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The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

This study offers the first comprehensive account of Emerson's philosophy since his philosophical rehabilitation began in the late 1970s. It builds on the historical reconstruction proposed in the author's previous book Emerson's Metaphysics and like that study draws on the entire Emerson corpus—the poetry and sermons included. The aim here is expository. The overall though not exclusive emphasis is on identity as the first term of Emerson's metaphysics of identity and flowing or metamorphosis. This metaphysics or general conception of the nature of reality is what grounds his epistemology and ethics as well as his esthetic religious and political thought. Acknowledging its primacy enables a general account like this to avoid the anti-realist overemphasis on epistemology and language that has often characterized rehabilitation readings of his philosophy. After an initial chapter on Emerson's metaphysics the subsequent chapters devoted to the other branches of his thought also begin with their necessary foundation in identity which is the law of things and the law of mind alike. Perception of identity in metamorphosis is what characterizes the philosopher the poet the scientist the reformer and the man of faith and virtue. Identity of mind and world is felt in what Emerson calls the moral sentiment. Identity is Emerson's answer to the Sphinx-riddle of life experienced as a puzzling succession of facts and events. | The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

This book first published in 1985 explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masque – the salient form of the Jacobean theatre. This title will be of interest to students of literature and theatre studies. | Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

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Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

This book not only examines friendgrief from a theoretical and clinical framework but also Smith offers fascinating vignettes from the lives of well-known friendgrievers such as Elton John Diane Sawyer Ralph Abernathy C. S. Lewis Harry Truman Tommy Lasorda Jimmy Carter Fritz Mondale Bill Clinton Calvin Trillin and Alan King. The author includes moving narratives of numerous individuals who have never gained notoriety but have become seasoned friendgrievers. | Friendgrief An Absence Called Presence

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China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

This book first published in 1979 is the detailed study that arose from the visit of the US State Education Leaders Delegation to China in 1977. This visit observed and discussed the new directions in China's schools; the delegation was led by one of America's foremost philosophers of education Ralph W. Tyler and included leaders in the field of American education. | China's Schools in Flux Report by the State Education Leaders Delegation National Committee on United States-China Relations

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Lion's Share

Lion's Share

First published in 1991 Lion’s Share traces the journey made by Ralph Ketner his brother Brown and their friend Wilson Smith as they progressed from opening their first supermarket Food Town to running more than 800 stores as part of the Food Lion supermarket chain. The book explores the growth of Food Lion and the reasons for its success using interviews with the company’s founders and top executives both those present at the time of publication and previous position holders to provide a detailed account of its history and development. | Lion's Share

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Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

In this lucid and original study first published in 1972 Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night. Berry’s purpose is to identify the form of each play by relating the governing idea of the play to the action that expresses it. To this end the author employs a variety of standpoints and techniques and taken together these chapters present a lively and coherent view of Shakespeare’s techniques concerns and development. This title will be of interests to students of literature and drama. | Shakespeare's Comedies Explorations in Form

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Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical theoretical and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney Pixar and Studio Ghibli filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–). | Fantasy/Animation Connections Between Media Mediums and Genres

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The Functions of Sterling

The Functions of Sterling

Why is sterling under pressure? Why was the devaluation in 1967 followed by stagnation of British economy? What do the 1971 monetary reforms mean for sterling in the 1970s? First published in 1973 The Functions of Sterling discusses these vital questions and challenges the received wisdom of those who tells us it is beneficial that our money should be worth less. It also examines critically the internal and external performance of sterling throughout the twentieth century. The book argues that the credit control policy offers a real possibility of improved economic growth and encourage the revaluation of sterling. To a large extent the book is in line with Sir Ralph Hawtrey’s reasoning and also integrates monetary economics with real problems of comparative costs innovations and growth. This book is an essential read for scholars of British economy public policy political economy and economics in general.

