Search Results - "dialectical"

Inventing English a portable history of the language / by Lerer, Seth, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: finding English, finding us -- Caedmon learns to sing : Old English and the origins of poetry -- From Beowulf to Wulfstan : the language of Old English literature -- In this year : the politics of language and the end of Old English -- From kingdom to realm : middle English in a French world -- Lord of this langage : Chaucer's English -- I is an Ille a millere as are ye : Middle English dialects -- The great vowel shift and the changing character of English -- Chancery, Caxton, and the making of English prose -- I do, I will : Shakespeare's English -- A universal hubbub wild : new words and worlds in early modern English -- Visible speech : the Orthoepists and the origins of standard English -- A harmless drudge : Samuel Johnson and the making of the dictionary -- Horrid, hooting stanzas : Lexicography and literature in American English -- Antses in the sugar : dialect and regionalism in American English -- Hello, dude : Mark Twain and the making of the American idiom -- Ready for the funk : African American English and its impact -- Pioneers through an untrodden forest : the Oxford English dictionary and its readers -- Listening to Private Ryan : war and language -- He speaks in your voice : everybody's English.…”
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Figures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self / by Gates, Henry Louis

Table of Contents: “…Wilson's Our Nig -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. …”
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Locating the Anglo-Indian self in Ruskin Bond a postcolonial review / by Bandyopadhyay, Debashis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : reading 'self' in a semi-autobiographical author -- Sense of exile : an Anglo-Indian context -- Text versus context : space and time in The room on the roof and Vagrants in the valley -- Quest for an authentic literary grain : two versions of 'The eyes are not here' -- Conscious/unconscious dialectic : stories of the mid-career -- Invoking history to resist drives : tension revisited In a flight of pigeons -- Self in abject space : 'The playing fields of Shimla' -- Conclusion : self in liminal space.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Locating the Anglo-Indian self in Ruskin Bond a postcolonial review / by Bandyopadhyay, Debashis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : reading 'self' in a semi-autobiographical author -- Sense of exile : an Anglo-Indian context -- Text versus context : space and time in The room on the roof and Vagrants in the valley -- Quest for an authentic literary grain : two versions of 'The eyes are not here' -- Conscious/unconscious dialectic : stories of the mid-career -- Invoking history to resist drives : tension revisited In a flight of pigeons -- Self in abject space : 'The playing fields of Shimla' -- Conclusion : self in liminal space.…”
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Tribal nation : the making of Soviet Turkmenistan / by Edgar, Adrienne Lynn, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Tribe, class, and nation in Turkmenistan -- Sources of identity in Turkmen -- Assembling the nation: the creation of a Turkmen national republic -- Ethnic preferences and ethnic conflict: the rise of a Turkmen national elite -- Helpers, not nannies: Moscow and the Turkmen Communist Party -- Dueling dialects: the creation of a Turkmen language -- A nation divided: class struggle and the assault on 'tribalism' -- Cotton and collectivization: rural resistance in Soviet Turkmenistan -- Emancipation of the unveiled: Turkmen women under Soviet rule.…”
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Figures in black words, signs, and the "racial" self / by Gates, Henry Louis

Table of Contents: “…Wilson's Our Nig -- Dis and dat : dialect and the descent -- The same difference : reading Jean Toomer, 1923- 1983 -- Song of a racial self : on Sterling A. …”
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Culture, capitalism, and democracy in the New America by Brown, Richard Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Differences that make a difference : some exceptional features of the United States -- A peculiar democracy : race, class, and corporate power in the United States -- Ideology after the millennium : problems of legitimacy in American society -- Social movements, politics, and religion in a postliberal era -- The dialectics of American selfhood : individualism and identity in the United States -- Transformations of American space and time -- Genders and generations : new strains in the American family -- The postmodern transformation of art : from production of beauty to consumption of signs.…”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Culture, capitalism, and democracy in the New America by Brown, Richard Harvey

Table of Contents: “…Differences that make a difference : some exceptional features of the United States -- A peculiar democracy : race, class, and corporate power in the United States -- Ideology after the millennium : problems of legitimacy in American society -- Social movements, politics, and religion in a postliberal era -- The dialectics of American selfhood : individualism and identity in the United States -- Transformations of American space and time -- Genders and generations : new strains in the American family -- The postmodern transformation of art : from production of beauty to consumption of signs.…”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Derrida and Husserl the basic problem of phenomenology / by Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Genesis as the basic problem of phenomenology -- The critique of phenomenology : an investigation of "'Genesis and structure' and phenomenology" -- The critique of ontology : an investigation of "the ends of man" -- Upping the ante on dialectic : an investigation of Le problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl -- The root, that is necessarily one, of every dilemma : an investigation of the introduction to Husserl's The origin of geometry -- More metaphysical than metaphysics : an investigation of "violence and metaphysics" -- The test of the sign : an investigation of voice and phenomenon -- Looking for noon at two o'clock : an investigation of specters of Marx -- The final idea : memory and life.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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The Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…: becoming new men and women in Mary's Ministries -- Catholic evangelization : fighting "fire with fire" -- Corporate evangelizers :: a family's "vision" for South Phoenix -- Hope and healing : the dialectics of faith and place -- Conclusion : Grassroots Catholicism.…”
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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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The expression of gender /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and its relation to sex : the myth of 'natural gender' / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Gender determined dialect variation / Michael Dunn -- Ladies and gentlemen : word order and gender in English / Peter Hegarty -- Gender typology / Greville G. …”
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The expression of gender /

Table of Contents: “…Gender and its relation to sex : the myth of 'natural gender' / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Gender determined dialect variation / Michael Dunn -- Ladies and gentlemen : word order and gender in English / Peter Hegarty -- Gender typology / Greville G. …”
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Derrida and Husserl the basic problem of phenomenology / by Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Genesis as the basic problem of phenomenology -- The critique of phenomenology : an investigation of "'Genesis and structure' and phenomenology" -- The critique of ontology : an investigation of "the ends of man" -- Upping the ante on dialectic : an investigation of Le problème de la genèse dans la philosophie de Husserl -- The root, that is necessarily one, of every dilemma : an investigation of the introduction to Husserl's The origin of geometry -- More metaphysical than metaphysics : an investigation of "violence and metaphysics" -- The test of the sign : an investigation of voice and phenomenon -- Looking for noon at two o'clock : an investigation of specters of Marx -- The final idea : memory and life.…”
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Reading Hegel's Phenomenology by Russon, John Edward, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Sense, time, and my meaning -- From perception to philosophy -- Understanding : things, forces, and the body -- Death and desire in Hegel's epistemology : the form of Hegel's argument -- Reading and the body -- Hermeneutical pressure : intersubjectivity and objectivity -- The "freedom of self-consciousness" and early modern epistemology -- Reason and dualism -- Spirit and skepticism -- The contradictions of moral life : Hegel's critique of Kant -- Selfhood, conscience, and dialectic -- The ritual basis of self-identity -- Vision and image in Hegel's system -- Deciding to read : on the horizon (of Christianity) -- Absolute knowing : the structure and project of Hegel's system of science.…”
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The Virgin of el barrio Marian apparitions, Catholic evangelizing, and Mexican American activism / by Nabhan-Warren, Kristy

Table of Contents: “…: becoming new men and women in Mary's Ministries -- Catholic evangelization : fighting "fire with fire" -- Corporate evangelizers :: a family's "vision" for South Phoenix -- Hope and healing : the dialectics of faith and place -- Conclusion : Grassroots Catholicism.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view