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Libri – Novità
Servizio di aggiornamenti bibliografici - FSC
XXXXII (30/11/2012): Novembre
A cura del prof. Tadek Lewicki
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settore comunicazione sociale della nostra biblioteca e promuovere la loro
consultazione.
Batlogg, Andreas R. - Michalski, Malvin E. - Turner, Barbara G. Encounters with
Karl Rahner: remembrances of Rahner by those who knew him. Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Marquette University Press, 2009. UPS 2-C-2890(63)
Many scholarly books have been written on the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, but what was
he like as a human being? How did his co-workers, his Jesuit colleagues, his students, his
relatives and friends encounter him? This book, containing 28 interviews with those closest
to him, reveals the human side of Karl Rahner. Yes, he was impatient, melancholy,
overworked, but he also possessed a childlike curiosity, prayerful spirit, and gentle heart.
His only goal was to serve the Church and help people be mindful of God.
This book makes much that Karl Rahner wrote more intelligible and allows us to encounter
him today in a new way, in the twenty-fifth year of his anniversary of death (March 30,
1984).
AUTHORS: Andrew Batlogg, S.J., Ph.D., is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Stimmen der Zeit,
Coeditor of Karl Rahner’s Sämtliche Werke, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Karl Rahner Foundation (Munich), Director of the Karl Rahner Archives, & Lecturer in
Fundamental Theology at the Hochschule für Philosophie/ Berchmanskolleg (Munich).
Melvin Michalski, Ph.D., is Professor of Systematic Studies, Sacred Heart School of
Theology, Hales Corners, WI; former Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, Saint
Francis de Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis.; and Moderator of the annual meetings of the
Karl Rahner Society, 1999-2002.
Barbara Turner, Ph.D., is Associate Professor Systematic Theology, Saint Francis Seminary,
Milwaukee, Wis. (retired).
Eisenstein, Elisabeth L. Divine art, infernal machine: the reception of printing in
the West from first impressions to the sense of an ending. Philadelphia; Oxford,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. UPS 40-C-188
"Eisenstein's research is impressive, reaching far and wide across languages and centuries.
Her knowledge of the history of publication engages the wealth of recent scholarship (she
has been a conscientious book reviewer throughout her career) and extends as far back as
Roman copyists. . . . Her breadth enables her to identify topoi and their mutations; to
observe long-term trends, diminishing ripples, and delayed reactions; and to distinguish
what is new or newly dressed in authors' concerns and readers' complaints."—Journal of
Scholarly Publishing
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner,
with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L.
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Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black
magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western
churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans
from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against
bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence
of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid
tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the
rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They
celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information
overload.
In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing
Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five
centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a
compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are
intimately related. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth
century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the
end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be
false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by
the digital.
The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to
profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the
perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and
resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may
hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now,
however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
AUTHOR: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein is Professor Emerita of History at the University of
Michigan. In addition to The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, her books include its
abridgment, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, and Grub Street Abroad:
Aspects of the French Cosmopolitan Press from the Age of Louis XIV to the French
Revolution.
Orgad, Shani. Media representation and the global imagination. Cambridge, Polity
Press, 2012. UPS 32-C-3593.
Peck, Janice - Stole, Inger L., eds. A moment of danger: critical studies in the
history of U.S. communication since World War II. Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Marquette University Press, 2011. UPS 32-C-3706(2)
A Moment of Danger marks a timely intervention into media history. Reminding us of the
complex ways in which media and politics are inextricably connected, it is a must-read
volume for all students of American history and culture.
—Michele Hilmes, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Our need to catalyze new understandings of postwar and contemporary US history has
never been greater—and this superb collection demonstrates that the role of
communications must figure centrally in this effort. By retrieving repressed popular
struggles for democratic communications and incisively critiquing our actually-existing
media culture, its contributors compile a revelatory analysis.
—Dan Schiller, Professor of Library & Information Science & Communication, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
We are sometimes told that political economy is a pessimistic approach to communications
that offers no stories of struggle and resistance. This has never really been true, and this
startling volume assembles some of the leading dissident voices in US media studies to set
that falsehood right.
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—Toby Miller, author of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention
A must read for anyone seeking to understand the challenges, conflicts and changes that
have marked the mass media over the past seven decades.
—Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Professor of History, West Virginia University
A Moment of Danger is genuine history. Its splendid chapters set episodes of postwar media
history into rich, often forgotten, contexts of social, political and business history.
—David Nord, Professor of Journalism and History, Indiana University
AUTHORS: Janice Peck (upper left) is an Associate Professor of media studies at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses on the intersections of U.S. media,
culture, politics and history.
Inger L. Stole (lower left) is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research covers historical perspectives on
advertising and consumer issues..
Pekarske, Daniel T. Abstracts of Karl Rahner's Theological investigations I-23.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marquette University Press, 2002. UPS 2-C-2890(31)
“Whenever my efforts to explain this unusual project succeeded, I would invariably hear,
‘Oh I get it. You’re writing Cliffs Notes for Karl Rahner!’ I’m sure the writers of Cliffs Notes
would say the same thing about their work as I do about mine. It is not intended to
substitute for reading Rahner’s Theological Investigations. On the contrary I sincerely hope
this reference book will open his treasure trove of essay both to the scholar as well as to
other serious readers of theology. Everyone familiar with Rahner’s great 23-volume
Theological Investigations knows the series is hard to use because it lacks a key. The titles
often fail to describe the contents of the essays accurately; there is no cumulative index in
English; the existing indices at the end of each volume are tedious and failed to distinguish
significant discussions of a topic from casual references; and short of wading through an
entire essay there is no way to know quickly whether it contains the material one is looking
for. This book attempts to address these problems.” — From the Introduction.
AUTHOR: Dan Pekarske, SDS., is a Salvatorian with M.A.’s in philosophy and theology, and
a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University. After teaching 6 years in his Society’s
major seminary in Tanzania, East Africa, he now serves as an advisor at the Sacred Heart
School of Theology in Hales Corners, WI. His other publications include Abstracts of Karl
Rahner’s Unserialized Essays (Marquette University Press, #60 in this series); The Life of
Johann Baptist Jordan, Known in Religious Life as Francis Mary of the Cross, Volumes 1-5,
2008 (ed.); The Moment of Grace: 100 Years of Salvatorian Life and Ministry in the United
States, 2 volumes, 1994 (ed.).
Pekarske, Daniel T. Abstracts of Karl Rahner's unserialized essays. Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, Marquette University Press, 2009. UPS 2-C-2890(60).
Pen, Robert. Communication for communion: communication as mutual
self-mediation in context. New Delhi, Intercultural Publications, 2012. UPS
32-C-3703.
Roidi, Vittorio. Cattive notizie: dell'etica del buon giornalismo e dei danni da
malainformazione. Roma, Centro Documentazione Giornalistica, 2008. UPS
32-B-2204
“Il diritto all’informazione non è un privilegio del giornalista, ma una componente della
libertà del cittadino, una garanzia della democraticità del sistema”. A scriverlo è Stefano
Rodotà nella prefazione a questo libro. Ed è sicuramente così. Ma affinché ciò corrisponda
poi alla realtà dei fatti occorre che il giornalismo sia scrupoloso, corretto e oltremodo
rigoroso.
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Il giornalista per il ruolo che rappresenta è oggetto di pressioni, lusinghe e tentazioni. Per
questo il suo corredo di regole e responsabilità deve essere chiaro. I confini della
professione ben marcati e in nessun caso mobili o confusi. Cattive Notizie è un libro sui
principi di un corretto giornalismo e sui danni della malainformazione. Un vademecum per il
giornalista che nella sua professione non vede solo il lavoro che gli dà da mangiare ma
anche il piccolo quotidiano contributo alla costruzione di una società migliore.
Russell, Heidi. The heart of Rahner: the theological implications of Andrew Tallon's
theory of triune consciousness. Marquette studies in theology. Milwaukee, Wis.,
Marquette University Press, 2009. UPS 2-C-2890(64)
The Heart of Rahner uses Andrew Tallon’s theory of triune consciousness, a
phenomenological approach in which the affective, cognitive, and volitive intentionalities of
consciousness are all understood to be distinct and equal without being separate faculties,
as a means of reinterpreting the theology of Karl Rahner that escapes the inherent
limitations of faculty psychology. Contemporary science and philosophy have questioned the
presuppositions of the faculty psychology upon which Rahner himself relied, arguing both
for the embodiment of intellect and will as well as for the equivalent role of affect in
consciousness.
