Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events
Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events

Author: Anne Siegetsleitner

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 3110702398

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Contemporary deep-reaching changes – whether in financial or real economy, in Europe’s political conditions, in the context of scientific theories, in the field of global (environmental) security, or gender relations – are also a challenge to philosophy. The volume comprises cutting-edge scholarly articles from renowned philosophers with various geographical backgrounds and from different philosophical strands. Next to investigating general questions as to the relation of philosophy and critique (What is philosophical critique and which philosophical concepts of critique are of importance today? Where do we need it most? Where are its limits?), the articles focus on issues like theories of democracy and modes of election; the roles of emotions in the political realm; challenges from a widespread discontent in society to politics and science; changes to social identities and different theoretical approaches to social identity formation. The book is indispensable for all who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to say on crucial issues of our time.

Landscape Theories
Landscape Theories

Author: Olaf Kühne

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-04-08

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 3658254912

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In the past decades, the discussion about theoretical approaches to the topic of 'landscape' has increased. This book presents the currently discussed theoretical approaches to landscape and shows its potentials and limits. The theoretical approaches are discussed on the basis of current questions, such as socialisation and the hybridisation of landscape, and combined with empirical results. This is followed by a discussion of the landscape policy operationalisation of theoretical considerations and empirical findings.

Developing Writing Skills in German
Developing Writing Skills in German

Author: Annette Duensing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-11-22

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1134152574

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Developing Writing Skills in German, is a unique course designed to improve the reading and writing skills of intermediate students of German. Presenting a wide range of authentic written materials, the book aims to develop reading strategies and the ability to write texts of various types - essays, articles and reviews - while imparting an understanding of important aspects of German society. From the environment to consumerism, each chapter focuses on a different theme and concentrates on the advancement of particular skills; all the chapters conclude with a task appropriate to the skills focus of the section. Summary writing, note-taking, the use of mind-maps to collect ideas, and other strategies for successful writing in German are presented here. This course is suitable both for classroom use and independent study, with feedback and answer key supplied at the back of the book.

Barbarian Spring
Barbarian Spring

Author: Jonas Lüscher

Publisher: Haus Publishing

Published: 2015-03-15

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 1908323841

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On a business trip to Tunisia, Preising, a leading Swiss industrialist, is invited to spend the week with the daughter of a local gangster. He accompanies her to the wedding of two London city traders at a desert luxury resort that was once the site of an old Berber oasis. With the wedding party in full swing and the bride riding up the aisle on a camel, no one is aware that the global financial system stands on the brink of collapse. As the wedding guests nurse their hangovers, they learn that the British pound has depreciated tenfold, and their world begins to crumble around them. So begins Barbarian Spring, the debut novel from Jonas Lüscher, a major emerging voice in European fiction. The timely and unusual novel centers on a culture clash between high finance and the value system of the Maghreb. Provocative and entertaining, Barbarian Spring is a refreshingly original and all-too-believable satire for our times.

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference
The Bureaucratic Production of Difference

Author: Julia M. Eckert

Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner

Published: 2020-04

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9783837651041

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In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the "deserving migrant" and the illegal one. This book analyzes how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices.

Constructing Masculinity
Constructing Masculinity

Author: Maurice Berger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1135222681

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This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.

The New Wittgenstein
The New Wittgenstein

Author: Alice Crary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1134689969

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A stellar collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein and sheds light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical positions and areas of human concern.

Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive
Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive

Author: Hito Steyerl

Publisher: Spector Books

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 9783959054195

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A massive, long-overdue retrospective on the multimedia image critique of Hito Steyerl, influential artist and author of Duty-Free Artand The Wretched of the Screen Over the past 30 years, through video and installation, the immensely influential German artist and writer Hito Steyerl (born 1966) has been tracking the ways that images have mutated--from the analogue image and its manifold possibilities for montage to the fluidity of the split digital image--and the implications these mutations have had for the representation of wars, genocides and the flow of capital. "We are no longer dealing with the virtual but with a confusing and possibly alien concreteness that we are only beginning to understand," writes Brian Kuan Wood of the digital visual worlds that the artist presents. At nearly 500 pages, this book--the first substantial overview on Steyerl--looks at multimedia installations and film projects of the past ten years, as well as earlier works, all of which are united by the artist's unflagging interrogation of the politics of the image.

Science and the Quest for Reality
Science and the Quest for Reality

Author: Alfred I. Tauber

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1349252492

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Science and the Quest for Reality is an interdisciplinary anthology that situates contemporary science within its complex philosophical, historical, and sociological contexts. The anthology is divided between, firstly, characterizing science as an intellectual activity and, secondly, defining its social role. The philosophical and historical vicissitudes of science's truth claims has raised profound questions concerning the role of science in society beyond its technological innovations. The deeper philosophical issues thus complement the critical inquiry concerning the broader social and ethical influence of contemporary science. In the tradition of the 'Main Trends of the Modern World' series, this volume includes both classical and contemporary works on the subject.

Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful
Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful

Author: Lee Rothfarb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-06-29

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190698195

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Eduard Hanslick's On the Musically Beautiful (Vom Musikalisch-Schönen, 1854), written and published before the author turned 30, is a watershed document in the history of aesthetics, and of thought about music generally. The notion of "absolute music," which lies at the heart of the treatise, is now more than ever at the center of discussions about music, particularly that of the Classic and Romantic eras. Rothfarb and Landerer's translation includes three introductory essays offering fresh perspectives on Hanslick, and on the origins, publications, and translation history of his treatise, as well as its central concepts and philosophical underpinnings. The volume also includes thorough annotations, a readers' guide, a glossary of important terms and concepts, and an appendix, which comprises the original opening of Chapter 1, substantially rewritten in subsequent editions, as well as the original ending of the treatise that was excised by Hanslick in later editions. The book's ideas, cogently and often wittily expressed, are mandatory reading for anyone interested in eighteenth and nineteenth-century music and its cultural and intellectual background.