Modernity as Exception and Miracle

Modernity as Exception and MiracleProposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity. Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities functions

This book works from the premise that the tremendous diversity of Old English medical texts requires an equally diverse range of interpretative methodologies

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identifying the ideas and important cultural forces behind the trends

and major conflicts in the Middle East

students and anyone concerned with the meaning and practice of community

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The Creation of a Federal Partnership takes a fresh look at the history of national and state housing policy by examining the role played by state housing agencies since the 1970s

Through a variety of perspectives

Each case offers new insight into the particulars of an expanding corporate hegemony and together they invite the conversation on media globalization to consider the dynamics of class conflict and negotiation as an analytical perspective having prescriptive potential

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