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

The consequences for the Gulf and the greater Middle East are addressed in this edited volume

both men suffered professionally and there was no notable increase to the small number of thinkers considered death of God theologians

and the launching of Gandhi’s mass movement

and dealing with scholarly production in Britain

By depicting Socrates attempting to turn his interlocutors toward the pursuit of virtue

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Two Bedouin men from Egypt’s Western Desert seek to escape poverty through different routes

sparkles with reminiscences of joyful times together and significant events from the great writer’s life

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The chapter concludes with a case study on participatory domestication of Allanblackia floribunda

these poems explore the speaker's longing for acceptance and their internal conflicts as they navigate their own spirituality

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