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The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of the original Dictionary of National Biography, the celebrated historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself. The author, who has been chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Oxford DNB since its inception, writes with intimate knowledge of the project. This Leslie Stephen Lecture complements the earlier Lecture on the DNB by the late Colin Matthew, Founder-Editor of the Oxford DNB, and published by Cambridge in 1997.
Oxford University Press. --- Oxford University Press --- Oxford: typographia academica --- Printer old books --- Dictionary of national biography. --- DNB --- Oxford dictionary of national biography --- Oxford DNB --- Great Britain --- Biography --- History and criticism. --- Typographia academica --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken idea that he is somehow a partisan of democracy. Instead, she argues that we should attend more closely to Plato's suggestion that democracy is horrifying and exciting, and she seeks to explain why he found it morally and politically intriguing. Monoson focuses on Plato's engagement with democracy as he knew it: a cluster of cultural practices that reach into private and public life, as well as a set of governing institutions. She proposes that while Plato charts tensions between the claims of democratic legitimacy and philosophical truth, he also exhibits a striking attraction to four practices central to Athenian democratic politics: intense antityrantism, frank speaking, public funeral oratory, and theater-going. By juxtaposing detailed examination of these aspects of Athenian democracy with analysis of the figurative language, dramatic structure, and arguments of the dialogues, she shows that Plato systematically links democratic ideals and activities to philosophic labor. Monoson finds that Plato's political thought exposes intimate connections between Athenian democratic politics and the practice of philosophy. Situating Plato's political thought in the context of the Athenian democratic imaginary, Monoson develops a new, textured way of thinking of the relationship between Plato's thought and the politics of his city.
Democracy --- History --- Plato --- Views on democracy --- -Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- -Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- History. --- Views on democracy. --- Self-government --- Aflāṭūn --- Plato. --- Platon --- Platoon --- Платон --- プラトン --- Democracy - Greece - Athens - History --- Plato - Views on democracy --- Aeschylus. --- Against Timarchus. --- Allan Bloom. --- Allegory of the Cave. --- Allusion. --- Ancient Greece. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Bribery. --- Callicles. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Citizenship. --- Classical Athens. --- Constitution of the Athenians. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- Criticism of democracy. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Deliberation. --- Democracy. --- Democratic ideals. --- Demosthenes. --- Ethics. --- Ethos. --- Euripides. --- Exclusion. --- Explanation. --- Fifth-century Athens. --- Funeral oration (ancient Greece). --- Glaucon. --- Gorgias (dialogue). --- Gorgias. --- Greatness. --- Greek tragedy. --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton (sculpture). --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton. --- Herodotus. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Imagery. --- Institution. --- Isocrates. --- Isonomia. --- Josiah Ober. --- Literature. --- Martha Nussbaum. --- Masculinity. --- Menexenus (dialogue). --- Metaphor. --- Metic. --- Multitude. --- Narrative. --- Oligarchy. --- One Hundred Years of Homosexuality. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parrhesia. --- Pederasty in ancient Greece. --- Pericles' Funeral Oration. --- Pericles. --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pierre Vidal-Naquet. --- Platonic Academy. --- Political dissent. --- Political philosophy. --- Political science. --- Politics. --- Princeton University Press. --- Protagoras. --- Reason. --- Republic (Plato). --- Rhetoric. --- SAGE Publications. --- Self-image. --- Sheldon Wolin. --- Slavery. --- Socratic dialogue. --- Socratic. --- Sophist. --- Sophistication. --- Suggestion. --- The Erotic. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theatre of Dionysus. --- Themistocles. --- Theory. --- Thomas Pangle. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Tragedy. --- Tyrannicide. --- Tyrant. --- Voting. --- Wealth. --- Writing. --- Yale University Press.
