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Heidegger, Martin --- (Produktform)Electronic book text --- Bibliothek --- Geographie --- Theorist --- sozialgeographisch --- (VLB-WN)9662
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This book is about the claims of Cultural Theory as a particular kind of intellectual ethos or discipline. The book argues that Cultural Theory is best seen, at least in its 'modern' form, as an ethical discipline. As such, it should be seen as a form of inquiry governed by the guiding idea of the cultivation of critical autonomy and, as such, is designed as much to change what we are in our relations to ourselves as to describe the world as it is in particular 'positive' ways. The content of the book develops this argument through critical readings of three canonical writers, namely Theodor A
Culture. --- Critical theory. --- Adorno, Theodor W., --- Foucault, Michel, --- Bourdieu, Pierre, --- Michel Foucault. --- Pierre Bourdieu. --- Theodor Adorno. --- aesthetics of existence. --- art. --- critical autonomy. --- culture. --- educationality. --- ethico-critical theorist. --- modern cultural theory. --- postmodernism.
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Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin's foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards's intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel's eventful life.
Biologists --- Zoologists --- Evolution (Biology) --- Animal scientists --- Life scientists --- Naturalists --- History. --- Haeckel, Ernst, --- Haeckel, Ernest --- Haeckel, Ernst --- evolution, evolutionary, theory, theoretical, theorist, history, historical, wwi, world war, darwin, darwinian, writings, ernst haeckel, 1800s, controversy, controversial, science, scientific, scientist, academic, scholarly, research, paleontologist, stephen jay gould, creationist, creationism, intelligent design, genes, adaptation, species, life story, biography, biographical.
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Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, feminist legal theory tends to view men through an essentialist lens, in which men are created equal. The study of masculinities, inspired by feminist theory to explore the construction of manhood and masculinity, questions the real circumstances of men, not in order to deny men’s privilege but to explore in particular how privilege is constructed, and what price is paid for it.In this groundbreaking work, feminist legal theorist Nancy E. Dowd exhorts readers to apply the anti-essentialist model—so dominant in feminist jurisprudence—to the study of masculinities. She demonstrates how men’s treatment by the law and society in general varies by race, economic position, sexuality, and other factors. She applies these insights to both boys and men, examining how masculinities analysis exposes both privilege and subordination. She examines men’s experienceof fatherhood and sexual abuse, and boys’ experience in the contexts of education and juvenile justice. Ultimately, Dowd calls for a more inclusive feminist theory, which, by acknowledging the study of masculinities, can broaden our understanding of privilege and subordination.
Feminist theory. --- Fatherhood. --- Masculinity. --- Sex and law. --- Men --- Law and sex --- Sex --- Sex crimes --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Parenthood --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Philosophy --- Dowd. --- Nancy. --- anti-essentialist. --- apply. --- dominant. --- exhorts. --- feminist. --- groundbreaking. --- jurisprudenceto. --- legal. --- masculinities. --- modelso. --- readers. --- study. --- theorist. --- this. --- work.
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This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) - someone referred to among contemporaries as 'the grey matter in the brain' of the late-Victorian women's movement. A pacifist, humanitarian 'free-thinker', Wolstenholme Elmy was a controversial character and the first woman ever to speak from a public platform on the topic of marital rape. Lauded by Emmeline Pankhurst as 'first' among the infamous militant suffragettes of the Women's Social and Political Union, Wolstenholme Elmy was one of Britain's great feminist pioneers and, in her own words, an.
Elmy, E. C. Wolstenholme --- Elmy, Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme --- Wolstenholme, Elizabeth C. --- Wolstenholme Elmy, --- Elmy, Wolstenholme, --- Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy. --- Victorian feminists. --- Vigilance Association. --- conjugal rape. --- feminist theorist. --- human rights advocate. --- lobbying. --- parliamentary watch-dog. --- rights of women. --- women's emancipation movement. --- Feminists
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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expands his earlier research in musique concrète to suggest a methodology of working with sounds based on his experiences in radio broadcasting and the recording studio. Drawing on acoustics, physics, and physiology, but also on philosophy and the relationship between subject and object, Schaeffer's essay summarizes his theoretical and practical work in music composition. Translators Christine North and John Dack present an important book in the history of ideas in Europe that will resonate far beyond electroacoustic music.
Music --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- acoustics. --- college student. --- electroacoustic music. --- european music. --- music appreciation. --- music studies. --- music theorist. --- musical scholar. --- musicians. --- philosophy. --- physics. --- physiology. --- relationship between subject and object. --- studying music.
