Symbolism & dekadens

The symbolic value of targets is what differentiates terrorism from other forms of extreme violence. Terrorism is designed to inflict deep psychological wounds on an enemy rather t...

This introductory chapter situates Whitehead’s book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect within his wider philosophical work and examines some of its key themes. It examines the odd o...

This introduction offers an explanation of the book’s content and an overview of the background to Skryabin’s artistic development: the currents of thought of Russian symbolism and...

Through a reading of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics, this book explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both being and doing in the lives of human persons in a postmodern worl...