Return to Good and Evil: Flannery O'Connor's Response to Nihilism

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Engel, David M., and Frank W. Munger Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press 274 pp., $56.00 cloth, $19.00 paper ISBN 0-226-20831-1 cloth ISBN 0-226-20833-8 paper Publication Date: June 2003

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Bowler, Shaun, Todd Donovan, and David Brockington Electoral Reform and Minority Representation Columbus: Ohio State University Press 158 pp., $47.95, ISBN 0-8142-0917-3 Publication Date: April 2003

Gould, Lewis L. The Modern American Presidency Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 301 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1252-1 Publication Date: April 2003

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Benston, George J., Michael Bromwich, Robert E. Litan, and Alfred Wagenhofer Following the Money: The Enron Failure and the State of Corporate Disclosure Washington, D.C.: AEI-Brookings 126 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8157-0890-4 Publication Date: January 2003

Berman, David R. Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy New York: M. E. Sharpe 224 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-76556-1085 Publication Date: February 2003

Yarbrough, Tinsley E. Race and Redisricting: The Shaw-Cromartie Cases Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 225 pp., $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1218-1 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1219-X paper Publication Date: October 2002

Adler, David Gray, and Michael A. Genovese, eds. The Presidency and the Law: The Clinton Legacy Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 264 pp., $40.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-1193-2 cloth ISBN 0-7006-1194-0 paper Publication Date: September 2002

Fisher, Louis Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 266 pp., $16.95, ISBN 0-7006-1202-5 Publication Date: September 2002

Johnson, Haynes The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America before and after Everything Changed San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt 644 pp., $27.00 cloth, $16.00 paper ISBN 0-15-602701-1 paper ISBN 0-15-200445-5 cloth Publication Date: September 2002

Mayhew, David Electoral Realignments: A Critique of American Genre New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 192 pp., $24.00, ISBN 0-300-09336-5 Publication Date: September 2002

Cox, Gary W., and Jonathan N. Katz Elbridge Gerry's Salamander: The Electoral Consequences of the Reapportionment Revolution Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 234 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.00 paper ISBN 0-521-80675-5 cloth ISBN 0-521-00154-4 paper Publication Date: July 2002

Petersen, Shannon Acting for Endangered Species: The Statutory Ark Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 168 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1172-X Publication Date: May 2002

Lindsay-Poland, John Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press 280 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-3098-9 Publication Date: January 2003

Ikenberry, G. John, ed. America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press 317 pp., $19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8014-8802-8 Publication Date: October 2002

Bowman, Kirk S. Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Practorianism in Latin America University Park: Penn State University Press 289 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-271-0229-9 Publication Date: November 2002

Power, Margaret Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973 University Park: Penn State University Press 311 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-271-02174-8 cloth ISBN 0-271-02195-0 paper Publication Date: May 2002

Taubman, William Khrushchev: The Man and His Era New York & London: W. W. Norton 876 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-393-05144-7 Publication Date: March 2003

Zimmerman, William The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000 Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 235 pp., $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-691-09167-6 cloth ISBN 0-691-09168-4 paper Publication Date: March 2002

Pitcher, M. Anne Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000 New York: Cambridge University Press 293 pp., $60.00, ISBN 0-521-82011-1 Publication Date: November 2002

Fisher, Louis Nazi Saboteurs on Trial: A Military Tribunal and American Law Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 192 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-1238-6 Publication Date: April 2003

Mistry, Dinshaw Containing Missile Proliferation: Strategic Technology, Security Regimes, and International Cooperation in Arms Control Seattle: University of Washington Press 252 pp., $50.00, ISBN 0-295-98294-2 Publication Date: April 2003

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The Will to Exist: Reflections on Desire and the Good in Western Culture

In my essay I argue that the critical distinction that Spinoza makes between two concepts of desire, as also between two concepts of the good, captures the distinction that Tertullian makes in posing the question: What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? In identifying the good with desire—desire with the good—and in denying that desire is dependent on the good in itself (e.g., Plato’s form of the good), Spinoza shows us that philosophy, as ethics, belongs to Jerusalem, to the Bible, and not to Athens (ancient Greek philosophy). We see, then, that the distinction between Athens and Jerusalem is not the distinction between philosophy and the Bible, between reason and faith, between the secular and the religious.     

