The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book

Literaturwissenschaften / Festschriften, Geburtstage / Albert Schweitzer


Roback, A.A.

Signatur: M001-B350-D001-A002; ;
Buchart: Halbleder
Verlag: Sci-Art Publishers, Cambride, MA (Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika)
Veröffentlichung: 2025
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 508
Format: gr. 8°
Größe (HxBXT): 24,5 x 16,5 cm x 4,9 cm
The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book
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Inhaltsverzeichnis:
PART I (Personal Interpretations): 1. Albert Schweitzer the Man; 2. Productive Tensions in the work of Albert Schweitzer; 3. Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian; 4. The Black Man and Albert Schweitzer; PART II (Methodology and Evaluation): 5. On Understanding; 6. Valuations of Achievements, Acts, Laws and Persons; PART III (Aesthetics): 7. Schweitzer's Aesthetics: An Interpretation of Bach; 8. The Transcendentalism of Albert Schweitzer; 9. Albert Schweitzer's contribution to organ-building; 10. Musical days with Albert Schweitzer; PART IV (Ethics and Civilization): 11. Albert Schweitzer as critic of nineteenth century ethics; 12. Civilization; PART V (Humanities): 13. The unity of mankind in the classical christian tradition; 14. Lutheranism, Catholicism, and German Literature; 15. Juan Ruiz de Alarcon; PART VI (Medicine): 16. The transmission and recovery of Greek and Roman medical writings; 17. The Post-graduate teaching of clinical tropical medicine; 18. The strange case of dives and Lazarus; 19. Medical missions and the future; PART VII (Theology and Religion): 20. Xenophanes and the beginnings of natural theology; 21. Albert Schweitzer's influence in Holland and England; 22. Albert Schweitzer's interpretation of St. Paul's Theology; EPILOGUE: 23. The scholar's Dilemma; 24. A tentative bibliography of Albert Schweitzer

Kurzbeschreibung:
Umfassendes Werk in 26 Kapiteln zu Albert Schweitzer, extra veröffentlicht zur Finanzierung des Schweitzer Hospitals

Textpassagen (Auszüge):
"Preface. That Dr. Albert Schweitzer's seventieth anniversary would not pass unobserved in the educated world might have been regarded as a foregone conclusion, yet at a time when millions upon millions were engaged in an attempt to exterminate each other and when the human race came as close as ever in its history to self-annihilation, presentation volumes were not likely to be though of, much less produced. The book before us is one of the exceptions, and well it might be; for Dr. Schweitzer does not belong to a single group or coterie, but as one Dutch biographer has put it, he "speaks to all." [...]"