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Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching leading and working internationally bringing together inspiring original and dramatic stories of leadership from around the world. From war zones to refugee camps prisons to hospitals elite sport to supermarkets each case study draws on psychoanalytic below the surface thinking to analyse interpret and understand a leader’s decisions motivations and fears. Rachel Ellison’s inter-cultural approach takes us to Afghanistan Syria and Iraq Sudan Somalia and the Central African Republic to Honduras the Czech Republic the USA and the UK. Global Leadership & Coaching presents a series of individual case studies from Ellison’s own experiences working with senior commercial public and third sector leaders across 35 different countries cultures and organisational contexts. Compellingly written this book explores the a diverse range of themes to consider when managing risk danger and extreme emotional stress in some of the most hazardous and challenging work environments. Throughout the text leaders share their stories of learning how to lead and develop others. Accessible engaging and original research Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is essential reading for today’s leaders and aspiring leaders looking to develop themselves personally and professionally. This book is also a resource for coaches and coach supervisors. Global Leadership & Coaching provides contemporary practical and applicable examples of excellence in leadership for individuals and organisations seeking to develop a high performance reflective and reflexive corporate learning culture which enables employees to successfully navigate challenge increase productivity and find joy in coming to work. | Global Leadership and Coaching Flourishing under intense pressure at work

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One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

The song remains the most basic unit of modern pop music. Shaped into being by historical forces—cultural aesthetic and technical—the song provides both performer and audience with a world marked off by a short discrete and temporally demarcated experience. One-Track Mind: Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song brings together 16 writers to weigh in on 16 iconic tracks from the history of modern popular music. Arranged chronologically in order of release of the tracks and spanning nearly five decades these essays zigzag across the cultural landscape to present one possible history of pop music. There are detours through psychedelic rock Afro-pop Latin pop glam rock heavy metal punk postpunk adult contemporary rock techno hip-hop and electro-pop here. More than just deep histories of individual songs these essays all expand far beyond the track itself to offer exciting and often counterintuitive histories of transformative moments in popular culture. Collectively they show the undiminished power of the individual pop song both as distillations of important flashpoints and in their afterlives as ghostly echoes that persist undiminished but transform for succeeding generations. Capitalism and its principal good capital help us frame these stories a fact that should surprise no one given the inextricable relationship between art and capitalism established in the twentieth century. At the root readers will find here a history of pop with unexpected plot twists colorful protagonists and fitting denouements. | One-Track Mind Capitalism Technology and the Art of the Pop Song

GBP 130.00
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One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy Applications and Technique

One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy Applications and Technique

One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy: Applications and Technique will be an invaluable resource and manual to the field for those training in or practising psychodrama psychotherapy in a one-to-one frame. This book brings together for the first time current thinking and practice developed and refined at the London Centre for Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy. Divided in two parts this book provides a comprehensive background to the field and an exploration of the theory and techniques discussed drawing upon the experience of practitioners in their one-to-one practice. Case studies are presented and discussed across diverse issues such as anxiety bereavement shame eating disorders dissociative identity disorder multi-agency work with children and brief interventions within an organisational setting. One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy will appeal to all experienced practitioners as well as those wishing to work with psychodrama psychotherapy on an individual basis. | One-to-One Psychodrama Psychotherapy Applications and Technique

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More-than-One Health Humans Animals and the Environment Post-COVID

More-than-One Health Humans Animals and the Environment Post-COVID

This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human animal and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities social sciences natural sciences and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to and explicit about colonial and neocolonial legacies—urging the decolonization of One Health. While acknowledging the importance of One Health the volume at the same time critically examines its roots highlighting the structural biases and power dynamics still at play in this global health regime. The volume is distinctive in its geographic breadth. It travels from Inuit sled dogs in the Arctic to rock hyraxes in Jerusalem from black-faced spoonbills in Taiwan to street dogs in India from spittle-bugs on Mallorca’s almond trees to jellyfish management at sea and from rabies in sub-Saharan Africa to massive culling practices in South Korea. Together the contributors call for One Health to move toward a more transparent plural and just perception of health that takes seriously the role of more-than-humans and of nonscientific knowledges pointing to ways in which One Health can—and should—be decolonized. This volume will appeal to researchers and practitioners in the medical humanities posthumanities environmental humanities science and technology studies animal studies multispecies ethnography anthrozoology and critical public health. The Open Access version of chapter 1 available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003294085 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Funded by the Wellcome Trust. | More-than-One Health Humans Animals and the Environment Post-COVID

