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Presence -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Presence in Absentia -- 2. Be Here Now: Mimesis and the History of Repre sentation -- 3. Meaning, Truth, and Phenomenology -- 4. Of Photographs, Puns, and Presence -- 5. The Public Rendition of Images Médusées: Exhibiting Souvenir Photographs Taken at Lynchings in America -- 6. The Presence of Immigrants, or Why Mexicans and Arabs Look Alike -- 7. Transcultural Presence -- 8. "It Disturbs Me with a Presence": Hindu History and What Meaning Cannot Convey -- 9. The Presence and Conceptualization of Contemporary Protesting Crowds -- Epilogue: Presence Continuous -- Notes -- Contributors.

ABSTRACT: It is worth noting how a secular perspective can be harmonized with what the Holy Scriptures present and especially how the text of the Scripture becomes relevant in a context in which we are talking about the development of the world's civilizations. If we were to make a bridge between secular man and religious man on the same subject we could have a common element, namely the analysis of human society, related to how it developed, related to the mechanisms of this development and its consequences, things that we meet them both in the same material of history with the differentiation of the fact that different causes could arise. In this study we tried to show that human explanations, regarding the development of the world's civilizations, are not always enough, because according to human logic certain events could not have taken place. From this perspective, looking at things, we consider it important to know the Scriptural perspective on events unfolding in world history, because the revelation of Scripture usually goes somewhere further, beyond what we see and what we have recorded as events in history, penetrating somewhere in the heart of the problems, helping us to have a much broader vision of the events of our world. KEYWORDS: The Bible, the development of civilizations, political forces, religious forces, globalization

This book considers the fundamental scientific and philosophical problems of the origins of life, consciousness, language, and civilization. It is a continuation of ""Physics and Logic of Life,"" published by Nova Science Publishers in 2012. Whereas the previous book discussed fundamental aspects of biology, the current volume aims to analyze connections between the biological and the societal worlds, and to clarify basic principles of the genesis of social structures. The physical basis and logic of life are discussed briefly in the first two chapters; then the discussion turns to the fundame

The article reviews the social theory of Harry Redner with particular reference to his view of the relationship between high literacy (book culture) and civilization. The question is posed whether, alongside book culture, an axial-type metaphysical culture is also key to the definition of civilization.

Introduction--Social inequality : Rousseau in retrospect / Catherine Wilson -- Lockean money, indigenism and globalism / Naomi Zack -- Vico and Montesquieu : limits of pluralist imagination / Bhikhu Parekh -- Millian liberalism and colonial oppression / D.G. Brown -- Sublime waste : Kant on the destiny of the 'races' / Mark Larrimore -- Time, modernity, and destructive habits of thought / Oliver Leaman -- Subjecthood and self-determination : the limitations of postmodernism as democratic theory / Jeff Noonan -- Justice theory and oppression / J. Harvey -- Epistemic oppression and epistemic privilege / Miranda Fricker -- Freud's metapsychology and the culture of philosophy / Jan Zwicky -- A singular and representative life : personal memory and systematic harms / Sue Campbell

Preface -- Living systems as causally closed semiotic structures -- Morphogenesis and evolution at macroscopic scales -- Organizational invariance of psyche and semiotic origins of sociogenesis -- Second natural digital system : human language -- Human-constrained geographical evolution of plants and the origin of agriculture -- Evolution of human civilization towards globalization -- Cosmos and the growth of civilizations -- Epilogue. Semiosis of creation : the fugal wisdom as anticipation of the third recursive digital system -- Addendum 1. Metaphysics of game and meta-game (Gogol's "Gamblers") -- Addendum 2. Mussorgsky and his creative analysis of social instability -- Index