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Before they were both internationally renowned philosophers, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig were young German soldiers fighting in World War I corresponding by letter and forming the foundation of their deep intellectual friendship. Collected here, this correspondence provides an intimate portrait of their views on history, philosophy, rhetoric, and religion as well as on their writings and professors. Most centrally, Rosenstock-Huessy and Rosenzweig discuss, frankly but respectfully, the differences between Judaism and Chiristianity and the reasons they have chosen their respective faiths. This edition includes a new foreword by Paul Mendes-Flohr, a new preface by Harold Stahmer along with his original introduction, and essays by Dorothy Emmet and Alexander Altmann, who calls this correspondence "one of the most important religious documents of our age" and "the most perfect example of a human approach to the Jewish-Christian problem."
Judaism --- Christianity and other religions --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Judaism. --- Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen, --- Rosenzweig, Franz, --- religion, religious studies, faith, belief, jewish, jew, christian, sects, wartime, postwar, 1900s, 1916, correspondence, letters, writing, communication, written, history, historical, historian, philosophy, philosopher, social, community, german, soldier, wwi, friendship, relationship, intellectual, biographical, biography, difference, discourse, essays, essay collection.
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"This book collects some two dozen pieces from bestselling author Adam Hochschild, written over the past 25 years. All have been published before, most in the New York Review of Books but also in the New Yorker, Harper's, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. They are a mixture of essays about books, authors, one film, and the writing of history and on-the-ground journalism based on reporting from India, Africa, and elsewhere"--Provided by publisher.
World politics --- Political ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- 1960s. --- badly written history. --- california. --- campaign trail. --- center for rape victims. --- cia. --- congo. --- construction sites. --- finnish prison. --- government surveillance. --- gun show. --- heart of an activist. --- historian. --- independent organizations. --- india. --- john mcphee. --- journalist. --- mark twain. --- nelson mandela. --- pioneering architect. --- ruins of gulag camps. --- social justice. --- soviet arctic. --- standing against despotism. --- unjust wars.
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This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate historians lead him through a world of hidden documents, contested photographs, and meticulously reconstructed pedigrees, Andrew Shryock describes how he becomes enmeshed in historical debates, ranging from the local to the national level.The world the Bedouin inhabit is rich in oral tradition and historical argument, in subtle reflections on the nature of truth and its relationship to poetics, textuality, and power. Skillfully blending anthropology and history, Shryock discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators—those who sustain an older tradition of authoritative oral history and those who have experimented with the first written accounts. His focus throughout is on the development of a "genealogical nationalism" as well as on the tensions that arise between tribe and state.Rich in both personal revelation and cultural implications, this book poses a provocative challenge to traditional assumptions about the way history is written.
Bedouins --- Oral tradition --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Historiography --- National movements --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Jordan --- Genealogy. --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Jordanien --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Urdun --- Urdunn --- Yarden --- Transjordan --- abbadi clan. --- adwani clan. --- anthropology. --- bedouin storytellers. --- community. --- contemporary middle east. --- folk history. --- folk narrative. --- genealogy. --- historical documents. --- historical memory. --- historical narrative. --- history. --- jordan. --- literacy. --- middle east. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- oral history. --- oral tradition. --- photographs. --- poetics. --- politics. --- textuality. --- tribal history. --- tribal identity. --- tribal jordan. --- village. --- world history. --- written history. --- Historiography.
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In this compelling account of the "peasants' revolt" of 1381, in which rebels burned hundreds of official archives and attacked other symbols of authority, Steven Justice demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. Focusing on six brief, enigmatic texts written by the rebels themselves, Justice places the English peasantry within a public discourse from which historians, both medieval and modern, have thus far excluded them. He recreates the imaginative world of medieval villagers--how they worked and governed themselves, how they used official communications in unofficial ways, and how they produced a disciplined insurgent ideology.--
English literature --- Peasantry --- Literature and society --- Written communication --- Peasant uprisings --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381. --- Literacy --- Peasants --- Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Illiteracy --- Education --- General education --- Peasants' uprisings --- Uprisings, Peasant --- Insurgency --- Revolutions --- Written discourse --- Written language --- Communication --- Discourse analysis --- Language and languages --- Visual communication --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Peasants' Revolt, 1381 --- Wat Tyler's Insurrection, 1381 --- History and criticism. --- Books and reading --- History. --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Langland, William, --- Great Britain --- England --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life --- Social conditions --- 14th century english history. --- 14th century english social movements. --- authority. --- chaucer. --- cultural studies. --- england. --- english history. --- english peasantry. --- european history. --- gower. --- historicism medievalism. --- insurgent ideology. --- langland. --- literacy. --- medieval england. --- medieval literature. --- medieval villagers. --- official archives. --- peasant resentment. --- peasants revolt. --- public discourse. --- rebellion. --- rebels. --- rule. --- social change. --- social movement. --- textual culture. --- the new historicism studies in cultural poetics. --- written history. --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- GREAT BRITAIN --- ENGLAND --- LANGLAND (WILLIAM), 1330?-1400? --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- PEASANTS IN LITERATURE --- TYLER'S INSURRECTION IN LITERATURE --- MIDDLE ENGLISH, 1100-1500 --- HISTORY --- RICHARD II, 1377-1399 --- INTELLECTUAL LIFE --- MEDIEVAL PERIOD, 1066-1485 --- PIERS THE PLOWMAN
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