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Oh joy! oh rapture! the enduring phenomenon of Gilbert and Sullivan / by Bradley, Ian C.

Table of Contents: “…Something lingering : the enduring influence of Gilbert and Sullivan through the twentieth century -- A thing of shreds and patches : the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1961-1982 -- Unfriended, unprotected, and alone : the new D'Oyly Carte, 1988-2003 -- Virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances : professional productions, 1961-2004 -- Masculine insects with the morals of a Methodist : Gilbert and Sullivan fans -- Amateur tenors sing choruses in public : the world of amateur performance -- In this college, useful knowledge : G & S in schools and universities -- Things are seldom what they seem : parodies, spoofs, and spin-offs -- Maintaining with no little heat their various opinions : G & S scholarship, partisanship and appreciation -- Peep with security into futurity : Buxton it is!…”
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Dispositions and causal powers

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Bruno Gnassounou and Max Kistler -- Part I: The metaphysics of dispositions and causal powers -- Dispositions and counterfactuals : from Carnap to Goodman's children and grandchildren / François Schmitz -- Filled in space / Stephen Mumford -- Dispositions and essences / Claudine Tiercelin -- The causal efficacy of macroscopic dispositional properties / Max Kistler -- Opium's virtue dormitive / Cyrille Michon -- Conditional possibility / Bruno Gnassounou -- On ascribing dispositions / Ludger Jansen -- Part II: Dispositions and causal powers in science -- An extended semantic field of dispositions and the grounding role of causal powers / Rom Harré -- What makes a capacity a disposition? …”
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American Protestantism in the age of psychology by Muravchik, Stephanie, 1970-

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The American Deists : Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic / by Walters, Kerry S.

Table of Contents: “…/ Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney -- My own mind is my own church / Thomas Paine -- Reason, the glory of our nature / Elihu Palmer -- The reasoning power, celestial guest, the stamp upon the soul impress'd / Philip Freneau -- The temple of reason : indefense of pure religion -- Prospect, or, View of the moral world : virtue, the highest dignity of man --The theophilanthropist : the love of God and man -- Sources and permissions -- Bibliographic essay.…”
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Provocative syntax by Branigan, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The inner workings of provocation -- Virtues of provocation -- Clausal provocation -- Chain formation -- Provoking head movement -- Provocative case studies. …”
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Provocative syntax by Branigan, Phil

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The inner workings of provocation -- Virtues of provocation -- Clausal provocation -- Chain formation -- Provoking head movement -- Provocative case studies. …”
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Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism / by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Approaching the absolute -- Idealizing music -- Haydn's difference -- Entertaining possibilities in Haydn's symphonies -- Haydn, the string quartet, and the (d)evolution of the chamber ideal -- New world dualities -- Popular music contra German idealism: Anglo-American rebellions from minstrelsy to camp -- "Popular music" qua German idealism: authenticity and its outliers -- Musical virtues and vices in the latter-day new world -- Appendix A : More extended musical examples -- Appendix B : Listing of video examples from films.…”
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Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism / by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Approaching the absolute -- Idealizing music -- Haydn's difference -- Entertaining possibilities in Haydn's symphonies -- Haydn, the string quartet, and the (d)evolution of the chamber ideal -- New world dualities -- Popular music contra German idealism: Anglo-American rebellions from minstrelsy to camp -- "Popular music" qua German idealism: authenticity and its outliers -- Musical virtues and vices in the latter-day new world -- Appendix A : More extended musical examples -- Appendix B : Listing of video examples from films.…”
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! …”
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Forging Napoleon's Grande Armée motivation, military culture, and masculinity in the French army, 1800-1808 / by Hughes, Michael J., 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : military culture and motivation in the armies of Napoleon -- From the coasts of the ocean to the snows of Poland : the grande Armée and Napoleonic military culture -- Honneur, gloire, et patrie : honor in Napoleon's legions -- Imperial virtue : the evolution of French patriotism -- Napoleon's manhood : sex and martial masculinity in the French army -- Clothing the new emperor : creating the cult of Napoleon -- The emperor's grognards : the officer corps -- Devoted soldiers and reluctant conquerors : the rank-and-file -- Conclusion : vive l'empereur! …”
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Corporate ethics for turbulent markets : executive response to market challenges / by Mascarenhas, Oswald

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Prologue: Corporate ethical response to turbulent markets -- The ethics of dignity of the human person -- The ethics of corporate executive virtues -- The ethics of corporate trusting relations -- The ethics of corporate ethical and moral charismatic leadership -- The ethics of corporate critical thinking -- The ethics of corporate stakeholder rights and duties -- The ethics of corporate moral reasoning, moral judgment, and moral justification -- The ethics of corporate legal, ethical, moral, and spiritual (LEMS) responsibility -- Corporate cosmic spirituality for today -- References -- Author index -- Company index -- Subject index.…”
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Corporate ethics for turbulent markets : executive response to market challenges / by Mascarenhas, Oswald

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Prologue: Corporate ethical response to turbulent markets -- The ethics of dignity of the human person -- The ethics of corporate executive virtues -- The ethics of corporate trusting relations -- The ethics of corporate ethical and moral charismatic leadership -- The ethics of corporate critical thinking -- The ethics of corporate stakeholder rights and duties -- The ethics of corporate moral reasoning, moral judgment, and moral justification -- The ethics of corporate legal, ethical, moral, and spiritual (LEMS) responsibility -- Corporate cosmic spirituality for today -- References -- Author index -- Company index -- Subject index.…”
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Bodily citations religion and Judith Butler /

Table of Contents: “…Ville -- Textual bodies -- Materializations of virtue : Buddhist discourses on bodies / Susanne Mrozik -- The Garden of Eden and the heterosexual contract / Ken Stone -- The annoying woman : biblical scholarship after Judith Butler / Teresa J. …”
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The Blackwell guide to Kant's ethics

Table of Contents: “…Kerstein -- Why Kant needs the second-person standpoint / Stephen Darwall -- Justice : private, public, and international right -- Kant on law and justice / Arthur Ripstein -- Kant on punishment / Nelson Potter -- Kant's vision of a just world order / Thomas Pogge -- Virtue : love, respect, and duties to oneself -- Beneficence and other duties of love in The metaphysics of morals / Marcia Baron and Melissa Seymour Fahmy -- Duties to oneself, duties of respect to others / Allen Wood -- Retrospective -- Reflections on the enduring value of Kant's ethics / Arnulf Zweig.…”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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The right to play oneself looking back on documentary film / by Waugh, Thomas, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : of pulses, panaceas, and parallel universes -- Why documentary filmmakers keep trying to change the world, or why people changing the world keep making documentaries (1984) -- Dziga Vertov, 1930s populism, and Three songs of Lenin (1975) -- Bread, water, blood, rifles, planes : documentary imagery of the Spanish Civil War from the North American Popular Front (1990) -- Acting to play oneself : performance in documentary (1990) -- Beyond Vøritø : Emile de Antonio (1977) -- Sufficient virtue, necessary artistry : the shifting challenges of revolutionary documentary history (2006-08) -- Lesbian and gay documentary : minority self-imaging, oppositional film practice, and the question of image ethics (1984) -- Walking on tippy toes : lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period (1997) -- "Words of command" : cultural and political inflections of direct cinema in Indian independent documentary (1990) -- Joris Ivens and the legacy of committed documentary (1999).…”
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Lineages of European political thought explorations along the medieval/modern divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel / by Nederman, Cary J.

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of Walter Ullmann -- Quentin Skinner's state: historical methodology and the formation of a European tradition -- Pathologies of continuity: the neo-figgisites -- A middle path: Alexander Passerin D'entrèves -- Toleration and community: functionalist foundations of liberty -- The royal will and the baronial bridle: the Bractonian contribution -- Political representation: modern theory and medieval practices -- For love and money: theorizing revolt in fourteenth-century Europe -- Brunetto Latini's commercial republicanism -- Marsiglio of Padua: between empire and republic -- Translatio Imperii: medieval and modern -- Christianity and republicanism: another look -- The origins of "policy" in twelfth-century England -- Economic liberty and the politics of wealth -- Money and community: Nicole Oresme -- Christine de Pizan's Expanding body politic -- The persistence of economic nationalism: John Fortescue -- Virtue, foresight, and grace: Machiavelli's medieval moments -- Arguing sovereignty in the seventeenth century: Bracton's readers -- Hegel on the medieval foundations of the modern state.…”
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Ethics of procreation and the defense of human life contraception, artificial fertilization, and abortion / by Rhonheimer, Martin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Natural law and the thomistic roots of John Paul II's ethics of human life -- Sexuality and responsibility: contraception as an ethical problem -- The post-conciliar state of the question on contraception: the encyclical, relevant case, arguments, and description of contraception -- Toward an adequate argument in support of humanae vitae: the necessary integration of anthropology, action theory, virtue, and natural law -- The use of contraceptives under threat of rape: an exception? …”
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The Blackwell guide to Kant's ethics

Table of Contents: “…Kerstein -- Why Kant needs the second-person standpoint / Stephen Darwall -- Justice : private, public, and international right -- Kant on law and justice / Arthur Ripstein -- Kant on punishment / Nelson Potter -- Kant's vision of a just world order / Thomas Pogge -- Virtue : love, respect, and duties to oneself -- Beneficence and other duties of love in The metaphysics of morals / Marcia Baron and Melissa Seymour Fahmy -- Duties to oneself, duties of respect to others / Allen Wood -- Retrospective -- Reflections on the enduring value of Kant's ethics / Arnulf Zweig.…”
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The promise of liberty a non-utopian vision / by Machan, Tibor R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Why moral judgments can be objective -- Theorists versus their theories : the case of agent causation -- Ethics and its controversial assumptions -- Individualism and human success -- Virtue, liberty, and private property : aspects of humanist political economy -- Economic analysis and the pursuit of liberty -- Human rights and poverty -- Rights, values, regulation, and health care -- The morality of smoking -- Philosophy, physics, and common sense -- The calculation problem and the tragedy of the commons -- Government budget crises -- Some reflections on the right to private property -- Revisiting a critique of libertarianism -- Leo Strauss, neo-conservative? …”
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