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Perspectives on politics in Shakespeare

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Shows us that Shakespeare's poetic imagination displays the essence of politics and inspires reflection on the fundamental questions of statesmanship and political leadership. This book explores themes such as classical republicanism and liberty, the rule of law and morality, th…

Method as identity: manufacturing distance in the academic study of r…

fromReligion and race

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Manufacturing distance in the study of religion -- Method as identity: the battle for identity in the North American academic study of religion -- Ghost stories: how method reveals identity in the study of religions -- Long division: how identity reveals method in the history of…

Method as identity: manufacturing distance in the academic study of r…

fromReligion and race (Series)

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Method as Identity considers how social identity shapes methodological standpoints. With a refreshing hip hop sensibility, Miller and Driscoll reorient the contemporary academic study of religion toward recognition of the costs and benefits of manufacturing "critical" distance f…

Nietzsche and classical Greek philosophy: beautiful and diseased

by Evans, Daw-Nay N. R., Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A solution to the problem of Socrates in Nietzsche's thought -- Neither friend nor foe: Nietzsche's view of Plato -- Thick as thieves: Nietzsche's debts to Aristotle -- Between myth and reality: Heraclitus's influence on Nietzsche

Nietzsche and classical Greek philosophy: beautiful and diseased

by Evans, Daw-Nay N. R.

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This book presents a new understanding of Nietzsche's view of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Through a careful study of how these philosophers appropriate reason in both life-negating and life-affirming ways, Daw-Nay N.R. Evans Jr. offers a fresh perspective on Nietzsche and cl…

Nietzsche and classical Greek philosophy: beautiful and diseased

by Evans, Daw-Nay N. R.

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This book presents a new understanding of Nietzsche's view of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Through a careful study of how these philosophers appropriate reason in both life-negating and life-affirming ways, Daw-Nay N.R. Evans Jr. offers a fresh perspective on Nietzsche and cl…

HBO's girls and the awkward politics of gender, race, and privilege

by Watson, Elwood, Mitchell, Jennifer, Shaw, Marc Edward

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This collection of essays examine the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist, racist, perverse, complex, ed…

Veils, nudity, and tattoos: the new feminine aesthetics

by Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten

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At first sight, tattoos, nudity, and veils do not seem to have much in common except for the fact that all three have become more visible and more dominant in connection with aesthetic presentations of women over the past thirty years.Tattoos have been sanctioned by the mainstre…