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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused coherent and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson for example represent a sustained engagement with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and comprehensive treatment of America as a category of enquiry in Cavell’s writing engaging with the terms of Cavell’s various configurations of the nation and offering readings of American texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell’s work has in turn for literary and film criticism. This study of the role played by philosophy in the articulation of the American self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of literature and the practice of philosophy are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition. | Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

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The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

This rich volume explores the complex problem of obedience and conformity re-examining Stanley Milgram’s famous electric shock study and presenting the findings of the most extensive empirical study on obedience toward authority since Milgram's era. Dolinski and Grzyb refer to their own series of studies testing various hypotheses from Milgram’s and others’ research examining underlying obedience mechanisms as well as factors modifying the degree of obedience displayed by individuals in different situations. They offer their theoretical model explaining subjects’ obedience in Milgram’s paradigm and describe numerous examples of the destructive effect of thoughtless obedience both in our daily lives as well as in crucial historical events stressing the need for critical thinking when issued with a command. Concluding with reflections on how to prevent the danger of destructive obedience to authority this insightful volume will be fascinating reading for students and academics in social psychology as well as those in fields concerned with complex social problems. | The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

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In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

In the Image of God is a compilation of lectures by Stanley Leavy a psychoanalyst approaching retirement reflecting on his experience as a follower of Freud and his method and also as a lifelong faithful Episcopalian. The overarching idea linking the individual lectures is Leavy's belief that the deliberate study of the operations of the mind must yield results that are not just compatible with religious faith but amplify it eschewing the faith versus science argument for a more inclusive worldview. | In the Image of God A Psychoanalyst's View

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The State in Relation to Labour

The State in Relation to Labour

W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing. The concept of industrial partnership insured that the state continued to hold a monopoly of power while taking account of rising labor agitation. Jevons' scholarly brilliance is evident in this pathbreaking work on economics and policy construction. The State in Relation to Labour deals with the economic role of government in resolving conflicts between different groups of English citizens. The issue of class is central to the topic and two further points are implicit. The first is the market economy as a product of the institutions which form and operate through it. Jevons argues that markets can be and indeed have been formed to favor one class interest or another. Second he asserts that conventional arguments favor the class interests they serve whether or not they are recognized to doing so. Jevons neither shrinks from candid analysis of English social political and economic history and institutions nor espouses an openly pragmatic approach to the economic role of government. He eschews the erection of class or other ideological sentiment into principles of policy. Implicit in his analysis is an understanding that some law some set of legal rights and limitations is necessary. The issue is not whether government will establish relative rights and responsibilities but what they will be and further when they will be changed. Among the topics discussed are principles of industrial legislation direct interference of the state with labor the Factory Acts and similar legislation directly affecting laborers trade union legislation the law of industrial conspiracy cooperation and industrial partnership and arbitration and conciliation. In a new introduction Warren J. Samuels examines the life and works of William Stanley Jevons. He discusses the various arguments put forth in The State in Relation to Labour and the consequences of Jevons' approach.

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On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz Berenice Abbott Paul Strand Lee Friedlander James Welling and Wolfgang Tillmans among others and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake Peter Henry Emerson Edward Weston Siegfried Kracauer André Bazin and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between sceptical and non-sceptical Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography aesthetics art and visual studies. | On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

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The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career using the idea of exorcism to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what why and how we build which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the phenomenology found in architectural experiences. Three distinct eras in his architectural career are applied to analogies of outlines apparitions and angels throughout the book across seven chapters. Using these thematic examples the author investigates the progression of thought and depth inside the architect’s imagination by studying key projects such as the Texas houses Wall House Architectural Masques and his final works. Featuring comments by Gloria Fiorentino Hejduk Stanley Tigerman Steven Holl Zaha Hadid Charles Jencks Phyllis Lambert Juhani Pallasmaa Toshiko Mori and others this book brings to life the intricacies in the mind of John Hejduk and would be beneficial for those interested in architecture and design in the 20th century. | The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

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An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

When the existential philosopher Colin Wilson died in December 2013 it was suggested by one perceptive obituary writer that despite the seemingly diverse subject matter of his books his true legacy lay in the field of Consciousness Studies. This is particularly apparent when studying his many essays and books on psychology and taking into consideration his close association with the celebrated American psychologist Abraham Maslow whose concept of 'Peak Experiences'(PEs) became for Wilson an important link to experiencing enhanced consciousness. Maslow however felt that PEs could not be induced at will; Wilson thought otherwise and through his work sought to encourage his readers and students to live more vital and appreciative lives thereby paving the way toward an evolutionary leap for mankind in consciousness-indeed a change in consciousness that would potentially change everything. In this study Colin Stanley Wilson's bibliographer and author of Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': A Guide for Students and Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students provides an illuminating essay on each of Wilson's nine major books on psychology. | An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

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Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods materials and services but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination. Designed to educate the public procurement professional on ways to realize enhanced cost savings it offers an introduction to the history of transportation as well as industry terminology and accepted practices. Authors Darin Matthews and Linda Stanley explore recent transportation industry evolutions including the development of important technologies like package tracing delivery notification and drone delivery and ways to successfully integrate this technology. Sustainability in transportation—including product packaging material reuse and reduced emissions for delivery vehicles— is likewise examined. Through the use of case studies and transportation industry resources Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition offers a complete package for professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of logistics and transportation as well as for university courses on transportation supply chain management and public procurement.

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The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

First published in 1984. In these essays Stanley Please contends that the World Bank is constrained in its ability to use its position and . power in the interests of more rapid development of the poorer countries of the world. These constraints derive in large part from the legal restriction on the Bank to engage primarily in project lending and from the division of responsibility between the ·Bank and its sister institution the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the Bank's financing of projects and investment programs has made a significant contribution Mr. Please argues that greater Bank involvement in national policy formation can greatly benefit economic development. He looks at ways to increase cooperation between the Bank and the IMF examines the policy work the Bank has done in the past and assesses the capacity of the Bank for policy formation evaluates the need for it to do more such work and discusses the likely responses of developing and developed countries to these changes | The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

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Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book design resource and product guide. It explores the transition in residential lighting from incandescent light sources to LEDs and how to apply LED lighting with great success. It begins with the fundamental characteristics of light including color temperature color rendering and spectral power distribution and how LEDs differ from older light sources. Combining innovative graphics with the enduring design principles of good lighting the book explains how to design with light layers light people and balance daylight and electric light. Every room of the house as well as exterior and garden spaces is addressed in 33 case studies of residential lighting with LEDs with a wide variety of lighting projects in different styles. Showcasing over 200 color photographs of dramatic interiors beautifully lit with LEDs and clear concise descriptions of design strategies and product specifications Beautiful Light helps both professionals and non-professionals successfully navigate the new era of LEDs in residential lighting. | Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

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Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

This timely intervention into composition studies presents a case for the need to teach all students a shared system of communication and logic based on the modern globalizing ideals of universality neutrality and empiricism. Based on a series of close readings of contemporary writing by Stanley Fish Asao Inoue Doug Downs and Elizabeth Wardle Richard Rorty Slavoj Zizek and Steven Pinker this book critiques recent arguments that traditional approaches to teaching writing grammar and argumentation foster marginalization oppression and the restriction of student agency. Instead it argues that the best way to educate and empower a diverse global student body is to promote a mode of academic discourse dedicated to the impartial judgment of empirical facts communicated in an open and clear manner. It provides a critical analysis of core topics in composition studies including the teaching of grammar; notions of objectivity and neutrality; empiricism and pragmatism; identity politics; and postmodernism. Aimed at graduate students and junior instructors in rhetoric and composition as well as more seasoned scholars and program administrators this polemical book provides an accessible staging of key debates that all writing instructors must grapple with. | Teaching Writing Rhetoric and Reason at the Globalizing University

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The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

In this thoughtful and revelatory book Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art creativity and what Jung called the creative spirit in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers such as C. G. Jung James Hillman and Joseph Campbell as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas such as Martha Graham Mary Oliver Stanley Kunitz and Ursula K. Le Guin this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity and of the soul this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types as well as Jungian analysts and therapists and academics interested in the arts humanities and depth psychology. | The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

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American Abolitionists

American Abolitionists

This book the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US from the origins of the movement in the eighteenth century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief Introduction and/or Background to the subject valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined followed by a substantial and authoritative section of Analysis focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct Assessment of the subject a generous selection of Documents and a detailed bibliography. Stanley Harrold provides an accessible introduction to the subject synthesizing the enormous amount of literature on the topic. American Abolitionists explores the roles of slaves and free blacks in the movement the importance of empathy among antislavery whites for the suffering slaves and the impact of abolitionism upon the sectional struggle between the North and the South. Within a basic chronological framework the author also considers more general themes such as black abolitionists feminism and anti-slavery violence. For readers interested in American history.

