The Singular Universe And The Reality Of Time South Asia Edition

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger,Lee Smolin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107548683

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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time (South Asia Edition) by Roberto Mangabeira Unger,Lee Smolin Pdf

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin propose relies on three central ideas. There is only one universe at a time. Time is real: everything in the structure and regularities of nature changes sooner or later. Mathematics, which has trouble with time, is not the oracle of nature and the prophet of science; it is simply a tool with great power and immense limitations. The argument is readily accessible to non-scientists as well as to the physicists and cosmologists whom it challenges.

Author : Thomas Homer-Dixon
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307363176

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Commanding Hope by Thomas Homer-Dixon Pdf

Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even The Lord of the Rings, renowned thought leader Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink. For three decades, Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, has examined the threats to our future security—predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Meister, but we now see how prescient he was. Today, just about everything we've known and relied on (our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures and institutions) is changing dramatically—too often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent and more authoritarian. In his latest work (dedicated to his young children), he calls on his extraordinary knowledge of complexity science, of how societies work and can evolve, and of our capacity to handle threats, to show that we can shift human civilization onto a decisively new path if we mobilize our minds, spirits, imaginations and collective values. Commanding Hope marshals a fascinating, accessible argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems to affect urgent systemic change, strengthen our economies and cultures, and renew our hope in a positive future for everyone on Earth.

Author : Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319468945

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The Future of University Education by Michał Izak,Monika Kostera,Michał Zawadzki Pdf

This collected volume of essays offers glimpses of the future of university education. While universities consider the spirit of theoretical exchange and intellectual pursuit to be a defining trait of their identity, this book argues that this heritage is disappearing under the influence of the short-term demands of societies and markets. Universities used to be sites of dissent, civil courage and societal conscience, but have now instead become little more than pseudo-businesses, rendering them incapable of remaining critical or independent. However, with more people going to university every year, there is a strong resistance to the notion that the university as a collegial and critical institution is dead, among academics as well as the broader public. With contributions from scholars across the world, this edited collection explores the ramifications of marketization on universities, and provides glimpses of what higher education will look like in the future. It will be of great interest to teachers and students in higher education, as well as policy makers and those interested in the current and future state of higher education.

Author : Jayant Narlikar & Geoffrey Burbidge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521134242

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Facts And Speculations In Cosmology (South Asian Edition) by Jayant Narlikar & Geoffrey Burbidge Pdf

A thought-provoking insight into the evolution of cosmology for undergraduate students and general readers, this book shows that the mystery of the origin of the universe is far from being solved. Cosmology has advanced over time through observational evidence as well as a lot of speculation. In this historical approach, the authors argue that the speculative element has become a dominant part of modern cosmology. They show how assumptions have been made and portrayed as confirmed facts. This unique book gives not only a critical assessment of the big bang theory, but presents a host of anomalous observations, and puts forward an alternative, controversial theory on the origin of the universe. A non-mathematical account, it contains analogies from everyday life so that readers can understand the concepts easily and follow the arguments presented.

Author : James Hegarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136645891

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Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia by James Hegarty Pdf

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia. Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia was first outlined in the text, the book highlights the Mahabharata’s complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. The book shows the extent to which narrative is integral to human social life, and more generally the creation and maintenance of religious ideologies. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension, in medieval and modern South Asiaby drawing on both textual and epigraphic sources. The book draws attention to what is culturally specific about the origination and transmission of early South Asian narrative and what can be used to enrich our orientation to narrative in human social life more globally.

Author : Partha Nath Mukherji,Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761932151

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Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science by Partha Nath Mukherji,Chandan Sengupta Pdf

Are social sciences that are indigenous to the West necessarily universal for other cultures? This collection of South Asian scholarship draws on the experiences of the region to discuss this question in depth.

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004422711

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Islam in South Asia by Jamal Malik Pdf

Jamal Malik provides new insights into the social and intellectual history of the complex forms of cultural articulation among Muslims in South Asia from the seventh to twenty-first century, elaborating on various trends and tendencies in a highly plural setting.

