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Author: Robert L. Carneiro Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306471795 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
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Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.
Author: Robert L. Carneiro Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306471795 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
Is history more than (in Boswell's words) a `chronological series of remarkable events'? Does it have a pattern? Is it fraught with `meaning'? Can we discern its trends? What determines its course? In short, can a substantial and coherent philosophy of history be devised that offers answers to these questions? These issues, which have intrigued -and bedeviled - historians for centuries, are explored in this thoughtful book.
Author: Derek Thiess Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739196189 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 195
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This book channels the speculative power of science fiction to examine the limits of postmodern philosophies of history. By contrasting the questioning nature of science fiction to postmodern philosophy of history, it finds that this postmodernism often engages in a forgetful, even ahistorical, reading of the past.
Author: Raymond Scupin Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1544363109 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 497
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Cultural Anthropology: A Global Perspective delves into both classic and current research in the field, reflecting a commitment to anthropology’s holistic and integrative approach. This text illuminates how the four subfields of anthropology—biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and cultural anthropology—together yield a comprehensive understanding of humanity.
Author: James E. McClellan III Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 0801889391 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 496
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The new edition reorganizes its treatment of Greek science and significantly expands its coverage of industrial civilization and contemporary science and technology with new and revised chapters devoted to applied science, the sociology and economics of science, globalization, and the technological systems that underpin everyday life.
Author: Peter Weibel Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9783211245620 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 620
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A new theory of culture presented with a new method achieved by comparing closely the art and science in 20th century Austria and Hungary. Major achievements that have influenced the world like psychoanalysis, abstract art, quantum physics, Gestalt psychology, formal languages, vision theories, and the game theory etc. originated from these countries, and influence the world still today as a result of exile nurtured in the US. A source book with numerous photographs, images and diagrams, it opens up a nearly infinite horizon of knowledge that helps one to understand what is going on in today’s worlds of art and science.
Author: Irene Gilsenan Nordin Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039118595 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 214
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This collection of essays examines the theme of liminality in Irish literature and culture against the philosophical discourse of modernity and focuses on representations of liminality in contemporary Irish literature, art and film in a variety of contexts.
Author: Daniel J. Sherman Publisher: ISBN: 9780816619511 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 326
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Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society. Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.
Author: John Canaday Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 9780299168544 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Canaday, a poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after WWII, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientist's descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's postwar novella, The Voice of the Dolphins. He looks at physicists' use of figurative language in the development of quantum theory, and examines the role played by the rhetorics of exploration and religion in the construction of the Los Alamos community. Includes bandw historical photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Elinor S. Shaffer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110882574 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 337
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C.P. Snow's notion of a possible ""third nation"" in which the literary and the scientific culture interact has been explored in new ways by theorists on both sides of the divide. This text presents their theories.
Author: Robert L. Carneiro
Author: Robert L. Carneiro
Author: Derek Thiess
Author: Raymond Scupin
Author: James E. McClellan III
Author: Peter Weibel
Author: Irene Gilsenan Nordin
Author: Daniel J. Sherman
Author: David C. Lindberg
Author: John Canaday
Author: Elinor S. Shaffer