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The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One: Revelation and Apocalypse is the first volume fully annotated of a major previously unpublished two-part work by Erich Neumann (1905–1960). It was written between 1934 and 1940 after Neumann then a young philosopher and physician and freshly trained as a disciple of Jung fled Berlin to settle in Tel Aviv. He finished the second volume of this work at the end of World War II. Although he never published either volume he kept them the rest of his life. The challenge of Jewish survival frames Neumann’s work existentially. This survival he insists must be psychological and spiritual as much as physical. In Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse he argues that modern Jews must relearn what ancient Jews once understood but lost during the Babylonian Exile: that is the individual capacity to meet the sacred directly to receive revelation and to prophesy. Neumann interprets scriptural and intertestamental (apocalyptic) literature through the lens of Jung’s teaching and his reliance on the work of Jung is supplemented with references to Buber Rosenzweig and Auerbach. Including a foreword by Nancy Swift Furlotti and editorial introduction by Ann Conrad Lammers readers of this volume can hold for the first time the unpublished work of Neumann with useful annotations and insights throughout. These volumes anticipate Neumann’s later works including Depth Psychology and a New Ethic The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother. His signature contribution to analytical psychology the concept of the ego–Self axis arises indirectly in Volume One folded into Neumann’s theme of the tension between earth and YHWH. This unique work will appeal to Jungian analysts and psychotherapists in training and in practice historians of psychology Jewish scholars biblical historians teachers of comparative religion as well as academics and students. | The Roots of Jewish Consciousness Volume One Revelation and Apocalypse

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A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

Written by pioneering analyst and creative thinker James Grotstein A Beam of Intense Darkness offers a thorough overview and illuminating insight into the often-complex work of W. R. Bion. This psychoanalytic classic sees Grotstein introduce over 30 key Bionian theories comprehensively explaining them to the reader before offering his own insight and commentary. Grotstein first encountered Bion as his analysand and later as his friend. This book offers a level of insight only possible through such a close relationship and offers a dialogue between Bion and Grotstein as they delve into the inner workings of the human psyche. Throughout Grotstein offers his own original thoughts on topics such as projective transidentification transcendent position and the truth drive. With a new introduction from Nicola Abel-Hirsch this book is an essential read for anyone interested in Bion’s work and legacy. | A Beam of Intense Darkness Wilfred Bion's Legacy to Psychoanalysis

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American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

Combining a detailed film analysis with archival research and social science approaches this book examines how American Graffiti (1973) a low-budget and star-less teen comedy by a filmmaker whose only previous feature had been a box office flop became one of the highest grossing and most highly acclaimed films of all time in the United States and one of the key expressions of the nostalgia wave washing over the country in the 1970s. American Graffiti: George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation explores the origins and development of the film its form and themes as well as its marketing reception audiences and impact. It does so by considering the life and career of the film’s co-writer and director George Lucas; the development and impact of the baby boom generation to which he many of his collaborators and the vast majority of the film’s audience belonged; the transformation of the American film industry in the late 1960s and 1970s; and broader changes in American society which gave rise to an intense sense of crisis and growing pessimism across the population. This book is ideal for students scholars and those with an interest in youth cinema the New Hollywood and George Lucas as well as both Film and American Studies more broadly. | American Graffiti George Lucas the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation

GBP 45.00
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China's Presence in the Middle East The Implications of the One Belt One Road Initiative

China's Presence in the Middle East The Implications of the One Belt One Road Initiative

