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"Fighting for Life is a book about contest, the agonia of the Greek arena, and its roots in male life, especially academia. Ong describes this work as an 'excavation' which was prompted by his previous explorations of such areas as the characteristics of oral and literate cultures, Pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
Oct. 2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fighring for Life
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One: Backgrounds
- I. Contest, and Other Adversatives
- Adversaliveness
- Origins of the Present Work
- Procedures: Understanding and Asymmetric Opposition
- Contest, Language, and Thought
- Some Differentiations: Contest and Alternative Concepts
- Part Two: Patterns of Adversativeness
- 2. Contest and Sexual Identity
- The Sexe S and the Adversative
- The Expendable Sex
- Combat between Conspecific Males
- Ritual Combat
- Combat, Stress, and Masculine Identity
- Male Fights Male
- Bonding Patterns and LonersAll-Male Secrets and Woman's Secret
- Vicarious Contest
- 3. Separation and Self-Giving: Pieta and Quixote
- Externality of Masculinity
- Self-Giving, Feminine and Masculine
- Maximizing Male Risk
- Vocal and Physical Bravado
- Masculinity . Contest. Differentiation
- Part Three: Past, Present, Future
- 4. Academic and Intellectual Arenas
- The Agonistic Heritage of Academia
- The Oral Roots of Agonistic Noetic
- Residual Orality in Academia
- The Latin Connection
- From Agonistic to Coeducation: The In-Depth RevolutionRealignment of Agonistic Structures
- The New Setting
- 5. Some Present Issues
- Spectator Sports
- Politics
- Business
- Christian Life and Worship
- 6. Contest and Interiorization
- The Variable Settings of Contest
- From Violence to Inwardness in Narrative
- Contest and the Inward Turn of Scholarship
- Contest, Consciousness, and the Self
- Adversativeness in the Service of the Person
- References
- Index