Carti Humanitas

Andrea Giardina (Editor)

The Romans

Editura: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR

Anul aparitiei: 1993

In this book, third in a series which includes Jacques Le Goff's Medieval Characters and Eugenio Garin's Renaissance Portraits, leading scholars search for the character of the ancient Romans through portraits of Rome's most typical personages. Essays on the politician, the soldier, the priest, the farmer, the slave, the merchant, and others together create a fresco of Roman society as it spanned 1300 years. Synthesizing a wealth of current research, The Romans surveys the most complex society ever to exist prior to the Industrial Age. Searching out the identity of the ancient Roman, the contributors describe an urbane figure at odds with his rustic peers, known for his warlike nature and his love of virtue, his magnanimity to foreigners and his predilection for cutting off his enemies' heads. Most important, perhaps, of the themes explored throughout this volume are those of freedom and slavery, of citizenship and humanitas. What results from the depictions Roman society through time and across its many constituent cultures is the variety of Roman identity in all its richness and depth. These masterful essays will engage the general reader as well as the specialist in history and ...

Marshall Frady (Author)

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Editura: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Anul aparitiei: 2006

A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady was a journalist for over twenty-five years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for Newsweek, then for Life, Harper's, Esquire, The New York Review of Books, The Sunday Times of London, Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker. In the 1980s, Frady was chief writer and host of ABC News Documentary Series "Closeup," for which he won two Emmy's, the Cine Golden Eagle, and the duPont-Columbia Award, and a correspondent for "Nightline." In the 90's, he co-wrote the screenplay for the TNT miniseries "George Wallace," directed by John Frankenheimer, which won three CableACE awards, a Golden Globe for best miniseries, the Humanitas Award for writing, three Emmy awards and the Peabody Award. He also wrote and narrated the PBS "Frontline" Documentary, "The Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson." He was the author of seven books: Wallace (1968), Across a Darkling Plain: An American's Passage Through the Middle East (1971), Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness (1979), Southerners: A Journalist's Odyssey (1980), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Jesse: The Life ...

Caroline Walker Bynum (Author)

Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion

Editura: ZONE BOOKS % MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 1992

Fragmentation and Redemption is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very image of paradise. It is also a study of gender, that is, a study of how sex roles and possibilities are conceptualized by both men and women, even though asymmetric power relationships and men's greater access to knowledge have informed the cultural construction of categories such as "male" and "female," "heretic" and "saint." Finally, these essays are about the creativity of women's voices and women's bodies. Bynum discusses how some women manipulated the dominant tradition to free themselves from the burden of fertility, yet made female fertility a powerful symbol; how some used Christian dichotomies of male / female and powerful / weak to facilitate their own imitatio Christi , yet undercut these dichotomies by subsuming them into humanitas . Medieval women spoke little of inequality and little of gender, yet there is a profound connection between their symbols and communities and the twentieth-century determination to speak of gender and "study women."

Arthur D. Kahn (Author)

On First Looking Into Homer's Odyssey: Exploring the Bard's Dramatic Artistry

Editura: AUTHORHOUSE

Anul aparitiei: 2009

The author of On First Looking into Homer's Odyssey reports of this work: My enthusiasm for the Homeric epics dates to 1933, when in Frank Durkee's sophomore English class in Somerville (New Jersey) High School, I was introduced to the Odyssey in the Butcher & Lang prose translation. We students had already been exposed to Classical mythology in the elementary grades, and I had read on my own Bulfinch's Age of Fable, a treasured birthday present. Mr. Durkee presented the Odyssey as a collection of fabulous adventures, and I read with excitement about the Cyclops, the witch Circe, the Sirens and Scylla and Charybdis. In my late teens and early twenties I read and re-read the Iliad in various translations, eager to explore the events which preceded the Odyssey. In my mid-thirties, I undertook to master Classical Greek, impelled in great part by a desire to read Homer in the original. When I declared to Vera Lachmann, a Brooklyn College Classics professor who invited me to read Greek with her on Saturday mornings, that I was coming to believe that there was Homer and other literature, she exclaimed, "It's about time you came to that conclusion!" Returning to university in 1961 to ...

