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Queer Religiosities is the first comprehensive, comparative, and globally focused introduction to queer and transgender studies in religion. Addressing sophisticated topics in clear and accessible language, award-winning teacher and scholar Melissa M. Wilcox brings her engaging lecture style into conversation with the work of scholars around the globe to welcome students into these rapidly growing fields. Following an introduction to key concepts in religious studies, queer studies, and transgender studies and an overview of the history of transgender and queer studies in religion, thematic chapters address the topics of stories, conversations, practices, identities, communities, and politics and power. This inherently comparative organization helps readers to understand the details and complexities of religions, genders, and sexualities as they are lived out around the world. Additional resources include study questions, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, a glossary, an annotated filmography, and a selected bibliography to encourage further study.

"A book of science like no other, about a scientist like no other. This is a landmark in science writing. It resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes. This stubborn and unworldly man was the son of a lawyer and a brothel keeper, but also a gifted physician and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. That is the argument of this charming and intoxicatingly clever book, which is truly original in its style, and in the manner of the modernists embodies in its very form its theories about the world. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook is a science book with the panache of a novel. It is a work of and about genius."

Two years after the Arab Spring had transformed Egypt from a dictatorship under Hosni Mubarak to a democracy under the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a military coup that saw the country return being a police state. In a paradoxical turn of events, this move away from liberalism was aided by the same influential coterie of Egyptian intellectuals and activists who had previously been leaders of civic protest under Mubarak. With contributions from experts in Middle East studies, political science, philosophy, Islamic studies, and law, amongst others, this volume represents the first thorough examination of how Egypt's liberal intellectuals emboldened the return of authoritarianism. Together they form a holistic study of liberalism and modern Egypt, addressing the restrictions placed upon liberal opposition by the structural contours of the state itself, the role of Islam and Islamic activism, as well as issues of secularism, feminism and human rights more broadly following the overthrowing of Egypt's first democratically-elected president.

Nu de democratie wordt aangevallen en ondermijnd door golven van nationalisme, autoritarisme en voluntarisme zijn de politiek-filosofische teksten van Habermas van groot belang.
Over democratie bevat Jürgen Habermas’ belangrijkste bijdragen aan het debat over het idee en de praktijk van de ‘deliberatieve democratie’. Kerngedachte is dat rechtsstaat en democratie gelijktijdig gestalte krijgen in een relatie van wederzijdse afhankelijkheid. Habermas beschouwt democratie als een recombinatie van de bouwstenen voor een serieus debat, en uitdrukkelijk niet als een soort ‘uitvergroot spiegelbeeld van het gesprek’. In een analyse die aanvangt met de Franse Revolutie en eindigt op de drempel van de digitale revolutie ontwikkelt Habermas deze gedachte, die hij in al haar consequenties doordenkt.

This volume collects the private letters and published epistles of English women philosophers of the early modern period (c. 1650-1700). It includes the correspondences of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet. These women were theinterlocutors of some of the best-known intellectuals of their era, including Constantijn Huygens, Walter Charleton, Henry More, Joseph Glanvill, John Locke, Jean Le Clerc, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Their epistolary exchanges range over a wide variety of philosophical subjects, from religion,moral theology, and ethics to epistemology, metaphysics, and natural philosophy. For the first time in one collection, the philosophical correspondences of these women have been brought together to be appreciated as a whole.Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century England is an invaluable primary resource for students and scholars of these neglected women thinkers. It includes original introductory essays for each woman philosopher, demonstrating how her correspondences contributed to the formation of her own views aswell as those of her better-known contemporaries. It also provides detailed scholarly annotations to the letters and epistles, explaining unfamiliar philosophical ideas and defining obscure terminology to help make the texts accessible and comprehensible to the modern reader. This collection and itscompanion volume, Women Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century England (forthcoming), provide valuable historical evidence that women made substantial contributions to the formation and development of early modern thought and reflect the intensely collaborative and gender-inclusive nature ofphilosophical discussion in the early modern period.

What is work? Why do we do it? Since time immemorial the answer to these questions, from both the left and the right, has been that work is both a natural necessity and, barring exploitation, a social good. One might criticise its management, its compensation and who benefits from it the most, but never work itself, never work as such. In this book, Alastair Hemmens seeks to challenge these received ideas. Drawing on the new "critique-of-value' school of Marxian critical theory, Hemmens demonstrates that capitalism and its final crisis cannot be properly understood except in terms of the historically specific and socially destructive character of labour. It is from this radical perspective that Hemmens turns to an innovative critical analysis of the rich history of radical French thinkers who, over the past two centuries, have challenged the labour form head on: from the utopian-socialist Charles Fourier, who called for the abolition of the separation between work and play, and Marx's wayward son-in-law, Paul Lafargue, who demanded The Right to Laziness (1880), to the father of Surrealism, André Breton, who inaugurated a "war on work', and, of course, the French Situationist, Guy Debord, author of the famous graffito, "never work'. Ultimately, Hemmens considers normative changes in attitudes to work since the 1960s and the future of anti-capitalist social movements today. This book will be a crucial point of reference for contemporary debates about labour and the anti-work tradition in France.

In 1860 wordt de negentienjarige Oluale Kossola vanuit West-Afrika naar de Verenigde Staten verscheept, op het laatste – dan al illegale – Amerikaanse slavenschip de Clotilda. Wanneer hij al ver in de tachtig is, wordt hij als de laatst bekende overlevende van de slavernij geïnterviewd door de beroemde schrijfster en antropologe Zora Neale Hurston.
Gedurende een periode van maanden komen de schrijfster en de oude man elkaar nader, en vertrouwt hij haar steeds meer toe: zijn jeugdherinneringen, verhalen over zijn gevangenneming, de horror van de overtocht en het verdere verloop van zijn leven nadat de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog hem zijn vrijheid teruggaf.
Hurston tekende zijn verhaal in 1931 op met het gevoelige oor en de empathie die haar tot een van de belangrijkste Amerikaanse schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw maakten, maar vond geen uitgever voor dit werk. Toen het in 2017 alsnog verscheen, werd het herkend als een uniek historisch document. In deze Nederlandse uitgave wordt naast de vertaling ook het oorspronkelijke Engels afgedrukt, zodat de stem van Kossola, zorgvuldig fonetisch vastgelegd door Hurston, de Nederlandse lezer in volle glorie bereikt.
Oorspronkelijke tekst in het Engels met daarnaast de Nederlandse vertaling.

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and regional norms, and attempted to defend themselves against negative reactions to their behavior. Each queen engaged with the debates of her time concerning the place of women within their families, religion, politics, the public sphere and court culture and attempted to counter criticism of her foreign origins and political influence. The impeachment of Henrietta Maria in 1643 and trial and execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793 were also trials of monarchical government that shaped the English Civil Wars and French Revolution.

"This is the global history of early vaccination. In the late eighteenth century, Jenner demonstrated that inoculating cowpox could be an effective and viable means of preventing smallpox and, by using humanised cowpox (vaccine) drawn from children subject to the procedure, hit on the means to make the disease sustainably and universally available. The book provides the first comprehensive account of the spread of vaccination through networks of global connection during the Napoleonic Wars. It is about the parents who gave cowpox a chance, the medical networks that put several million children around the world arm-to-arm, the successes and failures of early vaccination, and the measures that made mass immunisation feasible. It is the history of a remarkable mobilisation that transformed many lives, a revolution that was an emancipatory force, even as it came to represent the pointy end of growing state power, and the foundation of later advances in preventive medicine. By the coming of peace in 1815, the war against smallpox had begun to bring smallpox's empire within bounds"

Specifically designed for linguists, this book provides an introduction to programming using Python for those with little to no experience of coding. Python is one of the most popular and widely-used programming languages as it's also available for free and runs on any operating system. All examples in the text involve language data and can be adapted or used directly for language research. The text focuses on key language-related issues: searching, text manipulation, text encoding and internet data, providing an excellent resource for language research.
More experienced users of Python will also benefit from the advanced chapters on graphical user interfaces and functional programming.

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global order From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states--not sovereign states--drove European expansion, building the world's first genuinely international system. Company-states were hybrid ventures: pioneering multinational trading firms run for profit, with founding charters that granted them sovereign powers of war, peace, and rule. Those like the English and Dutch East India Companies carved out corporate empires in Asia, while other company-states pushed forward European expansion through North America, Africa, and the South Pacific. In this comparative exploration, Andrew Phillips and J. C. Sharman explain the rise and fall of company-states, why some succeeded while others failed, and their role as vanguards of capitalism and imperialism. In dealing with alien civilizations to the East and West, Europeans relied primarily on company-states to mediate geographic and cultural distances in trade and diplomacy. Emerging as improvised solutions to bridge the gap between European rulers' expansive geopolitical ambitions and their scarce means, company-states succeeded best where they could balance the twin imperatives of power and profit. Yet as European states strengthened from the late eighteenth century onward, and a sense of separate public and private spheres grew, the company-states lost their usefulness and legitimacy.

Door de eeuwen heen wordt zichtbaar hoe kunstuitingen elkaar beïnvloeden, maar ook hoe thema’s veranderen of hun betekenis verliezen. Een ding is zeker: u zal nooit meer hetzelfde naar vis kijken.
Henk Slechte neemt in Vis in beeld de lezer mee op een zoektocht naar verborgen betekenissen van vis in woord en beeld.
Vis is niet altijd wat het lijkt. Met een opgehouden haring en twee uien verwijst Jan Steen op een schilderij humoristisch naar het mannelijk geslachtsdeel. Een haring staat in een andere context voor welvaart. De visvangst is altijd belangrijk geweest voor de Nederlandse economie. Vis spreekt al eeuwenlang tot de verbeelding. Alleen al in onze taal zijn tal van spreekwoorden over vis te vinden en vis, vissers en visserij zijn dikwijls figuurlijk gebruikt in de kunst.
Van Bruegels De grote vissen eten de kleine tot Eschers Water en Lucht. Steeds weer hebben kunstenaars vissen uitgebeeld en als religieus, erotisch of satirisch symbool gebruikt. Bijbelse verhalen als de Wonderbare visvangst en Jonas in de walvis komen voorbij, maar ook de Hoekse en Kabeljauwse twisten, carnaval en vasten, en talloze spotprenten met vis.