Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years.
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Bloom leads readers through the labyrinthine paths which link the writers and critics who have informed and inspired him for so many years. For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge of the written word with students and readers. In this, his most com…
"Focusing on the importance of Foucault's most central ideas for present-day philosophy, the book shows how his influence goes beyond his own canonical tradition and linguistic milieu. The essays in this book explore key areas of Foucault's thought by comparing aspects of his wo…
Foucault''s Legacy brings together the work of eight Foucault specialists in an important collection of essays marking the 25th anniversary of Foucault''s death. Focusing on the importance of Foucault''s most central ideas for present-day philosophy, the book shows how his influ…
Whilst both of these leading French philosophers of post-structuralism have been widely studied, little has been done to examine the relationship between them. The contributors to this collection explore and compare their work via a number of key themes.
Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to explore and compares the…
"In the last several years, Walter Brueggemann's writings have directly addressed the situation of Christian communities in today's globalized context, with its consumerist lifestyles, vast inequalities, and near-imperial exercises of power. His insights, forged in rugged encoun…
"This book offers the first detailed account of Spinoza's influence -- direct or oblique -- on various schools of present-day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, New Historicism, and the unclassif…
After 1868, when Japan's long period of self-imposed isolation ended, in nursing, as in every other aspect of life, the Japanese looked to the West. This book tells the story of 'Florence Nightingale-ism' in Japan, showing how Japanese nursing developed up to the beginning of th…
Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past examines the intimate literary affiliation between the Flavian poets (Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus) and their Greek literary predecessors, as well as its meaning within the socio-cultural context of the Flavian age.
Offers strategies for making changes on a personal and business level and utilizing the six sources of influence to help others make improvements and solve problems.
Offers strategies for making changes on a personal and business level and utilizing the six sources of influence to help others make improvements and solve problems.
This monograph deals with an important but unexplored document of Hellenistic Judaism. The question of 'Hellenistic influence' is addressed on the basis of an analysis of a representative number of chapters of Septuagint Proverbs (1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 24, 29, 30 and 31). Scholars have…
"During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralise the international media treatment of South Africa. This programme was later exposed in what became known as the 'Information' scandal." "Foreign correspondents in South Africa n…
"During the 1970s, the South African Department of Information attempted to manipulate and neutralise the international media treatment of South Africa. This programme was later exposed in what became known as the 'Information' scandal." "Foreign correspondents in South Africa n…
