{"title":"Series: Italian Academy Lectures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eItalian Academy Lectures\u003c\/strong\u003e series offers a diverse exploration across disciplines, presenting thoughtful insights into philosophy, psychology, finance, and history. Readers will find engaging discussions and in-depth analyses that challenge conventional thinking and expand understanding in both academic and practical realms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom travel and adventure narratives to practical guides on health, business, and technology, this collection appeals to curious minds seeking knowledge that bridges theory with real-world application. Each volume invites readers to immerse themselves in expertly crafted lectures that inspire reflection and learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"history-at-the-limit-of-world-history-by-ranajit-guha-9780231124195","title":"History at the Limit of World-History","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonised terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRanajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at work today, offers a critique of such historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of \u003cem\u003eWorld-history\u003c\/em\u003e. That concept, he contends, reduces the course of human history to the amoral record of states and empires, great men and clashing civilisations. It renders invisible the quotidian experience of ordinary people and casts off all that came before it into the nether-existence known as \"Prehistory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Indian subcontinent, Guha believes, this Western way of looking at the past was so successfully insinuated by British colonisation that few today can see clearly its ongoing and pernicious influence. He argues that to break out of this habit of mind and go beyond the Eurocentric and statist limit of \u003cem\u003eWorld-history\u003c\/em\u003e, historians should learn from literature to make their narratives doubly inclusive: to extend them in scope not only to make room for the pasts of the so-called peoples without history but to address the historicality of everyday life as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnly then, as Guha demonstrates through an examination of Rabindranath Tagore's critique of historiography, can we recapture a more fully human past of \"experience and wonder.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000635998444,"sku":"9780231124195","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7298653482270.jpg?v=1763292028"},{"product_id":"after-christianity-by-gianni-vattimo-9780231106283","title":"After Christianity","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat has been the fate of Christianity since Nietzsche's famous announcement of the \"death of God\"? What is the possibility of religion, specifically Christianity, thriving in our postmodern era? In this provocative new book, \u003cem\u003eAfter Christianity\u003c\/em\u003e, Gianni Vattimo, leading Italian philosopher, politician, and framer of the European constitution, addresses these critical questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Vattimo was asked by a former teacher if he still believed in God, his reply was, \"Well, I believe that I believe.\" This paradoxical declaration of faith serves as the foundation for a brilliant exposition on Christianity in the new millennium—an age characterized by a deep uncertainty of opinion—and a personal account of how Vattimo himself recovered his faith through Nietzsche and Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe first argues that secularization is in fact the fulfillment of the central Christian message and prepares us for a new mode of Christianity. He then explains that Nietzsche's thesis concerns only the \"moral god\" and leaves room for the emergence of \"new gods.\" Third, Vattimo claims that the postmodern condition of fragmentation, anti-Eurocentrism, and postcolonialism can be usefully understood in light of Joachim of Fiore's thesis concerning the \"Spiritual Age\" of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, Vattimo argues for the idea of \"weak thought.\" Because philosophy in the postmetaphysical age can only acknowledge that \"all is interpretation,\" that the \"real\" is always relative and not the hard and fast \"truth\" we once thought it to be, contemporary thought must recognize itself and its claims as \"weak\" as opposed to \"strong\" foundationalist claims of the metaphysical past. Vattimo concludes that these factors make it possible for religion and God to become a serious topic for philosophy again, and that philosophy should now formally engage religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470030029036,"sku":"9780231106283","price":83.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231106283-after-christianity.jpg?v=1775207631"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-italian-academy-lectures.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}