Islam: Past, Present and Future

 For more than two decades the world religions have been a central topic for Hans Küng. In books which have inspired millions throughout human society, he has pioneered work towards a new dialogue between cultures. In this extraordinarily comprehensive book, he gives an in-depth account of Islam, the second largest world religion after Christianity. Describing paradigm shifts in its 1400-year history, outlining the various currents and surveying the positions of Islam on the urgent questions of the day, few present-day theologians could have written such a complete analysis. As in Küng’s earlier studies on Judaism (1991) and Christianity (1994), he focuses on the central principles in the faith and seeks to show the parallels between the monotheistic world religions. With detailed analysis of the contents and meaning of the Koran, he challenges the notion that people of different religions are intrinsically opposed. Indeed, in the introduction of this thought-provoking and powerful book, he explicitly presents its message as being the antithesis of that of the influential Clash of Civilisations (1993), by Samuel Huntington. Instead of presenting Islam as the new ‘enemy’ in a post Cold War world, and regarding the current international situation as a call for further rearmament and hatred, he suggests that a "peace between religions" is a prerequisite for "peace between nations". Informative, opinionated and exceedingly well-constructed, this is a masterpiece by the foremost scholar in his field. In a world where understanding of global politics requires a knowledge of Islam, there is no better place to start. Dr. Küng is President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic (Weltethos). From 1960 until his retirement in 1996, he was Professor of Ecumenical Theology and Director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research at the University of Tübingen. He is a scholar of theology and philosophy and a prolific writer. He was recently named among Foreign Affairs One Hundred Public Intellectuals

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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers

Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues. Imre Lakatos had an influence out of all proportion to the length of his philosophical career. This collection exhibits and confirms the originality, range and the essential unity of his work. It demonstrates too the force and spirit he brought to every issue with which he engaged, from his most abstract mathematical work to his passionate 'Letter to the director of the LSE'. Lakatos' ideas are now the focus of widespread and increasing interest, and these volumes should make possible for the first time their study as a whole and their proper assessment.

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Kontrak Sosial

Kontrak sosial adalah sebuah perjanjian antara rakyat dengan para pemimpinnya, atau antara manusia-manusia yang tergabung di dalam komunitas tertentu. Secara tradisional, istilah kontrak sosial digunakan di dalam argumentasi yang berupaya menjelaskan hakikat dari kegiatan berpolitik atau menjelaskan tanggung jawab dari pemimpin kepada rakyat. Beberapa filsuf yang memakai teori kontrak sosial adalah Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, dan Kant.

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Music and Philosophy 2005

 Music played a central role in the thought of existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973). One of the most tantalizing claims he made was in a set of conversations with Paul Ricoeur. Employing a geographic metaphor, he claimed that philosophy was the continent of his work while his plays formed the off-shore islands; but what was deepest was music as the water that conjoins the two. One who wishes to understand how he thought of music will find that his philosophical writings contain only a few, quasi-aphoristic, though significantly penetrating things about the nature of music and its relation to his thought. Disappointingly, neither his short "An Essay in Autobiography" of 1947 nor his larger autobiography of 1971, Awakenings, adds much to that beyond a few remarks. But the latter work makes reference to an article, "La musique dans mon vie et mon oeuvre," a lecture he delivered in Vienna in 1959, that turned out to be a significantly richer source. And if one turns to his bibliography, one discovers that, as a music critic, Marcel published over 100 items on music--including Musique dans mon vie"! None of them are available in English. Those of greater length and philosophical interest were gathered together, along with several shorter representative pieces, in the work entitled L'esthetique musicale de Gabriel Marcel that appeared in the Presence de Gabriel Marcel series. In order to enrich and deepen the appreciation of Marcel's thought in the English-speaking world by following up his understanding of the central role of music in his thought, but also to underscore the central role of music in his thought, but also to underscore the central importance of the aesthetic inhuman experience, we have selected the main articles that appeared in that work for translation here. Marcel complained that (as of 1959) commentators had not paid significant attention to the close connection between music and philosophy. The present text should remedy that.

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Philosophy Guidebook To Spinoza And The Ethics

‘I have read Spinoza and the Ethics with great pleasure and am deeply impressed. It discusses an exceptionally wide range of past and present readings of the Ethics, so that the reader gains a sense of the many angles from which this text has been approached… It offers an interpretation of the whole of the Ethics, and culminates in a fascinating and nuanced discussion of its final section about the intellectual love of God. Most importantly, it develops a distinctive and insightful account which aims both to do justice to Spinoza’s own philosophical aspirations, and to relate these to our own.’
Susan James, Girton College, Cambridge

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Shakespeare And Philosophy

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present.  Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

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Nietzsche and Jewish Culture

Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas: he came up with the concept of a master race, yet an eminent Jewish scholar like Martin Buber translated his Also sprach Zarathustra into Polish and remained in a lifelong intellectual dialogue with Nietzsche. Sigmund Freud admired his intellectual courage and was not at all reluctant to admit that Nietzsche had anticipated many of his basic ideas.
This unique collection of essays explores the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture. It is organized in two parts: the first examines Nietzsche's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism; the second Nietzsche's influence on Jewish intellectuals as diverse and as famous as Franz Kafka, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Sigmund Freud. Each carefully selected essay explores one aspect of Nietzsche's relation to Judaism and German intellectual history, from Heinrich Heine to Nazism

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Kant and The Problem of Metaphysics

Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger’s provocative book on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger’s own development after Being and Time. This fifth, enlarged edition includes marginal notations made by Heidegger in his personal copy of the book and four new appendices—Heidegger's postpublication notes on the book, his review of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Heidegger's response to reviews by rudolf Odebrecht and Cassirer, and an essay "On the History of the Philosophical Chair since 1866." The work is significant not only for its illuminating assessment of Kant’s thought but also for its elaboration of themes first broached in Being and Time, especially the problem of how Heidegger proposed to enact his destruction of the metaphysical tradition and the role that his reading of Kant would play therein.

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Perahu Kertas

Berkisah tentang pasang surut hubungan dua anak manusia, Kugy dan Keenan. Setamat SMA keduanya meneruskan kuliah di Bandung. Kugy yang bercita-cita menjadi penulis dongeng mengambil jurusan di Fakultas Sastra. Dia mempunyai kebiasaaan unik yaitu senang membuat perahu kertas yang kemudian dilarungkannya di sungai. Sementara Keenan yang merupakan pelukis muda berbakat terpaksa harus mengikuti keinginan sang ayah, mengambil jurusan ekonomi.

Keenan, Kugy, Noni yang merupakan sahabat Kugy, dan sepupu Keenan yang bernama Eko menjadi geng kompak. Dari rasa saling mengagumi, Kugy dan Keenan ternyata diam-diam saling jatuh cinta. Tapi berbagai hal menghalangi mereka. Tak hanya itu, persahabatan Kugy dan Noni pecah ketika Kugy, demi menjaga hatinya, tak datang pada pesta ulang tahun Noni yang diadakan di rumah Wanda.

Di bagian lain, dalam suasana hati yang gundah Keenan pergi ke rumah Pak Wayan, seorang pelukis teman lama Lena, sekaligus mentor Keenan melukis. Beruntung Luhde, keponakan Pak Wayan, berhasil mengembalikan semangat Keenan. Sementara Kugy yang ingin cepat meninggalkan Bandung dan lingkungan lamanya berjuang untuk lulus cepat.

Setelah lulus sidang, kakak Kugy yang bernama Karel membantu agar Kugy magang di biro iklan milik Remi temannya. Prestasi kerja Kugy yang cemerlang ternyata menarik perhatian Remi.

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Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk #1-3

