Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life
Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life

Author: William H. McNeill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989-04-20

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 0199923396

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One of the most remarkable thinkers of this century, Arnold Toynbee won world-wide recognition as the author of the monumental ten-volume A Study of History. Its publication and phenomenal success brought him fame and the highest praise, as the reading public proclaimed him the most renowned scholar in the world. This thought-provoking, engaging study of Toynbee, written by one of today's most eminent historians, weaves together Toynee's intellectual accomplishments and the personal difficulties of his private life. Providing both an intimate portrait of a leading thinker and a judicious evaluation of his work and his legacy for the the study of history, William H. McNeill offers both a biography and a commentary on how to write and understand history. Along with an illuminating discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of A Study of History and the countless other works written by Toynbee, McNeill offers a compelling examination of the responses of other historians (including the devastating attack launched by Hugh Trevor-Roper) and Toynbee's attempts to modify his Study to answer these criticisms. McNeill also explores his tormented personal life, including his troubled marriage to Rosalind Murray and the suicide of his son, Anthony. In this sympathetic depiction of a life, both triumphant and tragic, McNeill brings his skills to bear on one of the greatest figures in his field, illuminating a career of rare accomplishment.

The Toynbee Heresy
The Toynbee Heresy

Author: Abba 1915- Eban

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781015093423

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Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History
Truth, Morality, and Meaning in History

Author: Paul T. Phillips

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-03-14

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1487530390

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In this important new book, Paul T. Phillips argues that most professional historians – aside from a relatively small number devoted to theory and methodology – have concerned themselves with particular, specialized areas of research, thereby ignoring the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning. This is less so in the thriving general community of history enthusiasts beyond academia, and may explain, in part at least, history’s sharp decline as a subject of choice by students in recent years. Phillips sees great dangers resulting from the thinking of extreme relativists and postmodernists on the futility of attaining historical truth, especially in the age of "post-truth." He also believes that moral judgment and the search for meaning in history should be considered part of the discipline’s mandate. In each section of this study, Phillips outlines the nature of individual issues and past efforts to address them, including approaches derived from other disciplines. This book is a call to action for all those engaged in the study of history to direct more attention to the fundamental questions of truth, morality, and meaning.

The Dispersion
The Dispersion

Author: Stéphane Dufoix

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 900432691X

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Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.

Exiles from Nowhere
Exiles from Nowhere

Author: Alan Mendelson

Publisher: Robin Brass Studio

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13:

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" ... Examines the thoughts and actions of some of Canada's intellectual elite--a circle that radiates from the revered philosopher of Canadian nationalism, George Grant, who died in 1988. What emerges ... is an insidious antisemitism and intolerance."--Page 2 of cover.

The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy
The Construction of Orthodoxy and Heresy

Author: John B. Henderson

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-04-16

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780791437605

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Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 4, 1900-1950

Author: George Watson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1972-12-07

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13:

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 4 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Inventing New Beginnings
Inventing New Beginnings

Author: Asher D. Biemann

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 080477045X

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Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very fundamental, yet hitherto strangely understated, questions: What did the term "renaissance" actually mean to the intellectuals and ideologues of the "Jewish Renaissance," and how did this understanding relate to wider currents in European intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? It also addresses the larger question of how we can contemplate "renaissance" as a mode of thought that is conditioned by the consciousness and experience of modernity and that extends to our present time.

Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Philosophical Perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Author: Tomis Kapitan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-11

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 1317462858

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This volume addresses a number of philosophical problems that arise in consideration of the century-old conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. Consisting of essays by fifteen contributors (including both Israeli and Palestinian philosophers) and a lengthy introduction by the editor, it deals with rights to land, sovereignity, self-determination, the existence and legitimacy of states, cultural prejudice, national identity, intercommunal violence, and religious intransigence.