David James

The theme of property is directly relevant to some of the most divisive social and political issues today, such as wealth inequality and the question of whether governments should limit it by introducing measures that restrict the right to property. Yet what is property? And when seeking to answer this question, do we tend to identify the concept with just one dominant historical form of property? In this book, David James reconstructs the theories of property developed by four key figures in classical German philosophy - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Marx. He argues that although their theories of property are different, the concept of social recognition plays a crucial role in all of them, and assesses these philosophers' arguments for the specific forms of property they claim should exist in a society that is genuinely committed to the idea of freedom.

The theme of property is directly relevant to some of the most divisive social and political issues today, such as wealth inequality and the question of whether governments should limit it by introducing measures that restrict the right to property. Yet what is property? And when seeking to answer this question, do we tend to identify the concept with just one dominant historical form of property? In this book, David James reconstructs the theories of property developed by four key figures in classical German philosophy - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Marx. He argues that although their theories of property are different, the concept of social recognition plays a crucial role in all of them, and assesses these philosophers' arguments for the specific forms of property they claim should exist in a society that is genuinely committed to the idea of freedom.

Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking archive, Discrepant Solace considers writers who engage with consolation not as an aesthetic salve but as an enduring problematic, one that unravels at the centre of emotionally challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing. The book understands solace as a generative yet conflicted aspect of style, where microelements of diction, rhythm, and syntax capture consolation's alternating desirability and contestation. With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene, David James examines writers who are rarely considered in conversation, including Sonali Deraniyagala, Colson Whitehead, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Julian Barnes, Helen Macdonald, Ian McEwan, Colm Tóibín, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Riley, and David Grossman. These figures overturn critical suppositions about consolation's kinship with ideological complaisance, superficial mitigation, or dubious distraction, producing unsettling perceptions of solace that shape the formal and political contours of their writing. Through intimate readings of novels and memoirs that explore seemingly indescribable experiences of grief, trauma, remorse, and dread, James demonstrates how they turn consolation into a condition of expressional possibility without ever promising us relief. He also supplies vital traction to current conversations about the stakes of thinking with contemporary writing to scrutinize affirmative structures of feeling, revealing unexpected common ground between the operations of literary consolation and the urgencies of cultural critique. Discrepant Solace makes the close reading of emotion crucial to understanding the work literature does in our precarious present.

In the heart of London's Portobello Market lies a secret that could shatter his world for good. When Lukas discovers an old pack of Tarot cards in a store time forgot, he never could have imagined that a simple card reading would tear open the fabric between worlds. Reality fractures. London warps into Arcanum-a haunting mirror of the city he thought he knew, where buildings whisper secrets and friends become living archetypes. Everything seems familiar, but the air has changed... and everyone he once knew? They're different. That street performer? He's The Fool incarnate. The elegant woman in the black coat? The High Priestess herself. Welcome to a parallel London where every card he's drawn now walks amongst the living. With an ancient tortoise as his unlikely guide, Lukas navigates a world where shadows hunt and The Devil offers seductive power at a terrible price. As the boundaries between reality and magic blur, he may just discover that some doors, once opened, can never truly be closed.

In the heart of London's Portobello Market lies a secret that could shatter his world for good.When Lukas discovers an old pack of Tarot cards in a store time forgot, he never could have imagined that a simple card reading would tear open the fabric between worlds. Reality fractures. London warps into Arcanum-a haunting mirror of the city he thought he knew, where buildings whisper secrets and friends become living archetypes. Everything seems familiar, but the air has changed... and everyone he once knew? They're different. That street performer? He's The Fool incarnate. The elegant woman in the black coat? The High Priestess herself. Welcome to a parallel London where every card he's drawn now walks amongst the living. With an ancient tortoise as his unlikely guide, Lukas navigates a world where shadows hunt and The Devil offers seductive power at a terrible price. As the boundaries between reality and magic blur, he may just discover that some doors, once opened, can never truly be closed.

In the heart of London's Portobello Market lies a secret that could shatter his world for good.When Lukas discovers an old pack of Tarot cards in a store time forgot, he never could have imagined that a simple card reading would tear open the fabric between worlds. Reality fractures. London warps into Arcanum-a haunting mirror of the city he thought he knew, where buildings whisper secrets and friends become living archetypes.Everything seems familiar, but the air has changed... and everyone he once knew? They're different. That street performer? He's The Fool incarnate. The elegant woman in the black coat? The High Priestess herself. Welcome to a parallel London where every card he's drawn now walks amongst the living.With an ancient tortoise as his unlikely guide, Lukas navigates a world where shadows hunt and The Devil offers seductive power at a terrible price. As the boundaries between reality and magic blur, he may just discover that some doors, once opened, can never truly be closed.

