Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
Download or read book Di logos written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Download or read book Fundamentos de la metaf sica moral written by Immanuel Kant and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una nueva traducción de los Fundamentos de la metafísica moral de Immanuel Kant, de 1785. Se trata del Volumen V de las Obras Completas de Kant de Livraria Press. La Fundamentación de la metafísica de la moral de Kant de 1785 es la unión de la Crítica de la razón pura y su Filosofía natural teórica. Es una obra de filosofía moral pura, al menos la más clara, y constituye un marco arquitectónico para la acción ética. Aquí, en Groundwork, vemos el desarrollo de la "máxima" de una acción, o el principio subjetivo de la volición, crítico para el proyecto intelectual de los "Kategorischen Imperatives". La moral surge de la autolegislación individual de la razón práctica y es universal y normativa para todos los agentes racionales. Esto levantó una formidable teoría moral contra Hume y los empiristas ingleses que promovían el sentido moral y las teorías morales teleológicas y que dominarían el mundo filosófico durante un siglo. Todavía hoy, el Imperativo Categórico no ha sido desacreditado y sigue siendo un concepto central en la ética moderna."
Download or read book Failing Gloriously and Other Essays written by Shawn Graham and published by Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, T. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failing Gloriously and Other Essays documents Shawn Graham's odyssey through the digital humanities and digital archaeology against the backdrop of the 21st-century university. At turns hilarious, depressing, and inspiring, Graham's book presents a contemporary take on the academic memoir, but rather than celebrating the victories, he reflects on the failures and considers their impact on his intellectual and professional development. These aren't heroic tales of overcoming odds or paeans to failure as evidence for a macho willingness to take risks. They're honest lessons laced with a genuine humility that encourages us to think about making it safer for ourselves and others to fail.A foreword from Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta engage the lessons of Failing Gloriously and consider the role of failure in digital archaeology, the humanities, and social sciences.
Download or read book Recollections of My Life written by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaf sica de la moral written by Immanuel Kant and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una nueva traducción de La metafísica de la moral de Kant de 1797. Se trata del volumen XII de las Obras Completas de Immanuel Kant, publicadas por Livraria Press. No debe confundirse con su obra de 1785 Fundamentos de la metafísica de la moral, que es un libro diferente. En consonancia con los temas fundamentados y prácticos de sus obras posteriores, Die Metaphysik der Sitten del metafísico de Prusia se centra en la ley, la regulación gubernamental y la virtud. La ley es el fin inevitable de la Razón y, como tal, está enraizada en principios a priori nativos del alma pero no de la experiencia externa, es decir, metafísicos. El imperativo de la virtud se basa en la compulsión interior, mientras que el imperativo de la legalidad se basa en una compulsión externa. En su rabia de toda la vida contra el Empirismo de David Hume, Kant construye aquí un marco positivo desprovisto de polémica. La "Doctrina del Derecho" de Kant inspiraría la Filosofía del Derecho de Hegel de 1820, donde desarrollaría una teoría jurídica más sólida y un contrato social más restrictivo.
Download or read book The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World written by T.F Glick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside. Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history of scientific ideas.
Download or read book How to legislate with wisdom and eloquence written by Luís Marchili and published by Luis Marchili. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of legislation, that had got lost, is reborn in this book from the classic tradition, which conceives the laws like wise and eloquent civic speeches, and the rhetoric as its basic method, of a such way, that the return to the ancient will be a true progress.
Download or read book New Queries in Aesthetics and Metaphysics written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-10-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to studies in aesthetics, metaphysics and literary interpretation, written by such authors as, among others, R. Cobb-Stevens, C. Moreno Marquez, J. Swiecimski, Sitansu Ray and M. Kronegger. These original studies of phenomenological aesthetics and literary theory by scholars from all parts of the world were gathered by the World Institute for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learn ing during the year 1988/89 during its assessment of the phenomeno logical movement, fifty years after Husserl's death. IX A -T. Tymieniecka (ed.), Analecta Husserliana, Vol. XXXVII, ix.
Download or read book Employment in Metropolitan Areas written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Western Codification of Criminal Law written by Aniceto Masferrer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses an important historiographical gap by assessing the respective contributions of tradition and foreign influences to the 19th century codification of criminal law. More specifically, it focuses on the extent of French influence – among others – in European and American civil law jurisdictions. In this regard, the book seeks to dispel a number of myths concerning the French model’s actual influence on European and Latin American criminal codes. The impact of the Napoleonic criminal code on other jurisdictions was real, but the scope and extent of its influence were significantly less than has sometimes been claimed. The overemphasis on French influence on other civil law jurisdictions is partly due to a fundamental assumption that modern criminal codes constituted a break with the past. The question as to whether they truly broke with the past or were merely a degree of reform touches on a difficult issue, namely, the dichotomy between tradition and foreign influences in the codification of criminal law. Scholarship has unfairly ignored this important subject, an oversight that this book remedies.
Download or read book Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in the Cosmos written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic conception of human transcendental consciousness assumes its self-supporting existential status within the horizon of life-world, nature and earth. Yet this assumed absoluteness does not entail the nature of its powers, neither their constitutive force. This latter call for an existential source reaching beyond the generative life-world network. Transcendental consciousness, having lost its absolute status (its point of reference) it is the role of the logos to lay down the harmonious positioning in the cosmic sphere of the all, establishing an original foundation of phenomenology in the primogenital ontopoiesis of life.
Download or read book The Death of Empedocles written by Friedrich Holderlin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-07-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
Download or read book Cr tica de la raz n pr ctica written by Immanuel Kant and published by Livraria Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Una nueva traducción de la Crítica de la razón práctica de Immanuel Kant de 1788. Se trata del Volumen VIII de las Obras Completas de Immanuel Kant de Livraria Press. La Crítica de la razón práctica de Kant de 1788 es la segunda de su tríada principal de críticas filosóficas. Se basa en la Razón Pura y en la Fundamentación de la Metafísica de la Moral para delinear su teoría de la justificación moral. La Crítica de la Razón Pura responde a la pregunta "¿qué puedo saber?", mientras que la Razón Práctica responde a "¿qué debo hacer?". La Razón Práctica se refiere principalmente a la relación de la Razón con la moral. Es el "Imperativo" en el "Imperativo Categórico". La moral no es un sentimiento o una percepción, sino una realidad a la que someterse. La Razón Práctica de Kant es un texto fundamental para comprender la visión de la Razón como Teleológica, una visión exclusivamente alemana, en contraste con la visión Empirista inglesa (Hume, Locke y Descartes) según la cual "la Razón es esclava de las pasiones" y no puede decirnos nada sobre la moral y la ética. El punto de vista teleológico, que se encuentra clara y explícitamente en Kant y en todos los idealistas alemanes posteriores a él, es tanto normativo como descriptivo o, en otras palabras, imperativo. Toda la escuela de pensamiento de Frankfurt opera a partir de una versión de este punto de vista metafísico, hasta llegar a la Estética de Theodor W. Adorno, que tiene sus raíces en una visión teleológica de la razón.
Download or read book Principios metaf sicos del derecho written by Immanuel Kant and published by Ediciones Olejnik. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La ciencia del derecho, como primera parte de la ciencia de las costumbres, y de la cual quisiéramos dar aquí un sistema racional, es lo que puede llamarse la Metafísica del derecho. Pero como la noción de derecho, en cuanto noción pura, tiene sin embargo por base la práctica o la aplicación a los casos que se presentan en la experiencia, y por tanto un Sistema meta-físico del derecho debe tener en cuenta la diversidad empírica de todos los casos posibles para hacer una división completa (lo cual es de rigor para la formación de un sistema de la razón); y como por otro lado, la división perfecta de lo empírico es imposible, y aun cuando se la intentara, siquiera sea aproximadamente, las nociones de los diferentes casos posibles de la experiencia no podrían formar parte esencial del sistema (no se relacionarían con él más que a manera de ejemplos y de observaciones): el título de Principios metafísicos del derecho es, pues, el único conveniente para la primera parte de la metafísica de las costumbres. En efecto, en la aplicación a los diferentes casos no puede haber sistema propiamente hablando, sino únicamente aproximación sistemática". Inmanuel Kant.
Download or read book The Diario of Christopher Columbus s First Voyage to America 1492 1493 written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.
