In old age, a political firebrand looks back at a life filled with social and political turmoil. Samuel Lumen has reached the hearts of millions with his fearless advocacy for liberal causes. Now he’s almost ninety years old, and the ideas he espoused as a young man, radical at the time, are woven into the political landscape of America, even as they’ve been warped and diluted by younger generations. His ideological heirs want to honor his contributions with a banquet full of pomp and circumstance, but Lumen’s not so sure he’s ready to honor his heirs in return. Told through Lumen’s diary entries, Celebration recounts his rich life, filled with achievement, disappointment, and an ever-growing awareness of the costs of restless radicalism. Published posthumously, Celebration is a fitting capstone to Swados’ legendary career as a novelist and critic, and is an unforgettable look at the intersection of memory, nostalgia, and histories both personal and political.

A masterful novel of political progressives making their way--and not--in an ever-changing postwar AmericaFor Marty Dworkin and his band of young Trotskyist dreamers in Buffalo, New York, the vision of a just, socialist world crumbles with the rise of Stalin and the chaos of World War II. In the two decades that follow, Dworkin and his idealistic colleagues strive to establish a new political party and battle through unexpected trials with family, work, aging, and the changing world. They run up against an increasingly conservative America and a thriving materialism directly opposed to their own fervent beliefs. They emerge humbled, but still hopeful, into the 1960s, when civil rights struggles and anti-war radicalism move to center stage. Standing Fast is a classic, panoramic portrait of life amid the shattered dreams and visionary ambitions of the American left.

This book deals with a well-known and widespread phenomenon in medieval Islam which has not been studied in detail. The Majlis (pl. Majalis) is a forum devoted to interreligious polemics, as well as to the discussion of a variety of other topics. The concept and practise of the Majlis are examined from different angles by ten scholars. approach (H. Kuhne).

Hayim Greenberg was more than just a leader of the American Labor Zionist movement. He was a "Zionist theoretician, socialist thinker, writer on ethical and philosophical problems, and political spokesman" who influenced widely spread circles within the Jewish and non-Jewish world. "He was a paradoxical, ambivalent figure ... many-faceted, sensitive.... He had that rare combination of poetry and lucidity which makes a great essayist and a great teacher." In this collection some of his best essays offer his thoughts on religion and ethics, Jews and Zionism, socialism and communism, and the broader aspects of life in general. Penetrating, lucid, profound, they were written originally in different languages, some in English, which was the last of many languages Hayim Greenberg mastered. The depth and range of these essays makes this collection a significant contribution to the discussion of the Jewish condition as part of the human condition.

Breaking new ground in the study of Spinoza's philosophy, the essays in this volume explore the extent to which Spinoza may be considered a Jewish thinker. The rich diversity of Spinoza scholarship today is represented here by a wide range of intellectual methods and scholarly perspectives—from Jewish philosophy and history, to Cartesian-analytic and Continental-Marxist streams of interpretation, to the disciplines of political science and intellectual history. Two questions underlie all the essays: How and in what measure is Spinoza's a Jewish philosophy, and what is its impact on the project of Jewish philosophy as a living enterprise now and for the future? The contributors' varied perspectives afford a highly nuanced vision of the multifaceted Judaic tradition itself, as refracted through the Spinozist lens. What draws them together is the quest for enduring insights that emerge from the philosophy of Spinoza.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...Aber das ist ein Irrthum. Durch seinen Kahlkopf, den er zuweilen mit so einer weißen Nebelkappe bedeckt, giebt er sich zwar den Anstrich von Philiströsität; aber wie bei manchen andern großen Deutschen, geschieht es aus purer Ironie. Es ist sogar notorisch, daß der Brocken seine burschikosen, phantastischen Zeiten hat, z. B. die erste Mainacht. Dann wirft er seine Nebelkappe jubelnd in die Lüfte, und wird, eben so gut wie wir Uebrigen, recht echtdeutsch romantisch verrückt. Ich suchte gleich die schöne Dame in ein Gespräch zu vers flechten: denn Naturschönheiten genießt man erst recht, wenn man sich auf der Stelle darüber aussprechen kann. Sie war nicht geistreich, aber aufmerksam sinnig. Wahrhaft vzrnehme Formen. Ich meine nicht die gewöhnliche, steife, negative Vornehmheit, die genau weiß, was unterlassen werden muß; w sondern jene seltnere, freie, positive Vornehmheit, die uns genau sagt, was wir thun dürfen, und die uns, bei aller Unbefangenheit, die höchste gesellige Sicherheit giebt. Ich entwickelte, zu meiner eigenen Verwunderung, viele geographische Kenntnisse, nannte der wißbegierigen Schönen alle Namen der Städte, die iJ vor uns lagen, suchte und zeigte ihr dieselben auf meiner Landkarte, die ich über den Steintisch, der in der Mitte der Thurmplatte steht, mit echter Dozentenmiene ansbreitete. Manche Stadt konnte ich nicht finden, vielleicht weil ich mehr mit den Fingern suchte, als mit den Augen, die sich unterdessen auf dem 20 Gesicht der holden Dame orientirten, und dort schönere Partien fanden, als „Schierke" und „Elend." Dieses Gesicht gehörte zu denen, die nie reizen, selten entzücken, und immer gefall...

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After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social mechanisms, linguistic input, and information about the social and physical world. Theoretical work in the field of language acquisition now needs to focus in greater depth and detail on some specific aspects of this general model, which is the main goal of this book. The chapters in this volume provide some new insights into one of the most remarkable accomplishments achieved by almost all children. The particular questions that are raised by contributors include: * What kinds of constraints operate on the process of language development? * Which aspects of the acquisition process depend on language-specific mechanisms? * Are there critical brain structures necessary for the acquisition of language? * What role do cognitive and social mechanisms play in language development? * How critical is perceptual input about the physical and social world? * What is the specific role played by linguistic input in the child's construction of a linguistic system? Questions are addressed from the perspective of children who come to the task of acquiring language with many hurdles to overcome, including deafness and blindness, mental retardation, autism, and prenatal or perinatal brain damage involving the left hemisphere. Each section contributes some insight on how an innate language-specific biological substrate interacts with cognitive and social factors, as well as external information, to support the child's construction of a linguistic system. Studies of atypical children offer a singular contribution to this enterprise by allowing us to see the specific influences of each component, and in turn, they shed new light on how all children are able to acquire language so effortlessly and during such a brief period of development.

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