Authors:Richard Harries, Henry Mayr-Harting,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: years, thousand, christianity
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-10-18
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0199244855
ISBN-13: 9780199244850

Written by a team of top experts on the history of Christianity, this lucid and often witty book celebrates the highlights of two millennia of religious thought and practice. Each author describes Christianity’s most fascinating contributions to the history of western civilization. The resulting book is one of different approaches to the different periods, from the early Church right up to the twentieth century. As a finale, the Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, concludes with a thought for the future: How should Christianity proceed into the new millennium?

Author: Karsten Harries
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: perspective, infinity
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2002-09-09
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 026258218X
ISBN-13: 9780262582186

Much postmodern rhetoric, suggests Karsten Harries, can be understood as a symptom of our civilization’s discontent, born of regret that we are no longer able to experience our world as a cosmos that assigns us our place. But dissatisfaction with the modern world may also spring from a conviction that modernism has failed to confront the challenge of an inevitably open future. Such conviction has frequently led to a critique of modernity’s founding heroes. Challenging that critique, Harries insists that modernity is supported by nothing other than human freedom. But more importa

Author: Karsten Harries
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: architecture, function, ethical
Number of Pages: 417
Published: 1998-07-03
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 026258171X
ISBN-13: 9780262581714

Can architecture help us find our place and way in today’s complex world? Can it return individuals to a whole, to a world, to a community? Developing Giedion’s claim that contemporary architecture’s main task is to interpret a way of life valid for our time, philosopher Karsten Harries answers that architecture should serve a common ethos. But if architecture is to meet that task, it first has to free itself from the dominant formalist approach, and get beyond the notion that its purpose is to produce endless variations of the decorated shed. In a series of cogent and bal

Author: Martin Harries
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: language, reenchantment, keynes, marx, quotes, shakespeare, scare
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0804736219
ISBN-13: 9780804736213

This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. This “reenchantment,” at the heart of modernity and of literary and political works central to our understanding of modernity, is the focus of this book. The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare (“scare quotes”) allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social wo

Authors:Ronald L. Klueh, Donald R. Harries,
Publisher: ASTM International
Keywords: american, society, testing, materials, monograph, applications, ferritic, martensitic, steels, nuclear, chromium
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-07
List price: $214.00
ISBN-10: 0803120907
ISBN-13: 9780803120907

A detailed review of the development of the high-chromium ferritic/martensitic steels for exposure to the high-energy neutron environment of a fission or fusion reactor. Considerable information also addresses use of these materials independent of nuclear applications.

Authors:Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard L. Wils
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: patronage, religion, region, shakespeare, lancastrian
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0719063698
ISBN-13: 9780719063695

This groundbreaking book uses the possibility that Shakespeare began his theatrical career in Lancashire to open up a range of new contexts for reading the plays, and introduces readers to the non-metropolitan theater spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Essays give a detailed picture of the contexts in which the apprentice dramatist would have worked, providing new insights into regional performance, touring theatre, the patronage of the Earls of Derby, and the purpose-built theater at Prescot.

Authors:Richard Dutton, Alison Gail Findlay, Richard Wilson,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: shakespeare, lancastrian, religion, theatre
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-05-07
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0719063639
ISBN-13: 9780719063633

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on the question of whether Shakespeare himself was Catholic. Among the many topics discussed are the nature of Elizabethan Catholicism, Jesuit drama in the period, individual plays in the light of these questions, and the possible influence of religious conflicts on the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio.