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Sri Aurobindo's Vision of Integral Human Development
by Monica GuptaThis book explores the integral vision of human development contained in the original works of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. It delves into multiple layers of the human personality as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and explores a new developmental science of consciousness based on the practice of Integral Yoga. The book examines the major metatheoretical conceptions that shape the contemporary discipline of developmental psychology and discusses the ways in which Sri Aurobindo's philosophical and psychological perspective can help break fresh ground for developmental theorisation and research by extending the current understanding of the human evolutionary potential. The author proposes a new agenda for human development which brings together the key ideas of integral individual and collective development and informs practices in the areas of counselling, education, parenting and self-development. This book will be of special interest for researchers of developmental psychology, human development, counselling psychology, philosophy, social work and education.
Sri Chaitanya & His Associates
by Swami B. B. Tirtha Maharaja"In this jewel-like volume, the venerable Tirtha Maharaja recounts the nectarean activities of the associates of Lord Gauranga and the acharyas of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religion." ––Swami B.P. Puri, Founder Acharya, Gopinath Gaudiya MathSrila Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Goswami Maharaja has gathered a great deal of information about the lives of the devotees from numerous sources, and has made this information more relishable by virtue of his own insight. These biographies of Mahaprabhu's devotees should be read on their appearance and disappearance days, for this will bring great joy to both those who hear and those who read them. In this English translation, it will be possible for devotees around the world to enjoy them. Herein, the author delights in the life stories of Jagannath Mishra, Madhavendra Puri, Ishvara Puri, Advaita Acharya, Srivas Pandit, Chandrasekhar Acharya, Pundarika Vidyanidhi, Gadadhar Pandit, Vakresvara Pandit, Gadadhar Das, Shivananda Sen, Paramananda Puri, Murari Gupta, and many others. Every letter of these accounts is drenched with the nectar of devotion. The sincere seeker will never be able to enter the transcendental kingdom nor to advance in the devotional life unless they also discover this delight.
Sri Lanka Style
by Dominic Sansoni Channa DaswatteSri Lanka Style showcases over 30 of the finest traditional and modern dwellings in Sri Lanka, from private homes to retreats and resorts, all designed by the island's most creative architects and interior designers including some by the world-renowned architect Geoffrey Bawa that have never been seen before. These houses demonstrate the essentials of the Sri Lankan lifestyle-spaces open to the environment and the natural use of space and decor-and contribute to a palpable sense of peace and discipline. In addition, there are practical design ideas that can be applied to any tropical locale.
Srinivasa Ramanujan: Life and Work of a Natural Mathematical Genius, Swayambhu
by K. Srinivasa RaoThis book offers a unique account on the life and works of Srinivasa Ramanujan—often hailed as the greatest “natural” mathematical genius. Sharing valuable insights into the many stages of Ramanujan’s life, this book provides glimpses into his prolific research on highly composite numbers, partitions, continued fractions, mock theta functions, arithmetic, and hypergeometric functions which led the author to discover a new summation theorem. It also includes the list of Ramanujan’s collected papers, letters and other material present at the Wren Library, Trinity College in Cambridge, UK. This book is a valuable resource for all readers interested in Ramanujan’s life, work and indelible contributions to mathematics.
St. Louis School Desegregation: Patterns of Progress and Peril (Historical Studies in Education)
by Hope C. RiasThis book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St. Louis, Missouri. Underlining the 2014 killing of Michael Brown as a catalyst for re-examination of school desegregation, Rias delves into the connection between contemporary school segregation and social justice, probing the ways that “soft racism”—a term the author uses to describe the non-violent, yet equally harmful, types of protests that opponents of desegregation utilized—has permeated St. Louis since the days of Brown v. Board of Education. The chapters feature the voices of those who were central to the desegregation fight in St. Louis, showing how the devastating effects of school segregation and soft racism linger today.
St. Matthew Passion (signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation)
by Hans BlumenbergSt. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthäuspassion, the parabolic mirror that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and the only available medium that allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view, Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must sacrifice and abandon his own Son?
Staat, Internet und digitale Gouvernementalität
by Lorina Buhr Stefanie Hammer Hagen SchölzelDer Sammelband trägt theoriebildende und empirische Forschungsansätze, sowie neue Erkenntnisse zu einem in den sozialwissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen bisher wenig bearbeiteten Forschungsfeld – den vielschichtigen Beziehungen zwischen Staat, Internet, Regierungsrationalitäten und Regierungstechniken – zusammen. Um neue Impulse für eine intensivere inter- und transdisziplinäre Diskussion zu setzen, verfolgt die Publikation das Anliegen, die Vernetzung und den wissenschaftlichen Austausch der in diesem Feld aktiven (Nachwuchs-)Forscher zu initiieren bzw. zu vertiefen, sowie den bisher erarbeiteten Wissensstand zusammenzutragen und einer interessierten Fachöffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. Die Beiträge widmen sich einem Bündel an Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: Was macht das digital-binäre System und die Digitalität mit dem Staat, mit Staatlichkeiten, mit Regierungsweisen und Regierungsformen? Wie interagieren und konvergieren digitale Technologien und Regierungstechnologien? Wie lässt sich diese Phänomenlage konzeptionell sowohl von der politischen Theorie und Soziologie als auch von einer politisch orientierten Medien(kultur)wissenschaft einholen?
Staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Deutschland: Eine Bestandsaufnahme des BMZ 1961-2021 ((Re-)konstruktionen - Internationale und Globale Studien)
by Wolfgang Gieler Meik NowakSeit der Gründung des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) am 14. November 1961 wurde es von 13 Minister*innen geleitet. Die deutsche staatliche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (EZ) der vergangenen 60 Jahre wurde von diesen Persönlichkeiten unterschiedlicher biographischer Herkunft und parteipolitischer Zugehörigkeit aufgebaut, weiterentwickelt und mitunter entscheidend geprägt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes bieten einen fundierten Überblick über die Biographie aller Minister*innen, stellen ihre spezifischen entwicklungspolitischen Konzeptionen dar und analysieren deren Verwirklichung und Bewährung. In einer abschließenden Würdigung wird jeweils der Versuch unternommen, den individuellen Einfluss auf die nationale und internationale Entwicklungspolitik zu bestimmen. Ergänzt werden die ministeriellen Porträts um die institutionelle Rolle des BMZ – von der Entwicklungshilfe über Entwicklungspolitik bis zur Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in zeithistorischer Perspektive. Abgerundet wird dieses Grundlagenwerk mit umfangreichen Daten und Fakten zur staatlichen deutschen EZ.
Staatliche Souveränität: Zu einem Schlüsselbegriff der Staatsdiskussion (essentials)
by Rüdiger VoigtDas essential erläutert zunächst die Begriffsgeschichte und Bedeutung der Souveränität für den Staat des 21. Jahrhunderts und beschreibt die drei Typen Parlamentssouveränität, Rechts- bzw. Verfassungssouveränität sowie (direkte) Volkssouveränität. Anschließend analysiert der Autor den Begriff der nationalstaatlichen Souveränität im Kontext der Globalisierung, Internationalisierung sowie Europäisierung und stellt die Auswirkungen des globalen Finanzkapitalismus auf die nationalstaatliche Souveränität dar. Die Übertragung von Kernkompetenzen an die Europäische Union bei gleichzeitigem Souveränitätsverlust der Mitgliedstaaten und die Kontroverse zwischen Universalisten, Nationalisten und Partikularisten werden kritisch diskutiert. Abschließend liefert das essential Ansatzpunkte zu einer Erneuerung der Volkssouveränität im demokratischen Rechtsstaat.
Staatsbürgerschaft im Spannungsfeld von Inklusion und Exklusion: Internationale Perspektiven (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik)
by Sarah J. Grünendahl Andreas Kewes Emmanuel Ndahayo Jasmin Mouissi Carolin NieswandtStaatsbürgerschaft gilt in soziologischer Theorie und politischer Praxis als Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Zugehörigkeit und politischer Teilhabe. Der Band lädt dazu ein, sich dem Konzept der Staatsbürgerschaft als einem wandelbaren und spannungsreichen Konzept zu nähern. Einerseits zeigen die Beiträge, wie die Ergänzung und praktische Inanspruchnahme von (Staats-)Bürgerschaft auf lokaler Ebene und in zivilgesellschaftlichen Kontexten geschieht. Andererseits gerät auch die exklusive Wirkung von Staatsbürgerschaft in gesellschaftlichen Aushandlungen, rechtlicher Praxis und (Bildungs-) Politiken in den Blick.
Staatsbürgerschaft neu definiert: Wie die Ausweitung des Wahlrechts auf Einwanderer weltweit debattiert wird (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik)
by Luicy PedrozaErweiterungen des Stimmrechts betreffen auch die Frage, wer an der Selbstbestimmung der Gemeinschaft teilnehmen darf. Durch einen umfassenden Vergleich von über 50 Fällen von Wahlrechtserweiterungen an Nicht-Staatsangehörige auf der ganzen Welt bietet dieses Buch eine breite empirische Basis, um diese Reformen zu rekonstruieren und erklärt gleichzeitig, wie Staatsbürgerschaft verstanden wird. Durch mehrere Vergleichsmethoden widerlegt die Autorin die Idee, dass manche Länder eine bestimmte „ethnische“ und andere eine „liberale“ Staatbürgerschaftskultur haben, die alle damit verbundenen Fragen determiniert. Vielmehr reflektieren die Debatten, wie Entscheidungsträger in einem dynamischen politischen Kontext ihre Reformvorschläge sowohl mittels auf Grundlage historischer Bedingungen als auch zeitgenössischer politischer Haltungen gestalten.
Staged: Show Trials, Political Theater, and the Aesthetics of Judgment
by Minou ArjomandTheater requires artifice, justice demands truth. Are these demands as irreconcilable as the pejorative term “show trials” suggests? After the Second World War, canonical directors and playwrights sought to claim a new public role for theater by restaging the era’s great trials as shows. The Nuremberg trials, the Eichmann trial, and the Auschwitz trials were all performed multiple times, first in courts and then in theaters. Does justice require both courtrooms and stages?In Staged, Minou Arjomand draws on a rich archive of postwar German and American rehearsals and performances to reveal how theater can become a place for forms of storytelling and judgment that are inadmissible in a court of law but indispensable for public life. She unveils the affinities between dramatists like Bertolt Brecht, Erwin Piscator, and Peter Weiss and philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin, showing how they responded to the rise of fascism with a new politics of performance. Linking performance with theories of aesthetics, history, and politics, Arjomand argues that it is not subject matter that makes theater political but rather the act of judging a performance in the company of others. Staged weaves together theater history and political philosophy into a powerful and timely case for the importance of theaters as public institutions.
Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis
by Avra SidiropoulouStaging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics, artists, writers, and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre, the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere, manifesting notably participatory, immersive, and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations, interviews, original plays, and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach twenty-first-century theatre through historical and critical study, text and performance analysis, and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection, embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre, applied theatre, theatre history, and theatre theory.
Staging Voice (Routledge Voice Studies)
by Michal Grover-FriedlanderStaging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance. This study reflects on what it would mean to take opera’s decisive attribute—voice—as the foundation of its staged performance. The book thinks of staging through the medium of voice. It is a nuances exploration, which brings together scholarly and directorial interpretations, and engages in detail with less frequently performed works of major and influential 20th-century artists—Erik Satie, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill—as well as exposes readers to an innovative experimental work of Evelyn Ficarra and Valerie Whittington. The study is intertwined throughout with the author’s staging of the works accessible online. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in voice studies, opera, music theatre, musicology, directing, performance studies, practice-based research, theatre, visual art, stage design, and cultural studies.
Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
by David Fernbach Jacques RanciereThese essays from the 1970s mark the inception of the distinctive project that Jacques Rancière has pursued across forty years, with four interwoven themes: the study of working-class identity, of its philosophical interpretation, of "heretical" knowledge and of the relationship between work and leisure. For the short-lived journal Les Révoltes Logiques, Rancière wrote on subjects ranging across a hundred years, from the California Gold Rush to trade-union collaboration with fascism, from early feminism to the "dictatorship of the proletariat," from the respectability of the Paris Exposition to the disrespectable carousing outside the Paris gates. Rancière characteristically combines telling historical detail with deep insight into the development of the popular mind. In a new preface, he explains why such "rude words" as "people," "factory," "proletarians" and "revolution" still need to be spoken.
Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts are Morally Imperative (Live Questions in Ethics and Moral Philosophy)
by James Stacey TaylorIt is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required. In this boldly argued book James Stacey Taylor contends that, given both this shortage and the desperate poverty that some people endure, it is morally imperative that the current methods of organ procurement be supplemented by a legal, regulated market for human transplant organs purchased from live vendors. Taylor pays particular attention to outlining the implications that recognizing the moral legitimacy of these market transactions in human body parts and reproductive capacities have for public policy.
Stalin and the Scientists: A History of Triumph and Tragedy, 1905–1953
by Simon Ings&“One of the finest, most gripping surveys of the history of Russian science in the twentieth century.&” —Douglas Smith, author of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy Stalin and the Scientists tells the story of the many gifted scientists who worked in Russia from the years leading up to the revolution through the death of the &“Great Scientist&” himself, Joseph Stalin. It weaves together the stories of scientists, politicians, and ideologues into an intimate and sometimes horrifying portrait of a state determined to remake the world. They often wreaked great harm. Stalin was himself an amateur botanist, and by falling under the sway of dangerous charlatans like Trofim Lysenko (who denied the existence of genes), and by relying on antiquated ideas of biology, he not only destroyed the lives of hundreds of brilliant scientists, he caused the death of millions through famine. But from atomic physics to management theory, and from radiation biology to neuroscience and psychology, these Soviet experts also made breakthroughs that forever changed agriculture, education, and medicine. A masterful book that deepens our understanding of Russian history, Stalin and the Scientists is a great achievement of research and storytelling, and a gripping look at what happens when science falls prey to politics. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2016 A New York Times Book Review &“Paperback Row&” selection &“Ings&’s research is impressive and his exposition of the science is lucid . . . Filled with priceless nuggets and a cast of frauds, crackpots and tyrants, this is a lively and interesting book, and utterly relevant today.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“A must read for understanding how the ideas of scientific knowledge and technology were distorted and subverted for decades across the Soviet Union.&” —The Washington Post
Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars
by Ethan PollockBetween 1945 and 1953, while the Soviet Union confronted postwar reconstruction and Cold War crises, its unchallenged leader Joseph Stalin carved out time to study scientific disputes and dictate academic solutions. He spearheaded a discussion of "scientific" Marxist-Leninist philosophy, edited reports on genetics and physiology, adjudicated controversies about modern physics, and wrote essays on linguistics and political economy. Historians have been tempted to dismiss all this as the megalomaniacal ravings of a dying dictator. But in Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars, Ethan Pollock draws on thousands of previously unexplored archival documents to demonstrate that Stalin was in fact determined to show how scientific truth and Party doctrine reinforced one another. Socialism was supposed to be scientific, and science ideologically correct, and Stalin ostensibly embodied the perfect symbiosis between power and knowledge. Focusing on six major postwar debates in the Soviet scientific community, this elegantly written book shows that Stalin's forays into scholarship can be understood only within the context of international tensions, institutional conflicts, and the growing uncertainty about the proper relationship between scientific knowledge and Party-dictated truths. The nature of Stalin's interventions makes clear that more was at stake than high politics: these science wars were about asserting that the Party was rational and modern, and about codifying the Soviet worldview in a battle for the hearts and minds of people around the globe during the early Cold War. Ultimately, however, the effort to develop a scientific basis for Soviet ideology undermined the system's legitimacy.
Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia
by Alfred J. RieberThis is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for control over the Western and Far Eastern boundaries of Eurasia, Alfred J. Rieber provides a new framework for understanding the evolution of Soviet policy from the Revolution through to the beginning of the Cold War. Paying particular attention to the Soviet Union, the book charts how these powers adopted similar methods to the old ruling elites to expand and consolidate their conquests, ranging from colonisation and deportation to forced assimilation, but applied them with a force that far surpassed the practices of their imperial predecessors.
Stalin's Russia: And the Crisis in Socialism (Routledge Revivals)
by Max EastmanFirst published in 1940, Stalin’s Russia is a close study of the development of the Stalinist regime and the flaws in socialist doctrine that made it possible. The book examines the contrasts between the "free and equal" society heralded by the Marxist-Leninist programme and the totalitarian state that emerged in its place. It makes use of a wealth of material to cast light on the inner workings of Stalin’s regime. It explores the significance of the Stalin-Hitler pact, and argues that the word "socialism" itself became a liability to any genuine movement of liberation as a result.
Stalinism, Maoism, and Socialism in Higher Education (Global Histories of Education)
by Lee S. ZhuThis book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao. It is organized around three themes: the convergence of Maoism with Stalinism in the early 1950s, which induced the transnational transplantation of the Soviet model of higher education to China; historical convergence between Stalinism of the First Five-Year Plan period (1928–1932) and Maoism of the Great Leap period (1958–1960), which was prominently manifested in Soviet and Chinese higher education policies in these respective periods; the eventual divergence of Maoism from Stalinism on the definition of socialist society, which was evinced in the different final outcomes of the Maoist and Stalinist endeavors to create a socialist system of higher learning.
Stalinism: Russian and Western Views at the Turn of the Millenium (Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions)
by John L. Keep Alter L. LitvinStalinism surveys the efforts made in recent years by professional historians, in Russia and the West, to better understand what really went on in the USSR between 1929 and 1953, when the country's affairs were shrouded in secrecy. The opening of the Soviet archives in 1991 has led to a profusion of historical studies, whose strengths and weaknesses are assessed here impartially though not uncritically. While Joseph Stalin now emerges as a less omnipotent figure than he seemed to be at the time, most serious writers accept that the system over which he ruled was despotic and totalitarian. Some nostalgic nationalists in Russia, along with some Western post-modernists, disagree. Their arguments are carefully dissected here. Stalinism was of course much more than state sponsored terror, and so due attention is paid to a wide range of socio-economic and cultural problems. Keep and Litvin applaud the efforts of Soviet citizens to express dissenting views.
Stand Fast in Liberty: An Exposition of Galatians (The Gromacki Expository Series)
by Robert GromackiPastors, teachers, Bible schools and colleges, and study groups will benefit from these fine expositions. Based on the English text (KJV), Dr. Gromacki uses his expertise and gifting to present the meaning of the epistle in a clear and straightforward manner. Necessary technical matters and notes on the Greek are included, but they are confined to the footnotes. These books are divided into thirteen chapters, each of which is followed by challenging discussion questions.
Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom And Resistance In The Attention Economy
by James WilliamsFormer Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. <P><P>As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we need to recognise the fundamental impacts of our new information environment on our lives in order to take back control. Drawing on insights ranging from Diogenes to contemporary tech leaders, Williams's thoughtful and impassioned analysis is sure to provoke discussion and debate. Williams is the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, a new Prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. This title is also available as Open Access.<P> Powerfully argues for the reclamation of individual agency and freedom in a world where our attention is vied over by tech companies<P> Presents a combination of technological and philosophical insight into the implications of the burgeoning 'attention economy',<P> Authored by the inaugural winner of the Nine Dots Prize, a new, biannual prize for creative thinking that tackles contemporary social issues. This title is also available as Open Access
Standardization in Measurement: Philosophical, Historical and Sociological Issues (History and Philosophy of Technoscience #7)
by Oliver Schlaudt Lara HuberThe application of standard measurement is a cornerstone of modern science. In this collection of essays, standardization of procedure, units of measurement and the epistemology of standardization are addressed by specialists from sociology, history and the philosophy of science.