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La lumière vient de l'Occident

Autor: Daryush Shayegan

Número de Páginas: 282

« Le monde moderne a perdu son âme : ce constat aussi vieux que la modernité elle-même est aujourd’hui dressé par un philosophe iranien, Daryush Shayegan. Il ne sombre pas comme tant d’autres dans la dénonciation pure et ­simple de l’Occident. Il reconnaît à notre culture le mérite d’avoir inventé l’esprit d’examen, la rationalité scientifique et les institutions démocratiques, c’est-à-dire la résolution des conflits hors de la violence. Mais au prix de ce trésor inestimable que recèlent encore les sociétés traditionnelles – “les grandes émotions qui font vibrer les cœurs”. (...) Shayegan nous adjure de mettre en œuvre cette tâche immense : réinventer une nouvelle spiritualité qui succéderait à l’éclipse du divin. Beau défi que l’auteur nous lance, non sans malice et gravité. »Pascal Bruckner, Le Nouvel Observateur

La Pensée européenne des religions

Autor: Philippe Borgeaud

Número de Páginas: 159

Dieu, Kyrios, Deus, Notre Père, Iahvé, Elohim, Adonaï, Jésus ou Allah ont indéniablement un « air de famille ». Cela ne veut pas dire qu’on puisse les traduire les uns dans les autres sans précaution ni qu’ils soient identiques comme le laissent entendre un peu vite ceux qui prônent la notion de « religions abrahamiques ». Il n’en demeure pas moins que ces trois religions se réfèrent à des Révélations. Elles nous recommandent de croire que Dieu s’est révélé lui-même, de diverses manières selon qu’on soit juif, chrétien ou musulman. Philippe Borgeaud insiste sur un point névralgique : pour l’historien ou l’anthropologue, l’islam, le christianisme, le judaïsme, le bouddhisme, l’animisme ou l’hindouisme n’existent pas en tant que tels, pas plus que les dieux auxquels on les associe. Il n’y a de religion que dans les paroles, les sentiments et les actes de ceux qui s’en proclament les acteurs ou les adversaires. Pour saisir cette divergence fondamentale, entre le sens commun et l’observation des sciences humaines, comparer les croyances entre elles est indispensable. Tout en interrogeant notre présent, posant la question de savoir...

Techniques of the Observer

Autor: Jonathan Crary

Número de Páginas: 190

Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new...

The Culture of French Revolutionary Diplomacy

Autor: Linda Frey , Marsha Frey

Número de Páginas: 303

This book examines the culture of the French diplomatic corps from 1789 to 1799. It analyzes how the French revolutionaries attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to transform the diplomatic culture of the old regime, notably in etiquette, language and dress and how the ideology and dynamic of the Revolution affected certain aspects of international affairs.

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1420

Beckett and Badiou

Autor: Andrew Gibson

Número de Páginas: 337

Beckett and Badiou offers a provocative new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent of contemporary French philosophers. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet for Badiou philosophy must be integrally affirmative, whilst Beckett apparently commits his art to a work of negation. Beckett and Badiou explores the coherences, contradictions, and extreme complexities of the intellectual relationship between the two oeuvres. It examines Badiou's philosophy of being, the event, truth, and the subject and the importance of mathematics within his system. It considers the major features of his politics, ethics, and aesthetics and provides an explanation, interpretation, critique, and radical revision of his work on Beckett. It argues that, once revised, Badiou's version of Beckett offers an extraordinarily powerful tool for understanding his work. Badiou and Beckett are instances of a vestigial or melancholic modernism; that is, in the teeth of a contemporary culture that dreams ever more ambitiously of plenitude, they commit themselves to a rigorous concept of limit and intermittency. ...

Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe

Autor: Johannes Ljungberg , Natacha Klein Käfer

Número de Páginas: 358

This open access book provides a multifold exploration of how people in early modern Europe understood, conducted, and actively used private conversations. From sharing personal matters to discussing delicate secrets, all layers of early modern society had their motives for wanting to keep certain exchanges out of public eyes and ears, and ways of trying to achieve this. Detecting such instances in historical sources typically becomes a complex pursuit, full of subtle references that require creative approaches, especially when it comes to more informal practices. Yet, in a reading against the grain, different sources can offer us hints of how conversations took place in private. The book consists of a historiographical and methodological introduction to the study of private conversations, followed by ten case studies from a variety of cities, villages, and countryside across early modern Europe. The concluding epilogue suggests some pathways to further explore the terrain of how people have talked in private in past societies.

The Insistence of Art

Autor: Paul A. Kottman

Número de Páginas: 395

Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were accompanied by an immense range of discussions about the arts and their relation to one another. Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other historical event or social phenomenon, this book treats art as a phenomenon in itself. The contributors suggest ways in which artworks and practices of the early modern period make aesthetic experience central to philosophical reflection, while also showing art’s need for philosophy.