Gabungan 3 buku seri Dukuh Paruk: Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk, Lintang Kemukus Dini Hari & Jantera Bianglala. Semangat Dukuh Paruk kembali menggeliat sejak Srintil dinobatkan menjadi ronggeng baru, menggantikan ronggeng terakhir yang mati dua belas tahun yang lalu. Bagi pedukuhan yang kecil, miskin, terpencil dan bersahaja itu, ronggeng adalah perlambang. Tanpanya dukuh itu merasakah kehilangan jati diri.
Dengan segera Srintil menjadi tokoh yang amat terkenal dan digandrungi. Cantik dan menggoda. Semua ingin pernah bersama ronggeng itu. Dari kaula biasa hingga pekabat-pejabat desa maupun kabupaten. Namun malapetaka politik tahun 1965 membuat dukuh tersebut hancur, baik secara fisik maupun mental. Karena kebodohannya, mereka terbawa arus dan divonis sebagai manusia-manusia yang telah mengguncangkan negara ini. Pedukuhan itu dibakar. Ronggeng berserta para penabuh calung ditahan.Hanya karena kecantikannya Srintil tidak diperlakukan semena-mena oleh para penguasa penjara itu. Namun pengalaman pahit sebagai tahanan politikmembuat Srintil sadar akan harkatnya sebagai manusia. Karena itulah setelah bebas, ia berniat memperbaiki citra dirinya. Ia tak ingin lagi melayani lelaki manapun. Ia ingin menjadi wanita somahan. Dan ketika Bajus muncul dalam hidupnya sepercik harapan muncul, harapan yang semakin lama semakin besar.

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Filosofi Kopi

Pemaknaan kembali kembali kopi, Buddha, Herman, surat tak tarkirimkan, cinta sejenis yang manis atau apa pun, membuktikan Dee tetap memesona. Kalau kemarin panitia Nobel sastra masih maju mundur dengan nama Pramoedya, sekarang bisa memaknai kembali, melalui karya-karya ini.
Ruang cerpen yang sempit dijadikannya wahana yang intens namun tidak sesak untuk mengungkapkan apa yang tak selalu mampu dikatakan. Lewat refleksi dan monolog interior yang digarap dengan cakap dan jernih. pembaca diajaknya menjelajahi halaman-halaman kecil dalam cerpen yang kini dijadikannya semesta kehidupan.
Cerpen-cerpen Dee itu persis racikan kopi dari tangan seorang ahli peracik kopi: harum, menyegarkan, dan nikmat: pahit, tapi sekaligus mengandung manis.

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Plato and the Trial of Socrates

Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction of Socrates' ideas.
In this GuideBook, Brickhouse and Smith provide clear explanations of these texts for students coming to them for the first time. Situating the works in their historical context, the authors carefully go through each text, exploring the philosophical issues raised in an accessible way.
Plato and the Trial of Socrates is the ideal introduction to both the ideas of Socrates and the work of Plato.

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The Complete Works of Sister Nivedita

Sister Nivedita was a devotee of Swami Vivekananda. She had Scots-Irish origins and came til India as a social worker in 1898 where she met Swami Vivekananda who gave her the name Nivedita (meaning “Dedicated to God”). She became  close with Vivekananda and also with Sarada Devi, the spiritual consort of the mystic Ramakrishna and one of the major influences behind Ramakrishna Mission and also with other brother disciples of Swami Vivekananda. She died on 13 October 1911 in Darjeeling. During her stay in India she wrote 12 books on different topics from dharma and education to politics, but all of them referring to Hinduism and mysticism. All her books and other writings are here collected in the five-volume collected works. 

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The Complete Pythagoras

The Complete Pythagoras is a compilation of two books. The first is entitled The Life Of Pythagoras and contains the four biographies of Pythagoras that have survived from antiquity: that of Iamblichus (280-333 A.D.), Porphry (233-306 A.D.), Photius (ca 820- ca 891 A.D.) and Diogenes Laertius (180 A.D.). The second is entitled Pythagorean Library and is a complete collection of the surviving fragments from the Pythagoreans.

 

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The Political Economy of Communication

The new edition is updated throughout with an expansive bibliography and insights into the intersections between political economy and other disciplines such as sociology, geography, cultural studies, public choice theory and science and technology studies, among others...Mosco’s The Political Economy of Communication, second edition, is a very important resource for scholars, providing a critical and updated review of the field while proposing a forward-looking vision. The book highlights fresh potentials and the continuous relevance of the political economy approach to the study of communication. I would also recommend this as a textbook for graduate courses.

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Virtual Ethnography

Christine Hine is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. She joined the Department in 2003, having previously worked at Brunel University within the Department of Human Sciences and the Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology. Hine was President of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology from 2004 to 2008. She has published widely in virtual research methods, with a particular focus on online ethnography; her first major work, Virtual Ethnography, enjoyed a considerable success as one of the pioneering works to explore the integration of the Internet with existing methodological principles in qualitative research. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology, including ethnographic studies of scientific culture, information technology and the Internet, and she has also taken a lead role in promoting discussion of methodologies for sociological understanding of the Internet. 

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Griffin Communication Theory

Em Griffin is Professor of Communication at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he has taught for the past twenty-six years and has been chosen Teacher of the Year. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication from Northwestern University. His research interest centers on the development of close friendships. Professor Griffin is the author of three applied communication books: The Mind Changers analyzes practical techniques of persuasion; Getting Together offers research-based suggestions for effective group leadership; and Making Friends describes the way that quality interpersonal communication can build close relationships. He also speaks and leads workshops on these topics in the United States, Singapore, and the Philippines. Professor Griffin’s wife, Jean, is an artist. They have two adult children, Jim and Sharon. 

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Identity and Difference

 Identity and Difference consists of English translations and the original German versions of two little-known lectures given in 1957 by Martin Heidegger, "The Principle of Identity" and "The Onto-theo-logical Constitution of Metaphysics." Both lectures discuss the difficult problem of the nature of identity in the history of metaphysics. A helpful introduction and a list of references are also provided by the translator, Joan Stambaugh.

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Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning)

Considered by scholars to be Heidegger's most important work after Being and Time, this book was written during the 1930s but did not become available to the public until 1989. (This is the first translation from the German.) Here Heidegger attempts to carry out what he calls "being-historical thinking." Since the way in which "being" discloses itself throughout history varies, he sees his task as describing the key moments of the process. As usual, Heidegger's analysis proceeds from careful attention to the origins of philosophical terms. He writes in an aphoristic style and often employs new and strange words, but students of Heidegger will surely find this book indispensable.
-David Gordon, Bowling Green State Univ., OH
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. 

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Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues: The Transformation of Soccer Culture

Soccer fandom has traditionally been seen as an important part of adolescent, generally male, identity making. In Post-Fandom and the Millennial Blues , Steve Redhead shows how this tradition of youth culture of fandom has been eroded in the last years of the twentieth century by the more fleeting, style conscious allegiances inspired by television, films and music. The clubs that young people follow are determined by advertising and popular music; the games that they watch are brought to them by the globalized culture of television, as in the world cup staged in America; even their fears of so-called soccer hooliganism are determined by media-engendered moral panics at a time when the phenomenon itself seems to be dying away.

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Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture

Spend even a day in a major Japanese city like Tokyo or Osaka and you won't be able to ignore them: 'idols,' or heavily produced and promoted men and women who perform across media genres and platforms. They appear in magazines and advertisements, perform on TV and on stage, recorded and live. Though central to the workings and experience of media in Japan, idols have unfortunately had only a marginal place in the scholarship. This collection offers the most complete and compelling account of one of the most fascinating and least understood aspects of Japanese media culture today. It brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who engage the study of media, gender and celebrity. Sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.

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Aristotle's Metaphysics Θ 1-3

Martin Heidegger’s reading of Aristotle was one of the pivotal influences in the development of his philosophy. First published in German in 1981 as volume 33 of Heidegger's Collected Works, this book translates a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1931. Heidegger's careful translation and his probing commentary on the first three chapters of Book IX of Metaphysics show the close correlation between his phenomenological interpretation of the Greeks (especially of Aristotle) and his critique of metaphysics. Additionally, Heidegger's confrontation with Aristotle's Greek text makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship on Aristotle, particularly the understanding of potentiality in Aristotle's thought. Finally, the book exemplifies Heidegger's gift for teaching students how to read a philosophical text and how to question that text in a philosophical way.

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Founders of Comic Fandom

In the 1950s and '60s, a grassroots movement arose to celebrate comic books and strips, which were becoming increasingly important to American popular culture. This broad group of ardent readers and collectors had little formal structure until the 1950s. As the art and literary form grew in popularity, a dedicated core began building an organized network. Profiled here are 90 people at the heart of the movement: indexers, dealers, fanzine publishers, convention organizers, writers, artists, active collectors and industry professionals.

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Life Of Pi

The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes.

The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional--but is it more true?

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