Author: Michel Foucault File Type: pdf What does it mean to write This is not a pipe across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? Rene Magrittes famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magrittes visual critique of language, he finds the painter less removed than previously thought from the pioneers of modern abstraction.ReviewThis essay not only proposes a new understanding of Magritte it also constitutes a perfect illustration and introduction to the thought of the philosopher himself, Frances great wizard of paradox.--New York Times Book Review Language NotesText English, French (translation)
Author: William E. Scheuerman
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Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law makes use of the work of first-generation Frankfurt School theorist Franz L. Neumann, in conjunction with his famous successor, Jurgen Habermas, to try to understand the momentous political and legal transformations generated by globalization. This volume demonstrates that the Frankfurt School tradition speaks directly to some pressing political and social concerns, including globalization, the reform of the welfare state, and the environmental crisis. Despite widespread claims to the contrary, the legal substructure of economic globalization tends to conflict with traditional models of the rule of law. Neumanns prediction that contemporary capitalism would decreasingly depend on generality, clarity, publicity, and stability in the law is supported by a surprising variety of empirical evidence. Habermass recent work is then interrogated in order to pursue the question of how we might counteract the deleterious trends accurately predicted by Neumann. How might democracy and the rule of law flourish in the context of globalization?The book is intended for scholars and advanced students in political science, sociology, philosophy and cultural studies.About the AuthorWilliam E. Scheuerman is Professor of Political Science and West European Studies at Indiana University (Bloomington). He is author of three previous books, including the award-winning Between the Norm and the Exception The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law, and two edited volumes, including a collection of essays by the Frankfurt School political and legal theorists, The Rule of Law Under Siege. He has taught previously at Pittsburgh and Minnesota.
Author: Christopher Steed
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This book examines the meaning of Brexit, the election of Trump and the rising tide of populist revolt on the right amidst the collapse of the left. Exploring the reaction against the establishment or the system, the author contends that we are witnessing a new divide between those who wish to see an interconnected world and those who seek distance as transport and technology shrink the world, we witness a backlash that favours protectionism and opposes immigration. Distance is the new frontier for some, remote players are rejected in favour of identities closer to home. This divide plays out in relation to the notion of face, as individuals react to faceless organisations and processes such as globalisation and automation, responding to a sense of alienation on social media and developing a conception of themselves as networked individuals. Thus, we move towards a type of society characterised not by honour and dishonour, or right and wrong, but by voice and choice. A fascinating and very accessible analysis of the divisions and transformations that have come to dominate the contemporary landscape, this book will appeal to political leaders and social scientists with interests in globalisation, social movements and social theory. **
Author: David Castillo
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David Castillo takes us on a tour of some horrific materials that have rarely been considered together. He sheds a fantastical new light on the baroque. ---Anthony J. Cascardi, University of California Berkeley Baroque Horrors is a textual archeologists dream, scavenged from obscure chronicles, manuals, minor histories, and lesser-known works of major artists. Castillo finds tales of mutilation, mutation, monstrosity, murder, and mayhem, and delivers them to us with an inimitable flair for the sensational that nonetheless rejects sensationalism because it remains so grounded in historical fact. ---William Egginton, Johns Hopkins University Baroque Horrors is a major contribution to baroque ideology, as well as an exploration of the grotesque, the horrible, the fantastic. Castillo organizes his monograph around the motif of curiosity, refuting the belief that Spain is a country incapable of organized scientific inquiry. ---David Foster, Arizona State University Baroque Horrors turns the current cultural and political conversation from the familiar narrative patterns and self-justifying allegories of abjection to a dialogue on the history of our modern fears and their monstrous offspring. When life and death are severed from nature and history, reality and authenticity may be experienced as spectator sports and staged attractions, as in the real lives captured by reality TV and the authentic cadavers displayed around the world in the Body Worlds exhibitions. Rather than thinking of virtual reality and staged authenticity as recent developments of the postmodern age, Castillo looks back to the Spanish baroque period in search for the roots of the commodification of nature and the horror vacui that accompanies it. Aimed at specialists, students, and readers of early modern literature and culture in the Spanish and Anglophone traditions as well as anyone interested in horror fantasy, Baroque Horrors offers new ways to rethink broad questions of intellectual and political history and relate them to the modern age. David Castillo is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Jacket art Frederick Ruyschs anatomical diorama. Engraving reproduction drawn from life by Cornelius Huyberts. Image from the Zymoglyphic Museum. **
Author: Martijn J. Adelmund
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Seriemoord in het ziekenhuis van Kerkrade Een dikke veertigjarige hoofdverpleger met een schoonmaakneurose, beter kun je Frans H. op het ogenblik van zijn arrestatie in 1975 niet omschrijven. Hij lijkt de ideale ziekenverzorger, een harde werker die betrokken is bij zijn patienten, maar zijn collegas weten beter. Deze engel des doods maakt zich int geniep schuldig aan ten minste acht insulinemoorden. Een wonder bij Maastricht Een alleenstaande moeder uit Kanne, bij Maastricht, toog elke dag naar de hoofdstad om daar haar brood te verdienen. Ze liet haar kind alleen thuis, wat niet ongebruikelijk was in die dagen.Maar op een kwade dag werd het kind gewurgd gevonden in de rivier de Jeker. De moeder werd van moord beschuldigd, en bijna veroordeeld - ware het niet dat er een godswonder plaatsvond in het Limburgse land, om haar onschuld te bewijzen... In dit boek vindt u deze en vele andere wonderlijke, mysterieuze en soms gruwelijke misdaden en onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich afspelen in de provincie Limburg. De serie Mysteries in ... Iedereen kent ze, de mysterieuze verhalen en onverklaarbare verschijnselen die zich in de eigen streek hebben afgespeeld. Verhalen van lang geleden die een geheel eigen leven zijn gaan leiden, maar ook recente gebeurtenissen die onverklaarbaar of onopgelost zijn en die je de stuipen op het lijf kunnen jagen. Per provincie zijn tientallen verhalen gebundeld, met een duidelijke referentie aan waar het verhaal zich heeft afgespeeld. Herkenbaar en spannend en met de uitdaging of u de plaats delict durft te bezoeken. Martijn J. Adelmund is historicus en werkt als redacteur voor verschillende uitgeverijen. Hij heeft zich gespecialiseerd in lokale geschiedenis en opmerkelijke gebeurtenissen die voortleven in verhalen.
Author: Musō Soseki
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At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming a seventeenth-century Chinese sage explores good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, and heaven and hell. He draws from the wisdom of the Three Creeds Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism to impress upon us that by combining simple elegance with the ordinary, we can make our lives artistic and poetic. This sense, along with a particular understanding of Zen that makes art from the simple in everyday life, has permeated Chinese and Japanese culture to this day. The work is divided into two books. The first generally deals with the art of living in society and the second is concerned with mans solitude and contemplations of nature. These themes repeatedly spill over into each other, creating multiple levels of meaning.
Author: Terry Marsden
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The agri-food and rural development world has experienced significant changes in recent years. The evolution towards globalized and highly complex food supply systems has been accompanied by growing competition, reduced state subsidies as well as concerns about quality, output and the environment. At the beginning of the 21st century, the agri-food industry is urgently searching for new solutions.Exploring these recent developments, Agri-Food and Rural Development highlights the latest research on understanding and promoting sustainable food systems. Featuring a range of international case studies, it investigates different models of rural development for food production, examines the implications for a sustainable future, analyzes future challenges, and suggests new strategies for future agri-food development in a world fast exceeding its resources.An ambitious new study written by a leading authority in the field, this book offers a vital new perspective on this important debate and is destined to become a landmark text for students, scholars and policy-makers in food studies, agriculture, rural sociology, and geography.
Author: Robert Bryer
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Many scholars discuss Marxs Capital from many perspectives, but Accounting for Value uniquely advances and defends an accounting interpretation of his theory of value, that he used it to explain capitalists accounts. It confirms and builds on the Temporal Single-System Interpretations refutation of the charge that Marxs illustration of the transformation from values to prices is inconsistent, and its defense of his Law of the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit. It rejects other interpretations by showing that only a temporal, single-system interpretation is consistent with Marxs accounting. The book shows that Marx became seriously interested in accounts from the late 1850s during an important period in the development of his critique of political economy, asking Engels for information and explanations. Examining their letters in the context of Marxs evolving work, it argues, supports the hypothesis that discovering he could explain them with his theory of value gave him the breakthrough he needed to decide how to present his work and explains why, in 1862, he decided to change its title to Capital. Marxs explanations of capitalist accounting, it concludes, amount to an accounting theory that explains how individual capitalists and the capital market use what is, for many, the invisible hand of accounting to control the production and distribution of surplus value.Marx claimed his theory of value was a work of science, a critique of political economy that would deliver a theoretical blow from which the bourgeoisie would never recover. He failed, critics argue, because his critique depends on hypothetical entities, which we cannot directly observe, such as value and abstract labour, surplus value, which means his theory is not open to empirical refutation. The book, however, argues that he used his theory of value to explain the phenomenal forms of profit, rate of profit, etc., by explaining the observable accounting principles and practices capitalists use to calculate and control them, in which, as he said, we can glimpse the determination of value by socially necessary labor time, which experience could have refuted.
Author: Kenneth Baynes
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Jurgen Habermas is one of the most important German philosophers and social theorists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. His work has been compared in scope with Max Webers, and in philosophical breadth to that of Kant and Hegel. In this much-needed introduction Kenneth Baynes engages with the full range of Habermass philosophical work, addressing his early arguments concerning the emergence of the public sphere and his initial attempt to reconstruct a critical theory of society in Knowledge and Human Interests. He then examines one of Habermass most influential works, The Theory of Communicative Action, including his controversial account of the rational interpretation of social action. Also covered is Habermass work on discourse ethics, political and legal theory, including his views on the relation between democracy and constitutionalism, and his arguments concerning human rights and cosmopolitanism. The final chapter assesses Habermass role as a polemical and prominent public intellectual and his criticism of postmodernism in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, in addition to his more recent writings on the relationship between religion and democracy. * * Habermas is an invaluable guide to this key figure in contemporary philosophy, and suitable for anyone coming to his work for the first time. **