... basic facts about Plato's view of philosophy. First, the dialogues include a wide variety of non- and antiphilosophical standpoints. Second, philosophy exists as an activity carried out by particular human beings in this conflicted context. Plato's dialogues, then, present philosophy first and foremost...

...This chapter looks in detail at the context of the Capri conference where Derrida presented a first version of his 1994–95 essay “Faith and Knowledge.” The chapter considers everything from the time and place of the conference to the languages, nationalities, and religions of its participants...

...This chapter maps out a general topography of points of convergence and divergence between feminist and Jesuit education. It draws out their relationship by exploring how the five central elements of Ignatian education—context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation—relate to a feminist...

...This chapter analyzes the terms “Jesuit” and “feminist” to explore their commonalities and interrogate what we mean by them. It considers the impact of social context on the structure of higher education and, more broadly, on the social arrangement of class privilege and racial coding within...

... from the context of Irish ecocoentric literary output, that is, literature whose narrative lends itself to a secular ecocritical reading that focuses on setting within larger cosmic contexts. Adam body desert sin beauty sun Dante Christianity cosmos creation medieval nature romanticism...

...The introduction has four parts. First, it argues that the Civil War was a family war and that the war’s participants had their involvement in the conflict significantly shaped by the dynamics of family life. Second, it sets Family War Stories in a historiographic context...

... narratives with a clear plot and a delineation of characters. Rather, words and gestures swell up suddenly, often out of context, and provide a glimpse into the turbulent waters that often flow behind the seemingly peaceful and uneventful everyday. Tracking moments such as death-bed statements or moments...

...Chapter one introduces the linguistic soundscape of Fez, giving a sense of the context in which laments about communicative failure arose. It provides some historical background and describes the multilingual resources and sensibilities evoked throughout the book. Fez Moulay Idriss I Moulay...

... of explicit reference to traditional writings on this particular play. This essay has been an influence among professional practitioners of Shakespeare criticism because it practically does not talk about any such critics. Actually this reveals the humanistic context to which he appeals in situating...

...This introductory chapter discusses how the emergence of Christianity out of the Hellenistic context moves the dialectic to a new stage. Very early on, the tension and outright conflict between reason and faith appear. This faith/reason dialectic has continued down to the present. Within...

...The critical reception of Levi as an author most approvingly points to his objectivity, his “dispassionate” witnessing, and his ability to universalize, to delineate, and to explore a broad humanistic context within which to examine the moral and ethical questions that arise from a study...

... as applied to cultural-national entities such as the Chinese, the Jewish, and so on. Through the figure of building “without context” or “noncoherently”—not zusammenhängend—Kafka questions the entire tradition of historicist essentialism on the level of its most basic enabling conceptual...

...The chapter is about betrayal as an indicator of the nature of the context within which a stand was made. It is about protest under close surveillance against powerful odds, with minimal resources and dire consequences. It depicts the everyday nature of the lives of youth in revolt against...

...This chapter examines how postmodern Schleiermacher is by giving a detailed analysis of his construal and then comparing it briefly with Derrida. It was in an essentially Kantian context that Schleiermacher developed a hermeneutical holism that, over against both Spinoza and Hegel, defined...

...Such intertextual relations can be historicized in the survey of longue durée, either exemplarily or thematically, selectively, and therefore rather narrowly. With the latter options, the focus has tended to shift from linguistic text to thematized content and historical context...

... the Second World War. Adelbert von Chamisso Prize Collège de France Weinrich Harald aspect tense s time background context foreground French German highlighting imperfect tense narrative narrative tense s novellas register Romance languages simple past tense Barthes Roland Lessing...