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) vision heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route is intended to strengthen West Asia’s economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central to this are fast-track rail links funded by the newly-established Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) which has its headquarters in Beijing. This book explores the implications of OBOR and the AIIB for the Middle East/West Asia and addresses a number of key strategic questions arising from China’s new initiatives. These include: how far are the strategic imperatives underpinning China’s policies connected to the political dynamics of Xinjiang and the spread of radical Islam in Central Asia? How are Middle Eastern stakeholders’ views of China affected by the new initiatives? How does China’s increasing involvement in the Middle East/West Asia affect other regional powers with ambitions in the region notably Russia? The book also considers the impact of China’s increasing presence on individual countries including Saudi Arabia and Israel. | China's Presence in the Middle East The Implications of the One Belt One Road Initiative

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The Cultural One or the Racial Many Religion Culture and the Interethnic Experience

The Cultural One or the Racial Many Religion Culture and the Interethnic Experience

First published in 1997 this study aims first to enlarge upon the understanding of race and ethnicity through a culturalist-comparative frame of analysis instead of the standard quantitative and political-economy approaches. Secondly to analyse in systematic form the religious constitution of sociocultural life. Ethnic and race relations are examined in reference to the cultural system of the society which is conceived in terms of three interrelated aspects of the assimilative process: cultural assimilation concerning dominant-minority cultural relations; psychosocial assimilation concerning the question of identity; and biological assimilation concerning intermarriage. The U. S. and Brazilian cultural systems are contrasted as ideal types of cultural separatism and cultural integration respectively. Against current thinking it is argued that the former type crystallizes interethnic conflict and inequality while the latter is a prerequisite for the full social inclusion of society’s members. Finally the dominant religion and religious culture of each society are addressed as the critical structuring force of social and intergroup relations. | The Cultural One or the Racial Many Religion Culture and the Interethnic Experience

GBP 21.99
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The Cold War and its Origins 1917-1960 Volume One 1917-1950

The Cold War and its Origins 1917-1960 Volume One 1917-1950

This book first published in 1961 is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict’s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east all the way up to 1960. These were the key years of the Cold War when it seemed that the prospect of nuclear confrontation was a real one and this book offers a close reading of the main events of those years. This volume concentrates on the European theatre and Volume Two focuses on the Cold War in the East. | The Cold War and its Origins 1917-1960 Volume One 1917-1950

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Representation and Democracy in the EU Does one come at the expense of the other?

Representation and Democracy in the EU Does one come at the expense of the other?

This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament as the prime source of democratic representation. This collection focuses instead on four other channels that are as and often more important: namely representation via governments national parliaments civil society organisations and directly via referenda. Based on original research the book combines democratic theory with detailed empirical analysis to provide an innovative timely and up-to-date evaluation of the nature of representation in the EU. Policy advisors practitioners and those scholars interested in democracy and the European Union will find this volume to be a valuable resource. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration. | Representation and Democracy in the EU Does one come at the expense of the other?

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Two Into One The Politics And Processes Of National Legislative Cameral Change

Two Into One The Politics And Processes Of National Legislative Cameral Change

Recent scholarship points to a new institutionalism just as recent political developments point to a trend toward democratization. If institutions matter and if legislatures are the democratic institutions in which the voice of the people speaks then the organization of legislatures—bi- or unicameral—has important consequences for democracy. | Two Into One The Politics And Processes Of National Legislative Cameral Change

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The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal literary historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems which only entered the public domain in the 1950s printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output and Queen Mab the first of Shelley’s major poems together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley’s overall poetic development. The ‘Scrope Davies’ notebook only discovered in 1976 furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ and ‘Mont Blanc’ which significantly influence our understanding of these important poems. This first volume contains new datings and makes numerous corrections to long-established errors and misunderstandings in the transmission of Shelley's work. Its annotations and headnotes provide new perspectives on Shelley's literary philosophical and political development The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars. | The Poems of Shelley: Volume One 1804-1817

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The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics Volumes One and Two

