![]() Liberals were originally moralists at heart. Only in the mid-twentieth century did the concept become widely known in the United States-and then, as now, its meaning was hotly debated. She shows that it was the French Revolution that gave birth to liberalism and Germans who transformed it. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words “liberal” and “liberalism,” revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry-and a term of derision-in today’s increasingly divided public square. ![]() The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to today ![]()
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![]() ![]() The motivation behind this project would appear to be simple. He dabbled in cartooning in his younger days, and those early works often reflect the urban angst and alienation found in many of his movies. As with Adrian Tomine (editor of the new Tatsumi translations published by Drawn & Quarterly), Khoo developed a passion for the gekiga of Tatsumi through the 1988 Catalan edition of Good-Bye and Other Stories. Tatsumi represents Khoo’s first foray into animation. The project’s unlikely instigator is one of Singapore’s most prominent directors, Eric Khoo, whose eighth feature this is. ![]() Tatsumi(a cartoon adaptation of the manga of Yoshihiro Tatsumi) could be described as something of an anomaly - a project originating from Singapore which was made on the tiny island of Batam, Indonesia a project no Japanese animation studio would have taken up if only because of its subject matter: slow, serious, immodest, and unsafe for children. ![]() Un Certain Regard 2011 Cannes Film Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() \The organ of this universe is the active Imagination it is the place oftheophanic visions, the scene on which visionary events and symbolic histories appear in their true reality.\ Here we shall have a good deal to say of this universe, but the word imaginary will never be used, because with its present ambiguity this word, by prejudging the reality attained or to be attained, betrays an inability to deal with this at once intermediate and intermediary world.”Īlone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi “between the universe that can be apprehended by pure intellectual P.erception (the universe of the Cherubic Intelligences) and the universe perceptible to the senses, there is an intermediate world, the world of Idea-Images, of archetypal figures, of subtile substances, of "immaterial matter." This world is as real and objective, as consistent and subsistent as the intelligible and sensible worlds it is an intermediate universe "where the spiritual takes body and the body becomes spiritual," a world consisting of real matter and real extension, though by comparison to sensible, corruptible matter these are subtile and immaterial. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers be warned: like Augustus Waters before him, Adam Spencer Ross will renew your faith in real-life superheroes and shatter your heart in equal measure. Yet Toten does a masterful job bringing Adam to life without ever allowing him to become a one-dimensional poster boy for a teen suffering from mental illness. Much like Adam, readers will have to remind themselves to breathe as he performs his ever worsening OCD rituals. Adam’s first-person account of his struggle to cope with the debilitating symptoms of OCD while navigating the complexities of everyday teen life is achingly authentic. Adam’s desperate need to protect everyone he loves-his broken mother, a younger half brother with OCD tendencies, and the entire motley crew of Room 13B-nearly costs him everything. The trouble is, Robyn isn’t the one who needs saving. Having long assumed the role of protector to those he loves, Adam immediately knows that he must do everything he can to save her. ![]() ![]() Life is already complicated enough for Adam, but when Robyn Plummer joins the Young Adult OCD Support Group in room 13B, Adam falls fast and hard. What would it feel like to wake up normal? It’s a question most people would never have cause to ask-and the one 14-year-old Adam Spencer Ross longs to have answered. ![]() ![]() “ Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship,” wrote the Los Angeles Weekly‘s Amy E. Or at least we think we know it, and besides, what else could the story of a dystopian future where America has outlawed books whose main character burns the few remaining, secreted-away volumes to earn his living be about? It turns out that Bradbury himself had other ideas about the meaning of his best-known novel, and in the last years of his life he tried publicly to correct the prevailing interpretation - and to his mind, the incorrect one. ![]() Even those of us who’ve never read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451know it as a searing indictment of government censorship. ![]() |