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Tsoutsos, Giōrgos Ath. Theseis, antitheseis stēn hellēnikē exōterikē politikē, 1988-2006. Ekdoseis Bartzoulianos, 2007.
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Moustaira, Elina N. Stathmoi stēn poreia tou synkritikou dikaiou: Theseis kai antitheseis. Ekdoseis Ant. N. Sakkoula, 2003.
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Charalampous, Dēmētrēs Ph. Hē hidrysē tou prōtou dēmosiou gymnasiou stēn Kypro, 1893: Anazētēseis, theseis, kai antitheseis. Pankyprio Gymnasio, 1997.
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Bekirēs, Vasilēs. Ho politikos Panagiōtēs Kanellopoulos: Theseis, antithesies, kai protheseis apo tis empeiries trianta chronōn (1956-1986) konta ston Panagiōtē Kanellopoulo. Ekdoseis "Nea Synora"--A.A. Livanē, 1999.
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Walter, Pierre F. Natural Order: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis in Human Evolution. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010.
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Walter, Peter Fritz. Natural Order: Thesis, Antithesis and Synthesis in Human Evolution. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
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Hegel's undiscovered thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectics: What only Marx and Tillich understood. Prometheus Books, 2012.
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Anjum, Rani Lill, and Stephen Mumford. The Modality of Causation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.003.0010.
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Hume said that necessity was part of the popular concept of cause but not legitimately so. Necessity could be found in no experience of causation so should be expelled from the concept. To this extent, Hume was right but it leaves us with a problem of inductive scepticism. Nevertheless, many of his critics overreacted in defending the necessity of causation. Additive interference shows that there is no causal necessity. Both Hume’s thesis and its antithesis seem flawed; but there are prospects of a synthesis. The idea of tendency can give us an intermediate, third modality between necessity and pure contingency, and this seems to be the correct modality of causation.
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Orwin, Clifford. Thucydides on Nature and Human Conduct. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.9.
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Thucydides follows the “Pre-Socratics” and anticipates the Socratics in considering politics in the context of the question of nature. His view of nature, which he expresses above all through the antithesis (or dyad) of motion and rest, seems typically “Pre-Socratic”: of other extant views it most recalls that of Empedocles. Yet by expounding politics itself in terms of rest and motion, he does not so much distinguish it from the natural realm as assimilate the two. His narrative opposes two perspectives: that of the primacy of justice and piety, as championed by the Spartans and their allies, and that of the “Athenian thesis”—the claim that natural compulsions encroach irresistibly on the human freedom to practice these virtues. Both understandings prove problematic, and the dialogue that Thucydides stages between them may point toward the enigmatic perspective of Thucydides himself.
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Villoro, Luis. The Major Moments of Indigenism in Mexico. Translated by Kim Díaz. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190601294.003.0012.
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The aim of Luis Villoro’s seminal book on Indigenism was not to incorporate Mexico’s indigenous population into the national culture, or offer an ethnographic account of indigenous peoples, or participate in indigenismo, an earlier state-sponsored effort to valorize Mexico’s indigenous population with varying degrees of success. Instead, Villoro wants to understand the Indigenist’s consciousness, particularly how the history of Mexican consciousness of the Indian resulted in the problematic twentieth-century movement of indigenismo. Villoro divides the history of Indigenism into three major momentos (moments), of which the second and third movement each have two etapas (stages). The “Conclusion,” included here, is a summary of these moments, which demonstrate how the Spanish, criollo, and mestizo consciousness of the Indian have unfolded in a Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis—a historical process of distancing, appropriating, and evaluating the indigenous element of Mexican culture and society.
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Wohl, Victoria. Thucydides on the Political Passions. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.36.
