In his last years, Mark Twain had become a respected literary figure whose opinions were widely sought by the press. He had also suffered a series of painful physical, economic, and emotional losses. This book denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an afterlife, and even reality itself.
Animal rights is animal theology, in Andrew Linzey's view. He argues that historical theology, creatively defined, must reject humanocentricity. He questions the assumption that if theology is to speak on this issue, ''it must only do so on the side of the oppressors.'' Linzey's theological query investigates not only the abstractions of theory, ......
English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition
Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. This title investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare.
''In addition to being a ''how to'' manual for art and dramatherapy, this book is a mélange of autobiography, anthropology, psychoanalysis, case reports, cross-cultural analysis, art reproduction, poetry, literary quotation and mythology''. - The Lancet.
"Poststructuralism would be historical criticism's id, the sat of its strongest anti-authoritarian instincts." --from the Conclusion "Stephen D. Moore is the leading practitioner of deconstruction in the field of biblical studies today." --J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield
"Nothing is more curiously enquired after . . . than the causes of every phenomenon. . . . [We] push on our enquiries, till we arrive at the original and ultimate principle. . . . This is our aim in all our studies and reflections." These words sum up David Hume's plan: To discover the fundamental principles at work in the nature and extent of ......
In a magisterial work, Jaan Puhvel unravels the prehistoric Indo-Euopean origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared religious, mytholoigcal, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on ......
Hegel's Philosophy of History stands as a fascinating example of this influential German thinker's efforts to capture the multidimensional character of reality within a broad theoretical framework. Hegel draws upon many of his well-known concepts - Mind, Spirit, dialectical method (thesis-negation-synthesis), the relation of the whole to its ......
