'Africa Forms the Key' : Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift / / by Suryakanthie Chetty
| 'Africa Forms the Key' : Alex Du Toit and the History of Continental Drift / / by Suryakanthie Chetty |
| Autore | Chetty Suryakanthie |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 271 p. 6 illus.) |
| Disciplina |
016.55113
968.03 |
| Collana | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Science - History
Africa, Sub-Saharan - History Imperialism Intellectual life - History History of Science History of Sub-Saharan Africa Imperialism and Colonialism Intellectual History |
| ISBN |
9783030527112
3030527115 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- 2 In the Beginning...: Geology in South Africa and the Early Years of Alex Du Toit.-3 A World in a Grain of Sand: A Brief History of Geology and the Origins of Continental Drift Theory -- 4 Bedrock: Geology and the Shaping of a Nation -- 5 On the Shoulders of Giants: Early Drift Theorists -- 6 Looking Through ... the Keyhole of Nature: Du Toit and Early Continental Drift -- 7 And Yet It Moves...: Du Toit's South American Journey -- 8 The Cradle of Humankind: A Pivotal Decade for Science in South Africa -- 9 Our Wandering Continents: Du Toit's Definitive Work, Controversy and Consensus -- 10 A Frozen History of the Past: Antarctica, Gondwana and an Unfulfilled Dream -- 11 The Final Years -- 12 Pale Blue Dot: Conclusions. |
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Chetty Suryakanthie
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A. L. Morton and the radical tradition / / by James Crossley
| A. L. Morton and the radical tradition / / by James Crossley |
| Autore | Crossley James G. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 432 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 303.4840941 |
| Collana | Palgrave studies in utopianism |
| Soggetto topico |
Socialists - Great Britain
Utopian socialism - Great Britain - History Radicalism - Great Britain - History - 20th century Political science - Philosophy Intellectual life - History History, Modern World politics Literature - History and criticism History of Britain and Ireland Political Philosophy Intellectual History Modern History Political History Literary History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Biographies. |
| ISBN |
9783031735882
3031735889 9783031735875 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Growing Up -- Chapter 3: Steyning and Summerhill, 1924 1928 -- Chapter 4: Class against Class: London, 1929 1934 -- Chapter 5: "Something to Do with the Daily Worker": 1934 1937 -- Chapter 6: History Progresses on the Popular Front: A People's History of England -- Chapter 7: Early Receptions of A People's History of England -- Chapter 8: East of England: The War Years -- Chapter 9: Towards Utopia -- Chapter 10: The Communist Party Historians' Group -- Chapter 11: The English Utopia.p -- Chapter 12: England and the USA -- Chapter 13: From Sedgemoor to Netherwood: History from Below -- Chapter 14: 1956 -- Chapter 15: Civil Wars after 1956 -- Chapter 16: Ranters, Sects, and Utopians: Local and Beyond -- Chapter 17: Invoking the Muse of British Socialism -- Chapter 18: Turning 60 -- Chapter 19: The Matter of Britain -- Chapter 20: Ranters of '68 -- Chapter 21: The Seventies -- Chapter 22: The Party Is Not Always Right -- Chapter 23: Reflections: Intellectuals. |
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Crossley James G.
