Search Results - "truth"

State repression and the labors of memory by Jelin, Elizabeth, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- Political struggles for memory -- History and social memory -- Trauma, testimony, and "truth" -- Engendered memories -- Transmissions, legacies, lessons.…”
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Business, human rights and transitional justice / by Pietropaoli, Irene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Business and human rights and transitional justice -- Nuremberg and international criminal law -- Regional human rights systems -- Domestic criminal and civil liability -- Truth seeking processes -- Administrative reparation programmes -- Institutional reform -- Conclusion…”
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Nietzsche's animal philosophy culture, politics, and the animality of the human being / by Lemm, Vanessa

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The animal in Nietzsche's philosophy -- Culture and civilization -- Politics and promise -- Culture and economy -- Giving and forgiving -- Animality, creativity, and historicity -- Animality, language, and truth -- Conclusion: Biopolitics and the question of animal life.…”
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Mission in context explorations inspired by J. Andrew Kirk /

Table of Contents: “…What is a mission? -- pt. 3. Truth in a pluralistic world -- pt. 4. Culture, education and religion.…”
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In praise of reason by Lynch, Michael P. (Michael Patrick), 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Hope and reason -- Neither slave nor master: reason, intuition and emotion -- "Nothing but dreams and smoke" -- Reasons end: tradition and common sense -- The "sacred tradition of humanity" -- Truth and the pathos of distance.…”
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Purifying Zen : Watsuji Tetsurō's Shamon Dōgen / by Watsuji, Tetsurō, 1889-1960

Table of Contents: “…Dōgen's period of self-cultivation -- The first sermon -- The method and meaning of self-cultivation -- Shinran's compassion and Dōgen's compassion -- Concerning excellence -- Concerning social problems -- Criticism of art -- Dogen's "truth."…”
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On private property finding common ground on the ownership of land / by Freyfogle, Eric T.

Table of Contents: “…Correcting the half-truths -- The lost right to roam -- Legal confusion and its fruit -- Property's functions and the right to develop -- When we should pay -- The responsible landowner: a bill of rights.…”
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Trust in texts : a different history of rhetoric / by Miller, Susan, 1942-2013

Table of Contents: “…Literature, "literature," and rhetorical truths. Rhetorical rhetoric and literary truth. The communicative essence of language : pure British tongues. …”
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Starting with Heidegger by Greaves, Thomas C.

Table of Contents: “…-- The fundamental tone of attunement -- Nothing to be anxious about -- The depths of boredom and love -- Meaning and truth -- Laying out understanding -- Disclosing and enclosing an horizon -- Decisive truths -- Excavating and sheltering the truth -- Time and space -- Extending our reach and making room -- Exploding, stretching and punctuating time -- Measuring out the dimension -- Ways of life and death -- The whole of life in death -- A call to indebted freedom -- Philosophy sacralised -- Origin and originality -- Original destruction -- History repeats itself -- Beginning again with the first beginning -- Arts and science : poetry and thought -- Undermining the academic divide -- Returning the arts and sciences to themselves -- The cult(ure) of technology -- Two cultures in one.…”
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Toward a civil discourse : rhetoric and fundamentalism / by Crowley, Sharon, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…On (not) arguing about religion and politics -- Speaking of rhetoric -- Belief and passionate commitment -- Apocalyptism -- Ideas do have consequences : apocalyptism and the Christian right -- The truth is out there : apocalyptism and conspiracy -- How beliefs change.…”
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History lesson a race odyssey / by Lefkowitz, Mary R., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Discovering afrocentrism -- Two views of ancient history -- Turning myths into history -- A new anti-Semitism -- Truth or slander? -- Reparations? -- A racist polemic? …”
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Speaking of information the Library juice quotation book / by Litwin, Rory

Table of Contents: “…On libraries -- Information technology -- Information control -- Censorship -- Copyright -- Data, information, knowledge & other wisdom -- Information overload -- On librarians -- Guardians of history -- Social responsibility -- Neutrality -- Liberty or slavery -- Truth & lie -- Secrecy.…”
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The metaphysics and ethics of relativism / by Rovane, Carol A. (Carol Anne), 1955-

Table of Contents: “…How to formulate the doctrine of relativism -- Prevailing consensus view: disagreement, relative truth and anti-realism -- Relativism as multimundialism -- Evaluating the doctrine of relativism -- Relativism concerning natural facts -- Relativism concerning moral values.…”
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Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place" / by Cameron, Ardis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : small talk -- The novel truth -- The sheep pen murder -- Scenes of writing -- The other side of writing -- The gendered eye -- Sex talk -- The women of Peyton Place -- Excitable fictions -- Epilogue : memento mori.…”
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The power of small : why little things make all the difference / by Kaplan Thaler, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Small truths -- Make small talk -- Go the extra inch -- Watch your cues and clues -- When little mistakes spell disaster -- Make it big by thinking small -- Small changes the world.…”

Introduction to Russian Realism : Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sholokhov / by Simmons, Ernest J. (Ernest Joseph), 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pushkin : the poet as novelist -- Gogol : live or dead souls -- Dostoevsky : a realist in the higher sense -- Tolstoy : my hero is truth -- Chekhov : it is impossible to deceive in art -- Sholokhov : literary artist and socialist realist.…”
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Every time I feel the Spirit religious experience and ritual in an African American church / by Nelson, Timothy Jon

Table of Contents: “…-- "On the battlefield" -- "In spirit and in truth" -- Sacrifice of praise -- Race, class, and religion -- Conclusion: belief, experience, and ritual.…”
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The theological origins of modernity by Gillespie, Michael Allen

Table of Contents: “…The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.…”
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Introduction to Russian Realism : Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Sholokhov / by Simmons, Ernest J. (Ernest Joseph), 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…Pushkin : the poet as novelist -- Gogol : live or dead souls -- Dostoevsky : a realist in the higher sense -- Tolstoy : my hero is truth -- Chekhov : it is impossible to deceive in art -- Sholokhov : literary artist and socialist realist.…”
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Dutch culture in the Golden Age by Price, J. L.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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