1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996203940503316

Titolo

Study of religion and the training of Muslim clergy in Europe [[electronic resource] ] : academic and religious freedom in the 21st century / / edited by Willem B. Drees, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Leiden University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-99140-6

9786611991401

90-485-1005-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

LUP Academic

Disciplina

200.71

Soggetti

Religion - Study and teaching

Academic freedom

Freedom of religion

Religious education

Islam - Functionaries - Training - Europe

Imams (Mosque officers)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Academic freedom and the study of religion -- pt. 2. The academic training of Muslim clergy in Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

Religious scholarship can be offensive to believers, as conflicts from the time of Galileo and Spinoza to the recent critique of Danish religious scholars in the wake of the infamous Muhammad cartoons have shown. Studies of this type of scholarship have been appropriated by believers as a means of reinventing their own identities - as the training of twentieth-century Muslim clergy demonstrates. This volume offers a unique collection of training materials from European Muslim clergy since the 1940's - including Third Reich reports on debriefing imams, surveillance files on Muslim activists, and information on Bosnian clergy and their training centres - as well as an exploration of



religion and academic freedom in general, accompanied by appendices in both Arabic and English.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813066203321

Autore

Vattimo Gianni <1936->

Titolo

Of reality : the purposes of philosophy / / Gianni Vattimo ; translated by Robert T. Valgenti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-53657-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

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

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE LEUVEN LECTURES -- 1. The Nietzsche Effect -- 2. The Heidegger Effect -- 3. The Age of the World Picture -- II. INTERMISSION -- 4. The Temptation of Realism -- III. THE GIFFORD LECTURES -- 5. Tarski and the Quotation Marks -- 6. Beyond Phenomenology -- 7. Being and Event -- 8. The Ethical Dissolution of Reality -- IV. APPENDIX -- 9. Metaphysics and Violence: A Question of Method -- 10. From Heidegger to Marx: Hermeneutics as the Philosophy of Praxis -- 11. The End of Philosophy in the Age of Democracy -- 12. True and False Universalism -- 13. The Evil That Is Not, 1 -- 14. The Evil That Is Not, 2 -- 15. Weak Thought, Thought of the Weak -- 16. From Dialogue to Conflict -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, or objective. Reality is a construct, reflecting, among other things, our greed, biases, and tendencies toward violence. It is no accident, Vattimo argues, that the



call to embrace reality has emerged at a time when the inequalities of liberal capitalism are at their most extreme. Developed from his popular Gifford Lectures, this book advances a critical approach that recovers our interpretive powers and native skepticism toward normative claims. Though he recognizes his ideas invite charges of relativism, the philosopher counters with a discussion of truth, highlighting its longstanding ties to history and social circumstance. Truth is always contingent and provisional, and reason and reasonableness are bound to historical context. Truth is therefore never objective, and resistance to reality is our best hope to defeat the indifference that threatens the scope of freedom and democracy.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910339259503321

Autore

Bivona Bernardi, Antonino

Titolo

Monografia delle tolpidi del barone Antonino Bivona Bernardi ..

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palermo, : per le stampe di Sanfilippo, 1809

Descrizione fisica

XVIII, [2] p., 5 c. di tav. : ill. calcogr. ; fol.

Locazione

DBV

Collocazione

f I 25 (3

R a 10 (4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia