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Christ as the Mediation of the Other
Authors: Marsh Charles 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Karl Barth once said that we must always think three times before contradicting Hegel’s system, “because we might find that everything we are tempted to say in contradiction to it has already been said within it.”1 Hegel wanted his thought to mirror the full movement of life, and to Barth (avid moviegoer no less than Mozart aficionado) this movement proceeds like the film of the cinematograph, though one so extraordinary that it depicts “the rhythm of life itself,” running exhaustively through the fullness of history, capturing the “exact recollection” of the observed plenitude of being.2 Barth would find incredible Richard Rorty’s comment that the Phenomenology of Spirit is not so much “an argumentative procedure or a way of unifying subject and object, but simply a literary skill—skill at producing surprising gestalt switches by making smooth, rapid transitions from one terminology to another.”3 When Hegel concludes the magisterial section on absolute knowledge with the statement that here “Spirit has wound up the process of its embodiment,”4 he is not, as Rorty cavalierly suggests, recommending a new and improved vocabulary5 but is celebrating the complete infusion of truth into the dialectic of knowing. As Barth says, “Truth is necessary to [Hegel] and necessary to him in its unity, in its actuality, in the divine rigor inherent in it.”6
The Missing Dimension
Authors: Luttwak Edward 
Published: November 2023

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In Homer as in the Bible, the vicissitudes of war and peace are unfailingly attributed to divine intervention, yet though the entire discourse of the classical world was pervaded by Homer’s metaphors, his teleology was not shared by most Greek and Roman writers on politics and conflict. Both Thucydides and Tacitus, among many lesser lights, freely invoked geographic, economic, psychological, social, and technical primary causes to explain the course of human events, attributing nothing to divine intervention.
James Joyce and the Language of History
Authors: Spoo Robert 
Published: November 2023

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Stephen Dedalus’s famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce’s creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce’s historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.
Workplace Injuries
Authors: Dewees Don , Duff David , Trebilcock Michael 
Published: November 2023

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In 1989, workers in the United States suffered 6.6 million workplace injuries and illnesses, giving rise to 60 million lost workdays..In the same year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 3,600 workplace fatalities, but this may be an underestimate;. other estimates of the number of annual workplace fatalities have varied widely-from 3,000 to 11,000 per year..In response to these diverse estimates, a new, more comprehensive census approach to gathering workplace fatality statistics has been developed. This Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) found 3,465 fatal workplace injuries in 31 participating states in 1991.4 There are considerable variations in the injury and illness rates per worker from one year to the next, but there is no obvious trend during the 1980s, although the overall rate fell during the 1970s. It is too early to evaluate trends for the 1990s, although the drop in workplace injuries from 1990 to 1991-from 8.8 to 8.4 per 100 workers-is the largest decline in more than a decade.. The economic cost of these injuries and illnesses is enormous and is reflected in workers’ compensation premiums that spiralled upward in the 1970s and 1980s as benefits were raised from what many observers regarded as seriously inadequate levels.. This premium spiral, in tum, has generated considerable concern about the cost of workers’ compensation and about possible means of reducing the injury and illness rates that give rise to it.
Scenes of Heroes, War, and Death: Patriotism and Memorials
Authors: Neville Gwen Kennedy 
Published: November 2023

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If one asks a local worthy who watches from the sidelines with teary eyes what is going on here, just what the Fletcher ceremony is all about, he will answer with a story: "We do this because in 1513 all the young men of Selkirk went out to fight the Battle of Flodden. Only one man returned, carrying a captured English flag. He cast it in the market square and then fell down dead." If one presses for more details, the answers become diffuse; history merges with lore; and the facts are lost in the misty past. Fletcher reportedly was asked by the townsfolk for news of those who had fallen, but being "too grief- stricken to reply,... he swept the flag round in the manner of a scythe, indicating that the rest were slain," goes the story as told by one local historian. Another chronicler validates the facts of the tale and adds that it is this encircling motion that inspired the manner of the casting of the colors in the market square as the climax of the common riding ceremonies.
Introduction
Authors: Porter Dennis 
Published: November 2023

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This book makes the claim that French literary culture is currently undergoing a major transformation that is the equivalent of a paradigm change; that the transformation is visible in the fate of a certain idea of “the writer” which first emerged almost two hundred and fifty years ago; that the change is bound up with the unprecedented historical events of the past couple of decades; and that although the transformation is particularly marked in France because of the apparent normativity of its cultural and political history since the late eighteenth century, it has important ramifications for other Western and even non-Western countries.
Stendhal: Overpoliticization and the Revenge of Literature
Authors: Porter Dennis 
Published: November 2023

