Jenderal Simatupang dalam karirnya yang gemilang, secara terus-menerus menghadapkan diri dengan ketiga dimensi kehidupan nasional kita, yaitu segi modernisasi dan pembangunan, segi moral dan agama, serta segi tatanan politik dan peranan militer.
Buku ini mencoba memotret dinamika yang terjadi di dalam Mazhab Frankfurt, proses yang harus dilewatinya dalam melahirkan karya-karya brilian yang hingga saat ini masih diperhitungkan di kancah ilmu-ilmu sosial, sampai perbenturan pemikiran dan kepentingan dengan pihak kawan maupun lawan. Selain melahirkan teori kritis, sesungguhnya masih banyak hal lain yang diupayakan penulis. Di antaranya ad…
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and philosophy. He was Hannah Arendt’s supervisor before her emigration to the United States in the 1930s and himself experienced the consequences…
"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back agai…
Boulay, Shirley du. Beyond the Darkness: A Biography of Bede Griffiths. London, Rider Books, 1998. 16cm x 24cm. 308 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket and protective collector's - Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: An Edwardian Childhood, 1906-24 / Athletes and Aesthetes, Oxford 1925-29 / Eastington, 1930 / Love…