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Inessential Solidarity Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9780822961222
Pub Date: 14 Nov 2010
Description:
In Inessential Solidarity, Diane Davis examines critical intersections of rhetoric and sociality in order to revise some of rhetorical theoryÆs basic presumptions. Rather than focus on the arguments and symbolic exchanges through which social relations are defined, Davis exposes an underivable rhetorical imperative, an obligation to respond that is as undeniable as the obligation to age. Situating this response-ability as the condition for, rather than the effect of, symbolic interaction, Davis both dissolves contemporary concerns about linguistic overdetermination and calls into question long-held presumptions about rhetoricÆs relationship with identification, figuration, hermeneutics, agency, and judgment.

Elegguas

Elegguas Cover
Format: 
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780819569431
Pub Date: 05 Oct 2010
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780819580184
Pub Date: 02 Feb 2021
Series: The Driftless Series & Wesleyan Poetry Series
Description:
Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas-a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad-is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful, so that the ancestors may provide spiritual assistance and advice to those here on earth.
A Political Companion to Henry Adams Cover A Political Companion to Henry Adams Cover
Format: 
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780813125909
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2010
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Illustrations: None
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780813147383
Pub Date: 05 Aug 2014
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Illustrations: None
Description:
Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Education of Henry Adams, is often overlooked as a serious political thinker. Many scholars have dismissed his writings as cynical and bitter while others regard him as a mere observer of American politics, accepting Adams's description of himself as a "stable-companion to statesmen." A Political Companion to Henry Adams suggests that he was far more.
Golf and Philosophy Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813125947
Pub Date: 24 Sep 2010
Illustrations: none
Description:
In a game where players are expected to call their own penalties and scoring the least points leads to victory, decorum takes precedence over showmanship and philosophical questions become par for the course. Few other sports are as suited for ethical and metaphysical examination as golf. It is a game defined by dichotomies -- relaxing, yet frustrating, social, yet solitary -- and between these extremes there is room for much philosophical inquiry.
Paper Anniversary Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780822961246
Pub Date: 15 Sep 2010
Description:
Winner of the 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize “There is something in American poetry that might be called the book of the small town or, equally, the tale of the good family; or, if you like, the American Grafitti Suite. Poems that discover life’s bonuses in new love, wise parents, old books, venerable nature, and the mysteries of all that endures in the face of the viciousness no life escapes—are, well, worth the wait. That’s how I feel about Paper Anniversary.
Beiträge zur äthiopischen Grammatik und Etymologie Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 42
ISBN: 9781607240556
Pub Date: 13 Sep 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
A renowned linguist, Franz Praetorius explored several ancient languages in his career. This work concerns his observations of the grammar and various etymologies of Ethiopic. He accomplishes this by discussing 57 lexemes worthy of note and also considering nominal forms with prefixed t and the imperfect preformative with a.
Kural of Tiruvalluver Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 363
ISBN: 9781617194504
Pub Date: 13 Sep 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
The Kurals are the wisdom literature of the Tamils, at the southern cape of India; the Kural of Tiruvalluvar is the most famous of them. Text, modern Tamil paraphrase, and Latin translation, with English notes and glossary.
Animals All Are Gathering, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780822961215
Pub Date: 10 Sep 2010
Description:
Winner of the 2009 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry These poems address issues of death and personal crisis by filtering them through an obsession with monsters and animals. After an initial loss, the speaker of these poems tries to utilize different personae—monsters, people stuck in horror movies—before turning his attention to the dreamlike animals that stalk him. Eventually, the speaker tries to resolve the conflicts among the figures by creating a cobbled-together garden in which they can coexist.
Grammar of the Syriac Language Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 249
ISBN: 9781617194542
Pub Date: 09 Sep 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Abrohom Nuro Library
Description:
This is a thorough academic tutorial of the Syriac language beginning with its history and ending with the learning of the language itself.
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9780822961192
Pub Date: 30 Aug 2010
Description:
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.In recent decades, increased interest in this area has been accompanied by scholarsÆ willingness to conceive of animal experience in terms of human mental capacities: consciousness, self-awareness, intention, deliberation, and in some instances, at least limited moral agency. This conception has been facilitated by a shift from behavioral to cognitive ethology (the science of animal behavior), and by attempts to affirm the essential similarities between the psychophysical makeup of human beings and animals.
New Covenant Bound Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780813125992
Pub Date: 27 Aug 2010
Series: Kentucky Voices
Illustrations: 1 map
Description:
"Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help."Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator.
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 749
ISBN: 9781617196775
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
This revised and expanded translation of Grimm's New Testament dictionary lists the appearances of each word in the New Testament.
Anthologie grammaticale arabe Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 721
ISBN: 9781617197512
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Turath: The Arabic and Islamic Literary Tradition
Description:
An anthology of Arab writings on language and grammar, in the original Arabic with French translation and notes.
Aramaic Languages and their Study Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 58
ISBN: 9781617194597
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Abrohom Nuro Library
Description:
An Overview of the compilation and history of the Aramaic Language from various dialects.
Assyrische Lesestücke Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 197
ISBN: 9781617193347
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Grammars Archive
Description:
The classic introduction to Akkadian, for classes and self-study. It includes an extensive selection of readings, with grammar and cuneiform dictionary.
Babylonisch-Assyrisches Glossar Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 351
ISBN: 9781617196539
Pub Date: 13 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive
Description:
An Akkadian-German dictionary, with index detailed enough to serve as a German-Akkadian dictionary.