Search Results - "Libération"

Kierkegaard, metaphysics and political theory unfinished selves / by Assiter, Alison

Table of Contents: “…The metaphysical assumptions of the classical liberal -- Human rights and fundamentalism -- Some limitations of the discourse of human rights -- Autonomy and ?…”
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Matter and form : from natural science to political philosophy / by Ward, Ann, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The scientific roots of liberalism and contemporary "biopolitics".…”
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Contesting education and identity in Hong Kong / by Jackson, Liz

Table of Contents: “…-- The national education debate -- The Umbrella Movement -- Globalism and multiculturalism in Hong Kong -- Liberal studies -- History education -- Xenophobia and Sinophobia in Hong Kong media -- Hong Kong looking forward.…”
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Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
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Working against the grain re-imaging black theology in the 21st century / by Reddie, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…: a practical Black theology exploration of suffering and theodicy -- Peace and justice through Black Christian education -- HIV/AIDS and Black communities in Britain : reflections from a practical Black British liberation theologian -- Making the difference.…”
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A Protestant theology of passion Korean Minjung theology revisited / by Küster, Volker, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by David Kwang-Sun Suh -- Writing from this place -- Theology in context -- People as the subjects of history -- Re-constructing Korean identity the Minjung culture movement -- Theology and biography theological identity re-constructed -- Jesus and the Minjung Ahn Byung-Mu (1922-1996) -- A confluence of two traditions Shu Nam-Dong (1918-1984) -- Fools for Christ's sake Hyun Young-Hak (1921-2004) -- Theology as a social biography of the Minjung Kim Yong-Bock (1938) -- A plea for a survival-liberation centered syncretism Chung Hyun-Kyung (1956) -- Contextual challenges Minjung theology in intercultural perspective -- Contextual transformations Minjung theology yesterday and today -- Epilogue: Contextual theologies as open systems.…”
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Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The studhorse man biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading / by Zichy, Francis, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Acts of the Apostles -- Sex and gender in The studhorse man -- Being not so clearly male in The studhorse man -- "Men in love", part I -- "Men in love", part II: obsession as liberation -- Smoking a peace pipe with the poundkeeper -- The artist's salvation, and the natural man's destiny -- "Four fingers and a thumb": sex, breeding, and love -- The penis cannot make water lilies: God, nature, culture, and modernity -- Conclusion: death and the phallus in The studhorse man.…”
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Stalin's wars from World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 / by Roberts, Geoffrey, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June 1941 -- War of annihilation : Stalin versus Hitler -- Victory at Stalingrad and Kursk : Stalin and his generals -- The politics of war : Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt -- Triumph and tragedy : Stalin's year of victories -- Liberation, conquest, revolution : Stalin's aims in Germany and Eastern Europe -- Last battles : Stalin, Truman and the end of the Second World War -- The lost peace : Stalin and the origins of the Cold War -- Generalissimo at home : the domestic context of Stalin's postwar foreign policy -- Cold War confrontations : Stalin embattled -- Conclusion : Stalin in the court of history.…”
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Dictatorship in South America by Dávila, Jerry, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Latin America in the Cold War : Dependency, Development and Liberation -- Brazil : What Road to Development? -- Argentina : Between Peronism and Military Rule -- Chile : From Pluralistic Socialism to Authoritarian Free Market -- Argentina : The Terrorist State -- Brazil : The Long Road Back -- Chile : A Protected Democracy?.…”
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Children of Rusʹ : right-bank Ukraine and the invention of a Russian nation / by Hillis, Faith

Table of Contents: “…The Little Russian idea and the invention of a Rusʹ nation -- The Little Russian idea in the 1860s -- The Little Russian idea and the imagination of Russian and Ukrainian nations -- Nationalizing urban politics -- Concepts of liberation -- Electoral politics and regional governance -- Nationalizing the empire -- The limits of the Russian nationalist vision.…”
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Christianity and culture in the city a postcolonial approach /

Table of Contents: “…Nickens -- Revelation 12-13: a guerilla reading / Charlene Sinclair -- Church, the city, and its mission in the 21st century: a view from the margins / Elieser Valentin -- Praxis of integral liberation in a (post) colonial world a critical and compelling conversation / David Traverzo.…”
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Apostles of reason : the crisis of authority in American evangelicalism / by Worthen, Molly

Table of Contents: “…. -- Chapter 7: One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church -- Part III: Let Them Have Dominion -- Chapter 8: The Gospel of Liberation -- Chapter 9: Evangelicals' Great Matter -- Chapter 10: God's Idea Men -- Chapter 11: The Evangelical Imagination at Millennium's End.…”
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Mussolini's dream factory : film stardom in fascist Italy / by Gundle, Stephen, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The national star: Isa Miranda -- The matine idol: Vittorio De Sica -- Everybody's fiance: Assia Noris -- The star as hero: Amedeo Nazzari -- The uniformed role model: Fosco Giachetti -- The photogenic beauty: Alida Valli -- The Duce's whim: Miria Di San Servolo -- The aftermath of stardom. Civil war, liberation and reconstruction -- Survival, memory and forgetting.…”
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Anti-Imperialist Modernism : Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War / by Balthaser, Benjamin

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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / by Darsey, James Francis

Table of Contents: “…Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake.…”
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From Sofia to Jaffa : The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel / by Haskell, Guy H., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Israeli Social Science Looks at Immigration and Ethnicity; Chapter 1: Confronting Mass Immigration; Chapter 2: The Emergence of Culture; Chapter 3: Introspection and Diversification; Part II: The Jews in Bulgaria; Chapter 4: From the First Century to the Ottoman Conquest; Chapter 5: The Ottoman Period: 1389-1878; Chapter 6: From Liberation to World War II: 1878-1940; Chapter 7: The War Years: 1940-1944; Chapter 8: From Liberation to Emigration: 1944-1949…”
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For the many or the few the initiative, public policy, and American democracy / by Matsusaka, John G.

Table of Contents: “…An American institution -- A blizzard of data -- Spending and taxes, 1970-2000 -- For the many or the few -- Conservative or liberal -- When legislators get out of step -- Key episodes in the twentieth century -- Majority tyranny and the constitution -- Delegation, information, and competition.…”
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Empires of speed time and the acceleration of politics and society / by Hassan, Robert, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…A new empire -- The first empire of speed : clock time modernity -- The second empire of speed : networked society -- Pathologies of speed -- Cyberculture : a culture of speed -- The speed of liberal democracy -- Time for politics : a temporalized democracy.…”
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The priority of democracy political consequences of pragmatism / by Knight, Jack, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries -- Pragmatism and the problem of institutional design -- The appeal of decentralization -- The priority of democracy and the burden of justification -- Reconsidering the role of political argument in democratic politics -- Refining reflexivity -- Formal conditions : institutionalizing liberal guarantees -- Substantive conditions : pragmatism and effectiveness.…”
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