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Accompanying this wealth of detailed information are over 100 black
and white photographs, illustrations and maps, plus a list of
Azerbaijani proverbs, suggestions for further reading, a chronology
of Azerbaijani historical events, and a discography.
Few people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as
the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most
influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a
composer and writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist whose
Confessions ranks as one of the most striking works of
autobiography ever written. Like many creative thinkers, Rousseau
was someone whose restless mind could not help questioning accepted
orthodoxies and looking at matters from novel and innovative
angles. His 1762 treatise The Social Contract does exactly that.
Examining the nature and sources of legitimate political power, it
crafted a closely reasoned and passionately persuasive argument for
democracy at a time when the most widely accepted form of
government was absolute monarchy, legitimised by religious beliefs
about the divine right of kings and queens to rule. In France, the
book was banned by worried Catholic censors; in Rousseau's native
Geneva, it was both banned and burned. But history soon pushed
Rousseau's ideas into the mainstream of political theory, with the
French and American revolutions paving the way for democratic
government to gain ground across the Western world. Though it was
precisely what got Rousseau's book banned at the time, the novel
idea that all legitimate government rests on the will of the people
is now recognised as the core principle of democratic freedom and
represents, for many people, the highest of ideals.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer James Hill of the "New York
Times" chooses fifty of his photographs and describes the stories
and emotions behind those pictures and the artistic and emotional
choices shaped during the intense kaleidoscope of those
experiences. From the invasion of Iraq in 2003, to the Royal
Wedding in 2011, to taking the first portrait of the notorious arms
dealer Viktor Bout, to the death of Pope John Paul II, Hill has
witnessed some of recent history's most poignant moments, and
describes the fine balance demanded of a photojournalist between
professional detachment and personal engagement.
Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they
played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities
and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in
Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social realist
'pictures'. The entire history of Soviet art is thus reflected in
Moscow's metro stations, palaces of culture, military museums,
hospitals, schools, and prefabricated houses. Today, many of these
works are disappearing before our eyes, victims of destruction or
dismantling; the majority are not listed as under state protection,
and a great number of their authors are unknown. This book collects
140 Soviet-era mosaics and arranges them in chronological order. It
contains four main sections - Art Deco, Socialist Realism,
Modernism, and Postmodernism - and includes a list of 295 mosaics
that have been identified. This guide shows well-known works by
Aleksander Deyneka, Pavel Korin, Boris Chernyshev, Evgeny Ablin,
Yury Korolev, and Leonid Polishchuk side by side with mosaics by
artists whose names were for a long time absent from the history of
art and architecture. The idea for it came from American
photographer James Hill, who spent three years seeking out and
photographing works of Soviet monumental art that have not received
the attention they deserve and that in the post-Soviet period have
often been dismissed as propaganda.
George Berkeley’s doctrine of notions is often disparaged or
dismissed. In a systematic interpretation and positive
reconstruction of the doctrine, James Hill presents Berkeley’s
understanding of the inner sphere and self-awareness, and
reassesses the widely held view of Berkeley as an empiricist.
Examining the development of Berkeley’s philosophy from the early
notebooks to the late Siris, Hill sets out how knowledge by notion
involves a radical rejection of the perceptual model of
self-cognition and of the attempt to frame our knowledge of the
inner by analogy with the outer. He points to Berkeley’s
divergence from the assumption among rationalists and empiricists
that we know our selves and our mental acts by idea, or by an
immediate presentation before the mind. Weaving together
Berkeley’s conception of the intellect, conceptual thought,
mathematics, ethics and theology in the light of the doctrine of
notions, Hill invites us to treat Berkeley’s philosophy of mind
as distinct from the empiricist tradition. This cutting edge
reflection on the doctrine of notions is essential reading for
students and scholars specialising in Berkeley as well as early
modern accounts of the self, perception and God.
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