J. Odar (Author)

Techniken Und Methoden Der Modernen Medizin: Sthetische Gesichtschirurgie Bildgebende Verfahren Computer Helfen Operieren Endoskopie Gewebeklebung Her

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Vor der teehnisehen Entwieklung stehen Bedarfserkennung und Losungsidee, vor der methodisehen Umsetzung die Vernunft und vor der Anwendung die Ethik. Die Teehnik siehert der Naturwissensehaft die Normierung, der Medizin die dynami sehe Entwieklung und dem Kranken eine kalkulierbare Heilaussieht. 1m komplemen taren Bezug von Teehnik und methodiseher Forsehung werden Diagnostik und Thera pie heute annahernd bereehenbar. Unbesehadigt bleibt davon die Gewiehtung von Naturwissensehaft, Teehnik und Humanitas. Ihr Spannungsfeld bewahrt den Arzt in gleiehem MaBe vor Teehnikeuphorie wie vor Teehnikfeindliehkeit. Erst wenn die neue Technik mit ihrer methodischen Ausbeute tibereinstimmt, ist ihre Anwendung berech tigt. Ftir den Kranken haben die neuen Verfahren ihre Unersetzlickeit unter Beweis gestellt. Die in dem vorliegenden Band auf den ersten Blick zufallig erscheinende Zusammen stellung von Beitragen aus den versehiedensten Gebieten der Medizin offenbart sich dem Leser sehr bald als die Prasentation einer fundierten, dem Buehtitel gerecht werden den Gesamtkonzeption. Ihr Anliegen ist die Darstellung der neuen Techniken in ihrer Sehrittmacherfunktion ftir die medizinisehe Methodik. Mit ...

Gregory P. Lee (Author)

Demand the Debt That's Owing: Book 2 of the Laughing Lip

Editura: IEI GAMES

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Demand the Debt That's Owing The religiously pro-human Manifest Destiny Movement's genocide of the Tau Ceti's intelligent species has all but succeeded. Now Manifest Destiny seeks to launch its biological weapons against the spidery zhizhu, voracious and uncommunicative competitors for the rare Earth-like worlds in local space. The Humanitas Church, a prime gateway to Manifest Destiny, has converted an unknown number of Imperial Fleet crews. Vessels stolen from Fleet's reserve anchorage are already crewed by deserters, retirees, and others. Cuchulain "Murphy" O'Meath of the Emperor's Jin Jun has limited time to interfere with Manifest Destiny. Fahnisht, his non-human friend and Clanlord, intends to collect the blood debt owed for his species' near-destruction. They will do what they must to interfere with genocide, even of the zhizhu. Fleet fighter pilot B. P. Avinashini and marine Urwah Grunon, Fleet Marine, have both seen the ugly death the zhizhu bring to human "cattle." Impressed by O'Meath as crew of Granuaile, they can help - or they can give Manifest Destiny its chance to end the zhizhu's own threat to consume humanity.

John O'Brien (Editor)

The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Stanley Elkin/Alasdair Gray

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Arthur M. Saltzman, Stanley Elkin: An Introduction/Peter J. Bailey, 'A Hat Where There Never Was a Hat': Stanley Elkin's Fifteenth Interview/Stanley Elkin, Words and Music/William Gass, Stanley Elkin: An Anecdote/Jerome Charyn, On Stanley Elkin/Jerome Klinkowitz, Elkin before Elkin/Charles Molesworth, Stanley Elkin and 'Everything': The Problem of Surfaces and Fullness in the Novels/Alan Wilde, Final Things: More Letters to mzimmer%humanitas@hub.ucsb.edu/D. C. Dougherty, Nemeses and MacGuffins: Paranoia as Focal Metaphor in Stanley Elkin, Joseph Heller, and Thomas Pynchon/Peter G. Christensen, The Escape from the Curse of History in Stanley Elkin's George Mills/Patrick O'Donnell, Of Red Herrings and Loose Ends: Reading 'Politics' in Elkin's The MacGuffin/Arthur M. Saltzman, A Stanley Elkin Checklist/Mark Axelrod, Alasdair Gray: An Introduction, of Sorts/Mark Axelrod, An Epistolary Interview, Mostly with Alasdair Gray/Alasdair Gray, The Anthology of Prefaces/Alasdair Gray, Time Travel/Philip Hobsbaum, Alasdair Gray: The Voice of His ProseGeorge Donaldson and Alison Lee, Is Eating People Really Wrong? Dining with Alasdair Gray/William M.Harrison, The Power of Work in the Novels of ...

