Breaking Boundaries

Breaking BoundariesLiminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability

the impact of ongoing European and international legislative changes

and apsarases (celestial nymphs)

Peterman considers the similarities between early Chinese ethicist Confucius and mid-twentieth century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein

Bert van den Brink develops an alternative defense of liberalism

In this political context Lee considers a series of related questions

suggest new ways of viewing them

and Raymond travels to Greece with Adrian to fight in a quickly expanding conflict with the Ottomans

and Greece as well as modern-day Israel and Ukraine

The Christian catacombs are important for the history of Early Christian art

the circumstances of the Second World War and the postwar era meant that engagement of some kind was unavoidable—whether direct or indirect

The Sunday of the Negative provides the most extensive English-language investigation of Bataille's critical treatment of the thought of Hegel

Many others rejected it