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Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural linguistic and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in closed societies. The research shows how most locutions about freedom uttered during early modern Iran were formed within the horizon of the question of Iran’s decline and were somehow related to remedying such situations. It challenges previous studies which employed Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative freedom as two fundamentally different concepts of freedom. It replaces Berlin’s dichotomy of positive and negative liberties with MacCallum’s triadic concept of freedom and argues that thinkers in early modern Iran could noticeably present rival interpretations of three variables of the concept of freedom namely the agent the constraint and the purpose of freedom. Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is a unique contribution to the histories of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution in Iran and comparative political thinking between Iran and Europe. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in Constitutionalism History Political Theory and Sociology within Middle Eastern Studies. | Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

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The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

This book examines the factors and issues responsible for the intra-Palestinian conflict that has undermined the strength and vitality of the struggle for liberation against the state of Israel. It explores how the ideological incompatibility and competition for political primacy account for the Hamas–Fatah conflict entailing the risk of partition of Palestine even before it takes shape as an independent sovereign entity. It analyzes the developments since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo Accord and discusses themes such as the background of Palestinian politics; the role of Fatah; the rise of Hamas as Fatah’s political rival; the Hamas–Fatah struggle for power; and the role played by the international community including by the US and the European Union. The study deals with the various facets of territorial and political challenges faced by the rival Palestinian actions; the failure of the reconciliation efforts by Egypt and Yemen; the stalled peace process in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the emergence of the Islamic resistance movement and secular nationalist party; and the political and ideological shifts in Palestinian politics. Comprehensive and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of West Asian studies peace and conflict studies politics and international relations foreign policy political studies area studies and strategic and defence studies. | The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

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The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the earliest declaration of Paul’s apostleship and of his undying commitment to the risen Christ. It notes the subtleties of the Greek original against the backdrop of an exciting glimpse of Quranic Arabic parallels and differences. It asks: Does Paul qualify as a prophet of Allah (God)? The thoughts of Paul are assessed by examining his claims against the background of Islam’s rival views of Abraham and his legacy. The Arabic Quran framed and inspired the life of the Arab Apostle Muhammad who was sent according to Islam to all humanity Jewish and Gentile alike. Pauline themes are set in dialectical tension with the claims of the Quran. Akhtar compares and contrasts the two rival faiths with regard to: the resources of human nature the salvation of the sinner and the status of the works of the law. Both Christians and Muslims concur on the need for God’s grace an essential condition of success in the life of faith. The core Pauline Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone is scrutinised and assessed from a variety of non-Christian especially Islamic stances. Providing an Islamic view of Christian origins this book helps to build bridges between the two religions. It will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Biblical Studies Islamic Studies and the Philosophy of Religion. | The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

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Schizophrenia and Parenting

Schizophrenia and Parenting

First published in 1999 this volume examines the history of psychiatry and pathogenic parenting models over the past two centuries and contains the results of a study carried out by the author on the experiences of the parents of patients with Schizophrenia drawn from a sample of parents of patients in a forensic and a community setting. Michael Ferriter draws out the themes of the rival claims of organic and non-organic explanations of disorder therapeutic optimism and therapeutic pessimism and rivalry between the medical professions and the non-medical for supremacy in the treatment of the mentally disordered. Ferriter further explores the issues of blame and guilt the quality of interaction between mental health professionals and parents and the relevance of attribution theory as an explanation of why parents might still experience self-blame even when they have nothing to blame themselves for. | Schizophrenia and Parenting

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Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

This book explores how polarised interpretations of America’s past influence the present and vice versa. A focus on competing Protestant reactions to President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ slogan evidences a fundamental divide over how America should remember historical racism sexism and exploitation. Additionally these Protestants disagree over how the past influences present injustice and equality. The 2020 killing of George Floyd forced these rival histories into the open. Rowley proposes that recovering a complex view of the past confessing the bad and embracing the good might help Americans have a shared memory that can bridge polarisation and work to secure justice and equality. An accessible and timely book this is essential reading for those concerned with the vexed relationship of religion and politics in the United States including students and scholars in the fields of Protestantism history political science religious studies and sociology. | Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

