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In this open access book, Mark Boone explains the theology of desire developed in a cross-section of Augustine’s On the True Religion, On the Nature of Good, On Free Choice of the Will, On the Teacher, On the Usefulness of Believing, On the Good of Marriage, Enchiridion, and Confessions. Throughout his writings and in many ways, Augustine develops a Platonically informed, yet distinctively Christian, account of desire. Human desire should respond to the goodness inherent in things, loving the greatest good above all and great goods more than lesser goods. Above all, we should love God and souls. Sin, an inappropriate desire for lesser goods, is healed by the redemption of Christ. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Hong Kong Baptist University

Hippolyte Carnot n'a ni la gloire de son père, « l'organisateur de la victoire » de l'An II, ni le renom de son frère, l'inventeur de la thermodynamique, ni le destin tragique de son fils, président de la République assassiné en 1894. Il reste méconnu alors que sa vie couvre presque tout un siècle (1801-1888) et que son œuvre et son influence sont considérables. À travers révolutions, coups d'État, monarchies, empires ou républiques, guerres et procès, ce ministre de l'Instruction publique de 1848, ami de Victor Hugo et de Jules Ferry, est en effet un bâtisseur et un inspirateur. Il participe à tous les combats pour les libertés publiques et privées, jette les bases de la formation des professeurs et de l'école gratuite et obligatoire, y compris maternelle, crée l'ancêtre de l'ENA et défend les causes les plus avancées (scolarisation des filles, suffrage universel, lutte contre l'esclavage et abolition de la peine de mort). Philosophe et journaliste, mémorialiste et ministre, franc-maçon et croyant, exilé politique et député, sénateur et membre de l'Académie, il incarne le xixe siècle. La redécouverte d'une grande figure de notre panthéon républicain.

From the libertarian economics of Ayn Rand to Aldous Huxley’s consumerist dystopias, economics and science fiction have often circled each other’s spheres. In Economic Science Fictions, editor William Davies has deliberately merged the two worlds, asking how we might harness the power of the utopian imagination to revitalise economic thinking.

Das Werk Heiner Müllers wurde bisher hauptsächlich aus eurozentrischer Perspektive interpretiert. Ein postkolonialer Blick hingegen eröffnet neue Lesarten für die Deutung seiner Arbeit. Lianhua He untersucht mit diesem Ansatz die implizite Geschichtsphilosophie in den Theaterstücken und dem lyrischen Werk Heiner Müllers. Anhand ausgewählter Texte analysiert sie die literarischen Vorlagen und deren Bearbeitung, und zeigt, inwiefern sich seine Geschichtsphilosophie auch in der Textstruktur und den intertextuellen Bezügen seines gesamten Werks nachweisen lässt.

In this rapidly evolving era, grasping the intricacies of corporate governance is essential for organizations aiming to secure a sustainable competitive edge. This book provides an extensive overview of the multifaceted aspects of governance, including ethical considerations, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, and stakeholder engagement, offering a critical examination of both established practices and innovative strategies within diverse organizational contexts. As corporate governance continues to evolve in response to global shifts in technology, regulation, and market demands, this volume equips readers with the insights necessary to navigate these transformations. Through a synthesis of expert perspectives, the book explores the implications of effective governance on sustainability and ethical business practices, highlighting the strategic importance of integrating stakeholder interests in fostering long-term value creation. Corporate Governance - Evolving Practices and Emerging Challenges is an essential resource for scholars, business professionals, and students, providing a comprehensive and accessible guide to the complexities of governance in today's business landscape. Its thorough analysis offers not only a deep understanding of the current state but also sheds light on the emerging challenges that shape the future of corporate governance.

This book interrogates the role of gender and class in shaping women’s everyday leisure practices. Drawing on empirical research in urban Turkey, the book explores how leisure is perceived and practised by women within their communities. The book examines the relationship of women’s leisure to their labour, women’s access to and uses of public leisure spaces, and the dynamics of their everyday sociability within their neighbourhoods. It is the first book to apply Skegg’s concept of ‘respectability’ – socially recognised judgments and standards which label the ‘right’ practices, that hold morality and power in a given context – as a theoretical tool with which to understand leisure in a country in which modernisation and Westernisation have been a central dynamic shaping political, social, and cultural life. This analysis reveals that two measures of gendered respectability – reproductive work and the honour code – and how they mediate with the classed measures of respectability, are essential to understanding women’s leisure practices in the Turkish context. The book argues that these interactions are likely shared in many Global South countries, including Islamic societies. Therefore, this analysis shines important new light on women’s experiences more broadly, and on the social, political, and cultural dynamics of traditional social structures in a modernising world. This book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in leisure studies, women’s studies, sociology, cultural studies, or Middle East studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The world population is expected to reach almost 10,000 million in 2050, so, it is necessary to use our resources efficiently: to produce more food using less land and pollute less, to optimize the production and use of biomass from diversified resources. For this, new approaches and processes, with special emphasis from a biotechnological perspective, may need to be implemented to move towards a circular model that will confer environmental sustainability. In this book, the analysis and optimization of some examples of food and bioproduct processes, as well as development of innovative and emerging food and byproducts processing methods, are considered. Valorization, bioprocessing, and biorefining of food-industry-based streams, the role of industrial microorganisms, the isolation of high added-value compounds, applications of the resulting bio-based chemicals in food manufacturing, novel food formulations, among others, are addressed.

