The Perversion Of Knowledge

Author : Dr. Vadim J. Birstein
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786751860

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The Perversion Of Knowledge by Dr. Vadim J. Birstein Pdf

During the Soviet years, Russian science was touted as one of the greatest successes of the regime. Russian science was considered to be equal, if not superior, to that of the wealthy western nations. The Perversion of Knowledge, a history of Soviet science that focuses on its control by the KGB and the Communist Party, reveals the dark side of this glittering achievement. Based on the author’s firsthand experience as a Soviet scientist, and drawing on extensive Russian language sources not easily available to the Western reader, the book includes shocking new information on biomedical experimentation on humans as well as an examination of the pernicious effects of Trofim Lysenko’s pseudo-biology. Also included are many poignant case histories of those who collaborated and those who managed to resist, focusing on the moral choices and consequences. The text is accompanied by the author’s own translations of key archival materials, making this work an essential resource for all those with a serious interest in Russian history.

Author : Diana Caine,Colin Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319472713

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Perversion Now! by Diana Caine,Colin Wright Pdf

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recent years. The book explores a wide range of issues, from changes in the psychoanalytic clinic, to transformations in the relationship between ‘transgression’ and the law; from the epistemic and diagnostic status of ‘perversion’ as a term, to the perverse turn in contemporary politics; from representations of perversion in cultural productions, to the interpretation of perverse cultural practices. Topical and controversial, academics and students of psychoanalysis, critical and cultural theory, and media studies will find this collection invaluable. In providing cutting edge theoretical debate, the book will also be attractive to practising and training psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. /div

Author : Becky Renee McLaughlin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514067

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Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales” by Becky Renee McLaughlin Pdf

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.

Author : Stephanie S. Swales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415501286

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Perversion by Stephanie S. Swales Pdf

First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Boštjan Nedoh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786605528

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Ontology and Perversion by Boštjan Nedoh Pdf

This book examines the philosophical and political relevance of perversion in the works of three key representatives of contemporary philosophy and psychoanalysis: Gilles Deleuze, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Lacan. Perversion is often understood simply in terms of cultural or sexual phenomena. By contrast, Boštjan Nedoh places perversion at the heart of philosophical, ontological and political issues in the works of Deleuze, Agamben and Lacan. He examines the relevance of their discussions of perversion for their respective critical ontological projects. By tracing the differences between these thinkers’ understanding of perversion, the book finally draws lines of delimitation between the vitalist and the structuralist or psychoanalytic philosophical positions in contemporary philosophy.

Author : James M. Ambury,Andy German
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107184466

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Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy by James M. Ambury,Andy German Pdf

The only available volume of essays from scholars of every interpretative viewpoint on self-knowledge and self-ignorance in Plato's thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555023622

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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral, & philosophical knowledge. Vol.1-12. 2nd ser. (ed. by S. Drew). Vol.1-4 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bridget Somekh,Thomas A. Schwandt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415442299

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Knowledge Production by Bridget Somekh,Thomas A. Schwandt Pdf

This collection from a highly impressive international group of educational researchers explores epistemological, methodological, and ethical-political issues in the production of knowledge about educational phenomena in contemporary society. The book is organized in two sections. The first focuses on how the enterprise of knowledge production is being influenced by global discourses of educational accountability, evidence-based practice and policy, and quality assessment. The second section features material that focuses more specifically on reconceiving both methodological matters and the kinds of knowledge that demand attention in this climate. The book is unique in bringing together chapters by scholars well-known internationally for their original contributions to educational theory and research practice. Many books in this area are no more than guides on how to do research or text books reiterating rather narrow frameworks of research paradigms, this book both breaks new ground and sets the tone for discussions about the future path of educational research in the coming years.

Author : Thomas Goyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Bible
ISBN : UCAL:$B263684

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The Key of Knowledge to the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Goyder Pdf

Author : Prof. Lisa Downing,Dany Nobus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429917233

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Perversion by Prof. Lisa Downing,Dany Nobus Pdf

Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's lifelong work. The problem of perversion has since been revisited by many psychoanalytic schools with the result that Freud's original view of perversion has been replaced by numerous - often contradictory - perspectives on its aetiology, development and treatment. The concept of perversion has also been significant for the disciplines of cultural studies and gender and queer theory, which have explored the creative and dissident powers of perversion, while expressing a suspicion of its operation as a pathological category. This bi-partite collection offers a series of perspectives on perversion by a range of psychoanalytic practitioners and theorists (edited by Dany Nobus), and a selection of papers by scholars who work with, or critique, psychoanalytic theories of perversion (edited by Lisa Downing). It stages a serious dialogue between psychoanalysis and its commentators on the controversial issue of non-normative sexuality.

Author : Melissa Adler
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780823276370

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Cruising the Library by Melissa Adler Pdf

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby “buries,” difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information—as well as categories of difference—in American culture.

Author : Lisa Kumar
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0787667013

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Contemporary Authors by Lisa Kumar Pdf

A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

Author : Brian W. Hughes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089583

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Saving Wisdom by Brian W. Hughes Pdf

Is theology possible within a Christian university? Beneath the emphasis of contextual, philosophical, and ecclesial pluralism, what is its academic nature? Further, who can participate in it? Recent debates and discussions by theologians that touch upon these questions seem to run in circles: theology is an academic specialty enjoying academic freedom; theology must bolster ecclesial identity, become more catechetical, and serve the church; theology must contribute to and shape public policy. Though such positions recur, they overlook latent but interrelated characteristics embedded within the nature and place of theology within the Christian university that affect them all. Ê Upon analysis of four major theologians, Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Henry Newman, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., and Edward Farley, I argue that there are two major patterns at work. First, theology is more a sapientia or wisdom than a traditional academic discipline. Second, all descriptions of theology in the university possess an inclusive or exclusive soteriological character. These patterns pervade diverse topics: the relationship of theology to the church authority, a theologian's ecclesial and academic commitments, the preconditions of faith for theological understanding, participation in a religious symbol system, theology as wisdom, and the difference between religion and theology. How one implicitly defines Christian salvation regarding the place of theology in the Christian university opens or closes the practice of theology to those who teach and learn it.

Author : Thomas Hartwell Horne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTA5Z

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An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne Pdf

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441973870

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.