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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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Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

This book tells the story of visionary urban experiments shedding light on the theories that preceded their development and on the monsters that followed and might be the end of our cities. The narrative is threefold and delves first into the eco-city second the smart city and third the autonomous city intended as a place where existing smart technologies are evolving into artificial intelligences that are taking the management of the city out of the hands of humans. The book empirically explores Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong to provide a critical analysis of eco and smart city experiments and their sustainability and it draws on numerous real-life examples to illustrate the rise of urban artificial intelligences across different geographical spaces and scales. Theoretically the book traverses philosophy urban studies and planning theory to explain the passage from eco and smart cities to the autonomous city and to reflect on the meaning and purpose of cities in a time when human and non-biological intelligences are irreversibly colliding in the built environment. Iconoclastic and prophetic Frankenstein Urbanism is both an examination of the evolution of urban experimentation through the lens of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and a warning about an urbanism whose product resembles Frankenstein’s monster: a fragmented entity which escapes human control and human understanding. Academics students and practitioners will find in this book the knowledge that is necessary to comprehend and engage with the many urban experiments that are now alive ready to leave the laboratory and enter our cities. | Frankenstein Urbanism Eco Smart and Autonomous Cities Artificial Intelligence and the End of the City

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Global Classics

Global Classics

What makes Classics global and what does it mean to study the ancient world globally? How can the study of antiquity contribute to our understanding of pressing global issues? Global Classics addresses these questions by pursuing a transdisciplinary dialogue between Classics and Global Studies. Authoritative and engaging this book provides the first field-wide synthesis of the recent global turn in Classics as well as a comprehensive overview of an emerging field in ancient studies. Through focused readings of ancient sources and modern scholarship the author introduces readers to three key paradigms that are essential to research and teaching in global antiquities: transborder transhistorical and transdisciplinary. Global Classics will appeal to educators students and scholars interested in the application of globalization theories and paradigms in ancient studies in globalizing their teaching and research and in approaches to contemporary global issues through the study of the remote past.

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Post-Structuralist Classics

Post-Structuralist Classics

Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection first published in 1988 reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour and provides a challenge to the conventional practice of classical studies and ancient philosophy. This book will be of interest to students of ancient philosophy classical studies and literary theory. | Post-Structuralist Classics

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Critical Ancient World Studies The Case for Forgetting Classics

Critical Ancient World Studies The Case for Forgetting Classics

This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS) a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West. CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as classical studies and/or classics. Although it seeks to reckon with the discipline’s colonial history it is not simply the application of decolonial theory or the search to uncover subaltern narratives in a subject that has special relevance to the privileged and powerful. Rather it dismantles the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging and questions the categories ideas themes narratives and epistemological structures that have been deemed objective and essential within the inherited discipline of classics. The contributions in this book by an international group of researchers offer a variety of situated embodied perspectives on the question of how to imagine a more critical discipline rather than a unified single view. The volume is divided into four parts – “Critical Epistemologies” “Critical Philologies” “Critical Time and Critical Space” and “Critical Approaches” – and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation. Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics is a must-read for scholars and practitioners teaching in the field of classical studies and the breadth of examples also makes it an invaluable resource for anyone working on the ancient world or on confronting Eurocentrism within other disciplines. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. | Critical Ancient World Studies The Case for Forgetting Classics

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The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory

The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive theory to the study of the classical world across several interrelated areas including linguistics literary theory social practices performance artificial intelligence and archaeology. With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars working in this exciting new area the volume explores the processes of the mind drawing from research in psychology philosophy neuroscience and anthropology and interrogates the implications of these new approaches for the study of the ancient world. Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include: cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts Roman cultural semantics linguistic embodiment in Latin literature group identities in Greek lyric cognitive dissonance in historiography kinesthetic empathy in Sappho artificial intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama the enactivism of Roman statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire. This ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field allowing both scholars and students access to the methodologies bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how they have been applied to classics.

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Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics is a textbook to teach those who wish to achieve an advanced or native proficiency and cultural competence in modern Chinese as well as to experience the beauty of Classical Chinese literature. Collecting representative works containing vibrant views of Chinese culture from different dynasties this book is focused on how the grammatical patterns vocabulary and idioms that are found in Classical Chinese are relevant in the modern adaptation of the language and how the accumulated traditional values and beliefs found there still shape the thinking and lifestyle of modern society. Online resources including audio answer keys and instructor aids will be part of the teaching package. | Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics An Advanced Language and Culture Course

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A People's History of Classics Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

