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Book The Wild Region in Life History

Download or read book The Wild Region in Life History written by Laszlo Tengelyi and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of--and alternative to--pure narrative approaches to life-history, offered by a distinguished Hungarian philospher

Book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

Download or read book Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity written by Alasdair MacIntyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and evaluative judgments are to be understood, how desire and practical reasoning are to be characterized, what it is to have adequate self-knowledge, and what part narrative plays in our understanding of human lives. He asks, further, what it would be to understand the modern condition from a neo-Aristotelian or Thomistic perspective, and argues that Thomistic Aristotelianism, informed by Marx's insights, provides us with resources for constructing a contemporary politics and ethics which both enable and require us to act against modernity from within modernity. This rich and important book builds on and advances MacIntyre's thinking in ethics and moral philosophy, and will be of great interest to readers in both fields.

Book New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy

Download or read book New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy written by Burt Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer.

Book The Epochal Event

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-07-23
  • ISBN : 303047805X
  • Pages : 153 pages

Download or read book The Epochal Event written by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon’s book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.

Book THE WILD TURKEY IN VIRGINIA  LIFE HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT

Download or read book THE WILD TURKEY IN VIRGINIA LIFE HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT written by HENRY SACKETT MOSBY and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History in Times of Unprecedented Change

Download or read book History in Times of Unprecedented Change written by Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibility has not been appropriately explained in a coherent theory of history. In this book, Zoltán Simon argues that instead of seeing the past, the present and the future together on a temporal continuum as history, we now expect unprecedented change to happen in the future (in visions of the future of technology, ecology and nuclear warfare) and we look at the past by assuming that such changes have already happened. This radical theory of history challenges narrative conceptualizations of history which assume a past potential of humanity unfolding over time to reach future fulfillment and seeks new ways of conceptualizing the altered socio-cultural concerns Western societies are currently facing. By creating a novel set of concepts to make sense of our altered historical condition regarding both history understood as the course of human affairs and historical writing, History in Times of Unprecedented Change offers a highly original and engaging take on the state of history and historical theory in the present and beyond.

Book Corporeity and Affectivity

Download or read book Corporeity and Affectivity written by Karel Novotny and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this volume reflect upon the intersections of corporeity and affectivity in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. They illuminate the meaning of his phenomenology regarding corporeity and affectivity from various phenomenological perspectives. Corporeity and Affectivity explores his invaluable contribution in interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary respect, including the humanities, the arts and the sciences. Contributors include: Alexei Chernyakov (†), Jagna Brudzińska, Universität Köln, IFiS PAN Warschau, Nicola Zippel, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Philosophy, Karel Novotný, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University of Prague, James Mensch, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Annabelle Dufourcq, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Humanities, Juho Hotanen, University of Helsinki, Silvia Stoller, Universität Wien, Pierre Rodrigo, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, Antonino Firenze, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy, Kwok-ying Lau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Monika Murawska, The Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Irene Breuer, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Mauro Carbone, Université “Jean Moulin” Lyon 3, Faculté de philosophie, László Tengelyi, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Björn Thorsteinsson, University of Oceland, Institute of Philosophy, Mikkel B. Tin, Telemark University College, Porsgrunn, Tamás Ullmann, ELTE University of Budapest, Institute of Philosophy, Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University, Melbourne; Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague, Michael Staudigl, Vienna University, Department of Philosophy, Suzi Adams, Flinders University, Adelaide

Book The Status of Wildlife in the United States

Download or read book The Status of Wildlife in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Conservation of Wildlife Resources and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hegel  Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds

Download or read book Hegel Husserl and the Phenomenology of Historical Worlds written by Tanja Staehler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GWF Hegel famously described philosophy as 'its own time apprehended in thoughts', reflecting a desire that we increasingly experience, namely, the desire to understand our complex and fast-changing world. But how can we philosophically describe the world we live in? When Hegel attempted his systematic account of the historical world, he needed to conceive of history as rational progress to allow for such description. After the events of the twentieth century, we are rightfully doubtful about such progress. However, in the twentieth century, another German philosopher, Edmund Husserl, attempted a similar project when he realised that a philosophical account of our human experience requires attending to the historical world we live in. According to Husserl, the Western world is a world in crisis. In this book, Tanja Staehler explores how Husserl thus radicalises Hegel’s philosophy by providing an account of historical movement as open. Husserl’s phenomenology allows thinking of historical worlds in the plural, without hierarchy, determined by ethics and aesthetics. Staehler argues that, through his radicalization of Hegel’s philosophy, Husserl provides us with a historical phenomenology and a coherent concept of a culture that points to the future for phenomenology as a philosophy that provides the methodological grounding for a variety of qualitative approaches in the humanities and social sciences.

Book Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey

Download or read book Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey written by Arthur Cleveland Bent and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Loving Struggle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emmanuel Falque
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-10-15
  • ISBN : 1786605333
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Loving Struggle written by Emmanuel Falque and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical introduction to twentieth-century French phenomenology and philosophy of religion. Emmanuel Falque, the most important voice in contemporary French philosophy of religion, offers a novel and creative philosophy of the body at the intersection of philosophy and theology.

Book A Wild History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darrell Lewis
  • Publisher : Monash University Publishing
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 1921867264
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book A Wild History written by Darrell Lewis and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and first-hand investigations conducted in the region over thirty-five years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.

Book A Life in the Wild

Download or read book A Life in the Wild written by Pamela S. Turner and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr). This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotlights Schaller working, observing some of the world's most endangered animals. Many of these species were previously considered impossible to study in the wild.

Book Taming the Wild Field

    Book Details:
  • Author : Willard Sunderland
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-10
  • ISBN : 1501703242
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Taming the Wild Field written by Willard Sunderland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself.Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion.

Book Tonopah Resource Area  Wilderness Recommendations

Download or read book Tonopah Resource Area Wilderness Recommendations written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State

Download or read book The Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State written by Robert F. Andrle and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This generously illustrated, easy-to-use reference gives instant information on 238 birds that are native to New York State. The core of the atlas is a series of accounts of each species, each account including a distribution map with possible, probable, or confirmed breeding. Facing each map is an explanatory page of text that covers a number of topics: abundance, historical and current distirbution, habitat, and nest description and location. On the same page is an illustration of the bird, often with its nest and young.