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Braiding together strands of literary, phenomenological and art historical reflection, Modernism and Phenomenology explores the ways in which modernist writers and artists return us to wonder before the world. Taking such wonder as the motive for phenomenology itself, and challenging extant views of modernism that uphold a mind-world opposition rooted in Cartesian thought, the book considers the work of modernists who, far from presenting perfect, finished models for life and the self, embrace raw and semi-chaotic experience. Close readings of works by Paul Cézanne, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Paul Klee, and Virginia Woolf explore how modernist texts and artworks display a deep-rooted openness to the world that turns us into "perpetual beginners." Pushing back against ideas of modernism as fragmentation or groundlessness, Mildenberg argues that this openness is less a sign of powerlessness and deferred meaning than of the very provisionality of experience.

History. --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Phenomenology. --- Cultural History. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Aesthetics --- Civilization-History. --- Phenomenology . --- Intellectual life-History. --- Civilization—History. --- Intellectual life—History.

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This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion. In March 2009, TIME magazine listed ‘the new Calvinism’ as being among the ‘ten ideas shaping the world.’ In response to this revitalisation of reformation thought, R. Scott Clark and D. G. Hart have proposed a definition of ‘Reformed’ that excludes many of the theologians who have done most to promote this driver of global religious change. In this book, the Clark-Hart proposal becomes the focus of a debate. Matthew Bingham, Chris Caughey, and Crawford Gribben suggest a broader and (they argue) more historically responsible definition for ‘Reformed,’ as Hart and Scott respond to their arguments.

Reformed Church --- Doctrines. --- Intellectual life-History. --- Religion-History. --- Historiography. --- Philosophy. --- Intellectual Studies. --- History of Religion. --- Historiography and Method. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Intellectual life—History. --- Religion—History. --- Religion—Philosophy.

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A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century—the rise of Pahlavi and the collapse of the Weimar Republic—he turned from fundamental science to leftwing activism and pacifism, leading to his arrest and death in prison. Younes Jalali traces his journey from Tehran to Berlin, where in the 1920s he crossed paths with the greatest German scientists and scholars of his day, including Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Rosen, and published seminal works on psychology and political philosophy. In the 1930s, as Reza Shah pursued rapprochement with the Third Reich, Taghi Erani was caught up in a crackdown on left-wing and pro-labor activists. His life and death offer a unique lens through which to view modern Iranian intellectual and political history.

Middle East-History. --- Europe, Central-History. --- Intellectual life-History. --- History of the Middle East. --- History of Germany and Central Europe. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Middle East—History. --- Europe, Central—History. --- Intellectual life—History.

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This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception, moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so, this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in particular.

Intellectual life-History. --- World politics. --- Law-History. --- Diplomacy. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Political History. --- Legal History. --- History --- International relations --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- Intellectual life—History. --- Law—History.

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'In this well-written and critically informed book, Welburn reviews how past political thinkers are connected. He invites us to re-think the question of influence in the history of political thought.' –Gary Browning, Professor of Political Thought, Oxford Brookes University, UK ‘This is an excellent study. It achieves an impressive feat of synthesis of existing writing on the “influence problem” in the history of thought and, in so doing, makes influence speak to very many of the concerns of the present day. … The human virtues which Welburn finds vital to carrying out inquiry into influence that would be profitable – such as humility, openness, groundedness – are well embodied in his own efforts.’ –Richard Shorten, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Birmingham, UK ‘This is a timely and perceptive account of the positive role of “influence” in political thought. Welburn engages with a range of studies in literary and philosophical theory to defend canonicity as essential to, rather than the antithesis of, originality. He provides a refreshing defence of the Western tradition, albeit alongside rival canons as expressions of different political imaginations.' –Julia Stapleton, Professor of Political Thought, Durham University, UK This book explores the meaning of ‘influence’, which has played a central role in the formation of the canon, or tradition, of Western political thought. Via a critical overview of the relative fortunes of influence studies in the history of political thought, literary theory, and – at times – the history of art and poetry, it is possible to identify a dominant theory of the term. Nietzschean and ‘emanational’ in nature, thanks largely to the work of Harold Bloom, this theory views influence as mere power and represents a broadly accepted meaning in twentieth century thought. The book argues, ultimately, that a second theory of influence, imported from Mary Orr’s work on intertextuality, affords a rival perspective and a more positive, intergenerational meaning of influence. Orr’s ‘braided rope’ theory of influence allows for the development of a plurality of canons, each capable of constructing new histories for a variety of epistemic communities. The existence of agonistic, rival canons presents pedagogical questions for all teachers of political theory, but one that can be potentially navigated by a new understanding of influence, in the Orrian tradition. Dominic Welburn taught political theory for ten years at the universities of Hull, Leeds, York, Oxford Brookes, and Birmingham. He is now based at Bradford University, UK.

Political science. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Political theory. --- Intellectual life—History. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Political Theory. --- Intellectual Studies. --- Literary Theory.