Author: Aramaki Yoshio File Type: pdf The magnum opus of a Japanese master of speculative fiction, and a book that established Yoshio Aramaki as a leading representative of the genre, The Sacred Era is part post-apocalyptic world, part faux-religious tract, and part dream narrative. In a distant future ruled by a new Papal Court serving the Holy Empire of Igitur, a young student known only as K arrives at the capital to take The Sacred Examination, a text that will qualify him for metaphysical research service with the court. His performance earns him an assignment in the secret Planet Bosch Research Department this in turn puts him on the trail of a heretic executed many years earlier, whose headless ghost is still said to haunt the Papal Court, which carries him on an interplanetary pilgrimage across the Space Taklamakan Desert to the Planet Loulan, where time stands still, and finally to the mysterious, supposedly mythical Planet Bosch, a giant, floating plant-world that once orbited Earth but has somehow wandered 1,000 light years away. Ks journey to this strange world, seemingly sprung from Hieronymus Boschs Garden of Earthly Delights, is a journey into inner and outer space, as the novel traffics in mystic and metaphysical questions only to transform them into technical and astrophysical problems, translating the substance of religious and mythic texts into the language of science fiction. **

Author: Véronique M. Fóti File Type: pdf This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology. These objectives support each other, in that Taminiauxs own intellectual itinerary brought him increasingly to an affirmation of the importance of the political. Divided into four sections, the essays contained in this volume engage with different aspects of the political dimension of phenomenology its dialogue with classic texts of political philosophy, the political facets of phenomenological praxis, phenomenologys contribution to actual political debates, and the impact of Taminiauxs work in the shaping of phenomenologys notion of politics. The phrase the primacy of the political echoes the primacy of perception as it was famously defined by Merleau-Ponty. This book emphasizes, however, the inescapability of the political rather than its foundational character, i.e. the fact that various itineraries of thought, explored in different fields of phenomenological research, give rise to politically relevant reflections. It points out and elucidates political connotations that haunt phenomenological concepts, such as world, self, nature, intersubjectivity, or language, and traces them to a broad range of approaches, concepts, and methods. In its explorations, the book discusses a broad range of thinkers, including, but not limited to, Aristotle and Kant, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Arendt. **From the Back Cover This volume is a Festschrift in honor of Jacques Taminiaux and examines the primacy of the political within phenomenology. These objectives support each other, in that Taminiauxs own intellectual itinerary brought him increasingly to an affirmation of the importance of the political. Divided into four sections, the essays contained in this volume engage with different aspects of the political dimension of phenomenology its dialogue with classic texts of political philosophy, the political facets of phenomenological praxis, phenomenologys contribution to actual political debates, and the impact of Taminiauxs work in the shaping of phenomenologys notion of politics. The phrase the primacy of the political echoes the primacy of perception as it was famously defined by Merleau-Ponty. This book emphasizes, however, the inescapability of the political rather than its foundational character, i.e. the fact that various itineraries of thought, explored in different fields of phenomenological research, give rise to politically relevant reflections. It points out and elucidates political connotations that haunt phenomenological concepts, such as world, self, nature, intersubjectivity, or language, and traces them to a broad range of approaches, concepts, and methods. In its explorations, the book discusses a broad range of thinkers, including, but not limited to, Aristotle and Kant, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Arendt. About the Author Veronique Foti is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology (Northwestern UP Evanston, Illinois, 2013),* Epochal Discordance Holderlins Philosophy of Tragedy (SUNY Albany, 2007), Visions Invisibles Philosophical Investigations (SUNY Albany, 2003), Heidegger and the Poets Poiesis, Sophia, Techne (Humanities Press New York, 1992). She is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled Merleau-Ponty at the Gallery Phenomenological Aesthetics and Practices of Visual Art.* Pavlos Kontos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Patras. His publications include (ed.) Evil in Aristotle (Cambridge UP Cambridge, 2017), (ed.) Phenomenology and The Metaphysics of Sight (with A. Cimino. Brill Leiden, 2015), Aristotles Moral Realism Reconsidered. Phenomenological Ethics (Routledge New York, 2013), (ed.) Gadamer et les Grecs (with J.C. Gens & P. Rodrigo. Vrin Paris, 2005), Laction morale chez Aristote (Presses Universitaires de France Paris, 2002), Dune phenomenologie de la perception chez Heidegger (Kluwer Dordrecht, 1996).

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Author: Frederick Steiner File Type: pdf We inhabit a vulnerable planet. The devastation caused by natural disasters such as the southern Asian tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, and the earthquakes in Chinas Sichuan province, Haiti, and Chileas well as the ongoing depletion and degradation of the worlds natural resources caused by a burgeoning human populationhave made it clear that business as usual is no longer sustainable. We need to find ways to improve how we live on this planet while minimizing our impact on it. Design for a Vulnerable Planet sounds a call for designers and planners to go beyond traditional concepts of sustainability toward innovative new design that fosters regeneration and resilience.Drawing on his own and others experiences across three continents, Frederick Steiner advocates design practice grounded in ecology and democracy and informed by critical regionalism and reflection. He begins by establishing the foundation for a more ecological approach to planning and design, adopting a broad view of ecology as encompassing human and natural, urban and wild environments. Steiner explores precedents for human ecological design provided by architect Paul Cret, landscape architect Ian McHarg, and developer George Mitchell while discussing their planning for the University of Texas campus, the Lake Austin watershed, and The Woodlands. Steiner then focuses on emerging Texas urbanism and extends his discussion to broader considerations beyond the Lone Star State, including regionalism, urbanism, and landscape in China and Italy. He also examines the lessons to be learned from human and natural disasters such as 911, Hurricane Katrina, and the BP oil spill. Finally, Steiner offers a blueprint for designing with nature to help heal the planets vulnerabilities.