by Raymond Tallis (1999)
"The first part of Theorrhoea and After completes Raymond Tallis's demolition of post-Saussurean thought, a project inaugurated in his classic critique Not Saussure. He exposes the tactics used by theorists to keep theory, and their own reputations, alive in the face of the demonstration that their claims are baseless."--BOOK JACKET. "In the second part, Tallis moves beyond theorrhoea to examine literature and the other arts from a viewpoint unbewitched by contemporary postmodernist thought. He takes a sceptical look at the place of literary criticism, is scandalously rude about the quasi-artistic pretensions of sport, dismisses the claims of art to be useful, undermines received ideas about the referents of music, and draws attention to the fundamental heterogeneity of the different arts. He ends with a long essay reflecting on the place of art in a world utterly transformed by technological advance."--Jacket.
Manuel Lázaro Pulido
Obra colectiva de estudios sobre Jesús de Nazaret dirigida por Manuel Lázaro Pulido, en la que colaboran profesores del Instituto Teológico de Cáceres, la Pontificia Università Antonianum de Roma, el Instituto Bíblico de Jerusalén o el Instiuto Teológico de Murcia
Kenneth E. Bailey
Beginning with Jesus' birth, Ken Bailey leads readers on a kaleidoscopic study of Jesus throughout the four Gospels. Bailey examines the life and ministry of Jesus with attention to the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes, Jesus' relationship to women and especially Jesus' parables. Through it all, Bailey employs his trademark expertise as a master of Middle Eastern culture to lead us into a deeper understanding of the person and significance of Jesus within his own cultural context. With a sure but gentle hand, Bailey lifts away the obscuring layers of modern Western interpretation to reveal Jesus in the light of his actual historical and cultural setting. -- from back cover.
Marian Eide
"Marian Eide argues that the central concern of James Joyce's writing was the creation of a literary ethics. Eide examines Joyce's ethical preoccupations throughout his work, particularly the tension between his commitment as an artist and his social obligations as a father and citizen during a tumultuous period of European history. Eide argues that his narrative suggests ethics, which etymologically signifies both "character" and "habitat," might be understood as an interaction between immediate and intimate processes (character) and more external enduring structures (habitat). Drawing on feminist theory, Eide focuses on the ideas of alterity and difference. The literary ethics developed in this book proceed from a textual focus in order to examine how our assumptions about what it means to read and interpret produce within each reader an implicit ethical practice. This is the first study devoted to Joyce's ethical philosophy as it emerges in his writing."--Jacket.
Rachel Pollard
"Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher and cultural critic, was one of the pioneers of the "linguistic turn" in philosophy and is now widely associated with the concept of the dialogical self and dialogical psychotherapy." "However, whilst dialogism is the concept for which Bakhtin is most well known in psychotherapy, it is, in isolation, open to a wide range of interpretations that can be claimed by diverse and conflicting ideological positions." "The radical contribution that a more inclusive reading of Bakhtin could bring to psychotherapy only becomes apparent when dialogism is understood in the context of Bakhtin's philosophy as a whole, and when Bakhtin, himself, is brought into a dialogical relationship with other thinkers. By bringing Bakhtin into dialogue with the controversial French anthropologist, Rene Girard, the centrality of desire in language and human social life is woven into the concept of the dialogical self and the practice of dialogical psychotherapy." "This book will be of keen interest to students interested in the contemporary relevance of Bakhtin's thinking as well as psychotherapists concerned with the complex relationship between language, consciousness and the art of psychotherapy."--Jacket.