Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses - Reading Scandalous Texts

Informationen zum Autor Jeremiah L. Alberg is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at International Chris-tian University in Tokyo. He is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Executive Secretary of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R). Klappentext Jeremiah Alberg's fascinating book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centers, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a late-breaking scandal. Rationally we would agree that the former are of more significance and importance, but they do not pique our curiosity in quite the same way. Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses describes the roots out of which this conflicted desire grows, and it explores how this desire mirrors the violence that undergirds the scandal itself.

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• Authors: Jeremiah Alberg, Jeremiah L Alberg, Jeremiah L. Alberg
• Publisher: Michigan state university pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9781611860764
• ISBN: 978-1-61186-076-4
• No. of pages: 141
• Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis,; Studies in Violence, Mimesis &
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics