Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage By Michael Naas
2021 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 082329840X | PDF | 2 MB
Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the "speech act" that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks in public in these ways? The book follows Derrida's itinerary with regard to speech act theory across three public lectures, from 1971 to 1997, all given, for reasons the book seeks to explain, in Montreal. In these lectures, Derrida elaborated his critique of J. L. Austin and his own subsequent redefinition of speech act theory. The book then gives an overview of Derrida's teaching career and his famous "seminar" presentations, along with his own explicit reflections on pedagogy and educational institutions beginning in the mid-1970s. Naas then shows through a reading of three recently published seminars―on life death, theory and practice, and forgiveness―just how Derrida the teacher interrogated and deployed speech act theory in his seminars. Whether in a conference hall or a classroom, Naas demonstrates, Derrida was always interested in the way spoken or written words might do more than simply communicate some meaning or intent but might give rise to something like an event. Class Acts bears witness to the possibility of such events in Derrida's work as a pedagogue and a public intellectual.

John Jackson, Václav Havel, "Small Acts of Resistance: How Courage, Tenacity, and Ingenuity Can Change the World"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1402768079 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 1.4 mb
Remarkable, mischievous, inspiring-the eighty-odd stories in Small Acts of Resistance bring hidden histories to life. The courage of the people in these stories is breathtaking. So, too, is the impact and imagination of their actions.These mostly little known stories-including those written from eyewitness experience of the events and situations described-reveal the role ordinary people have played in achieving extraordinary change. "In the real world, it will never happen," the skeptics love to tell us. As this book so vividly shows, the skeptics have repeatedly been proven wrong.Stories in this include how:· Strollers, toilet paper, and illegal ketchup helped end forty years of one-party Communist rule· Dogs (and what they wore) helped protestors humiliate a murderous regime· Internet videos about cuddly animals infuriated a repressive government which tried-and failed-to ban the craze· Football crowds found ways of singing the national anthem so as to defy a junta of torturers, now in jail· Women successfully put pressure on warlords to end one of Africa's bloodiest wars· The singing of old folksongs hastened the collapse of an empire sustained by tanksIf you think individuals are powerless to change the world, read this remarkable book and you'll surely change your mind.

Acts of the Apostles (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture) by William S. SJ Kurz, Peter Williamson, Mary Healy
English | February 18, 2014 | ISBN: 080103633X | 400 pages | EPUB | 14 Mb
What message was the author of Acts seeking to convey, and what would the original audience have understood? How is God speaking to believers today through Acts as it has been used by the church throughout the centuries? In this addition to the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, respected New Testament scholar William Kurz offers a close reading and explanation of the entire narrative of Acts, grounded in the original Greek but keyed to the NABRE for liturgical use. This volume, like each in the series, relates Scripture to life, is faithfully Catholic, and is supplemented by features designed to help readers understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.

Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832-1867 By Chris R. Vanden Bossche
2014 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 142141208X | PDF | 2 MB
Reform Acts offers a new approach to prominent questions raised in recent studies of the novel. By examining social agency from a historical rather than theoretical perspective, Chris R. Vanden Bossche investigates how particular assumptions involving agency came into being. Through readings of both canonical and noncanonical Victorian literature, he demonstrates that the Victorian tension between reform and revolution framed conceptions of agency in ways that persist in our own time.Vanden Bossche argues that Victorian novels sought to imagine new forms of social agency evolving from Chartism, the dominant working-class movement of the time. Novelists envisioned alternative forms of social agency by employing contemporary discourses from Chartism's focus on suffrage as well as the means through which it sought to obtain it, such as moral versus physical force, land reform, and the cooperative movement.Each of the three parts of Reform Acts begins with a chapter that analyzes contemporary conversations and debates about social agency in the press and in political debate. Succeeding chapters examine how novels envision ways of effecting social change, for example, class alliance in Barnaby Rudge; landed estates as well as finely graded hierarchy and politicians in Coningsby and Sybil; and reforming trade unionism in Mary Barton and North and South. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy.

Ghazzal Dabiri, "Thecla and Medieval Sainthood: The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography"
English | ISBN: 131651921X | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Saint Thecla was one of the most prominent figures of early Christianity who provided a model of virginity and a role-model for women in the early Church. She was the object of cult and of pilgrimage and her tale in the Acts of Paul and Thecla made a tremendous impact on later hagiographies of both female and male saints. This volume explores this impact on medieval hagiographical texts composed in Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Greek, Irish, Latin, Persian, and Syriac. It investigates how they evoked and/or invoked Thecla and her tale in constructing the lives and story worlds of their chosen saints and offers detailed original readings of the lives of various heroines and heroes. The book adds further depth and nuance to our understanding of Thecla's popularity and the spread of her legend and cult.

How Money Acts Like an Evolving Organism: Exploring Implications of the Biological Analogy of Money As Species By T. R. Fenton
2010 | 179 Pages | ISBN: 0773414096 | PDF | 2 MB
This book considers the dramatic and evolutionary concept of money in the context of social reality, examining how 'species of money' can be perceived as patterns of objects of which we have no sensory awareness. Money as Species is a critical theory of money based on social construction and provides a multi-disciplinary synthesis strongly guided by the institutional philosophy of John R. Searle. An information-based ontology of social reality is used to reframe existential questions about money and species, and develop new concepts that enable money as species to be explored. The major contributions of this work are in the fields of biology and sociology. The concept of conjugate species addresses the species problem through adaptation of the ecological species concept to social reality and agency of artifacts. The constructivist model directly applies the conjugate species concept in computer simulation. The study has little o do with contemporary economics; rather it is about acquiring the cognitive tools to understand the evolutionary cost of our servitude to money.

Fandom Acts of Kindness
by Cook, Tanya;Joseph, Kaela;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1637741707 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 7.26 MB

Language: English
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Leslie Bow, "Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0691070938, 069107092X | PDF | pages: 223 | 1.6 mb
Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.

Alexander Orakhelashvili, "The Interpretation of Acts and Rules in Public International Law"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0199546223 | PDF | pages: 624 | 4.6 mb
There are frequent claims that the international legal regulation of international law is uncertain, vague, ambiguous, or indeterminate, which does not support the stability, transparency, or predictability of international legal relations. This monograph examines the framework of interpretation in international law based on the premise of the effectiveness and determinacy of international legal regulation, which is a necessary pre-requisite for international law to be viewed as law.