A Picture And A Criticism Of Life

Author : Jonathan Beale,Ian James Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351995627

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Wittgenstein and Scientism by Jonathan Beale,Ian James Kidd Pdf

Wittgenstein criticised prevailing attitudes toward the sciences. The target of his criticisms was ‘scientism’: what he described as ‘the overestimation of science’. This collection is the first study of Wittgenstein’s anti-scientism - a theme in his work that is clearly central to his thought yet strikingly neglected by the existing literature. The book explores the philosophical basis of Wittgenstein’s anti-scientism; how this anti-scientism helps us understand Wittgenstein’s philosophical aims; and how this underlies his later conception of philosophy and the kind of philosophy he attacked. An outstanding team of international contributors articulate and critically assess Wittgenstein’s views on scientism and anti-scientism, making Wittgenstein and Scientism essential reading for students and scholars of Wittgenstein’s work, on topics as varied as the philosophy of mind and psychology, philosophical practice, the nature of religious belief, and the place of science in modern culture. Contributors: Jonathan Beale, William Child, Annalisa Coliva, David E. Cooper, Ian James Kidd, James C. Klagge, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Rupert Read, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Severin Schroeder, Benedict Smith, and Chon Tejedor.

Author : Jens Rittscher,Raghu Machiraju,Stephen T. C. Wong
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781596932371

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Microscopic Image Analysis for Life Science Applications by Jens Rittscher,Raghu Machiraju,Stephen T. C. Wong Pdf

Here's a first-of-its-kind book that bridges the gap between biomedical imaging and the bioscience community. This unique resource gives you a detailed understanding of imaging platforms, fluorescence imaging, and fundamental image processing algorithms. Further, it guides you through application of advanced image analysis methods and techniques to specific biological problems. The book presents applications that span a wide range of scales, from the detection of signaling events in sub-cellular structures, to the automated analysis of tissue structures. Other critical areas discussed include the dynamics of cell populations and in vivo microscopy. This cutting-edge volume is supported with over 160 illustrations that support key topics throughout the book. CD-ROM Included! Contains full-color images and videos that further illustrate topics discussed in the book.

Author : Donald Pizer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252092176

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American Naturalism and the Jews by Donald Pizer Pdf

American Naturalism and the Jews examines the unabashed anti-Semitism of five notable American naturalist novelists otherwise known for their progressive social values. Hamlin Garland, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser all pushed for social improvements for the poor and oppressed, while Edith Wharton and Willa Cather both advanced the public status of women. But they all also expressed strong prejudices against the Jewish race and faith throughout their fiction, essays, letters, and other writings, producing a contradiction in American literary history that has stymied scholars and, until now, gone largely unexamined. In this breakthrough study, Donald Pizer confronts this disconcerting strain of anti-Semitism pervading American letters and culture, illustrating how easily prejudice can coexist with even the most progressive ideals. Pizer shows how these writers' racist impulses represented more than just personal biases, but resonated with larger social and ideological movements within American culture. Anti-Semitic sentiment motivated such various movements as the western farmers' populist revolt and the East Coast patricians' revulsion against immigration, both of which Pizer discusses here. This antagonism toward Jews and other non-Anglo-Saxon ethnicities intersected not only with these authors' social reform agendas but also with their literary method of representing the overpowering forces of heredity, social or natural environment, and savage instinct.

Author : Hena Maes-Jelinek
Publisher : Librairie Droz
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 2251661905

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Criticism of Society in the English Novel Between the Wars by Hena Maes-Jelinek Pdf