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Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

Psychological Criminology explores what is it about individuals and their experiences that causes them to commit crime and/or to become criminal. Fully updated to include the latest theories and research this new edition provides comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. It arranges theories in temporal sequence from distal to proximal causes of crime and is organised under three key headings: theories that focus on factors present at birth (human nature heredity); theories that focus on factors that influence the offender over the lifespan (learning and development); theories that focus on factors present at the crime scene. The book emphasises the connections among the different approaches and demonstrates how taken together rather than as rival explanations they provide a more complete picture of crime and criminality. Psychological Criminology highlights the contributions that psychological theory can make to the broader field of criminology. It is essential reading for students academics researchers and practitioners in both criminology and forensic psychology. | Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

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Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Despite historic summits and spectacular acts of reconciliation between the rival neighbours promises of improved cross-border relations between North and South Korea have been slow to materialize. In this insightful book Gabriel Jonsson examines the impact that increased levels of socio-cultural contact has had on inter-Korean relations the concrete results that have been achieved and how such contact has contributed to closer relations and offers the prospect of reconciliation. With reference to lessons from the German and Yemeni unification the book examines the development of inter-Korean relations and presents a fascinating view of South Korean perceptions of their neighbours. The book also details the wider political sphere of influence with an analysis of the positions of the United States Japan China and Russia on Korean unity. Based primarily on Korean language sources this volume provides completely unique perspectives on Korean unity. | Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

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Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against the arts and humanities. Scientists generally laud and seek convergence. Artists and humanists deplore amalgamation as a threat to humane values. These opposing perspectives flamed into hostility in the 1950s Two Cultures clash. They culminate today in new efforts to conjoin insights into physical nature and human culture and new fears lest such syntheses submerge what the arts and humanities most value. This book stemming from David Lowenthal’s inaugural Stockholm Archipelago Lectures explores the Two Cultures quarrel’s underlying ideologies. Lowenthal shows how ingrained bias toward unity or diversity shapes major issues in education religion genetics race relations heritage governance and environmental policy. Aimed at a general academic audience Quest for the Unity of Knowledge especially targets those in conservation ecology history of ideas museology and heritage studies.

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Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institutions rituals and iconography. Originally published in 2003 Santería Enthroned combines art history cultural anthropology and ethnohistory to show how Africans and their descendants have developed novel forms of religious practice in the face of relentless oppression. Focusing on the royal throne as a potent metaphor in Santería belief and practice it shows how negotiations among ideologically competing interests have shaped the religion’s symbols rituals and institutions from the nineteenth century to the present. Rich case studies of change in Cuba and the United States including a New Jersey temple and South Carolina’s Oyotunji Village reveal patterns of innovation similar to those found among rival Yoruba kingdoms in Nigeria. Throughout the book argues for a theoretical perspective on culture as a field of potential strategies and usuable pasts that actors draw upon to craft new forms and identities – a perspective that will be invaluable to all students of the African Diaspora. | Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

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Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities. Identity theories have emphasised that the construction of an identity does not follow abstract and universal processes but is also deeply rooted in specific historical cultural social and material environments. The essays in this volume explore how various groups in Late Antiquity rooted their identity in special places that were imbued with meanings derived from history and tradition. In Part I essays explore the tension between the Classical heritage in public especially urban spaces in the form of ancient artwork and civic celebrations and the Church's appropriation of that space through doctrinal disputes and rival public performances. Parts II and III investigate how particular locations expressed and formed the theological and social identities of Christian and Jewish groups by bringing together fresh insights from the archaeological and textual evidence. Together the essays here demonstrate how the use and interpretation of shared spaces contributed to the self-identity of specific groups in Late Antiquity and in so doing issued challenges and caused conflict with other social and religious groups. | Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

