Author: Mark Quigley
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Shedding new light on the rich intellectual and political milieux shaping the divergent legacies of Joyce and Yeats, Empires Wake traces how a distinct postcolonial modernism emerged within Irish literature in the late 1920s to contest and extend key aspects of modernist thought and aesthetic innovation at the very moment that the high modernist literary canon was consolidating its influence and prestige.By framing its explorations of postcolonial narrative form against the backdrop of distinct historical moments from the Irish Free State to the Celtic Tiger era, the book charts the different phases of 20th-century postcoloniality in ways that clarify how the comparatively early emergence of the postcolonial in Ireland illuminates the formal shifts ccompanying the transition from an age of empire to one of globalization.Bringing together new perspectives on Beckett and Joyce with analyses of the critically neglected works of Sean OFaolain, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket autobiographers, Empires Wake challenges the notion of a singular global modernism and argues for the importance of critically integrating the local and the international dimensions of modernist aesthetics.
Author: James Dickey
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Classic poems from a famous American poet**ReviewFor me this is the poetry book of the year. I have little doubt that it will prove to be the outstanding collection of one mans poems to appear in this decade.--Louis Untermeyer, Saturday Review About the Author JAMES DICKEY, born in Atlanta in 1923, is most widely known as the author of the novel and screenplay Deliverance. He is also the author of several other novels and fifteen books of poetry. His many honors include the National Book Award and a Melville Cane Award for Buckdancers Choice (1965). He was invited to read at President Carters inauguration in 1977, and most recently served as Judge of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series. He died in 1997 in South Carolina.
Author: Axel Honneth
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In this major book, Honneth argues that the struggle for recognition is and should be at the center of social conflicts. Honneth examines the arguments put forward by Hegel in his Jena writings and situates them against the background of modern philosophys conception of human life as a struggle for existence. He shows how the notion of the struggle for recognition changes in Hegels work as he moves from an intersubjective paradigm to one based on consciousness.Drawing on Marx, Sorel and Sartre, he examines the importance of the struggle for recognition and of the moral basis of interaction in human conflicts. Finally, he discusses the relation between the recognition model and conceptions of modernity, the normative basis of social theory, and the possibility of mediating between Kant and Hegel.The Struggle for Recognition draws together a wide variety of themes and concerns, moving smoothly between moral philosophy and social theory. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in this central aspect of Hegels thought and, more broadly, in critical theory and social philosophy.
Author: Stuart A. P. Murray
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Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Webeven if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. Its easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental concepts and methods of D3, a JavaScript library that lets you express data visually in a web browser. Along the way, youll expand your web programming skills, using tools such as HTML and JavaScript.This step-by-step guide is ideal whether youre a designer or visual artist with no programming experience, a reporter exploring the new frontier of data journalism, or anyone who wants to visualize and share data.ullLearn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and SVG basics llDynamically generate web page elements from your dataand choose visual encoding rules to style them llCreate bar charts, scatter plots, pie charts, stacked bar charts, and force-directed layouts llUse smooth, animated transitions to show changes in your data llIntroduce interactivity to help users explore data through different views llCreate customized geographic maps with data llExplore hands-on with downloadable code and over 100 examples lulAbout the AuthorScott Murray is a code artist who writes software to create data visualizations and other interactive phenomena. His work incorporates elements of interaction design, systems design, and generative art.Scott is an Assistant Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches data visualization and interaction design. He is a contributor to Processing (processing.org), and he teaches workshops on creative coding.Scott earned an A.B. from Vassar College and an M.F.A. from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work can be seen at alignedleft.com.