由恶变善:潮神伍子胥信仰变迁新探

涌潮形成之初,潮神信仰即随之产生。因古人将钱塘潮、广陵潮形成的原因和造成的破坏归因于伍子胥冤死泄愤,故伍子胥最早被视为潮神时,其形象乃是凶神。不过,随着两汉以来士人对伍子胥忠孝形象的强调和人们对涌潮成因认识的提高,魏晋以后,潮神伍子胥的形象渐趋正面。隋唐五代时期,由于钱塘江两岸低地的开发和人口增殖,钱塘江潮对现实生活的影响日益加剧。除先贤形象外,伍子胥司潮神职也为政府重视,故唐时对潮神伍子胥封号赐爵,将其纳入国家祀典。     

From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space

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The paper questions the basic assumption that the nation-state is one city, within which there is a division of goods and a division of labour, which follow certain well-worn binaries: civil society and state, sacred and secular, eternal and temporal, religion and politics, church and state. It explores some deficiencies of John Courtney Murray's conceptualization of the political space in this way, and turns to Augustine's tale of two cities for a more adequate conceptualization. The paper especially argues that the two cities are not two institutions but two performances, two practices of space and time.     

The Right to the City and Critical Reflections on China's Property Rights Activism

Wholesale clearance and eviction that typify China's urban development have often resulted in discontents among urban residents, giving rise to what critics refer to as property rights activism. This paper is an attempt to critically revisit the existing debates on the property rights activism in China. The paper refers to the perspective of the “right to the city” to examine whose rights count in China's urban development contexts and proposes a cross‐class alliance that engages both migrants and local citizens. The alliance itself will have substantial political implications, overcoming the limited level of rights awareness that mainly rests on distributional justice in China. The discussions are supported by an analysis of empirical data from the author's field research in Guangzhou, which examines how local and non‐local (migrant) residents view nail‐households resisting demolition and forced eviction.     

Faith and Failure on the Australian Goldfields: Gendered Interpretations of Piety and the “Good Death”

Gold‐seeking in the 1850s Australian gold rush provided opportunity for James and Maggie Hoey, a young Scottish couple, to pursue wealth, experience adventure, and escape some of the strictures of their United Presbyterian religious culture. They hoped that Providence would guide their paths to independence, prosperity, and eventual return to Scotland. Instead, they experienced repeated failure and suffering, becoming keenly aware of the absence of familiar avenues of support and solace. This article examines the gendered strategies family members developed to maintain or reclaim piety under unfavourable conditions on the goldfields. The disparity between their expectations and outcomes draws attention to the ways in which religious beliefs shaped individual response to suffering. The dogged, but ultimately futile, quest for gold undermined the capacity of James Hoey to fulfil his gendered roles, impacting upon his hope in, and assurance of, election to eternal life.     

Mediating the Good Life: Prostitution and the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1880s–1920s

This article examines how the Japanese Woman's Christian Temperance Union, in the name of promoting liberty and rights of women in their relations with men, constructed hierarchies to ascribe value to themselves through moral condemnation. The JWCTU used extramarital sex as a political issue to strengthen the position of the legal wife in the household as opposed to the concubine and prostitute. Their efforts to prohibit Japanese women from going abroad as prostitutes, while understood as an attempt to end a system of slavery that violated the inherent rights of Japanese womanhood, was actually a desire to regulate the behaviour of the poor. The JWCTU based its moral reform agenda on the importance of premarital chastity, strict monogamy and the obligation to work for the good of the nation. Its construction of prostitution as evil represents an important strand in the history of the relationship between prostitution and family as a socio‐political issue in modern Japan.     

《啸赋》残卷校证

S.3663号《啸赋》残卷为较早公布的《文选》敦煌写卷之一,历来研究著述甚夥.本文全面梳理了前人的研究工作,并修订补充了数条校勘意见.     

《红楼梦》中的基督教思想与活动──教士涉足大观园

本文将《红楼梦》中涉及基督教思想与活动的相关内容抽绎出来,结合曹雪芹所处的社会背景和历史条件,进行了缜密的解析。     

The Archaeology of Native Societies in the Chesapeake: New Investigations and Interpretations

Archaeological studies of Native American societies in the Chesapeake have recently incorporated a broader range of interpretive frames, including those that emphasize historical contingency and social interaction rather than cultural ecology and cultural materialism. New evidence of Woodland-period population movements, persistent places, and cycles of social ranking has prompted historically oriented interpretations that foreground particular configurations of ideology, tradition, ritual, and agency. Contact-period studies have demonstrated that native strategies of the colonial period were rooted in precontact social landscapes. Contemporary American Indians are also reclaiming their pasts in ways that challenge archaeological practices and further broaden perspectives on the Chesapeake past.