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Explaining cancer : finding order in disorder
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ISBN: 9780199967452 0199967458 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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Cancer. --- Krebs --- Neoplasms. --- Philosophie.


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Riding the Rails : Inside the Business of America's Railroads
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ISBN: 0253031877 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Riding the Rails : Inside the Business of America's Railroads
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ISBN: 9780253031877 0253031877 9780253031860 0253031869 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Riding the Rails: Inside the Business of America's Railroads details Krebs's rise to a position of influence in the recovery of America's railroads and offers a unique insider's view into the boardrooms where executives and businessmen reimagined transportation in the United States.


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The photograph that took the place of a mountain : essays and other writings on photography and art
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ISBN: 9789490119621 9490119628 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam Fw:Books

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This diverse collection of writings by Taco Hidde Bakker addresses the philosophy, politics, and art of photography, with topics ranging from the tension between artist and model to the landscapes of the American West and the predicament of transcultural photography. Bakker selected and revised sixteen pieces of writing from a variety of publications spanning the past decade of his journeys through photography and art. In addition, he penned four new pieces especially for this book. Often engaging in close collaboration with the artists about whose work he writes, Bakker explores different literary forms in response to their views, with a recurring reference to poetry.


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Nicholas of Cusa and the making of the early modern world
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ISSN: 15735664 ISBN: 9789004343016 9789004385689 9004343016 9004385681 Year: 2018 Volume: 190 Publisher: Boston Brill

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"Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform sheds new light on Nicholas of Cusa' relationship to early modernity by focussing on the reform of church, the reform of theology, the reform of perspective, and the reform of method - which together aim to encompass the breadth and depth of Nicholas of Cusa' own reform initiatives. In particular, in examining the way in which he served as inspiration for a wide and diverse array of reform-minded philosophers, ecclesiastics, theologians, and lay scholars in the midst of their struggle for the renewal and restoration of the individual, society, and the world, our volume combines a focus on Nicholas of Cusa as a paradigmatic thinker with a study of his concrete influence on early modern thought. This volume is aimed at scholars working in the field of late medieval and early modern philosophy, theology, and history of science. As the first Anglophone volume to explore the early modern reception of Nicholas of Cusa, this work will provide an important complement to a growing number of companions focussing on Nicholas of Cusa' life and thought."


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Kreative, asymptotische Assimilation : mensliche Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus
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ISBN: 9783402102992 3402102994 9783402103005 Year: 2018 Publisher: Münster Aschendorff Verlag

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"Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) konzipiert menschliche Erkenntnis als kreative, asymptotische Assimilation: Auf kreative Weise verähnlichen sich Menschen in Erkenntnisprozessen Denkunabhängigem, ohne diesen Verähnlichungsprozess je zum Abschluss bringen zu können. Obwohl menschliche Erkenntnis als kreativ charakterisiert wird, verliert sie nicht die Welthaftung. Obwohl sie asymptotisch verläuft, führt sie nicht zu Pessimismus und einem Ablassen von Erkenntnisbemühungen überhaupt. Cusanus macht die beiden Kernaspekte seines Modells menschlicher Erkenntnis trotz einiger systematischer Unschärfen im Rahmen eines maßvollen Erkenntnisoptimismus kompatibel. Die vorliegende Monographie befasst sich mit diesem Modell in zwei Hinsichten. Zunächst wird seine systematische Gestalt über das cusanische Oeuvre hinweg untersucht. Die zu diesem Zweck herangezogenen Werke sind De docta ignorantia, De coniecturis, Idiota de mente, De beryllo und das Compendium. Im Anschluss werden dann zentrale epistemologische Anfragen eingehender betrachtet und historisch kontextualisiert: Cusanus' Intellektverständnis, seine Stellung zu species-Theorien von Erkenntnis, seine Wahrheitsauffassung und sein Modell menschlichen Weltbezugs. Vergleiche mit den Positionen von Aristoteles und Augustinus, Thomas von Aquin und Dietrich von Freiberg, Anselm von Canterbury sowie John McDowell machen dabei sowohl die Eigenheiten von Cusanus als auch seine Verhaftung in der epistemologischen Tradition sichtbar."--

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