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From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however, these translations remained largely neglected by Biblical scholars and historians. In telling the story of the Bible in Arabic, this book casts light on a crucial transition in the cultural and religious life of Jews and Christians in Arabic-speaking lands. In pre-Islamic times, Jewish and Christian scriptures circulated orally in the Arabic-speaking milieu. After the rise of Islam--and the Qur'an's appearance as a scripture in its own right--Jews and Christians translated the Hebrew Bible and the Greek New Testament into Arabic for their own use and as a response to the Qur'an's retelling of Biblical narratives. From the ninth century onward, a steady stream of Jewish and Christian translations of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament crossed communal borders to influence the Islamic world. The Bible in Arabic offers a new frame of reference for the pivotal place of Arabic Bible translations in the religious and cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Muslims. --- Religion --- Biblical Reference --- Concordances. --- Language Study. --- Islam --- General. --- Bible. --- Versions --- History. --- 22.05*46 --- Bijbel: Arabische oude vertalingen --- 22.05*46 Bijbel: Arabische oude vertalingen --- 297.181*1 --- 297.181*1 Koran en Bijbel --- Koran en Bijbel --- History --- RELIGION / History. --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Al-Andalus. --- Allusion. --- Alphonse Mingana. --- Anno Domini. --- Apocalypse of Peter. --- Apologetics. --- Arab Christians. --- Arabic alphabet. --- Arabic script. --- Arabic. --- Arabs. --- Bible translations. --- Biblical criticism. --- Book of Job. --- Caliphate. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Christian literature. --- Christian scripture. --- Christian theology. --- Christian tradition. --- Christian. --- Christianity and Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Christology. --- Church of the East. --- Classical Arabic. --- Copts. --- Crucifixion of Jesus. --- Diatessaron. --- Early Muslim conquests. --- Early Period. --- Epithet. --- Evocation. --- Exegesis. --- Ghassanids. --- God the Father. --- God. --- Hebrew Bible. --- Hebrew language. --- Ibn Qutaybah. --- Islam. --- Islamic culture. --- Israelites. --- Jewish Christian. --- Jewish culture. --- Jews. --- John the Baptist. --- Judaism. --- Kafir. --- Late Antiquity. --- Law of Moses. --- Lectionary. --- Literature. --- Manichaeism. --- Melkite. --- Modern Standard Arabic. --- Muslim world. --- Muslim. --- Nestorianism. --- New Testament. --- Old Arabic. --- Old Testament. --- Oxford University Press. --- Patriarchs (Bible). --- Patricia Crone. --- Patrologia Orientalis. --- Pauline epistles. --- People of the Book. --- Pericope. --- Peshitta. --- Polemic. --- Pre-Islamic Arabia. --- Preface (liturgy). --- Princeton University Press. --- Prophecy. --- Prophets and messengers in Islam. --- Prophets of Christianity. --- Psalms. --- Quran. --- Rabbi. --- Religion. --- Religious conversion. --- Religious text. --- Routledge. --- Salvation History. --- Septuagint. --- Sermon on the Mount. --- Spread of Islam. --- Syriac language. --- The Christian Community. --- Theology. --- Tiberias. --- Torah. --- Translation Movement. --- Ummah. --- Vulgate. --- Writing. --- Zoroaster. --- Zoroastrianism.
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In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.
Learning and scholarship. --- Humanities --- Academic writing. --- Universities and colleges --- Literature --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Academic disciplines --- Disciplines, Academic --- Schools --- Philosophy. --- Curricula. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Curricula --- Adjective. --- Aestheticism. --- Alan Sokal. --- Alfred Kazin. --- Amateur professionalism. --- Amateur. --- American studies. --- Anti-intellectualism. --- Aphorism. --- Art history. --- Author. --- Book review. --- C. P. Snow. --- C. S. Lewis. --- Columnist. --- Counterintuitive. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Cultural studies. --- Culture war. --- Deconstruction. --- Doublespeak. --- Edward Said. --- Essay. --- Fashionable Nonsense. --- Genre. --- George Orwell. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Harvard University. --- Headline. --- Humanities. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Intellectual. --- Interdisciplinarity. --- Irony. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jacques Lacan. --- James Gleick. --- Jargon. --- Jewish studies. --- Jonathan Swift. --- Joseph Addison. --- Judith Butler. --- Liberal arts education. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Mario Pei. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modern Language Association. --- Mr. --- Neologism. --- New Criticism. --- Newspeak. --- Novelist. --- Oxford University Press. --- Penis envy. --- Philosopher. --- Phrase. --- Physicist. --- Poetry. --- Political correctness. --- Politician. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Prince Hal. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Psychology. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Feynman. --- Robert Maynard Hutchins. --- Roland Barthes. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Slang. --- Social science. --- Sociology. --- Sokal affair. --- Sophistication. --- Stanley Fish. --- Terminology. --- The New York Times. --- The Philosopher. --- The School of Athens. --- The Two Cultures. --- Theodor W. Adorno. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Usage. --- Verb. --- Vocabulary. --- Wendy Lesser. --- Wilhelm Dilthey. --- William Shakespeare. --- Writer. --- Writing.
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Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century German context, Nietzsche's Great Politics moves away from the disputes surrounding Nietzsche's appropriation by the Nazis and challenges the use of the philosopher in postmodern democratic thought. Rather than starting with contemporary democratic theory or continental philosophy, Hugo Drochon argues that Nietzsche's political ideas must first be understood in light of Bismarck's policies, in particular his "Great Politics," which transformed the international politics of the late nineteenth century.Nietzsche's Great Politics shows how Nietzsche made Bismarck's notion his own, enabling him to offer a vision of a unified European political order that was to serve as a counterbalance to both Britain and Russia. This order was to be led by a "good European" cultural elite whose goal would be to encourage the rebirth of Greek high culture. In relocating Nietzsche's politics to their own time, the book offers not only a novel reading of the philosopher but also a more accurate picture of why his political thought remains so relevant today.
Demokratie. --- Politik. --- Philosophie. --- Political and social views. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich, --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Philosophieren --- Philosoph --- Philosophin --- Staatspolitik --- Politische Lage --- Politische Entwicklung --- Politische Situation --- Volksherrschaft --- Demokratischer Staat --- Democracy --- Herrschaftssystem --- Parteienstaat --- Republik --- Volkssouveränität --- Demokratische Bewegung --- Demokrat --- Postdemokratie --- Political and social views of a person --- After Virtue. --- Alexander Nehamas. --- Ancient Greece. --- Aphorism. --- Apollonian and Dionysian. --- Aristocracy. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Bellum omnium contra omnes. --- Bernard Williams. --- Beyond Good and Evil. --- Bonnie Honig. --- Brian Leiter. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Career. --- Concept. --- Contemporary society. --- Contradiction. --- Critique. --- Darwinism. --- David Runciman. --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Disenchantment. --- Ethics. --- Existence. --- Franco-Prussian War. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- German philosophy. --- God is dead. --- Good and evil. --- Hegelianism. --- High culture. --- Hostility. --- Institution. --- Intellectual. --- J. W. Burrow. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jews. --- John Rawls. --- Last man. --- Lecture. --- Legislation. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Literature. --- Machiavellianism. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Master–slave morality. --- Mazzino Montinari. --- Modernity. --- Morality. --- Nachlass. --- Nation state. --- Nihilism. --- Of Education. --- On the Genealogy of Morality. --- Oxford University Press. --- Pathos. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks. --- Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Philosophy. --- Plato. --- Platonism. --- Political party. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Postmodernism. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Princeton University Press. --- Quentin Skinner. --- Radicalism (historical). --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Realpolitik. --- Regulatory state. --- Religion. --- Republic (Plato). --- Ressentiment. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Routledge. --- Self-interest. --- Slavery. --- State (polity). --- State of nature. --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The End of History and the Last Man. --- The Gay Science. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Thought. --- Thus Spoke Zarathustra. --- Tractatus Politicus. --- Transvaluation of values. --- Twilight of the Idols. --- Will to power. --- Writing.
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