Martin Dowson (Editor)

Religion and Spirituality (PB)

Editura: AUTHORHOUSE

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A volume in International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice Series Editors: Elinor L. Brown, University of Kentucky, Rhonda Craven, University of Western Sydney, and George McLean, Catholic Universities of America. Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe. Religious movements and spiritual traditions work to improve social outcomes for disenfranchised groups by enriching educational, political, and social agendas, and by providing a wide variety of justice-driven programs and services. Values underpinning these services include the dignity of the human person, the sanctity of human life, the foundational role of families and communities, the transformative power of learning, and the advancement of shared personal and social rights and responsibilities. These values act as a counter-balance to other attitudes and values that may impede pro-social cohesion and development. Drawing on diverse religious and spiritual perspectives and traditions, this new volume provides exciting and enriching ...

Eckard Lefa]vre (Author)

Vom Romertum Zum Asthetizismus: Studien Zu Den Briefen Des Jungeren Plinius

Editura: TRANSACTION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Die Untersuchung bemüht sich, die im allgemeinen vernachlässigte künstlerische Form der Briefe des jüngeren Plinius herauszustellen. Behandelt werden folgende Themen: Exempla antiquitatis (Würdigungen gro er Männer, die noch die alte Zeit verkörpern und für Plinius vorbildhaft sind: Verginius Rufus, Titius Aristo, Antoninus Arrianus, Cornutus Tertullus), Verfall der individuellen Freiheit nicht nur unter Domitian, sondern auch unter Trajan, des Senats und der Redekunst der Gegenwart, bedeutende Schriftsteller in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (Cicero, Plinius der Ältere, Silius Italicus, Martial), humanitas im Umgang mit anderen (sowohl mit anderen Völkern als auch mit Frauen und Sklaven), schlie lich die Villa als geistiger Lebensraum und die Rezeption der Landschaft. Plinius spricht jeweils aus einem dezidiert eigenen Blickwinkel heraus. Auf diese Weise ergibt sich ein Gesamtbild seiner geistigen Persönlichkeit sowie der kulturellen Bedingungen der Epoche, da das Einverständnis der Adressaten aus dem Senatorenstand vorauszusetzen ist.

C. R. Van Paassen (Author)

Platon in Den Augen Der Zeitgenossen

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 1960

An evaluation ofPlato sine ira et studio seems hardly possible. Especially since the publication of Popper's sensational book "The open Society and its Ennemies" adherents and opponents have been more sharply divided than ever. lt may help to clear up the matter if we consider how Plato was regarded in Greece itself in his own time. Then we see that his contemporaries - with the exception of the more intimate circle of pupils and admirers-reacted partly with antipathy, partly with surprise because of the un-Grecian cha- racter of his philosophical and political theories. Plato was thought to be haughty and unsympathetic. This fits in with the philosopher's personality as we encounter it in his books: nowhere do we find warm, genuine human kindness, spiritual values are the only thing that matters while, as with Plato's teacher Socrates, the heart does not receive its due. lt has been said, wrongly, that no humanist ideas may be expected from Plato, because the idea of humanism is of later origin, and in Plato's time unknown. In his treatise on Anthröpismos-Humanitas Dr. ]. Meerwaldt has shown this assertion to be at complete variance with the real facts and that the Greek ...

