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Living Root is the story of an education, a writer's wandering through personal and family history, through texts and traditions. Recalling his family's origins in Bialystok as well as his own childhood in Brooklyn and Miami Beach, poet and essayist Michael Heller creates a rich mosaic of reflections on his past, his origins, and the entanglements of thought and religion that have shaped his life and writing. Living Root enlarges the memoir genre, vividly illuminating the interactions of memory, autobiography, and the evolving creative self.

Jews --- Poets, American --- Heller, Michael, --- Childhood and youth.

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The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. Loft Jazz provides the first book-length study of this period, tracing its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination.

Jazz --- Jazz. --- Music / instruction & study / theory. --- History / united states / state & local / general. --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- History --- Social aspects. --- New York (State) --- Accordion and piano music (Jazz) --- Clarinet and piano music (Jazz) --- Cornet and piano music (Jazz) --- Double bass and piano music (Jazz) --- Jazz duets --- Jazz ensembles --- Jazz music --- Jazz nonets --- Jazz octets --- Jazz quartets --- Jazz quintets --- Jazz septets --- Jazz sextets --- Jazz trios --- Jive (Music) --- Saxophone and piano music (Jazz) --- Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz) --- Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz) --- Xylophone and piano music (Jazz) --- African Americans --- Music --- Third stream (Music) --- Washboard band music --- History and criticism. --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- american music. --- avant garde artists. --- avant garde music. --- black artists. --- black culture. --- black musicians. --- collectivism. --- experimental aesthetics. --- history of jazz. --- history of music. --- jazz culture. --- jazz lofts. --- jazz music. --- jazz politics. --- jazz. --- loft jazz era. --- loft jazz. --- lofts. --- lower manhattan. --- manhattan. --- music history. --- music politics. --- music. --- musicians. --- new york history. --- new york. --- nyc culture. --- nyc music. --- nyc. --- radical culture. --- radical music. --- underground archives. --- underground music. --- urban renewal. --- warehouse music.

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Perché il nostro mondo è comprensibile? La domanda sembra così banale, che solo pochi trovano il coraggio di porsela. In questo libro esploreremo le radici profonde del mistero della razionalità. L’indagine sulla razionalità del mondo cominciò duemilacinquecento anni or sono, quando un manipolo di audaci pensatori avviarono l’impresa di cercare di capire la Natura con la sola forza della ragione, rifiutando le comode e futili spiegazioni fornite da miti e leggende. Attraverso molte avventure filosofiche e teologiche, alla fine il concetto greco di razionalità pose le basi di un modo nuovo e rivoluzionario di pensare: quello del metodo scientifico, destinato a trasformare il mondo. Quando consideriamo i frutti più recenti dell’indagine sulla razionalità del mondo – la teoria della relatività, la meccanica quantistica, l’unificazione delle leggi fisiche, la gravitazione quantistica – viene da chiedersi: quali sono i limiti del metodo scientifico? Il principio fondamentale del pensiero razionale è che non dobbiamo mai smettere di porci domande, fintantoché a tutte non sia stata data una risposta.

Rationalism. --- Religion and science. --- Science -- Methodology. --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Religion - General --- Science --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects --- History. --- Philosophy and science. --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Cosmology. --- Philosophy of Science. --- History of Science. --- Philosophy of Religion. --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Religion—Philosophy. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Science and philosophy

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Logic --- Argumentation --- Deduction (Logic) --- Deductive logic --- Dialectic (Logic) --- Logic, Deductive --- Intellect --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Science --- Reasoning --- Thought and thinking --- Philosophy. --- Methodology

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The traditional topics of the "philosophy of nature" — space, time, causality, the structure of the universe — are overwhelmingly present in our modern scientific theories. This book traces the complex paths that discussion of these topics has followed, from Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and other great thinkers, right up to the relativistic cosmologies and the grand unified theories of contemporary science. In the light of this historical development, it becomes clear that modern science gives us not only a technological power over the world, but also a deeper understanding of physical reality. In this sense, science could be regarded as an heir to the traditional "philosophy of nature". Moreover, the reader will learn why science itself deserves to be the subject of philosophical reflection.

Science --- Philosophy --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Methodology. --- Scientific method --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy of nature. --- Philosophy (General). --- Philosophy of Nature. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- History of Philosophy. --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Physics. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics