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Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

In Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films Elizabeth Kraft brings the canon of Restoration comedy into the conversation initiated by Stanley Cavell in his book Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Before there could be imagined remarriages of the sort Cavell documents there had to be imagined marriages of equality. Such imagined marriages were first mapped out on the Restoration stage by witty pairs such as Harriet and Dorimant Millamant and Mirabell and Alithea and Harcourt who are precursors of the central couples in films such as Bringing Up Baby His Girl Friday and The Lady Eve. In considering the Restoration comedy canon in one-on-one discourse with the Hollywood remarriage comedy canon Kraft demonstrates the indebtedness of the twentieth-century films to the Restoration dramatic texts-and the philosophical richness of both canons as they explore the nature and significance of marriage as pursuit of moral perfectionism. Her book will be of interest to specialists in Restoration drama and film scholars. | Restoration Stage Comedies and Hollywood Remarriage Films In conversation with Stanley Cavell

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Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused coherent and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson for example represent a sustained engagement with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and comprehensive treatment of America as a category of enquiry in Cavell’s writing engaging with the terms of Cavell’s various configurations of the nation and offering readings of American texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell’s work has in turn for literary and film criticism. This study of the role played by philosophy in the articulation of the American self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of literature and the practice of philosophy are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition. | Stanley Cavell Literature and Film The Idea of America

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The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

This rich volume explores the complex problem of obedience and conformity re-examining Stanley Milgram’s famous electric shock study and presenting the findings of the most extensive empirical study on obedience toward authority since Milgram's era. Dolinski and Grzyb refer to their own series of studies testing various hypotheses from Milgram’s and others’ research examining underlying obedience mechanisms as well as factors modifying the degree of obedience displayed by individuals in different situations. They offer their theoretical model explaining subjects’ obedience in Milgram’s paradigm and describe numerous examples of the destructive effect of thoughtless obedience both in our daily lives as well as in crucial historical events stressing the need for critical thinking when issued with a command. Concluding with reflections on how to prevent the danger of destructive obedience to authority this insightful volume will be fascinating reading for students and academics in social psychology as well as those in fields concerned with complex social problems. | The Social Psychology of Obedience Towards Authority An Empirical Tribute to Stanley Milgram

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On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can photography be both or must we choose? In On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry Diarmuid Costello examines these fascinating questions and more drawing on images by Alfred Stieglitz Berenice Abbott Paul Strand Lee Friedlander James Welling and Wolfgang Tillmans among others and the writings of Elizabeth Eastlake Peter Henry Emerson Edward Weston Siegfried Kracauer André Bazin and Stanley Cavell. This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between sceptical and non-sceptical Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick Maynard. Written in a clear and engaging style On Photography is essential reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of photography aesthetics art and visual studies. | On Photography A Philosophical Inquiry

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The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

This book traces the development of John Hejduk’s architectural career using the idea of exorcism to uncover his thought process when examining architectural designs. His work encouraged profound questioning on what why and how we build which allowed for more open discourse and enhance the phenomenology found in architectural experiences. Three distinct eras in his architectural career are applied to analogies of outlines apparitions and angels throughout the book across seven chapters. Using these thematic examples the author investigates the progression of thought and depth inside the architect’s imagination by studying key projects such as the Texas houses Wall House Architectural Masques and his final works. Featuring comments by Gloria Fiorentino Hejduk Stanley Tigerman Steven Holl Zaha Hadid Charles Jencks Phyllis Lambert Juhani Pallasmaa Toshiko Mori and others this book brings to life the intricacies in the mind of John Hejduk and would be beneficial for those interested in architecture and design in the 20th century. | The Complexities of John Hejduk’s Work Exorcising Outlines Apparitions and Angels

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The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

First published in 1984. In these essays Stanley Please contends that the World Bank is constrained in its ability to use its position and . power in the interests of more rapid development of the poorer countries of the world. These constraints derive in large part from the legal restriction on the Bank to engage primarily in project lending and from the division of responsibility between the ·Bank and its sister institution the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the Bank's financing of projects and investment programs has made a significant contribution Mr. Please argues that greater Bank involvement in national policy formation can greatly benefit economic development. He looks at ways to increase cooperation between the Bank and the IMF examines the policy work the Bank has done in the past and assesses the capacity of the Bank for policy formation evaluates the need for it to do more such work and discusses the likely responses of developing and developed countries to these changes | The Hobbled Giant Essays On The World Bank

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Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Beautiful Light by internationally acclaimed lighting designer Randall Whitehead and lighting industry expert and educator Clifton Stanley Lemon is a combination of idea book design resource and product guide. It explores the transition in residential lighting from incandescent light sources to LEDs and how to apply LED lighting with great success. It begins with the fundamental characteristics of light including color temperature color rendering and spectral power distribution and how LEDs differ from older light sources. Combining innovative graphics with the enduring design principles of good lighting the book explains how to design with light layers light people and balance daylight and electric light. Every room of the house as well as exterior and garden spaces is addressed in 33 case studies of residential lighting with LEDs with a wide variety of lighting projects in different styles. Showcasing over 200 color photographs of dramatic interiors beautifully lit with LEDs and clear concise descriptions of design strategies and product specifications Beautiful Light helps both professionals and non-professionals successfully navigate the new era of LEDs in residential lighting. | Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

