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Intergeschlechtlichkeit bekommt verstärkt mediale Aufmerksamkeit - nicht aber in der katholischen Kirche und Theologie. Ausgehend von den religionssoziologischen Beobachtungen Pierre Bourdieus als auch von der freiheitstheologischen Anthropologie Thomas Pröppers wirft Katharina Mairinger-Immisch einen kritischen Blick auf die katholische Geschlechteranthropologie. Sie entwickelt dabei eine geschlechterinklusive Ethik, die die Haltung der Ambiguitätstoleranz fordert und fördert: Eine Handlungsorientierung für die Anerkennung intergeschlechtlicher Menschen

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex precursors of the seventeenth-century salons. Notions from the philosophy of play, such as those developed by Johan Huizinga, Eugen Fink, and Roger Caillois, who argue that play is critically intertwined with the development of society, provide a theoretical path across these periods of women's engagement in literary culture. The barrister Estienne Pasquier, whose voluminous network of literary and legal connections permitted him entry into the society of such women, acts as an eyewitness to sixteenth-century circles. Ultimately, we see that the ludic activities in such society produced powerful influences that extended beyond the confines of the groups in question to shape ideas, attitudes, and activities—such as those of the salon cultural norms to come

The most comprehensive picture available of the topics central to Leo Strauss's life and work: his early development; his life-long work on Maimonides; his ideas on the issues of Athens vs. Jerusalem, the Ancients vs. the Moderns, and the discontinuity or linkage between politics and theology; and fianlly, his literary hermeneutics

La investigación de Twinam explora las aplicaciones de las "gracias al sacar" a través de las cuales pardos y mulatos podían comprar los privilegios de la blancura. Al examinar las historias inmediatas y de largo plazo que subyacen a estas peticiones, la autora brinda una visión sorprendente de esas formas, singularmente características y profundamente arraigadas en la sociedad de la época, a través de las cuales el mundo hispano negoció procesos de inclusión y exclusión.Este libro es una traducción, aumentada y actualizada, de Purchasing Whiteness. Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015."Un trabajo enorme y potente, tanto en términos de extensión como de profundidad y de erudición. Ganará premios. Es importante."Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University"Comprar la blancura es, sencillamente, un magistral tour de force que será recibido como una contribución significativa a la historiografía de la raza en la América Latina colonial."Cecily Jones, Warwick University

"A fascinating, exciting story." — Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful MindWhile still in his early 20s, and under Hitler's shadow, Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz (1917-2008) left his home in Warsaw, Poland, seeking safety and a degree at the London School of Economics. The following years, while challenging and potentially life-threatening, contained the seeds of a lifelong intellectual adventure. Leo's story is personal (born a refugee, precarious war years for himself and his Polish-Jewish family, a new life in America), global (revolutions, wars, depressions), ideological (socialism, capitalism, economic planning, free markets) and professional (a sixty-year career as a professor of economics leading ultimately to a Nobel Prize). This book tells his story