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Praying to a French God The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste

Praying to a French God The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste

As a phenomenologist Lacoste is concerned with investigating the human aptitude for experience; as a theologian Lacoste is interested in humanity’s potential for a relationship with the divine what he terms the ’liturgical relationship’. Beginning from the proposition that prayer is a theme that occurs throughout Lacoste’s writing and using this proposition as a heuristic through which to view interpret and critique his thought this book examines Lacoste’s place amid both the recent ’theological turn’ in French thought and the post-war emergence of la nouvelle théologie. Drawing upon unpublished and out of print material previously only available in French Romanian or German the book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy phenomenology and theology. | Praying to a French God The Theology of Jean-Yves Lacoste

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Fashion Entrepreneurship The Creation of the Global Fashion Business

Fashion Entrepreneurship The Creation of the Global Fashion Business

Fashion generates over a trillion dollars in sales annually and has the priceless ability to beguile its customers around the world. Fashion Entrepreneurship: The Creation of the Global Fashion Business provides the first authoritative history of the global fashion industry from its emergence to the present day with a focus on the entrepreneurs at the nucleus of many of the world’s influential brands. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built and developed their brands democratizing access to fashion brands throughout the world. This book analyzes the careers of the greatest fashion entrepreneurs from the nineteenth century onward including such legendary names as Charles Worth Coco Chanel Christian Dior Yves Saint Laurent and Giorgio Armani. It shows how this distinct form of entrepreneurship has arisen and what lessons new entrepreneurs can learn from the past to create thriving fashion businesses in today’s rapidly changing modern world. Filled with fascinating stories from the world of fashion as well as detailed business analysis and practical advice for people looking to create successful brands Fashion Entrepreneurship is an essential read for students of fashion and entrepreneurship and anyone looking to understand and succeed in this most glamorous of industries. | Fashion Entrepreneurship The Creation of the Global Fashion Business

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Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience Spiritual Themes in Henry Marion and Lacoste

Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience Spiritual Themes in Henry Marion and Lacoste

This book explores the threshold between phenomenology and lived religion in dialogue with three French luminaries: Michel Henry Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Yves Lacoste. Through close reading and critical analysis each chapter touches on how a liturgical and ritual setting or a spiritual vision of the body can shape and ultimately structure the experience of an individual’s surrounding world. The volume advances debate about the scope and limits of the phenomenological analysis of religious themes and disturbs the assumption that theology and phenomenology are incapable of constructive interdisciplinary dialogue. | Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience Spiritual Themes in Henry Marion and Lacoste

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Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments Opportunities and Challenges of Technology-Enabled Learning and Creativity

Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments Opportunities and Challenges of Technology-Enabled Learning and Creativity

Originally published as a special issue of the Creativity Research Journal this volume gives a balanced and reflective account of the challenges and opportunities of technology-enabled creative learning in contemporary societies. Providing a current and updated account of the challenges posed by the Coronavirus to online education chapters more broadly offer conceptual reflections and empirically informed insights into the impact of technology on individual and collective creativity and learning. These thoughts are explored in relation to school achievement the development of digital educational resources online collaboration and virtual working. Further the book also considers how the creative use of technology poses risks to learning through the accidental or deliberate dissemination of misinformation and online manipulation of common societal values in the era of COVID-19. Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments looks at the connection between creativity learning and school achievement and analyses the impact of virtual environments on creative expression. It will appeal to postgraduate students in the fields of creativity and learning as well as to students and academics involved with broader research in areas such as the role of technology in education e-Learning and distance education. Vlad P. Glăveanu is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Counselling at Webster University Geneva Switzerland as well as Associate Professor II at the University of Bergen Norway. Ingunn Johanne Ness is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology University of Bergen Norway. Constance de Saint Laurent is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna Italy. | Creative Learning in Digital and Virtual Environments Opportunities and Challenges of Technology-Enabled Learning and Creativity