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics Volumes One and Two

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics published in 2011 has long been a standard introduction and essential reference point to the broad interdisciplinary field of Applied Linguistics. Reflecting the growth and widening scope of Applied linguistics this new edition thoroughly updates and expands coverage. It includes 27 new chapters now consists of two complementary volumes and covers a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives Volume 1 is organised into two sections: Language Learning and Education and Key Areas and Approaches in Applied Linguistics and Volume 2 also two sections: Applied Linguistics in Society and Broadening Horizons. Each volume includes thirty chapters written by specialists from around the world. Each chapter provides an overview of the history of the topic the main current issues recommendations for practice and possible future trajectory. Where appropriate authors discuss the impact and use of new research methods in the area. Suggestions for further reading and cross-references are provided with every chapter. The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics remains the authoritative overview to this dynamic field and essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students scholars and researchers of applied linguistics. | The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics Volumes One and Two

GBP 370.00
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Rebels From the Mud Houses Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar

Rebels From the Mud Houses Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar

This book examines Dalit mobilization and the transformation of rural power relations in the context of intense agrarian violence involving Maoist guerrillas and upper caste militias backed by state forces in Bihar in the 1980s. The book investigates why thousands of Dalits took up arms and highlights the specificities of Dalit participation in the Maoist Movement and develops an anthropology of the Maoist Revolution in India. | Rebels From the Mud Houses Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar

GBP 130.00
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The Frankenstein Notebooks Part One Draft Notebook A

The Frankenstein Notebooks Part One Draft Notebook A

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is arguably the best known work of the English Romantic period. First published in 1996 this edition of The Frankenstein Notebooks contains not only facsimiles and transcriptions of all of surviving manuscripts related to the novel and a corrected critical text of Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus) but also a full range of factual information drawn from Shelley’s and William Godwin’s letters and journals from newspaper ads of the day and from other available scholarship about the conception gestation and birth of Mary Shelley’s monster. This two volume set contains a wealth of information vital to the creation and reception of Frankenstein. It will enable scholars critics and students to see for themselves the exact extent of P. B. Shelley’s editorial contributions and trace the artistic and ideological development of the novel at various stages in its formation. It will also enable the reader to explore the text itself to test and evaluate their own theses. Part one contains the draft notebook A which was written between August or September and December 1816. This set will be of keen interest to those studying Frankenstein the Romantics and 19th century literature. | The Frankenstein Notebooks Part One Draft Notebook A

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The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

First published in 1979 The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946. The World War had a creative as well as a destructive effect on the industry; it compressed fundamental changes into seven short years. By the end of the war the federated trade unions had succeeded in bringing about the unification of their industry; and the various county district and craft associations were themselves also unified in one single national body. Two rival plans emerged during 1945: a coal-owners’ plan in conjunction with an ‘experts’ report’ approved by Churchill and his Caretaker Cabinet and Labour’s ‘plan for the coal industry’ which came into force in 1946 as the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act. Anew epoch in management had begun with a National Coal Board new industrial relations and a new National Union of Mineworkers. This book will be of interest to students of history sociology economics and political science. | The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

GBP 90.00
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The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

Ancient Greeks endeavored to define the human being vis-à-vis other animal species by isolating capacities and endowments which they considered to be unique to humans. This approach toward defining the human being still appears with surprising frequency in modern philosophical treatises in modern animal behavioral studies and in animal rights literature to argue both for and against the position that human beings are special and unique because of one or another attribute or skill that they are believed to possess. Some of the claims of man’s unique endowments have in recent years become the subject of intensive investigation by cognitive ethologists carried out in non-laboratory contexts. The debate is as lively now as in classical times and what is of particular note the examples and methods of argumentation used to prove one or another position on any issue relating to the unique status of human beings that one encounters in contemporary philosophical or ethological literature frequently recall ancient precedents. This is the first book-length study of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos in classical literature not restricting its analysis to Greco-Roman claims of man’s intellectual uniqueness but including classical assertions of man’s physiological and emotional uniqueness. It supplements this analysis of ancient manifestations with an examination of how the commonplace survives and has been restated transformed and extended in contemporary ethological literature and in the literature of the animal rights and animal welfare movements. Author Stephen T. Newmyer demonstrates that the anthropocentrism detected in Greek applications of the ‘man alone of animals’ topos is not only alive and well in many facets of the current debate on human-animal relations but that combating its negative effects is a stated aim of some modern philosophers and activists. | The Animal and the Human in Ancient and Modern Thought The 'Man Alone of Animals' Concept

