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Book Chromatikon VI

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Weber
  • Publisher : Les Editions Chromatika
  • Release : 2011-01-15
  • ISBN : 2930517107
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Chromatikon VI written by Michel Weber and published by Les Editions Chromatika. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le réseau « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » a pour objectif premier de fédérer les recherches sur les différents aspects,

Book Testing Knowledge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katrin Solhdju
  • Publisher : punctum books
  • Release : 2021-04-15
  • ISBN : 1953035469
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Testing Knowledge written by Katrin Solhdju and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels. Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all. Testing Knowledge is preceded by the Dingdingdong collective's Manifesto (2013), which tells the story of the young Alice Rivières, who in 2006 took the presymptomatic, genetic test, foretelling her that she will eventually develop Huntington's. Her first-person account of the revelation of her test results, which she experienced as an act of poisoning or cursing, pulls the reader into the manifold ethical, psychological, and existential issues inherent to medical predictions. Testing Knowledge is also preceded by a foreword from Alice Wexler, author of Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research, and is followed by an afterword by philosopher Isabelle Stengers.

Book 83 mots pour penser l   intervention en travail social

Download or read book 83 mots pour penser l intervention en travail social written by Claude de Jonckheere and published by Éditions ies. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les mots explorés par Claude de Jonckheere sont autant de perspectives ouvertes sur des aspects du monde de l’intervention. Le titre 83 mots pour penser l’intervention en travail social présuppose que les mots ne servent pas uniquement à communiquer, mais surtout à réfléchir. Plutôt que de proposer des définitions, ce sont l’expérience de pensée qu’ils suscitent, les aspects du monde auxquels ils conduisent et les problématiques qu’ils permettent de construire qui importent. Les mots nous habitent. Ils nous font sentir ce monde qui devient alors le nôtre et sur lequel nous pouvons agir afin de le transformer, ne serait-ce qu’imperceptiblement. Ils font irruption en nous, bousculent les mots s’y trouvant déjà et les agencent d’une autre manière. Le titre présuppose aussi qu’il est possible de penser l’intervention en travail social, et que cette activité de la pensée crée de la nouveauté dans nos manières d’agir les plus concrètes. Ainsi, penser, avec des mots, a des conséquences sur nos pratiques. Ce livre offre des manières de penser l’intervention de sorte que les professionnels du travail social puissent sortir du trouble dans lequel ils sont parfois plongés en raison des difficultés croissantes inhérentes à leur exercice de socialisation et de rééducation. Il s’agit alors, de contribuer à l’augmentation de leur puissance de penser qui est aussi l’augmentation de leur puissance d’agir. La coloration principale de cet ouvrage est donnée par le pragmatisme et l’empirisme de William James, John Dewey, Georges Herbert Mead et par la philosophie de l’événement d’Albert North Whitehead, repris dans la tradition francophone notamment par Gabriel Tarde, Gilles Deleuze, Isabelle Stengers et Bruno Latour. Ce livre est destiné aux personnes dont la profession est d’agir envers autrui – ou qui se forment à une telle profession – celles dont Freud disait qu’elles exercent un «métier impossible» notamment les travailleurs sociaux mais aussi les thérapeutes, les enseignants, les soignants et, pourquoi pas, les politiques.

Book 83 mots pour penser l intervention en travail social

Download or read book 83 mots pour penser l intervention en travail social written by Claude de Jonckheere and published by Institut d'Etudes Sociales/Haute école de travail social. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questo libro offre spunti per pensare l'intervento in modo che i professionisti del lavoro sociale possano uscire dal disordine nel quale sono a volte immersi a causa delle difficoltà crescenti inerenti al loro esercizio di socializzazione e di riabilitazione. Si tratta allora, di contribuire all'aumento della loro potenza di pensare che è anche l'aumento della loro potenza di agire.

Book Revisiting the Use of Self

Download or read book Revisiting the Use of Self written by Deena Mandell and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the reader a historical/developmental overview of the concept of 'use of self' and explores its adequacy for contemporary ethical practice. This book provides the reader with first-person, practitioners' accounts of their own 'use of self' in examples of reflective practice approaches. It broadens the scope of the concept of 'use of self'.

Book Bourdieu and Literature

Download or read book Bourdieu and Literature written by John R. W. Speller and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard point of reference in the fields of anthropology, linguistics, art history, cultural studies, politics, and sociology, but his longstanding interest in literature has often been overlooked. This study explores the impact of literature on Bourdieu's intellectual itinerary, and how his literary understanding intersected with his sociological theory and thinking about cultural policy. This is the first full-length study of Bourdieu's work on literature in English, and it provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literary studies, cultural theory and sociology.

Book Anthropology and as Education

Download or read book Anthropology and as Education written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more to education than teaching and learning, and more to anthropology than making studies of other people’s lives. Here Tim Ingold argues that both anthropology and education are ways of studying, and of leading life, with others. In this provocative book, he goes beyond an exploration of the interface between the disciplines of anthropology and education to claim their fundamental equivalence. Taking inspiration from the writings of John Dewey, Ingold presents his argument in four close-knit chapters. Education, he contends, is not the transmission of authorised knowledge from one generation to the next but a way of attending to things, opening up paths of growth and discovery. What does this mean for the ways we think about study and the school, teaching and learning, and the freedoms they exemplify? And how does it bear on the practices of participation and observation, on ways of study in the field and in the school, on art and science, research and teaching, and the university? Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is intended as much for educationalists as for anthropologists. It will appeal to all who are seeking alternatives to mainstream agendas in social and educational policy, including educators and students in philosophy, the social sciences, educational psychology, environmentalism and arts practice.

Book It s Getting Later All the Time

Download or read book It s Getting Later All the Time written by Antonio Tabucchi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's Getting Later All the Time is an epistolary novel with a twist. Seventeen men write seventeen strangely beautiful letters - tender or rancorous - lonely monologues which move in circles. Each missive describes an affair, and each man is desperate for a reply which may never come. But then a revolutionary eighteenth letter arrives."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Algerian Sketches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Bourdieu
  • Publisher : Polity
  • Release : 2013-11-04
  • ISBN : 0745646956
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Algerian Sketches written by Pierre Bourdieu and published by Polity. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agrégation in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war. Motivated by an impulse that, as he himself says, ‘was civic rather than political’, nothing seemed more important to him than to understand the Algerian situation and provide the elements that would enable others to come to an informed judgement about it. In extremely tough conditions and along with a small group of students, Bourdieu undertook a series of studies across an Algeria that was tightly patrolled by the army, leading him to discover the shocking reality of the resettlement camps and to analyse the mechanisms of destruction of Algerian society of which they were emblematic. To achieve the objectives he had set himself, Bourdieu had to carry out a genuine intellectual conversion, acquiring an ethnographic understanding of Algerian society, learning sociological analysis at a breakneck pace and inventing new instruments - both theoretical and empirical - that would enable him to understand the relations of domination specific to colonialism. These new tools also enabled him to analyse the nature of the crisis that the war had both produced and manifested. This unique volume brings together the first texts written by Bourdieu in the midst of the Algerian conflict, as well as later writings and interviews in which he returns to the topic of Algeria and the decisive role it played in the development of his work.

Book Philosophy manual  a South South perspective

Download or read book Philosophy manual a South South perspective written by Chanthalangsy, Phinith and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book PROMOTION DE LA SANTE ET AUTONOMISATION DANS LE CONTEXTE AFRICAIN

Download or read book PROMOTION DE LA SANTE ET AUTONOMISATION DANS LE CONTEXTE AFRICAIN written by David HouŽto and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le terme promotion de la santé en Afrique, près de 30 ans après l'adoption de la Charte d'Ottawa, continue d'avoir des connotations complètement hors du sens que lui confère cette charte. Cela n'est pas étonnant quand on sait que la notion de santé dans ce contexte africain équivaut à la lutte contre la maladie à travers les soins de santé dispensés par des professionnels de la santé dans des formations sanitaires et les hôpitaux. L'évolution que connait le continent depuis quelques décennies est de donner un peu plus de place à la communauté à travers les relais communautaires dans une participation communautaire vidée de son contenu, car le pouvoir n'est jamais passé entre les mains des communautés.C'est au vu de tout ceci que le présent ouvrage à sa raison d'être pour expliquer les fondements de l'autonomisation communautaire et de la promotion de la santé avec leur importance pour la région africaine en proie aux mauvais indicateurs de santé comparativement aux autres régions du monde.

Book Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences

Download or read book Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences written by Denise Pumain and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ensures an optimal circulation of energy for information. This book reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in a variety of fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. It throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. At a time when networks are celebrated for their efficiency, flexibility and better social acceptance, much can be learned about the persistent universality and adaptability of hierarchies, and from the analogies and differences between biological and social organisation and processes. This book addresses a wide audience of biologists and social scientists, as well as managers and executives in a variety of institutions.

Book Suicide  a Study in Sociology

Download or read book Suicide a Study in Sociology written by Émile Durkheim and published by Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated from French, this classic provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

Book   dith Piaf

Download or read book dith Piaf written by David Looseley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined Piaf.

Book On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life

Download or read book On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life written by Heinrich Meier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents -- Preface -- Preface to the American Edition -- Note on Citations -- Translator's Note and Acknowledgments -- First Book -- I. The Philosopher among Nonphilosophers -- II. Faith -- III. Nature -- IV. Beisichselbstsein -- V. Politics -- VI. Love -- VII. Self-Knowledge -- Second Book -- Rousseau and the Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar -- Name Index

Book Bruno Latour in Pieces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henning Schmidgen
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 0823263711
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Bruno Latour in Pieces written by Henning Schmidgen and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruno Latour stirs things up. Latour began as a lover of science and technology, co-founder of actor-network theory, and philosopher of a modernity that had “never been modern.” In the meantime he is regarded not just as one of the most intelligent—and also popular—exponents of science studies but also as a major innovator of the social sciences, an exemplary wanderer who walks the line between the sciences and the humanities. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the Latourian oeuvre, from his early anthropological studies in Abidjan (Ivory Coast), to influential books like Laboratory Life and Science in Action, and his most recent reflections on an empirical metaphysics of “modes of existence.” In the course of this enquiry it becomes clear that the basic problem to which Latour’s work responds is that of social tradition, the transmission of experience and knowledge. What this empirical philosopher constantly grapples with is the complex relationship of knowledge, time, and culture.

Book Department and Discipline

Download or read book Department and Discipline written by Andrew Abbott and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed history of the Chicago School of Sociology, Andrew Abbott investigates central topics in the emergence of modern scholarship, paying special attention to "schools of science" and how such schools reproduce themselves over time. What are the preconditions from which schools arise? Do they exist as rigid rules or as flexible structures? How do they emerge from the day-to-day activities of academic life such as editing journals and writing papers? Abbott analyzes the shifts in social scientific inquiry and discloses the intellectual rivalry and faculty politics that characterized different stages of the Chicago School. Along the way, he traces the rich history of the discipline's main journal, the American Journal of Sociology. Embedded in this analysis of the school and its practices is a broader theoretical argument, which Abbott uses to redefine social objects as a sequence of interconnected events rather than as fixed entities. Abbott's theories grow directly out of the Chicago School's insistence that social life be located in time and place, a tradition that has been at the heart of the school since its founding one hundred years ago.