The Shortest Shadow

Author : Alenka Zupancic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262261324

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The Shortest Shadow by Alenka Zupancic Pdf

Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context—examining the definitive element that animates his work. What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time has finally come—the rather patronizing reduction of his often extraordinary statements to mere opinions that we can "share." Zupančič argues that the definitive Nietzschean quality is his very unfashionableness, his being out of the mainstream of his or any time. To restore Nietzsche to a context in which the thought "lives on its own credit," Zupančič examines two aspects of his philosophy. First, in "Nietzsche as Metapsychologist," she revisits the principal Nietzschean themes—his declaration of the death of God (which had a twofold meaning, "God is dead" and "Christianity survived the death of God"), the ascetic ideal, and nihilism—as ideas that are very much present in our hedonist postmodern condition. Then, in the second part of the book, she considers Nietzsche's figure of the Noon and its consequences for his notion of the truth. Nietzsche describes the Noon not as the moment when all shadows disappear but as the moment of "the shortest shadow"—not the unity of all things embraced by the sun, but the moment of splitting, when "one turns into two." Zupančič argues that this notion of the Two as the minimal and irreducible difference within the same animates all of Nietzsche's work, generating its permanent and inherent tension.

Author : Alenka Zupančič
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262740265

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Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.

Author : John Corso-Esquivel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351187817

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Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft by John Corso-Esquivel Pdf

This book interprets the fiber art and craft-inspired sculpture by eight US and Latin American women artists whose works incite embodied affective experience. Grounded in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, John Corso-Esquivel posits craft as a material act of intuition. The book provocatively asserts that fiber art—long disparaged in the wake of the high–low dichotomy of late Modernism—is, in fact, well-positioned to lead art at the vanguard of affect theory and twenty-first-century feminist subjectivities.

Author : Martin Isler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806133422

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Sticks, Stones, and Shadows by Martin Isler Pdf

What do the pyramids of Egypt really represent? What could have driven so many to so great, and often so dangerous, an effort? Was the motivation religious or practical? Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and drawings, this book presents an original approach to the subject of pyramid building. It reveals the connection between devices that served both a practical need for survival and a spiritual belief in gods and goddesses. It examines Egyptian technologies and techniques from the origins of pyramid development to the step-by-step details of how the ground was leveled, how the site was oriented, and how the stone was raised and placed to meet at a distant point in the sky. Here the author also asks and answers questions virtually ignored for the last century. He discloses, for example, the ancient use of shadows, now denigrated to the ornamental back-yard sundial, but once an important tool for telling the height of an object, geographical directions, the seasons of the year, and the time of day. He also reinterprets the ancient "stretching of the cord" ceremony, which once was thought to have only religious significance but here is shown as the means of establishing the sides of a pyramid.

Author : Robert Gardner,Joshua Conklin
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766072756

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A Kid's Book of Experiments with Time by Robert Gardner,Joshua Conklin Pdf

Using easy-to-find supplies as well as simple language to explain scientific theories and experimental procedures, young readers with discover the intricacies of time, including how it is measured and how it affects everyday life.

Author : Tristan Gooley
Publisher : Random House
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780753547564

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The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide by Tristan Gooley Pdf

Starting with a simple question - 'Which way am I looking?' - Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the rare and ancient art of finding your way using nature's own sign-posts, from the feel of a rock to the look of the moon. With Tristan's help, you'll learn why some trees grow the way they do and how they can help you find your way in the countryside. You'll discover how it's possible to find North simply by looking at a puddle and how natural signs can be used to navigate on the open ocean and in the heart of the city. Wonderfully detailed and full of fascinating stories, this is a glorious exploration of the rediscovered art of natural navigation. The Natural Navigator Pocket Guide is a user-friendly, practical book and the beautiful illustrations are a useful tool to help travellers on their instrument-free journey.

Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674072824

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The Lost Art of Finding Our Way by John Edward Huth Pdf

Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199879991

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The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy by James Evans Pdf

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through the concrete details of ancient astronomical practice. Carefully organized and generously illustrated, the book can teach readers how to do real astronomy using the methods of ancient astronomers. For example, readers will learn to predict the next retrograde motion of Jupiter using either the arithmetical methods of the Babylonians or the geometric methods of Ptolemy. They will learn how to use an astrolabe and how to design sundials using Greek and Roman techniques. The book also contains supplementary exercises and patterns for making some working astronomical instruments, including an astrolabe and an equatorium. More than a presentation of astronomical methods, the book provides a critical look at the evidence used to reconstruct ancient astronomy. It includes extensive excerpts from ancient texts, meticulous documentation, and lively discussions of the role of astronomy in the various cultures. Accessible to a wide audience, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how our understanding of our place in the universe has changed and developed, from ancient times through the Renaissance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : PSU:000052381317

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Old and New by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Everett Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
ISBN : HARVARD:HWQWU8

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Old and New by Edward Everett Hale Pdf

Author : Arthur Thomas Simmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Geomorphology
ISBN : UOM:39015062195006

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Physiography for Beginners by Arthur Thomas Simmons Pdf

Author : Susan Popelka
Publisher : Good Year Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781596472709

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More Super Science with Simple Stuff by Susan Popelka Pdf

Using everyday items found at home and in the classroom, students perform eye-opening experiments and demonstrations in order to learn about fundamental physical-science principles. Topics include motion, heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, light, and chemistry. Each of the 90 activities comprises a reproducible student worksheet and a page of step-by-step instructions with an explanation of the scientific principle. Students learn to state a scientific problem; predict results; gather, record, and graph data; and draw conclusions. Grades 3-6. Index. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 283 pages.

Author : Mark Manolopoulos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791494028

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If Creation Is a Gift by Mark Manolopoulos Pdf

What if our world were considered a gift? Extending postmodern gift theory to ecological and ecotheological concerns, Mark Manolopoulos explores how "creation"—the what-is—can be seen as a gift. Creation, when viewed in a radically egalitarian way, is the matrix of all material things—human, otherwise-than-human, or humanly manufactured. Utilizing and critiquing the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Marion, Manolopoulos argues that the gift is an irresolvable paradox marked by the contradictory elements of excess (gratuity, linearity) and exchange (gratitude, return). Philosophical and theological reflections on the gift become entangled in its paradoxical tension, but ultimately both aspects must be respected and reflected. When it comes to the creation-gift, we should vacillate between responses like letting-be, enjoyment, utility, and return. Elegantly written and thought-provoking, If Creation Is a Gift both contributes to the ongoing debate on the gift and provides a fresh philosophical and theological consideration of the environmental crisis.

Author : Ray A. Williamson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : 0806120347

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Living the Sky by Ray A. Williamson Pdf

Imagine the North American Indians as astronomers carefully watching the heavens, charting the sun through the seasons, or counting the sunrises between successive lumar phases. Then imagine them establishing observational sites and codified systems to pass their knowledge down through the centuries and continually refine it. A few years ago such images would have been abruptly dismissed. Today we are wiser. Living the Sky describes the exciting archaeoastronomical discoveries in the United States in recent decades. Using history, science, and direct observation, Ray A. Williamson transports the reader into the sky world of the Indians. We visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, sit with a Zuni sun priest on the winter solstice, join explorers at the rites of the Hopis and the Navajos, and trek to Chaco Canyon to make direct on-site observations of celestial events.

Author : James Stewart Eaton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Arithmetic
ISBN : UCAL:$B278877

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A Treatise on Arithmetic by James Stewart Eaton Pdf