Partisan Diary

Partisan Diary
Author: Ada Gobetti
Publisher:
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199380546

From the entry of the Germans into Turin on September 10, 1943 to the liberation of the city on April 28, 1945, Ada Gobetti, translator, educator, and resistance activist, recorded an almost daily account of her life in the resistance movement against the fascist government and the Nazis. Part diary, part memoir, Gobetti's Diario partigiano (Partisan diary) provides a firsthand account of who the anti-fascist partisans in the Piedmont region of Italy were and how they fought.

The Forests of Norbio

The Forests of Norbio
Author: Giuseppe Dessì
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1975
Genre: Italian fiction
ISBN:

The Myth of the Other

The Myth of the Other
Author: Franco Rella
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Rella came of age as a philosopher in Italy during the period of the "crisis of reason" or more generally the exhaustion of classical rationality in its authority to structure experience. For Rella, unlike many others, the tensions of the crisis are productive. In The Myth of the Other, he presents a unique perspective on four seminal French thinkers: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and Bataille. Moe's masterful translation brings this remarkable Italian thinker to American readers for the first time. This slim book mayvery well change the way American scholars think about the crisis of the other and the self coming our of French poststructuralism.

Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks

Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks
Author: Hélène Cazes
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2010-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004192093

This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.

The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire

The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire
Author: J. M. Hussey
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2010-03-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0191614882

This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.600-c.1453). As an integral part of its policy it was (as in western Christianity) closely linked with many aspects of everyday life both official and otherwise. It was a formative period for Orthodoxy. It had to face doctrinal problems and heresies; at the same time it experienced the continuity and deepening of its liturgical life. While holding fast to the traditions of the fathers and the councils, it saw certain developments in doctrine and liturgy as also in administration. Part I discusses the landmarks in ecclesiastical affairs within the Empire as well as the creative influence exercised on the Slavs and the increasing contacts with westerners particularly after 1204. Part II gives a brief account of the structure of the medieval Orthodox Church, its officials and organization, and the spirituality of laity, monks, and clergy.

In the Name of Sanity

In the Name of Sanity
Author: Lewis Mumford
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1954
Genre: Civilization, Modern
ISBN:

The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci

The Rhythm of Thought in Gramsci
Author: Giuseppe Cospito
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004326901

Many scholars have recently shown great interest in a diachronic re-examination of Antonio Gramsci’s main theoretical-political categories in the Prison Notebooks. This method would uncover the origins and development of Gramsci’s concepts using the same method that Gramsci himself believed would allow us to grasp ‘the rhythm of thought’ in Marx. The present work embraces this perspective and puts it to work in two ways. Its first part analyzes the relation between structure and superstructure and the concepts of hegemony and the regulated society. Its second part extends the diachronic analysis to the conceptual pairings which represent alternatives to structure-superstructure, encompassing questions of political and cultural organisation as well as the relation between Gramsci and the major proponents of historical materialism (Marx, Engels, Lenin). English translation of Il ritmo del pensiero: per una lettura diacronica dei «Quaderni del carcere» di Gramsci published by Bibliopolis, Naples (2011).

Gramsci's Common Sense

Gramsci's Common Sense
Author: Kate Crehan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822373742

Acknowledged as one of the classics of twentieth-century Marxism, Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks contains a rich and nuanced theorization of class that provides insights that extend far beyond economic inequality. In Gramsci's Common Sense Kate Crehan offers new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take, including in regards to race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. Presupposing no previous knowledge of Gramsci on the part of the reader, she introduces the Prison Notebooks and provides an overview of Gramsci’s notions of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense, putting them in relation to the work of thinkers such as Bourdieu, Arendt, Spivak, and Said. In the case studies of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements, Crehan theorizes the complex relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression, as well as the construction of political narratives. Gramsci's Common Sense is an accessible and concise introduction to a key Marxist thinker whose works illuminate the increasing inequality in the twenty-first century.