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The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

In this thoughtful and revelatory book Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art creativity and what Jung called the creative spirit in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers such as C. G. Jung James Hillman and Joseph Campbell as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas such as Martha Graham Mary Oliver Stanley Kunitz and Ursula K. Le Guin this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity and of the soul this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types as well as Jungian analysts and therapists and academics interested in the arts humanities and depth psychology. | The Archetypal Artist Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create

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Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism skepticism and naturalism in the social sciences. Kevin M. Cahill’s approach involves an original employment of historical and ethnographic material that is both conceptual and empirical in order to address relevant philosophical issues. Specifically while Cahill avoids interpretative debates he develops an approach to philosophical critique based on Cora Diamond’s and James Conant’s work on the early Wittgenstein. This makes possible the use of a concept of culture that avoids the dogmatism that not only typifies traditional metaphysics but also frequently mars arguments from ordinary language or phenomenology. This is especially crucial for the third part of the book which involves a cultural-historical critique of the ontology of the self in Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism. In pursuing this strategy the book also mounts a novel and timely defense of the interpretivist tradition in the philosophy of the social sciences. Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture will be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of the social sciences Wittgenstein and philosophical anthropology. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/9780367638238 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Culture Naturalism Relativism and Skepticism

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Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

For nearly two decades Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised updated fifth edition makes clear nonfiction storytelling is not limited to character-driven journeys but instead encompasses the diverse ways in which today’s top documentarians reach audiences with content that is creative original and often inspirational all without sacrificing the integrity that gives documentary its power. This book is filled with practical advice for writers producers directors editors cinematographers and others committed to reality-based filmmaking that seeks to reach audiences raise awareness address social issues illuminate the human condition and even entertain. In this new edition Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Sheila Curran Bernard offers: a closer look at the way ethical nonfiction filmmakers take creative authorial leaps while also remaining transparent with audiences; new tools for understanding how documentaries are structured how they may rearrange time for storytelling effect and how a simple narrative throughline can convey complexity without being a conventional hero’s journey; new conversations with filmmakers and educators including Dawn Porter Madison Hamburg Tracy Heather Strain June Cross Heidi Gronauer and Julie Casper Roth and another look at conversations with Stanley Nelson and Orlando von Einsiedel. Please visit the book’s website available at www. documentarystorytelling. com for further information related articles and more. | Documentary Storytelling Creative Nonfiction on Screen

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Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

A little over one hundred years after his birth and not quite twenty-five years since his death interest in the French political philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron (1905-1983) continues to grow. Aron is now widely recognized as one of the most significant intellectual figures of the postwar period whose wide-ranging reflections played a key part in preserving liberal democracy in Europe and abroad. His sober analyses of modern society his trenchant critique of ideological politics and every form of totalitarianism and his philosophical reflections on politics and history have given powerful support to democratic liberalism throughout the western world. Aron's work combines passion and observation disinterested reflection and love of liberty in a way that is an imitable model for humane and balanced political reflection. In this stimulating collection of essays inspired by the centennial of Aron's birth a distinguished group of North American and European scholars including Pierre Manent Stanley Hoffmann Irving Louis Horowitz Liah Greenfeld Claude Lefort and Aurelian Craiutu examine four key aspects of Aron's thought and work: his educative legacy; his reflections on other philosophers and intellectuals; his distinctive approach to international relations; and the unique character of his own political reflection. The result is a masterful engagement with Aron's intellectual legacy and a thoughtful coming to terms with the political and intellectual substance of the twentieth century. | Political Reason in the Age of Ideology Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron

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Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy arguing that the comedies no less than the tragedies serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential readings of Othello and Lear the book argues that exposure or vulnerability to others is the source of both human happiness and human misery; while the tragedies showcase attempts at the evasion of such vulnerability through the self-defeating pursuit of epistemological certainty the comedies present the drama and the difficulty of turning away from an epistemological register in order to productively respond to the fact of our humanity. Where Shakespeare’s tragedies might be viewed in Cavellian terms as the drama of skepticism Shakespeare’s comedies then exemplify the drama of acknowledgement. As a parallel and a preamble Gottlieb suggests that the field of literary studies is itself a site of such revealing responses: where competing research methods strive to foreclose upon (or alternatively rejoice in) epistemological uncertainty such commitments bespeak an urge to avoid or circumvent the human in the practice of scholarship. Reading Shakespeare’s comedies in tandem with a defactoist view of teaching and learning points in the direction of a new humanism one that eschews both the relativism of old deconstruction and contemporary Presentism and the determinism of various kinds of structural accounts. This book offers something new in scholarly and popular understanding of Shakespeare’s work doing so with both philosophical rigor and literary attention to the difficult work of reading. | Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

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