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Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model one of the most authoritative persuasion theories. The book’s analysis concentrates on the expression of cues or cognitive mental shortcuts in Darwin-sceptic and counter-creationist broadcasts. A multiyear collection of media generated by the most prominent Darwin-sceptic organizations is surveyed along with rival publications from supporters of evolutionary theory described as the pro-evolutionists. The analysed materials include works produced by Young Earth Creationist and Intelligent Design media makers New Atheist pacesetters as well as both agnostic and religious supporters of evolution. These cues are shown to function as subtle but effective means of shaping public opinion including appeals to expertise claims that ideas are being censored and the tactical use of statistics and technical jargon. Contending that persuasive mass media is a decisive component of science-religion controversies this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion Science and Religion interactions as well as researchers of Media and Communication Studies more generally. *Winner ISSR 2021 Book Prize* | Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

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Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

By 1976 the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100 000 votes in London. In response an anti-fascist campaign was born which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977 fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two hundred people arrested and fifty policemen injured. The press urged the state to ban two rival sets of dangerous extremists. But as the papers took sides so did many others who determined to oppose the Front. Through the Anti-Nazi League hundreds of thousands of people painted out racist graffiti distributed leaflets and persuaded those around them to vote against the right. This combined movement was one of the biggest mass campaigns that Britain has ever seen. This book tells the story of the National Front and the campaign which stopped it. | Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

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Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values beliefs and institutions were neither endlessly varied nor haphazardly organized. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation and were organized in discoverable predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis the fourth collection of his essays posthumously published by Transaction Wildavsky argues that American politics public law and public administration are the contested terrain of rival inescapable political cultures. Analysts of American politics distinguish liberals from conservatives and Democrats from Republicans but do not explain how these categories of political allegiance develop maintain themselves or change. Wildavsky offers a cultural-functional explanation for ideological and partisan coherence and realignment. Wildavsky also felt that these dualisms did not adequately capture the ideological and partisan variation he observed on the political landscape. Like others he detected another recurring strain of political allegiance: that of classical liberalism or libertarianism. People of this political stripe valued freedom more than equality (the primary political value of contemporary liberals) and also more than order the primary political value of conservatives. The value of Wildavsky's reconceptualization of the ideological and social foundations of political conflict compromise and coalition is assessed here by Wildavsky's former colleagues and students at the University of California Berkeley: Dennis Coyle Richard Ellis Robert Kagan Austin Ranney and Brendon Swedlow. | Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

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Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar and between the Mauritanian Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Al Nahyans the rulers of Abu Dhabi and senior royal family in the United Arab Emirates. These relationships stretch back decades to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. Using this history as a foundation the book examines the connections between Qaradawi’s and Bin Bayyah’s rival projects and the development of Qatar’s and the UAE’s competing state-brands and foreign policies. It raises questions about how to theorize the relationships between the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama) and the nation-state. Over the course of the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis Qaradawi and Bin Bayyah shaped the Al Thani’s and Al Nahyan’s competing ideologies in important ways. Offering new ways for academics to think about Doha and Abu Dhabi as hegemonic centers of Islamic scholarly authority alongside historical centers of learning such as Cairo Medina or Qom this book will appeal to those with an interest in modern Islamic authority the ulama Gulf politics as well as the Arab Spring and its aftermath. | Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

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Mohammed VI's Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development

Mohammed VI's Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development

This book analyzes the economic development choices initiated by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI since he ascended the throne in 1999 and situates those choices in the political economy development literature. Examining the policies enacted by the King the authors argue that over the past twenty years Mohammed VI has achieved some outstanding successes in modernizing the foundational economic sectors of Morocco but the benefits of this development have not reached all Moroccans. With its focus on economic development this book explores the way in which Mohammed VI’s development strategies have in part resembled the neoliberal model advocated by Western powers and institutions as well as how the King also adopted some of the European practices of state intervention found in the varieties of capitalism models across Europe. Additionally Mohammed VI’s Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development looks at the way in which the King has sought to utilize leap frog technologies so that Morocco has become a leader in certain productive sectors and is not just catching up to rival producers. The book also examines the extent to which Moroccan citizens have benefited from the economic transformations arguing that not all Moroccans have benefited; many Moroccan citizens in 2019 echo the same economic concerns that were voiced in 1999 when King Mohammed VI first assumed the throne. With its focus on economic development this book will be of interest not only to scholars and students of Middle East and North African Studies but also Economics International Development and Politics. | Mohammed VI's Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development