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This chapter discusses the political passions in Thucydides’ History. Focusing on the seminal antithesis between emotion and (political) reason, it argues that this antithesis is itself inherently political: the nature and role of the passions in politics are themselves political questions; their answers, the stakes of political conflict. The chapter examines this contention within Thucydides’ analysis of Athenian democratic politics, particularly Pericles’ affective governance of an angry demos; and within Athenian imperial politics, in which disastrous expansion is fueled by the irrational passions of the demos, Athens, and mankind as a whole. In both domains, Thucydides uses emotion (performatively as well as analytically) to construct a particular vision of political rationality and to secure the authority of his own rational and dispassionate historiography.
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Githire, Njeri. Epilogue. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038785.003.0006.
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This chapter summarizes key themes and presents some final thoughts. This book has attempted to show the return of the cannibal in contemporary Caribbean and Indian Ocean writing, a return that is as much thematic as it is historical, economic, and political. As an archetypal othering trope, cannibalism is considered the antithesis of cosmopolitan ideals, ideals that persistently appeal to the elite for whom international mobility is synonymous with modernity, style, and indulgence. These elitist models of global interactions marginalize the knowledge and wisdom from which Caribbean and Indian Ocean societies draw. Yet through the cannibalistic incorporation of Caribbean and Indian Ocean societies within networks that mark the global world, these societies continue to play a crucial role in processes of transculturation and in the broader processes of cosmopolitan exchanges. It is hoped is that this book has brought together select texts in ways that open up new research directions.
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Coleman, Tracy. Rādhā. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767022.003.0007.
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Although Sītā and Rādhā might seem to represent the ideal woman as pativratā and her adulterous antithesis respectively, this essay initially argues that both paradigmatic figures reflect the same underlying androcentric ideology that values women who selflessly sacrifice their lives for men and thus represent idealized models of feminine devotion (bhakti), submission, and suffering, especially in situations of viraha, separation from their beloveds. Privileging the twelfth-century Gītagovinda, however, and its vision of Kṛṣṇa’s passionate love for Rādhā, this chapter argues that the poet Jayadeva glorifies a radically subversive secret that threatens hegemonic masculinity: an erotic image of divinity both masculine and feminine, an image of dual divinity that sanctifies sexuality and values women as independent and powerful in sharp contrast to traditional structures of patriarchal power.
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Werner, Cosima. Convenience Stores as Social Spaces. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666990928.
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Liquor, tobacco, processed food, and sugary snacks: this is the range of products that are far from healthy available in convenience stores. Yetthese stores have become people’s resource for meeting daily needs in deprived neighborhoods in the United States. In her book, Convenience Stores as Social Spaces: Trust and Relations in Deprived Neighborhoods in the U.S., Cosima Werner explores the contested meanings of these stores and their function as social hubs in a social fabric where poverty, violence, and social neglect are part of peoples’ daily life. Despite the strict security measures around the stores, language barriers, and cultural differences that make convenience stores appear as the antithesis of social spaces, trustful relationships are crucial for residents to access resources such as loans, food, drinks, or information to make ends meet. The concepts of trust and mistrust shed light on the fragility of trust within these communities. Through ethnographic research conducted in Chicago and Detroit, she reveals the unique ways in which these stores are viewed and utilized by residents.
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Lavery, Gavin G., and Linda-Jayne Mottram. Managing ICU staff welfare, morale, and burnout. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0019.
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Low morale, stress, and burnout are significant and under-recognized in critical care staff. The link between these conditions is complex and not fully only understood with burnout as a potential end result. Conflict and lack of clear protocols regarding end-of-life care appear to be particularly prone to generate stress and potentially burnout. We have little scientific basis to design interventions, but expert opinion suggests multiple approaches at individual, departmental, and organizational levels. Many are based on giving workers a degree of control and flexibility where possible, and a feeling that their contribution is valuable and valued. Engagement (with an organization and its aims) is now viewed as the antithesis of burnout and only staff who are engaged can deliver high quality care. It is increasingly recognized that organizations that actively manage staff welfare are more likely to provide care that is safe, effective, and patient-centred, and less likely to error and adverse events.
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Schippers, Huib. Community Music Contexts, Dynamics, and Sustainability. Edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219505.013.29.
