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International Organizations and Ethnic Conflict (Inglese)

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Autore: Milton J. Esman, Shibley Telhami
Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
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Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse

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Toward the end of the seventeenth century, Naoki Sakai maintains, a radical change took place in Japanese discourse–the sudden emergence of multiple new possibilities of conceptualizing the world. In this brilliant and searching reinterpretation of the cultural history of the Tokugawa period, Sakai traces this shift across a spectrum of artistic and critical texts from puppet theater to Confucian commentary. He asserts that during this time a new emphasis was placed on textual performance, practice, and communication, and he illuminates its ethical and political consequences.
Sakai draws upon the insights of recent critical theory as he explores the historical consciousness of texts and the self-consciousness of language itself. Analyzing the conditions of discourse formation, he seeks to suggest how language may be used to inform historical investigation. He first considers the Confucian philosopher Ito Jinsai’s critiques of Neo-Confucianism. Showing how the historical other was constructed and theorized, Sakai discusses key works of visual art, performance pieces, poetry, and wakun, a genre of graphic translation. Finally, he considers writings representative of intellectual movements that began to construct the identity of the Japanese language and culture.
Intellectual historians, specialists in Japanese culture, anthropologists working with historical texts, literary theorists, linguists, philosophers, and others interested in East Asian thought will welcome this rich and challenging book.

Cod: 9780801425806

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Teresa of Avila and the Politics of Sanctity

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:53:19 +0000

An important addition to our understanding and the current reconstruction of one of the best-known mystics, reformers, and spiritual writers in history.”–Church History
“An ambitious book. . . . [Ahlgren] seeks to ‘contextualize the life of Teresa the woman and the meaning of Teresa the saint within the Counter-Reformation agenda by exploring the complex and conflicting notions of female sanctity at work in sixteenth-century Spain.’ The compelling arguments of the book make it worth reading. . . . Perhaps Ahlgren’s most significant contribution to Teresian scholarship is her meticulous assessment of the prolonged theological debate that took place over [Teresa’s] person and writings after her death.”–Sixteenth Century Journal

Cod: 9780801485725

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