirer les enseignements actuels, le chemin emprunte est long et sinueux. Les contradictions propres a la nature de l'homme - Rousseau aussi bien que son lecteur, a ses propres reactions d'amour, de rejet ou de defence, sont examinees a travers le filtre de la lecture de la critique et des influences que les conceptions medicales, alienistes - par l'opposition physiologie-psychologie, psychiatriques, psychologiques et psychanalitiques ont eues et continuent d'avoir sur elle.

DKK 832.00
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The Body and Desire - Raphael A. Cadenhead - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The Body and Desire - Raphael A. Cadenhead - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Although the reception of the Eastern Father Gregory of Nyssa has varied over the centuries, the past few decades have witnessed a profound awakening of interest in his thought. The Body and Desire sets out to retrieve the full range of Gregory’s thinking on the challenges of the ascetic life by examining within the context of his theological commitments his evolving attitudes on what we now call gender, sex, and sexuality. Exploring Gregory’s understanding of the importance of bodily and spiritual maturation for the practices of contemplation and virtue, Raphael A. Cadenhead recovers the vital relevance of this vision of transformation for contemporary ethical discourse.

DKK 811.00
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Islam in China - Raphael Israeli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Islam in China - Raphael Israeli - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

"Are they really Muslims?" Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China''s western borders. Both timely and important, the multifaceted essays-— collection of over twenty years of Raphael Israeli''s scholarship on Chinese Muslims—offer detailed insight into the relationship between China''s non-Muslim majority and an increasingly self-confident guest culture. The work uncovers a history of uneasy ethnic, philosophical, and ideological coexistence, the gradual sinification of the Chinese Muslim creed, and the increasing accommodation of Islam by a modern, westernizing China. In addition, it highlights a religious group riddled with sectarianism; factional rifts that reveal the doctrinal, social, and political diversity at the core of Chinese Islam.

DKK 1007.00
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Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism - Raphael Cohen Almagor - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism - Raphael Cohen Almagor - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the main challenges against multiculturalism. It aims to examine whether liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable, and what are the limits of liberal democratic interventions in illiberal affairs of minority cultures within democracy. In the process, this book addresses three questions: whether multiculturalism is bad for democracy, whether multiculturalism is bad for women, and whether multiculturalism contributes to terrorism. Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism argues that liberalism and multiculturalism are reconcilable if a fair balance is struck between individual rights and group rights. Raphael Cohen-Almagor contends that reasonable multiculturalism can be achieved via mechanisms of deliberate democracy, compromise and, when necessary, coercion. Placing necessary checks on groups that discriminate against vulnerable third parties, the approach insists on the protection of basic human rights as well as on exit rights for individuals if and when they wish to leave their cultural groups.

DKK 967.00
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Jewish Faith in a Changing World - Raphael Shuchat - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Jewish Faith in a Changing World - Raphael Shuchat - Bog - Academic Studies Press - Plusbog.dk

Ever since the first encounter between Judaism and the western world in the second century BCE, Jewish thinkers like Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Moses Hayyim Luzzatto, and Rabbi A. I. Kook have grappled with issues of Jewish faith and modernity. The works they published, which comprise Jewish classical philosophy, were products of the highest intellectual caliber, and no question of faith, no matter how embarrassing or heretical, was overlooked. In this book Raphael Shuchat presents the reader with some of the main and timeless issues of Jewish philosophy over the ages and updates them to twenty-first century thinking, making each issue relevant for the modern reader. This book offers a fresh intellectual outlook on the Jewish faith, and contains a timely message for all religionists and thinkers in the twenty-first century. It will be of great use to both students and laymen.

DKK 829.00
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Confronting Disaster - Raphael Sassower - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Confronting Disaster - Raphael Sassower - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and regressive environmental policies, resulting in a greater sense of danger for everyone. The promises of economic globalization have, in some cases, been delivered, but in many other ways globalization has created even greater gaps in social and economic life. Despite the expansion of our productive and technological capabilities, our workdays grow longer, not shorter. We find ourselves in exile from our families, our friends, and from other meaningful forms of social connection. And as "freedom" is bandied about in the popular press and media as the preeminent global social value, it actually seems that the reigning contemporary ethos of our time is stress and anxiety. While Raphael Sassower''s previous work has focused extensively on science and technology, this book is significantly different. It is an urgent commentary in the tradition of Herbert Marcuse''s One Dimensional Man or even Sigmund Freud''s Civilization and Its Discontents; a culmination of many years of research and thought carefully arranged into an extended essay on our contemporary social, cultural, and existential orientation in the modern world. This book is written for advanced graduate students, informed and concerned citizenry, and especially the young student who, in the face of mounting anxiety, must be able to make critical choices towards an uncertain future.

DKK 992.00
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Fictions of God - Raphael Magarik - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Fictions of God - Raphael Magarik - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in with human fictions. In Fictions of God, Raphael Magarik argues that this story overlooks the cultural upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. Early reformers imagined a Bible that was neither infallible nor inerrant but fictional, composed by a divine counterfactual: God crafted the text, they said, as if it had been written by the prophets. Early modern Protestants now found in their Bibles not a source of foundational truths but a model for unreliable narration, even fiction. Fictions of God traces how this approach to literature passed from biblical commentators to poets like Abraham Cowley, John Milton, and Lucy Hutchinson amid the violent emergence of a new religious and political order—long before the eighteenth-century rise of the English novel. The result is a transformative account of the Reformation’s effect on imaginative literature and the secularization of the Bible itself.

DKK 1042.00
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Les Amandiers Home - - Bog - Beta-Plus - Plusbog.dk

Les Amandiers Home - - Bog - Beta-Plus - Plusbog.dk

When Sonja, a Belgian interior decorator and Joel, Catalan and a master carpenter met, they were working on restoration projects for listed buildings in the Eastern Pyrenees. From this professional encounter, which augured a sentimental one, Les Amandiers was born. Their first showroom, on the road to Le Muy in 2007, transferred in 2010 to the entrance of Sainte-Maxime. During this time they envisioned, designed and developed a collection of beautiful indoor and outdoor furniture. Starting from high quality raw materials they conceive contemporary furniture in French oak for the interior and in Red cedar or Padouk for the outdoors. Following Joel’s long illness and death in May 2017, it marked the end of one era for Les Amandiers, but the beginning of another. Sonja, along with her team embarked on new projects including the purchase of a village house in Grimaud, and made it another showroom for the spirit of Les Amandiers Home. Les Amandiers Home offer a unique custom service from their workshops in Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Etienne. A team of 12 carpenters put their skills to work every day to carry out the various furniture orders made in France and abroad. It is in the purest tradition of ancestral craftsmanship that the workshop team works to produce a truly high quality collection. In their first monograph, Les Amandiers Home show an overview of their high-end projects in the Var countryside, in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, in the French Alps and abroad. Text in English and French.

DKK 770.00
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Jewish Views of the Afterlife - Simcha Paull Raphael - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Jewish Views of the Afterlife - Simcha Paull Raphael - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism.As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found in the Bible, Apocrypha, rabbinic literature, medieval philosophy, medieval Midrash, Kabbalah, Hasidism and Yiddish literature, the reader learns how Judaism conceived of the fate of the individual after death throughout Jewish history. In addition, this book explores the implications of Jewish afterlife beliefs for a renewed understanding of traditional rituals of funeral, burial, shiva, kaddish and more. This newly released twenty-fifth anniversary edition presents new material on little-known Jewish mystical teachings on reincarnation, a chapter on “Spirits, Ghosts and Dybbuks in Yiddish Literature”, and a foreword by the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Arthur Green.Both historical and contemporary, this book provides a rich resource for scholars and laypeople and for teachers and students and makes an important Jewish contribution to the growing contemporary psychology of death and dying.

DKK 927.00
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Aristotle's Concept of Mind - Erick Raphael (california State University Jimenez - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Aristotle's Concept of Mind - Erick Raphael (california State University Jimenez - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this book, Erick Raphael Jiménez examines Aristotle''s concept of mind (nous), a key concept in Aristotelian psychology, metaphysics, and epistemology. Drawing on a close analysis of De Anima, Jiménez argues that mind is neither disembodied nor innate, as has commonly been held, but an embodied ability that emerges from learning and discovery. Looking to Aristotle''s metaphysics and epistemology, Jiménez argues that just as Aristotelian mind is not innate, intelligibility is not an innate feature of the objects of Aristotelian mind, but an outcome of certain mental constructions that make those objects intelligible. Conversely, it is through these same mental constructions that thinkers become intelligent, or come to possess minds. Connecting this account to Aristotle''s metaphysics and epistemology, Jiménez shows how this concept of mind fits within Aristotle''s wider philosophy. His bold interpretation will interest a wide range of readers in ancient and later philosophy.

DKK 948.00
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