Derrida: Profanations
Author: Patrick O'Connor
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1441181709
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Author: Patrick O'Connor
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1441181709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Martin Mulsow
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9004398937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-10-20
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 1942130562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of his most pivotal essays on photography, the novel, and film. A meditation on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains, Profanations proves yet again that Agamben is one of the most provocative writers of our times. In ten essays, Agamben rethinks approaches to a series of literary and philosophical problems: the relation between genius, ego, and theories of subjectivity; the problem of messianic time as explicated in both images and lived experience; parody as a literary paradigm; the potential of magic to provide an ethical canon. The range of topics and themes addressed here attest to the very creativity of Agamben’s singular mode of thought and his persistent pursuit to grasp the act of witnessing, sometimes futile, sometimes earth-shattering — the talking cricket in Pinocchio; “helpers” in Kafka’s novels; pictorial representations of the Last Judgment, of anonymous female faces, and of Orson Wells’s infamous object of obsession Rosebud. “In Praise of Profanity,” the central essay of this small but dense book, confronts the question of profanity as the crucial political task of the moment. An act of resistance to every form of separation, the concept of profanation — as both the “return to common usage” and “sacrifice” — reorients perceptions of how power, consumption, and use interweave to produce an urgent political modality and desire: to profane the unprofanable. In short, Agamben provides not only a new and potent theoretical model but also a writerly style that itself forges inescapable links between literature, politics, and philosophy.
Author: Maarten Simons
Publisher: Universitaire Pers Leuven
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9058678741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe university is an institution that goes back to the Middle Ages. As universitas magistrorum et scholarium, the university was a community of scholars and students gathered around books and preoccupied with study and the search for truth. What is the role of the university today? The meanings of teaching, study, and research have changed. Screens are replacing books, online learning environments are replacing lecture halls, and students are becoming learners. In the context of a growing emphasis on innovation and development, competition among institutions, and the privatization of knowledge, the role of communities of scholars and students is changing. Some argue that the university is entering a new phase; others claim that we face the end of the university. Curating the European University features projects involving new ways of publishing, alternative organizations of departments, proposals for open access and open source, and university architecture and accessibility; it offers a unique contribution to the public debate on the role of the university.
Author: Rev. Henry Maclagan
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 416
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Published: 1806
Total Pages: 770
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Published: 1788
Total Pages: 488
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 768
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-23
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780521032742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.