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This is the first major investigation of Camus’s prose fiction to explore the developing presentation of women, from the author’s earliest writings to his last, unfinished novel. Avoiding the traditional relegation of this subject to an emotional or private sphere, it traces Camus’s intellectual development in order to demonstrate the centrality of this subject to Camus’s work as a whole. If the Absurd, constructed over the body of the “real” woman, liberates the writer to follow a “true path” of literary creation, the impending loss of his Algerian homeland impells a return to “all that he had not been free to choose”, the ties of blood. These conflictual and unresolved ties are here investigated, in conjunction with the presentation of mythical female figures expressing Camus’s darkest fears, partly voiced in other writings, concerning that “other” Algeria for which he would never fight. Exploring complex interconnections between sexuality, “race” and colonialism, this volume is pertinent to all who are interested in the writings of Camus, particularly those seeking relevant new ways of approaching his work.

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Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life. Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility. The culmination of a lifetime's work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

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Was führt und hält Menschen zusammen? Was konstituiert Gesellschaft? Was erzeugt soziale Kohäsion? Für Marcel Mauss und die Anthropologie in seiner Spur ist die Trias von Geben, Annehmen und Erwidern der 'Felsen', auf dem menschliche Gesellschaften ruhen. Doch welche Rolle spielen dabei ästhetische Phänomene und Kunst? In den ethnologisch beobachteten Gabenpraktiken haben ästhetische Dimensionen laut Mauss eine entscheidende Funktion, dennoch bleibt dieses Thema in Anthropologie/Ethnologie, Soziologie und Philosophie bestenfalls am Rand. Die vorliegende Studie fragt nach der intrinsischen Beziehung von Gabenpraxis und Ästhetik/Künsten. Indikatoren dafür sind die Semantiken von charis im Altgriechischen und von grazia, grace, Grazie etc. in den modernen Sprachen: Sie enthalten die Beziehung von riskantem gegenseitigen Geben, ritualisierter Interaktion und gehobener Emotionalität. Das Buch verfolgt diese Verbindung in historisch unterschiedlichen Szenarien: in griechischen Tragödien, in Künstleranekdoten der römischen Kaiserzeit, im frühneuzeitlichen Ideal von höfischer Sozialität und Diplomatie, in theoretischen Schriften Schillers und in der postavantgardistischen Kunst von Fluxus.

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