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The Myth of Modernity

The Myth of Modernity

First published in 1950 this was a new work by Charles Baudouin world-famous French psychologist and takes its title from the opening chapter which examines the transformation of the myth of Progress characteristic of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into the myth of Modernity characteristic of the time of writing. The author has little sympathy for a development which he regards as essentially vulgar; the myth of Progress he says had its aspiration and gave man reasons for reaching out for better things but the myth of Modernity ‘seems to give humanity reasons only for fleeing from itself reasons for unhappiness inasmuch as the man who runs away from himself is an unhappy man’. This chapter is characteristic of those that follow – on Baudelaire Verlaine and other literary topics; on Art and the Epoch The Prestige of Action Technique versus Mysticism Opinion and Tolerance etc. A broad humanity and a gentle irony are the characteristic features of this simulating book now available again to be enjoyed in its historical context.

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The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of fascinating account of classic texts in anthropology ancient history and law Kuper reveals how this myth underpinned academic research and inspired political programmes. Its ancestry is traced back to classical western beliefs about barbarians and savages and Kuper also tackles the latest version of the myth the idea of a global identity of “indigenous peoples”. The Reinvention of Primitive Society is a key text in the history of anthropology and will interest anyone who has puzzled about the very idea of “primitive society” – and so by implication about “civilisation”. | The Reinvention of Primitive Society Transformations of a Myth

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The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

Therapists are not immune to the range of problems their clients experience including divorce bereavement illness and depression. The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist considers what kinds of difficulties clinicians face as well as the best ways of dealing with them. Featuring interviews from forty different practitioners – CBT psychoanalytic integrative and humanistic therapists from an international array of backgrounds – on how they coped during times of personal strife the book dispels the myth that therapists are immune to the kind of problems that they help clients through. Using clinical examples personal experience and research literature Marie Adams challenges mental health professionals to take a step back and consider their own wellbeing. This new edition is updated throughout and includes a new chapter looking at the impact of COVID-19 on practitioners. Linking therapists’ personal histories to their choice of career the book highlights some of the key elements that may serve and sometimes undermine counsellors working in private practice or mental health settings. The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist is ideal for counsellors and psychotherapists as well as social workers and those working within any kind of helping profession. | The Myth of the Untroubled Therapist Private Life Professional Practice

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Greek Myth and the Bible

Greek Myth and the Bible

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently however has come the realization that Greek culture is also a prominent source of biblical narratives. Greek Myth and the Bible argues that classical mythological literature and the biblical texts were composed in a dialogic relationship. Louden examines a variety of Greek myths from a range of sources analyzing parallels between biblical episodes and Hesiod Euripides Argonautic myth selections from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Homeric epic. This fascinating volume offers a starting point for debate and discussion of these cultural and literary exchanges and adaptations in the wider Mediterranean world and will be an invaluable resource to students of the Hebrew Bible and the influence of Greek myth.

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Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

This study explores the ways in which Dickens’s published work and his thousands of letters intersect to shape and promote particular myths of the reading experience as well as redefining the status of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between private and public writing are subject to constant disruption and readjustment as recipients of letters are asked to see themselves as privileged readers of coded text or to appropriate novels as personal letters to themselves. Imaginative hierarchies are both questioned and ultimately reinforced as prefaces and letters function to create a mythical reader who is placed in imaginative communion with the writer of the text. But the written word itself becomes increasingly unstable through its association in the later novels with evasion fraud and even murder. | Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

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A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer uses qualitative research to examine the popular myth that therapists are ‘wounded healers’. Rhona M. Fear presents the life stories of seven well-known psychoanalysts and psychotherapists including Sigmund Freud John Bowlby and Patrick Casement. Fear uses grounded theory to analyse her research and categorise her results focusing closely on experiences including trauma in early life attachment problems mental disturbance and resistance to authority figures. The book identifies patterns and common themes in the life stories of these leading figures and explains what this research can tell us about the enduring myth of the wounded healer. Accessibly written A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists counsellors and others in the helping professions. | A Psychoanalytic Study of the Wounded Healer Life Stories Myth and Reality

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The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

