Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions - The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade
This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other.
Top photographer Hope Dunne has known joy and heartbreak, and finds serenity through the lens of her camera. Content in her Soho loft, she isn't looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she flies to London to photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers.
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Classics and Comics
Since at least 1939, when daily-strip caveman Alley Oop time-traveled to the Trojan War, comics have been drawing (on) material from Greek and Roman myth, literature and history. At times the connection is cosmetic-as perhaps with Wonder Woman's Amazonian heritage-and at times it is almost irrelevant-as with Hercules' starfaring adventures in the 1982 Marvel miniseries. But all of these make implicit or explicit claims about the place of classics in modern literary culture.
Rule-Following and Meaning addresses issues of central importance to contemporary work in analytic philosophy of mind, language, and metaphysics, and there is no other anthology on these issues that takes account of Kripke's work and the ensuing literature.
Join Prakash, Bina and Sonu on their long walk to school across the mountains, across the jungle where a ferocious leopard lay in wait. Or join these friends on a road roller on their way to the Tehri Dam site.
