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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2005Reading Walter Benjamin
Writing through the catastrophe
by Richard Lane
'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane's text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesInteresting Philosphy: Modern Philosophy
by Cibala
The first book of five in the Interesting Philosphy series, this book walks the reader through interpreting and brainstorming sixteen different stories. From the idea of "faith" that dominated the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, to "knowledge" as the theme of the seventeenth and eigteenth centuries, Modern Philosphy discusses both large and small events that have left a mark on philosophy today.
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February 2020De onzichtbare maat
Archeologie van goed en kwaad
by Andreas Kinneging
The modern age is characterised by excess. But this goes directly against the great European tradition, stretching back to Athens and Jerusalem, which is all about moderation and restraint, and whose core idea is that the right measure can be found in the real world, although it is not visible. You have to seek it out. There is a right measure in everything: the right size clothes, the right amount of food and drink, the right balance between work and play, joy and sorrow, freedom and equality. Tact is a form of moderation. So is reasonableness. Ultimately, good and evil are nothing more than knowing where to draw the line. This insight, this wisdom, has been swept away by the ideologies of Enlightenment and Romanticism, which dominate the modern world. They are both ideologies of boundlessness, or in other words, excess. The Enlightenment seeks salvation in unlimited economic and technological progress, the infinite satisfaction of desires. Romanticism seeks happiness in endless experimentation and endless introspection, in search of the infinite Self. The result is a world thrown off balance and people without purpose or direction. Yet the answer is so simple: the right measure. Our ancestors knew it. We have forgotten it. This book dusts off tradition and brings it back to life.
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Biography: science, technology & engineeringAugust 2012A Physicists Labour In War And Peace
by E W Kellermann
This informative book covers the pre war period to the 1990s spanning the author s experience of the rise of Nazism on the continent, his research and his involvement in the planning of Science and Higher Education in Britain. He gives a wry commentary on education and science in Britain, and describes his role in pressing for adequate funding for science, especially during the Thatcher era. His research in Edinburgh with the future Nobel Laureate Max Born, one of the giants of Theoretical Physics, led to a breakthrough in solidstate physics. In Manchester he worked with Patrick Blackett, also a future Nobel Laureate, measuring Extensive Air Showers . These are sprays of particles, which fall on the earth generated by nuclear particles from the cosmos. Later in Leeds he was one of the initiators of the National British Air Shower Experiment. He writes about some of the famous scientists he has met, and also of his disappointments which are often the fate of a working scientist. This is not a rounded autobiography. Much of the book is concerned with Kellermann s research in solid state and cosmic ray physics and his interaction with outstanding physicists of the time, notably his work with Karl Przibram in Vienna and later with Max Born, Patrick Blackett and E C Stoner, and his meetings with C F Powell in Great Britain. There is also an account of his meeting with Max Planck, his discussions with the later atom spy Klaus Fuchs and other notable scientists of the period. It is concerned also with British science policy and Kellermann s commitment to promote support for science by British governments of the day. But a life in physics spanning the second half of the twentieth century is also likely to be a life deeply marked by warfare, antiSemitism, and disruption. These intelligently written memoirs (Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds) offer perceptive assessments of contemporary events and of many of the scientists and politicians Kellermann encountered. The Leitmotiv during Kellermannss later years was his research on cosmic ray extensive air showers. The nonspecialist will find a clear account of how these showers, caused by enormously energetic particles from the cosmos are clues to its understanding, an account leading right up to the present state of the art.
