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Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books; eyes or fingertips scan text. This title examines three somatic figures of speech: the touch, the fold, and the cut.

Does the philosophy of Heidegger represent the emergence of a secular anthropology that requires religious thought to redefine the religious dimension in human existence? In this critical response, Lacoste confronts the ultimate definition of human nature, the humanity of the human.

In the context of Holderlin's poetics of alienation, exile, and wandering, Gosetti-Ferencei poses a phenomenologically sensitive theory of poetic language and a "new poetics of Dasein," or being there.

In an age when so much violence is committed in the name of religion, how can religion become a vehicle for peace? A historic conference focused on the transformative powers of Christianity, Islam and Judaism to provide new beginnings for people of faith committed to the restoration of peace.

Francis C. Barlow rose from lieutenant to general, suffered two serious wounds in combat, and played critical roles in battles at Fair Oaks, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. Presented here, his war correspondence offers insight into a civilian learning the realities of war and the burdens of command.

This work brings together in one volume a collection of encounters with some of the most significant philosophers of our time. Here, he brings together eighteen conversations.

Here, Mark Knight offers an analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton's fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton's work among theological and cultural concerns of his age.

Difference has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy. This book offers reflections on what ideas and practices will drive the next generation of critical thinking.

Includes essays that explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. This book explores threats to human welfare from terrorism and gender exploitation and assess international law, and the media.

"Truly a cabinet of curiosities, each poem a collage of surprising or remembered details, opening onto further marvels. The effect is vertiginous-and exhilarating. Scott Hightower has Marianne Moore's scissors and Elizabeth Bishop's spectacles, and he has written a book in the spirit of their adventurous precisions." J. D. McClatchy

"A marvelous story... will be consulted as long as World War II and the Spanish Civil War are studied... Cane is a very good writer." Frank F. Mathias, author of The GI Generation: A Memoir

This is the memoir of James F. Gill. A senior partner at a New York City law firm, Gill has quietly made his mark in the rarefied worlds of business and politics while distinguishing himself as a determined and idealistic advocate of the public interest.

These essays, written in honour of 18th-century Romantic scholar John L. Mahoney, explore the intersection of Romanticism and religion. They range from broad considerations of this relationship in several Romantic writers, to close readings of individual poems.

This text looks at the classroom in church-related higher education. It seeks to answer the question of how religious issues can be raised legitimately and sensitively in daily classroom practice. It provides a variety of practical teaching strategies for liberal arts faculty members.

Probably no theologian has exercised so profound an influence on Catholic theology during the last half century as Karl Rahner. This book examines the structure of dialectical analogy as it appears in each of the major themes of Rahner's theology-as an indispensable key to the correct interpretation of his thought.

In the third text in the phenomenological trilogy that includes "Reduction and Givenness" and "Being Given", Jean-Luc Marion renews his argument for a phenomenology of givenness, with penetrating analyses of the phenomena of event, idol, flesh and icon.

Don Cupitt is best known for the "non-realistic" doctrine of God, which he first put forward in 1980. This is a collection of his essays written over 20 years, that show him developing his distinctive theology before a variety of audiences.

Focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabs to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's death of Godhypothesis, the divine-human relation.

This work tells the colourful story of the Bronx, starting with its development as a New York suburb and boomtown when hundreds of thousands of immigrants flowed into the borough. This edition includes a new final chapter describing the rebuilding of the borough by grass-roots groups since 1984.

In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas, Marion, and Henry in attempting to join philosophy and religion after Kant, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the building of rail tunnels under the Hudson River linking New Jersey and New York.

"Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of."-Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University

This title offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard as a precursor of the ethical and political insights of Jacques Derrida. It argues that the affiliations between the two run much deeper than previously suggested. It seeks to show how postmodern and political Kierkegaard's "religious" ideas are.

Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. is an absorbing and readable biography of one of the most important Supreme Court Justices since World War II.

In this era of "devolution" the American federal government has been increasingly removed from the provision of services and support to vulnerable populations. This book presents a framework for understanding the impact of these developments on the practice of social work.

Abner Small served as a non-commissioned officer in the Third Maine Infantry during the summer of 1861, experiencing battle for the first time at First Bull Run. As a recruiting officer, he helped to raise the Sixteenth Maine Infantry and served as its adjutant. This book tells his story.

Close reading and analysis of ten major life stories, from Mohandas Gandhi and Black Elk to Dorothy Day, Malcolm X, and Rigoberta Menchu.

Rhonheimer applies moral theology to practical questions, such as, what does it mean to violate the natural law, or to be "unnatural"?

A complete history of the ferryboats which once operated across the Hudson River to Manhatten fron New Jersey and that were owned and operated by various railroad companies in conjunction with their commuter and long distance trains. This work also covers the Staten Island Ferry.