Suchergebnisse

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Sacralization of Politics -- CHAPTER 1. A Never-Never Religion, A Substitute for Religion, or a New Religion? -- CHAPTER 2. Civil Religions and Political Religions: From Democratic Revolutions to Totalitarian States -- CHAPTER 3. The Leviathan as a Church: Totalitarianism and Political Religion -- CHAPTER 4. The Invasion of the Idols: Christians against Totalitarian Religions -- CHAPTER 5. Toward the Third Millennium: The Sacralization of Politics in States both New and Old -- CHAPTER 6. Religions of Politics: Definitions, Distinctions, and Qualifications -- Notes

A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen as a by-product of neoliberalism and capitalism. Far from being a recent phenomenon, however, the practice of self-improvement has a long and rich history, extending all the way back to ancient China. For millennia, philosophers, sages, and theologians have reflected on the good life and devised strategies on how to achieve it. Focusing on ten core ideas of self-improvement that run through the world's advice literature, Anna Katharina Schaffner reveals the ways they have evolved across cultures and historical eras, and why they continue to resonate with us today. Reminding us that there is much to learn from looking at time-honed models, Schaffner also examines the ways that self-improvement practices provide powerful barometers of the values, anxieties, and aspirations that preoccupy us at particular moments in time and expose basic assumptions about our purpose and nature

"The Reviewer's Guide for Mixed Methods Research Analysis is designed for evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences, and beyond. Its thirty-three uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging mixed methods data analysis, which neither junior nor veteran reviewers can be expected to know in detail. The book updates readers on each technique's key principles, appropriate usage, underlying assumptions, and limitations. It thereby assists reviewers in offering constructive commentary on works they evaluate, and also serves as an indispensable author's reference for preparing sound research manuscripts and proposals"--

Jill Sherer Murray lived in a dead-end relationship into her forties before she finally let it go. She was like millions of women who struggle with whether to stay in a loveless marriage, a bad relationship, or give up on dating altogether, believing love isn't in the cards. You may be struggling with a similar decision yourself. Perhaps you're terrified of being single, and yet you don't truly feel you're living the life you want. With warmth and honesty, Murray shows you how letting go--of feeling stuck, afraid, and alone, and of believing what you've got is all you deserve--can free you from a life that isn't serving you. She knows this is true, because she did it herself--and ultimately attracted the love and life she wanted. Through her story, other women's stories, surprising facts and statistics, and helpful exercises, Big Wild Love will show you the way back to the self you've lost. It will put you on the path to change and teach you that, wherever you are, it's never too late to start anew and find the Big Wild Love you deserve

"Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives. The book draws on sociological perspectives, cultural sociology and gender theory perspectives. It looks at how love and intimacy is experienced differently and intersected by gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality. This book aims to encourage people to understand theories of intimacy, emotions and desire by examining these concepts contemporaneously and cross-culturally. It also explores how love and intimacy is experienced by young people and how it is impacted by age. It looks at its representation in the media and film and focuses on how gender, ethnicity and sexuality offer different perspectives on love and intimacy. The book shows how relationships are impacted by social networking and new technologies and the opportunities and challenges posed by these new platforms for building relationships. Finally, the book examines how intimacy has become commercialised in late capitalism and how that acts to change relationships. The book is written in an accessible way and explores a range of theoretical debates and contemporary research around emotions, which can be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study"--

Ein Normopath ist stets normal und angepasst, sein Verhalten überkorrekt und überkonform. Die Zwanghaftigkeit, mit der er den Erwartungen entspricht, verrät indes, dass er ein falsches, ein unechtes Leben führt. Krank ist nicht nur er, sondern vor allem die Gesellschaft, in der er lebt und deren Anpassungsdruck er sich unterwirft - bis er die Gelegenheit gekommen sieht, seine aufgestaute Wut an noch Schwächeren oder am "System" abzureagieren. Der Hallenser Psychoanalytiker und Psychiater Hans-Joachim Maaz ist bekannt für seine Analysen kollektiver Befindlichkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Zustände - vom Gefühlsstau, einem Psychogramm der DDR, bis zur narzisstischen Gesellschaft, einer Psycho-Analyse unserer Promi- und Leistungsgesellschaft. In seinem neuen Buch nimmt er Phänomene wie Pegida und AfD, den zunehmenden Hass auf Ausländer, aber auch die Selbstgerechtigkeit der politischen Elite zum Anlass, ein konturenscharfes Bild unseres falschen Lebens zu zeichnen

Consequentialism and the moral agent question -- Motivation ethics -- Deontology and the moral agent question -- Moral demandingness and two concepts of evaluation -- The problem of special relationships -- Global duties and the state -- Legitimacy and the good -- Interpersonal comparisons of the good -- On the scope of reason.

"In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of "the end the world" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most significantly, the term salut , which in French means at once greeting and salvation. An underlying concern of The World after the End of the World is whether a discourse on salut (saving, being saved, and salvation) can be dissociated from discourse on religion. Saghafi compares Derrida's thought along these lines with similar concerns of Jean-Luc Nancy's. Combining analysis of these themes with reflections on personal loss, this book maintains that, for Derrida, salutation, greeting, and welcoming is resistant to the economy of salvation. This resistance calls for what Derrida refers to as a "spectro-poetics" devoted to and assigned to the other's singularity"--