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Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal Die Muskete. Claude Cernuschi analyzes each comparison on a case-by-case basis primarily because the interpretation of cartoons and caricatures is highly contingent on their specific historical and cultural context. Although this connection has gone unnoticed in the literature in retrospect this correlation makes perfect sense. Not only was Schiele’s artistic production frequently compared to caricature (and derided for being “grotesque”) but Expressionism and caricature are natural allies. One may belong to “high” art and the other to “popular” culture yet both presuppose similar assumptions and deploy a similar rhetorical position: namely that the exaggeration of human physiognomy allows deeper psychological “truths” to emerge. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history visual culture popular culture and politics. | Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration

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Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide audience. Using a variety of examples from Sayers’s detective fiction essays and religious drama Dr. Colón charts Sayers’s development as a writer whose intense desire to connect with her audience eventually compels her to embrace the role of a Victorian sage for her own age. Ultimately the Victorian literary tradition not only provides her with an empowering model for her own work as she struggles as a writer of detective fiction to balance her integrity as an artist with her desire to reach a mass audience but also facilitates her growth as a public intellectual as she strives to help her nation recover from the devastation of World War II. | Writing for the Masses Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

This book is a unique volume that brings a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives to the study of sport. It highlights the importance of sports for different individuals and how the function and use of sports can be brought into the consulting room. Passionate interest in actively engaging in sports is a universal phenomenon. It is striking that this aspect of human life prior to this volume has received little attention in the literature of psychoanalysis. This edited volume is comprised largely of psychoanalysts who are themselves avidly involved with sports. It is suggested that intense involvement in sports prioritizes commitment and active engagement over passivity and that such involvement provides an emotionally tinged distraction from the various misfortunes of life. Indeed the ups and downs in mood related to athletic victory or defeat often supplant temporarily matters in life that may be more personally urgent. Engaging in sports or rooting for teams provides a feeling of community and a sense of identification with like-minded others even among those who are part of other communities and have sufficient communal identifications. This book offers a better psychoanalytic understanding of sports to help us discover more about ourselves our patients and our culture and will be of great interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts or anyone with an interest in sport and its link to psychoanalysis and mental health. | Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Intense Involvement in Sports

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The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other historians it shows that there was considerable continuity of thought between Witherspoon’s Scottish ministry and the second half of his career as one of America’s Founding Fathers. The book argues that Witherspoon cannot be properly understood until he is seen as not only engaged with the Enlightenment but also firmly grounded in the Calvinist tradition of High to Late Orthodoxy embedded in the transatlantic Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century and frustrated by the state of religion in the Scottish Kirk. Alongside the titles of pastor president educator philosopher should be a new category: John Witherspoon as Reformed apologist. This is a fresh re-examination of the intellectual formation of one of Scotland’s most important churchman from the eighteenth century and one of America’s most influential early figures. The volume will be of keen interest to academics working in Religious History American Religion Reformed Theology and Calvinism as well as Scottish and American history more generally. | The Religious Formation of John Witherspoon Calvinism Evangelicalism and the Scottish Enlightenment

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Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One Montesquieu Comte Marx De Tocqueville: The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One Montesquieu Comte Marx De Tocqueville: The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

This is the first part of Raymond Aron's landmark two-volume study of the sociological tradition—arguably the definitive work of its kind. More than a work of reconstruction Aron's study is at its deepest level an engagement with the very question of modernity: how did the intellectual currents which emerged in the eighteenth century shape the modern political and philosophical order? With scrupulous fairness Aron examines the thoughts and arguments of the major social thinkers to discern how they answered this question. Volume One explores three traditions: the French liberal school of political sociology represented by Montesquieu and Tocqueville; the Comtean tradition anticipating Durkheim in its elevation of social unity and consensus; and the Marxists who posited the struggle between classes and placed their faith in historical necessity. In his customary clear and penetrating prose Aron argues that each of these schools offers its own theory of the diversity of societies and that each is inspired both by moral convictions and by scientific hypotheses. This Routledge Classics edition includes an introduction by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson. | Main Currents in Sociological Thought: Volume One Montesquieu Comte Marx De Tocqueville: The Sociologists and the Revolution of 1848

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