The Wind From the East
The Wind From the East

Author: Richard Wolin

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0691178232

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How Maoism captured the imagination of French intellectuals during the 1960s Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who’s who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China’s Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life. Wolin’s riveting narrative reveals that Maoism’s allure among France’s best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

Jonah's Arguments with God
Jonah's Arguments with God

Author: T A Perry

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1619705389

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In this refreshing and thoughtful interpretation of the biblical book of Jonah, T. A. Perry seeks to recover the book's prophetic thrust: how Jonah is cast out from the divine Presence and works his way back—like Elijah—in a love story of rejection and reconciliation. This book explores the role reversal of Eternity and Jonah and suggests the possibility that God can not only change his mind, but even be educated.

The Lord of the East Wind
The Lord of the East Wind

Author: Aloysius Fitzgerald FSC

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-12-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1666786829

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Because we biblical scholars tend to work primarily on texts in libraries, offices, studies, and so on, in North America, Europe, and elsewhere, we frequently do not think to ask questions concerning such mundane subjects as the weather in ancient Israel and Judah. Yet the Hebrew Bible makes frequent references to weather, particularly in relation to the portrayals of theophany that come to mind when we try to understand the Bible's descriptions of the manifestations of divine presence in the world. Indeed, Fitzgerald, in this very interesting monograph, points out how frequently we make the error of ignoring the weather in our reading of biblical texts.

The 12 Secrets of Persuasive Argument
The 12 Secrets of Persuasive Argument

Author: Ronald J. Waicukauski

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781604425949

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"This book will give all lawyers the guidance they need to become effective advocates. Whether you have just passed the bar or have been practing for 30 years, this book will help refine your persuasive skills."---from the Foreword by Carolyn B. Lamm, President of the American Bar Association --

Ideas, Insights and Arguments
Ideas, Insights and Arguments

Author: Michael Marland

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-03-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0521703239

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A new series of anthologies to get students reading!

Arguments of Heart and Mind
Arguments of Heart and Mind

Author: Jan Montefiore

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780719053474

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Amitav Ghosh is an authoritative critical introduction to the fictional and non-fictional writings of one of the most celebrated and significant literary voices to have emerged from India in recent decades. It is the first full-length study of Amitav Ghosh's work to be available outside India.Encompassing all of Ghosh's fictional and non-fictional writings to date, this book takes a thematic approach which enables in-depth analysis of the cluster of themes, ideas and issues that Ghosh has steadily built up into a substantial intellectual project. This project overlaps significantly with many of the key debates in postcolonial studies and so this book is both an introduction to Ghosh's writing and a contribution to the development of ideas on the 'postcolonial' - in particular, its relation to postmodernism. Amitav Ghosh is for students and teachers of postcolonial literatures in English at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.