Author: John Jervi
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: experience, otherness, western, explorations, modern, transgressing
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-09-01
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0631211101
ISBN-13: 9780631211105

This book provides the most concise, accessible account yet available of modern Western cultural and social explorations of other forms or aspects of life that are devalued or coded as unacceptable, even unthinkable, in the modern ethos. After discussing modernity as a cultural and political project associated with notions of ’progress’ and the shaping of body experiences through the ’civilizing’ of behaviour, the author describes how the body seeks to go beyond the conventional - and characteristically male-oriented - pieties of modern ’rationality’ to unco

Author: Kenneth D. Alla
Publisher: Pine Forge Pre
Keywords: social, world, seeing, theory, classical, sociological, explorations
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-01-12
List price: $77.95
ISBN-10: 1412905729
ISBN-13: 9781412905725

Rather than a work of theory itself, Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World is an insightful work that invites students to think creatively, reflexively, and critically about their social worlds. Written in a conversational tone that lifts the veil of theoretical jargon, Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory introduces students to the major classical theorists, including Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Schutz, Gilman, and Du Bois. This text focuses on the individual perspective of each theorist rather than schools of thought, and uses the p

Author: Robert Wuthnow
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: cultural, analysis, explorations, order, moral, meaning
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1989-04-27
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520066219
ISBN-13: 9780520066212

Meaning and Moral Order goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on which the study of ideology, ritual, religion, science, and culture have been based.

Authors:Lewis Ford, George Kline,
Publisher: Fordham University Pre
Keywords: philosophy, whitehead, explorations
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0823211037
ISBN-13: 9780823211036

All the authors of the sixteen essays gathered in this volume are concerned, in their different ways, to clarify, criticize, and develop key ideas and insights of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), one of the towering figures of twentieth-century speculative thought, whose "process philosophy" has, in recent decades, aroused intense intellectual interest both in this country and abroad. The present volume is intended to complement, but not to duplicate, an earlier selection of important Whitehead studies, Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy, ed. G. L. Kline (Englewood Cliffs: Pre

Author: Stanley Finger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: brain, function, explorations, history, neuroscience, origins
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-10-11
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0195146948
ISBN-13: 9780195146943

With over 350 illustrations, this impressive volume traces the rich history of ideas about the functioning of the brain from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the centuries into relatively modern times. In contrast to biographically oriented accounts, this book is unique in its emphasis on the functions of the brain and how they came to be associated with specific brain regions and systems. Among the topics explored are vision, hearing, pain, motor control, sleep, memory, speech, and various other facets of intellect. The emphasis throughout is on presenting

Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: beliefs, human, explorations, crosscultural, worldviews
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-07-05
List price: $45.40
ISBN-10: 0130209805
ISBN-13: 9780130209801

This book offers a balanced, wide-ranging, and realistic approach to the full range of worldviews, showing how, whether religious or secular, they define the human values that drive the engines of both continuity and change worldwide. It shows readers the dynamics of each tradition, and emphasizes that although the various traditions may all share similar aspects, they each assign varying levels of importance to specific areas. Explores the major religious traditions and secular ideologies (Marxism, nationalisms, scientific humanism) from six dimensions: experiential/emotional; narrative/myth

Authors:Nakanishi, Kimiko,
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Keywords: interface, explorations, constructions, measurement, properties, formal
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2007-12-14
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 3110185989
ISBN-13: 9783110185980

This book investigates the semantics and syntax-semantics interface of measurement constructions, such as (non-)split quantifiers and comparatives. The cross-linguistic investigation reveals that seemingly diverse constructions can be categorized into two classes depending on whether they measure nominal or verbal predicates, and shows that the classification accounts for why certain constructions have certain characteristics concerning distributivity and single-event predicates. Throughout the book, particular emphasis is placed on issues of compositionality.