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Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism skepticism and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically while Cahill avoids interpretative debates he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences Wittgenstein and philosophical anthropology. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/9780367638238 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

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Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

For nearly two decades Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised updated fifth edition makes clear nonfiction storytelling is not limited to character-driven journeys but instead encompasses the diverse ways in which today’s top documentarians reach audiences with content that is creative original and often inspirational all without sacrificing the integrity that gives documentary its power. This book is filled with practical advice for writers producers directors editors cinematographers and others committed to reality-based filmmaking that seeks to reach audiences raise awareness address social issues illuminate the human condition and even entertain. In this new edition Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers: a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences; new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional hero’s journey; new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter Madison Hamburg Tracy Heather Strain June Cross Heidi Gronauer and Julie Casper Roth and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel. Please visit the book’s website available at www. documentarystorytelling. com for further information related articles and more. | Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

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Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

A little over one hundred years after his birth and not quite twenty-five years since his death interest in the French political philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron (1905-1983) continues to grow. Aron is now widely recognized as one of the most significant intellectual figures of the postwar period whose wide-ranging reflections played a key part in preserving liberal democracy in Europe and abroad. His sober analyses of modern society his trenchant critique of ideological politics and every form of totalitarianism and his philosophical reflections on politics and history have given powerful support to democratic liberalism throughout the western world. Aron's work combines passion and observation disinterested reflection and love of liberty in a way that is an imitable model for humane and balanced political reflection. In this stimulating collection of essays inspired by the centennial of Aron's birth a distinguished group of North American and European scholars including Pierre Manent Stanley Hoffmann Irving Louis Horowitz Liah Greenfeld Claude Lefort and Aurelian Craiutu examine four key aspects of Aron's thought and work: his educative legacy; his reflections on other philosophers and intellectuals; his distinctive approach to international relations; and the unique character of his own political reflection. The result is a masterful engagement with Aron's intellectual legacy and a thoughtful coming to terms with the political and intellectual substance of the twentieth century. | Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

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Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian “politic histories” of the early modern period. These works of history influenced by the Roman historian Tacitus delve into the exploration of the machinations of power politics in governance and the shaping of historical events. The argument is that closely analysing these Italian “politic histories” can significantly enhance our understanding of the “politic” aspects dramatized in Shakespeare’s early English History plays. Specifically the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli are highlighted as contributing to this understanding. These “politic histories” were accessible (in a variety of forms) to many English early modern writers including Shakespeare. Thus they serve as foundation for political and strategic analogies enriching our interpretation of Shakespeare’s politic histories. While delving into the Italian “politic” historians can illuminate Shakespeare’s achievement it is suggested that we should regard the English History plays as “politic histories” in their own right. In essence they are dramatized versions of precisely the same kinds of “politic” historical writing with its emphasis on ragion di Stato or raison d’état. This emphasis on what the Elizabethans called “stratagems” introduces new approaches to interpreting the plays. Considering the motivation and action of its characters entails novel approaches that challenge the established reading of the plays’ ‘Machiavellian’ characters (particularly Richard III) and shed light on previously overlooked characters (particularly Buckingham and Stanley) revealing their considerably greater strategic acumen. This exploration provides fresh avenues for reading the Shakespeare’s politic histories and better appreciate their Italian connection. | Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

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Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy arguing that the comedies no less than the tragedies serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential readings of Othello and Lear the book argues that exposure or vulnerability to others is the source of both human happiness and human misery; while the tragedies showcase attempts at the evasion of such vulnerability through the self-defeating pursuit of epistemological certainty the comedies present the drama and the difficulty of turning away from an epistemological register in order to productively respond to the fact of our humanity. Where Shakespeare’s tragedies might be viewed in Cavellian terms as the drama of skepticism Shakespeare’s comedies then exemplify the drama of acknowledgement. As a parallel and a preamble Gottlieb suggests that the field of literary studies is itself a site of such revealing responses: where competing research methods strive to foreclose upon (or alternatively rejoice in) epistemological uncertainty such commitments bespeak an urge to avoid or circumvent the human in the practice of scholarship. Reading Shakespeare’s comedies in tandem with a defactoist view of teaching and learning points in the direction of a new humanism one that eschews both the relativism of old deconstruction and contemporary Presentism and the determinism of various kinds of structural accounts. This book offers something new in scholarly and popular understanding of Shakespeare’s work doing so with both philosophical rigor and literary attention to the difficult work of reading. | Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

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Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably ?at home? yet oddly fettered and irrelevant in America Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to reimagine what it might mean to ?break back into Christianity? in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked a more urgent constructive task remains; namely discerning what it may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions. Ironically reclaiming the church's identity and mission may require relinquishing its purported ?gains??which often amount to little more than a sense of comfort the seduction of feeling ?at ease in Zion?? to take up again the risk and adventure of life ?on the way. ? Accordingly this book gives no comfort to the religious right or left which continues to think Christianity can be made compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism. Such a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or in a reconstituted Christendom but rather must develop within its own life the patient attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better chance of noticing the changing directions of God's leading. The wilderness therefore ought not to appear to contemporary Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit but also the rigorous discipline of faithful itinerancy. At such a crucial time as this Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards characteristic of people called out set apart | Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