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Across the world, much community music-making continues to flourish as ‘organic’ practices. But as communities and their circumstances change, sometimes the need arises for active interventions with the aim to establish or restore. It is mostly these interventions that are now widely referred to as ‘community music activities’. A third—and rarely recognized—aspect on the community music spectrum is institutionalized music-making. Often depicted as the very antithesis of community music-making, I will argue in this chapter that most music institutions in fact arose from an expressed community need, and they are therefore essential in understanding the full scope and dynamics of community music-making. Next, a nine-domain framework of key characteristics of community music practices serves to address the problem of trying to define a great diversity of practices. From there, the discussion moves towards the relationship between community and the sustainability of music practices, introducing the concept of ‘musical ecosystems’.
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Lotti, Brunello. Universals in English Platonism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608040.003.0008.
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This chapter reconstructs the topic of universals in the English Platonists’ epistemologies and ontologies. More and Cudworth restrict universals to the mental realm, stating that whatsoever exists without the mind is singular. Despite this nominalistic principle, universal concepts are not inductive constructions, but primarily divine thoughts and secondarily a priori innate ideas in the human mind. The archetypal theory of creation and the connection of finite minds to God’s Mind ensure their objective validity, in antithesis to Hobbes’ phenomenalism and sensationalism. Norris shares the archetypal theory of creation, but refuses innatism, and his doctrine of universals is framed in terms of his theory of the ideal world inspired by Malebranche. Both the Cambridge Platonists and Norris, opposing theological voluntarism, discuss the status of ideas in God’s mind, which oscillate from being merely thoughts of the divine intellect to being its eternal objects.
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Ondrey, Hauna T. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824534.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter establishes the scope and significance of the study. In addition to his Christology, Theodore’s Old Testament commentaries were implicated at Constantinople II for their dearth of christological interpretation. Cyril, whose writings featured prominently in Theodore’s condemnation, is, by contrast, judged a pre-eminently christocentric Old Testament interpreter. A close comparison of extant commentaries on the Minor Prophets by both Theodore and Cyril illuminates the Old Testament interpretation of both consequential figures. As Antiochene and Alexandrian interpreters, the comparison bears on the shift away from an Antioch/Alexandria antithesis. Situating the study that follows, this shift is traced and evaluated, highlighting alternate reductions to which the rhetorical turn is vulnerable. Brief biographical sketches then establish the setting of each commentary and locate each interpreter within the broader commentary tradition. An overview of the book’s organization and primary arguments concludes the chapter.
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Mitchell Sommers, Susan. Manoah’s Songs of Experience. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687328.003.0011.
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There is a strong temptation to hold up the lives of brothers Manoah and Ebenezer Sibly for comparison—they make plausible stock characters: the good brother and the bad one. The bare evidence of their lives readily suggests this simplistic reading. Manoah was described by his eulogist as “quiet, steady, tolerant, patient, and above all, trustworthy.” Manoah was a steady husband and devoted father, a responsible shorthand recorder employed by the Old Bailey, a long-time employee of the Bank of England, and for fifty years, a Swedenborgian minister. He seems the antithesis to the flighty, insincere, deceptive Ebenezer. But Manoah was not a simple character. In the 1780s, he and Ebenezer worked jointly on astrological projects, embroiling Manoah in legal and spiritual compromises that brought some very public criticism, endangering Manoah’s reputation within the New Church.
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Gorringe, Timothy J. Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978718999.
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Word, Silence, and the Climate Emergency: God, Ekklesia, and Christian Doctrine is an exposition of Christian doctrine taking into account the current global emergency. Gorringe grounds our knowledge of God first in the revelation to the prophets and specifically in their political stance but above all in Jesus of Nazareth. God, or the NAME, Gorringe argues, is the antithesis of all the gods of projection, known in the silence of the cross and of the isolation cell. In a Triune format, the nature of God and the discourse of creation and providence are first considered before turning to the claim that “God was in Christ.” The final third of the book considers the nature and task of ekklesia, especially in the light of the global emergency which, Gorringe argues, is a confessional issue and the heart of ekklesia's present concern.
