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Format: 213 S. : Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

Note: Teilw. zugl.: Diss.

Language: English

Subjects: German Studies

Keywords: 1830-1916 Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von ; Schriftstellerin ; 1830-1916 Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von ; Künstlerin ; Hochschulschrift

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Format: 213 S.

ISBN: 1879751690

Series Statement: Studies in german literature, linguistics and culture

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (1 online resource)

ISBN: 9956-551-95-3

Note: Includes index. , Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 - Introduction. Being and Becoming African: Insights from Chinua Achebe's and Related Usage of Proverbs -- The Many Faces and Guises of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Contribution in the Storytelling of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Artistic Iconoclasm -- Synopsis of Chapters -- Endnotes -- References -- Part I. Proverbial Cultures: Being, Becoming and Belonging in African Proverbs -- Chapter 2 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs -- Introduction -- Proverbs in Motion and their Mobilisation by Chinua Achebe -- Proverbs as Palm-Oil -- Proverbing Humility and Modesty in Leadership -- Gluing Change and Continuity with Proverbs -- Telling the Untold Stories of the Hunt: A Proverbial Achebe Legacy -- Achebe the Dancing Mask Humbles Death -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 3 - The Community, Belonging and Agency in Akan Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Sociality of the Person in Akan Proverbs -- Belonging as Membership of a Kin Group -- The Personhood as Belonging to a Community -- Individual Agency and the Community -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 4 - The Place of Proverbs amongst the Otukpo of North Central Nigeria -- Introduction -- Who are the Otukpo People? -- Other Versions of Proverbs in Otukpo: Meanings and Applications -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 - An Encounter with a Proverb-Hunter and the Beingness of Igbo Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Forest of Proverbs -- Proverbs and the Art of Conversation -- The Art of Proverbialising and the Family -- The Dawn of Ilulu Igbo n'ime Igbo: Textbook of Igbo Proverbs -- Igbo Proverbs: New Channels, Different Contexts -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Works Cited. , Part II. The Materiality of Proverbs: Performing Morality, Spirituality, Politics and Wisdom in and through African Proverbs -- Chapter 6 - Wax and Gold: Wisdom, Spirituality and Moral Discourse in Ethiopian Proverbs -- Introduction -- Part I: Highlights on Orality and Proverbs in Ethiopia -- Part II: How Proverbs and Qene Converge -- Part III: Themes in Amharic Proverbs and Qene -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 7 - Proverbs and the Celebration of the Igbo Tradition of Politics in Chinua Achebe's Novels -- Introduction -- Ancestral Spirit and Good Governance -- Elders' Wisdom and the State -- Negotiated Power Ratio -- The Political Hero -- Lessons for Contemporary Time -- References -- Chapter 8 - Poetry as a Vehicle for Communication and Orientation in Contemporary Igbo Politics -- Introduction -- Political Poetry - Abu Ntubiriko -- Political Situations of Political Songs in Igboland -- The Second Stanza is a Reverse of the First -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 - African Wisdom in Proverbs: The Yorùbá Example -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- The Nature and Function of Proverbs in Yorùbá Society -- Defining Wisdom -- Wisdom in Proverbs vis-à-vis Yorùbá Society -- Analysis and Discussion of the Data -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Part III. Celebrating the Proverbial Genre: The Interconnections and Interdependencies between African Proverbs and Creativity -- Chapter 10 - Paremiological Poetics: The Poetic Dimensions of Igbo Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Proverb -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 - The Pleasure(s) of Proverb Discourse in Contemporary Popular Ghanaian Music: The Case of Obrafour's Hiplife Songs -- Introduction -- "Pleasure" from