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| Author | : Maura Heyn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2021-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9782503591261 |
During the Roman era, when the ancient city of Palmyra was at the height of its powers, several thousand funerary portraits were sculpted, each carefully crafted to represent the men, women, and children who had once lived there as members of the Palmyrene elite. In their commemorative monuments, these individuals were given specific attributes to express their social status, wealth, identity, and skills. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of these funerary portraits, and illuminates in particular the addition of attributes and how and why they were used by both artists and their patrons. The eight contributions gathered here examine the range of choices available to commissioners of art works in Palmyra, the prevalence or rarity of specific attributes, and the ways in which the variation and selection of attributes could be used in funerary, religious, or public contexts to express social cohesion and group identity, as well as to demonstrate individuality. Crucially, while these funerary monuments may be closely associated with Palmyra, they in fact provide clear evidence of the city's relationships across the wider region: examination of the different attributes suggests that the Palmyrenes were aware of how these were used, perceived, and adapted by neighbouring people as a way of transmitting various social meanings and expressing their own values.
| Author | : James Filler |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2023-05-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3031309073 |
This book argues that Western philosophy's traditional understanding of Being as substance is incorrect, and demonstrates that Being is fundamentally Relationality. To make that argument, the book examines the history of Western philosophy's evolving conception of being, and shows how this tradition has been dominated by an Aristotelian understanding of substance and his corresponding understanding of relation. First, the book establishes that the original concept of Being in ancient Western philosophy was relational, and traces this relational understanding of Being through the Neoplatonists. Then, it follows the substantial understanding of Being through Aristotle and the Scholastics to reach its crisis in Descartes. Finally, the book demonstrates that Heidegger represents a recovery of the original, relational understanding of Being.
| Author | : Lidewijde de Jong |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2017-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107131413 |
This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.
| Author | : Jonathan Strauss |
| Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2013-07 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0823251322 |
Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual.
| Author | : Bernard N. Schumacher |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010-09-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139493272 |
This book contributes to current bioethical debates by providing a critical analysis of the philosophy of human death. Bernard N. Schumacher discusses contemporary philosophical perspectives on death, creating a dialogue between phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy. He also examines the ancient philosophies that have shaped our current ideas about death. His analysis focuses on three fundamental problems: (1) the definition of human death, (2) the knowledge of mortality and of human death as such, and (3) the question of whether death is 'nothing' to us or, on the contrary, whether it can be regarded as an absolute or relative evil. Drawing on scholarship published in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought, this volume represents a comprehensive and systematic study of the philosophy of death, one that provides a provocative basis for discussions of the bioethics of human mortality.
| Author | : Todd S Presner |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2007-04-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0231511582 |
Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews. Treating the German railway as both an iconic symbol of modernity and a crucial social, technological, and political force, Presner advances a groundbreaking interpretation of the ways in which mobility is inextricably linked to German and Jewish visions of modernity. Moving beyond the tired model of a failed German-Jewish dialogue, Presner emphasizes the mutual entanglement of the very categories of German and Jewish and the many sites of contact and exchange that occurred between German and Jewish thinkers. Turning to philosophy, literature, and the history of technology, and drawing on transnational cultural and diaspora studies, Presner charts the influence of increased mobility on interactions between Germans and Jews. He considers such major figures as Kafka, Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, Sebald, Hegel, and Heine, reading poetry next to philosophy, architecture next to literature, and railway maps next to cultural history. Rather than a conventional, linear history that culminates in the tragedy of the Holocaust, Presner produces a cultural mapping that articulates a much more complex story of the hopes and catastrophes of mobile modernity. By focusing on the spaces of encounter emblematically represented by the overdetermined triangulation of Germans, Jews, and trains, he introduces a new genealogy for the study of European and German-Jewish modernity.
| Author | : Lawrence Hall Dawson |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2005-06-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1420831216 |
Through the years, I have felt a deep bewilderment regarding humankind's varied interpretations of God's Word and/or of those Spiritual teachings which have been attributed to the Messengers of God. I took a monumental leap of Faith and went beyond the boundaries of organized religion; I went to The Source Itself; The Source of all TRUTH, God, my Creator. It was only recently that I was privileged to be Given a Direct Line to TRUTH: a new Revelation on how to Commune directly with God, our Creator. As an analogy, God Served as the Master Storage Bank of all TRUTH; my mind became as the Terminal Computer and the Modem was The Christ or my At-ONEment with God. No longer need I be dependent upon the word of humankind; through The Mediator, The Christ, I was now provided with an immediate, untarnished Access to God's Word. For those who do not believe that humankind today can have direct Access to God's Word, may I suggest re-reading with an open mind these verses attributed to Jesus, The Christ as written in the Holy Bible; St. John 14: 12-14: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. "If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." Does humankind Truly Believe as Jesus, The Christ did, "I and my Father are One...?" It was through my TRUE Self, The Christ Self, during my Communion with God Mind that all quoted material of Return to TRUTH was Given to me in Answer to my questions, my questions which were Seeking the TRUTH that will set humankind free. Remember: "Understanding (that which is NEW), will need an openness of mind as that which is NEW tends to destroy that which is OLD. Openness means willingness to entertain NEW ideas. Amen."
| Author | : Stuart J. Murray |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2022-07-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0271093617 |
In a society that aims above all to safeguard life, how might we reckon with ethical responsibility when we are complicit in sacrificial economies that produce and tolerate death as a necessity of life? Arguing that biopower can be fully exposed only through an analysis of those whom society has “let die,” Stuart J. Murray employs a series of transdisciplinary case studies to uncover the structural and rhetorical conditions through which biopower works. These case studies include the concept of “sacrifice” in the “war” against COVID-19, where emergent cultures of pandemic “resistance” are explored alongside suicide bombings and military suicides; the California mass hunger strikes of 2013; legal cases involving “preventable” and “untimely” childhood deaths, exposing the irreconcilable claims of anti-vaxxers and Indigenous peoples; and the videorecording of the death of a disabled Black man. Murray demonstrates that active resistance to biopower inevitably reproduces tropes of “making live” and “letting die.” His counter to this fact is a critical stance of disaffirmation, one in which death disrupts the politics of life itself. A philosophically nuanced critique of biopower, The Living from the Dead is a meditation on life, death, power, language, and control in the twenty-first century. It will appeal to students and scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and critical theory.
| Author | : Aaron Aquilina |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2023-05-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1350339504 |
Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina demonstrates how they all highlight two aspects of the experience. First, they uncover a particular state of being, or more precisely non-being, that comes with a death sentence, and, second, they reveal how this state exists beyond death row, as sovereignty and alterity are by no means confined to a prison cell. In contrast to Heidegger's being-towards-death, which individualizes the subject – only I can die my own death, supposedly – this book argues that, when condemned to death, the self and death collide, putting under erasure the category of subjectivity itself. Be it death row or not, when the supposed futurity of death is brought into the here and now, we encounter what Aquilina calls 'relational death'. Living on with death severs the subject's relation to itself, the other and political sociality as a whole, rendering the human less a named and recognizable 'being' than an anonymous 'living corpse', a human thing. In a sustained engagement with Blanchot, Levinas, Hegel, Agamben and Derrida, The Ontology of Death articulates a new theory of the subject, beyond political subjectivity defined by sovereignty and beyond the Heideggerian notion of ontological selfhood.
| Author | : Joshua Billings |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2013-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199670579 |
The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of similarity and difference between ancient and modern choruses, across time and place, in their ancient contexts in modern theatre, opera, dance, musical theatre, and in political debate.