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Howe, Blake. Saul, David, and Music’s Ideal Body. Edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph Straus. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.32.
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The religious model of disability holds that disabilities are corruptions of a divine prototype (the ideal body of God or of Adam before the Fall), which has often been metaphorized as a musical body. Dissonances and syncopations, like bodily imperfections, might occasionally diverge from the consonant, metrical ideal, but the strong forces of musical resolution can safely contain their destabilizing potential. The ideal musical body also possesses healing powers, restoring order to sonic dysfunction. The exemplary performer of this therapeutic music was David, and his most notorious patient was Saul. In exegetical accounts, these two biblical figures are often framed as antitheses: David’s consonant health as an emblem of divine strength (an ideal body) versus Saul’s dissonant disease as a symptom of divine disfavor (an imperfect body). Musical representations by Johann Kuhnau and G. F. Handel participate in this tradition; so too might Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Harp” Quartet.
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Yacovazzi, Cassandra L. Hidden Dangers. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881009.003.0005.
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By the late 1840s, a new genre of literature revealed deep concerns with corruption in the growing urban centers. City mysteries exposed a dark underworld of the metropolis, leading readers through smoky saloons, gambling dens, and brothels. More than any other “sin of the city,” urban gothic literature focused on prostitution. The female prostitute embodied the greatest antithesis to the ideal or “true” woman. Anticonvent literature often compared nuns to prostitutes, convents to brothels, priests to seducers, and Mother Superiors to madams. City mysteries mirrored convent narratives in their description of women being seduced into lives of misery and sexual deviance. Both convent narratives and city mysteries promised to unveil a hidden world of sin and debauchery for an eager readership. This chapter compares convent tales and city mysteries, focusing on the nun-prostitute figure and the ways in which this female archetype threatened nineteenth-century female gender norms.
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Renker, Elizabeth. Reality Categories in Periodical Poems. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808787.003.0003.
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One of the larger questions hovering over scholarship in American literary realism is how certain orders of experience came to count as “real,” and, crucially, as opposed to what. Yet, ironically, most scholarship on realism has not “counted” poems as part of the evolving discourse of realism. Periodical poems about reality categories are in fact extremely common in print culture after 1866. This chapter traces the larger dialogic scene in which poems articulate an array of emergent realist and idealist positions as antitheses. Individual poems work out (or take confused sides in) these larger debates about reality categories as philosophical concepts, as artistic concepts, and as both pertain to the sphere of “poetry” in particular. The meanings of these poems are social ones, arising in public scenes of conversation, dispute, and debate.
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Wise, Joshua. Dread and Hope. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978719514.
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Christianity was born in the midst of great expectation and fear about the world’s future. The existing Jewish paradigm of the coming Messiah, his antithesis, and the initiation of the coming age set the stage for Christian beliefs about the end of the current age. However, the unexpected death and resurrection of Jesus caused that paradigm to be reformed within the burgeoning Christian faith, reshaping hopes, and reworking old patterns. Dread and Hope explores the ways in which those old paradigms were challenged by Jesus’s death and resurrection, how the resulting eschatological landscape was understood within Christianity, and how modern popular culture has consumed and modified various components of Christian Hope. Joshua Wise examines how the central Christian eschatological themes such as the Antichrist, the Great Persecution, Heaven, and Hell have both been transformed and preserved in novels, television, films, and video games. Drawing on works such as 1984, Diablo, The Stand, What Dreams May Come, and the Fallout series, Dread and Hope considers how the human fears and desires shaped by Christian beliefs are expressed in popular culture.
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Goldman, Laurence R. The Anthropology of Cannibalism. Praeger, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400613333.
