1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248171003316

Autore

O'Connell Robert J

Titolo

William James on the courage to believe / Robert J. O'Connell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fordham University Press, 2019

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-8232-8496-4

0-8232-8281-3

0-585-17134-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 223 p. )

Collana

American philosophy series ; ; number 8

Disciplina

121/.6

Soggetti

Belief and doubt

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

William James' celebrated lecture on 'The Will to Believe' has kindled spirited controversy since the day it was delivered. In this lively reappraisal of that controversy, the author contributes some fresh contentions: that James' argument should be viewed against his indebtedness to Blaise Pascal and Charles Bernard Renouvier; that it works primarily to validate our 'over-beliefs'; and most surprising perhaps, that James envisages our 'passional nature' as intervening, not after, but before and throughout, our intellectual weighing of the evidence for belief.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962849303321

Titolo

Early modern encounters with the Islamic East : performing cultures / / edited by Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate, 2012

ISBN

1-315-57842-5

1-317-14707-3

1-317-14706-5

1-280-67753-8

9786613654465

1-4094-3851-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Collana

Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Altri autori (Persone)

SchültingSabine

MüllerSabine Lucia

HertelRalf <1973->

Disciplina

790.2094

Soggetti

Theater - Europe - History

Performing arts - Europe - History

Performing arts - Islamic Empire

Islamic civilization - European influences

Europe Civilization Islamic influences

Europe Relations Islamic Empire

Islamic Empire Relations Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: cultures at play / Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel -- Players and playgrounds. William Harborne's embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy / Sabine Lucia Müller -- Performing at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello / Gerald MacLean -- Command performances: early English traders in Arabia Felix / Richmond Barbour -- Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the Ottoman Empire / Sabine Schülting -- Props and Costumes. English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish



embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz -- Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig -- Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock -- Encounters on stage. Ousting the Ottomans: the double vision of the East in The travels of the three English brothers (1607) / Ralf Hertel -- Claudio Monteverdi's Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter in music? / Clemens Risi -- After Orientalism? post-September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland and The Persians / Claudia Breger.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of early modern encounters between Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the perspective of performance studies and performativity theories, this collection offers new perspectives on how these cultural contacts were acted out on the real and metaphorical stages of theatre, literature, music, diplomacy and travel.