Focusing on the theme of divine sovereignty in life's challenges, this book emphasizes the importance of preparation while ultimately acknowledging that true victory is granted by God. It explores the balance between human effort and reliance on divine intervention, encouraging readers to trust in the Lord's guidance during their struggles. Through biblical insights, it reaffirms the belief that while we can prepare for battles, the outcome is ultimately in God's hands.
Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present.In recent years, critics from across the political and philosophical spectrum have condemned the Enlightenment for its complicity with any number of present-day social and cultural maladies. It has rarely been noticed, however, that at the end of the Enlightenment, German thinkers had already begun a scrutiny of their age so wide-ranging that there are few subsequent criticisms that had not been considered by the close of the eighteenth century. Among the concerns these essays address are the importance of freedom of expression, the relationship between faith and reason, and the responsibility of the Enlightenment for revolutions.Included are translations of works by such well-known figures as Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and Johann Georg Hamann, as well as essays by thinkers whose work is virtually unknown to American readers. These eighteenth-century texts are set against interpretive essays by such major twentieth-century figures as Max Horkheimer, Jürgen Habermas, and Michel Foucault.
Focusing on the unique strategies employed during the Vietnam War, this book uncovers the use of an automated battlefield featuring mechanical ambushes, which significantly influenced the conflict's outcome. It highlights how operational security kept these tactics hidden from the media and the public, revealing a lesser-known aspect of military innovation that only a select few within the military understood. This exploration offers a fresh perspective on the reasons behind the United States' failure in Vietnam.
Provides an overview of the English language reception of the work of the philosopher, social theorist and cultural critic, Theodor W Adorno. This collection contains sketches of Adorno's career by Martin Jay, Irving Wolfarth and Adorno's colleague, Leo Lowenthal. It examines Adorno's general conception of critical theory