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Burning Books
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Author : Haig A. Bosmajian
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006
Burning Books written by Haig A. Bosmajian and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This work provides a detailed account of book burning worldwide over the past 2000 years. The book burners are identified, along with the works they deliberately set aflame"--Provided by publisher.
Burning The Books
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Author : Richard Ovenden
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Burning The Books written by Richard Ovenden and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Christianity Book Burning And Censorship In Late Antiquity
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Author : Dirk Rohmann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-07-25
Christianity Book Burning And Censorship In Late Antiquity written by Dirk Rohmann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Religion categories.
It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.
Burning Books
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Author : M. Fishburn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-05-21
Burning Books written by M. Fishburn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-21 with History categories.
This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.
A Book To Burn And A Book To Keep Hidden
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Author : Zhi Li
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-07
A Book To Burn And A Book To Keep Hidden written by Zhi Li and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-07 with History categories.
Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.
Book Burning
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Author : Cal Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Book Burning written by Cal Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Censorship categories.
Burning Book
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Author : Jessica Bruder
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-08-07
Burning Book written by Jessica Bruder and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with Art categories.
Jessica Bruderis a reporter for theOregonian.Her writing has also appeared in theNew York Times,theWashington Post,and theNew York Observer.She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Burning Books And Leveling Libraries
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Author : Rebecca Knuth
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2006-05-30
Burning Books And Leveling Libraries written by Rebecca Knuth and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-30 with Political Science categories.
In her previous book Libricide, Knuth focused on book destruction by authoritarian regimes: Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and the Chinese Communists in Tibet. But authoritarian governments are not the only perpetrators. Extremists of all stripes--through terrorism, war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other forms of mass violence--are also responsible for widespread cultural destruction, as she demonstrates in this new book. Whether the product of passion or of a cool-headed decision to use ideas to rationalize excess, the decimation of the world's libraries has occurred throughout the 20th century, and there is no end in sight. Cultural destruction is, therefore, of increasing concern to the library community, educators, human rights and civil rights activists, and caring citizens.
The Godless Gospel
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Author : Julian Baggini
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2020-10-01
The Godless Gospel written by Julian Baggini and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with Philosophy categories.
Even if we don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do idealised values such as our love of the family, helping the needy, and the importance of kindness, match Jesus's original tenets? Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Christian values - and about Jesus - by focusing on Jesus's teachings in the Gospels, stripping away the religious elements such as the accounts of miracles or the resurrection of Christ. Reading closely this new 'godless' Gospel, included as an appendix, Baggini asks how we should understand Jesus's attitude to the renunciation of the self, to politics, or to sexuality, as expressed in Jesus's often elusive words. An atheist from a Catholic background, Baggini introduces us to a more radical Jesus than popular culture depicts. And as he journeys deeper into Jesus's worldview, and grapples with Jesus's sometimes contradictory messages, against his scepticism he finds that Jesus's words amount to a purposeful and powerful philosophy, which has much to teach us today.
The Burning Book
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Author : C. M. Earnest
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-07-07
The Burning Book written by C. M. Earnest and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-07 with categories.
This is my book for the Myspace junkies, the cafe freaks, the hard rockers and heavy metalists, the freaks, the geeks, the nerds, and everyone in between; the morbid and malevolent, the beautiful and benevolent. For anyone who's ever been screwed, shafted, cheated on, dumped, hurt, left out to dry, or left out to die. This is the little piece of me that lets me laugh at the world. Because I'm still here, despite their best wishes.