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Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Vladimir Mikhailovitch Bekhterev was a pioneering Russian neurologist psychiatrist and psychologist. A highly esteemed rival of Ivan Pavlov his achievements in the areas of personality clinical psychology and political and social psychology were recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Publication of the complete text of Collective Reflexology brings to the English-speaking world this brilliant scientist's final theoretical statements on how reflexological principles which he had been developing over a quarter century can be extended far beyond analysis of the individual personality. Bekhterev's work grows out of his interest in group psychology and suggestion. This concept of the reflex is much broader than Pavlov's. It is applicable to every variety of life. Bekhterev compared his own analyses to those of other European thinkers such as Comte LeBon and Sorokin. Such analyses strained against the official Marxist-Leninist doctrines of the era. Bekhterev died in 1927 allegedly of poisoning by Stalin's henchman. As with many scientists during the Soviet era his legacy was suppressed. In the normal course of events his name would have been as well known as that of Freud Pavlov or more lately B. F. Skinner. This first publication of Bekhterev's great work in English fills a void in the fields of psychology sociology and the history of science. V. M. Bekhterev was director of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and founded there its Psychoneurological Institute. Among his many books are Suggestion: Its Role in Social Life (available from Transaction) and The Subject Matter and Goals of Social Psychology. Lloyd H. Strickland is professor of psychology at Carleton University. He is the author of numerous journal articles and editor of Directions in Soviet Social Psychology and Soviet and Western Perspectives in Social Psychology. Bekhterev (1857-1927) is a formidable figure and his work continues to deserve careful study. Canadian Psychology | Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imagined discovery of gold - and silver-bearing ore in Meta Incognita (the Unknown Limits) as Elizabeth I had named the forbidding and icy landscape which Frobisher and seventeen mariners had first sighted two years earlier. This was to be the English nation's first experience of a 'gold-rush' and if many refused to be swayed by the promise of an empire to rival that of Spain others including the Queen herself and many of her Privy Councillors allowed their cupidity to override all caution. As the likelihood of future profits was downgraded in successive assays of the mineral samples the adventurers accepted that a much larger expedition would be required to extract sufficient ore to provide an adequate return upon monies already spent. The result - a fleet of fifteen ships crewed by almost five hundred men - remains the largest fleet ever to have visited Baffin Island. Their travails in arctic seas near-comic failures of navigation and the backbreaking task of mining the largest possible amount of mineral ore in the time allowed by the brief arctic summer were recorded in an unsurpassed body of eyewitness reports all of which for the first time have been assembled in a single volume. Supplemented by extremely detailed and opprobrious (though substantially accurate) accusations regarding Frobisher's role in this enterprise by his ex-partner the merchant Michael Lok these records provide a graphic poignant and often humorous picture of a voyage which foreshadowed the glorious failures of a later age of English empire-building. | The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

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Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

