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In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination. Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.

In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in the popular sovereign. Kahn works out his view through an engagement with Carl Schmitt's 1922 classic, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty. He forces an engagement with Schmitt's four chapters, offering a new version of each that is responsive to the American political imaginary. The result is a contemporary political theology. As in Schmitt's work, sovereignty remains central, yet Kahn shows how popular sovereignty creates an ethos of sacrifice in the modern state. Turning to law, Kahn demonstrates how the line between exception and judicial decision is not as sharp as Schmitt led us to believe. He reminds readers that American political life begins with the revolutionary willingness to sacrifice and that both sacrifice and law continue to ground the American political imagination. Kahn offers a political theology that has at its center the practice of freedom realized in political decisions, legal judgments, and finally in philosophical inquiry itself.

Institutions legales relatives a l'enfance en Angleterre, protection et repression (mission en Angleterre, octobre 1917). Rapport a la Societe generale des prisons (seance du 20 fevrier 1918)Date de l'edition originale: 1918Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr

Through a lens of information design, art, and social history, Mapping Knowledge Across Time examines seven extraordinary books that transformed how humanity visualized and understood the world. Spanning continents and centuries, these books reveal striking patterns in how diverse cultures employed similar visual systems to embed complex knowledge within the book form. As our digital age increasingly distances us from these tangible artifacts, this book sheds important light on the enduring heritage of information design in the book arts and its relevance today. The remarkable works placed under the microscope include: an Arabic cosmography from medieval Sicily; an exquisite Catalan mappamundi from Jewish Majorcan workshops; Germany's most elaborately illustrated early printed book; Ming dynasty scientific illustrations; an Amsterdam-produced atlas merging geography with history from Huguenot refugees; Humboldt-inspired German scientific visualizations; and culminates with a modernist Bauhaus-influenced American atlas integrating physical and social sciences. Each chapter meticulously analyzes how these works employed visual strategies to construct comprehensive worldviews, demonstrating the remarkable continuity and evolution of information design across cultures. Mapping Knowledge Across Time: Seven Books which Visualized the World will be of great interest to readers of book history, information design, and visual culture, especially those seeking connections between historical visualization practices and contemporary information challenges. Art historians will value its analysis of cross-cultural visual systems, while historians of science will appreciate its examination of knowledge transmission through visual means. Students across disciplines will discover how these seven landmark works fundamentally shaped humanity's understanding of itself and its place in the cosmos.

Through a lens of information design, art, and social history, Mapping Knowledge Across Time examines seven extraordinary books that transformed how humanity visualized and understood the world. Spanning continents and centuries, these books reveal striking patterns in how diverse cultures employed similar visual systems to embed complex knowledge within the book form. As our digital age increasingly distances us from these tangible artifacts, this book sheds important light on the enduring heritage of information design in the book arts and its relevance today. The remarkable works placed under the microscope include: an Arabic cosmography from medieval Sicily; an exquisite Catalan mappamundi from Jewish Majorcan workshops; Germany's most elaborately illustrated early printed book; Ming dynasty scientific illustrations; an Amsterdam-produced atlas merging geography with history from Huguenot refugees; Humboldt-inspired German scientific visualizations; and culminates with a modernist Bauhaus-influenced American atlas integrating physical and social sciences. Each chapter meticulously analyzes how these works employed visual strategies to construct comprehensive worldviews, demonstrating the remarkable continuity and evolution of information design across cultures. Mapping Knowledge Across Time: Seven Books which Visualized the World will be of great interest to readers of book history, information design, and visual culture, especially those seeking connections between historical visualization practices and contemporary information challenges. Art historians will value its analysis of cross-cultural visual systems, while historians of science will appreciate its examination of knowledge transmission through visual means. Students across disciplines will discover how these seven landmark works fundamentally shaped humanity's understanding of itself and its place in the cosmos.