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The Future of Political Science

The Future of Political Science

Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However there is a side to Lasswell less well known but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity. This book written at the start of the culture wars thirty years ago outlines the basic core position of political science practitioners. It helps to explain why the field kept its collective cool when other social science professionals veered to more extreme activist positions. The Future of Political Science grew out of the phenomenally rapid expansion of the study of government in the United States and elsewhere. The study of professionalism among physical scientists lawyers engineers etc. was not matched by such internal examination within the social sciences until much later. Lasswell's overview centered on developments in the United States. There unfettered study of government reached unprecedented heights in the final stage of the twentieth century. The key concept of this volume one that continues to inform discourse is the relationship of political science as a mechanism for the study and teaching of the political system to the field as a tool of the Establishment. This concern grew in the wake of a variety of scandals and secret support sponsored by both government and non-government organizations alike. The Future of Political Science covers areas ranging from membership size and disparities intervention scenarios in world events the nature of creativity in political research collaboration in projects with the other social sciences and the location of scientific centers of gravity in the study of politics. Because of Lasswell's works we have a field of the political science of knowledge as well as the sociology of knowledge. Harold D. Lasswell served as Ford Foundation Professor of the Social Sciences at Yale University Distinguished Professor of Policy Sciences at John Jay College of the City University of New York and as professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was a past president of the American Political Science Association and author of many books covering the full range of political and policy research. Jay Stanley is professor emeritus of sociology at Towson State University. He is former editor of Armed Forces & Society and co-author of Challenges in Military Health Care.

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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Vernon Lee was the chosen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters philosopher psychologist and political activist. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). Full transcriptions of some 2000 letters are arranged in chronological order along with introductions biographical notes and detailed footnotes that explain their context and identify the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. In this third volume covering the years 1890-1896 the 429 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee from the age of thirty-four when she lives with her parents and half-brother the poet and invalid Eugene Lee-Hamilton at Villa Il Palmerino (Florence) to the ripe age of forty when both her parents died and her brother recovered from his illness and decided to leave home. As Lee copes with Eugene’s invalidism and her own physical and psychological ailments we get a view of the practice and teaching of medicine and nursing in Europe in the late 1890s. Lee sponsors her friend’s Amy Turton’s convalescent home and nurses’ training. Mental sciences are at the forefront from experimental psychology psychiatry and neurology to neurophysiology; and in August 1892 Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson attend the Psychological Congress in Paris with speakers Hermann von Helmholtz James Sully Alexander Bain Francis Galton G. Stanley Hall and Amboise-Auguste Liebeault. Lee came to consider herself as a psychologist as much as a philosopher of art and delved more deeply into experimental psychology; and with her partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson she refined a theory of aesthetic empathy and inner mimicry. According to this theory a viewer’s response to a work of art can be measured through his or her physiognomy breathing heartbeats and eye and muscular movements thus providing a scientific basis for an innate appreciation of aesthetic value. They published a synthesis of their work: “Beauty and Ugliness” (The Contemporary Review October-November 1897). While travelling Lee continues to write her travel essays (e. g. Genius Loci: Notes on Places 1899) and her popular supernatural tales. She starts lecturing emulating Eugénie Sellers’s British Museum lectures and her method for attribution and connoisseurship. Her interest in socialism and political economy intensify as her circle widens beyond an aristocratic and society milieux to working-class districts and her collection Althea (1894) shows her interest in ethics moral duties and free-thinking. She indicts the proponents of art for art’s sake. Her discussions about contracts copyright and royalties pirated editions and money matters are intertwined with educational ethics and a concern for the fair recognition of women’s higher education and careers. She becomes involved in the university extension program by giving her first lectures on ancient art and aesthetics in the East End and at Toynbee Hall and her experience of lecturing in London Cambridge Oxford and Rome allows her to meet other intellectuals: Eugénie Sellers Mrs Arthur Strong etc. and new audiences. In 1894 the Affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906) begins revealing the rise of anti-Semitism targeting many of Lee’s close friends also defenders of Dreyfus such as James Darmesteter. After he died Darmesteter’s wife Mary (Robinson) and Lee once again became close to one another. By the time she turned forty Vernon Lee experienced several emotional blows: her friend and mentor Walter Pater died on 30 July 1894. That same year four months later on 14 November 1894 her father died from complications related to asthma Eugene Lee-Hamilton started to recover from chronic illness soon after his stepfather’s death. Eighteen months | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

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