Beyond Resemblance

Author : Robert Hullot-Kentor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231510035

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Things Beyond Resemblance by Robert Hullot-Kentor Pdf

Theodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writings on oppositional culture in art, music, and literature increasingly stand at the center of contemporary intellectual debate. In this excellent collection, Robert Hullot-Kentor, widely regarded as the most distinguished American translator and commentator on Adorno, gathers together sixteen essays he has written about the philosopher over the past twenty years. The opening essay, "Origin Is the Goal," pursues Adorno's thesis of the dialectic of enlightenment to better understand the urgent social and political situation of the United States. "Back to Adorno" examines Adorno's idea that sacrifice is the primordial form of human domination; "Second Salvage" reconstructs Adorno's unfinished study of the transformation of music in radio transmission; and "What Is Mechanical Reproduction" revisits Adorno's criticism of Walter Benjamin. Further essays cover a broad range of topics: Adorno's affinities with Wallace Stevens and Nabokov, his complex relationship with Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis, and his critical study of popular music. Many of these essays have been revised, with new material added that emphasizes the relevance of Adorno's thought to the United States today. Things Beyond Resemblance is a timely and richly analytical collection crucial to the study of critical theory, aesthetics, continental philosophy, and Adorno.

Author : Ben Blumson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783740727

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Resemblance and Representation by Ben Blumson Pdf

It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

Author : J. David Velleman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783741670

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Beyond Price by J. David Velleman Pdf

In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

Author : James Welling
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Maine
ISBN : 3791354868

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Things Beyond Resemblance by James Welling Pdf

As a conceptual artist who is deeply interested in the genesis of representation, Welling began this series of photographs as an examination of Andrew Wyeth's influence on his own work, from Welling's earliest watercolors in the 1960s through his recent photographs. Shot on location in Pennsylvania and Maine - in the same areas where Wyeth painted throughout his life - this major series includes photographs from 2010 through 2014. In addition to including never-before-seen works from the completed Wyeth series, the book explores the mechanisms of influence of one artist upon another - even across media-ranging from subconscious borrowings to more direct appropriations.

Author : James Morris Whiton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Resurrection
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CR60172789

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Beyond the Shadow; Or, The Resurrection of Life by James Morris Whiton Pdf

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788026851899

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MERE CHRISTIANITY (Including The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour and Beyond Personality) by C. S. Lewis Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "MERE CHRISTIANITY (Including The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour and Beyond Personality)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mere Christianity is a theological book and is considered a classic of Christian apologetics, the transcripts of the broadcasts originally appeared in print as three separate pamphlets: The Case for Christianity (1942), Christian Behaviour (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944). Lewis, an Anglican, intended to describe the Christian common ground. In Mere Christianity, he aims at avoiding controversies to explain fundamental teachings of Christianity, for the sake of those basically educated as well as the intellectuals of his generation, for whom the jargon of formal Christian theology did not retain its original meaning. Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Author : Richard A. Lesh,Helen M. Doerr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317438526

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Beyond Constructivism by Richard A. Lesh,Helen M. Doerr Pdf

This book has two primary goals. On the level of theory development, the book clarifies the nature of an emerging "models and modeling perspective" about teaching, learning, and problem solving in mathematics and science education. On the level of emphasizing practical problems, it clarifies the nature of some of the most important elementary-but-powerful mathematical or scientific understandings and abilities that Americans are likely to need as foundations for success in the present and future technology-based information age. Beyond Constructivism: Models and Modeling Perspectives on Mathematics Problem Solving, Learning, and Teaching features an innovative Web site housing online appendices for each chapter, designed to supplement the print chapters with digital resources that include example problems, relevant research tools and video clips, as well as transcripts and other samples of students' work: http://tcct.soe.purdue.edu/booksULandULjournals/modelsULandUL modeling/ This is an essential volume for graduate-level courses in mathematics and science education, cognition and learning, and critical and creative thinking, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners in these areas.

Author : Sir Walter Besant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924060446147

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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice by Sir Walter Besant Pdf

Author : Francis Buchanan White White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:B3098897

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Scottish Naturalist and Journal of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science by Francis Buchanan White White Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Imagery (Psychology)
ISBN : UOM:39015074350268

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Journal of Mental Imagery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183018780290

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National Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:B3007834

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Fors Clavigera by John Ruskin Pdf

Fors Clavigera (1871--1884), Ruskin's serial "Letters to the Workmen of Great Britain," is his most controversial and personal text. This selected edition of Fors Clavigera is the first since the Library edition completed its 3-volume text in 1907. It provides an extensive selection of the most challenging writing in Fors, including several complete letters and sequences. The densely allusive text is elucidated with full annotation, and features a critical introduction, bibliographical notes, and suggestions for further reading. Ruskin's original illustrations, essential for the understanding of his argument, are reproduced. This edition will at last make Fors Clavigera -- disturbing and endlessly fascinating -- available to modern readers.

Author : Daniel Neofetou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501358395

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Rereading Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg and the Cold War by Daniel Neofetou Pdf

Since the 1970s, it has been argued that Abstract Expressionism was exhibited abroad by the post-war US establishment in an attempt to culturally match and reinforce its newfound economic and military dominance. The account of Abstract Expressionism developed by the American critic Clement Greenberg is often identified as central to these efforts. However, this book rereads Greenberg's account through Theodor Adorno and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in order to contend that Greenberg's criticism in fact testifies to how Abstract Expressionism opposes the ends to which it was deployed. With reference not only to the most famous artists of the movement, but also female artists and artists of colour whom Greenberg himself neglected, such as Joan Mitchell and Norman Lewis, it is argued that, far from reinforcing the capitalist status quo, Abstract Expressionism engages corporeal and affective elements of experience dismissed or delegitimated by capitalism, and promises a world that would do justice to them.

Author : Bill Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226283166

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Other Things by Bill Brown Pdf

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo. The book ranges across the literary, visual, and plastic arts to depict the curious lives of things. Beginning with Achilles’s Shield, then tracking the object/thing distinction as it appears in the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Lacan, Bill Brown ultimately focuses on the thingness disclosed by specific literary and artistic works. Combining history and literature, criticism and theory, Other Things provides a new way of understanding the inanimate object world and the place of the human within it, encouraging us to think anew about what we mean by materiality itself.

Author : Michael J. Christensen,Jeffery A. Wittung
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0838641113

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Partakers of the Divine Nature by Michael J. Christensen,Jeffery A. Wittung Pdf

This critical volume focuses on the issue of continuity and discontinuity of the Christian concept of theosis, or deification, in the intellectual history of ideas. It addresses the origin, development, and function of theosis from its antecedents in ancient Greek philosophy to its nuanced use in contemporary theological thought. Often seen as a heresy in the Protestant West, the revival of interest in deification in both lay and scholastic circles heralds a return to foundational understandings of salvation in the Christian church before the divisions of East and West, Catholic and Protestant.