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Author: Johann Michel
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-04-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1786608847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading contemporary philosopher Johann Michel offers an innovative reflection on the human being. The book presents an interdisciplinary study that engages philosophy, sociology and anthropology, offering a systematic analysis of the phenomenon of interpretation.
Author: Johann Michel
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Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9782705694968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLe propre de l'Homme est d'avoir la capacité de donner du sens au monde dans lequel il évolue et de lui attribuer des symboles. Cependant, dans son existence quotidienne, l'être humain n'interprète pas constamment : il ne le fait que lorsque la situation lui semble confuse, lorsqu'il est confronté à un sens trouble ou problématique. Mais qu'est-ce que l'interprétation révèle de l'être humain ? A partir de cette question, Johann Michel renouvelle de manière inédite le champ de l'herméneutique, en frayant la voie à une anthropologie interprétative. Avant d'être un ensemble de technologies savantes appliquées à des champs spécifiques (textes, symboles, actions...), l'herméneutique prend sa source dans des techniques ordinaires d'interprétations (explicitation, clarification, dévoilement...). Pour surmonter la "relativité des interprétations", l'ouvrage prend en même temps le parti pris de montrer les apports d'une herméneutique critique, notamment aux sciences médicales, à la psychanalyse, aux sciences de la nature et aux sciences sociales. La perspective ainsi ouverte par Johann Michel lève l'interdit anthropologique qui pèse sur l'herméneutique depuis Heidegger et permet de refonder la théorie de la connaissance.
Author: Kurt Lüscher
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-17
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 1139496417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCross-cultural psychology has come of age as a scientific discipline, but how has it developed? The field has moved from exploratory studies, in which researchers were mainly interested in finding differences in psychological functioning without any clear expectation, to detailed hypothesis tests of theories of cross-cultural differences. This book takes stock of the large number of empirical studies conducted over the last decades to evaluate the current state of the field. Specialists from various domains provide an overview of their area, linking it to the fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology such as how individuals and their cultures are linked, how the link evolves during development, and what the methodological challenges of the field are. This book will appeal to academic researchers and post-graduates interested in cross-cultural research.
Author: Wessel Reijers
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-21
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1538153475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Ricœur has been one of the most influential and intellectually challenging philosophers of the last century, and his work has contributed to a vast array of fields: studies of language, of history, of ethics and politics. However, he has up until recently only had a minor impact on the philosophy of technology. Interpreting Technology aims to put Ricœur’s work at the centre of contemporary philosophical thinking concerning technology. It investigates his project of critical hermeneutics for rethinking established theories of technology, the growing ethical and political impacts of technologies on the modern lifeworld, and ways of analysing global sociotechnical systems such as the Internet. Ricœur’s philosophy allows us to approach questions such as: how could narrative theory enhance our understanding of technological mediation? How can our technical practices be informed by the ethical aim of living the good life, with and for others, in just institutions? And how does the emerging global media landscape shape our sense of self, and our understanding of history? These questions are more timely than ever, considering the enormous impact technologies have on daily life in the 21st century: on how we shape ourselves with health apps, how we engage with one-another through social media, and how we act politically through digital platforms.
Author: Valery Chirkov
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1317666100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique text covers the core research methods and the philosophical assumptions that underlie various strategies, designs, and methodologies used when researching cultural issues. It teaches readers why and for what purpose one conducts research on cultural issues so as to give them a better sense of the thinking that should happen before they go out and collect data. More than a "methods text", it is about all the steps that go into doing cross-cultural research. It discusses how to select the most appropriate methods for data analysis and which approach to use, and details quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods for experimental lab studies and ethnographic field work.
Author: Adam Głaz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1000452034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the concept of linguistic worldview, which is underpinned by the underlying idea that languages, in their lexicogrammatical structures and patterns of usage, encode interpretations of reality that symbolize, shape, and construct speakers’ cultural experience. The volume traces the development of the linguistic worldview conception from its origins in ancient Greece to 20th-century linguistic relativity, Western ethnosemantics, parallel movements in eastern Europe, and contemporary inquiry into languacultures. It outlines the important theoretical issues, surveys the major approaches, and identifies areas of both convergence and discrepancy between them. By proposing three sample analyses, the book highlights the relevant questions addressed in different but compatible models, as well as identifies possible avenues of their further development. Finally, it considers several domains of potential interest to the linguistic worldview agenda. Because inquiry into linguistic worldviews concerns the sphere of the symbolic and the cultural, it touches upon the very essence of human lives. This book will be of interest to scholars working in cultural linguistics, ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, comparative semantics, and translation studies.
Author: David S. Dockery
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1433673118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo dozen Christian higher education professionals thoroughly explore the question of the faith's place on the university campus, whether in administrative matters, the broader academic world, or in student life.
Author: Lisa Block de Behar
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 143845032X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorges cites innumerable authors in the pages making up his life's work, and innumerable authors have cited and continue to cite him. More than a figure, then, the quotation is an integral part of the fabric of his writing, a fabric made anew by each reading and each re-citation it undergoes, in the never-ending throes of a work-in-progress. Block de Behar makes of this reading a plea for the very art of communication; a practice that takes community not in the totalized and totalizable soil of pre-established definitions or essences, but on the ineluctable repetitions that constitute language as such, and that guarantee the expansiveness—through etymological coincidences of meaning, through historical contagions, through translinguistic sharings of particular experiences—of a certain index of universality. This edition includes a new introduction by the author and three entirely new chapters, as well as updated images and corrections to the original translation.
Author: Eric Chown
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2023-01-09
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1643150421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs smartphones mediate more of our activities, they are changing our relationship with meaning. To a teenager, for example a “conversation” is just as likely to refer to an exchange of text messages as it is a face-to-face discussion. Meanwhile, Facebook has redefined what friendship means, Snapchat what a memory means, etc. The kinds of changes smartphones bring are happening at rapid pace: TikTok reached a billion users in just over three years, whereas it took the telephone 75 years to reach a tenth of that number of people. Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live by Eric Chown and Fernando Nascimento offers systematic reconsideration of the ways in which digital technologies impact our lives both individually and collectively. Metaphors aren’t just a clever way to describe technology, they are also changing the way we think. When we click on a picture of a shopping cart it connects a complex set of technologies to represent a simple idea that we’re all familiar with. A heart icon under a photo is understood as an easy way to express appreciation. We aren’t required to understand how technology works, just how we interact with it. The ambiguity of metaphors, and the complexity of technology can also hide important realities about what is being described. “The cloud,” for example, actually consists of very real data centers, which consume huge amounts of natural resources to keep running. Meanwhile, pressing that heart icon on a photo is a signal to the artificial intelligences running in your app that you want to see more things like that photo and that it should adjust what it knows about you accordingly. There is a constant feedback loop between us and the digital technologies we use. We are constantly using them and they are changing us through their usage. Meaningful Technologies focuses on this loop from the perspectives of hermeneutic philosophy and cognitive science. Through the former, the authors examine meaning and how it changes over time. Through the latter, they gain understanding of how this feedback loop impacts individuals, especially in terms of learning and attention. Chown and Nascimento argue that, on the one hand, apps have a kind of agency never before possible in a technology, but also that, armed with a critical framework for examining such apps, we can regain some of our own agency. This book will appeal to scholars of digital media digital and computational studies, and those interested in issues related to ethical impacts of digital technologies.
