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Life Configurations
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Edited by:
Gert Melville
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their “becoming”, that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.
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Gert Melville, TU Dresden, and Carlos Ruta, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Frontmatter
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Preface to the series “Challenges of Life”
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Life Configurations
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Contents
IX - Philosophical Foundations
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Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations
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“Philosophical Anthropology” as an Interpretation of Human Life Forms
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Life and Language
46 - Historical Perspectives
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Carpe diem: Time and Life Configuration in the Hellenistic Roman World
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Life Configurations in the Middle Ages between Divine Acting and Human Self-Determination
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Foreseeing the Future Under a Communist Regime
81 - Cultural Identities
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Explaining the Vicissitudes of Human Life: The Indian View
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Life Configurations: Perceived Patternings in Pre-modern China
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The Muslim Conduct of Life: Paths of Continuity
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Sorcery comes from nearby Problems of the human condition according to some Amazonian indigenous peoples
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Returning to the Land, Evoking the Past, and Sowing the Future Guaraní and Tapiete Indians and the Formation of New Rural Communities in Northwestern Argentina
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Life as Quotidian Acts of Justice in Northern Mozambique
147 - Politics – Economics – Ethics
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Configurations of (Political) Life
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The Politics of Survival
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What’s Alive for Economics?
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Can Ethics Shape Modern Societies?
204 - Art and Literature
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Why Do We Need Masterpieces?
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Elpenor, the Emmaus Pilgrim and the Missing One The Painting and the Historical Problem of Life Configuration
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The Rise and Fall of Objects and Their Relationship with Man
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Musil’s Reconfiguring of Austria’s (reluctant) Entry into Modernity
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About the Authors
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eBook published on:
September 11, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9783110338737
Hardcover published on:
August 19, 2014
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110338690
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
12
Main content:
268
Illustrations:
30
Audience(s) for this book
Historians, cultural anthropologists, theologians
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