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Burke --- Edmund --- 1729-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France --- France --- History --- Revolution --- 1789-1799 --- Causes

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This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.

Reflective learning --- Reflections --- Photography, Artistic --- Learning --- Critical thinking --- R-learning (Reflective learning) --- Material culture. --- Material culture --- Social archaeology. --- Visual perception. --- Reflective learning. --- Reflections. --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Archaeology --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects --- Methodology --- Senses. --- medieval culture. --- objects.

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A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago-where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought-and the farm he kept back in Ireland. Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene's book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene's form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago.

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We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.

Plants (Philosophy) --- Environmental ethics. --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986. --- Chernobyl Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Chernobyl Disaster, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Nuclear power plants --- Environmental quality --- Human ecology --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Accidents --- Moral and ethical aspects --- chernobyl --- images --- recollections --- nuclear radiation --- meditations --- photograms --- reflections --- Anapa --- Cotton paper --- Metaphysics --- Radioactive decay --- Ukraine

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In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical questioning. For Heidegger and Strauss, the recovery of the original premises of philosophy cannot be separated from rethinking the very possibility of genuine philosophizing. Common views of the influence of Heidegger's thought on Strauss suggest that, after being inspired early on by Heidegger's dismantling of the philosophical tradition, Strauss took a wholly separate path, spurning modernity and pursuing instead a renewal of Socratic political philosophy. Velkley rejects this reading and maintains that Strauss's engagement with the challenges posed by Heidegger-as well as by modern philosophy in general-formed a crucial and enduring framework for his lifelong philosophical project. More than an intellectual biography or a mere charting of influence, Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy is a profound consideration of these two philosophers' reflections on the roots, meaning, and fate of Western rationalism.

Philosophy, Modern --- Political science --- Ontology --- Philosophy --- History --- Strauss, Leo. --- Heidegger, Martin, --- modern existentialist philosophy, political, politics, martin heidegger, leo strauss, great thinkers, radical questioning, genuine philosophizing, philosophical traditions, modernity, socrates, socratic methods, intellectual biography, biographical, influence, reflections, western rationalism, meaning, contemporary thought, human situation, polemics, historicism, 20th century, greek origins, metaphysical, problematic relationship, morality, ideologue, duality of the soul.