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Using new case data from South American, Australian, and Papua New Guinean societies, the authors explore how cultural ideas for humanity are reflected in seemingly universal understandings of our potential for anthropophagy. Whether or not a society actually practices cannibalism, these conceptions are often articulated at the level of folklore and myth, where flesh-eating is imbued with symbolic meanings centered on ideas about regeneration after death, the equivalence between human flesh and food, and the morality of social exchange in and between groups. Thus, cannibalism emerges at once as a resource for political agendas that perpetuate ethnic stereotypes of exotic others; a cultural practice capable of expressing violent suppression as well as transforming death into a life-sustaining process; and a theme whose horrific potentiality engenders baleful monsters and myths for public delectation as well as child control. Cannibalism exists in folklore traditions as the definition of the antithesis of socially accepted morality, as well as something that in practice was a conduit for the regeneration and reproduction of positive values. Cannibalism is seen as bound up with the commerce of exchange between people intent on defining their economic and political worlds in and through symbols. This book is a major milestone, providing a valuable set of correctives for both the academic discourse on cannibalism as well as the wider conventional beliefs about the topic.
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Siegelbaum, Lewis H., and Sasu Siegelbaum. Class and Sport. Edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858910.013.001.
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The history of sport can be considered an arena in which struggles over ways of doing things have worked themselves out, sometimes to the advantage of one class but occasionally to the benefit—or detriment—of more than one class. Sport has its antitheses—amateur versus professional, competitive versus noncompetitive, the individual versus the team—each of which contains class dimensions. In this chapter, players, fans, owners, governing bodies, and the media are treated as representatives, projections, or embodiments of classes and class fractions, struggling amongst themselves and occasionally against each other. The chapter emphasizes the formative influence of Great Britain and its class structure from the Industrial Revolution onward on the emergence of specific sports, the codification of rules, leagues, and fan bases. It analyzes the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of players as workers, their representation, and the particular dynamics between class and fan affinities.
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Duncan, Dennis. The Oulipo and Modern Thought. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831631.001.0001.
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The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature, criticism and theory, both in Europe and the US. Founded in 1960 and still active today, this Parisian literary workshop has featured among its members such notable writers as Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, and Raymond Queneau, all sharing in its light-hearted, slightly boozy bonhomie, the convivial antithesis of the fractious, volatile coteries of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. For the last fifty years the Oulipo has undertaken the same simple goal: to investigate the potential of ‘constraints’ in the production of literature—that is, formal procedures such as anagrams, acrostics, lipograms (texts which exclude a certain letter), and other strange and complex devices. Yet, far from being mere parlour games, these methods have been frequently used as part of a passionate—though sometimes satirical—involvement with the major intellectual currents of the mid-twentieth century. Structuralism, psychoanalysis, Surrealism, analytic philosophy: all come under discussion in the group’s meetings, and all find their way in the group’s exercises in ways that, while often ironic, are also highly informed. Using meeting minutes, correspondence, and other material from the Oulipo archive at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, The Oulipo and Modern Thought shows how the group have used constrained writing as means of puckish engagement with the debates of their peers, and how, as the broader intellectual landscape altered, so too would the group’s conception of what constrained writing can achieve.
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Haddad, Fanar. Understanding 'Sectarianism'. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510629.001.0001.
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‘Sectarianism’ is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analysed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what ‘sectarianism’ is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or its antithesis? Is it a function of the nation-state or its negation? This book seeks to move the study of modern sectarian dynamics beyond these analytically paralyzing dichotomies by shifting the focus away from the meaningless '-ism' towards the root: sectarian identity. How are Sunni and Shi'a identities imagined, experienced and negotiated and how do they relate to and interact with other identities? Looking at the modern history of the Arab world, Haddad seeks to understand sectarian identity not as a monochrome frame of identification but as a multi-layered concept that operates on several dimensions: doctrinal, subnational, national and transnational. Far from a uniquely Middle Eastern, Arab, or Islamic phenomenon, a better understanding of sectarian identity reveals that the many facets of sectarian relations that are misleadingly labelled "sectarianism" are echoed in intergroup relations worldwide.
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Pargeter, Alison. Tribes and the State in Libya and Iraq. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197769430.001.0001.