Designed as a text for both graduate and undergraduate students this book originally published in 1995 presents an intrapsychic explanation of human behaviour – concepts based on psychological processes and ‘structures’ within the mind. In this context a unique treatment of personality theory is introduced. It focuses on Freud Kelly and Angyal: Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality based on desires Kelly’s personal construct theory for thinking and Angyal’s holistic concepts of personality. Each theory is given a detailed analysis in separate chapters. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is cast as a theory of motivation Kelly’s personal construct theory as a theory of cognition and then it is noted that there is no comprehensive theory of personality based on emotion. Although Angyal’s holistic theory is rarely described in modern textbooks Lester includes this because none of the other holistic theorists rival Angyal in their range of hypothetical constructs or descriptive terms. Then in sections dealing with alternative viewpoints the author shows how other personality theorists actually endorse and expand upon the ideas expressed by the aforementioned three albeit with different terminology. Recognizing the diversity of holistic views in theories of personality several counterpoint chapters are devoted to the holistic ideas. Lester separates these into three major areas: theorists who have focused on the split in the mind between the real and ideal self; recent theorists who explore the possibility that the mind is a ‘multiplicity of selves’; and theorists who though not having their viewpoints sufficiently articulated in the literature are still well established in the history of psychology. Other features include a presentation of the material in modern viewpoints instead of the precise and perhaps outdated style as written by the individual theorists and boxed highlights in each section providing students with practical capsule information for easy reading. | Theories of Personality A Systems Approach

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Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

This book illustrates how a dominant political party the Mapai under the leadership of P. M. David Ben-Gurion chose to ‘hug ’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families ’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party Herut led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War of Independence – were Hagana Members one of three Israeli undergrounds movements associated with Mapai specific ideological viewpoint. By that - the Israeli state created political legitimacy and dominance for Mapai – which was framed as the only political party which were involved with the struggle for national independence. Her fighters battles and casualties became part of the collective memory and national ethos. This project was implemented by refusing to acknowledge the Other casualties of the Eztel and Lehi underground movements wich were ideological identified with Herut Party. The state excluded their bereaved families from the wider official military bereavement circle and forced them to experience disenfranchised grief With no access to official commemoration or to rehabilitative support. It was only after the Likud's (ex-Herut) victory in the 1977 elections that enabled P. M. Menachem Begin to correct this exile from national identity and to initiate the inclusion of His fighters and casualties to the military cemeteries to the history books and to the state commemorations as recognizing their families as part of the National Military Bereavement circles entitled to Honors and support. A thought provoking study about the dark side of the Israeli nation building era Politics of Memory explores the politics of historiography bereavement and military commemoration and the confrontation over boundaries of national pantheon examining the effects of these factors on Israel | Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

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Xenophon’s Socratic Works

Xenophon’s Socratic Works

Xenophon’s Socratic Works demonstrates that Xenophon a student of Socrates military man and man of letters is an indispensable source for our understanding of the life and philosophy of Socrates. David M. Johnson restores Xenophon’s most ambitious Socratic work the Memorabilia (Socratic Recollections) to its original literary context enabling readers to experience it as Xenophon’s original audience would have rather than as a pale imitation of Platonic dialogue. He shows that the Memorabilia together with Xenophon’s Apology provides us with our best evidence for the trial of Socrates and a comprehensive and convincing refutation of the historical charges against Socrates. Johnson’s account of Socrates’ moral psychology shows how Xenophon’s emphasis on control of the passions can be reconciled with the intellectualism normally attributed to Socrates. Chapters on Xenophon’s Symposium and Oeconomicus (Estate Manager) reveal how Xenophon used all the literary tools of Socratic dialogue to defend Socratic sexual morality (Symposium) and debate the merits and limits of conventional elite values (Oeconomicus). Throughout the book Johnson argues that Xenophon’s portrait of Socrates is rich and coherent and largely compatible with the better-known portrait of Socrates in Plato. Xenophon aimed not to provide a rival portrait of Socrates Johnson shows but to supplement and clarify what others had said about Socrates. Xenophon’s Socratic Works thus provides readers with a far firmer basis for reconstruction of the trial of Socrates a key moment in the history of Athenian democracy and for our understanding of Socrates’ seminal impact on Greek philosophy. This volume introduces Xenophon’s Socratic works to a wide range of readers from undergraduate students encountering Socrates or ancient philosophy for the first time to scholars with interests in Socrates or ancient philosophy more broadly. It is also an important resource for readers interested in Socratic dialogue as a literary form the trial of Socrates Greek sexual morality (the central topic of Xenophon’s Symposium) or Greek social history (for which the Oeconomicus is a key text).

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