Author: Alan Ford
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Within a country where religious divisions have both a long history and a direct contemporary relevance, this book examines how they first emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading Irish historians examine how separate Catholic and Protestant church structures and communities were created both nationally and locally. They analyze the ways in which the rival institutions influenced perceptions of religious difference, resulting in a pattern in Irish history of Protestants and Catholics living together as separate denominations.ReviewThis is a remarkably ambitious anthology on a question of enduring significance, one which examines the extent to which the Irish people were indeed divided into two religious camps by the mid-seventeenth century, and also their surprising ability to transcend such stark decisions. But the essays benefit more from original research into the archives than from a relfective remodeling of religious paradigms, such as the debate over whether the therm should be confessionalization or sectarianism. Sixteenth Century Journal, Jon Crawford, Roanoke College...the collections emphasis on the complex and contingent nature of emerging communal identities is welcome indeed. In sum, this is a very strong collection of essays, and a must read for anyone interested in early modern British and Irish history. Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University...this collection of essays makes a most useful contribution to what has long been an under-researched topic (pp. 237-239). Decades of conflict both stifled and polarized such debate. It is to be hoped that, in todays more open Irish political climate, this book will give rise to further publications on the subsequent development of sectarianism and confessionalization. H-Catholic, Benjamin Hazard, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Maynooth Book DescriptionIreland is a country where religious divisions have both a long history and a direct contemporary relevance. This book examines how these divisions first emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading Irish historians examine how separate Catholic and Protestant church structures and communities were created both nationally and locally, the ways in which these rival institutions shaped peoples perceptions of religious difference, and the resultant pattern in Irish history of Protestants and Catholics both living together and whilst living apart as separate denominations.
Author: Jonathan Hodge
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The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809-82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established itself as an indispensable resource for anyone teaching or researching Darwins theories and their historical and philosophical interpretations. Its distinguished team of contributors examines Darwins main scientific ideas and their development Darwins science in the context of its times the influence of Darwinian thought in recent philosophical, social and religious debate and the importance of Darwinian thought for the future of naturalist philosophy. For this second edition, coverage has been expanded to include two new chapters on Darwin, Hume and human nature, and on Darwins theories in the intellectual long run, from the pre-Socratics to the present.ReviewUnquestionably, the thoroughness of [The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 2nd Edition and The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species] will be caviar for professional scholars. But they will also appeal to a wider readership for offering clear and up-to-date expositions of the historical developments and theoretical principles of Darwins evolutionary thinking. ... these volumes are undeniably a great introduction to Darwin, his ideas and his legacies. With the wealth of historical and philosophical analyses, and the great variety of contributions covering major problems within the field, they constitute an indispensable tool for any teacher or student of Darwin and Darwinism. The general public will find a complete presentation of Darwins thinking, while the scholarly can enjoy a number of revisionist claims sure to provoke responses, critical and otherwise. - THIERRY HOQUET, British Journal of the History of Science....offers a carefully ecumenical primer to the scholarly approaches on display. The editors, Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, have fittingly organized chapters along methodological lines, and the abruptness between sections is to some extent an artifact of decades of exciting and bewildering disputes over Darwin and Darwinism.... an ideal companion, ushering the reader into conversations already underway.... its aim is rather to shepherd the reader in search of deeper and more expansive understanding....The revisions to Hodge and Radicks excellent introduction emphasize their aim of extracting philosophical themes from Darwins own projects as well as from his legacy.... the Companions riches should make it of interest not only to toilers in the Darwin Industry, who may choose to expand their libraries with the second edition, but also to a wider audience. Historians of the philosophy of science in particular may endorse the closing line of the volume.... - Kathryn Tabb, University of Pittsburgh, HOPOS The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of ScienceBook DescriptionAn indispensable resource for anyone teaching or researching Darwins theories and their historical and philosophical interpretations. This second, updated edition includes two new chapters on Darwin, Hume and human nature, and on Darwins theories in the intellectual long run, from the pre-Socratics to the present.
Author: Tunney Lee
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Author: Dick Howard
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This book traces a dialectic relationship between politics and antipolitics, the first, as used here, being akin to philosophy as an activity of open inquiry, plural democracy, and truth-finding, and the latter in the realm of ideology, technocracy, and presupposed certainties. It returns back to the emergence of a New Left movement in the 1960s in order to follow the history of this relationship since then. It addresses contemporary debates by looking to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Bloc, and asking in the wake of that what is a revolution? Finally, it draws on these analyses to examine the age of terrorism after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, and resounds with a call to pursue democracy and real politics in the face of new forms of antipolitics.