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This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand. ;
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This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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Combining the fields of evolutionary economics and the humanities, this book examines McCarthy's literary works as a significant case study demonstrating our need to recognise the interrelated complexities of economic policies, environmental crises, and how public policy and rhetoric shapes our value systems. In a world recovering from global economic crisis and poised on the brink of another, studying the methods by which literature interrogates narratives of inevitability around global economic inequality and eco-disaster is ever more relevant.
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»Die Menschheit«, so Kant in seiner Vorlesung über Physische Geographie, »ist in ihrer größten Vollkommenheit in der Race der Weißen. Die gelben Indianer haben schon ein geringeres Talent. Die Neger sind weit tiefer, und am tiefsten steht ein Theil der amerikanischen Völkerschaften.« Die Vorstellung, der Entwicklungsstand der Menschen sei bedingt durch ihre ethnische Abstammung, ist tief verwurzelt im westlichen Denken. Thomas McCarthy zeigt, dass Rassismus und Imperialismus von Anfang an wesentliche Elemente der modernen Weltordnung waren. Ausgehend vom philosophischen Erbe der Aufklärung entwirft er eine kritische Theorie humaner Entwicklung, die für einen universalistischen Multikulturalismus eintritt.
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Im Bauch eines Glas- und Stahlbaus verfasst der promovierte Ethnologe U. auf internen Memos eines weltweit tätigen Beratungsunternehmens den »Großen Bericht«: Diese universale Gegenwartsdiagnose soll Trends und Tendenzen aufspüren, denn nur wer die Menschen versteht, kann sie zu Konsumenten machen. Den einen Bericht über diese Welt zu schreiben, in der man sich chronisch zwischen zwei Orten befindet, erweist sich jedoch als knifflig. Zumal die Geschichte sich zu schnell fortschreibt – und wer sie mitschreibt, kann sie nicht gleichzeitig erfassen. Als Forscher und Gegenstand zu verschwimmen und die allumfassende, sinnstiftende Erzählung zu scheitern drohen, eröffnet ein Traum von einer apokalyptischen Stadtlandschaft samt gigantischer Müllverbrennungsanlage neue Perspektiven. Werden die besten Gegenwartsdiagnosen in den mächtigen Finanzzentren erstellt? Tom McCarthy unternimmt nichts Geringeres als den Versuch, unsere Zeit zu vermessen – und bringt dabei eine ihrer tiefenschärfsten Analysen hervor!
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Kant kommt in seiner kritischen Theorie zu dem Schluß, dass unser Denken, das einerseits durch die Ideen der Vernunft immer wieder in die Irre geführt wird, andererseits nicht ohne diese Ideen auskommen kann. Wir bedürfen der Einsicht, daß es der »konstitutive Gebrauch« dieser Ideen ist, der uns notwendig zu verfehlten metaphysischen Annahmen verleitet, während ihr regulativer Gebrauch für uns Vernunftwesen unentbehrlich ist. Diese Grundeinsicht der kritischen Philosophie bringt Thomas McCarthy in den hier vorgelegten Untersuchungen in wechselnden Kontexten zur Anwendung. Die Vernunft, deren Kritik die Philosophen heute beschäftigt, kann allerdings nicht mehr dieselbe sein wie zu Kants Zeiten. Es ist eine Vernunft, die nicht mehr zu trennen ist von den gesellschaftlich geprägten Situationen, in denen sie sich manifestiert: Es ist eine verkörperte, durch kulturelle und soziale Praktiken vermittelte Vernunft. Kurz, die philosophische Kritik kann heute nicht mehr der »reinen« Vernunft gelten, sondern sie bezieht sich notgedrungen auf eine »unreine« Vernunft.
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This fascinating study looks at music and its intellectual context in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Drawing on a rich body of theoretical literature and manuscript sources, this book paints a detailed picture of the study of music in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Germany. It focuses on the activity of a group of prominent intellectuals based in the monastic and cathedral schools of the German Kingdom, charting their sources and shared concerns, while subtly examining their reception and modification of each others' ideas. Distilling a considerable amount of German scholarship, it situates music in its proper place among other intellectual developments that took place in eleventh-century Germany. This book is above all a study of motivations and thought processes of a group of medieval thinkers: it and will appeal to specialist and non-specialist ecclesiastical, intellectual and cultural historians, as well as to historians of music and of medieval culture.
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This is the first study of the Anglo-Welsh border region in the period before the Norman arrival in England, from the fifth to the twelfth centuries. Its conclusions significantly alter our current picture of Anglo/Welsh relations before the Norman Conquest by overturning the longstanding critical belief that relations between these two peoples during this period were predominately contentious. Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates that the region which would later become the March of Wales was not a military frontier in Anglo-Saxon England, but a distinctively mixed Anglo-Welsh cultural zone which was depicted as a singular place in contemporary Welsh and Anglo-Saxon texts. This study reveals that the region of the Welsh borderlands was much more culturally coherent, and the impact of the Norman Conquest on it much greater, than has been previously realised.
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