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Abstract Regime change in Libya (2011) and Iraq (2003) catapulted a host of sub-state actors to the fore, including tribes, which have emerged as influential political, security, and social actors. But despite this increased role and visibility, tribes remain poorly understood. Often mistakenly associated with the “periphery” or with “pre-national” or “pre-modern” forms of political organisation, they are routinely portrayed as the antithesis of the state. Yet tribes--the Middle East’s oldest, most enduring and most controversial social entities--have proved able to adapt and evolve, entering into mutually beneficial relationships with various regimes. Based on interviews with tribal sheikhs, tribal representatives and other stakeholders, Alison Pargeter traces the role of the tribe in Libya and Iraq from the revolutionary nationalist period into the fraught transitions that followed. She reveals how tribes have succeeded in developing a presence in national and local political structures; how they have engaged and bargained with major powerbrokers; and how they have become important security providers in their own right. Contrary to modernist approaches seeking to write the obituary of the tribe, this book shows how tribes have not only survived in Libya and Iraq, but remain a key component of the state in both countries.
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Harrington, Clodagh, and Alex Waddan. Obama v. Trump. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474447003.001.0001.
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This monograph examines how Trump’s election as President signals a rollback of the Obama years. In 2008, in what seemed a seminal moment for the country’s politics, the United States elected an African American as President. Yet, eight years later, in the form of Donald Trump, the nation put in office a man who was the very antithesis of his predecessor. The book determines what can legitimately be regarded as the legacy of the Obama presidency and investigates how far the Trump administration has reversed it. The analysis is embedded in a historical context, based on examination and scrutiny of how, and how successfully, presidents in the modern era have overturned the work of their predecessor when they have attempted to do so. The authors focus on meaningful priority shifts, policy changes and the imprint of presidential leadership, providing a framework for assessing Obama’s legacy, which in turn affords context to a discussion of the Trump administration’s capacity to fulfil its promise to reverse the direction taken by the Obama White House. Looking beyond the noise and hyperbole, the book examines how robust the Obama legacy has proved to be in the face of Trump’s challenge. Clodagh Harrington is Associate Professor of American Politics at De Montfort University. Alex Waddan is Associate Professor in American Politics at the University of Leicester.
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Durch, William, Joris Larik, and Richard Ponzio, eds. Just Security in an Undergoverned World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805373.001.0001.
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This book is about how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisibly—in trade, finance, culture, and information—helping to spur economic growth, technological advance, and greater understanding and freedom, but global disconnects are growing as well. Ubiquitous electronics rely on high-value minerals scraped from the earth by miners kept dirt-poor by corruption and war. People abandon burning states for the often indifferent welcome of wealthier lands whose people, in turn, pull in on themselves. International bucket brigades are too little, too late—and some throw gas on the flames. Humanity’s very success, underwritten in large part by lighting up gigatons of long-buried carbon for 200 years, now threatens humanity’s future. The global governance institutions established after World War Two to manage global threats, especially the twin scourges of war and poverty, have expanded in reach and impact, while paradoxically losing the political support of their wealthiest and most powerful members. Their problems mimic those of their members in struggling to adapt to new problems and maintain trust in institutions. This volume argues, however, that a properly mandated, managed, and modernized global architecture offers unparalleled potential to midwife solutions to vexing issues that transcend borders and capacities of individual actors, from conflict and climate change to poverty and pandemic disease. The volume offers “just security” as a new conceptual framework for evaluating innovative solutions and strategies for institutional reform.
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Gedacht, Joshua, and R. Michael Feener, eds. Challenging Cosmopolitanism. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435093.001.0001.
