This chapter surveys definitions of sainthood drawn from the three listed disciplines and engages with the work of Robert Merrihew Adams, Patrick Sherry, John Hick, Jean-Luc Marion, J. O. Urmson, Susan Wolf, Edith Wyschogrod, Linda Zagzebski, Lawrence Cunningham, Elizabeth Johnson, David Brown, Michael Plekon, and Stuart C. Devinish, among others.

Chapter 9 explores what the transregional system excluded. Algerian novelist al-Tahir Wattar’s novel al-Lāz (The Ace, 1974) was rejected by Mashreq publishers in the 1970s for its purported denigration of the Algerian War of Independence. Refusing the elevation of the war to a sacred origin in Algerian state nationalism, Ace also broke transregional literature’s taboos. In this corpus, Algeria’s revolution is a quasi-mythic zone of noble deeds, honorable men, and utile language. Transregionalism evacuates moral and political ambiguity to secure the war as the ground from which it can narrate the emotional unities of Arab collectives. Ace’s deconstruction of the war as national, founding myth had a domestic target: to unmask what historian Benjamin Stora called the Algerian state’s “faceless” revolution and repopulate the war’s memory with living, disagreeing Algerians. Yet this account of the war also rendered Ace disruptive to transregional circuits and unlikely, in the eyes of publishers, to find a reading market. Wattar’s undisputed prominence in Algerian literature thus contrasts with his marginality in the corpus of transregional Arabic literature and Arabic literary studies. Transgressing the conventions transregional literature erected around Algeria, Ace figures an interpretive sensibility to come, merging thought and emotion to explore new imaginaries of emancipation.

Jack Russell is now identified with a breed of Fox Terrier, but he was best known as a parson-sportsman in the Victorian era. His obituary notice in the Illustrated London News in 1883 portrayed him as ‘the well-known North Devon clergyman, or rather country gentlemen in clerical orders, as he was better known for his performances in the hunting-field and his social popularity’. It was many years after his death before his name was linked to a specific type of dog: a mainly white, rough-coated Fox Terrier. Yet, despite its great popularity, the Jack Russell Terrier (JRT) was accepted as a breed by the Kennel Club only in 2016.One reason was that its breed clubs wanted to keep it as a working rather than fancy breed.

This chapter analyses Japan’s Southeast Asian security partnerships from a Southeast Asian perspective. Japan’s re-entering East Asia with a combination of increasing trading ties and economic development (ODA) initiatives in the 1970s and 1980s, slowly furthered economic growth and prosperity in many East-Asian countries as well as Japan - a mutually beneficial relationship that largely remained un-securitized. Beginning with the second Abe administration in 2012, Japan began to include security components in a number of bilateral relations with countries in the region. This chapter divides countries in Southeast Asian countries by their level of economic dependence on China and their threat perception vis-à-vis China, which is the core factor in explaining the rationale for why and how they engage with Japan, and shapes Southeast perspectives of Japanese-Southeast Asian security partnerships.

This chapter traces the development of musical life in Vienna after 1933, when Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, until 1999, when the post-war era was starting to cede to the multi-polar landscape of the twenty-first century, exposing ruptures, paradoxes but also continuities. It focuses on activities at the Vienna State Opera and at the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as on Leonard Bernstein’s relationship with musical institutions and individuals in the city.

This chapter introduces the contour Schwinger–Keldysh method for time-dependent averages, in light of its relevance to nonequilibrium processes. A key feature of this approach is that it leaves open the possibility that no state of a system in the future can be identified with any of its states in the past. This method is here illustrated in detail with reference to time-dependent quantum averages, whereby for definiteness the system is initially prepared at the reference time t₀ in a definite quantum state.

Chapter 6 turns to the relation between philosophy and politics in Plato’s Republic. The question here is how to understand Socrates’ proposal of philosophical rulership in Kallipolis. For all three post-Heideggerian Platonists, this is not to be read literally (pace Heidegger’s 1933 disastrous appropriation of the proposal), but ironically. For Strauss, Socrates’ argument ironically points to the opposite claim: philosophical rulership is impossible, and this is a symptom of the irreconcilable tension between philosophy and the city. For Krüger and Gadamer, the irony points to an “in-between” position: while philosophers cannot rule directly as kings and queens, they can rule indirectly. For Gadamer, this indirect rulership takes the form of the philosophically educated citizen’s participation in the political life of the community, and, most importantly, the task of civic education. For Krüger, it takes the form of a philosophical critique of existing political institutions. Despite their differences, all three ironic readings of the tension between philosophy and politics in the Republic converge toward what I call the “political finitude” of philosophy.

What is the next step in treating a primary psychotic illness with aggression when high-dose/high-level clozapine treatment only provides a partial response?

In Chapter 6, we focus on drafting outlines as the first step in the process of academic writing. As prime organizational tools, outlines help writers shape their overall arguments and yield smoothly flowing narratives. Starting with the headings expected in the eventual format of the publication and assigning word limits to each section, the process and benefits of outlining before writing are discussed in detail and with examples.

Corpus linguistics involves compiling and examining authentic samples of everyday communication. Chapter 11, written by Phoebe Lin, explores its significance for L2 teaching and learning. It provides an overview of its goals and methods, and presents recent advances in corpus linguistics for the L2 classroom. This chapter demonstrates new and user-friendly online corpus tools for various L2 teaching and learning contexts, including vocabulary analysis, error correction, and writing idea suggestions. It also summarises findings about data-driven learning (DDL), a specialisation in corpus linguistics that explores best practices when incorporating corpus use inside and outside the classroom. A number of essential and practical questions are addressed, including the class time required for teaching concordancing, the types of learners who will particularly benefit from concordancing training, how to select concordancers based on learner needs, factors to consider when planning lessons involving concordancing, and so on. The chapter concludes by discussing the role of teachers in implementing corpus and concordancing training in the classroom.

This chapter considers the closed-time-path Green’s functions approach when specified to equilibrium situations and shows that it offers an alternative to the more standard Matsubara plus analytic continuation procedure for obtaining physical quantities directly in real frequency. In this case, the number of independent components of the single-particle Green’s function (as well as of the related self-energy) reduces considerably, thereby making it easier to solve the Kadanoff–Baym equations. The fluctuation–dissipation theorem and the single-particle spectral function (with its related sum rule) are also considered.

This chapter focuses on the years between the two World Wars, when international humanitarian action was forced to measure itself against the First World War’s dramatic consequences; it became the prerogative of specific institutions and defined certain basic areas of competence. The League of Nations had a crucial role in promoting humanitarianism as a matter of cooperation between different countries. Assistance to refugees, public health and child protection were among the sectors in which this cooperation showed itself to be most profitable. On the initiative of individual governments, humanitarianism came to be included within the sphere of international relations. The most relevant example is certainly that of the American Relief Administration, which contributed to determining the United States’ pre-eminence on the scene of humanitarianism after the First World War. In their turn, the aid programmes were an important part of American international policy. The chapter outlines also the important role of private agencies, such as Near East Relief (a US association) and the Save the Children Fund (a British body).