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In the passage I quote in my introduction from Milan Kundera’s definition of the “Novelist, “ having established the opposition that in his reading distinguishes “the novelist” from “the writer,” Kundera goes on to cite examples of authors belonging to one or other of the two categories. It is surprising that Stendhal is not mentioned in either, although there is no doubt in my mind as to where he fits. The name of the author of The Red and the Black, Lucien Leuwen, The Charterhouse of Parma, and Lamie/ should rightly appear between Fielding and Sterne, on the one hand, and Flaubert and Proust, on the other, in the chronological list of preeminent “novelists” referred to by Kundera.
Marguerite Duras: Autobiographical Acts, Celebrity Status
Authors: Porter Dennis 
Published: November 2023

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The story of “the writer” in France, which, in my telling, begins in the mid-eighteenth century with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, draws to an end in the closing decades of the twentieth century with Marguerite Duras. It is possible that some other living French writers belong as obviously, in certain aspects of their work, to the “writerly” tradition inaugurated by Rousseau, but none in my view gives us a fuller, richer, and, at the same time, more disturbing sense than Duras of what it might meant to be “a writer” toward the end of our century. For the time being, in any case, precisely because of her remarkable talent and single-mindedness, her work and career illuminate both the possibilities and the limits inherent in a certain cultural understanding of writing and “the writer’s” function.
Epilogue:From Althusser’s Theory of a Murder to Foucault’s Aesthetics of Existence
Authors: Porter Dennis 
Published: November 2023

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Judt’s description of the unique role French intellectuals seemed destined to play on the world stage in the twentieth century as a result of their historical legacy of revolution corresponds remarkably well to the lives and careers of both Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault. Both were intellectuals in the classic French sense that their remoter ancestors were the eighteenth-century philosophes and their role vis-a-vis the state was redefined for modern French public life by the events of the Dreyfus Affair. Yet by the end in both cases that was not enough.
Is the Only Good God a Dead God?
Authors: Goldberg Michael 
Published: November 2023

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The last statement elicits a knowing nod from many Jews. To them, it wryly captures the nature of Jewish experience throughout history-a protracted story of suffering that climaxes with the Holocaust. How, then, should Jews view their existence “after Auschwitz”? According to Richard Rubenstein’s classic by that title, Jews, post-Holocaust, must come to see that they inhabit a world in which God is no longer alive. For those living in the shadow of Auschwitz, the caring, just God of Jewish tradition has died. Reigning instead as Lord of the world, says Rubenstein, is omnipotent Nothingness.
The Religious Thought of Chu Hsi
Authors: Ching Julia 
Published: November 2023

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Recognized as one of the greatest philosophers in classical China, Chu Hsi (1130-1200) is known in the West primarily through translations of one of his many works, the Chin-ssu Lu. In this book, Julia Ching offers the first book-length examination of Chu Hsi’s religious thought, based on extensive reading of both primary and secondary sources. Ching begins by providing an introduction to Chu’s twelfth-century intellectual context. She then examines Chu’s natural philosophy, looking in particular at the ideas of the Great Ultimate and at spirits and deities and the rituals that honor them. Next, Ching considers Chu’s interpretation of human nature and the emotions, highlighting the mystical thrust of the theoretical and practical teachings of spiritual cultivation and meditation. She discusses Chu’s philosophical disputes with his contemporariesin particular Lu Chiu-yuanand examines his relationship to Buddhism and Taoism. In the final chapters, Ching looks at critiques of Chu during his lifetime and after and evaluates the relevance of his thinking in terms of contemporary needs and problems. This clearly written and highly accessible study also offers translations of some of Chu’s most important philosophical poems, filling a major gap in the fields of both Chinese philosophy and religion.
Philosophical Disputes with Lu Chiu-yüan
Authors: Ching Julia 
Published: November 2023

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So far, I have situated the development of some of Chu Hsi’s ideas in the con text of discussions and debates with others, whether with a friend, like Chang Shih, or with a disciple, like Ts’ai Yiian-ting. But I have preferred to treat Chu’s thinking thematically rather than concentrate on the discussions and debates. In this chapter, however, I shall dwell on the philosophical discussions and disputes that Chu Hsi and Lu Chiu-yiian entered into on a variety of subjects and occasions. I do so because I believe Lu to be Chu’sonly philosophical equal, and also a powerful rival, among their contemporaries. An exposition of their exchanges will highlight a whole range ofissues on which they professed agree ment or disagreement.
The “Problem” of Nature in the Bible
Authors: Hiebert Theodore 
Published: November 2023