By means of careful analysis of relevant writings by Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, David James argues that the concept of practical necessity is key to understanding the nature and extent of human freedom. Practical necessity means being, or believing oneself to be, constrained to perform certain actions in the absence (whether real or imagined) of other, more attractive options, or by the high costs involved in pursuing other options. Agents become subject to practical necessity as a result of economic, social, and historical forces over which they have, or appear to have, no effective control, and the extent to which they are subject to it varies according to the amount of economic and social power that one agent possesses relative to other agents. The concept of practical necessity is also shown to take into account how the beliefs and attitudes of social agents are in large part determined by social and historical processes in which they are caught up, and that the type of motivation that we attribute to agents must recognize this. Practical Necessity, Freedom, and History: From Hobbes to Marx shows how Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx, in contrast to Hobbes, explain the emergence of the conditions of a free society in terms of a historical process that is initially governed by practical necessity. The role that this form of necessity plays in explaining history necessity invites the following question: to what extent are historical agents genuinely subject to both practical and historical necessity?

Consolation has always played an uncomfortable part in the literary history of loss. But in recent decades its affective meanings and ethical implications have been recast by narratives that appear at first sight to foil solace altogether. Illuminating this striking archive, Discrepant Solace considers writers who engage with consolation not as an aesthetic salve but as an enduring problematic, one that unravels at the centre of emotionally challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing. The book understands solace as a generative yet conflicted aspect of style, where microelements of diction, rhythm, and syntax capture consolation's alternating desirability and contestation. With a wide-angle lens on the contemporary scene, David James examines writers who are rarely considered in conversation, including Sonali Deraniyagala, Colson Whitehead, Cormac McCarthy, W.G. Sebald, Doris Lessing, Joan Didion, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Julian Barnes, Helen Macdonald, Ian McEwan, Colm Tóibín, Kazuo Ishiguro, Denise Riley, and David Grossman. These figures overturn critical suppositions about consolation's kinship with ideological complaisance, superficial mitigation, or dubious distraction, producing unsettling perceptions of solace that shape the formal and political contours of their writing. Through intimate readings of novels and memoirs that explore seemingly indescribable experiences of grief, trauma, remorse, and dread, James demonstrates how they turn consolation into a condition of expressional possibility without ever promising us relief. He also supplies vital traction to current conversations about the stakes of thinking with contemporary writing to scrutinize affirmative structures of feeling, revealing unexpected common ground between the operations of literary consolation and the urgencies of cultural critique. Discrepant Solace makes the close reading of emotion crucial to understanding the work literature does in our precarious present.

Discover the universe with original deep sky astrophotography. A portfolio of distant galaxies, beautiful nebulas and globular star clusters with informative descriptions. It will take you through a journey across our milky way and beyond, with spectacular images of the deep sky. All images are unique as taken from the ground using amateur equipment and presented in their natural colors or in the Hubble palette. Second edition with 24 pictures and descriptions

From the pages of the Tru-Lyfe Archive: Meet 'The Straws' - a highly intelligent and psychologically advanced species of extra-terrestrial humanoids who visit the earth to conduct studies which occasionally take an erotic turn. You will become acquainted with a reporter's investigation into Rardex - a practising magician who, it is alleged, can cure certain terminal cancers and rejuvenate the middle-aged. Then you will read the story of 'Steve' or Mike 23 - the unrememberable man who molests mature women with a medical device but who can never be prosecuted for his activities. You will also discover why the Men In Black contact The Archive's glamorous editor, Tiffany Wraunsley. And just who or what is Reptilliaynuss? Follow the transformation of a bored housewife into a sexy, 'enhancile' heroine as Jane Faircrown, with Tiffany's assistance, valiantly confronts the challenges presented by these various people and beings.

On the frontier world of Kleobolus the son of an important senator is murdered and his terrorist killer is invisibly removed from prison - to disappear without trace. On the same world Daynan Raym is the respected and almost supernaturally smart owner of a swanky restaurant, but what does he really do for a living and how can he know things he shouldn't be capable of knowing? The most feared man in the galaxy is now on his way to Kleobolus and it appears that he and Daynan are old enemies with unresolved issues. How are all of these things connected? And why does a loner and self-confessed misanthrope like Daynan persist in rescuing Jetta Gainz - an independent farmer and mother of the most beautiful woman on the planet?

The Addresses to the German Nation (1808) is one of Fichte's best-known works. It is also his most controversial work because of its nationalist elements. In this book, David James places this text and its nationalism within the context provided by Fichte's philosophical, educational and moral project of creating a community governed by pure practical reason, in which his own foundational philosophical science or Wissenschaftslehre could achieve general recognition. Rather than marking a break in Fichte's philosophy, the Addresses to the German Nation and some lesser-known texts from the same period are shown to develop themes already present in his earlier writings. The themes discussed include the opposition between idealism and dogmatism, the role of Fichte's 'popular' lectures and writings in leading individuals to the standpoint of idealism, the view of history demanded by idealism and the role of the state in history.

St David's and Dewisland is a comprehensive social history of a parish grounded in a rich antiquity; intensely conservative and at the same time subjected by history to enormous change; central and isolated; Celtic and Norman; austere; once rich, then poor, and throughout, in some form or other, a place of pilgrimage. This is a new edition of a book first published in 1981, re-telling the story of a parish which is commensurate with an ancient division of a Celtic Kingdom, part of the cantref of Pebidiog, itself part of the Celtic Kingdom of Dyfed.

The Akhbar majmu‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahman III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early history of al-Andalus has aroused more controversy, and its contents and origin have occupied the attention of leading scholars of Islamic Spain since its publication in 1867. This book gives the first complete English translation of this key contemporary text, together with notes, comments, appendices and maps. It is introduced by a survey of scholarly opinion on the text from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century in which all the - often heated - arguments around the text are explained. The translator concludes his introduction with an in-depth examination of the manuscript containing the only surviving copy of the text and presents some interesting new evidence provided by scribe which has gone unnoticed until now. Providing new insights into this significant Arabic text, this book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of Spain and Portugal, Islamic history, and Mediaeval European history.

How would a young American missionary family react when immersed in the heart of remote Tajikistan? Follow the James family's adventures in an ancient Persian city an hour north of Afghanistan. Through the humor and pain of these vignettes you will discover not only a new people and their culture but will examine anew your own culture and faith.

This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d. Cordova 367 / 977). Including extensive notes and comments, a genealogical table and relevant maps, the text is preceded by a study of the author and his work, and is the only serious examination of the unique manuscript since Pascual de Gayangos’ edition in 1868.Ibn al-Qutiya’s work is one of the significant and earliest histories of Muslim Spain and an important source for scholars. Although like most Muslims of al-Andalus in this period, Ibn al-Qutiya was of European origin, he was a loyal servant of the Iberian Umayyads, and taught Arabic, traditions (hadith) and history in the Great Mosque of Cordova. Written at the height of the Umayyad Caliphate of Muslim Spain and Portugal (al-Andalus), the History describes the first 250 years of Muslim rule in the peninsula. The text, first fully translated into Spanish in 1926, deals with all aspects of life, and includes accounts of Christians, Jews and Muslim converts.This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the history of Spain and Portugal, Islamic history, and Mediaeval European history.

This volume is a history of the Japanese drive for the conquest of Greater East Asia. It includes an account of the Malayan campaign and the Fall of Singapore, followed by an outline of the dominant features of the campaign in S E Asia and the Pacific and ending with the attack on Japan and the unconditional surrender. As a prisoner in Tokyo, the author was able to observe the reactions of the people and the government to the bombing of Japan, and by revealing their overwhelming defeat, to dispose of the fiction that surrender was brought about by two atomic bombs. The outstanding value of the work is its analysis of the fundamental problems of Japan.

This is an important new monograph relating Hegel's aesthetics to his philosophies of religion and history and, in particular, his philosophy of right. "Art, Myth and Society in Hegel's Aesthetics" returns to the student transcripts of Hegel's lectures on aesthetics, some of which have never been published and none of which have been translated into English, in an attempt to systematically relate Hegel's aesthetics to his philosophies of religion and history and, in particular, his philosophy of right. David James develops the idea that these transcripts show that Hegel was primarily interested in understanding art as an historical phenomenon and, in terms of its function in human history, more specifically, its role in the ethical life of the people. The book thus offers a thorough re-evaluation of Hegel's aesthetics and its relation to his theory of objective spirit, exposing the ways in which Hegel's views on this subject are anchored in his reflections on history and on different forms of ethical life.