We Represent Ourselves to the World
We Represent Ourselves to the World

Author: Jenelle Porter

Publisher: UCLA Hammer Museum

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This distinctive book centers around an installation by Stephen Prina as a frame within which to explore themes vital to its making, including artistic production, site-specificity, curatorial practice, photography, architecture, and institutional critique. This multi-layered work is reevaluated by the curator, Jenelle Porter. She begins with Prina's single-image documentation of the 16-year exhibition schedule at the Heitzler Gallery (1975-1991). This final set of 163 photographs was then installed in the Heitzler Gallery, along with assorted elements as part of Prina's complete exhibition. Essays by James Meyer and Wilhelm Schurmann.

Art, Self and Knowledge
Art, Self and Knowledge

Author: Keith Lehrer

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0195304985

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This book argues that a special value of art is the way in which it uses conscious experience -- the exemplars of aesthetic experience -- to autonomously reconfigure how we conceive of our world and ourselves, ourselves in our world and our world in ourselves. Exemplar representation ties art and science, mind and body, self and world together in a dynamic loop reconfiguring them all as it reconfigures itself.

Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World

Author: Jon Nixon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-18

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1000579530

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Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The following chapter outlines the important phases in his life with reference to the writers and thinkers who influenced him in his thinking and practice. The central chapters of the book focus on specific themes in his work: the historical grounding of the ‘figural’ imagination; the relation between the secular and the sacred; the emergence of tragic realism; and the notion of ‘inner history’ as a defining feature of early 20th-cenntury modernism. The final two chapters focus on broader issues relating to the development of Auerbach’s understanding of the development of an educated readership within Europe and of his concerns regarding the emergence of what he terms ‘a world literature’.

Epistemic Values
Epistemic Values

Author: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0197529194

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This collection showcases the most influential published essays by philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. One of the most distinguished thinkers working in epistemology today, particularly where the theory of knowledge meets ethics and the philosophy of religion, Zagzebski is well-known for broadening epistemology and refocusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. Her work has greatly influenced the trajectory of contemporary epistemology, opening up new fields in analytic epistemology. The papers collected here are organized into six sections to underline the scope of her impact on six key subject areas of epistemology: (1) knowledge and understanding, (2) intellectual virtue, (3) epistemic value, (4) virtue in religious epistemology, (5) intellectual autonomy and authority, and (6) skepticism and the Gettier problem.

Existentialism For Dummies
Existentialism For Dummies

Author: Christopher Panza

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-03-03

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0470436891

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Have you ever wondered what the phrase “God is dead” means? You’ll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard’s favorite philosophy. See how existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and literature to world events and discover whether or not existentialism is still relevant today. You’ll find an introduction to existentialism and understand how it fits into the history of philosophy. This insightful guide will expose you to existentialism’s ideas about the absurdity of life and the ways that existentialism guides politics, solidarity, and respect for others. There’s even a section on religious existentialism. You’ll be able to reviewkey existential themes and writings. Find out how to: Trace the influence of existentialism Distinguish each philosopher’s specific ideas Explain what it means to say that “God is dead” See culture through an existentialist lens Understand the existentialist notion of time, finitude, and death Navigate the absurdity of life Master the art of individuality Complete with lists of the ten greatest existential films, ten great existential aphorisms, and ten common misconceptions about existentialism, Existentialism For Dummies is your one-stop guide to a very influential school of thought.

Internal Perception
Internal Perception

Author: Sara Dellantonio

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 3662557630

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This book investigates how bodily information contributes to categorization processes for at least some conceptual classes and thus to the individual mastery of meanings for at least some word classes. The bodily information considered is mainly that provided by the so-called proprioceptive and interoceptive systems introduced by Sherrington. The authors reconsider this in a new Gibsonian fashion calling it more generally “proprioception”, which indicates the complex of all the bodily signals we are aware of and the qualitative experiences these give rise to. The book shows that proprioceptive information understood in this sense is essential for explaining (among others) how we develop broad categories such as animate vs. inanimate, concepts denoting bodily experiences such as hunger or pain as well as emotions and abstract concepts such as friendship and freedom and in accounting for how we master the meanings of the corresponding words in our language.

You Are More Than What You've Become
You Are More Than What You've Become

Author: Dale Thompson

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1638141150

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How sweet is the taste of victory? Nothing like it. And yet, how bitter is the taste of defeat. The stark reality is it is our choice how we want to succeed in life. How do we live a continual life in harmony with God, a fulfilled blessed life, a life of not merely existing but a fruitful life leaving a legacy behind for others? We are God’s own handiwork recreated in His Son that we may lead a wonderful life for good works which God predestined from the beginning of time. A path was laid out for us. By accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we walk daily with Him, living the good life (Ephesians 2:10.) God says His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). If only we would take God at His Word, place our faith in Jesus, embrace the whole of their existence to God’s divine will, our character would be molded to the sum total of Christ. A victorious life comes through prayer and study of His Word. There’s no way around it. We hold the key to every situation in life. He has given us the kingdom. This is the daily victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (1 John 5:4).

Mathematics Education and Subjectivity
Mathematics Education and Subjectivity

Author: Tony Brown

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-09

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9400717393

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This book is centrally concerned with how mathematics education is represented and how we understand mathematical teaching and learning with view to changing them. It considers teachers, students and researchers. It explores their mathematical thinking and the concepts that this thought produces. But also how these concepts acquire cultural layers that mediate our apprehension. The book examines some of the linguistic and socio-cultural filters that influence mathematical understanding. But above all it introduces some contemporary theories of human subjectivity, in which subjectivity is seen primarily as consequential to, rather than productive of, our attempts to represent or categorise the world in which we live. That is, our sense of who we are results from our attempts to see ourselves against the various versions of the world that we encounter. Such theories trouble the very notion of mathematical "concepts" as apprehended by "humans". And in foregrounding this concern with subjectivity the book considers mathematics rather differently to styles more familiar in many instances of mathematics education research. The book proposes that mathematics can provoke us to think differently about our world and as a result enable our transformative capacities. Such an orientation may disturb our understanding of what mathematics is, how it exists in an "objective" sense, insofar as mathematical objects can be derived from social filters being applied to the world, but also serve as filters on the world capable of producing new social entities.

Questions of Cultural Identity
Questions of Cultural Identity

Author: Stuart Hall

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1996-04-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1446265471

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Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long - distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality - are in decline, giving rise to new forms of identification and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject. Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of this issue. Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. The cast of outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity; in so doing, they provide both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.

Rationality and Interpretation
Rationality and Interpretation

Author: David Evans

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 135019560X

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Taking a unique approach which combines sociolinguistics with theoretical linguistics, this book presents a view of language and grammar as both a cognitive and socio-cultural phenomena. Beginning with Bakhtin's theories of conceptual grammar and lexico-grammar, this book encompasses a broad philosophical range, engaging with the ideas of key figures such as Bergson, Chomsky, Derrida and Wittgenstein. Drawing on their work, it investigates how language progresses from an inner reflection of the rational mind to develop social and ideological aspects as it interacts with culture. In doing so, it shows how identity is unitary and rational at the linguistic core whilst multiple social identities are simultaneously shaped by linguistic differences at the cultural peripheries. Encompassing theoretical linguistics, cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, multilingualism, sociolinguistics and semiotics, Rationality and Interpretation demonstrates how the different branches of linguistics can complement each other and highlights the socio-cultural influences of language development, as well as how language development is shaped by those influences.