The main concern of this study is the artist’s vision of society; its major theme is the relation between the individual and society resulting from the impact of social and political upheavals on individual life. By criticism of society I mean the novelist’s awareness of the social reality and of the individual’s response to it; the writers I deal with all proved alive to the changes that were taking place in English society between the two World Wars. Though the social attitudes of the inter-war years as well as the writers’ response to them were shaped by lasting and complex influences, such as trends in philosophy and science, the two Wars stand out as determining factors in the development of the novel: the consequences of the First were explored by most writers in the Twenties, whereas in the following decade the novelists felt compelled to voice the anxiety aroused by the threat of another conflict and to warn against its possible effects. After the First World War many writers felt keenly the social disruption: the old standards, which were thought to have made this suicidal War possible, were distrusted; the code of behaviour and the moral values of the older generation were openly criticized for having led to bankruptcy. Disparagement of authority increased the individual’s sense of isolation, his insecurity, his disgust or fear. Even the search for pleasure so widely satirized in the Twenties was the expression of a cynicism born of despair. The ensuing disengagement of the individual from his environment became a major theme in the novel: his isolation was at once a cause for resentment and the source of his fierce individualism.

Author : Caroline M. Mersereau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Amusements
ISBN : MINN:319510020732484

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The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Mirror of Fortune: Or, The Analysis of Life by Caroline M. Mersereau Pdf

Author : Douglas Sirk
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813516455

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Imitation of Life by Douglas Sirk Pdf

Douglas Sirk (Claus Detler Sierck) was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1900. He made nine films before fleeing Nazi Germany, eventually coming to America. His best-known films, made during the 1950s--all of them melodramas--were Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows, The Tarnished Angels, Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life (made in 1958, released in 1959). This volume includes the complete continuity script of the film, critical commentary and published reviews, interviews with the director, and a filmography and bibliography. It also includes an excellent introduction by Lucy Fischer.

Author : R. P. Bilan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1979-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521223249

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The Literary Criticism of F. R. Leavis by R. P. Bilan Pdf

A comprehensive analysis and assessment of the many strands of Leavis's work, emphasising the basic unity of his ideas.

Author : Edwin M. Eigner,George J. Worth
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1985-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521275202

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Victorian Criticism of the Novel by Edwin M. Eigner,George J. Worth Pdf

By the end of the nineteenth century the novel unquestionably had become the most popular and influential of English literary forms. Yet it has not always been clear how the Victorians themselves regarded the nature of prose fiction. This volume is a collection of twelve 'landmark' essays that chart the development of English theories of fiction during the great age of the novel. Spanning the whole of the Victorian period, from Bulwer Lytton's 'On Art in Fiction' (1838) to Conrad's preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), the volume also includes pieces by George Eliot, Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, and a number of the more important critics and reviewers of the time. The editors' introduction surveys the main issues, such as the debate between realism and romance, addressed by novel criticism throughout the period. Each of the selections that follow is set in its historical context by a prefatory essay and is fully annotated for the student. There is a helpful bibliography of further reading.

Author : Theodore Dreiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015074221154

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A Picture and a Criticism of Life by Theodore Dreiser Pdf

Collects letters written by American novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in which he expresses his thoughts on writing and publishing and topics related to his work as an author and organizer, with notes on the context of the letters.

Author : Friedrich Albert Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2936432-10

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History of Materialism and Criticism of Its Present Importance by Friedrich Albert Lange Pdf

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000676850

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The Critic by Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3464210

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The Critic by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Heil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521413374

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The Nature of True Minds by John Heil Pdf

This work proposes a way to a naturalistic synthesis, one that accords the mental a place in the physical world alongside the non-mental.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048125012

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Memory in the Ontopoiesis of Life by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

From Aristotle to the present, memory has been grasped as a trace or impression of lost reality – bridging physiological experience and consciousness. Philosophers have vainly sought the nature of this bridge. The present-day physiologizing/naturalizing of consciousness is not resolving their congenital continuity, in which the very existence and practice of life is rooted. We have to change our approach (Erwin Straus). The Aristotelian congenital ties between memory and temporality, acquire crucial significance in our primogenital ontopoiesis of life (Tymieniecka). It reveals memory to be the factor that carries this coalescence and the becoming of life itself. This can be the fruit only of the generative springs of life, first phenomenology/philosophy, the ontopoietic logos of life. In this collection we explore memory in the constitution of reality: rememorizing and interpretation, consciousness/action, facts/imagination, history/myths, self-realization/metamorphosis.

Author : Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020202583

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Critic and Literary World by Jeannette Leonard Gilder,Joseph Benson Gilder Pdf