Reviled by critics but loved by the readers the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critical interest. In The Myth of Superwoman originally published in 1990 Resa Dudovitz looks at this international phenomenon particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study including interviews with publishers literary agents and bestselling authors gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced marketed and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the ‘international bestsellers’ of the 1980s to writers like Judith Krantz Colleen McCullough and Barbara Taylor Bradford all of whose novels are published in the United States Britain France Germany and Italy. The book presents a general analysis of women’s bestsellers ranging over a wide variety of novels from popular nineteenth-century texts in France and the United States to the novels of today. Dudovitz shows how women’s bestselling fiction has over the last two hundred years kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women culminating in the myth of superwoman in women’s bestsellers of the 1980s. This fascinating account of an important aspect of popular culture will be of great value to students of women’s studies and cultural studies especially those interested in the myths which structure women’s bestselling fiction. | The Myth of Superwoman Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States

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The Myth of the Queer Criminal

The Myth of the Queer Criminal

The Myth of the Queer Criminal documents over a century of writings by sociologists psychologists criminologists and forensic scientists in Europe and the United States who asserted that LGBT persons were innately and uniquely criminal. Applying the tools of narratology and queer theory Jeffery P. Dennis examines the ten types of queer criminal that have appeared in seminal texts both literary and scientific over the past 140 years - beginning with Lombroso's Criminal Man (1876) and extending to postmodern criminologists and contemporary textbooks. Each type is named after its defining characteristic. The pederast for example was believed to be a master-criminal leading vast criminal empires. The degenerate intellectually and morally corrupted was perceived as a symptom or cause of societal decay. The silly lisping pansy was a figure of ridicule rather than of dread. The traitor was murderous and depraved prepared to destroy democratic institutions worldwide. The book aims to contextualize this mythology revealing the motivations of the agents behind it the influence of broader preoccupations and anxieties of the age and its societal political and cultural impact. This carefully researched meticulously written history of the queer criminal will be of interest to students and researchers in criminology gender studies queer studies and the history of sexuality.

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Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

This volume traces the interconnections between myth environmentalism narrative poetry comics and innovative artistic practice using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging mindless consumption and the degradation of human–nature relations this collection advocates a re-evaluation of the ethical relation to living with and sharing the Earth. Myth and the environment have shared a rich common cultural history travelling as far back as the times of storytelling and legend with the environment often the central theme. Following a robust introduction the book is organized into three main sections—Myth Disaster and Present-Day Views on Ecological Damage; Indigenous and Afro-diasporic Myths and Ecological Knowledge; Art Practices Myth and Environmental Resilience—and concludes with a Coda from Jeanette Hart-Mann. The methodology draws from diverse perspectives such as ecocriticism new materialism and Anthropocene studies offering a truly interdisciplinary discussion that reflects on the dialogue among environment and myth and a broad range of contributions are included from Canada the United States the Caribbean Ukraine Japan Morocco and Brazil. The book joins a long line of approaches on the interrelations between ecological and mythical thinking and criticism that goes back to the early 20th century. This volume will be of interest to students scholars activists and experts in environmental humanities myth and myth criticism literature and art on more-than human and nature interaction ecocriticism environmental activism and climate change. | Myth and Environmentalism Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet

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Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

Most Western liberal democracies are parties to the United Nations Refugees Convention and all are committed to the recognition of basic human rights but they also spend billions fortifying their borders detaining unauthorised immigrants and policing migration. Meanwhile public debate over the West’s obligations to unauthorised immigrants is passionate vitriolic and divisive. Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights combines philosophical historical and legal analysis to clarify the key concepts at stake in the debate and to demonstrate the threat posed by contemporary border regimes to rights protection and the rule of law within liberal democracies. Using the political philosophy of John Locke and Immanuel Kant the book highlights the tension in liberalism between partiality towards one’s compatriots and the universalism of human rights and brings this tension to life through an examination of Hannah Arendt’s account of the rise and decline of the modern nation-state. It provides a novel reading of Arendt’s critique of human rights and her concept of the right to have rights. The book argues that the right to have rights must be secured globally in limited form but that recognition of its significance should spur expansive changes to border policy within and between liberal states. | Refugees and the Myth of Human Rights Life Outside the Pale of the Law