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"Breakthrough Prize recipient Joseph Polchinksi (now deceased) reveals details of his upbringing, his collaborations with major figures in physics, and his significant contributions to string theory and cosmology"--
Autobiography: science, technology & medicine --- Cryogenics --- History of science --- multiverse --- theory of everything --- D-branes --- string theory --- black holes --- theoretical physics --- Stephen Hawking --- holographic universe --- universe --- string theorist --- autobiography --- scientist --- Joseph Polchinski --- life of a theoretical physicist --- Physicists --- Physics --- Cosmology. --- Philosophy. --- Polchinski, Joseph Gerard. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology --- SCIENCE / Physics / General --- SCIENCE / History --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics
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In recent years, evolutionary theorists have come to recognize that the reductionist, individualist, gene-centered approach to evolution cannot sufficiently account for the emergence of complex biological systems over time. Peter A. Corning has been at the forefront of a new generation of complexity theorists who have been working to reshape the foundations of evolutionary theory. Well known for his Synergism Hypothesis-a theory of complexity in evolution that assigns a key causal role to various forms of functional synergy-Corning puts this theory into a much broader framework in Holistic Darwinism, addressing many of the issues and concepts associated with the evolution of complex systems. Corning's paradigm embraces and integrates many related theoretical developments of recent years, from multilevel selection theory to niche construction theory, gene-culture coevolution theory, and theories of self-organization. Offering new approaches to thermodynamics, information theory, and economic analysis, Corning suggests how all of these domains can be brought firmly within what he characterizes as a post-neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis.
Social evolution. --- Evolutionary economics. --- Sociobiology. --- darwin, darwinian, biology, evolution, evolutionary, adaptation, academic, scholarly, contemporary, modern, present day, theory, theoretical, theorist, science, scientific, scientist, synergism, hypothesis, complex, synergy, multilevel, selection, nature, natural, gene, coevolution, genes, genetics, thermodynamics, information, economic, analysis, critical, sociobiology.
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"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats the topic of metaphor in a new and extremely convincing manner."-Lydia Goehr, Columbia University The experience of music is an abstract and elusive one, enough so that we're often forced to describe it using analogies to other forms and sensations: we say that music moves or rises like a physical form; that it contains the imagery of paintings or the grammar of language. In these and countless other ways, our discussions of music take the form of metaphor, attempting to describe music's abstractions by referencing more concrete and familiar experiences. Michael Spitzer's Metaphor and Musical Thought uses this process to create a unique and insightful history of our relationship with music—the first ever book-length study of musical metaphor in any language. Treating issues of language, aesthetics, semiotics, and cognition, Spitzer offers an evaluation, a comprehensive history, and an original theory of the ways our cultural values have informed the metaphors we use to address music. And as he brings these discussions to bear on specific works of music and follows them through current debates on how music's meaning might be considered, what emerges is a clear and engaging guide to both the philosophy of musical thought and the history of musical analysis, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Spitzer writes engagingly for students of philosophy and aesthetics, as well as for music theorists and historians.
Music --- Music --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- History and criticism. --- music, musician, metaphorical, classical, instrumental, philosophy, philosophical, analogy, sensation, form, art, artistic, audio, history, historical, human nature, culture, cultural, academic, scholarly, research, theory, theorist, historian, aristotelian, hearing, mapping, analytical, schematism, bach, mozart, beethoven, composer, composition.
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Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. Noted critic and theorist Mieke Bal narrates between the disciplines of contemporary culture in order to boldly reimagine the role of the visual arts. Both women are pathbreaking figures, globally renowned and widely respected. Doris Salcedo, meet Mieke Bal. In Of What One Cannot Speak, Bal leads us into intimate encounters with Salcedo's art, encouraging us to consider each work as a "theoretical object" that invites-and demands-certain kinds of considerations about history, death, erasure, and grief. Bal ranges widely through Salcedo's work, from Salcedo's Atrabiliarios series-in which the artist uses worn shoes to retrace los desaparecidos ("the disappeared") from nations like Argentina, Chile, and Colombia-to Shibboleth, Salcedo's once-in-a-lifetime commission by the Tate Modern, for which she created a rupture, as if by earthquake, that stretched the length of the museum hall's concrete floor. In each instance, Salcedo's installations speak for themselves, utilizing household items, human bones, and common domestic architecture to explore the silent spaces between violence, trauma, and identity. Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo's powerful sculptures and installations. An unforgettable fusion of art and essay, Of What One Cannot Speak takes us to the very core of events we are capable of remembering-yet still uncomfortably cannot speak aloud.
Sculpture --- Sculpture, Modern --- Political art --- Political aspects --- Salcedo, Doris, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Activist art --- Protest art --- Resistance art --- Social art --- Art --- Modern sculpture --- Sculpture, Primitive --- Stonework, Decorative --- Bas-relief --- Statues --- politics, political, art, artist, artistic, colombia, memory, forgetting, remember, forget, trauma, danger, critic, critical, theory, theorist, theoretical, contemporary, modern, culture, cultural, visual, women, global, international, object, history, death, erasure, argentina, chile, brazil, south america, museum, exhibit, installation, identity, violence, metaphor. --- Political aspects.
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