Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Heidegger, politics and climate change risking it all / by Irwin, Ruth, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Globalization -- Globalization and the environment -- Climate change and the crisis of philosophy -- Social conscience and global market -- Categories, environmental indicators and the enlightenment market -- Environmentalism -- Pessimistic realism and optimistic total management -- Population statistics and modern governmentality -- Neopragmatism in late modernity -- Technological enframing -- Heidegger; the origin and the finitude of civilization -- Technology and the kultur of late modernity -- Embodied subjectivity and the critique of modernity.…”
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The fragility of the 'failed state' paradigm a different international law perception of the absence of effective government / by Akpinarli, Neyire

Table of Contents: “…The appearance and features of the absence of effective government -- Case studies -- Internal reflection of the world historical context -- Determining the absence of effective government in public international law -- International legal subjectivity -- Handling the legal complications of the absence of effective government -- The hypocritical approach of the north to solving the absence of -- Effective government : state reconstruction -- The hypocritical approach of the north to solving the absence of effective government : the economic and social appraoch as a long term solution.…”
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The postcolonial citizen the intellectual migrant / by Dutt-Ballerstadt, Reshmi

Table of Contents: “…Remapping home -- The arrival and the I-94: predicaments for entering and leaving -- Forging states of belonging: migrant memory, nation, and subjectivity in Meena Alexander's memoir Fault lines -- Double displacement, homelessness, and nomadism: questions of belonging in Jhumpa Lahiri's narratives -- Threatening bodies, dangerous knowledge, legal interventions -- The question of returns: irresolution of locations -- Conclusion.…”
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William Wordsworth and the ecology of authorship the roots of environmentalism in nineteenth-century culture / by Hess, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Picturesque vision, photographic subjectivity, and the (un)framing of nature -- Wordsworth country: the Lake District and the landscape of genius -- Wordsworth's environmental protest: the Kendal and Windermere Railroad and the cultural politics of nature -- The Lake District and the museum of nature -- "My endless way": travel, gender, and the imaginative colonization of nature -- Epilogue: the ecology of authorship versus the ecology of community.…”
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Adaptation studies in French and Francophone culture /

Table of Contents: “…Performance, adaptation and subjectivity.…”
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Dance and the corporeal uncanny : philosophy in motion / by Rothfield, Philipa

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Introduction to technical services / by Evans, G. Edward, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Technical services administration -- Staffing -- Technical services issues -- Acquisitions : overview -- Distributors and vendors -- Print and digital books -- E-resource issues -- Serials : print and electronic -- Government information -- Media -- Fiscal management -- Overview and decisions -- Description : identifying materials -- Access points : retrieving the record -- Subject analysis -- Subject authorities -- Classification systems -- Marc format and metadata -- Copy cataloging -- Processing materials -- Leading the catalog department.…”

Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / by Evans, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Types of evil, versions of the problem and types of responses ; The logical form of the problem ; The evidential form of the problem ; Horrendous evils and the problem of hell ; Divine hiddenness -- Faith(s) and reason. Faith : subjectivity in religious arguments ; The evidentialist challenge to religious belief ; Reformed epistemology ; The place of subjectivity in forming beliefs ; Interpretive judgments and the nature of a "cumulative case" ; Can faith be certain? …”
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Locating Bourdieu by Reed-Danahay, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Bourdieu's point of view -- Education -- Insider/outsider ethnography in Algeria and France -- Habitus and emotion -- Situated subjectivities -- Conclusion.…”
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Truth, etc six lectures on ancient logic / by Barnes, Jonathan, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Truth -- Predicates and subjects -- What is a connector? -- Forms of argument -- The science of logic -- When is a syllogism not a syllogism?…”
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Fabricating the people politics and administration in the biopolitical state / by Catlaw, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Public administration and political ontology -- Public administration and sovereignty -- Representation -- Law -- Administration -- Legitimacy and control -- A politics of the subject.…”
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Aesthetics and painting by Gaiger, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Painting and philosophy -- A window onto the world -- Surface and subject -- Resemblance and denotation -- Pictorial style -- Modernism and the avant-garde.…”
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Soft force : women in Egypt's Islamic awakening / by McLarney, Ellen Anne

Table of Contents: “…Gendering Islamic subjectivities -- Part 3. Politics of the Islamic family.…”
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Practical grammar of modern Chinese. by Liu, Yuehua, 1937-, Wenyu, Pan, Wei, Gu

Table of Contents: “…1 Subject and Object. 2 Object. 3 Attribute. 4 Adverbial. 5 Complement. 6 Double Reference and Parenthesis…”
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Tropes of Transport Hegel and Emotion / by Pahl, Katrin

Table of Contents: “…Emotional subjects: Heart. Pathos -- Emotional syntax: Release. …”
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American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics / by Strick, Simon, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism -- Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization -- Picturing racial pain -- Late modern pain.…”
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Interfaces + recursion = language? Chomsky's minimalism and the view from syntax-semantics /

Table of Contents: “…Approaching UG from below / Noam Chomsky -- The subject-in-situ generalization revisited / Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou -- Towards a relativized concept of cyclic linearization / Gereon Müller -- Strategies of subject extraction / Luigi Rizzi and Ur Shlonsky -- Some remarks on locality conditions and minimalist grammars / Hans-Martin Gärtner and Jens Michaelis -- Flat binding : binding without sequences / Uli Sauerland -- The grammar of focus interpretation / Sigrid Beck.…”
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Aims a brief metaphysics for today / by Felt, James W., 1926-

Table of Contents: “…The beginning -- A brief description of experiencing -- Interlude on method -- A preliminary metaphysical interpretation of experience -- Aims and the experiencing subject -- The object-structure of immediate experience : space -- The subject-structure of immediate experience : time -- On the interactions of primary beings -- Free acts -- The basic structure of primary beings -- Existing as participated act -- Participation and God -- The problem of the origin of essential aims -- Three options for a solution -- Making a choice -- "Know yourself!"…”
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Fortune's faces the Roman de la Rose and the poetics of contingency / by Heller-Roazen, Daniel

Table of Contents: “…Inventio linguae : the language of contingency -- The nameless lover, or the contingent subject -- Fortune, or the contingent figure -- Through the looking-glass : the knowledge of contingency.…”
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