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22147 results in Cambridge Companions

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  • 1 - Boxing in the Ancient World

  • Edited by Gerald Early, Washington University, St Louis
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
    Published online:
    14 January 2019
    Print publication:
    24 January 2019, pp 22-33
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The Cambridge Companion to Boxing
  • Edited by Gerald Early
  • Published online:
    14 January 2019
    Print publication:
    24 January 2019
  • While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic expression of unfettered individualism. For its critics, it is a depraved and ruthless physical and commercial exploitation of mostly poor young men. This Companion offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It includes a comprehensive chronology of the sport, listing all the important events and personalities. Essays examine topics such as women in boxing, boxing and the rise of television, boxing in Africa, boxing and literature, and boxing and Hollywood films. A unique book for scholars and fans alike, this Companion explores the sport from its inception in Ancient Greece to the death of its most celebrated figure, Muhammad Ali.

The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law
  • Edited by Shazia Choudhry, Jonathan Herring
  • Published online:
    12 January 2019
    Print publication:
    31 January 2019
  • Families and family law have encountered significant challenges in the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectations. The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law highlights the key questions and themes that have faced family lawyers across the world. Each chapter is written by internationally renowned academic experts and focuses on which of these themes are most significant to their jurisdictions. In taking this jurisdictional approach, the collection will explore how different countries have tackled these issues. As a result, the collection is aimed at students, practitioners and academics across a variety of disciplines interested in the key issues faced by family law around the world and how they have been addressed.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
  • Edited by Mark Kroll
  • Published online:
    05 January 2019
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019
  • Written by fourteen leading experts in the field, this Companion covers almost every aspect of the harpsichord - the history of the instrument, tuning systems, the role of the harpsichord in ensemble, its use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes separate chapters devoted to Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach and Handel. Chapters featuring almost every national style are written by authors with close connections to the countries about which they are writing, including England, The Netherlands, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, as well as the less extensive harpsichord traditions of Russia, the Nordic and Baltic countries, and colonial Spanish and Portuguese America. With musical examples, illustrations, a timeline of the harpsichord, and an appendix of composers, reliable editions and original sources, this book is for all who love the harpsichord, or want to learn more about it.

  • 4 - Hermeneutics and German Idealism

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 87-109

  • Summary

    Toward the end of the eighteenth century, hermeneutic thought in Germany developed in close proximity to the emerging “idealist” and “romantic” philosophical movements inspired by the “critical philosophy” of Immanuel Kant. Crucially this was a time that witnessed the growth of interest in the structure of national languages and literatures, and the question was soon posed as to the relation between what Kant had postulated as the a priori structure governing an individual’s experience and thought and the structure of the actual language that that individual had assimilated from their cultural tradition. This chapter examines the emergence of the strong language-dependence thesis in the approach of the early hermeneutic thinkers Hamann and Herder, and their use of this idea to criticise the “purism” of Kantian thought. It then follows the ensuing response by Kant and his followers, especially Fichte and Hegel, as the latter attempted to bring a linguistic dimension to a Kantian inspired idealism. The issue of the relation of thought to language that was at the heart of this complexly developing debate has continued to be of philosophical concern up to the present.

  • 13 - Hermeneutics and Literature

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 304-325

  • Summary

    Ancient hermeneutics, which generated allegorical interpretations of fables of the poets and biblical texts, played a significant role in the study literature until the Renaissance, and an interest in literature help to stimulate the foundation of philosophical hermeneutics in German romanticism and after, but philosophical hermeneutics has played little role in literary studies subsequently. Until the mid-twentieth century, literary criticism was primarily evaluative rather than interpretive, but when it made interpretation its goal, it did not draw on the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. A discussion of the nature of literary criticism and of the relationship between hermeneutics and the poetics focuses on this history, with brief treatments of exceptions, such as the work of E. D. Hirsch and H. R. Jauss.

  • 6 - Hermeneutics and Positivism

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 133-157

  • Summary

    This chapter is a critique of the positivist reception of hermeneutics. This reception was marked by the positivist theory of historical explanation as subsumption under a covering law or a causal generalization. It is argued that this theory cannot explain many aspects of historical method, specifically those that are used to reconstruct events in the past. The positivist assumes that the past is a given and then attempts to find a covering law to explain it; but most historical research has to reconstruct a past that is not given and is not concerned with the discovery of law-like regularities. The positivist polemic against hermeneutics is also discussed and it is argued that this rests upon a caricature, as if hermeneutics were nothing more than empathy. Last but not least, the chapter is an examination of Weber’s theory that historical understanding requires both causal and normative explanation where normative explanation is not reducible to causal explanation.

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