A People's History of Classics Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone’. Making use of diverse sources of information both published and unpublished in archives museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data from individuals groups regions and activities in a huge range of sources including memoirs autobiographies Trade Union collections poetry factory archives artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement to propaganda exploited by the elites to covert and overt class war. A People’s History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland and is a must-read not only for classicists but also for students of British and Irish social intellectual and political history in this period. Further it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today. | A People's History of Classics Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

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Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

First published in 1987 this book engages directly with a selection of major texts from the traditional English literature syllabus and applies some of the techniques from the work of theorists such as Macherey Balibar Derrida Foucault Lacan and Deleuze. Focusing on questions of class and gender on the nature of knowledge and power on the distinction between the public and the private display and consciousness the work traces and celebrates the dispersal of Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Mansfield Park Vanity Fair and the novels of Charles Dickens. This work will be of interest to those studying nineteenth century English literature. | Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

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Interpretation and Intellectual Change Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective

Interpretation and Intellectual Change Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective

This volume deals with the development of Chinese hermeneutics or exegetic systems from their beginnings to the twentieth century. The contributors address critical issues in the study of Chinese hermeneutics by focusing on key periods during which the hermeneutic tradition in China underwent significant changes. The volume is divided into six parts corresponding to the six major periods of intellectual change in traditional and contemporary China. Part 1 considers the foundational period of Chinese hermeneutics examining Confucian classics such as the Analects Mencius and the Book of Odes. Part 2 traces the broadening of the hermeneutic tradition from Confucian classics to the military canon political discourse astronomy and Buddhist exegesis from the Han to the Chinese Middle Ages. In Part 3 the focus is on Zhu Xi's monumental synthesis and redefinition of the Confucian tradition at the beginning of the early modern period. His vision of Confucian thought remained influential throughout the imperial period and his interpretations of the Confucian classics became state orthodoxy starting with the thirteenth century. Part 4 focuses on this challenge and discusses the intellectual changes that took place during the late imperial period and their profound effects on Chinese hermeneutics. Part 5 documents the challenges to traditional Chinese hermeneutics in the modern era and the emergence of a new critical hermeneutics in the beginning of the twentieth century. The volume concludes with Part 6 which explores Chinese hermeneutics from a comparative perspective and identifies its distinctive features. The understanding of Chinese hermeneutics gained from these essays is that of a dynamic plurality of traditions that has endured into the twentieth century and continues to shape contemporary intellectual debates. | Interpretation and Intellectual Change Chinese Hermeneutics in Historical Perspective

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The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation

The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation provides an accessible diverse and extensive overview of literary translation today. This next-generation volume brings together principles case studies precepts histories and process knowledge from practitioners in sixteen different countries. Divided into four parts the book covers many of literary translation’s most pressing concerns today from teaching to theorising to translation techniques to new tools and resources. Featuring genre studies in which graphic novels crime fiction and ethnopoetry have pride of place alongside classics and sacred texts The Routledge Handbook of Literary Translation represents a vital resource for students and researchers of both translation studies and comparative literature.

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The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Poems Narratives and Manuals of Instruction from the Third and Second Millenia B

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Poems Narratives and Manuals of Instruction from the Third and Second Millenia B

Originally published in 1927 this text contains a translation of Adolf Erman’s work into English. Erman’s original intention was to bring the songs stories and poems that have survived from ancient Egypt to the masses of the modern world. The literature of the Egyptian world provides a real insight into the day-to-day life of one of the oldest societies known to man and this translation ensures that these insights are afforded to an English audience. This title will be of interest to students of History Classics and Literature. | The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians Poems Narratives and Manuals of Instruction from the Third and Second Millenia B

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Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

Originally published in 1991 this book focuses on the concept of virtue and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge as it is found in the epic poems of Homer some tragedies of Sophocles selected writings of Plato Aristotle and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues their relation to each other and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics accessible to readers with no training in the classics. | Virtue and Knowledge An Introduction to Ancient Greek Ethics

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Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Four

Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Four

Volume Four of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies contains chapters concerned with comparison within disciplinary policy sectors. The volume contains detailed analyses of policies within six major policy sectors and illustrates the important differences that exist across policies healthcare environment education social welfare immigration and science and technology. The reader will find some common aspects and dimensions – theoretical or methodological – across all policy domains as well as differences dictated by the characteristics of the discipline or the locus in which the policy point at issue takes place. Indeed some scholars have argued that the differences and similarities that exist across and within policy sectors can transcend the differences or similarities across political systems. Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies will be of great interest to scholars and learners of public policy and social sciences as well as to practitioners considering what can be reliably contextualized learned facilitated or avoided through lesson-drawing. The chapters were originally published as articles in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis which in the last two decades has pioneered the development of comparative public policy. The volume is part of a four-volume series the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis including Theories and Methods Institutions and Governance Regional Comparisons and Policy Sectors. Each volume showcases a different new chapter comparing domains of study interrelated with comparative public policy: political science public administration governance and policy design authored by the JCPA authored by the JCPA co-editors Giliberto Capano Michael Howlett Leslie A. Pal and B. Guy Peters. | Policy Sectors in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Four

