The Year of Our Lord 1943 tells the story of how five Christian intellectuals - Jacques Maritain, T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, and Simone Weil - sought to provide a plan for the moral and spiritual renewal of the Western democracies in the post-World War II world.
"By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or mo…
This book explores the unique significance of Ireland to the world's first superpower and explains Britain's dogged determination in hanging on to its oldest colony. In the s context, Ryan demonstrates that the Downing Street declaration marks a significant shift in British poli…
This book explores the unique significance of Ireland to the world's first superpower and explains Britain's dogged determination in hanging on to its oldest colony. In the s context, Ryan demonstrates that the Downing Street declaration marks a significant shift in British poli…
This book is a compilation of oral histories about the movement of Luo and some Bantu-speaking peoples. It includes histories of many clans or ethnic groups, and how drought, warfare, disease, and competition over pastoral resources in western Kenya forced them to look for a lan…
Cornelius Castoriadis, einflussreicher griechisch-französischer Philosoph des 20. Jahrhunderts, ist Erfinder nicht nur des Begriffs des gesellschaftlichen Imaginären, sondern auch der »Magmalogik«, einer bahnbrechenden Ontologie der Veränderung. Alice Pechriggl zeigt, dass sein …
The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Text of January 11, 1994 Cable -- Map -- Part I: The Movement Towards Genocide -- 1. R wandese Refugees and Immigrants in Uganda -- 2. An Historical Analysis of the Invasion…
Este libro está recorrido de principio a fin por la memoria de los acontecimientos que convierten el siglo xx en el más terrible período de la historia de los hombres. No pretende ser perspectiva ni balance, sino meditación obstinada y narración inédita de lo que, desde 1914, ha…