an Akan Perspective -- Obrafour's Thematic Proverbial Dexterity: ɛb ɛ De ɛ Ennyina Faako, ɛtu (Proverb [use] is not stationary, it flies). , Conclusion: On the Pleasure(s) of the "Executioner's" Proverbs -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 12 - Malinkelisation of French in Ahmadou Kourouma's Les soleils des indépendances -- Introduction -- The "Malinkelisation" of French in Kouroumian Fiction -- Proverbs and Related Idiomatic Expressions in Les soleils des Indépendances -- Translation of Orality into the Written Word through Proverbs -- Toward the Decolonisation of Les Soleils des Indépendances -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 13 - Drinking from the Bottomless "Eagle on Iroko" Proverbial Gourd: Africanising and Globalising Chinua Achebe's Igbo (Narrative) Proverbs -- Introduction -- Coupling the Shards of the Chinua Achebe-Francis Nyamnjoh Creative Parallelisms -- The Interlinkages between Nyamnjoh Hypertexts and Achebe's Hypotexts -- Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Souls Forgotten : Proverbalising Marginalisation and Dismemberment in Mimboland -- Conclusion: "Carving" Dancing Masks that Would Dance with and Not against the Times -- Works Cited -- Part IV. African Epistemologies: Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Conceptualisations and Pedagogical Values of Proverbs -- Chapter 14 - "Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd" and the Fallacy of Completeness by Way of African Proverbs -- Introduction -- Gatekeeping and the Case of the Old Man Stuck at Home -- Conviviality and Incompleteness: Tools for Dismantling Ready-made Epistemologies in Africa -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15 - Intellectual Virtues of Indigenous African Wisdom: The Perspectives of Akan Proverbs -- Introduction -- Differentiating Moral and Intellectual Virtues -- Akan Proverbs -- Illuminating the Intellectual Virtues in Akan Proverbs -- Implications for Practice in Education and Politics in Africa -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References. , Chapter 16 - Epistemological and Moral Aspects of Selected Shona Proverbial Lore: Implications for Health and Safety in the Face of Covid-19 and Other Such Pandemics -- Introduction -- Debunking the Myths: Justifying Philosophy, Rationality and Proverbial Lore in Africa -- The Efficacy of Proverbs -- Shona Proverbs with Critical Epistemological and Moral Implications to Covid-19 and Other Pandemics -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 17 - Epistemology and Politics in Proverbial Names in the Pre-Colonial Great Lakes Region -- Introduction -- The Politics of Child Naming among the Bakiga-Banyankore -- Names that Were Used to Express General Suffering in Society -- Names Illuminating Hope in the Society -- Names Expressing the Ravenous Nature of Death -- Proverbial Names About Desolation and Humility -- them.Proverbial Names Based on Gender Preferences -- Names on Behavioural Attributes such as Bravery and Peacefulness -- Names Denoting and Admonishing Bodily Beauty and Aesthetics -- Proverbial Names against Complex Social Conditions -- Names on Social Deviance such as Indiscipline, Indolence, Ungenerousness and Cruelty -- Names on Waywardness -- Names Conveying Internal Satisfaction -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 18 - If You Want to Understand Africa's Politico-Epistemological World, Look at the Chameleon -- Introduction -- The Nawuri and Proverbs -- Political Epistemology and Traditional Knowledge in Ghana -- The Nawuri Story of the Chameleon and the Chief -- The Chameleon, the Chief, and Issues of Truth, Trust and Authority -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 19 - The Kola Nuts of Ideas: African Proverbs and Epistemic Emancipation -- Introduction -- False Translations and Misapplications in the Use of African Concepts -- Proverbs and Meaning in Everyday Life Struggles. , Proverbs as the Kola Nuts of Epistemic Emancipation -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Afterword. African Proverbs, Personhood and the Knowledge Commons -- Index -- Back cover.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9956-551-83-X

Additional Edition: ISBN 9956-551-47-3

Language: English

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Format: X, 231 S.