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate

Número de Páginas: 1004

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Research and Marine Corps Reserve

Autor: United States. Bureau Of Naval Personnel

Número de Páginas: 460

Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Número de Páginas: 648

Postmodern Dilemmas

Autor: Jan Jagodzinski

Número de Páginas: 451

In Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art&Art Education and Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experimental Writings in Art&Art Education, jan jagodzinski presents a series of essays covering a timespan of approximately ten years. These essays chart the theory and practice of art&art education as it relates to issues of postmodernity and poststructuralism concerning representation, identity politics, consumerism, postmodern architecture, ecology, phallocentrism of the artistic canon, pluriculturalism, media and technology, and AIDS. As a former editor of The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and a founding member for the Caucus on Social Theory in Art Education, the author attempts to deconstruct the current art education paradigm, which is largely based on modernist tenets, and to reorient art education practice to social issues as developed in both media education and cultural studies. Part of the intent in these two volumes is to undertake a sustained critique of the 1982 Art in the Mainstream (A.I.M.) statement, which continues to be considered as the core value for art education. The distinct intention of this critique is to put forward a new value base for art&art...

The Artist-Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics

Autor: George Smith

Número de Páginas: 217

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics. Taking a transhistorical and global view, Smith engages artists, writers, and thinkers from Western and non-Western periods, regions, and cultures. Thus, we see that poetic hermeneutics reconstitutes philosophy and art as hybridizations of art and science, the artist and the philosopher, subject and object. In turn, the artist-philosopher's poetic-hermeneutic reconstitution of philosophy and art is meant to transform human consciousness. This book will be of interest to artists and scholars working in studio practice, art history, aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, history of ideas, history of consciousness, psychoanalytic studies, myth studies, literary studies, and creative writing.

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Número de Páginas: 1736

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Reserve

Número de Páginas: 260

The Honest Courtesan

Autor: Margaret F. Rosenthal

Número de Páginas: 433

The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, whose published poems and familiar letters offer rich testimony to the complexity of the honest courtesan's position. Margaret F. Rosenthal draws a compelling portrait of Veronica Franco in her cultural social, and economic world. Rosenthal reveals in Franco's writing a passionate support of defenseless women, strong convictions about inequality, and, in the eroticized language of her epistolary verses, the seductive political nature of all poetic contests. It is Veronica Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women—and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries—that makes her literary works and her dealings with Venetian intellectuals so pertinent today. Combining the resources of biography, history, literary theory, and cultural criticism,...

Transcript of the Enrollment Books

Autor: New York (n.y.). Board Of Elections

Número de Páginas: 848

La apreciación estética de la naturaleza

Autor: Malcolm Budd

Número de Páginas: 236

La apreciación estética de la naturaleza está dotada de una libertad negada a la apreciación artística: ante el mundo natural somos libres para enmarcar los elementos como nos plazca, para adoptar cualquier posición o movimiento, de cualquier manera, en cualquier momento del día o de la noche, en cualquiera que sean las condiciones atmosféricas, y de utilizar cualquier modalidad sensible, sin por ello incurrir en el error de malinterpretarla. Ningún aspecto visible o cualidad, estructura interior o exterior, percibida a cualquier distancia y en cualquier dirección, se considera irrelevante en su apreciación estética. Y lo mismo es verdadero, mutatis mutandis, para las otras modalidades sensibles, en la medida en que la percepción de gusto, olor, textura, movimiento, presión y calor caen dentro de las fronteras de la estética. La apreciación estética de la naturaleza es una contribución fundamental al estudio de la estética de la naturaleza, uno de los focos centrales de reflexión filosófica en las últimas décadas, que ha puesto de relieve su autonomía respecto de la filosofía del arte. El libro contiene cuatro ensayos sobre los principales temas de la...

Oscillation in Literary Modernism

Autor: John Francis Harty

Número de Páginas: 418

While the two modernist novels considered in this book, Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, were initially understood within the categories of stoic and tragic despair, more recent criticism has focused upon their carnivalesque dimension. The identification of these hermeneutic polarities presented the author with the challenging problem which underlies the present analysis, namely the question concerning the structural relationship between the contesting thematics. Drawing upon the paradigm of oscillation as established within the natural sciences, and adding a figurative dimension to the concept, the author has adapted this model as a key to unravelling the narrative buoyancy and structural coherence which sustain these novels of Modernism. The book elucidates how the carnivalesque challenge to despair contributes towards innovative narrative configurations, galvanizing the thematic antipodes into vertiginous microcosms of defiant selfhood.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Número de Páginas: 788

Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate

Número de Páginas: 936

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1362

Final Environmental Impact Statement

Autor: United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region

Número de Páginas: 316

Forms in Early Modern Utopia

Autor: Nina Chordas

Número de Páginas: 220

Though much has been written about connections between early modern utopia and nascent European imperialism, the author brings a fresh perspective to the topic by exploring it through some of the sub-genres that comprise early modern utopia, identifying and discussing each specific form in the cultural and historical contexts that render it suitable for the creation and promulgation of utopian programs, whether imaginary or intended for actual implementation. This study transforms scholarly understanding of early modern utopia by first complicating our notion of it as a single genre, and secondly by fusing our paradoxically fragmented view of it as alternately a literary or social phenomenon. Her analysis shows early modern utopia to be not a single genre, but rather a conglomeration of many forms or sub-genres, including travel writing, ethnography, dialogue, pastoral, and the sermon, each with its own relationship to nascent imperialism. These sub-genres bring to utopian writing a variety of discourses - anthropological, theological, philosophical, legal, and more - not usually considered fictional; presented in a humanist guise, these discourses lend to early modern utopia an...

The English Baroque in Early Modern Literature

Autor: Robert Hudson Vincent

Número de Páginas: 281

While the baroque remains a foundational concept for other European literary and aesthetic traditions, scholars have largely elided the word from British literary history. Instead of baroque, most critics prefer to use terms like metaphysical, Stuart and Laudian – words that emphasise England’s primacy rather than its connections with the world. In response to these Anglocentric approaches, The English Baroque in Early Modern Literature demonstrates how the baroque can deepen our understanding of the multilingual, cross-confessional and interdisciplinary features of early modern English literature. It connects the works of Margaret Cavendish, John Donne, John Milton and William Shakespeare, among other English authors, to the style of excess that spread across Europe and the colonial world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In doing so, Robert Hudson Vincent offers a compelling new vision of the baroque as an aesthetic logic for thinking about and living with excess in the early modern world.

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Autor: Dr Haim Yacobi , Dr Tovi Fenster

Número de Páginas: 490

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case studies from North America, South Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the book analyzes how contested national, ethnic and cultural sentiments clash in planning and experiencing urban spaces. Going beyond the claim that such situations exist in many parts of the world because communities construct their 'past memories' within their current daily life and future aspirations, the book explores how the very acts of planning and urban design are rooted in the existing structures of hegemonic power. With contributors from the fields of architecture, geography, planning, anthropology and sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, interdisciplinary view into the conflicts over memory and belonging which are spatially expressed and mediated through the official planning apparatus.

Translating Orients

Autor: Timothy Weiss , Timothy F. Weiss

Número de Páginas: 274

Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

Autor: Michael Wyatt

Número de Páginas: 471

Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.

Youth Fantasies: The Perverse Landscape of the Media

Autor: Jan Jagodzinski

Número de Páginas: 285

Youth Fantasies is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the past ten years that theorizes 'youth fantasy'; as manifested through the media of TV, film, and computer games. Unlike other media studies and education books, the authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of X-Files fans, the influence of computer games and the 'Lara Croft' phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like X-Files .

Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy

Autor: Virginia Cox , Lisa Sampson

Número de Páginas: 554

Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near...

The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory

Autor: Jonathan Tran

Número de Páginas: 312

The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory develops atheological analysis of the American war in Vietnam and constructsa Christian account of memory in relation to this tragic conflict. An elegantly written reflection of memory and forgiveness, thisunique work explores the ecclesial practice of memory in relationto the American war in Vietnam Questions how and why we choose to remember atrocity, and askswhether it is ever ethical to simply forget Explores the theological categories of time and eternity, andthe ideas of thinkers including Aquinas, Augustine, and Barth Reveals broader insights about history, memory, andredemption Resonates beyond the field of theological inquiry by offering abroader analysis of war entirely relevant to our time

Register of Retired Commissioned and Warrant Officers, Regular and Reserve, of the United States Navy

Número de Páginas: 1040

Higher Education Directory

Número de Páginas: 1084

Al margen de la tradición

Autor: Raúl Marrero-fente

Número de Páginas: 180

Searching for Compromise?

Autor: Maciej Ptaszynski , Kazimierz Bem

Número de Páginas: 424

The Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period. By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective. Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.

Conservation Directory

Número de Páginas: 806

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature

Autor: Jennifer Richards

Número de Páginas: 222

Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature explores the early modern interest in conversation as a newly identified art. Conversation was widely accepted to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature - the main source for 'civil conversation' - Jennifer Richards uncovers alternative ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. She argues that humanists explored styles of conversation to reform the manner of association between male associates; teachers and students, buyers and sellers, and settlers and colonial others. They reconsidered the meaning of 'honesty' in social interchange in an attempt to represent the tension between self-interest and social duty. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spenser.

Public Health Service Research Grants and Fellowships

Autor: National Institutes Of Health (u.s.). Division Of Research Grants. Statistics And Analysis Branch

Número de Páginas: 1374