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Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes where intimacy in the form of desire sex passion and sex largely exist outside marriage and that marriage and traditional normative values and structures are fundamentally incompatible with the expression of intimacy in the history of emotional regimes. The book draws on the work of a number of theorists who assess change in emotional regimes by drawing on intimacy including Michel Foucault Eva Illouz Lauren Berlant Anthony Giddens Laura Ann Stoler Anne McClintock Niklas Luhmann and David Shumway. Some of the areas covered by the book include: Foucault sex and sexuality; romantic and courtly love; intimacy in late modernity; Imperial power gender and intimacy intimacy and feminist interventions; and the commercialization of intimacy. This book will appeal to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities including sociology gender studies cultural studies and literary studies. | Genealogies of Emotions Intimacies and Desire Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity

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Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

This book presents a comprehensive overview of pelvic and sexual pain disorders in women and equips therapists to treat these issues in a culturally sensitive way examining the link between unwanted sexual experiences and the development of sexual pain in later life. Drawing on the wealth of recent research acknowledging the increased risk of developing a pelvic/sexual pain disorder in women who have experienced sexual trauma Heather Lauren Davidson offers a much-needed resource for professionals within the essential context of the #MeToo movement. Chapters address a range of topics including types of sexual pain disorders disparities in the mental health system that affect women’s access to treatment how to establish treatment goals for individuals and couples and effective relapse prevention plans. Illustrated throughout by vignettes and case studies the book addresses a lack of knowledge in assessing and treating the experiences of these women and explores in depth how they face complex difficulties in accessing diagnosis and treatment. Guided by culturally competent assessment and the use of evidence-based treatment techniques clinicians will learn to effectively navigate the treatment of women presenting with pelvic/sexual pain disorders and sexual trauma. | Effective Treatment of Women’s Pelvic and Sexual Pain Disorders Healing the Body and Mind During the #MeToo Era

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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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Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom. As the most popular form of music and youth culture today Hip Hop is a powerful medium through which students can explore their identities and locate themselves in our social world. Designed for novice and veteran teachers this book is filled with pedagogical tools strategies lesson plans and real-world guidance on integrating Hip Hop into the curriculum. Through a wide range of approaches and insights Lauren Leigh Kelly invites teachers to look to popular media culture to support students’ development and critical engagement with texts. Covering classroom practice assessment strategies and curricular and standards-based guidelines the lessons in this book will bolster students’ linguistic and critical thinking skills and help students to better understand and act upon the societal forces around them. The varied activities assignments and handouts are designed to inspire teachers and easily facilitate modification of the assignments to suit their own contexts. The impact of Hip Hop on youth culture is undeniable now more than ever; this is the perfect book for teachers who want to connect with their students support meaning-making in the classroom affirm the validity of youth culture and foster an inclusive and engaging classroom environment. | Teaching with Hip Hop in the 7-12 Grade Classroom A Guide to Supporting Students’ Critical Development Through Popular Texts

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An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age. This anthology offers readers a unique thematically structured compendium of their key texts along with an extensive introduction and a detailed account of their legacy. The volume draws upon a resurgence of interest in thinkers such as Benjamin Whichcote 1609–1683; Ralph Cudworth 1618–1688; Henry More 1614–1687; John Smith 1618–1652 and Anne Conway 1631–1679 and includes hitherto neglected extracts and some works of less familiar authors within the group like George Rust 1627?–1670; Joseph Glanvill 1636–1680 and John Norris 1657–1712. It also highlights the Cambridge Platonists’ important role in the history of philosophy and theology influencing luminaries such as Shaftesbury Berkeley Leibniz Joseph de Maistre S. T. Coleridge and W. R. Emerson. An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists is an indispensable guide to the serious study of a pivotal group of Western metaphysicians and is of great value for both students and scholars of philosophy literature history and theology. Key Features The only systematic anthology to the Cambridge Platonists available facilitating quick comprehension of key themes and ideas Uses new translations of the Latin works vastly improving upon faulty and misleading earlier translations Offers a wide range of new perspective on the Cambridge Platonists showing the extent of their influence in early modern philosophy and beyond. | An Anthology of the Cambridge Platonists Sources and Commentary

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Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Although the phrase the American Dream dates from the 1930s the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise Martin Luther King Jr. as a model race leader and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice. | Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

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