ISBN: 9781849464499

Series Statement: Law and practical reason

Note: IntroductionLegal authority and normativity : rediscovering a hidden relationshipLaw as an actualityThe guide of the good modelUnderstanding the nature and structure of practical reason : excavating the classical traditionA defence of the parastic thesis : a re-examination of Hart's internal point of viewA defence of the parastic thesis II : does Kelsen's notion of legal normativity rest on a mistake?Authorities' claims as expressions of intentionsAuthority and normativity : a defence of the "ethical-political" account of legal authorityThe epistemology of modestly objective values and robust value realismPossible objections and concluding note.

Language: English

Subjects: Law

Keywords: Autorität ; Normativität ; Praktische Vernunft ; Rechtsphilosophie

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (222 pages)

ISBN: 9783110616804

Series Statement: Roma Sinica Ser. ; v.1

Content: Roma Sinica. Mutual interactions between Ancient Roman and Eastern Thought is an original series in the classical and comparative studies. Strongly supported by the SIAC (International Society of Cicero's friends), it aims to publish works concerning the relationships between Ancient Western and Eastern (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) thought.

Note: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Roma Sinica and Confucius and Cicero: extending the boundaries and constructing relationships -- A. General perspectives -- Comparing Confucius and Cicero: Problems and Possibilities -- B. A philosophical approach -- The Private and the Public in the Republic and in the Analects -- Confucian and Daoist, Stoic and Epicurean. Some Parallels in Ways of Living -- Mind, Heaven, and Ritual in the Xunzi -- C. Key texts -- translating Confucius into Latin -- The Latin translations of Confucius' Dialogues (Lun Yu). A comparison of key concepts -- Is Confucius a Sinicus Cicero? -- D. Key concepts: philosophy, literature and culture -- Humanitas: Universalism, equivocation, and basic criterion -- Becoming human(e): Confucius' Way to仁 and the Imitation of Christ in Yi Byeok's Essence of Sacred Doctrine ( 敎 旨 -- Seonggyo yoji) -- Pietas in pro Sexto Roscio of Cicero and Confucian 孝(xiao) -- "Be modest and avoid wastefulness": table manners and beyond from Confucius to Xi Jinping -- E. A final consideration -- Cicero and Confucius: Similitude in Disguise -- General bibliography -- Index of names, main concepts and texts -- Editors and Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Balbo, Andrea Confucius and Cicero Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2019 ISBN 9783110616606

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (222 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9783110616804

Series Statement: Roma Sinica Series v.1

Content: Roma Sinica. Mutual interactions between Ancient Roman and Eastern Thought is an original series in classical and comparative studies. Generously supported by the SIAC (International Society of Cicero's friends), it aims to publish works concerning the relationships between Ancient Western (Greek, Roman) and Eastern (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) thought

Note: Intro -- Table of Contents -- Roma Sinica and Confucius and Cicero: extending the boundaries and constructing relationships -- A. General perspectives -- Comparing Confucius and Cicero: Problems and Possibilities -- B. A philosophical approach -- The Private and the Public in the Republic and in the Analects -- Confucian and Daoist, Stoic and Epicurean. Some Parallels in Ways of Living -- Mind, Heaven, and Ritual in the Xunzi -- C. Key texts -- translating Confucius into Latin -- The Latin translations of Confucius' Dialogues (Lun Yu). A comparison of key concepts -- Is Confucius a Sinicus Cicero? -- D. Key concepts: philosophy, literature and culture -- Humanitas: Universalism, equivocation, and basic criterion -- Becoming human(e): Confucius' Way to仁 and the Imitation of Christ in Yi Byeok's Essence of Sacred Doctrine ( 敎 旨 -- Seonggyo yoji) -- Pietas in pro Sexto Roscio of Cicero and Confucian 孝(xiao) -- "Be modest and avoid wastefulness": table manners and beyond from Confucius to Xi Jinping -- E. A final consideration -- Cicero and Confucius: Similitude in Disguise -- General bibliography -- Index of names, main concepts and texts -- Editors and Contributors

Additional Edition: Print version Balbo, Andrea Confucius and Cicero Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,c2019 ISBN 9783110616606

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

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