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Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

This book examines the work of Ernst Jünger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger’s influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of Jünger’s philosophy and his conception of the age of technology in which both world and man appear in terms of their functionality and efficiency. The primary objective of Jünger’s novels and essays is to make the transition from the totally mobilized world of the 20th century toward a world in which a new type of man represents the gestalt of the worker and is responsive to this new age. Blok proceeds to demonstrate Jünger’s influence on Heidegger’s analysis of the technological age in his later work as well as Heidegger’s conceptions of will work and gestalt at the beginning of the 1930s. At the same time Blok evaluates Heidegger’s criticism of Jünger and provides a novel interpretation of the Jünger-Heidegger connection: that Jünger’s work in fact testifies to a transformation of our relationship to language and conceptualizes the future in terms of the Anthropocene. This book which arrives alongside several new English-language translations of Jünger’s work will interest scholars of 20th-century continental philosophy Heidegger and the history of philosophy of technology. | Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene

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Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

Wassily Kandinsky Max Ernst Jackson Pollock and Joseph Beuys were the leading artists of their generations to recognize the rich possibilities that animism and shamanism offered. While each of these artists' connection with shamanism has been written about separately Evan Firestone brings the four together in order to compare their individual approaches to anthropological materials and to define similarities and differences between them. The author's close readings of their works and examination of the relevant texts available to them reveal fresh insights and new perspectives. The importance of indigenous beliefs in animism for Kandinsky's philosophy of art and practice especially the animism of inanimate objects is analyzed for the first time in conjunction with his well-known enthusiasms for Symbolism and Theosophy. Ernst's collage novel La femme 100 tetes (1929) previously found to have significant alchemical content also is shown to extensively utilize shamanism thereby merging different branches of the occult that prove to have remarkable similarities. The in-depth examination of Pollock's works both known and overlooked for shamanic content identifies textual sources that heretofore have escaped notice. Firestone also demonstrates how shamanism was employed by this artist to express his desire for healing and transformation. The author further argues that the German edition of Mircea Eliade's Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (1957) helped to revitalize Beuys's life and art and that his ecological campaigns reflected a new consciousness later termed ecoanimism. | Animism and Shamanism in Twentieth-Century Art Kandinsky Ernst Pollock Beuys

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Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

In the last 130 years 30 Swiss people have won a Nobel Prize and one of them is Richard R. Ernst. He laid the foundation for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revolutionized medical diagnostics across the globe. In his autobiography which the scientist completed shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 he talks about his life. Prof. Ernst grew up in a family long-established in Winterthur Switzerland however his childhood and adolescence were overshadowed by a demanding father. He talks in detail about the start of his career in the 1960s when he made a number of key discoveries at Varian Associates Palo Alto USA as well as about his return to ETH Zürich Switzerland and the shark tank that university research is. The highly talented chemist reveals how his passion for Himalayan art began while travelling in Nepal which ended in him building up one of the most significant collections of thangkas – the tantric Buddhist scrolls. In this book Prof. Ernst discusses openly and directly about all aspects of his life with humility and a wry sense of humor. | Searching and Researching An Autobiography of a Nobel Laureate

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Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

This selection of articles published for the 50th anniversary of the author's doctorate at G¶ttingen opens with studies on his teacher Percy Ernst Schramm and his contribution to the study of the medieval state and continues with examples of state symbology from Central Europe. Questions of legitimization and representation of kings and queens through texts and Herrschaftszeichen as well as the development of 'coronation studies' are addressed in a comparative framework. The second part contains articles on social and political history mainly of the kingdom of Hungary in the fifteenth century also attempting to place the issues into a wider context. Finally two pieces present and discuss the 'use' or 'abuse' of the Middle Ages in the political discourse and display of our times. | Studying Medieval Rulers and Their Subjects Central Europe and Beyond

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A Philosophy of Luxury

A Philosophy of Luxury

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via the senses such as seeing hearing or tasting he argues that luxury is achieved by possessing something – an aspect of philosophy that has been largely neglected. As such luxury becomes a gesture of individual defiance and a refusal to conform to social expectations of restraint. An increasingly rational and goal-oriented ethos in society makes the appeal of luxury grow even stronger. Drawing on the ideas of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant Friedrich Schiller Martin Heidegger and the novelist Ernst Jünger as well as sociologists such as Thorstein Veblen and Theodor Adorno A Philosophy of Luxury will be of great interest to those in philosophy art cultural studies and literature as well as sociology.

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Looking Through Freud's Photos

Looking Through Freud's Photos

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna and the document to which it is attached throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin Tom Seidmann Freud emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. | Looking Through Freud's Photos

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Polyphony and the Modern

Polyphony and the Modern

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In The Principle of Hope Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them at least technically enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist by accident or design escape the limits of his or her own time and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/edit/10. 4324/9781003129837

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World War II A Global History

World War II A Global History

Fully revised and restructured the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations home fronts brutal regimes and logistics. This textbook includes the following features: A lively narrative of facts events people and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes conduct and consequences of World War II Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context Chapters sections and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II. Global in focus by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century. | World War II A Global History

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Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology The Formation of Modern Psychology Volume 1

Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology The Formation of Modern Psychology Volume 1

Part of a two-volume series this book offers a multicentric perspective on the history of psychology situating its development in relation to developments made in other social sciences and philosophical disciplines. This first volume Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology provides a detailed exploration of the origins and development of European psychology. The book examines psychology’s beginnings as an independent discipline in the late 19th century through to the emergence of the dominant new schools of behaviorism Gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis in the early 1900s. This volume also offers a broad overview of the early impact of Darwinism not only on the psychological study of individual differences and on American functionalism but also on the early evolutionary treatments of cognition in William James James Baldwin Ernst Mach and even Sigmund Freud. Taking this wider perspective the book shows that European psychology was continuously present and active placing these European developments in their own context in their own time. An invaluable introductory text for undergraduate students of the history of psychology the book will also appeal to postgraduates academics and those interested in psychology or the history of science as well as graduate students of psychology biology sociology and anthropology with a theoretical interest. | Laying the Foundations of Independent Psychology The Formation of Modern Psychology Volume 1

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Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve combining the old chapters from Gordon Brown Tony Blair Kenneth Clarke Geoffrey Howe Nigel Lawson and others with new perspectives from Mervyn King Jean-Claude Trichet Ernst Welteke Otmar Issing and Alastair Darling. A new far-reaching introduction from the editors Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood puts these important contributions to the discussion of economic policy in the new context. They look at what lessons can be learnt from the earlier discussions what anticipations of present difficulties can be found in them and what in other words the comparatively recent past teaches us about how to deal with the turbulent present. The second edition of Policy Makers on Policy brings together otherwise inaccessible commentaries and reflections on policy by those involved in making it along with a commentary on and context for their remarks. Thus the book will be of great interest and use to students of economics and politics and indeed anyone with an interest in current economic developments and their roots in the past. | Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

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Democracy the Courts and the Liberal State A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism

Democracy the Courts and the Liberal State A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism

Reformulating a problem of both constitutionalism and liberalism discussed in the works of Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde Hannah Arendt and Alexis de Tocqueville the book examines one generally overlooked manifestation of constitutionalism: the role of the courts in shaping democratic politics and the inter-relationship between citizens and state. Drawing on constitutional history law and political theory David Miles argues that constitutionalism cannot be seen merely as an institutional mechanism to limit government as it also has a crucial civic dimension upon which the liberal state depends. Utilising the works of Böckenförde Arendt and Tocqueville constitutionalism is conceived in the book as part of a broader system of communal norms which sustains representative democracy and liberalism. Through an analysis of judicial interventions in the electoral processes of the United States and Germany Miles explores the role of civil society actors in transforming constitutionalism through legal challenges to oligarchical or exclusionary practices. He assesses how in adjudicating these cases the US Supreme Court and the German Constitutional Court have mediated the tension between threats to stability and the imperative of democratic renewal. Democracy the Courts and the Liberal State will be of interest to scholars students and practitioners interested in comparative politics political theory and constitutional law and history. | Democracy the Courts and the Liberal State A Comparative Analysis of American and German Constitutionalism

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Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

All cultures make and break images. Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists curators and museum conservators as well as historians of art literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence punishment memory intentionality ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’ or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.

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Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig traces the development of phylogenetic systematics against the foil of idealistic morphology through 100 years of German biology. It starts with the iconic Ernst Haeckel—the German Darwin from Jena—and the evolutionary morphology he developed. It ends with Willi Hennig the founder of modern phylogenetic systematics. Written in English the book presents a unique perspective on a vast body of German biological literature. The book also offers a perspective on German biology in the Third Reich. The author looks at how idealistic morphology and phylogenetic systematics represented two antagonistic traditions in German biology the first organicist-holistic the latter empiricist-positivistic. In addition he explains the ways in which both traditions acquired socio-political and ideological connotations culminating in their accommodation to different strands of Nazi ideology. The book’s nine chapters summarize a century of the conceptual development of systematics describe both the history and philosophy of phylogenetic approaches to the understanding of the history of life examine the role of important people such as Haeckel Gegenbauer Portman von Bertalanffy Stresemann and Hennig and critically evaluate the impact and influence of Nazism on evolutionary biology. Chapter titles include: The Evolutionary Turn in Comparative Anatomy; Of Parts and Wholes; The Turn against Haeckel; The Rise of Holism in German Biology; The Rise of German (Aryan) Biology; Ganzheitsbiologie; The Ideological Instrumentalization of Biology; A New Beginning: From Speciation to Phylogenetics; and Grundzüge: The Conceptual Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics. | Phylogenetic Systematics Haeckel to Hennig

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Music Psychology

Music Psychology

The first edition of Ernst Kurth’s Musikpsychologie appeared in 1931 and was regarded by contemporaneous psychologists as no less than the foundation for a new systematic approach to the perception and cognition of music. Time has hardly diminished Kurth’s standing as an original scholar with a distinctive point of view. Music theorists both in Europe and North America regard him as an important figure in the history of music theory. Daphne Tan and Christoph Neidhöfer’s first full translation provides English-speaking theorists the opportunity to delve deeper into his ideas. Indeed Kurth’s concerns – listening habits and habituation metaphorical language the limits of memory and the role of the body in music experience to name a few – are shared by many in the field today especially scholars who work at the intersections of music theory psychology linguistics and related disciplines. And while Kurth’s approach lacks the scientific rigour of modern-day empirical musicology Musikpsychologie nevertheless presents a source of testable hypotheses for those working in the area of music perception and cognition. This translation of Musikpsychologie also has the potential to inspire a new generation of composers especially through the topics in the second section (energy force space and matter) and given the inherently interdisciplinary nature of this book and the number of philosophical and scientific sources Kurth incorporates it will appeal to those interested in the history of science and particularly in the emergence of psychology as an academic discipline in the early 20th century. | Music Psychology

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Images of Children in Byzantium

Images of Children in Byzantium

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive intriguing and striking and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding of Byzantine culture social history and artistic output. The imagery explored is drawn from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries and encompasses media from manuscripts to mosaics and enamel. Part of the allure of this subject is that people do not associate childhood with Byzantium. Ernst Gombrich commented 'who could find it easy after a visit to Ravenna and its solemn mosaics to think of noisy children in Byzantium?'. However in Byzantium patrons of art were often young such as emperors who acceded to the throne as teenagers and makers of art sculptors mosaicists painters often began their training at an early age. How did this affect the creation promotion and production of art? The study questions the definitions and perceptions of childhood focusing on topics such as the family saintly children and those associated with imperial power. Cecily Hennessy demonstrates that children are featured often in visual imagery and in key locations indicating that they played a central role in Byzantine life something which has previously been overlooked or ignored. In tackling this new subject she reveals important aspects of childhood youth and by extension adulthood in Byzantine society and raises issues that are also applicable to the present and to other historical contexts. | Images of Children in Byzantium

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God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

H. Richard Niebuhr's powerful interpretation of Ernst Troeltsch has shaped our view of the man for over seventy years. Troeltsch is one of the most respected and renowned figures in liberal Protestant thought. Yet as Harvard philosopher of religion Cornel West observes in his foreword Constance Benson shat-ters certain crucial aspects of Troeltsch's image as a liberal religious thinker with God and Caesar. Benson reconstructs the historical context in which Troeltsch wrote his landmark The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches and reinterprets it in relation to that context. She shows that Troeltsch's Christian-ity legitimized class religious and gender inequality in response to the challenges of social democracy. Her controversial exploration of why most Troeltsch scholars have remained silent on this deserves seri-ous consideration. Her discovery of Troeltsch's rolein the politics and ideological debates of Imperial Germany require a painful reexamina-tion of an entire chapter of Protestant history. Benson exposes Troeltsch's relationship to Paul de Lagarde a notorious anti-Semite and architect of what later became Nazi ideology. God and Caesaris a needed corrective. Troeltsch is an important figure for the Chris-tian right in Germany and for many mainstream Protestants in the United States. Benson's courageous book is the most challenging critique of Troeltsch's politics we have an unsettling perspective that forces us to revise the beloved Troeltsch so many of us had come to admire and cherish. It will be of interest to intellectual historians theologians and students of religious history and specialists in German social and political history. | God and Caesar Troeltsch's Social Teaching as Legitimation

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The Origin of Life

The Origin of Life

Theoretical biology is still in its early stages as an academic discipline. There is even little agreement as to what topics it should deal with or in what manner it should precede; and it is only recently that philosophers felt called upon to notice the relevance of biological topics as evolution or perception to their traditional problems. This work is a publication of the International Union of Biological Sciences the central organization of all the branches of biology. The main focus here is to explore the possibility of formulating some frame of concepts and methods around which theoretical biology can grow. The intention of this collective effort was that discussions would be concerned not with the theory of particular biological processes such as membrane permeability genetics and neural activity but rather with an attempt to discover and formulate general concepts and logical relations characteristic of living as contrasted with inorganic systems. Further this project is a consideration of implications these might have for general philosophy. Many well-known scientists contributed to this volume such as J. Maynard Smith Ernst Mayr Brian Goodwin and Renu Thom. The Origin of Life: Toward a Theoretical Biology explores the character of the problems facing any theory of general biology. It contains a series of chapters and exchanges discussing such topics as the origin of life cellular differentiation morphogensis evolution and indeterminacy in biological and physical systems the organization of the brain the statistical mechanics of non-linear oscillators and many other topics. This is a pioneering volume by recognized leaders in an emerging field the first of four such works.

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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

Ernst Cassirer occupies a unique space in twentieth-century philosophy. A great liberal humanist his multi-faceted work spans the history of philosophy the philosophy of science intellectual history aesthetics epistemology the study of language and myth and more. Cassirer’s thought also anticipates the renewed interest in the origins of analytic and continental philosophy in the Twentieth Century and the divergent paths taken by the 'logicist' and existential traditions epitomised by his now legendary debate in 1929 with the philosopher Martin Heidegger over the question What is the Human Being? The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is Cassirer's most important work. It was first published in German in 1923 the third and final volume appearing in 1929. In it Cassirer presents a radical new philosophical worldview - at once rich creative and controversial - of human beings as fundamentally symbolic animals placing signs and systems of expression between themselves and the world. This major new translation of all three volumes the first for over fifty years brings Cassirer's magnum opus to a new generation of students and scholars. Taken together the three volumes of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms are a vital treatise on human beings as symbolic animals and a monumental expression of neo-Kantian thought. Correcting important errors in previous English editions this translation reflects the contributions of significant advances in Cassirer scholarship over the last twenty to thirty years. Each volume includes a new introduction and translator's notes by Steve G. Lofts a foreword by Peter E. Gordon a glossary of key terms and a thorough index. | The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Three Volume Set

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Modern Land Drainage Planning Design and Management of Agricultural Drainage Systems

Modern Land Drainage Planning Design and Management of Agricultural Drainage Systems

Modern Land Drainage 2nd edition is a fully revised and updated edition of the 2004 edition. Modern Land Drainage describes traditional drainage formulas (Hooghoudt Kirkham Donnan Ernst Glover-Dumm) for rainfed agriculture in the humid temperature zone. Significant parts are devoted to drainage for salinity control of irrigated land in (semi-) arid zones and to drainage of rice land in the humid tropics. Institutional management and maintenance aspects are extensively covered as well as the mitigation of adverse impacts of drainage interventions on the environment. The latest computer applications for drainage design in the context of integrated water management are described (DRAINMOD HEC SWAP etc. ). Field surveys are executed by governments with the aid of consultants but rarely are the end stakeholders (i. e. farmers and general public) involved from inception to planning to execution of a drainage system. Yet during the Operation Management and Maintenance (OMM) phase of a water management system they are expected to takeover run bear and be responsible for the costs of OMM. The book describes successful methodologies and processes to be followed for engagement of stakeholders at all levels from government to farm from minister to farmer and from beginning to end. The book covers all aspects needed for sustainable drainage. The latest survey methodologies with satellites and drones are suggested to assess cause and effect. Waterlogging and salinity are the effect of something caused most likely upstream of the drainage problem location. Hence treating the cause may be more cost-effective. Triple Bottom Line (social environmental and financial considerations) and the water-food-energy nexus are an integral part of the drainage design process. Controlled drainage i. e. the balance of removal and conservation of drainage water and minimising solute transport as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA principle) is extensively described. This work is intended for use both as a university level textbook and as a professional handbook; it is of particular value to professionals engaged in drainage development in the context of integrated water resources and river basin management civil and agricultural engineers government officials university students and libraries. | Modern Land Drainage Planning Design and Management of Agricultural Drainage Systems

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