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The temptation to invoke idealised histories of Islamic cosmopolitanism as the antithesis to the militancy associated with contemporary groups, such as the Islamic State (IS), is quite powerful. Many writers have pointed to the flourishing of al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula and the mobile societies of the premodern Indian Ocean as paradigmatic examples both of the storied past and the potential future of cosmopolitan forms of religious vitality. However, if one pushes beyond nostalgic images of coexistence, pluralism and mobility, it is also possible to discern more complex stories. The chapters in Challenging Cosmopolitanism, specifically direct attention to the historical experiences of Muslims in China and Southeast Asia to explore such complexities. Marked by considerable inflows of Muslim migrants that further complicated the demographics of already heterogeneous populations, the experiences of Muslim communities in these regions provide insights into contests to define legitimate forms of difference. Spanning from the 16th through 21st centuries, this volume presents case studies of itinerant Sufis who overthrew governments in the Indian Ocean and religious shrines patronized by warlords in early Java; of thinkers who promoted ‘Islamic military cosmopolitanism’ in Qing-era China and Americans who supported US-Ottoman cooperation in the pacification of the Philippines; of Muslim rebels in early 20<sup>th</sup>-century Malaya who resisted borders and Afghan refugees in China whose experience reflects contemporary dynamics of ‘armoured’ forms of 21<sup>st</sup> century cosmopolitanism. Through such explorations, this volume illuminates the fraught relationships between mobility, coercion and border-crossing, thereby contributing to more nuanced frameworks of analysis for Islamic cosmopolitanism.
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Roth, Leon, and Edward Ullendorff. Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Liverpool University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781874774556.001.0001.
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Leon Roth (1896–1963) was the first professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He saw it as his purpose to encourage his students to think, and to think about their Judaism. Typical of his approach is the question with which this book opens: in what sense can we talk about Jewish philosophy, and what can we expect to find if we look for it? Defining philosophy as ‘the search, through thought, for the permanent’, the book argues that in order to say whether there is a truly Jewish philosophy, one has to ‘rethink fundamentals’: those elements in our lives, in history, in nature which appear to be not incidental and trivial but basic. The twelve essays published here represent a selection of Roth's explorations of various aspects of his theme. The title essay ends with the contention that Judaism must be seen as the classic expression of monotheism; as the antithesis of myth; and as the essence of ethics and morality. The emphasis that Roth placed on ethics as the essence of Judaism was not merely theoretical: in 1951 he resigned from the Hebrew University and left Israel in response to what he perceived as the betrayal of Jewish ethics by the rulers of the newly established State of Israel. The book's foreword is an appreciation of Roth's singular personality, grace, and moral stature, and of his devotion to an interpretation of Judaism that is rational and humane. A complete bibliography of Roth's writings rounds out the picture of the man and his achievements.
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Alston, Adam. Staging Decadence. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350237070.
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Why are so many theatre makers staging their experiences of going nowhere fast? Runners stumbling atop treadmills, cyclists spinning on exercise bikes, torsos flailing wildly while feet remain rooted to the spot. ‘Frenetic standstill’ identifies the strange paradox of racing to keep up with an accelerating pace of life in stagnating economies. What happens if we take seriously the claim that theatre is both unproductive and decadent? What can performances of excess tell us about the apparent need for workers and consumers to be constantly productive? What might they lend to our understanding of ‘frenetic standstill’ as one of the most pressing issues of recent times – an issue that is only set to be worsened by the pandemic? Staging Decadence: Contemporary Theatre and the End of Capitalism offers the first scholarly consideration of decadence in theatre, focusing on an international range of practitioners who embody, enact or subvert the excesses of 21st-century capitalism. It does so by introducing and ultimately embracing decadence as a valuable take on radical theatre in beleaguered economies, this having been considered the very antithesis of ‘productivity’ and ‘progress’ by many artists and writers across the world for over 150 years. What emerges is an opportunity to consider decadence as a stage upon which cultural values are forged, appropriated, contested or undermined. This book presents a diverse range of examples including work by Wunderbaum (Netherlands), Marcel•líAntúnez (Spain), Julia Bardsley (UK), TocoNikaido (Japan), Martin O’Brien (UK), and JaamilOlawaleKosoko (USA). It is the primary output attached to the AHRC-funded Staging Decadence project, and will be a landmark text in the field and the discipline at large.