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The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across forty-five original chapters specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I Approaches rearticulates the key theoretical questions posed by the crime genre. Part II Devices examines the textual characteristics of the genre. Part III Interfaces investigates the complex ways in which crime fiction engages with the defining issues of its context – from policing and forensic science through war migration and narcotics to digital media and the environment. Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars of crime fiction.

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Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life’s most basic daily need freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos rites and supermundane forces freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones trees and healing flora sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research this volume examines cultural perceptions of water’s sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human–environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology archaeology classics folklore geography geology history literature and religious studies. | Sacred Waters A Cross-Cultural Compendium of Hallowed Springs and Holy Wells

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A Global History of the Ancient World Asia Europe and Africa before Islam

A Global History of the Ancient World Asia Europe and Africa before Islam

Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age 11 700 years ago to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE. The only book of its kind A Global History of the Ancient World provides succinct narratives of the first Asian African and European civilizations and their importance for later history without foregoing the key topics of conventional textbooks. Thematic overviews give truly global perspectives on connections disconnections and parallel developments shaping the ancient world. Written for students of history classics and related disciplines the book will appeal to anyone interested in widening their view of early history. | A Global History of the Ancient World Asia Europe and Africa before Islam

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The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas. The Tablet of Kebes. (1909)

The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas. The Tablet of Kebes. (1909)

First published in 1909 in an era of receding interest in Classical authors this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics through shared emotion humanity and the everyday. Attributing the disinterest to a lack of familiarity and a public difficulty for empathising with antiquity Clark believed literature of the day owed a great deal to the Classical authors and that its techniques could only be fully understood through their example. He chose Theophrastos a philosopher and sketch artist Herodas a writer of mimes and the Thebes tablet a dialogue with the hope that they would demonstrate how vividly changeless the nature of men and women can be. These translations were designed to be popular and readable with nothing obscure for the light reader in order to encourage rediscovery of literature’s Classical roots. | The Characters of Theophrastos. The Mimes of Herodas. The Tablet of Kebes. (1909)

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Orwell Reconsidered

Orwell Reconsidered

George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. He is regularly invoked as an authority by journalists commentators and politicians and his works speak with increasing relevance to our polarised and media-saturated society. Stephen Ingle explores Orwell’s character his life and his beliefs by guiding the reader through the main events private and public that shaped his life and major works. This includes his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War as well as the writing of classics like Animal Farm and 1984. The book also reconsiders Orwell’s legacy and contextualises his contemporary resonance. Orwell it is argued is more concerned with morality than ideology. This book will be of significant interest to students and other readers interested in Orwell’s life as well as his profound contribution to the history of social and political thought and English literature. | Orwell Reconsidered

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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades K-1

Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades K-1

The Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program targets reading comprehension skills in high-ability learners by moving students through an inquiry process from basic understanding to critical analyses of texts using a field-tested method developed by the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary. Students in grades K-1 will learn to comprehend and analyze any reading passage after completing the activities in Jacob's Ladder Grades K-1 (2nd ed. ). Geared for students in grades K-1 this book a revision of the Primary Level 1 book includes stories and ladder tasks carefully selected for young children to develop oral communication and listening skills in addition to the other ladder goals. This book provides stories focused on picture analysis read alouds classics and original works. Optional Student Workbook PacksIn addition to this teacher's guide companion student workbooks are available for Grades K-1 | Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Grades K-1

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Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Three

Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Three

Volume Three of the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis contains chapters concerned with Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis – one of the most prevailing approaches in comparative public policy. Through the prism of inter-jurisdiction comparisons of similarities and variations they address comparisons in specific policy sectors governance or institutional constructs and political regimes. The foci are nevertheless on those comparisons between countries or regions which help to lesson-draw by identifying and understanding the variation in policy analysis and policy making that exists within or across regions. One benefit of regional comparisons is that it often allows studies to hold constant many variables ranging from colonial legacy to federal systems or from language to specific traditions and more effectively isolate dependent variables. Regional organizations like the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) or European Union are also considered as catalysts for regional policy approaches and harmonization and occupy a major role in this volume. The chapters address a broad and diverse number of countries and geographical areas: Latin America North America East Asia Southeast Asia Southern Africa the Baltic states the Nordic states Western Europe Central Europe Eastern Europe and Europe as a whole. Regional Comparisons and Policy Analysis will be of great interest to scholars and learners of public policy and social sciences as well as to practitioners considering what can be learned or facilitated through methodologically and theoretically sound approaches. The chapters were originally published as articles in the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis which in the last two decades has pioneered the development of comparative public policy. The volume is part of a four-volume series the Classics of Comparative Policy Analysis including Theories and Methods Institutions and Governance Regional Comparisons and Policy Sectors. Each volume showcases a different new chapter comparing domains of study interrelated with comparative public policy: political science public administration governance and policy design authored by the JCPA co-editors Giliberto Capano Iris Geva-May Michael Howlett Leslie A. Pal and B. Guy Peters. | Regional Comparisons in Comparative Policy Analysis Studies Volume Three

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Disability Studies and the Classical Body The Forgotten Other

Disability Studies and the Classical Body The Forgotten Other

By triangulating the Greco-Roman world classical reception and disability studies this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the ‘forgotten other’ of not just Classics but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect this book also provides a series of approaches and case studies that demonstrate the intellectual value of engaging with disability studies as classicists and exploring the classical legacy in the medical humanities. The book is presented in four parts: ‘Communicating and controlling impairment illness and pain’; ‘Using creating and showcasing disability supports and services’; ‘Real bodies and retrieving senses: disability in the ritual record’; and ‘Classical reception as the gateway between Classics and disability studies’. Chapters by scholars from different academic backgrounds are carefully paired in these sections in order to draw out further contrasts and nuances and produce a sum that is more than the parts. The volume also explores how the ancient world and its reception have influenced medical and disability literature and how engagements with disabled people might lead to reinterpretations of familiar case studies such as the Parthenon. This book is primarily intended for classicists interested in disabled people in the Greco-Roman past and in how modern disability studies may offer insights into and reinterpretations of historic case studies. It will also be of interest to those working in medical humanities sensory studies and museum studies and those exploring the wider tension between representation and reality in ancient contexts. As such it will appeal to people in the wider Humanities who notwithstanding any interest in how disabled people are represented in literature art and cinema have had less engagement with disability studies and the lived experience of people with impairments. FREE CHAPTER AVAILABLE! Please go to https://bit. ly/3pzpO7n to access the Introduction which we have made freely available. | Disability Studies and the Classical Body The Forgotten Other

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Eros and Civilization A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud

Eros and Civilization A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud

Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Eros and Civilization is one of his best-known books and brought him international fame. Taking his cue from Freud's view that repression of the instincts is a defining characteristic of the human mind Marcuse fuses Freud's insight with Marx's theories of alienation and oppression. He argues that rather than our instincts turned in on themselves it is modern capitalism itself that is preventing us from reaching the freedom we can find in a non-repressive society. A sweeping indictment of modern capitalism and consumerism that remains fresh and insightful Eros and Civilization is a classic of activist and radical thinking that continues to fire debate and controversy today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Douglas Kellner. | Eros and Civilization A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud

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Plotinus

Plotinus

Plotinus (AD 205–270) was the founder of Neoplatonism whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book Eyjólfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of Plotinus’ philosophy for those coming to his work for the first time. Beginning with a chapter-length overview of Plotinus’ life and works which also assesses the Platonic Aristotelian and Stoic traditions that influenced him Emilsson goes on to address key topics including: Plotinus’ originality the status of souls Plotinus’ language the notion of the One or the Good Intellect including Plotinus’ holism the physical world the soul and the body including emotions and the self Plotinus’ ethics Plotinus’ influence and legacy. Including a chronology glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading Plotinus is an ideal introduction to this major figure in Western philosophy and is essential reading for students of ancient philosophy and classics.

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Reintroducing Robert K. Merton

Reintroducing Robert K. Merton

This book reintroduces the work of Robert K. Merton as a bridge between classical sociology and modern sociology. Founded in the sociological classics but developing a modern approach to the advancement of theory and research methodology Merton’s thought helped to construct modern sociology in its coverage of many of the social institutional areas of contemporary society. Recovering and analysing the system of ‘structural analysis’ which Merton progressively developed – a system largely overlooked due to the tendency among commentators to stereotype him as a ‘functionalist’ – the author considers the applications of this approach to various substantive fields particularly science and criminal justice and examines the effect of Merton’s later ‘sociological semantics’ on his overall schema. A clear and accessible presentation of the array of concepts introduced by Merton to sociology Reintroducing Robert K. Merton will appeal to scholars and students with interests in sociological theory social research the history of sociology and the various substantive areas covered in the work of Merton – deviance science and communications.

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