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A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women : Fictions, Histories, Myths / / by Leanne Bibby
| A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women : Fictions, Histories, Myths / / by Leanne Bibby |
| Autore | Bibby Leanne |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
| Disciplina |
305.4
823.914 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - Philosophy Feminism and literature Intellectual life - History Prose literature Contemporary Literature Feminist Literary Theory Intellectual History Narrative Text and Prose |
| ISBN |
9783031086717
3031086716 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- 2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia -- 3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman -- 4 Minds and Bodies -- 5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity -- 6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals? -- 7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women -- 8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment. |
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Bibby Leanne
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Adlai E. Stevenson and American Intellectuals : The Terms of Endearment / / by C. Baars Bultman
| Adlai E. Stevenson and American Intellectuals : The Terms of Endearment / / by C. Baars Bultman |
| Autore | Bultman C. Baars |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2025.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (142 pages) |
| Disciplina | 973.9092 |
| Soggetto topico |
United States - History
History, Modern Intellectual life - History World politics Civilization - History International relations - History US History Modern History Intellectual History Political History Cultural History Diplomatic and International History |
| ISBN |
9783031806483
3031806484 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Ch 1: Introduction -- Ch 2: American Intellectuals and the Presidency -- Ch 3: Adlai Stevenson and American Intellectuals -- Ch 4: The Terms of Endearment -- Ch 5: Adlai Stevenson and Archibald MacLeish -- Ch 6: Adlai Stevenson and John Steinbeck -- Ch 7: Conclusion. |
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Bultman C. Baars
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Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / / edited by Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier
| Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / / edited by Andreea Marculescu, Charles-Louis Morand Métivier |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.09 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization - History
Europe - History - 476-1492 Europe - History - 1492- Intellectual life - History Cultural History History of Medieval Europe History of Early Modern Europe Intellectual History |
| ISBN |
9783319606699
3319606697 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I: Introduction; Andreea Marculescu and Charles-Louis Morand Métivier -- II: Subverting Emotional Norms -- Passionate Politics: Emotion and Identity Formation Among the Menu Peuple in Early Fifteenth-Century France; Emily J. Hutchison -- Pity as a Political Emotion in Early Modern Europe; Natalia Wawrzyniak -- Issuing from the great flame of this joy": Louise of Savoy, Marguerite of Navarre and Emotional Intimacy; Tracy Adams -- Histories of Emotion and Power: Catherine de Medici's Advice to her Sons; Susan Broomhall -- III: Affective Encounters -- Emotional Contagion: Évrart de Conty and Compassion; Beatrice Delaurenti -- Love Conventional/Love Singular: Desire in Middle English Lyric; Sarah Kathryn Moore -- Internal Theatre and Emotional Scripts in French Jesuit Meditative Literature; Jennifer Hillman -- IV: Authoring Emotions -- Cruelty and Empathy in Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques: The Gaze of and on the Reader; Kathleen Long -- Narrating a Massacre: the Writing of History and Emotions as Response to the Battle of Nicopolis (1396); Charles-Louis Morand Métivier -- 'Doel' in situ: The Contextual and Corporeal Landscape of Grief in La Chanson de Roland; Angela Warner -- Performing Chivalric Masculinity: Morality, Restraint, and Emotional Norms in the Libro del Cavallero Zifar; Kim Bergqvist -- V: Afterword; Stephanie Trigg. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299794503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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The Afterdeath of the Holocaust / / by Lawrence L. Langer
| The Afterdeath of the Holocaust / / by Lawrence L. Langer |
| Autore | Langer Lawrence L. |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xx, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 940.5318072 |
| Collana | The Holocaust and its Contexts |
| Soggetto topico |
World War, 1939-1945
Historiography History - Methodology Intellectual life - History Collective memory History of World War II and the Holocaust Historiography and Method Intellectual History Memory Studies |
| ISBN |
9783030661397
3030661393 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. The Afterdeath of the Holocaust -- 2. My Life with Holocaust Death -- 3. Redemptive and Unredemptive Holocaust Memory -- 4. Representing and Misrepresenting the Holocaust -- 5. Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After -- 6. Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H.G. Adler -- 7. Beyond Testimony: The Literary Design of Primo Levi's If This is a Man. 8. The Legacy of Holocaust Deathscapes -- 9. Memory and Invention in Olga Lengyel's Five Chimneys -- 10. Ner Ot: The Memorial Candle as Symbol in the Art of Samuel Bak. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483285803321 |
Langer Lawrence L.
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Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions / / by Dinah Wouters
| Allegorical Form and Theory in Hildegard of Bingen’s Books of Visions / / by Dinah Wouters |
| Autore | Wouters Dinah |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 pages) |
| Disciplina |
398.2109481
282.092 |
| Collana | The New Middle Ages |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval
European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 Hermeneutics Philosophy, Medieval Europe - History - 476-1492 Intellectual life - History Medieval Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature Medieval Philosophy History of Medieval Europe Intellectual History |
| ISBN |
9783031171925
3031171926 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- Integumental Hermeneutics and Prescholastic Philosophy -- Allegory, Language, and Cognition -- Linking Allegorical Form to Allegorical Theory.-References.-2 Vision and Explanation -- Vision and Explanation.-The Function of the Allegory.-The Formal Interplay of Allegory and Allegoresis -- Allegory and Symbol.-References.-3 Allegory as Form and Concept -- Distinguishing Between Allegory and Allegoresis.-Prejudiced Distinctions in Modern Theory.-Blurred Distinctions in Medieval Hermeneutics -- Interactions Between Allegoresis and Allegory.-Allegory as Form: Figurative Language and Levels of Meaning.-Metaphor -- Pun.-Personification.-Metonymy -- Allegory as Idea: A Vital Belief and Conceptions of Allegory.-Language: Suprarealism and Self-Consciousness.-Reality: Fabulism and Figuralism -- Reversal of Values.-References.-4 Exegetical Form: The Eccentric Exegesis of the Homilies.-Creative Allegoresis in the Expositiones.-Multiple Interpretations and Narrative Continuity -- A Formal Definition for the Literal Level.-A Narrative Definition for the Senses of Scripture.-Creating a Narrative -- Exegetical Method: The Miraculous Catch of Allegory?.-The Allegoresis of the Expositionesand the Allegory of the Visions.-References -- 5 Allegorical form: Narrative, the Cosmos, and the End of Time.-The Narrative of the Parables.-The Reality of the Cosmos -- The Textuality of Visionary Reality.-The Reality of the Textual Cosmos.-The End of Time -- References.-6 Allegorical Cognition through Words.-Hildegard’s Model of the Mind -- Other Models of Cognition.-The Circular Mind.-Perceptions as Cognitive Agents -- The Absence of Mental Images.-The Essential Role of Words.-The Promotion of Words Over Images -- Hildegard’s Turn to Language.-Exegetical Cognition.-From Hermeneutics to Epistemology -- Allegorical Creation from Exegetical Method.-Glossing and Properties.-Allegorical Handbooks -- The Cognitive Dynamics of Reading Allegorically.-References.-7 Allegorical Revelation through Prophecy -- Allegorical Interpretation as an Essential Part of Revelation History.-The Old, the New, and the Interpretation of Each.-Allegory in Deeds and in Words -- Veils and Illumination.-Allegory and Forms of Prophecy.-Clarity, Obscurity, and Hildegard’s Prophetic Goals -- Different Kinds of Prophecy in Hildegard’s Works.-Cognition and Forms of Visionary Experience.-Augustine’s Theory of Vision -- Hildegard’s Visio Spiritualis/Intellectualis.-Augustine’s Cognitive Visions.-The Continuity Between Vision and Cognition in Medieval Texts -- Becoming a Prophet.-The Prophet and the Reader.-References -- 8 Beliefs about Language and the Construction of Allegorical Form.-Allegorical Visions and Scripture.-Exceptional Language and the Reference to Nature -- Reversal of Allegory and Allegoresis.-Allegorical Form and Truth.-Allegorical Language -- The Origin and Fall of Language.-In Search of a Theological Language.-A Sphere of Literary Symbolism? -- Hildegard’s Faith in Language.-Conclusion.-References. |
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Wouters Dinah
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Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 : Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality / / by James Colin Davis
| Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 : Essays on Radicalism, Utopianism and Reality / / by James Colin Davis |
| Autore | Davis James Colin |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VIII, 246 p.) |
| Disciplina | 901 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Utopianism |
| Soggetto topico |
Intellectual life - History
Great Britain - History Europe - History - 1492- World politics Intellectual History History of Britain and Ireland History of Early Modern Europe History of Modern Europe Political History |
