Modalities in Medieval

Wahid,Omar: Afghanistan: A Nation in Performance A Comparative Study Between Medieval France and Contemporary Afghanistan, VDM Verlag, Oktober 2010, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639288149
This study attempted to understand French Medieval literature through the lens of performance theory and live contemporary oral narrative in Afghanistan. Paralinguistic modalities, audience settings, genre, sequence of acting along with the study of contextual cultural practices by means of ethnographic data can illuminate new meaning in oral performance. Data collected during field work in Afghanistan shows the textural nature of performance in both oral and literary contexts. This reinforces the interface between the oral and written modes of communication as both complementary rather than being binary opposites. This study explores the intricacies of oral performance and its connection to community development. Through the comparative exploration of epic as a genre and other sub-genres from the Afghan and French contexts, the complex nature of oral traditions is addressed using examples, including cultural rituals, traditional settings, social practices, healing, and entertainment. Attempt was made to consider oral poetry not as an end product in itself but as rendering medium, a connector between performer, audience, and sometimes third parties.

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Hirvonen, Vesa (Editor): Mind And Modality: Studies in the History of Philosophy in Honour of Simo Knuuttila, Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN: 9004151443
neu - new Editorial Reviews\n\nProduct Description\nThis volume offers a wide-ranging and profound collection of essays on philosophical psychology and conceptions of modality from antiquity to the present day, with some essays on the philosophy of religion as well.\n\nThe contributions deal with mind's cognitive and emotional functions, the modal notions and the philosophical approaches to religion as well as logical, semantic and epistemological issues concerning them. Of twenty-one contributions, six focus on ancient thought, nine on medieval thought, and six on modern and contemporary thought.\n\nThe book illustrates how philosophical theories of mind and modalities developed through the centuries in western philosophy. It is particularly useful for those interested in the analysis of emotions, their cognitive bearing and ethical significance.\n\nAbout the Author\nVesa Hirvonen, Th.D. (2002), University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Helsinki. His publications on late medieval philosophy and theology include Passions in William Ockham's Philosophical Psychology (Kluwer 2004).\n\nToivo J. Holopainen, Th.D. (1995), University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Helsinki. He has published on early medieval philosophy and theology including Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1996).\n\nMiira Tuominen, Ph.D. (2002) in Philosophy, University of Helsinki, is Researcher at the University of Helsinki. She works on ancient philosophy, her main publication being Apprehension and Argument: Ancient Theories of Starting Points for Knowledge (Springer, forthcoming 2006).\n\nThe editors are members of the History of Mind Research Unit, a Centre of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland and the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä. , ISBN-13: 9789004151444

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Richard H. Davis Illustrator: NA: Worshiping Siva in Medieval India: Ritual in an Oscillating Universe, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2008 ISBN: 9788120817470

New Hardcover 15 x 23 cm. Saiva liturgy is performed in a world that oscillates: a world permeated by the presence of Siva, where humans live in a condition of bondage and where the highest aim of the soul is to attain liberation from its fetters. In this account of Indian temple ritual, Richard Davis uses medieval Hindu texts to describe the world as it is envisioned by Saiva siddhanta and the way daily worship reflects that world and acts within it. He argues that this worship is not simply a set of ritualized gestures, but rather a daily catechism in which the worshiper puts into action all the major themes of cosmic Saiva philosophy the cyclic pattern of emission and reabsorption, the human path of attaining liberation, the manifestation of divinity in the world, and the proper interrelationship of humanity and god. In re-creating the convictions and intentions of a well-versed worshiper of the twelfth century, Davis moves back and forth between philosophical and ritual texts, demonstrating the fundamental Saiva belief that the capacities of humans to know about the world and to act within it are two interrelated modalities of the unitary power of consciousness. Printed Pages: 216. 5th or later edition

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Rescher, Nicholas: Studies in the History of Logic, ONTOS, Juli 2006 ISBN: 3938793198
It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher's interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author's efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher's own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950's (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). Thereafter, during the 1960's he devoted considerable effort to the contributions of the medieval logicians of the Arabic-using world (here represented in Chapters 2-6). Moreover, Rescher have from time to time returned to the area to look at some aspects of the more recent scene, as Chapters 8-9 illustrate. In some instances the present essays have been overtaken by subsequent events-events which in fact helped to promote. This is true in particular in chapter 6's work on Arabic work regarding temporal modalities, which was instrumental in evoking the important contributions of Tony Street of Cambridge University.

NEUBUCH! 2006. 189 p. 220 mm x 157 mm x 19 mm; Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers Vol.10

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