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Book Origins Originality   Beyond

Download or read book Origins Originality Beyond written by and published by Sixth Biennale of Sydney. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Origins

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  • Author : Angélica Maria Bernal
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-30
  • ISBN : 0190685638
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Beyond Origins written by Angélica Maria Bernal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundings of constitutional democracies are commonly traced to singular moments. In turn, these moments of national origin are characterized as radical political innovations, notable for their civic unity, perfect legitimacy and binding authority. This common view is attractive as it suggests original founding events, actors, and ideals that can be evoked to legitimize state authority and unify citizens. Angélica Maria Bernal challenges this view of foundings, however, explaining that it is ultimately dangerous, misguided, and unsustainable. Beyond Origins argues that the ascription of a universal authority to original founding events is problematic because it limits our understanding of subsequent foundational changes, political transformation and innovation. This singular view also confounds our ability to account for all of the actors and venues through which foundation-building and constitutional transformation occurs. Because such understandings of national foundings obscure the many power struggles at work in them, these origin stories are troubling and unhelpful. In the wake of these limited views of founding, Bernal develops an alternate approach: "founding beyond origins." Rather than asserting that founding events are authoritatively settled and relegated to history, this framework redefines foundings as contentious, uncertain, and incomplete. Indeed, the book looks at a wide variety of contexts-early imperial Rome; revolutionary Haiti and France; the mid-20th century, racially-segregated United States; and contemporary Latin America-to reconsider political foundings as a contestatory and ongoing dimension of political life. Bridging classic and contemporary political and constitutional theory with historical readings, Bernal reorients approaches to foundings, arguing that it is only through context-specific and pragmatist understandings of political origins that we can realize the potential for radical democratic change.

Book Origin

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  • Author : Jessica Khoury
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-09-04
  • ISBN : 1101590726
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Origin written by Jessica Khoury and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pia has always known her destiny. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work. For as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin—a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever. Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever. But is eternal life worth living if you can’t spend it with the one you love?

Book Beyond Presence

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  • Author : Tyler Tritten
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
  • Release : 2012-08-31
  • ISBN : 1614511551
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Beyond Presence written by Tyler Tritten and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the English-speaking world with a comprehensive account of the still largely unknown work of Schelling’s philosophy of mythology and revelation. Its achievement, however, is not archival but philosophical, elucidating the relation between Schelling and onto-theology. It explains how Schelling dealt with the problem of nihilism and onto-theology well before Nietzsche and Heidegger, arguing that Schelling surpasses onto-theology or the philosophy of presence a century prior to Heidegger. Overall, the author provocatively suggests that Heidegger is perhaps Schelling’s genuine heir and by comprehensively interpreting Schelling’s multifaceted late lectures he analyzes issues as diverse as the Ancient relation between thinking and Being, the Medieval debate between voluntarism and intellectualism, the overcoming of modern subjectivism and German Idealism as well as many themes in contemporary philosophy. The presentation is systematic rather than thematic, following Schelling’s ages of the world through the Past, Present and Future. The results are daring, departing from the half-century long canonical reading of the late Schelling since Walter Schulz. This book is valuable for Schelling-scholars, historians of philosophy and theologians alike.

Book Beyond

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  • Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780810114814
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Beyond written by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Emmanuel Levinas is widely respected as one of the classic thinkers of our century, the debate about his place within Continental philosophy continues. In Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak shows Levinas's thought to be a persistent attempt to point beyond the borders of an economy where orderly interests and ways of reasoning make us feel at home--beyond the world of needs, beyond the self, beyond politics and administration, beyond logic and ontology, even beyond freedom and autonomy. Peperzak's examination begins with a general overview of Levinas's life and thought, and shows how issues of ethics, politics, and religion are intertwined in Levinas's philosophy. Peperzak also discusses the development of Levinas's relations with Husserl and Heidegger, demonstrating thematically the evolution of both Levinas's anti-Heideggerian view of technology and his critical attitude toward nature.

Book Art  Origins  Otherness

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  • Author : William Desmond
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791486680
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Art Origins Otherness written by William Desmond and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves and in philosophical engagements with the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Addressing themes such as eros and mania, genius and the sublime, transcendence and the saving power of art, William Desmond tries to make sense of the paradox that too much has been asked of art that now almost nothing is asked of it. He argues that there is more to be said philosophically of art, and claims that art has the power to open up mindfulness beyond objectifying knowledge, as well as beyond thinking that claims to be entirely self-determining.

Book History of Montreal

Download or read book History of Montreal written by John Douglas Borthwick and published by D. Gallagher : Printed by Fulton & Richards. This book was released on 1897 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Truly Beyond Wonders

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  • Author : Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis
  • Publisher : OUP Oxford
  • Release : 2010-03-04
  • ISBN : 0191614122
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book Truly Beyond Wonders written by Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence associated with healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. Her focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales, his fascinating account of dream visions, gruelling physical treatments, and sacred journeys, has been largely misunderstood and marginalized. Petsalis-Diomidis rehabilitates this text by placing it within the material context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. The architecture, votive offerings, and ritual rules which governed the behaviour of pilgrims are used to build a picture of the experience of pilgrimage to this sanctuary. Truly Beyond Wonders ranges broadly over discourses of the body and travel and in so doing explores the place of healing pilgrimage and religion in Graeco-Roman society and culture. It is generously illustrated with more than 80 drawinsg and photographs, and four colour plates.

Book Beyond Nationalism and the Nation State

Download or read book Beyond Nationalism and the Nation State written by İlker Cörüt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centers on one fundamental question: is it possible to imagine a progressive sense of nation? Rooted in historic and contemporary social struggles, the chapters in this collection examine what a progressive sense of nation might look like, with authors exploring the theory and practice of the nation beyond nationalism. The book is written against the background of rising authoritarian-nationalist movements globally over the last few decades, where many countries have witnessed the dramatic escalation of ethnic-nationalist parties impacting and changing mainstream politics and normalizing anti-immigration, anti-democratic and Islamophobic discourse. This volume discusses viable alternatives for nationalism, which is inherently exclusionary, exploring the possibility of a type of nation-based politics which does not follow the principles of nationalism. With its focus on nationalism, politics and social struggles, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political and social sciences.

Book The Origin of Artillery

Download or read book The Origin of Artillery written by Henry William Lovett Hime and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Method

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  • Author : Pamela M. Ironside
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780299208240
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Beyond Method written by Pamela M. Ironside and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond Method provides a forum for scholars across health and human sciences disciplines to explore issues surrounding philosophy, methodology, and epistemology in the context of interpretive scholarship. The essays comprising this volume move beyond the practical descriptions or the "how to" of interpretive methods commonly found in textbooks to explore the contributions, underlying assumptions, limitations, and possibilities embedded within and across particular philosophical, methodological, and epistemological perspectives. They reveal the complexity and richness of understanding that emerges when philosophical issues are explicated within contemporary contexts, illuminating new possibilities for healthcare and human science scholarship"--Publisher description.

Book Old Faiths in New Light

Download or read book Old Faiths in New Light written by Newman Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heidegger in the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Heidegger in the Twenty First Century written by Tziovanis Georgakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current volume is comparative and inter-disciplinary, and it provides a reflection on what thinking might become after Heidegger’s philosophy. Its aim is to critically expand the current field of research by presenting unfamiliar and unchartered avenues that will guide and carry the Heidegger scholarship into the twenty-first century. By doing so, it addresses fundamental questions in the Heideggerian scholarship, including its problems, restraints, and future direction. It also engages and broadens the increasingly disparate approaches to Heidegger’s work, whether those approaches are traditional in their employment of phenomenology and hermeneutics or whether they apply to Heidegger’s thinking in new and surprising ways. The first section of the volume emphasizes the importance of methodology for the future of Heidegger studies while the second section examines the historical, ethical and vocal-poetical in Heidegger’s thought and draws conclusions relevant to the Heidegger scholar of today. The final section demonstrates Heidegger’s appeal to a variety of other discourses besides philosophy and the way his thinking could be creatively approached, utilized and implemented in our century. Contributions come from cutting-edge scholars such as Babette E. Babich, Dermot Moran, François Raffoul and Trish Glazebrook.

Book History of the Science and Art of Music  Its Origin  Development  and Progress

Download or read book History of the Science and Art of Music Its Origin Development and Progress written by Robert Challoner and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Origin of Cultivated Plants

Download or read book Origin of Cultivated Plants written by Alphonse de Candolle and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Origin of Cultivated Plants

Download or read book Origin of Cultivated Plants written by Alphonse de Candolle and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin of Cultivated Plants: The International Scientific Series Volume XLVIII by Alphonse de Candolle is a comprehensive exploration into the origins and evolution of cultivated plants. Candolle's meticulous research and analysis provide readers with a deep understanding of botany and agriculture, making it a valuable resource for scholars and plant enthusiasts.

Book Beyond Theory

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  • Author : Benjamin Bennett
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780801428418
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Beyond Theory written by Benjamin Bennett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bennett perceives that many of the questions posed by eighteenth-century discourse - such as the difference between thought and language, the nature of the social, or the origin of the individual in the communal - remain current for us today. Beyond Theory is sure to provoke thought and stimulate debate among Germanists, comparatists, literary theorists, and others interested in the cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe.