Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba

John Kirk's thorough look at the Cathlolic church, from colonial times to the present, shores up his argument that many influences in Fidel Castro's Cuba have pre-revolutionary roots. Kirk explores Castro's views on religion and their effects on the Cuban Revolution.

KIRK, John M.

History

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Considering the basic elements of Heidegger's and Wittgenstein's thought, this book argues that the question of philosophical nihilism overturns the question of whether language can be represented as a set of rules to be followed by speakers.

The Authority of Language: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Threat of Philosophical Nihilism

Politics & Social Sciences

Edwards, James C.

Philosophy

Lois Roney reads the "Knight's Tale" as a pagan romance in which Chaucer has embedded a discussion of the theories of universal human nature and language use current in his day. In the persons of the two young knights, he brings to life the rival scholastic theories of psychology, the Aristotelian-Thomist in Arcite, the Augustinian-Franciscan in Palamon. In Theseus, Chaucer brings to life his own Christian humanist theory of universal human nature, concerned with human freedom and responsibility on the one hand and on the other, with the validity of figurative language to evoke Christian truths. He thus begins the "Canterbury Tales" by putting forward a complete theory of human nature and language use, which he apparently then tests out in the tales and the linking narratives. Roney suggests that we should consider Chaucer a major scholastic philosopher who added subjectivity and the value of worldly experience to the universal psychologies of his day, and who used language figuratively rather than literally.

Chaucer's Knight's Tale and Theories of Scholastic Psychology

Literature & Fiction

Roney, Lois

History & Criticism

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Job Analysis: And More : A Job Analysis Primer

Business & Money

Levine, Edward L.

Management & Leadership

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