Karl Rahner calls heart a primordial word or an Ursymbol. One does not grasp the meaning
of the word, but rather is grasped by the mystery of the word. Heart refers to the innermost
depths of a person that can be touched by God in a way that goes beyond words or
concepts, beyond the cognitive intentionality of consciousness. Reinterpreting Rahner’s
theology through the theory of triune consciousness highlights the equal and distinct role of
affectivity in one’s experience and understanding of God.
Restoring affectivity to a central place in human consciousness puts love at the center of
theology and anthropology, allowing inter subjectivity to become the primary analogue for
understanding the relationship between God and the human person. Ultimately this
relationship is the heart of Karl Rahner’s theology.
AUTHOR: Heidi Ann Russell, Ph.D., teaches at the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola
University in Chicago, Illinois. She received her doctorate from Marquette University in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and her master’s degree from Washington Theological Union in
Washington, D.C.
Seligman, Martin E. P., et al. The optimistic child. New York, Harper Perennial,
1996. UPS 6-B-10716.
Usher, Anthony. Replenishing ritual: rediscovering the place of ritual in Western
Christian liturgy. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Marquette University Press, 2010. UPS
2-C-2890(72)
Inspired by advances in ritual studies since the 1960s, this book maps out the interplay
between body, soul, mind and action, towards an understanding of ritual “in itself “ as
experienced in Catholic tradition in the West. Through an analysis of the dynamics of and
within the Body at worship, the polarities of public and self, formality and casualness,
submission and self-expression, fixity and adaptation, complexity and thinness are explored.
The different facets of “words” are investigated: ritual, communicative, commentative and
conversational. The tension between ritual and a striving for immediacy in communication
and participation is discussed. This journey touches on the related disciplines of translation
studies and play theory. The issues at stake are tested through examples drawn from ritual
praxis and history: actions of facing, feeding, fasting, chanting, gifting and transforming. A
synthesis is drawn from these reflections with the intent of fostering a rediscovery of the
authentic path of ritual in Christian practice.
AUTHOR: Anton Usher is an alumnus of the University of Melbourne, Australia, from which
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he received his Master of Laws and Bachelor of Science. He works in the field of corporate
and finance law, and maintains an active interest in ritual studies and practice. He serves as
lay reader at St Nicholas’s Russian Catholic Church in Melbourne.
Valli, Aldo Maria. Storia di un uomo: ritratto di Carlo Maria Martini. Milano, Ancora,
2011. UPS 12-B-7751
Il cardinale Martini raccontato, con stile semplice e intensità emotiva, attraverso le tappe
che ne hanno scandito il cammino umano e spirituale: da Torino a Roma, da Milano a
Gerusalemme e Gallarate. Il ritratto di un uomo, un religioso, un pastore innamorato di Dio
e della Chiesa. Un testimone che ha sempre unito il rigore nello studio delle Scritture alla
passione, anche civile, per le vicende culturali, sociali e politiche. Spunti proposti dal
cardinale Martini sono all’origine sia del titolo sia dell’immagine di copertina, opera di
Francesco Radaelli (un ritratto “velato” perché un libro non può mai contenere il mistero che
è la storia di un uomo). Pur con la consueta discrezione, l’Arcivescovo ha osservato il
procedere del lavoro senza nascondere simpatia e affetto per l’autore e la sua ricerca.
Zettl, Herbert. Video basics 7 + workbook. 7. ed. Belmont, California,
Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2013. UPS 32-C-3477
Affordable and easy to understand, Herbert Zettl's VIDEO BASICS, International Edition is
without a doubt the handiest and most authoritative, current, and technically accurate guide
to video production available. Concise yet thorough, this text moves you quickly from video
concepts and processes to production tools and techniques and, finally, to the production
environment (studio and field, inside and outside) and its effects. Contrary to the previous
editions of VIDEO BASICS, which reflected the transition from analog to digital technology,
VIDEO BASICS, International Edition, acknowledges that digital video is a firmly established
medium. References to analog are made only to help explain the digital process or the
analog equipment that is still in use. Finally, a more conceptual framework helps you
progress from the idea (what to create) to the image (how to create) on video. You'll come
to rely on Zettl's VIDEO BASICS for every step of video production.
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