This book uses documents that allow an intimate look at two crises that wracked and ultimately destroyed the convent of La Purísima Concepción in San Miguel el Grande, New Spain (Mexico). At the heart of each rebellion was an attempt by some nuns to impose a regimen of strict observance of their vows on the others, and the resistance mounted by those who had a different view of the convent and their own role in it. Would the community adopt as austere a lifestyle as they could endure, doing manual labor, suffering hunger and physical discomfort, deprived of the society of family and friends? Or would these women be allowed to lead comfortable and private lives when not at prayer? Drawing on an abundance of sources, including numerous letters written by the bishop and local vicar as well as nuns of both factions, this book gives us not just the voices but the personalities of the nuns and other actors.

Die ganze Welt erzählt. Sie tut es zu unterschiedlichsten Zwecken und in unterschiedlichsten Medien, in unterschiedlichen Kulturräumen und Zeiten. Wenn man die Funktionen von Erzählungen untersucht, wird schnell klar: Eines der faszinierendsten Probleme, dem man sich aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive im Kontext der Erzählforschung zuwenden kann, betrifft die Differenz zwischen Erzählungen, die einen Wahrheitsanspruch erheben, und solchen, die ihre Fiktionalität zur Schau stellen - aber auch wie in Erzählungen Faktuales und Fiktives sich überschneidet, mischt und gegenseitig spiegelt. Das ist nicht nur auf der Gegenstandsebene des Erzählten ein komplexes Feld, sondern auch auf der Ebene des Erzähltextes. Unterschiedlich sind zudem die Zugangsweisen derjenigen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, die sich mit dem Erzählen befassen: So hat etwa die Literaturwissenschaft Theorien der Fiktionalität entwickelt; die Psychologie wiederum interessiert sich für Identitäts- und Selbst-Konstruktionen anhand von Erzählungen; die Geschichtswissenschaft und die Ethik ringen immer wieder um Fragen nach Wahrheit und Fiktion. Studien zum Film und anderen Medien der Gegenwart sind mit einem Zeitgeist konfrontiert, der die Unterscheidung zwischen Fiktionalität und Faktualität strategisch und weitreichend aushebelt. Solchen Interferenzen, Kongruenzen und Differenzen von faktualen und fiktionalen Erzählungen wendet sich das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft finanzierte Graduiertenkolleg 1767 mit dem Titel "Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen" seit 2012 zu. Der vorliegende erste Band der Buchreihe des Graduiertenkollegs bietet einen Überblick über verschiedene interdisziplinäre Herangehensweisen zum Thema Faktualität und Fiktionalität, die sich innerhalb eines Spektrums von Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Theologie und Arabistik, Philosophie, Psychologie, Geschichtswissenschaft sowie der Unternehmensberatung verorten lassen.

En revisitant de façon originale des classiques de la sociologie, La sociologie et l'oubli du monde ouvre sur cette invitation fondamentale et très actuelle : penser une éthique de la responsabilité, en assumant nos limites et en sachant que la liberté morale n’est pas une liberté vagabonde.

One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.

La littérature orale est tissage de la mémoire, travail de la voix. Dans la diversité de ses genres et de ses formes, elle opère des liens, provoque des rencontres. La répétition n'y est pas le contraire de la variation, mais la condition même de son exercice, en perpétuelle mouvance. Cet ouvrage, qui représente les actes d'un colloque tenu en 2002 à Lyon, interroge, dans une approche anthropologique, les pratiques en cours et étudie un art de la relation et du passage où s'élabore une pensée métisse. Les contributions s'organisent autour des quatre axes suivants : - circulations de la parole, migrations de l'imaginaire ; - art de la performance, art de la relation ; - traduction, transcription, transmission ; - lignes de recherche, passages.

This Special Issue focuses on the clinical relevance of the C-reactive protein. Most physicians are familiar with it as a diagnostic biomarker. Only a few have realized that it can be a pathomolecule. After all, the biomarker is, of course, not a physiological function. The main task of CRP is to mark cells to be disposed of, which has been shown for decades in various animal models and has been broken down into molecular detail. The articles presented in this Special Issue reveal a broad spectrum of indications with CRP involvement. The reports unanimously support the view that CRP has a dark side. In addition to this new perspective on the pathological properties of CRP, two other new aspects are crystallizing. One is that the initial rate of CRP synthesis in an acute illness such as sepsis or myocardial infarction allows an excellent prognosis in terms of mortality or cardiac function/scar area. The other is the surprising finding that CRP impairs the desensitization of GPCRs without the need for any further damaging process.

This volume brings together key findings of the research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies. Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past.

Motivated by the need of energy-efficiency improvements, process optimization, soft-start capability and numerous other environmental benefits, it may be desirable to operate induction motors for many applications at continuously adjustable speeds. The induction motor drives can provide high productivity with energy efficiency in different industrial applications and are the basis for modern automation. This book provides an account of this developing subject through such topics as modelling, noise, control techniques used for high-performance applications and diagnostics. Compiled from contributions by international researchers, this is not a textbook, but the result is an interesting exploration of this technology, that provides a combination of theory, implementation issues and practical examples.