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Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / by Kosman, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Understanding, explanation and insight -- Platonic love -- Perceiving that we perceive: on the soul 3.2 -- Being properly affected: virtues and feelings in aristotle's ethics -- Necessity and explanation in aristotle's analytics -- Acting: drama as the mimesis of praxis -- What does the maker mind make -- Saving the phenomena -- Male and female in the generation of animals -- Aristotle on the desirability of friends -- Justice and virtue in the republic -- Self-knowledge and self-control in plato's charmides -- Beauty and the good: situating the kalon -- Translating ousia.…”
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Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / by Kosman, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Understanding, explanation and insight -- Platonic love -- Perceiving that we perceive: on the soul 3.2 -- Being properly affected: virtues and feelings in aristotle's ethics -- Necessity and explanation in aristotle's analytics -- Acting: drama as the mimesis of praxis -- What does the maker mind make -- Saving the phenomena -- Male and female in the generation of animals -- Aristotle on the desirability of friends -- Justice and virtue in the republic -- Self-knowledge and self-control in plato's charmides -- Beauty and the good: situating the kalon -- Translating ousia.…”
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Iraq at a distance what anthropologists can teach us about the war /

Table of Contents: “…Robben -- "Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton -- The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet -- Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. …”
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Iraq at a distance what anthropologists can teach us about the war /

Table of Contents: “…Robben -- "Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton -- The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet -- Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. …”
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Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
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Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Table of Contents: “…Ruppert -- Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum -- At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman -- Funerary Zen : Sōtō Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams -- The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter -- The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. …”
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Postmodernism & cultural identities conflicts and coexistence / by Nemoianu, Virgil

Table of Contents: “…-- Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities -- Conservatism as a branch of liberalism -- Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world -- Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism -- The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas -- Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature -- General literary values -- Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature -- Teaching literature from a Catholic angle -- Literary canons and social value options -- The argument from variety -- The argument from persecution -- The argument from practicality -- The argument from opposition -- The argument from defeat -- Specific applicative examples -- Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis -- Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch? …”
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Death and the afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Table of Contents: “…Ruppert -- Collective suicide at the funeral of Jitsunyo : mimesis or solidarity / Mark L. Blum -- At the crossroads of birth and death : the blood pool hell and postmortem fetal extraction / Hank Glassman -- Funerary Zen : Sōtō Zen death management in Tokugawa Japan / Duncan Ryūken Williams -- The structure of Japanese Buddhist funerals / Mariko Namba Walter -- The price of naming the deat : posthumous precept names and critiques of contemporary Japanese Buddhism / Stephen G. …”
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Postmodernism & cultural identities conflicts and coexistence / by Nemoianu, Virgil

Table of Contents: “…-- Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities -- Conservatism as a branch of liberalism -- Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world -- Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism -- The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas -- Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature -- General literary values -- Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature -- Teaching literature from a Catholic angle -- Literary canons and social value options -- The argument from variety -- The argument from persecution -- The argument from practicality -- The argument from opposition -- The argument from defeat -- Specific applicative examples -- Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis -- Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch? …”
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Sound figures of modernity German music and philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Schelling on the origin of music and tragedy / David Farrell Krell -- The world as will and music : Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of music / Ludger Lütkehaus -- The ring as deconstruction of modernity : reading Wagner with Benjamin / Samuel Weber -- Nietzsche and the problem of life-affirming content in music / Margaret Moore and Rebekah Pryor Paré -- Bloch's dream, music's traces / Gerhard Richter -- Dissonance and aesthetic totality : Adorno reads Schönberg / Beatrice Hanssen -- Thomas Mann : pro and contra Adorno / Hans Rudolf Vaget -- The dialectical thinker as composer : Hanns Eisler's philosophical reflections on music / Albrecht Betz -- Double mimesis : Georg Lukács's philosophy of music / Jost Hermand.…”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content…”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. The Unbound Woman -- Cipher Assembled -- The Birth of the Nana Figure -- Enclosing an Enigma -- Individuality without Content…”
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Values and virtues Aristotelianism in contemporary ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Duff -- Habituation as mimesis / Hallvard J. Fossheim -- Moral incompetence / Adam Morton -- The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom / Timothy Chappell -- Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics / Paul Russell -- Con Nietzsche be both an existentialist and a virtue ethicist? …”
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Body, language, and mind

Table of Contents: “…We are live creatures / Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer -- Bringing the body back to life / Alan Costall -- From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning / Göran Sonesson -- Embodiment and social interaction / Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke -- Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces / Peter Gärdenfors -- From pre-representational cognition to language / Takashi Ikegami and Jordan Zlatev -- Making sense of embodied cognition / Henrik Svensson, Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke -- Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience / Shaun Gallagher -- Embodiment, language and mimesis / Jordan Zlatev -- The body in space / Tim Rohrer -- On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature / Claus Emmeche -- Embodiment and self-organization of human categories / Luc Steels and Bart de Boer -- Communication as situated, embodied practice / Wolff-Michael Roth.…”
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Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / by Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore -- Part three. …”
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Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / by Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The institutions of colonial mimesis, 1830/1857: Books, reading, and the profession of letters: David Lester Richardson and the construction of a British canon in India; sighing, or not, for albion: Kasiprasad Ghosh, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Mary Carshore -- Part three. …”
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Values and virtues Aristotelianism in contemporary ethics /

Table of Contents: “…Duff -- Habituation as mimesis / Hallvard J. Fossheim -- Moral incompetence / Adam Morton -- The variety of life and the unity of practical wisdom / Timothy Chappell -- Moral sense and virtue in Hume's ethics / Paul Russell -- Con Nietzsche be both an existentialist and a virtue ethicist? …”
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Body, language, and mind

Table of Contents: “…We are live creatures / Mark Johnson and Tim Rohrer -- Bringing the body back to life / Alan Costall -- From the meaning of embodiment to the embodiment of meaning / Göran Sonesson -- Embodiment and social interaction / Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke -- Representing actions and functional properties in conceptual spaces / Peter Gärdenfors -- From pre-representational cognition to language / Takashi Ikegami and Jordan Zlatev -- Making sense of embodied cognition / Henrik Svensson, Jessica Lindblom and Tom Ziemke -- Phenomenological and experimental contributions to understanding embodied experience / Shaun Gallagher -- Embodiment, language and mimesis / Jordan Zlatev -- The body in space / Tim Rohrer -- On the biosemiotics of embodiment and our human cyborg nature / Claus Emmeche -- Embodiment and self-organization of human categories / Luc Steels and Bart de Boer -- Communication as situated, embodied practice / Wolff-Michael Roth.…”
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From perception to meaning image schemas in cognitive linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Mandler -- Image schemata in the brain / Tim Rohrer -- The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language / Leonard Talmy -- Multimodal spatial representation : on the semantic unity of over / Paul Deane -- Culture regained : situated and compound image schemas / Michael Kimmel -- Whats in a schema? bodily mimesis and the grounding of language / Jordan Zlatev -- Image schemas vs. complex primitives in cross-cultural spatial cognition / Margarita Correa-Beningfield ... …”
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From perception to meaning image schemas in cognitive linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Mandler -- Image schemata in the brain / Tim Rohrer -- The fundamental system of spatial schemas in language / Leonard Talmy -- Multimodal spatial representation : on the semantic unity of over / Paul Deane -- Culture regained : situated and compound image schemas / Michael Kimmel -- Whats in a schema? bodily mimesis and the grounding of language / Jordan Zlatev -- Image schemas vs. complex primitives in cross-cultural spatial cognition / Margarita Correa-Beningfield ... …”
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