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Rethinking Universals

2010-03-26 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Universals by : Jan Wohlgemuth

Download or read book Rethinking Universals written by Jan Wohlgemuth. This book was released on 2010-03-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universals of language have been studied extensively for the last four decades, allowing fundamental insight into the principles and general properties of human language. Only incidentally have researchers looked at the other end of the scale. And even when they did, they mostly just noted peculiar facts as ''quirks'' or ''unusual behavior'', without making too much of an effort at explaining them beyond calling them ''exceptions'' to various rules or generalizations. Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or uniqueness on the other, is a reasonable and interesting challenge to any theory of how human language works. The present volume for the first time compiles selected papers on the study of rare linguistic features from various fields of linguistics and from a wide range of languages.

Rethinking Universals

2010 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2010
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Universals by : Jan Wohlgemuth

Download or read book Rethinking Universals written by Jan Wohlgemuth. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

2014-04 Philosophy
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Release : 2014-04
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Jewish Philosophy by : Aaron W. Hughes

Download or read book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy written by Aaron W. Hughes. This book was released on 2014-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

Rethinking Ibn ʻArabi

2018 Philosophy
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Release : 2018
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Ibn ʻArabi by : Gregory A. Lipton

Download or read book Rethinking Ibn ʻArabi written by Gregory A. Lipton. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how the medieval mystic Ibn 'Arabi has been read as an inclusive universalist through the interpretative field of Perennial Philosophy, this book shows how his metaphysics is inseparably intertwined with Islamic supersessionism. Ibn 'Arabi's universalist reception is thus traced to lineages of Eurocentrism, revealing how Perennialism is itself exclusionary.

Rethinking Relations and Animism

2018-10-09 Religion
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Release : 2018-10-09
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Rethinking Relations and Animism by : Miguel Astor-Aguilera

Download or read book Rethinking Relations and Animism written by Miguel Astor-Aguilera. This book was released on 2018-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and also debating a "new animism". It is increasingly recognised that the boundaries between the "natural" and "social" sciences are of heuristic value but might not adequately describe reality of a multi-species world. Following rich and provocative dialogues between ethnologists and Indigenous experts, relations between the received knowledge of Western Modernity and that of people who dwell and move within different ontologies have shifted. Reflection on human relations with the larger-than-human world can no longer rely on the outdated assumption that "nature" and "cultures" already accurately describe the lineaments of reality. The chapters in this volume advance debates about relations between humans and things, between scholars and others, and between Modern and Indigenous ontologies. They consider how terms in diverse communities might hinder or help express, evidence and explore improved ways of knowing and being in the world. Contributors to this volume bring different perspectives and approaches to bear on questions about animism, personhood, materiality, and relationality. They include anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnographers, and scholars of religion.

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