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Author | : James Cracraft |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0739174509 |
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In Two Shining Souls, Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams (1860-1935), the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. This hitherto untold story highlights the crisis in global pacifism precipitated by World War I. Never before had the quest for international peace seemed more promising; never since, in the wake of World War II, the Cold War, and the "War on Terror", has it seemed more impossible. Yet perhaps the story of these two shining souls has never needed to be told more.
Author | : James Cracraft |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0739174517 |
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In his new book, Two Shining Souls, James Cracraft explores the decades-long encounter of Jane Addams, the famous American social reformer and peace activist, with Leo Tolstoy, the acclaimed Russian writer and sage. He documents Tolstoy’s influence in Progressive-era America and particularly on Addams’s career, citing previously unknown or neglected sources. In addition to her study of Tolstoy’s writings—his now largely forgotten religious tracts more than his celebrated fiction—Addams traveled to Russia to see him personally, a meeting that is recounted in detail. Late in her life, Addams described Tolstoy as a rare “shining soul,” a term, Cracraft suggests, that applies equally well to her. His book adds an enduring religious dimension to Addams’s rich legacy while newly delimiting, by contrast, the legacy of Tolstoy. The story of Addams and Tolstoy brings into focus issues of continuing public concern, including the often conflicting demands on the individual—particularly women—of family and society; the legitimacy of violence in pursuit of political aims; the problem of poverty; the role of government in social reform; and the place of religion in both public and private life. The distinctive ways in which these emblematic figures dealt with such controversial issues offer insights that may be valuable even today. Yet the single most important link between Addams and Tolstoy was their preoccupation with the question of peace, which they understood as a value subsuming all other values or goods. So Two Shining Souls is also about the invention and spread of “pacifism” in 19th-century Europe and America and the great crisis in its history precipitated by World War I.
Author | : Chris Hannan |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781854597335 |
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It's Ann's wedding day, but she's in two minds who to marry, and caught between two men in her life, both called Billy. Her daughter wants to save souls, and then there's Nanette and her friend Prophet John. Soon, there's nine characters in search of their souls, some sex and a wardrobe.
Author | : Lori Handeland |
Publisher | : Lori Handeland |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1386161225 |
Download D.J.'s Angel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
She doesn't believe in love, he won't settle for anything less. Police officer D. J. Halloran is having a very bad day. Not only was she involved in a shoot-out with teenaged gang member but the mayor insists that she help his friend, Christian McCall, do research for his new book. To top it off, her guardian angel is driving her nuts. As a child, Chris McCall witnessed the brutal murder of his parents and on that day he vowed never to settle for anything less the type of true love that they had. Why on earth is he falling for D.J., who believes in nothing but what she can see, hear and touch? After attempts are made on Christian's life, D.J. spirits him out of town. With the aid of her angel, Josie, D.J. must discover who is try to kill Chris and why. Josie has her hands full trying to fulfill her mission and teach her earthly charge how to love. Will heavenly intervention allow Chris and D.J. to make it out of a tight spot alive? Will D.J. learn how to love before it's too late?
Author | : V. Jeffries |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1137391863 |
Download The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of altruism, morality, and social solidarity is an emerging field of scholarship and research in sociology. This handbook will function as a foundational source for this subject matter and field, and as an impetus to its further development.
Author | : Daniel Greenspan |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2008-11-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110211173 |
Download The Passion of Infinity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's collapses in moral-psychological rather than religious terms. By changing the way in which the irrational is conceived, and the nature of its relation to reason, Aristotle eliminates the concept of an irrationality which reason cannot in principle dissolve. The book culminates in an extensive reading of Kierkegaard's pseudonyms, who, in a critical retrieval of both Greek tragedy and Aristotle, prescribe their apparently pathological age a paradoxical task: develop a finite form of subjectivity willing to undergo an unthinkable thought ‐ allow the transcendence of a god to enter into the mind as well as the marrow, to make a tragic appearance in which a limit to the immanence of human reason can again be established.
Author | : Nancy Atherton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2010-02-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101189932 |
Download Aunt Dimity Down Under Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Lori Shepherd travels to New Zealand in Aunt Dimity's fifteenth charming adventure. Watch out for Nancy Atherton's latest, Aunt Dimity and the King's Ransom, coming in July 2018 from Viking! Mystery readers everywhere continue to be won over by Nancy Atherton's popular cozy series. In the latest installment, Lori Shepherd is bereft when she learns that her beloved neighbors, Ruth and Louise Pym, may be dying. Summoning her to their sickroom, the elderly sisters have a favor to ask: Will Lori find their long-lost brother, Aubrey, before death claims them? Despite her misgivings, Lori sets out for distant New Zealand-where Aubrey fled after being cast out of the family in disgrace. With the help of a charming kiwi bird and her otherworldly friend, Aunt Dimity, Lori tries to heal a family broken by deceit.
Author | : Mitchell K. Hall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 905 |
Release | : 2018-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440845190 |
Download Opposition to War [2 volumes] Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How have Americans sought peaceful, rather than destructive, solutions to domestic and world conflict? This two-volume set documents peace and antiwar movements in the United States from the colonial era to the present. Although national leaders often claim to be fighting to achieve peace, the real peace seekers struggle against enormous resistance to their message and have often faced persecution for their efforts. Despite a well-established pattern of being involved in wars, the United States also has a long tradition of citizens who made extensive efforts to build and maintain peaceful societies and prevent the destructive human and material costs of war. Unarmed activists have most consistently upheld American values at home. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of U.S. Peace and Antiwar Movements investigates this historical tradition of resistance to involvement in armed conflict—an especially important and relevant topic today as the nation has been mired in numerous military conflicts throughout most of the current century. The book examines a largely misunderstood and underappreciated minority of Americans who have committed themselves to finding peaceful resolutions to domestic and international conflicts—individuals who have proposed and conducted an array of practical and creative methods for peaceful change, from the transformation of individual behavior to the development of international governing and legal systems, for more than 250 years. Readers will learn how individuals working alone or organized into societies of various size have steadfastly campaigned to stop war, end the arms race, eliminate the underlying causes of war, and defend the civil liberties of Americans when wartime nationalism most threatens them.
Author | : Marilyn Fischer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022663146X |
Download Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing, Marilyn Fischer advances the bold and original claim that Addams’s reasoning in her first book, Democracy and Social Ethics, is thoroughly evolutionary. While Democracy and Social Ethics, a foundational text of classical American pragmatism, is praised for advancing a sensitive and sophisticated method of ethical deliberation, Fischer is the first to explore its intellectual roots. Examining essays Addams wrote in the 1890s and showing how they were revised for Democracy and Social Ethics, Fischer draws from philosophy, history, literature, rhetoric, and more to uncover the array of social evolutionary thought Addams engaged with in her texts—from British socialist writings on the evolution of democracy to British and German anthropological accounts of the evolution of morality. By excavating Addams’s evolutionary reasoning and rhetorical strategies, Fischer reveals the depth, subtlety, and richness of Addams’s thought.
Author | : Alexander Livingston |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2016-08-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190237171 |
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Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines -- as the key to unlocking the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations. Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in James's major works, from his writings on the self in The Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the conventional view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions of politics, this book places him in dialogue with a transatlantic critique of modernity, as well as with champions and critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E. B. Du Bois, in order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing the history of political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires! offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.