03904nam 2200673 450 991045627690332120200520144314.01-281-99446-497866119944641-4426-7643-410.3138/9781442676435(CKB)2430000000001878(OCoLC)431555427(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218962(SSID)ssj0000300857(PQKBManifestationID)11226209(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300857(PQKBWorkID)10259154(PQKB)10866164(CaBNvSL)thg00600969 (MiAaPQ)EBC3255057(MiAaPQ)EBC4671650(DE-B1597)464587(OCoLC)944178087(OCoLC)999371699(DE-B1597)9781442676435(Au-PeEL)EBL4671650(CaPaEBR)ebr11257354(OCoLC)958515688(EXLCZ)99243000000000187820160922h20032003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJohn Selden measures of the Holy Commonwealth in seventeenth-century England /Reid BarbourToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2003.©20031 online resource (428 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-8776-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: John Selden and the Measures of a Holy Commonwealth -- 1. A Scholar's Life: Duty, Scepticism, and Invention -- 2. Ancient Bards and Inmost Historians -- 3. Legal Sages and Parliamentary Religion -- 4. Natural Law and Common Notions -- 5. The Canons of the Church -- 6. The Hope of Israel -- Conclusion: 'Ghostly Authority against the Civill' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexJohn Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England is the first text in over a century to examine the whole of Selden's works and thought. Reid Barbour brings a new perspective to Selden studies by stressing Selden's strong commitment to a 'religious society,' by taking a closer and more sustained look at his poetic interests, and by systematically examining his Latin publications (particularly those using Jewish sources).Offering critical close readings of Selden's oeuvre, Barbour posits that the overriding aim of Selden's career was to bolster religious society in the face of its imminent demise. He argues that Selden's scholarly career was committed to resolving an essentially religious question about how best to establish the holy commonwealth in both lawfulness and spiritual abundance.Perhaps the greatest strength of Barbour's analysis emerges from his overall interpretation of Selden's corpus within the context of what the author calls a "religious society"; this approach emphasizes the religious commitments of Selden and subverts earlier readings of him as a cynical, skeptical, secular thinker who attacked, rather than upheld, a Judeo-Christian model of society. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant.Constitutional historyEnglandGreat BritainPolitics and government1603-1649Great BritainHistoryStuarts, 1603-1714BiographyElectronic books.Constitutional history942.06/092Barbour Reid930914MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456276903321John Selden2472416UNINA03743nam 2200625 450 991082575270332120230126205309.03-11-037377-73-11-031258-110.1515/9783110312584(CKB)2550000001255080(EBL)1130340(OCoLC)875819010(SSID)ssj0001181215(PQKBManifestationID)12522873(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181215(PQKBWorkID)11145479(PQKB)10813886(MiAaPQ)EBC1130340(DE-B1597)208188(OCoLC)897161760(DE-B1597)9783110312584(Au-PeEL)EBL1130340(CaPaEBR)ebr10861360(CaONFJC)MIL588284(EXLCZ)99255000000125508020140429h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCatastrophes a history and theory of an operative concept /edited by Nitzan Lebovic and Andreas KillenBerlin, Germany ;Boston, Massachusetts :de Gruyter Oldenbourg,2014.©20141 online resource (208 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-11-031249-2 Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Killen, Andreas / Lebovic, Nitzan -- The Storyteller and the Seismograph / Coen, Deborah R. -- "Unity, Plasticity, Catastrophe: Order and Pathology in the Cybernetic Era" / Bates, David W. -- The Last Man: The Birth of Modern Apocalypse in Jean Paul, John Martin, and Lord Byron / Horn, Eva -- Accidents happen: The Industrial Accident in Interwar Germany / Killen, Andreas -- German Jewish Judges and the Permanent State of Catastrophe / Lebovic, Nitzan -- Ending Time and again in Ruins: Catastrophe and its Discontents in Jewish Theology / Kavka, Martin -- The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the Invention-Discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder / Herzog, Dagmar -- Kata and/or Streiphen?: Climate Change and the Politics of Catastrophe / Battistoni, Alyssa -- Anticipating the Climate Catastrophe / Dörries, Matthias -- Conclusion -- The AuthorsCatastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political structures. Among the essays in this volume are analyses, by leading scholars in their respective fields, concerning the role of catastrophes in theology, in the history of industrial accidents, in theory of history, in the history of law, in "catastrophe films", in the history of cybernetics, in post-Holocaust discussions of reparations, and in climate change. DisastersHistoryDisastersSocial aspectsDisastersHistory.DisastersSocial aspects.363.3409AR 14120BVBrvkLebovic Nitzan1970-Killen AndreasMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825752703321Catastrophes1998309UNINA