Rejoicing
Автор: Bruno Latour
Год издания: 0000
Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on science, on technology and, more recently, on law, this book explores the truth conditions of religious speech acts. Even though there is no question that religion is one of the values that has been intensely cherished in the course of history, it’s also clear that it has become immensely difficult to tune in to its highly specific mode of enunciation. Every effort to speak in the right key sounds awkward, reactionary, pious or simply empty. Hence the necessity of devising a way of writing that brings to the fore this elusive form of speech to render it audible again. In this highly original book, the author offers a completely different tack on the endless ‘science and religion’ conflict by protecting them both from the confusion with the notion of information. Like The Making of Law, this book is one more attempt at developing this ‘inquiry on modes of existence’ that provides an alternative definition of society.
Sorrows and Rejoicings
Автор: Athol Fugard
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"If there is a more urgent and indispensible playwright in world theatre than South Africa's Athol Fugard, I don't know who it could be."—Jack Kroll, Newsweek One of the true contemporary masters of the stage, South African playwright Athol Fugard has written one of his most stunning works. Sorrows and Rejoicings explores the legacy of Apartheid on two women—one white, the other black—who on the surface seem to have little in common except for their love of one man, a white poet who is attached to the Karoo land of South Africa. The drama moves between past and present, reliving the poet's despondent years in exile and his eventual return to a new South Africa. With lyrical grace, Fugard once again demonstrates the human struggle to transcend the treacherous injustices of history.South African playwright, actor and director, Athol Fugard is one of the world's leading theatre artists, of whom The New Yorker has said, «A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize on Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize.»Also available by Athol Fugard: The Road to Mecca PB $11.95 0-930452-79-8 • USA My Children! My Africa! PB $10.95 1-55936-014-3 o USAStatementsPB $10.95 0-930452-61-5 • USA Blood Knot and Other Plays PB $ 14.95 1-55936-020-8 • USA Valley Song PB $10.95 1-55936-119-0 • USA