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Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story. Through an attentive examination of multiple texts and literary works he elucidates this story in psychological and philosophical terms. Deconstruction the method of philosophical and literary analysis originated by Jacques Derrida arises from what Carl Jung called “a kind of readiness to produce over and over again the same or similar mythical ideas. ” In the case of deconstruction such ideas bear a striking resemblance to a figure that Jungian and Post-Jungian writers refer to as the puer aeternus or eternal youth. To make his case in addition to a careful analysis of numerous Derridean texts he offers readings of literary works by Milan Kundera J. M. Barrie Dante Apuleius and others. These texts help illustrate that deconstruction’s preoccupations over questions of presence deferral authority limits time and representation are also recurrent issues for the eternal youth as described by Marie-Louise Von Franz and James Hillman. Judith Butler’s deconstruction of sex and gender reflects similar patterns and she features in this work as a contemporary exemplar of the deconstructive approach. Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction will be a compelling read for both students and teachers of depth psychology and continental philosophy. The clarity of its style will be appealing to advanced scholars and educated laypersons alike. | Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler

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The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

The Myth of Attachment Theory confronts the uncritical acceptance of attachment theory – challenging its scientific basis and questioning the relevance in our modern superdiverse and multicultural society – and exploring the central concern of how children and their way of forming relationships differ from each other. In this book Heidi Keller examines diverse multicultural societies proposing that a single doctrine cannot best serve all children and families. Drawing on cultural psychological and anthropological research this challenging volume respects cultural diversity as the human condition and demonstrates how the wide heterogeneity of children’s worlds must be taken seriously to avoid painful or unethical consequences that might result from the application of attachment theory in different fields. The book explores attachment theory as a scientific construct deals with attachment theory as the foundation of early education specifies the dimensions that need to be considered for a culturally conscious approach and finally approaches ethical problems which result from the universality claim of attachment theory in different areas. This book employs multiple and mixed methods while also going beyond critical analysis of theory to offer insight into the implications of the unquestioning acceptance of this theory in such areas as childhood interventions diagnosis of attachment security international intervention programs and educational settings. This volume will be a crucial read for scholars and researchers in developmental educational and clinical psychology as well as educators teachers-in-training and other professionals working with children and their families. | The Myth of Attachment Theory A Critical Understanding for Multicultural Societies

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Organization Theory and the Public Sector Instrument Culture and Myth

Organization Theory and the Public Sector Instrument Culture and Myth

Public-sector organizations are fundamentally different from their private-sector counterparts. They are part of the society’s political organizations and are major political actors. They are multifunctional follow a political leadership and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform reorganization and modernization of the public sector this book offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public-sector organization that recognizes its unique values interests knowledge and power base. Drawing on both instrumental and institutional perspectives within organization theory as well as democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making the book addresses five central aspects of the public-sector organization: ■ goals values and motivation ■ leadership and steering ■ reform and change ■ effects learning and implications ■ understanding and design The book challenges conventional economic analysis of the public sector arguing instead for a political-democratic approach and a new prescriptive organization theory. A rich resource of both theory and practice Organization Theory and the Public Sector: Instrument Culture and Myth is essential reading for anybody studying the public sector. This second edition of the book contains a range of new and updated themes examples and references. | Organization Theory and the Public Sector Instrument Culture and Myth

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Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth 1610–1620 Visual and Poetic Memory

Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth 1610–1620 Visual and Poetic Memory

Focusing on four Rubens paintings created between 1610 and 1620 - Prometheus Bound The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus Juno and Argus and The Finding of Erichthonius - this book re-examines the artist's approach to classical mythology. These theoretically-informed readings provide a fuller understanding of the dynamics of Rubens's copious visual language and can serve as methodological templates for looking at and reading of many other of his complex inventions. Even by the standards of erudition commonly applied to Rubens's oeuvre as a whole these four paintings were created during a period characterized by a particularly intense engagement on his part with questions of artistic originality and ideal style. Furthermore the learned themes of these images clearly point to a rarefied audience that could appreciate the intertextual qualities of ancient myths. Like the artist himself these ideal beholders cultivated a mode of viewing steeped in classical and renaissance theories of literary and rhetorical composition. Thus through these close readings the author illuminates the manner in which the rhetorical and poetic conventions of the period as well as the growing appreciation for the various allegorical layers of fables lead to a better understanding of Rubens's pictorial archaeology of classical myths. | Rubens and the Archaeology of Myth 1610–1620 Visual and Poetic Memory

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Memory Myth and Seduction Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process

