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  • CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
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    CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    This volume of Culture and Civilization focuses on cosmopolitanism, the global polity, and political ramifications of globalization. The introduction by Gabriel R. Ricci establishes context and provides an overview of the entire work. Topics include the history of globalization, climate change policy, ecological consequences of development, concepts of civilization, human right...

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  • TIME CONSCIOUSNESS
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    TIME CONSCIOUSNESS
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    Traditional metaphysics is hostile to the world of the senses. From Plato to Kant, philosophers have demanded that the sensuous and corporeal aspects of existence be circumscribed by rational conditions and properties. Without these, the sensuous is unintelligible. This elevation of the ability to reason as quintessentially human has obscured efforts to acknowledge the pivotal ...

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  • JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
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    JUSTICE AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    Memory is not a mere repository for past events. This was Henri Bergson's fundamental claim about consciousness. In distinguishing our psychic constitution by its sense of the past, Bergson differentiates our perception of time from a process in which one instant merely replaces another. While Bergson cast his ideas in terms of the biological sciences, his analysis did not negl...

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  • TRAVEL, DISCOVERY, TRANSFORMATION
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    TRAVEL, DISCOVERY, TRANSFORMATION
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    This latest volume in the Culture & Civilization series gathers interdisciplinary voices to present a collection of essays on travel and travel narratives. The essays span a range of topics from iconic ancient travel stories to modern tourism. They discuss travel in the ancient world, modern heroic travels, the literary culture of missionary travel, the intersection of fiction ...

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  • TRAVEL, TOURISM, AND IDENTITY
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    TRAVEL, TOURISM, AND IDENTITY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    Travel, Tourism and Identity addresses the psychological and social adjustments that occur when people make contact with others outside their social, cultural, or linguistic groups. Whether such contact is the result of tourism, seeking exile, or relocating abroad, the volume's contributors demonstrate how one's identity, cultural assumptions, and worldview can be brought into ...

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  • THE TEMPO OF MODERNITY
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    THE TEMPO OF MODERNITY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    The present work is a study in the history of an enduring idea that defines the inner life of the mind and also supplied a substratum for the twentieth-century literary imagination and substance for philosophical thinking, producing a unique alliance between philosophy and literature. This special union was forged by a new holistic conception of time which supplemented, and eve...

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  • VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY
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    VALUES AND TECHNOLOGY
    JAMES BURK / GABRIEL R. RICCI
    In 1749 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, surprised leading Enlightenment thinkers who had enthusiastically upheld the positive benefits of humanity's technological advance. Voltaire, who celebrated the ends of civilization, mocked Rousseau's praise for an original creative state of nature in which man enjoyed an optimum level of freedom. Given the unp...

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  • FAITH, WAR, AND VIOLENCE
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    FAITH, WAR, AND VIOLENCE
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    Faith, War, and Violence analyzes the age-old links between religion and violence perpetrated in the name of God, and the role religion performs in politically infusing the state with romantic spiritualism. The volume examines instances of this phenomenon from ancient Rome to the modern day; it finds that religion-inspired violence is not restricted to Abrahamic faiths or to on...

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  • MORALITY AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
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    MORALITY AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a prediction that he was soon to die and that he ought to renounce poetry. The prophecy came from an elder renowned for his piety, but Petrarch admonished that too often dishonesty and f...

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  • POLITICS IN THEOLOGY
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    POLITICS IN THEOLOGY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective. Contributors address specific moments in which political governance intersects with religious ideals in dramatic ways. These moments question the relationship between religious sentiments and political solutions and threaten to reorder the geopolitical landscape. These essays ...

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  • THE PERSISTENCE OF CRITICAL THEORY
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    THE PERSISTENCE OF CRITICAL THEORY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical theory, which challenges the limits of positivism and materialism. We may question how the theoretical framework of Marxism f...

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  • THE PERSISTENCE OF CRITICAL THEORY
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    THE PERSISTENCE OF CRITICAL THEORY
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical theory, which challenges the limits of positivism and materialism. We may question how the theoretical framework of Marxism f...

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  • FAITH IN SCIENCE
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    FAITH IN SCIENCE
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science. There are also very generous funding sources that encourage scientists to demonstrate the reality of purpose in the world. Still, there are organizations offering support to community groups dedicated to discussing religion and science. Contributors explore this development in Faith in Sc...

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  • CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
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    CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
    GABRIEL R. RICCI
    Adualism between man and nature has been a persistent feature of Western thought and spirituality from ancient times to the present. The opposition of mind and body, consciousness and world has tended to obscure the ways in which humans are ecologically part of interconnected systems, some of which are obvious while others operate in hidden but life-sustaining ways. Cultural La...

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