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Catholicism and Scotland

Catholicism and Scotland

Originally published in 1936 and authored by an ardent Scottish Nationalist and convert to Roman Catholicism this concise book begins in the Gaelic era and charts the turbulent history of Catholicism in Scotland from then to the early 20th Century through the Norman Conquest of England and the coming of Saint Margaret. The contribution of the unbroken line of Stuart Kings to the national consciousness is emphasized and an outspoken account of the origins of John Knox’s Presbyterian movement given. The book also discusses the persecution of Catholic missionaries in the 17th and 18th centuries. | Catholicism and Scotland

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Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

Analysing the narration of the translatio of the body of Saint James from Palestine to Santiago de Compostela and its impact on the historical and biblical construction of Jacobean pilgrimages this book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the two cities at the centre of the legend: Jerusalem and Compostela. Using a range of political anthropological historical and sociological approaches the contributors consider archaeological research into Palestine in the early centuries and explore the traditions iconography and literary and social impact of the translatio on the current reality of pilgrimages to Compostela. | Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

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St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art Case Studies in Patronage

St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art Case Studies in Patronage

How and why did a medieval female saint from the Eastern Mediterranean come to be such a powerful symbol in early modern Rome? This study provides an overview of the development of the cult of Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Rome exploring in particular how a saint's cult could be variously imaged and 'reinvented' to suit different eras and patronal interests. Cynthia Stollhans traces the evolution of the saint's imagery through the lens of patrons and their interests-with special focus on the importance of Catherine's image in the fashioning of her Roman identity-to show how her imagery served the religious political and/or social agendas of individual patrons and religious orders. | St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art Case Studies in Patronage

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Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys

Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys

Originally published in 1998 Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe is detailed study comparing the major population surveys on sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS carried out in Europe at the time of publication. Leading European researchers explore the differences and similarities between European countries in patterns of sexual behaviour and responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As well as providing an empirical and methodological base for future research the comparative analyses lead researchers policy makers health-educators and the media to new insights and a deeper understanding of issues that are of central concern in many countries. The chapters include discussion of data on sexual initiation homosexual and bisexual behaviour sexual practices sexual partners risk behaviour STDs preventive practices the normative context knowledge of HIV/AIDS and attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS. The book results from a major European Concerted Action funded by the European Union Biomedical and Health Research programme (BIOMED) and coordinated by the Centre d'Etudes Sociologiques of the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis Brussels Belgium. It follows Sexual Interactions and HIV Risk published in 1997. | Sexual Behaviour and HIV/AIDS in Europe Comparisons of National Surveys

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Holy Mother Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna and Helpmate in his mission

Holy Mother Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna and Helpmate in his mission

First Published in 1963 Holy Mother presents the life and teachings of an extraordinary saint of modern India who lived outwardly the life of an ordinary Hindu woman. Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) was brought up in poverty but also in contentment. She gained her sainthood not through unusual austerities but through regular practice of prayer and meditation utter devotion in the service of her husband and discharging her duties towards her demanding worldly-minded relatives. Yet her spiritual experiences were as deep as those of Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886). Her life was a demonstration of the inner peace that comes from communication with God even to one who is occupied with the activities of the world. Sri Ramakrishna trained her for her future role as his spiritual successor and through her he demonstrated the Motherhood of God. Her advent acted as a leaven silently raising the newly awakened consciousness of womanhood everywhere. This book is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism religion Indian philosophy Indian culture and heritage. | Holy Mother Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna and Helpmate in his mission

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Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

This book is an introduction to French phenomenology in the post-1945 period. While many of phenomenology’s greatest thinkers—Husserl Heidegger Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—wrote before this period Steven DeLay introduces and assesses the creative and important turn phenomenology took after these figures. He presents a clear and rigorous introduction to the work of relatively unfamiliar and underexplored philosophers including Jean-Louis Chrétien Michel Henry Jean-Yves Lacoste Jean-Luc Marion and others. After an introduction setting out the crucial Husserlian and Heideggerian background to French phenomenology DeLay explores Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics as first philosophy Henry’s material phenomenology Marion’s phenomenology of givenness Lacoste’s phenomenology of liturgical man Chrétien’s phenomenology of the call Claude Romano’s evential hermeneutics and Emmanuel Falque’s phenomenology of the borderlands. Starting with the reception of Husserl and Heidegger in France DeLay explains how this phenomenological thought challenges boundaries between philosophy and theology. Taking stock of its promise in light of the legacy it has transformed DeLay concludes with a summary of the field’s relevance to theology and analytic philosophy and indicates what the future holds for phenomenology. Phenomenology in France: A Philosophical and Theological Introduction is an excellent resource for all students and scholars of phenomenology and continental philosophy and will also be useful to those in related disciplines such as theology literature and French studies. | Phenomenology in France A Philosophical and Theological Introduction