Hans Strache (Author)

Der Eklektizismus Des Antiochus Von Askalon

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Was Hans Strache in der vorliegenden Abhandlung als den Eklektizismus des Antiochus von Askalon entwickelt hat, ist eine Zusammenfassung des besten, was die drei idealen Schulen des Altertums des Plato, Aristoteles und Zeno der Menschheit gegeben haben, das Vorbild der humanitas, die durch Cicero auf die ganze Folgezeit gewirkt hat.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Author)

Acadmica of Cicero

Editura: BIBLIOBAZAAR

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Classical Latin]; January 3, 106 BC - December 7, 43 BC; sometimes anglicized as Tully), was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He introduced the Romans to the chief schools of Greek philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary (with neologisms such as humanitas, qualitas, quantitas, and essentia) distinguishing himself as a linguist, translator, and philosopher. An impressive orator and successful lawyer, Cicero thought that his political career was his most important achievement. Today, he is appreciated primarily for his humanism and philosophical and political writings. His voluminous correspondence, much of it addressed to his friend Atticus, has been especially influential, introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero's letters contained such a wealth of detail "concerning the inclinations of leading men, the faults of the generals, and the ...

Randolph Severson (Author)

A Catholic Soul Psychology

Editura: GOLDENSTONE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2013

Finally, at last, a therapeutic psychology that sees, honors, extolls, concentrates on the very best, the very highest qualities available to the human being. What counseling should be about -- developing strategies with patients to inwardly find the ever-present virtues, ideals, deep human longings, and bring them into the world in concrete and practical ways. Soul as action! Drawing on the work of James Hillman and Alfred Adler -- but equally on the great thinkers of the Catholic tradition, such as Hilaire Belloc, George Bernanos, Frederick Willhelmsen and Jean Leclereq -- Randolph Severson develops a view of the highest in humanity. An archetypal psychology of what we can become: the human soul as act of Honor, and the archetypal patterns within which such qualities can be found -- exemplified by the Roman tradition of "Humanitas" -- ancient, and ever new. You will find in this book what you have always hoped psychology would address -- responsibleness with soul, stewardship, sacrifice, reverence, service, a sacramental view of reality, the deepest sense of family, nobility, mystery, dignity -- the martial qualities needed to live these ideals as realities, and the strategies to ...

Brian, PhD Dolan (Author)

Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities

Editura: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Anul aparitiei: 2015

This reader reprints critical essays published over the course of a 100-year history that grapple with the challenges of defining and justifying the presence of humanities instruction in medical education. It provides insights to some of the newer approaches that branch out from the familiar subjects of history and literature to include theater, art, poetry, and disability studies. With a comprehensive historiographical introduction as well as prefaces to each article, including new reflections by many of the original authors themselves, the volume enables reflection on how the diversity of disciplinary perspectives and multiplicity of theoretical frameworks relate to each other historically and thematically. This volume is an invaluable resource for anyone engaged with humanities in health care education.

Bruno Snell (Author)

The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought

Editura: CORWIN PR INC

Anul aparitiei: 2013

European thought begins with the Greeks. Scientific and philosophic thinking--the pursuit of truth and the grasping of unchanging principles of life--is a historical development, an achievement; and, as Bruno Snell writes in The Discovery of the Mind, nothing less than a revolution. The Greeks did not take mental resources already at their disposal and merely map out new subjects for discussion and investigation. In poetry, drama, and philosophy they in fact discovered the human mind. The stages in man's gradual understanding of himself are revealed in the course of ancient literature from Homer to Virgil. A rational view of the nature of man slowly established itself in the creations of epic and lyric poetry, tragedy and literary criticism, pre-Socratic thought, and early Greek ethics all the way to the discovery of humanitas and the spiritual landscape of Virgil's Arcadia. The Discovery of the Mind is a landmark work in tracing this evolution of consciousness--one of the distinguishing characteristics of the history of man.

