Phantoms Of The Other

Author : David Farrell Krell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438454511

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During the 1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and published three incisive essays under the title Geschlecht, a German word for "generation" and "sexuality." These essays focused on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, taking up the rarely discussed issue of sexual difference in Heidegger's thought. A fourth essay—actually the third in the series—was never completed and never published. In Phantoms of the Other, David Farrell Krell reconstructs this third Geschlecht on the basis of archival materials and puts it in the context of the entire series. Touching on the themes of sexual difference, poetics, politics, and criticism as practiced by Heidegger, Derrida's unfinished third essay offers a penetrating critical analysis of Heidegger's views on sexuality and Heidegger's reading of the love poems of Georg Trakl, one of the greatest Expressionist poets of the German language, who died during the opening days of the First World War.

Author : David Farrell Krell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438454498

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Phantoms of the Other by David Farrell Krell Pdf

Features a reconstruction of an unfinished text by Jacques Derrida from his most penetrating series of readings of Heidegger’s philosophy. During the 1980s Jacques Derrida wrote and published three incisive essays under the title Geschlecht,aGerman word for “generation” and “sexuality.” These essays focused on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, taking up the rarely discussed issue of sexual difference in Heidegger’s thought. A fourth essay—actually the third in the series—was never completed and never published. In Phantoms of the Other, David Farrell Krell reconstructs this third Geschlecht on the basis of archival materials and puts it in the context of the entire series. Touching on the themes of sexual difference, poetics, politics, and criticism as practiced by Heidegger, Derrida’s unfinished third essay offers a penetrating critical analysis of Heidegger’s views on sexuality and Heidegger’s reading of the love poems of Georg Trakl, one of the greatest Expressionist poets of the German language, who died during the opening days of the First World War. “A major contribution to Derrida studies, to Heidegger studies, and to philosophy.” — Walter Brogan “This study of Derrida’s several engagements with Heidegger under the title of Geschlecht shows Krell’s remarkable scholarship, linguistic ability, philosophical insight, and subtlety at their very best.” — Charles E. Scott

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440620171

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Phantoms by Dean Koontz Pdf

“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Author : Seloua Luste Boulbina
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253041951

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Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa by Seloua Luste Boulbina Pdf

Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's structures persist in the subjectivity, sexuality, and bodily experience of human beings who were once brought together through force. This text, which combines two works by Luste Boulbina, shows how France and its former colonies are haunted by power relations that are supposedly old history, but whose effects on knowledge, imagination, emotional habits, and public controversies have persisted vividly into the present. Luste Boulbina draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant to build a challenging, original, and intercultural philosophy that responds to blind spots of inherited political and social culture. Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.

Author : Christian Kiefer
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780871408877

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Phantoms: A Novel by Christian Kiefer Pdf

One of the Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2019 Torn apart by war and bigotry, two families confront long-buried secrets in this haunting American novel of World War II and Vietnam. In the panoramic tradition of Charles Frazier’s fiction, Phantoms is a fierce saga of American culpability. A Vietnam vet still reeling from war, John Frazier finds himself an unwitting witness to a confrontation, decades in the making, between two steely matriarchs: his aunt, Evelyn Wilson, and her former neighbor, Kimiko Takahashi. John comes to learn that in the onslaught of World War II, the Takahashis had been displaced as once-beloved tenants of the Wilson orchard and sent to an internment camp. One question has always plagued both families: What happened to the Takahashi son, Ray, when he returned from service and found that Placer County was no longer home—that nowhere was home for a Japanese American? As layers of family secrets unravel, the harrowing truth forces John to examine his own guilt. In prose recalling Thomas Wolfe, Phantoms is a stunning exploration of the ghosts of American exceptionalism that haunt us today.

Author : P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Publisher : Tempus Publishing Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 0752443879

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Ghosts by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart Pdf

Traces the history of ghost phenomena through the ages and the ways in which people have tried to deal with the hope, the fear, the curiosity, and the disbelief which ghosts have aroused.

Author : Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501347030

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Sonic Phantoms by Barbara Ellison,Thomas Bey William Bailey Pdf

In this book, Barbara Ellison and Thomas B. W. Bailey lay out and explore the mystifying and evanescent musical territory of 'sonic phantoms': auditory illusions within the musical material that convey a 'phantasmatic' presence. Structured around a large body of compositional work developed by Ellison over the past decade, sonic phantoms are revealed and illustrated as they arise through a diverse array of musical sources, materials, techniques, and compositional tools: voices (real and synthetic), field recordings, instrument manipulation, object amplification, improvisation, and recording studio techniques. Somehow inherent in all music--and perhaps in all sound--sonic phantoms lurk and stalk with the promise of mystery and elevation. We just need to conjure them.

