Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV
Is heroism possible for everyone? Should it be? What kinds of stories do we tell when we talk about heroes and what do these stories reveal about how we view ourselves? This book takes up these questions and more by reflecting on twenty-first century American television shows. Among the shows examined are Only Murders in the Building, Game of ......
A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between provides an account of poetic education as an alternative to aesthetic education. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics and philosophy of play, Homan argues that rather than the cultivation of taste, education is the cultivation of formation and a learning to listen.
Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning
This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.
Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning
This book probes the texts of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein to disclose the role of silence in the creation of meaning. To understand and live out of contemplative awareness as a way to think through transformative human experience is an ethical and spiritual task, one that warrants explanation and interpretation.
This revised edition features updated research, new developments in technology, recent policy on juvenile delinquency and youth violence, and provides a framework for evidence-informed state juvenile justice systems: The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders.
Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art.
In this book, Joseph Loic Mben develops an African Christian social ethic that empowers and addresses the needs of poor and working-class African women.
This comprehensive analysis of functional theory and its applications in the analysis of states, governments, and institutions draws from an interdisciplinary orientation and creates a central premise of how systems seek the maintenance of stable states and how patterned orientations enable them to perform their functions
A Fervent Crusade for the National Soul examines the implementation of state cultural intervention in Colombia between 1930 and 1946. It explores the multi-vocal debates about the role of culture in shaping the relationship between the ruler and the ruled in a country undergoing deep socioeconomic transformations.