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In both the popular consciousness and the enduring achievements of Western culture, the world of nature is remembered and represented as a familiar part of the biblical story. Biblical images of nature have, in fact, become a standard feature of the Western imagination. One of the now famous examples of this phenomenon in popular culture was the recitation of Genesis 1 on the first moon voyage. To express their amazement at the natural beauty of the planet earth floating in space as a small blue sphere, the Apollo 8 astronauts chose to read, out of all the nature literature of Western culture, the biblical story of creation.
The Bible and Nature Ancient Israelite Views and Modern Environmental Theologies
Authors: Hiebert Theodore 
Published: November 2023

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The detailed survey of the Yahwist’s landscape in chapters 2, 3, and 4 pro vides us with a new set of measurements-of J’s physical terrain and intellectual perspective-with which to reassess the larger issue that prompted this survey. This is the common belief, widespread in traditional biblical scholarship and recent environmental writing alike, that nature poses a problem for biblical thought. It is a belief, in its scholarly version at least, based solidly on two interrelated concepts: the idea that biblical religion is an historical religion for which the world of nature is of only peripheral interest, and the idea that this viewpoint derived largely from Israel’s desert origins.
Saint Foucault
Authors: Halperin David M 
Published: November 2023

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Although there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michael Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a powerful source of both personal and political inspiration to an entire generation of gay activists? Offering a no-holds barred rebuke to recent criticism of Foucault by Camille Paglia, Richard Mohr, biographer James Miller, and others, Saint Foucault is an uncompromising and impassioned defence of the late French philosopher and historian. A sometimes scathing, sometimes moving exploration of truth and sexual politics, it shows Foucault as a galvanizing thinker who will continue to serve as a model for gay intellectuals and activists.
Introduction
Authors: Schiller Anne 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
A report on regional criminality featured in the 5 January 1991 issue of Indonesia’s premier newsmagazine, Tempo, appealed to its national readership’s worst fears about the customs of their compatriots deep in the rain forests of Central Kalimantan. According to the report, titled “Gadut, Tumbal Tiwah” (Gadut, spirit offering at tiwah), members of the “Dayak Kaharingan tribe” were continuing their ancestral practice of taking human heads as part of their preparations for enacting traditional secondary burial rituals called tiwah. Many readers of Tempo’s unsettling report would probably have reacted contemptuously to the term “Dayak,” which connotes a host of mostly negative images of Borneo’s indigenous inhabitants. Presumably some readers would have subscribed to the popular view of Dayaks as ferocious wild men with a passion for hunting heads and possibly also indulging in cannibal feasts. Tempo’s writers suggested a parallel between the exaggerated tales of Native American tribes that skinned or scalped their victims and accounts of the practices of contemporary Dayak peoples. They noted the Kalimantan exception, where head-hunting “isn’t a fairy tale” (96).
Epilogue: Basir Muka and Religious Reformulations
Authors: Schiller Anne 
Published: November 2023

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This volume has offered an exploration of rituals, beliefs, and attitudes associated with treatment of the dead among an indigenous rain forest people of Indonesia. I have sought to relate the rituals to their changing social contexts and, in so doing, probe the relationship between religious and social transformation. To this end, I have focused attention on the changing form and content of tiwah as understood by lay people as well as priests.
W.E.B. Du Bois and Dedication to the Dead
Authors: Hall James C 
Published: November 2023

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What might it mean to understand the past? Certainly the cliche about not repeating mistakes has relevance, although as a comprehensive ethic or political strategy in the face of entrenched racism it may be dangerously trite. More compelling may be the assertion that through the past one achieves, often at some significant cost, a kind of moral illumination. In this context, the present has meaning (or perhaps has meaning imposed upon it) through the recognition of past suffering, the creation of a kind of ancestral solidarity. Yet this too may melt into thin air. Such a confidence may be shown to be mostly narcissistic projection, indeed even neurosis. If both the instrumental and mythic pursuits of the past prove faulty, if not ephemeral, why does C.L.R. James’s assertion remain so compelling, and seem to direct so much sixties—and more recent—African-American cultural practice? A central argument of this book has been that a striking component of post-World War II African-American intellectual and cultural life has been the increasing, if not obsessive, attention to this problem of the cultural significance of historical memory. Black anxiousness about the promise of modernity has been articulated most forcefully through an extended evaluation of the possibilities of “past-ness.”
Media Images/Feminist Issues
Authors: Rhode Deborah L 
Published: November 2023

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For those committed to feminism, a central concern has always been how the media reflect and recast feminist issues. For those committed to feminist research, media studies offer a particularly useful perspective on the social construction of a political movement. Indeed, even formulating this topic as a research question yields unexpected insights. In the Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature, “feminism” traditionally was not considered significant enough to warrant a separate entry. In the 1950s, the feminist heading had only a cross-reference to “Women, social and moral questions.” This entry listed a handful of articles and a “see also” reference to alcoholism, divorce, harem, and prostitution. Over the next two decades, these cross-references expanded and eventually came to include “Women, equal rights.” But not until the early 1980s did feminism become a topic heading in its own right.
Fear of Feminism
Authors: Mccluskey Martha T 
Published: November 2023

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A profusion of mainstream media reports have declared that one of the biggest problems facing U.S. women in the 1990s is that feminists talk too much about women as victims. “Has sisterhood become victimhood?” ask ads for Katie Roiphe’s book The Morning After: Sex, Fear and Feminism on Campus (1993b). Roiphe (1991) argues that college feminists’ emphasis on the problem of date rape has served to reinforce what she claims are traditional ideas of women as victims and men as aggressors: “Let’s not chase the same stereotypes our mothers have spent so much energy running away from. Let’s not reinforce the images that oppress us, that label us victims, and deny our own agency and intelligence, as strong and sensual, as autonomous, pleasure-seeking, sexual beings.”
Law and Racial Reelism
Authors: Russell Margaret M 
Published: November 2023

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Black women occupy a role both central and peripheral, pervasive and invisible, in Hollywood’s cinematic history. From the earliest days of film, black women’s bodies have been a vehicle through which movieland sexual fantasies and fears have been transmogrified and black women’s historical circumstances have been used as fodder for the cinematic trivialization of their oppression. Generations of viewers have grown up with predominant (and sometimes exclusive) imagery of black women as alternately subhuman and superhuman: The animalistic Jezebel (Painter 1992, pp. 209–10), the fleshy and jovial mammy (Bogle 1992), the stern and aggressive matriarch (Gilkes 1983, pp. 288–300), and even the doomed “tragic mulatto” (Bogle 1992, p. 5) are meant to suggest that black women—are quite literally—a “breed apart” from the rest of humanity. The unifying theme underlying all of these stereotypes is one of deviance and worthlessness; whether sycophantic or strong, black women are deemed both powerless and somehow responsible for their own sorry fates. Even the image of the long-suffering, “Rock of Gibraltar” matriarch is laced with assumptions of inferiority and with the message that black women deserve their subordinated status. What Jacquelyn Grant has observed with respect to black women’s historic role in the church also rings true of black women’s place in popular culture: “[I]t is often said that women are the ‘backbone.’ … On the surface, this may appear to be a compliment … [but] most … who use this term are referring to location rather than function. What they really mean is that women are in the ‘background’ and should be kept there” (1982, p. 141).
Women on Trial
Authors: Lucia Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

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In the 1949 film, Adam’s Rib, often classified as a screwball comedy, Spencer Tracy plays Assistant D.A. Adam Bonner, married to attorney Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn), whom he suddenly finds opposing him in the courtroom. Defending a woman accused of assaulting her unfaithful husband, Hepburn attempts to reread and reshape the law to reflect progressive values. Lecturing his wife, Tracy’s character clearly sees her action as an assault upon law, a challenge to the patriarchal foundations of the law, and by extension, a personal challenge to himself, as a man and as her husband: “Contempt for the law, that’s what you’ve got. It’s a disease, a spreading disease.
Law, Cultural Media[tion], and Desire in the Lives of Adolescent Girls
Authors: Higgins Tracy E , Tolman Deborah L 
Published: November 2023

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In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. For women, this has meant suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.
“Bad Mothers” and Welfare Reform in Massachusetts
Authors: Ashe Marie 
Published: November 2023

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In February 1994, in Boston, six young children were removed, by police action, from the custody of their mother, Claribel Ventura. Their removal and the apparent circumstances of their lives immediately became the subject of intensive media coverage.
While the past two decades have been marked by increased public awareness of what is called “child abuse” (Ashe and Cahn 1993; L. Gordon 1988), most legal cases concerning that reality do not receive intensive media coverage. Some do. Claribel Ventura’s is one such case. The story of Claribel Ventura—the public story—began to be told on February 13, 1994. On that date, The Boston Globe reported the previous day’s visit, by members of the Boston Police Department, to the apartment in the publicly subsidized housing project in Boston’s Mission Hill section in which Claribel Ventura and her children had at that time been residing for approximately three weeks. The early newspaper accounts reported a police description of the condition of Ventura’s home as “trash-filled” (Hutchinson 1994a), its floors “strewn with human feces” (Vaznis 1994a) and “littered” with beer bottles (Vaznis 1994b).