Author: Dick Pels File Type: pdf Pels uses detailed case studies to examine the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals both on the left and the right such as Marx, Durkheim, Barres, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man. From the chequered genealogy of standpoint thinking, he develops a reflexive and critical sociology of spokespersonship which goes beyond the traditional dualisms of truth versus power, might versus right and left versus right. In doing so, he explores a new conception of objectivity which is rooted not in the methodology but in the social distribution of doubt, and which throws new light on the old question of whether outsiders are privileged with a deeper or more comprehensive view and may speak for a larger social reality.. The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed case-studies, Pels examines the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.

Author: Carlo Michelstaedter File Type: pdf Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals Americas foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protege. The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired. In this book of essays, Porte focuses on Emerson and Thoreau as writers. He traces their individual achievements and their points of intersection, arguing that both men, starting from a shared belief in the importance of self-culture, produced a body of writing that helped move a decidedly provincial New England readership into the broader arena of international culture. It is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in the writings of Emerson and Thoreau.

Author: Kathleen Miller File Type: pdf This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of plague writings that responded to the epidemic forms the subject of this book.

Author: Bill Bass File Type: epub *Renowned forensic anthropologist Bill Bassfounder of the Body Farmtackles one of his most baffling cases ever in this real-life spellbinder *In 1978, 56-year-old Leoma Patterson left a bar in Clinton, Tennessee, and was never seen again. Six months later, a female skeleton was found on a wooded lakeshore in a neighboring county. The bones were consistent with those of the missing woman, and one of Pattersons daughters recognized a ring found at the death scene as her mothers. The bones were buried, and six years later, a relative of Pattersonsone of the men she was last seen alive withconfessed to killing her. Case closed.But the tentative identificationmade years before DNA testing was available to confirm itfailed to convince some of Pattersons relatives. And so it was that in 2005 Dr. Bass found himself winding around hairpin curves to the mountainside grave, where he would unearth the disputed remains and collect DNA samples. The forensic twists and turns that followed would test the limits of DNA technology and of Dr. Basss half-century of forensic knowledge.**About the Author Jefferson Bass is the writing team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass. Dr. Bass, a world-renowned forensic anthropologist, is the creator of the University of Tennessees Anthropology Research Facility, widely known as the Body Farm. He is the author or coauthor of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career at the Body Farm, Deaths Acre. Dr. Bass is also a dedicated teacher, honored as U.S. Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Jon Jefferson is a veteran journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. His writings have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and Popular Science and broadcast on National Public Radio. The coauthor of Deaths Acre, he is also the writer and producer of two highly rated National Geographic documentaries about the Body Farm.