Memory Myth and Seduction Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process

Memory Myth and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought Schimek challenges local views from the perspective of continental discourse. A practicing psychoanalyst teacher and consummate Freud scholar Schimek sought to clarify Freud's concepts and theories and to disentangle complexities borne of inconsistencies in Freud's assumptions and expositions. This book is divided thematically into three sections. The first concerns fantasy and interpretation as they play out in the analytic situation and the manner in which analyst and patient coconstruct meaning and reconstruct and recover memory. The second consists of two seminal papers which provide the sequence of steps in the five revisions in Freud's seduction theory. Schimek's careful scholarship lays out the data of Freud's writing which allows one to draw one's own conclusions about the implications of the changes in the theory that he made. In the third more theoretical section he provides a foundation for understanding many of today's discussions about unconscious fantasy dreaming remembering consciousness affect self-reflection mentalization and implicit relational knowing. He clarifies and illustrates Freud's original formulations (and their inherent problems) through a careful reading of sections of The Interpretation of Dreams and a study of Freud's famous Signorelli parapraxis. Skillfully arranged and carefully edited by Deborah Browning and including a foreword by Alan Bass this collection of Schimek's published and unpublished papers will be of interest to practicing psychoanalysts psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapists and students of the history of ideas and philosophy who have a particular interest in fantasy interpretation and Freud. | Memory Myth and Seduction Unconscious Fantasy and the Interpretive Process

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Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

First published in 1999 what the confrontation between democracies and Hitlerism tells us about democracy is the subject of this book. It examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the ’20’s and ’30’s and ending up with Britain and the U. S. in the ’40’s. Contrary to mythology this response was far more a failure than a success. An iconoclastic treatment it anticipates the crises of the future. . | Democracies Against Hitler Myth Reality and Prologue

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The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology

The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology

Now in its eighth edition this magisterial work offers a comprehensive survey of the stories of Greek myth from the Olympian gods through the lesser gods and deities to the heroes adventures and foundation myths of the ancient Greek world. The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology sets out to provide a comprehensive history of the divine order and mythical prehistory of Greece as systematized on a genealogical basis by Hesiod and the ancient mythographers while also taking into account the ways in which individual myths have changed and evolved over time in different genres of literature. This new edition has been extensively rewritten and reorganized to make it more accessible to readers who may have no particular knowledge of the ancient world and Greek mythology and to ensure that information on each myth or mythical figure is easy to find within the book. This new edition of the handbook continues to offer an essential reference resource for all students of Greek mythology and it provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of these stories for anyone with an interest in the classical world.

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China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

This book analyzes China's new foreign investment law which came into force in January 2020. The new law implemented sweeping changes and overhauled China’s foreign investment law regime of the last four decades. The foreign investment law aims to make the business environment more investor-friendly and address some of the contentious issues between US and China in the ongoing trade war. The book explains how the law enhances regulatory transparency. It also outlines the new approval process that is the pre-establishment negative list system which has replaced the former approval system for foreign investment projects. The book also analyzes China's series of anti-sanction laws. This book will help give readers a better understanding of major changes and benefits under the new law and will be the first of its kind looking at the implications of this important law. | China's Foreign Investment Law in the New Normal Framing the Trajectory and Dynamics

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Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

Is any image in modern times more evocative of social change than the computer? Popular mythology ascribes extraordinary powers to computers in the ordering of human affairs. Computers are seen as instruments of social transformation and economic change. Indeed it is hard not to find computers in the modern workplace let alone in the home. They are ubiquitous in government offices businesses large and small alike the school and not-for-profit organizations. In this meticulously researched study of computers and computing authors James B. Rule Debra Gimlin and Sylvia Sievers present a fascinating entertaining and thought-provoking survey of the use of what may be the most powerful tool in today's workplace. In the chapter entitled The New York Study: Design and Execution the authors describe their inspiration for the undertaking of their study how they designed their research methods and how they obtained funding for the project. In the chapter What Computers Do; How Computing Changes case studies involving businesses that adopted greater computer usage are described and the authors explain how the new technology was employed for their benefit. In Employment and Efficiency time saving and cost-effectiveness qualities of computer technology are explored. And in Management and Structure the authors posit the role of the computer in organizational transformation. Computing in Organizations is a timely and relevant work and will prove of great benefit to strategic consultants business management personnel sociologists and students of information technology. | Computing in Organizations Myth and Experience

