Brill aug 2002 (8 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Der Konsumismus ist das Immunsystem der Weltgesellschaft gegen den Virus der fanatischen Religionen. Die Apologie dieses Lebensstils, bis hinein in die Sphäre der Liebe, muß nicht die Augen verschließen vor den Folgelasten der Modernisierung, den Ausschlußmechanismen unserer westlichen Rationalität und den Schicksalen der Globalisierungsopfer. Auch die immanenten Schwächen des konsumistischen Lebensstils, der vom pursuit of happiness nur den 'happiness of pursuit' übrig läßt, liegen seit langem offen zutage. Heute wäre es aber an der Zeit, die Stärke in diesen Schwächen zu erkennen. Der Konsumismus verspricht weder das Ziel noch das Ende der Geschichte, sondern nur das immer wieder Neue. Und wo anders wäre, nachdem die Moderne den Himmel ausgeräumt hat, die Wendung von der Transzendenz zur Introszendenz möglich: die Eroberung der 'diesseitigen Tiefe' 156 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Der Konsumismus ist das Immunsystem der Weltgesellschaft gegen den Virus der fanatischen Religionen. Die Apologie dieses Lebensstils, bis hinein in die Sphäre der Liebe, muß nicht die Augen verschließen vor den Folgelasten der Modernisierung, den Ausschlußmechanismen unserer westlichen Rationalität und den Schicksalen der Globalisierungsopfer. Auch die immanenten Schwächen des konsumistischen Lebensstils, der vom pursuit of happiness nur den 'happiness of pursuit' übrig läßt, liegen seit langem offen zutage. Heute wäre es aber an der Zeit, die Stärke in diesen Schwächen zu erkennen. Der Konsumismus verspricht weder das Ziel noch das Ende der Geschichte, sondern nur das immer wieder Neue. Und wo anders wäre, nachdem die Moderne den Himmel ausgeräumt hat, die Wendung von der Transzendenz zur Introszendenz möglich: die Eroberung der 'diesseitigen Tiefe' 156 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In this volume, André Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind--India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. In the seventh to eleventh centuries, the expansion of Islam had a largely commercial impact on al-Hind. In the peripheral states of the Indian subcontinent, fluid resources, intensive raiding and trading activity, as well as social and political fluidity and openness produced a dynamic impetus that was absent in the densely settled agricultural heartland. Shifts of power occurred, in combination with massive transfers of wealth across multiple centers along the periphery of al-Hind. These multiple centers mediated between the world of mobile wealth on the Islamic-Sino-Tibetan frontier (which extended into Southeast Asia) and the world of sedentary agriculture, epitomized by brahmanical temple Hinduism in and around Kanauj in the heartland. The growth and development of a world economy in and around the Indian Ocean--with India at its center and the Middle East and China as its two dynamic poles--was effected by continued economic, social, and cultural integration into ever wider and more complex patterns under the aegis of Islam. Please note that Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09249 8, still available).…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - During the early medieval Islamic expansion in the seventh to eleventh centuries, al-Hind (India and its Indianized hinterland) was characterized by two organizational modes: the long-distance trade and mobile wealth of the peripheral frontier states, and the settled agriculture of the heartland. These two different types of social, economic, and political organization were successfully fused during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and India became the hub of world trade. During this period, the Middle East declined in importance, Central Asia was unified under the Mongols, and Islam expanded far into the Indian subcontinent. Instead of being devastated by the Mongols, who were prevented from penetrating beyond the western periphery of al-Hind by the absence of sufficient good pasture land, the agricultural plains of North India were brought under Turko-Islamic rule in a gradual manner in a conquest effected by professional armies and not accompanied by any large-scale nomadic invasions. The result of the conquest was, in short, the revitalization of the economy of settled agriculture through the dynamic impetus of forced monetization and the expansion of political dominion. Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries.Please note that The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 10236 1, still available).…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Reporting discourse has attracted rigorous analyses in linguistics, literary theory, cognitive psychology, sociology and ethnomethodology. This book provides analyses of controversial topics in reporting discourse like tense alternation, reporting styles, patterns and functions. After critically examining existing theories, Tomoko I. Sakita offers new theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses within the scope of actual language performance. Her analysis covers tenses that previous studies have neglected or have considered 'ungrammatical' or 'mistaken'. Based on models of cognitive recollection and stream of consciousness, tense reveals cognitive, attitudinal and consciousness state markers in complex reporting processes, as well as identity, speaker psychology, and deictic relations, embedded in discourse and narrative contexts. A synthesis of discourse analysis and experiments on reporting style, structure and functions leads to formulating a new reporting discourse continuum. Reporting discourses emerge as rule-governed, goal-directed, purposeful strategic devices in communication. Sakita shows reporting discourse to be an integral whole formed by speakers' constant interpretations and choices at different stages of information processing, with close interactions among cognitive constraints, discourse organization, contextual information, and communicative purposes. She deepens our insights into the operation of language and cognition, as well as into communication systems and social dynamics, ultimately leading to a better understanding of human behaviour. This should be a useful work not only for linguists and literary specialists but also for readers with serious interest in human reporting behaviour and narrative, or in the dynamic aspects of cognitive operation.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Iamblichus (245-325), successor to Plotinus and Porphyry, brought a new religiosity to Neoplatonism. His theory of the soul is at the heart of his philosophical system. For Iamblichus, the human soul is so far inferior to the divine that its salvation depends not on philosophy alone (as it did for Plotinus) but on the aid of the gods and other divinities. This edition of the fragments of Iamblichus' major work on the soul, De Anima, is accompanied by the first English translation of the work and a commentary which explains the philosophical background and Iamblichus' doctrine of the soul. Included too are excerpts from the Pseudo-Simplicius and Priscianus (also translated with commentary) that shed further light on Iamblichus' treatise.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This work focuses on Anglican mission and women's education in Palestine in the period from 1888 till 1948. As part of the 'enlightenment movement' the project was initiated by British women educational pioneers, who influenced women to carry out the creed of academic training for girls also in colonial areas.While the educational profile of the pre-World War One schools mainly focused on modernisation of the domestic role, during the British Mandate the highly educated Anglican women teachers had two aims for their work: To create a peaceful multi-cultural environment in a society characterised by religious and ethnic strife and secondly to introduce a modern feminine ideal to Christian, Muslim and Jewish middle-and upper class girls. This study contributes to our knowledge of the Anglican missionary project, the role of women misionaries/educators and the history of Palestine.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - This volume is intended as a companion to the study of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric for both students and experts in the field: for the neophyte, it provides a starting point; for the veteran Ciceronian scholar, a place for renewing the dialogue about issues concerning Ciceronian oratory and rhetoric; for all, a site of engagement at various levels with Ciceronian scholarship and bibliography. The book is arranged along roughly chronological lines and covers most aspects of Cicero's oratory and rhetoric. The particular strength of this companion resides in the individual, often very original approach to sundry topics by an array of impressive contributors, all of whom have spent large portions of their careers concentrating upon the oratorical and rhetorical oeuvre of Cicero. A bibliography of relevant items from the past 25 years, keyed to specific Ciceronian works, completes the volume. Brill's Companion to Cicero will become the standard reference work on Cicero for many years.…