Author : Candace Buford
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338767988

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Whatever Happens (Julie and the Phantoms, Novel #1) by Candace Buford Pdf

Julie and the Phantoms' adventures continue in this original novel based on the hit Netflix show from Descendants director Kenny Ortega! Julie Molina and her band, Julie and the Phantoms, play their dream gig at the Orpheum. It was supposed to be Luke, Reggie, and Alex's unfinished business as ghosts, so they could cross over. But they didn't. And now, suddenly, Julie can feel them. Whatever happens next, Julie and the guys know they've just had one of the best days of their (after)lives. And it gets Luke and Julie thinking about their last perfect days... For Luke, it was the day he died -- the day Sunset Curve was supposed to play the Orpheum. For Julie, it was the day before she found out her mom was sick -- the last normal day before her life changed forever. This exclusive Julie and the Phantoms story is told in flashbacks and alternating points of view!

Author : R. L. Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Ionizing radiation
ISBN : UOM:39015095034586

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Standard-man Phantoms by R. L. Hayes Pdf

Author : Larry A. DeWerd,Michael Kissick
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461483045

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The Phantoms of Medical and Health Physics by Larry A. DeWerd,Michael Kissick Pdf

The purpose and subject of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of all types of phantoms used in medical imaging, therapy, nuclear medicine and health physics. For ionizing radiation, dosimetry with respect to issues of material composition, shape, and motion/position effects are all highlighted. For medical imaging, each type of technology will need specific materials and designs, and the physics and indications will be explored for each type. Health physics phantoms are concerned with some of the same issues such as material heterogeneity, but also unique issues such as organ-specific radiation dose from sources distributed in other organs. Readers will be able to use this book to select the appropriate phantom from a vendor at a clinic, to learn from as a student, to choose materials for custom phantom design, to design dynamic features, and as a reference for a variety of applications. Some of the information enclosed is found in other sources, divided especially along the three categories of imaging, therapy, and health physics. To our knowledge, even though professionally, many medical physicists need to bridge the three catagories described above.

Author : Nandinee Haq,Patricia Johnson,Andreas Maier,Chen Qin,Tobias Würfl,Jaejun Yoo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031172472

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Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction by Nandinee Haq,Patricia Johnson,Andreas Maier,Chen Qin,Tobias Würfl,Jaejun Yoo Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in September 2022, held in Singapore. The 15 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: deep learning for magnetic resonance imaging and deep learning for general image reconstruction.

Author : Bernhard Preim,Dirk Bartz
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080549055

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Visualization in Medicine by Bernhard Preim,Dirk Bartz Pdf

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the applications and their validation (how reliable are the results?), and the clinical evaluation of the applications (are the techniques useful?). It discusses visualization techniques from research literature as well as the compromises required to solve practical clinical problems. The book covers image acquisition, image analysis, and interaction techniques designed to explore and analyze the data. The final chapter shows how visualization is used for planning liver surgery, one of the most demanding surgical disciplines. The book is based on several years of the authors' teaching and research experience. Both authors have initiated and lead a variety of interdisciplinary projects involving computer scientists and medical doctors, primarily radiologists and surgeons. * A core field of visualization and graphics missing a dedicated book until now * Written by pioneers in the field and illustrated in full color * Covers theory as well as practice

Author : Norton Juster
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988-10-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780394820378

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The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster Pdf

With almost 5 million copies sold 60 years after its original publication, generations of readers have now journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic. Enriched by Jules Feiffer’s splendid illustrations, the wit, wisdom, and wordplay of Norton Juster’s offbeat fantasy are as beguiling as ever. “Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet. And teach us some wisdom, too.” --Phillip Pullman For Milo, everything’s a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he’s got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason. Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull. In fact, it’s exciting beyond his wildest dreams!

Author : Cassandra Crawford
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780814789285

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Phantom Limb by Cassandra Crawford Pdf

Examines phantom limb pain and its relationship to prosthetic innovation, tracing the major shifts in knowledge of the causes and characteristics of the phenomenon. (Social Science)

Author : Yuli B. Rudyak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783540620433

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On Thom Spectra, Orientability, and Cobordism by Yuli B. Rudyak Pdf

Rudyak’s groundbreaking monograph is the first guide on the subject of cobordism since Stong's influential notes of a generation ago. It concentrates on Thom spaces (spectra), orientability theory and (co)bordism theory (including (co)bordism with singularities and, in particular, Morava K-theories). These are all framed by (co)homology theories and spectra. The author has also performed a service to the history of science in this book, giving detailed attributions.