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This exciting, challenging book covers a wide range of subjects, linked together through the key ideas of diversity and 'Relation'. It sees our modern world, shaped by immigration and colonialism, as a multiplicity of communities interacting and evolving, and opposes all attempts to impose uniformity, universal or absolute values.
Author : Kate M Cooper Publisher : Liverpool University Press Page : 112 pages File Size : 55,5 Mb Release : 2020-06-02 Category : Philosophy ISBN : 9781789627244
This collection of interviews is a diamond, remarkable in the way that it assembles so many of the major strains of Glissant’s thought, and stunning in the expansive erudition at work in the composition of that thought. Two structuring experiences inform the writer’s reflections on language and poetic engagement. On the one hand, there is the acculturation of his French intellectual ancestry, begun in the Martinican colonial system and continued in his mature student years in Paris, with the achievement of a Doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1980. On the other, there is his genetic heritage as an Antillean, nurtured in the Creole language of a people whose nearly forgotten history he will take pains to redeem. A lifelong interrogation of these two vital experiences of language are crucial to Glissant’s concept of Relation, viewed as a transformative and vital process intrinsic to the project of poetics. Relation reverberates throughout Glissant’s consideration of the many topics broached in this volume: medieval Europe and the creation of nation-states, the evolution of the epic and its global iterations, decolonization, creolization, landscapes and cultures, political engagement vs. the task of the writer, globality, questions of identity and Being. Absolutely the best introduction to Glissant’s thought.
Neal Stephenson follows his highly-praised historical novels, Quicksilver and The Confusion, with the extraordinary third and final volume of the Baroque Cycle. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, an increasingly vicious struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Tories and Whigs clash as one faction jockeys to replace Queen Anne with 'The Pretender' James Stuart, and the other promotes the Hanoverian dynasty of Princess Caroline. Meanwhile, a long-simmering dispute between Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz comes to a head, with potentially cataclysmic consequences. Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters in a time of genius, discovery and change, the Baroque Cycle is a magnificent and unique achievement.
Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity by Anonim Pdf
This book consists of four lectures and six interviews; it covers a wide range of topics central to Glissant's thought - such as creolization, langage, culture and identity, 'atavistic' versus 'composite cultures' - presented in a particularly accessible form because here Glissant interacts with the views of other people.
Author : Édouard Glissant Publisher : University of Michigan Press Page : 260 pages File Size : 55,8 Mb Release : 1997 Category : Foreign Language Study ISBN : 0472066293
""Reveals the 'sacred order of the cosmos' through fifty detailed maps within a five-part structure called the holonomic equation. According to holonomy--the law governing whole systems--and its ancient precursor, Chinese geomancy, human consciousness and intuition play a formative role in the structure and evolution of the universe. Through Argüelles' maps we see how nature presents itself, how man learns from and transforms nature, how nature evaluates man's transformation, and finally, how man and nature synthesize"--Back cover.
"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." --Elizabeth Kolbert "Remarkable." --New York Times Book Review "Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." --Booklist, starred review "An informative, purposeful argument." --Kirkus We spend billions of dollars on irrigation, dams, sanitation plants, and other feats of engineering to control water for our own prosperity. What if the answer was not control, but replenishment? Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. Forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff, and "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Postel argues that efforts like these will be essential as we adjust to a hotter, wilder climate. Will we continue to fight the water cycle, endangering ourselves and the planet, or recognize our place in it and take advantage of the inherent services nature offers?
In this Introduction we shall sketch a profile of our field of inquiry. This is necessary because semantics is too often mistaken for lexicography and therefore dismissed as trivial, while at other times it is disparaged for being concerned with reputedly shady characters such as meaning and allegedly defunct ones like truth. Moreover our special concern, the semantics of science, is a newcomer - at least as a systematic body - and therefore in need of an introduction. l. GOAL Semantics is the field of inquiry centrally concerned with meaning and truth. It can be empirical or nonempirical. When brought to bear on concrete objects, such as a community of speakers, semantics seeks to answer problems concerning certain linguistic facts - such as disclosing the interpretation code inherent in the language or explaning the speakers' ability or inability to utter and understand new sentences ofthe language. This kind of semantics will then be both theoretical and experimental: it will be a branch of what used to be called 'behavioral science'.
New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, Or a Philosophical View of the Earth and Heavens by Thomas Keith Pdf
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A Treatise of the System of the World by Isaac Newton Pdf
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1728 edition. Excerpt: ...the appulfe of the Moon to the meridian under the horizon, and laftly the greateft ebb in Q, at the 3d hour after the rifing of the Moon; and the latter flood in f, will be lefs than the preceding flood in F. For the whole Sea is divided into two huge and hemifoherical floods, one in the hemifphere K. H k C, on the north-fide, the other in the oppofite hemifphere K H k C, which we may therefore call the northern and the fbuth-ern floods. Thefe floods being always oppofite the one to the other, come by turns to the meridians of all places after the interval of i1 lunar hours. And feeing the northern countries partake more of the northern flood, and the fouthern countries more of the fouth-ern flood, thence arife tides alternately greater and lefs in all places without the equator, in which the luminaries rife and and fee. But the greater tide will happen when the Moon declines towards the vertex of the place, about the 3d hour after the appulfe of the Moon to the meridian above the horizon; and when the Moon changes its declination, that which was the greater tide will be changed into a lefler, and the great-eft difference of the floods will fall out about the times of the folftices, efpecial-ly if the afcending node of the Moon is about the firft of Aries. So the morning tides in winter exceed thofe of the evening, and the evening tides exceed thole of the morning in fuminer; at 'Plymouth by the heighth of one foot, but at Briftolby the heighth of 15 Inches, according to the obfervations of Colefrefs and Sturmy. But the motions which we have been defcribing fuffer fome That by the confer. alteration from that force of Jfc reciprocation which the waters difference of the tides having once received, retain a S.ffiSI.1 ...