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Theatre Studios A Political History of Ensemble Theatre-Making

Theatre Studios A Political History of Ensemble Theatre-Making

Theatre Studios explores the history of the studio model in England first established by Konstantin Stanislavsky Jacques Copeau and others in the early twentieth century and later developed in the UK primarily by Michel Saint-Denis George Devine Michael Chekhov and Joan Littlewood whose studios are the focus of this study. Cornford offers in-depth accounts of the radical collective work of these leading theatre companies of the mid-twentieth century considering the models of ensemble theatre-making that they developed and their remnants in the newly publicly-funded UK theatre establishment of the 1960s. In the process this book develops an approach to understanding the politics of artistic practices rooted in the work of John Dewey Antonio Gramsci and the standpoint feminists. It concludes by considering the legacy of the studio movement for twenty-first-century theatre partly by tracking its echoes in the work of Secret Theatre at the Lyric Hammersmith (2013–2015). Students and makers of theatre alike will find in this book a provocative and illuminating analysis of the politics of performance-making and a history of the theatre as a site for developing counterhegemonic radically democratic anti-individualist forms of cultural production. | Theatre Studios A Political History of Ensemble Theatre-Making

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Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin A Translation and a Study

Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin A Translation and a Study

In Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin Patricia Timmons and Robert Boenig present the first English translation of a twelfth-century Latin collection of miracles that Berceo the first named poet in the Spanish language used as a source for his thirteenth-century Spanish collection Milagros de Nuestra Se±ora. Using the MS Thott 128 close to the one Berceo must have used Timmons and Boenig provide both translation and analysis exploring the Latin Miracles suggesting how it was used as a sacred text and placing it within the history of Christians' evolving understanding of the Virgin's role in their lives. In addition this volume explores Berceo's reaction to the Latin Miracles demonstrating that he reacted creatively to his source texts as well as to changes in Church culture and governance that occurred between the composition of Latin Miracles and the thirteenth century translating it across both language and culture. Accessible and useful to students and scholars of medieval and Spanish studies this book includes the original Latin text translations of the Latin Miracles including analyses of 'Saint Peter and the Lustful Monk ' 'The Little Jewish Boy ' and 'The Jews of Toledo. ' | Gonzalo de Berceo and the Latin Miracles of the Virgin A Translation and a Study

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Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia Shrines Journeys and Wanderers

Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia Shrines Journeys and Wanderers

The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried and it works as a main social factor with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society. The book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism. Inspired by new advances in the field of ritual and pilgrimage studies the book demonstrates that religious gatherings are spaces of negotiation and redefinitions of religious identity and of the notion of sainthood. Drawing from a large corpus of vernacular and colonial sources as well as the register of popular literature and ethnographic observation the authors describe how religious identities are co-constructed through the management of rituals and are constantly renegotiated through discourses and religious practices. By enabling students researchers and academics to critically understand the complexity of religious places within the world of popular and devotional Islam this geographical re-mapping of Muslim religious gatherings in contemporary South Asia contributes to a new understanding of South Asian and Islamic Studies. | Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia Shrines Journeys and Wanderers

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Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal monastic and secular – that shaped the art architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500 a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions written by an international group of scholars cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture manuscript illumination and stained glass as well as questions of liturgy religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries as well as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis built 1140–44 and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian Order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also the book investigates the relationships between manuscript illuminators in the 14th century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages. | Paris The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City

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Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies Native North America in (Trans)Motion

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies Native North America in (Trans)Motion

In recent years the interdisciplinary fields of Native North American and Indigenous Studies have reflected at times even foreshadowed and initiated many of the influential theoretical discussions in the humanities after the transnational turn. Global trends of identity politics performativity cultural performance and ethics comparative and revisionist historiography ecological responsibility and education as well as issues of social justice have shaped and been shaped by discussions in Native American and Indigenous Studies. This volume brings together distinguished perspectives on these topics by the Native scholars and writers Gerald Vizenor (Anishinaabe) Diane Glancy (Cherokee) and Tomson Highway (Cree) as well as non-Native authorities such as Chadwick Allen Hartmut Lutz and Helmbrecht Breinig. Contributions look at various moments in the cultural history of Native North America—from earthmounds via the Catholic appropriation of a Mohawk saint to the debates about Makah whaling rights—as well as at a diverse spectrum of literary performative and visual works of art by John Ross John Ridge Elias Boudinot Emily Pauline Johnson Leslie Marmon Silko Emma Lee Warrior Louise Erdrich N. Scott Momaday Stephen Graham Jones and Gerald Vizenor among others. In doing so the selected contributions identify new and recurrent methodological challenges outline future paths for scholarly inquiry and explore the intersections between Indigenous Studies and contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies at large. | Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Indigenous Studies Native North America in (Trans)Motion

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Augustine and Liberal Education

Augustine and Liberal Education

This title was first published in 2000: Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE) - Bishop theologian philosopher and rhetorician - has left a rich legacy for reflection upon relationships between Christianity and culture between Christian catechesis and liberal education and between faith and reason. Contemporary educational institutions have begun to explore their roots digging into their intellectual traditions for the resources for renewal of liberal education. Augustine and Liberal Education sheds light on liberal education past and present from an Augustinian point of view. Ranging from historical investigations of particular themes and issues in the thought of Saint Augustine to reflections on the role of tradition and community and the challenges and opportunities facing universities in the next century the contributors return to the sources of traditional reflection whilst exploring contemporary issues of education and 'the good life'. Essays on Augustinian inquiry in medieval and modern eras address critical questions on the role of rhetoric reading and authority in education on the social context of learning and on the relationship between liberal education and properly Christian catechesis. Contemporary questions on liberal education from philosophical political theological and ethical perspectives are then explored in the essays which move from the past to the present. This book offers a valuable contribution to the growing scholarship on Catholic universities and on Augustine of Hippo engaging in 'Augustinian inquiry' and pointing to possibilities for renewal in liberal education in the twenty-first century.

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Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki

Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki

This title was first published in 2003. Can a text be used either to validate or to invalidate contemporary understandings? Texts may be deemed 'sacred' but sacred to whom? Do conflicting understandings matter? Is it appropriate to try to offer a resolution? For Hindus and non-Hindus in India and beyond Valmiki is the poet-saint who composed the epic R m yaµa. Yet for a vocal community of dalits (once called 'untouchables') within and outside India Valmiki is God. How then does one explain the popular story that he started out as an ignorant and violent bandit attacking and killing travellers for material gain? And what happens when these two accounts Valmiki as God and Valmiki as villain are held simultaneously by two different religious groups both contemporary and both vocal? This situation came to a head with controversial demonstrations by the Valmiki community in Britain in 2000 giving rise to some searching questions which Julia Leslie now seeks to address. Exploring the relationship between sacred text and religious meaning Leslie presents a critical text-historical study of the figure of Valmiki drawing on the sacred texts traditionally attributed to him: the V lm£ki R m yaµa and the Yogav si¹±ha R m yaµa both in Sanskrit. While identifying and examining the various strands of popular stories concerning Valmiki Leslie disentangles the earliest evidence for him from the narrative threads of passing centuries and considers the implications of that process. This ground-breaking analysis illustrated with paintings of Valmiki makes a unique contribution both to our understanding of the interlocking beliefs of many religious communities and to a greater awareness of the problematic relationship between sacred text and contemporary religious meaning. Invaluable to students of both the study of religions and South Asian studies this book will also be of interest to Indian communities in the diaspora seeking to understand their roots including (but not exclusively) the Valmikis. | Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki