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The History of the Vespa An Italian Miracle

The History of the Vespa An Italian Miracle

Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter there is no academic book dealing with its history only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist entrusted more to myth than to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach this volume aims to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most advanced aeronautical industries in the world adapting and hybridizing them in an original way and how the company disseminated its models in the transnational social space. | The History of the Vespa An Italian Miracle

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Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

Hailed at its premiere at the London Coliseum in 1986 as the most important musical and theatrical event of the decade The Mask of Orpheus is undoubtedly a key work in Harrison Birtwistle's output. His subsequent stage and concert pieces demand to be evaluated in its light. Increasingly it is also viewed as a key work in the development of opera since the Second World War a work that pushed at the boundaries of what was possible in lyrical theatre. In its imaginative fusion of music song drama myth mime and electronics it has become a beacon for many younger composers and the object of wide critical attention. Jonathan Cross begins his detailed study of this 'lyric tragedy' by placing it in the wider context of the reception of the Orpheus myth. In particular the significance of Orpheus for the twentieth century is discussed and this provides the backdrop for an examination of Birtwistle's preoccupation with the story in a variety of works across his creative life. The sources and genesis of The Mask of Orpheus are explored. This is followed by a close reading of the work's three acts analysing their structure and meaning investigating the relationship between music text and drama drawing on Zinovieff's textual drafts and Birtwistle's compositional sketches. The book concludes by suggesting a range of contexts within which The Mask of Orpheus might be understood. Its central themes of time memory and identity loss mourning and melancholy touch a deep sensibility in late-modern society and culture. Interviews with the librettist and composer round off this important study. | Harrison Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus

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Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

The 9/11 attacks as well as the ones in Madrid London Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dictatorial regimes; the wars in former Yugoslavia Syria and Iraq and currently in Ukraine; the sexual violence during periods of conflict all make us wonder: why would anyone do something like that? Who are these people? Drawing on 30 years of research in this book Alette Smeulers explores the perpetrators of mass atrocities such as war crimes crimes against humanity genocide and terrorism. Examining questions of why people kill and torture and how mass atrocities can be explained Smeulers presents a typology of perpetrators with different ranks roles and motives. Devoting one chapter to each type of perpetrator the book combines insights from academic research with illustrative case studies of well-known perpetrators from dictators to middlemen to lower ranking officials and terrorists. Their stories are explored in depth as the book examines their behaviour and motivation. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities thus provides a comprehensive understanding of the causes of extreme mass violence. Such knowledge not only can help the international criminal justice system to be able to attribute blame in a fairer way but can also assist in preventing such atrocities being committed on the current scale. Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities is essential reading for all those interested in war crimes genocide terrorism and mass violence | Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?

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Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

First Published in 1959 Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world’s chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man creation and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual of art asceticism and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India’s mystical insights and philosophical speculation and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism religion Indian philosophy Indian culture and heritage. | Hinduism Its Meaning for the Liberation of the Spirit

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Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes Myth Propaganda Reality

Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes Myth Propaganda Reality

Since the early 2000s authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications but also environmental implications: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the government in every aspect of public life including environmental policy. When historians of technology or the environment have investigated the environmental consequences of authoritarian regimes they have frequently argued that authoritarian regimes have been unable to produce positive environmental results or adjust successfully to global structural change if they have shown any concern for the environment at all. Put another way the scholarly consensus holds that authoritarian regimes on both the left and the right generally have demonstrated an anti-environmentalist bias and when opposed by environmentalist social movements have succeeded in silencing those voices. This book explores the theme of environmental politics and authoritarian regimes on both the right and the left. The authors argue that in instances when environmentalist policies offer the possibility of bolstering a country’s domestic (nationalist) appeal or its international prestige authoritarian regimes can endorse and have endorsed environmental protective measures. The collection of essays analyzes environmentalist initiatives pursued by authoritarian regimes and provides explanations for both the successes and failures of such regimes looking at a range of case studies from a number of countries including Brazil China Poland and Zimbabwe. The volume contributes to the scholarly debate about the social and political preconditions necessary for effective environmental protection. This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental history and politics environmental humanities ecology and geography. | Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes Myth Propaganda Reality

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