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Secrets of the Cave of Letters: Rediscovering a Dead Sea Mystery מאת Richard A. Freund One of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Israel took place in 1960, when the legendary Yigael Yadin excavated a cave in the Dead Sea area subsequently called the "Cave of Letters." Located near the site of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, the cave contained the largest cache of ancient ...

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Culture and Conflict in the Middle East מאת Philip Carl Salzman In an era of increasing interaction between the United States and the countries of the Middle East, it has become ever more important for Americans to understand the social forces that shape Middle Eastern cultures. Based on years of his own field research and the ethnographic reports of oth...

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Race, Rhetoric, And Identity: The Architecton Of Soul מאת Molefi Kete Asante Asante examines a wide range of cultural phenomena that continue to reflect underlying racial problems, including media distortions, the identity crisis among African Americans, the rhetoric of education, the exploitations of bureaucracies, 'the tyranny of reason without passion', African voices exp...

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Hating Perfection: A Subtle Search for the Best Possible World מאת John F. Williams The best heaven and the worst hell are the same place. Travel with author John F. Williams into the jungles of Laos and into a new understanding of existence. In lively short stories, Hating Perfection shows the everyday world as uncanny, equally strange as the imaginary worlds of Borges or...

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The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation Enrique Dussel

The Underside of Modernity: Apel, Ricoeur, Rorty, Taylor and the Philosophy of Liberation מאת Enrique Dussel Dussel shows how North American and European philosophers have presupposed a no-longer-acceptable philosophy of history that has led them to fall into a "developmental fallacy," the belief that there is a linear sequence that moves from the pre-modern, underdeveloped, or on the way to industrialisat...

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Gender Identities in a Globalized World מאת Ana Marta Gonzalez This cross-disciplinary collection of essays focuses on gender from multiple perspectives, touching on a variety of aspects that range from specific tendencies, such as fashion, to general trends connected to globalization, human dignity, and world migration. The main themes include human rights, po...

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Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination (Philosophy and Literary Theory) מאת Richard Kearney Kearney addresses one of the key issues of modern European thought - how the crisis of values (ethics) relates to the crisis of imagination (poetics). Through a series of in-depth studies of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, and others, Kearney explores the...

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The Remarkable Existentialists מאת Michael Allen Fox One of the most original and refreshing approaches to philosophy is existentialism. Although the heyday of this movement spanned the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, the themes that existentialist philosophers explored are perennial and they remain central to the experience of contemporar...

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How to Read a Myth (Philosophy and Literacy Theory) מאת William Marderness Confusion surrounds the idea of myth. In common parlance, the term myth often means falsehood, as in the sentence The administration's claim that inflation is under control is a myth. Scholars understand myth in a deeper sense, as an important expression of a society's values. Scholars study myths o...