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A study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, this book demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. It argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual.

Finally available in one volume, these ten classic essays by a leading scholar track the way key political, factional, and legal struggles, shaped by popular commitment to constitutional principles, affected the framing, interpretation, and enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. With a major introduction and updates throughout.

Introducing the range of noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, this book focuses in particular on the dynamic of the loss of the subject and its possible post-deconstructive recovery. The author places Lacoue-Labarthe's achievements in the context of related philosophers, most importantly Nancy, Derrida, and Blanchot.

Who or what comes after God? In the wake of God, as the last fifty years of philosophy has shown, God comes back again, otherwise: Heidegger's last God, Levinas's God of Infinity, Derrida's and Caputo's tout autre, Marion's God without Being, Kearney's God who may be. These essays represent responses to Richard Kearney's work.

Considers the many dimensions of prayer: how prayer relates us to the divine; prayer's ability to reveal what is essential about our humanity; the power of prayer to transform human desire and action; and the relation of prayer to cognition. It takes up the meaning of prayer from within a phenomenological point of view.

This book is an account of two significant laws passed during the US Civil War, The Confiscation Acts (1861-62). It examines their political contexts, especially the debates in Congress, and demonstrates how the failure of the confiscation acts during the war presaged the political and structural shortcomings of Reconstruction after the war.

"Should be required reading ... for all historians, jurists, lawyers, political scientists, and government officials who in one way or another are responsible for understanding and interpreting our civil rights past."-Harold M. Hyman, Journal of Southern History

Bigger's larger goal is to align the primacy of the Good in Plato and Christian Neoplatonism with the creator God of Genesis and the God of love in the New Testament.

Medievalists have long considered topics of cultural contact such as antagonism or exchange between western Europe and the Islamic world and the west's debts to Byzantium. This text aims to pose new questions, exploring how the meeting of cultures promotes historical change.

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

In seven essays that draw from metaphysics, phenomenology, literature, Christological theology, and Biblical exegesis,Marion sketches several prolegomena to a future fuller thinking and saying of love's paradoxical reasons, exploring evil, freedom, bedazzlement, and the loving gaze; crisis, absence, and knowing.

"At once rigorous, insightful, and accessible... the most thorough study yet available on the phenomenological treatment of God as gift in Marion and Derrida. Invaluable reading for those concerned with the theological promise of contemporary Continental philosophy."-Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara

"Fine-grained studies focused on specific passages of Levinas's texts move gradually to a persuasive interpretation of his two masterpieces." -John Llewelyn, University of Edinburgh

"A Free Ballot and a Fair Count" examines the efforts by the Department of Justice to implement the federal legislation passed by Congress in 1870-71 known as the Enforcement Acts.

Establishing a creative dialogue between Hegel and Kierkegaard, Taylor charts the historical background of philosophy.

A New Birth of Freedom: The Republican Party and Freedmen's Rights, 1861-1866, is an account of how laws, policies and constitutional amendments defining and protecting the personal liberty and civil rights of the country's African American population were adopted during the Civil War.

The author of this work explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed ways from other slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had access to power; and, even before legal emancipation, a large free black population lived there.

This text looks at the life of John Emory Bryant, a veteran of the Civil War who became a Carpetbagger in Georgia during the reconstruction era. It looks at his life in the army, and his work with the Freedman's Bureau, an organization designed to protect and assist newly freed slaves.

Circulating Being centers on the later works of Camus, Marcel, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty to study the development of existential thinking about language, communicative life, ethics, and politics.

Reflection Revisited examines Habermas's own development of the theory of emancipative reflection and analyzes how he applies reflection to the problems of ethics and personal identity development.

This work sets out to introduce Duessel's thought to an English-speaking audience. The essence of Duessel's thought is presented through the concept of "ethical hermeneutics" which seeks to interpret reality from the viewpoint of what Emmanuel Levinas presents as the "other".

"Strawser addresses the problematic but natural relationship between Kierkegaard and postmodernism and offers exciting possibilities. ...an impressive contribution."-The Midwest Book Review

"A fine example of the reliable research and precise description so long associated with Simon's writings."-Library Journal

"Breaks new ground in a number of promising directions, and will surely be viewed as a major contribution to the developing field of Scheler studies...comprehensive and sympathetic, yet without being uncritical."-Philip Blosser, Lenoir-Rhyne College

Reads resurrection in the context of contemporary philosophy, notably Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze

Special three-volume anniversary collection packed in an attractive slip case! His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world?s 300 million Orthodox Christians, is the 270th successor of St. Andrew the Apostle, who founded the 2,000-year-old Church of Constantinople.

Clearly written, this incisive critical study opens a new analytic window not only to the rhetoric of medieval Italian poetry but also to a richer understanding of one of the most important strands of medieval European culture.

This work brings together in one volume a collection of encounters with some of the most significant philosophers of our time. Here, he brings together eighteen conversations.

Here, philosopher and theologian Jean-Louis Chretien revisits a favourite theme: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response, explored with art as the context. For Chretien, art is about acts in response to what the artist sees or hears and how these acts provoke responses from viewers.