Novantiqua

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351227360

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Choreographing Discourses by Mark Franko Pdf

Choreographing Discourses brings together essays originally published by Mark Franko between 1996 and the contemporary moment. Assembling these essays from international, sometimes untranslated sources and curating their relationship to a rapidly changing field, this Reader offers an important resource in the dynamic scholarly fields of Dance and Performance Studies. What makes this volume especially appropriate for undergraduate and graduate teaching is its critical focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century dance artists and choreographers – among these, Oskar Schlemmer, Merce Cunningham, Kazuo Ohno, William Forsythe, Bill T. Jones, and Pina Bausch, some of the most high-profile European, American, and Japanese artists of the past century. The volume’s constellation of topics delves into controversies that are essential turning points in the field (notably, Still/Here and Paris is Burning), which illuminate the spine of the field while interlinking dance scholarship with performance theory, film, visual, and public art. The volume contains the first critical assessments of Franko’s contribution to the field by André Lepecki and Gay Morris, and an interview incorporating a biographical dimension to the development of Franko’s work and its relation to his dance and choreography. Ultimately, this Reader encourages a wide scope of conversation and engagement, opening up core questions in ethics, embodiment, and performativity.

Author : Peter Carravetta
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1557530041

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Prefaces to the Diaphora by Peter Carravetta Pdf

The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger.

Author : Tammy Nyden-Bullock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441106599

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Spinoza's Radical Cartesian Mind by Tammy Nyden-Bullock Pdf

Seventeenth-century Holland was a culture divided. Orthodox Calvinists, loyal to both scholastic philosophy and the quasi-monarchical House of Orange, saw their world turned upside down with the sudden death of Prince William II and no heir to take his place. The Republicans seized this opportunity to create a decentralized government favourable to Holland's trading interests and committed to religious and philosophical tolerance. The now ruling regent class, freshly trained in the new philosophy of Descartes, used it as a weapon to fight against monarchical tendencies and theological orthodoxy. And so began a great pamphlet debate about Cartesianism and its political and religious consequences. This important new book begins by examining key Radical Cartesian pamphlets and Spinoza's role in a Radical Cartesian circle in Amsterdam, two topics rarely discussed in the English literature. Next, Nyden-Bullock examines Spinoza's political writings and argues that they should not be seen as political innovations so much as systemizations of the Radical Cartesian ideas already circulating in his time. The author goes on to reconstruct the development of Spinoza's thinking about the human mind, truth, error, and falsity and to explain how this development, particularly the innovation of parallelism - the lynchpin of his system - allowed Spinoza to provide philosophical foundations for Radical Cartesian political theory. She concludes that, contrary to general opinion, Spinoza's rejection of Cartesian epistemology involves much more than the metaphysical problems of dualism - it involves, ironically, Spinoza's attempt to make coherent a political theory bearing Descartes's name.

Author : Howard Hotson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199553389

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The Reformation of Common Learning by Howard Hotson Pdf

This book discusses the intersection of the great military and intellectual disruptions of the mid-seventeenth century. It examines how the Thirty Years' War scattered representatives of Ramism from central Europe into old and new institutions, especially into the northwest, the Dutch Republic, and England.

Author : New York Public Library. Dance Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Dance
ISBN : UOM:39015035381097

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Bibliographic Guide to Dance by New York Public Library. Dance Collection Pdf

Author : Paolo Valesio
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1980-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005189264

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Novantiqua by Paolo Valesio Pdf

"This is an important book: original, erudite, useful and ambitious." —Quarterly Journal of Speech "A remarkable book . . . sure to be of lasting interest . . . to be reckoned with by all rhetorical theorists." —Choice This is the first contemporary attempt at a holistic theory of rhetoric, well grounded in the context of cultural and social history. Arguing that rhetoric has always been an independent, objective, essential factor in human interaction, Valesio views it as coextensive with human speech in use.

Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520253872

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Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992 by Maurice A. Finocchiaro Pdf

"This is must reading for historians of science and a delight for the interested public. From his access to many primary sources in the Vatican Library and from his broad knowledge of the history of the 17th century, Finocchiaro acquaints readers in an interesting manner with the historical facts of Galileo's trial, its aftermath, and its repercussions. Unlike many other works which present predetermined and, at times, prejudiced judgments, this work provides exhaustive evidence to allow readers to develop their own informed opinion on the subject.”—George V. Coyne, Director, Vatican Astronomical Observatory “The tragic condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633 has become the single most potent symbol of authoritarian opposition to new ideas. Pioneering in its scope, Finocchiaro's book provides a fascinating account of how the trial and its cultural significance have been freshly reconstructed by scholars and polemicists down the ages. With a philosopher's eye for fine distinctions, the author has written an exciting commentary on the successive appearance of new primary sources and their exploitation for apologetic and secular purposes.”—John Hedley Brooke, author of Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives "If good history begins with good facts, then Retrying Galileo should be the starting point for all future discussions of the post-trial phase of the Galileo affair. Maurice Finocchiaro's myth-busting documentary history is not only a repository of little-known sources but a pleasure to read as well.”—Ronald L. Numbers, co-editor of When Christianity and Science Meet “Retrying Galileo tells the less well-known half of the Galileo affair: its long and complex history after 1633. Finocchiaro has performed an invaluable service in writing a book that explores how the trial and condemnation of Galileo has been received, debated, and reinterpreted for over three and a half centuries. We are not yet done with this contentious story.”—Paula E. Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program, Stanford University

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Italian literature
ISBN : UVA:X004639939

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American Journal of Italian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liam Jerrold Fraser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108427982

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Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation by Liam Jerrold Fraser Pdf

Examines the idea that new atheism and Protestant fundamentalism have the same historical origin, and share a range of surprising beliefs.

Author : Richard L. Regosin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520313774

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Montaigne's Unruly Brood by Richard L. Regosin Pdf

Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional figure of textuality. He argues that Montaigne's writing is best described as a corpus of siblings with multiple faces and competing voices, a hybrid textuality inclined both to truth and dissimulation, to faithfulness and betrayal, to form and deformation. And he analyzes how this unruly, mixed brood also discloses a sexuality and gender dynamic in the Essais that is more conflicted than the traditional metaphor of literary paternity allows. Regosin challenges traditional critics by showing how the "logic" of a faithful filial text is disrupted and how the writing self displaces the author's desire for mastery and totalization. He approaches the Essais from diverse critical and theoretical perspectives that provide new ground for understanding both Montaigne's complex textuality and the obtrusive reading that it simultaneously invites and resists. His analysis is informed by poststructuralist criticism, by reception theory, and by gender and feminist studies, yet at the same time he treats the Essais as a child of sixteenth-century Humanism and late Renaissance France. Regosin also examines Montaigne's self-proclaimed taste for Ovid and the role played by the seminal texts of self-representation and aesthetic conception (Narcissus and Pygmalion) and the myth of sexual metamorphosis (Iphis). This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Author : Bradford T. Stull
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438421568

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Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination by Bradford T. Stull Pdf

This book explores the possibility of a "liberatory postmodern rhetoric" or, alternatively, a "postmodern liberation rhetoric." The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain? After a foray into key terms—rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion—the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador.

Author : Arrian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Coursing
ISBN : OXFORD:N11341388

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Arrian on Coursing by Arrian Pdf

Author : Kees Dekker
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247468

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Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries by Kees Dekker Pdf

This volume deals with the comparative study of Old Germanic languages in the Low Countries, in the middle of the seventeenth century; with special attention to the work of the philologist and lawyer Jan van Vliet (1622-1666).

Author : Byung-Chul Han
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509516087

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The Scent of Time by Byung-Chul Han Pdf

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

Author : Chaim David Mazoff
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773517154

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Anxious Allegiances by Chaim David Mazoff Pdf

His analysis reveals the extent to which problems of allegiance, anxiety, and identity were inextricably involved in the colonial and national projects, an involvement which the poetry, despite its intentions, could neither mask nor resolve.