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Studies in Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics

Studies in Greek Philosophy: The Presocratics

Gregory Vlastos

It will, however, provide a guide to most of Professor Vlastos's publications, with some notes on interrelations between the ... I have continued the project under the auspices of the children of Gregory Vlastos, Man Vlastos and Stephen Vlastos, ...
Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

Stephen Vlastos

Stephen Vlastos's examination of the changing patterns of peasant protest in the Fukushima area shows that peasant mobilization was restricted both ideologically and organizationally and that peasants did not become a prime moving force in ...
Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korea

Gender and Modernity in Colonial Korea

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92 Miriam Silverberg, "The Cafe Waitress," in Stephen Vlastos, ed., Mirror of Modernity (1998), 216-217. 93 Miriam Silverberg, "The Cafe Waitress," in Stephen Vlastos, ed., Mirror of Modernity (1998), 213. bars, restaurants, and cabarets.
Socratic Studies

Socratic Studies

Gregory Vlastos

The companion to Vlastos' highly acclaimed Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher.
Platonic Studies

Platonic Studies

Gregory Vlastos

This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy.
Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, ...

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, ...

Oleg Benesch

Stephen Vlastos has provided a model for the examination of modern invented traditions, arguing that 'establishing their invention is only the first step. The significant findings will be historical and contextual. How, by whom, and to what social ...
亞太傳統藝術論壇研討會論文集

亞太傳統藝術論壇研討會論文集

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It is the same in Japan's case, as Stephen Vlastos and other contributors of Mirror of Modernity as well as Marilyn Ivy demonstrated.4 They problematised the notion of "tradition" in Japan by analysing, for example, the discourses surrounding ...
Legal Innovations in Asia: Judicial Lawmaking and the ...

Legal Innovations in Asia: Judicial Lawmaking and the ...

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1998); MIRROR OF MODERNITY: INVENTED TRADITIONS OF MODERN JAPAN (Stephen Vlastos ed. 1998); HARRY HAROOTUNIAN, OVERCOME BY MODERNITY: HISTORICAL SURPLUS AND THE SEARCH FOR CULTURAL ...
Kimono: A Modern History

Kimono: A Modern History

Terry Satsuki Milhaupt

16 Stephen Vlastos provides two general meanings for the term 'tradition': 'First, tradition designates a temporal frame (with no clear beginning), which marks off the historical period preceding modernity. Used inthis way tradition aggregates ...
Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher

Gregory Vlastos

Ironist and Moral Philosopher Gregory Vlastos. Dover, K. R. (1968). Aristophanes , “Clouds,” Oxford (1974). Greek Popular Morality, Oxford (1978). Greek Homosexuality, Cambridge, Mass. (1983).“The Portrayal ofMoral Evaluationin ...
Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan

Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan

Stephen Vlastos

EIGHT It Takes a Village Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan Jennifer Robertson The sensation of the newest, the most modern, is in fact just as much a dream form of events as the eternal return of the same. WALTER ...
Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

Roman Rosenbaum

Inoue, Shun, 'The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo', in Stephen Vlastos, ed.,MirrorModernity: Invented Traditions ofModern Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998, 163–173. Ito, Kimio, 'The ...
Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in ...

Inexorable Modernity: Japan's Grappling with Modernity in ...

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Hashimoto, Mitsuru. “Chih6: Yanagita Kunio's Japan.” Pp. 133—43 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern japan, ed. Stephen Vlastos. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1998. Ivy, Marilyn. Discourses of the Vanishing: ...
Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese ...

Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese ...

Julia Adeney Thomas

As historian Stephen Vlastos argues, the image of Japan's farm villages “as a reservoir of national culture, reproducing core values and habits that shape Japanese national character, is a relatively recent invention.”50 Nature was represented ...
Christian Faith and Democracy

Christian Faith and Democracy

Gregory Vlastos

This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.
Christian Faith and Democracy

Christian Faith and Democracy

Gregory Vlastos

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series.
The Blowin of Baile Gall

The Blowin of Baile Gall

Ronan Noone

So there's no way Laurence can even stay now. STEPHEN. (Pause.) To hell with him. He shouldn't be takin' our jobs, and ... STEPHEN. Don't feel sorry for me. And I from here. I'm Stephen. Wild Stevee. MOLLY. Wild Stevee. STEPHEN. Yeah.
Stephen, the First Martyr

Stephen, the First Martyr

Stephen Hodges

Narrates in verse the story of Stephen and his martyrdom.
Screening Violence 1

Screening Violence 1

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Stephen Prince ... make us Copyright © 1999 by Stephen Prince Stephen Prince pessimistic about the psychological health promoted in viewers Graphic Violence in the Cinema: Origins, Aesthetic Design, and Social Effects Stephen Prince.
The Michigan Alumnus

The Michigan Alumnus

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Back row: Good, Stephen, Sturgis, Thorns, Sabin, Case, Doty, Stephen, Reindel, Gorton, Hauke, Haskins, Hibbard, Bintz, .... O.; H. M. Stephen, Detroit; Paton C. Stephen, Shaker Heights, O. ; Marion L. Sturgis, Fowler, Mich.; Lansing W. Thorns, ...
Plato's Universe: With a New Introduction by Luc Brisson

Plato's Universe: With a New Introduction by Luc Brisson

Gregory Vlastos

Looks at Plato's theory of the cosmos, as well as what earlier Greeks thought of the makeup of the universe. Original.
The Inquest

The Inquest

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins. A novel of the greatest story never told. in 1 STEPHEN Emmy "lfyou enjoyed THE DA WYWHI. mu mm? m“: V l mt this 1'): -Morgan waely ," fling mulmr “fl KTQO IRELAND '1“ 4(6) THE INQUEST STEPHEN ...
Where's Our Submarine

Where's Our Submarine

Stephen Swann

Stephen Swann. WHERE'S OUR SUBMARINE? By Stephen Swann Illustrated ByJackie Swann © 2009 Stephen Swann &Jackie Swann. All rights reserved. ISBN.
Studies in Greek Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, and their ...

Studies in Greek Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, and their ...

Gregory Vlastos

"This collection will be hailed as a significant event in the fields of classics and the history of philosophy. Many of the papers make lasting contributions and will continue to be treated as essential work for their new research.
A Statistical History of Rugby League - Volume V

A Statistical History of Rugby League - Volume V

Stephen Kane

It is something every player and fan would do well to study. Stephen Kane the author of this book could be a reincarnation of Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba whose statue stands proudly at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen

Desmond MacCarthy

LESLIE STEPHEN In that joyously aEectionate and informal book, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, Maitland, after disclaiming any intention of criticising his work, says: “ If, as I doubt not, he has left worthy successors, someone will some ...
Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders

Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders

Stephen Abram

Jane Dysart Can you believe I didn't hire Stephen Abram when I had the chance? It was probably the best thing that could have happened to him, as he has gone on to have a stellar career as a librarian, library manager, electronic publisher, ...
Mystic Secrets

Mystic Secrets

Stephen Charles Long

“Mystic Secrets” Stephen Charles Long ISBN: 9780557051218 Copyright 2009 by Stephen Charles Long All rights ... Official Website Of Stephen Charles Long www.freewebs/stephencharleslong Published through Lulu Press Inc. Morrisville,  ...
Kiri: Her Unsung Story (Text Only)

Kiri: Her Unsung Story (Text Only)

Stephen d’ Antal

Stephen d' Antal, Garry Jenkins ... London SE19GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998 Copyright © Garry Jenkins and Stephen d'Antal 1998 Garry Jenkins and Stephen d'Antal assert the  ...

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