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger,Lee Smolin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107074064

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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger,Lee Smolin Pdf

Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists.

Author : Jamal Malik
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004168596

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Islam in South Asia by Jamal Malik Pdf

Islamic South Asia has become a focal point in academia. Where did Muslims come from? How did they fare in interacting with Hindu cultures? How did they negotiate identity as ruling and ruled minorities and majorities? Part I covers early Muslim expansion and the formative phase in context of initial cultural encounter (app. 700-1300). Part II views the establishment of Muslim empire, cultures oscillating between Islamic and Islamicate, centralised and regionalised power (app. 1300-1700). Part III is composed in the backdrop of regional centralisation, territoriality and colonial rule, displaying processes of integration and differentiation of Muslim cultures in colonial setting (app. 1700-1930). Tensions between Muslim pluralism and singularity evolving in public sphere make up the fourth cluster (app. 1930-2002).

Author : Anya Foxen,Christa Kuberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429750588

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Is This Yoga? by Anya Foxen,Christa Kuberry Pdf

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga. Is This Yoga? Concepts, Histories, and the Complexities of Contemporary Practice recognizes the importance of contemporary understandings of yoga and, at the same time, provides historical context and complexity to modern and pre-modern definitions of yogic ideas and practices. Approaching yoga as a vast web of concepts, traditions, social interests, and embodied practices, it raises questions of knowledge, identity, and power across time and space, including the dynamics of "East" and "West." The text is divided into three main sections: thematic concepts; histories; and topics in modern practice. This accessible guide is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching the topic for the first time, as well as yoga teachers, teacher training programs, casual and devoted practitioners, and interested non-practitioners.

Author : G. Djurdjevic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137404992

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India and the Occult by G. Djurdjevic Pdf

India and the Occult explores the reception of Indian spirituality among Western occultists through case studies. Rather than focusing on the activities of Theosophical Society, India and the Occult looks at the 'hard-core' occultism, in particular the British 20th century currents associated with Aleister Crowley, Dion Fortune, Kenneth Grant, etc.

Author : Soumen Mukherjee,Christopher Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000006995

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Mind, Soul and Consciousness by Soumen Mukherjee,Christopher Harding Pdf

This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia. It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the mystical and spiritual, not just in South Asia, but around the world. The authors explore the global flows of ideas that gathered pace during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including: the idea(s) of self within ‘Hindu modernities’; the history of relativity of consciousness in Jaina epistemology; Jungian critiques of Cartesian rationalism; Islamic reform vis-à-vis Sufi mysticism; and the re-examination and invocations of key strands of the fields of ‘Indian philosophy’ and the ‘psy-disciplines’ in modern India. Together these chapters stoke a critical engagement with existing conceptual boundaries and categories of mind, soul, consciousness, and body-mind relationship in modern Asian and European spiritual and intellectual traditions. This book will interest scholars and students of cross-cultural philosophy, intellectual history, history of religion, religious studies, and history of the mind sciences. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal South Asian History and Culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : South Asia
ISBN : UCSC:32106019919189

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South Asia Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNN:BNLP000011024

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Cosmos a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vassilena Parashkevova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441192561

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Salman Rushdie's Cities by Vassilena Parashkevova Pdf

Employing Salman Rushdie as a guide to a historicized contemporary, this study offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the plurality of cities along his transnational trajectory. It engages with the geographically identifiable Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad, London or New York; the phantasmal, politically coded, Jahilia or Mildendo, the inspirational yet flawed urban precedents of Fatehpur Sikri or Renaissance Florence and the ways these cities generate, interact with and transform each other. The book situates Rushdie's cities in relation to developments in Bombay, Karachi, Islamabad and London writing and focuses on novels which shuttle between cities. Parashkevova attends to cities' cultural and historical contexts, to many of Rushdie's numerous literary, cinematic and artistic influences and to diverse events, processes and paradigms - earthquakes, translations, seductions - that politically re-position cities and citizens on the contemporary urban map.