| ISBN |
9783319622323
3319622323 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Radicalism in a traditional society: The valuation of radical thought in the English Commonwealth, 1649-1660 -- 3. Afterword: Reassessing radicalism in a traditional society: two questions -- 4. Conquering the Conquest: the limits of non-violence in Gerrard Winstanley's thought' -- 5. Formal Utopia/Informal Millennium: the struggle between form and substance as a context for seventeenth-century utopianism -- 6. Against Formality: one aspect of the English Revolution -- 7. Religion and the struggle for freedom in the English Revolution -- 8. Thomas More's Utopia: sources, legacy and interpretation -- 9. Goodbye to Utopia: Thomas More's Utopian conclusion -- 10. James Harrington's utopian radicalism and the narration of an alternative world -- 11. Conclusion. |
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Davis James Colin
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Antonio Gramsci : An Intellectual Biography / / by Gianni Fresu
| Antonio Gramsci : An Intellectual Biography / / by Gianni Fresu |
| Autore | Fresu Gianni |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 pages) |
| Disciplina |
324.245075
320.532092 |
| Collana | Marx, Engels, and Marxisms |
| Soggetto topico |
Political science - Philosophy
Italy - History Political science Intellectual life - History Political Philosophy History of Italy Political Theory Intellectual History |
| ISBN |
9783031156106
9783031156090 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | PART ONE – THE YOUNG REVOLUTIONARY -- 1. The premises of an uninterrupted discourse -- 2. Dialectics versus positivism: the young Gramsci’s philosophical background -- 3. Self-education and autonomy of producers -- 4. Lenin and the topicality of revolution -- 5. L’Ordine Nuovo -- 6. The origin and defeat of the Italian revolution -- 7. The party problem -- 8. Revolutionary reflux and reactionary offensive -- PART TWO – THE POLITICAL LEADER -- 9. The new Party -- 10. The Comintern and the “Italian case” -- 11. Toward a new majority -- 12. Gramsci leading the Party -- 13. Theoretical maturity between 1925 and 1926 -- 14. The Congress of Lyon -- PART THREE – THE THEORETICIAN -- 15. From Sardinia’s contradictions to the sourther question -- 16. The Notebooks: the difficult beginnings of a “disinterested” work -- 17. Hegemonic relations, productive relations and the subaltern -- 18. Permanent transformism -- 19. Historical premises and congenital contradictions in Italian biography -- 20. “The old dies and the new cannot be born” -- 21. The double revision of Marxism and similarity with Lukács -- 22. Translatability and hegemony -- 23. The philosopher man and the tamed gorilla -- 24. Michels, the intellectuals and the issue of organization -- 25. The dismantling of the old schemes of political art. |
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Fresu Gianni
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Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey : The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism / / by Doğan Gürpınar
| Apparatchiks and Ideologues in Islamist Turkey : The Intellectual Order of Islamism and Populism / / by Doğan Gürpınar |
| Autore | Gürpınar Doğan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (178 pages) |
| Disciplina | 354.81150006 |
| Soggetto topico |
Communication in politics
World politics Intellectual life - History Middle East - Politics and government Political Communication Political History Intellectual History Middle Eastern Politics |
| ISBN |
9783031156526
9783031156519 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: The AKP’s Intellectual Order and Political Technology in Comparative Perspectives -- 2. Quasi-liberal Intellectuals as AKP Apparatchiks: The Second Republic, White Turks, and Other Apologetics -- 3. Islamism, Populism, and Nativism: A Syncretic Brand -- 4. Popular Culture and Conspiracy: Managing the Political Entertainment Scene -- 5.The Rise of Politico Intellectuals: Think Tanks, and the Operators of Political Technology -- 6. Allies: The AKP-MHP Coalition and the Defense Intellectuals -- 7. The State of Turkish Universities during the AKP Rule -- 8. Historians, Ottomanphilia, Perennial Islam, and Contested National Identity in an Era of Cultural War. |
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Gürpınar Doğan
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