The Passion of Infinity

The Passion of InfinityThe Passion of Infinity generates a historical narrative surrounding the concept of the irrational as a threat which rational culture has made a series of attempts to understand and relieve. It begins with a reading of Sophocles' Oedipus as the paradigmatic figure of a reason that, having transgressed its mortal limit, becomes catastrophically reversed. It then moves through Aristotle's ethics, psychology and theory of tragedy, which redefine reason's

young people of color are often portrayed as gang affiliated

where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal authority

The moment in art theory and practice is explored in such forms as de Piles's defense of color

Yet the processes that brought these changes—industrial growth and political centralization—were crucial to Japan's rise to imperial power

verstärken Troeltschs Sensibilität für die elementaren Widersprüche in der Gesellschaft des Kaiserreichs

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The realist narrative mode that experimental science bequeaths to literary history

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the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself

die heute Europa ebenso wie die Welt fundamental umgestalten

The contributors to this volume treat such topics as the broadening spirit of egalitarianism

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