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Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

This book uniquely explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. Furthermore in highlighting the diversity in pre-Christian pre-Islamic regional beliefs and practices that extend beyond the simplistic political arguments of the current dominant narratives the study shows that for millennia complex indigenous institutions have bound people together beyond the labels of Christianity and Islam; they have sustained peace through cultural exchange and tolerance (if not always complete acceptance). Through recent archaeological and ethnographic research the concepts landscapes materials and rituals believed to be associated with the indigenous and shared culture of the Sky-God belief are examined. The author makes sense for the first time of the relationship between the notion of sacred fertility and a number of regional archaeological features and on-going ancient practices including FGM spirit possessions and other physically invasive practices and the ritual hunt. The book explores one of the most important pilgrimage centres in Somaliland and Somalia the sacred landscape of Saint Aw-Barkhadle founded ca. 12th century AD. It is believed to be the burial place of the rulers of the first Muslim Ifat and Awdal dynasties in this region and potentially the lost first capital of Awdal kingdom before Harar. This ritual centre is seen as a ‘microcosm’ of the ancient Horn of Africa with its exceptional multi-religious heritage through which the author lays out a locally appropriate archaeological interpretational framework the Ritual Set also applied here to the Ethiopian sites of Tiya Sheikh Hussein Bale Aksum and Lalibela setting these places against a wider historical background of indigenous Sky-God belief. This archaeological study of sacred landscapes stelae traditions ancient Christian and medieval Muslim centres of Northeast Africa is the first to put forward a theoretical and analytical framework for the interpretation of the shared regional heritage and the indigenous archaeology of the region. It will be invaluable to archaeologists anthropologists historians and policymakers interested in Africa and beyond. | Divine Fertility The Continuity in Transformation of an Ideology of Sacred Kinship in Northeast Africa

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Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century celebrates the achievements of the renowned sociologist Joseph Maier. A superb teacher and respected scholar of formidable scope Maier's work encompassed a variety of disciplines including sociology philosophy and political science. He is well known for his comparative research on Latin America as well as Jewish law and tradition. As Judith Marcus observes Maier helped to establish comparative-historical sociology as an acknowledged field of study. This volume records and pays tribute to his scholarship and significant public service. The volume is divided into parts reflecting the breath of Maier's intellectual interests. Contributors are drawn from a variety of fields and geographical arenas. Part 1 consists of biographical interviews and personal observations on Maier and his work by Herman Berlinski David Berlinski Geoffrey Lloyd Enrique Krauze and Aaron W. Warner. Part 2 includes contributions addressing some of the main themes in Maier's work: the interaction of nationalism community and personal identity; the impact of politics on social science; culture politics and religion. Contributors include Abraham Edel William Safran Reinhard Kreckel Zoltan Tarr Sandro Segre Ludwig von Friedberg Irving Louis Horowitz Judith Marcus Editfi Kurzweil Paul Neurath Ruth Rubinstein Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons Tony Carnes and Elfriede Uner. Part 3 reflects the impact of Maier's work on other scholars. It includes essays on philosophy religion literature and intellectual responsibility. Contributors include Tom Rockmore Laurent Stern Edmund Leites Alfred Schmidt Norbert Altwicker Rita Kuczynski Gerard Raulet and Peter Gottwald. Part 4 covers the influence of crisis on Jewish intellectual life and includes contributions by Herbert Strauss Emanuel Maier Leon A. Feldman Hannelore Kunzl and Johann Maier. The volume concludes in part 5 with personal tributes to Maier by Curt C. Silberman C. Alexander Weinstock and Helen Hacker. The volume includes an illuminating introduction by Judith Marcus thematic essay by Joseph Maier and a selected bibliography of his work. Scholars who have been influenced by Maier will welcome this volume. Those who are not familiar with the scope of his contributions will benefit from the experience of seeing how his work has affected the choices of others. This is the 24th volume issued in Transaction's distinguished scholar (festschrift) series. | Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

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