Dary Jean-Charles (Author)

Plain-Chant Sur Mer

Editura: UNIV OF MICHIGAN LIB

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Dary Jean-Charles est originaire des Gonaïves (Haïti). Il vit à Montréal depuis environ une trentaine d'années.L'auteur a publié plusieurs recueils de poésie, dont: Haïtianeiges (Lagomatik, 1992), Encres Brûlées (Humanitas, 1997), L'îlerrant (Humanitas, 2000), Dentelles du vent (Paroles, 2010) et Pages triangulaires (collectif d'auteurs, Les Intouchables).Il nous présente ici son tout nouvel opus: Plain-chant sur mer .Je suis ce paysage urbain d'octobrenouant mes bottes de pluieen lettres mortes de fines herbesbatifolant au rez des berges d'autrefoisfragrance d'ailes souverainesje vole au vent de chaume de tous les toits

Walter Horatio Peter (Author)

The Renaissance

Editura: ACADEMIC PR INC

Anul aparitiei: 2015

The Renaissance-studies in art and poetry is an Italian arts history volume by Walter Horatio Pater. Contents: Preface -- Two early French stories -- Pico della Mirandola -- Sandro Botticelli -- Luca della Robbia -- The poetry of Michelangelo -- Leonardo da Vinci -- The school of Giorgione -- Joachim du Bellay -- Winckelmann -- Conclusion. The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is an extension of the Middle Ages, and is bridged by the Age of Enlightenment to modern history. It grew in fragments, with the very first traces found seemingly in Italy, coming to cover much of Europe, for some scholars marking the beginning of the modern age. The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its own invented version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. Early examples were the development of perspective in oil painting and the recycled knowledge of how to make concrete. Although the ...

Robert A. Maryks (Author)

Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism

Editura: PRENTICE HALL

Anul aparitiei: 2008

In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order's shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he traces in these works a subtly shifting theology influenced by both theology and classical humanism. In particular, the roles of 'Tutiorism' (whereby an individual follows the law rather than the instinct of their own conscience) and 'Probabilism' (which conversely gives priority to the individual's conscience) are examined. It is argued that for most of the sixteenth century, books such as Juan Alfonso de Polanco's Directory for Confessors espousing a Tutiorist line dominated the market for Jesuit confessional manuals until the seventeenth century, by which time Probabilism had become the dominating force in Jesuit theology. What caused this switch, from Tutiorism to Probablism, forms the central thesis of Dr Maryks' book. He believes that as a direct result of the Jesuits adoption of a new ministry of educating youth in the late 1540s, Jesuit schoolmasters were compelled to engage with classical culture, many ...

Christopher Knopf (Author)

Emperor of the North

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2016

When Robert Aldrich directed his unforgettable film, Emperor of the North (1973), featuring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine, changes were made to the original screenplay by award-winning Christopher Knopf. The film still managed to please audiences and has remained a revered favorite among many. Even the theme ballad, "A Man and a Train", written by Frank De Vol with lyrics by Hal David and sung by Marty Robbins, reached #40 on the Billboard chart. Despite the vigor of Hollywood hoopla, Knopf always longed to reset the ruthless railroad tale on the right tracks. Now, nearly half a century later, Knopf finally reveals the true story in a riveting new novel that restores the crucial elements that film audiences have never experienced. In 1933, during the Great Depression, Shack, a cruel train conductor wages a personal war to keep anyone from riding his train for free. When A No. 1, an experienced, train-hopping hobo, and Cigaret, his green companion, dare to invade the sanctity of Shack's train, a battle of wills erupts with a pounding intensity rivaled only by the throbbing power of the steel behemoth beneath their feet. A climactic fight with heavy chains, planks ...

Martin Dowson (Editor)

Religion and Spirituality (Hc)

Editura: KESSINGER PUB LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A volume in International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice Series Editors: Elinor L. Brown, University of Kentucky, Rhonda Craven, University of Western Sydney, and George McLean, Catholic Universities of America. Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe. Religious movements and spiritual traditions work to improve social outcomes for disenfranchised groups by enriching educational, political, and social agendas, and by providing a wide variety of justice-driven programs and services. Values underpinning these services include the dignity of the human person, the sanctity of human life, the foundational role of families and communities, the transformative power of learning, and the advancement of shared personal and social rights and responsibilities. These values act as a counter-balance to other attitudes and values that may impede pro-social cohesion and development. Drawing on diverse religious and spiritual perspectives and traditions, this new volume provides exciting and enriching ...