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This book focuses on Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre within a
timely framework, and on the counterpoint to this, being organized
around areas of Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre that appear to be untimely
in their relation to narratives of the period.
This is a study of the architect Walter Segal (1907-1985): his
background, influences, thoughts, writings, his unique approach to
architectural practice (and his built work) and his enduring impact
on architecture and attitudes to housing across the world. It
firstly sets out his formative years in Continental Europe. Segal's
father was an eminent modernist painter and a founder of the Dada
movement. Walter grew up surrounded by leaders of the European
avant-garde. Qualifying as architect in Germany just as the Nazi
party came to power, Segal moved to Switzerland, Mallorca, Egypt
and finally to London in 1936. The second section focuses on Walter
Segal's central theme of popular housing, his unique and
independent form of professional practice, how he managed to spread
his ideas through writing and teaching, and how his architecture
developed towards the timber-frame form known world-wide today as
'the Segal system', which could be used by people to build their
own houses. The third section follows the development of the
timber-frame form known world-wide today as 'the Segal method' and
how it came to be used by people to build and indeed design their
own houses. This culminated at the time of Segal's death in two
areas of self-built public authority social housing in London -
housing which, nearly half a century later, remains as unique and
highly desirable neighbourhoods. The final section explores the
legacy offered by Segal to younger generations; how his work and
example, half a century after his timber 'method' was developed,
leads to the possibility of making, and then living within,
communities whose places are constructed with a flexible, easily
assembled, planet-friendly timber-frame building system today and
tomorrow.
This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data
School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book
describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary
science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data
handling. Together with hands-on exercises the chapters, based on
the lecture notes, teach fundamentals and practical knowledge.
LOFAR is a new and innovative radio telescope operating at low
radio frequencies (10-250 MHz) and is the first of a new generation
of radio interferometers that are leading the way to the ambitious
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to be built in the next decade. This
unique reference guide serves as a primary information source for
research groups around the world that seek to make the most of
LOFAR data, as well as those who will push these topics forward to
the next level with the design, construction, and realization of
the SKA. This book will also be useful as supplementary reading
material for any astrophysics overview or astrophysical techniques
course, particularly those geared towards radio astronomy (and
radio astronomy techniques).
This book presents lecture materials from the Third LOFAR Data
School, transformed into a coherent and complete reference book
describing the LOFAR design, along with descriptions of primary
science cases, data processing techniques, and recipes for data
handling. Together with hands-on exercises the chapters, based on
the lecture notes, teach fundamentals and practical knowledge.
LOFAR is a new and innovative radio telescope operating at low
radio frequencies (10-250 MHz) and is the first of a new generation
of radio interferometers that are leading the way to the ambitious
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) to be built in the next decade. This
unique reference guide serves as a primary information source for
research groups around the world that seek to make the most of
LOFAR data, as well as those who will push these topics forward to
the next level with the design, construction, and realization of
the SKA. This book will also be useful as supplementary reading
material for any astrophysics overview or astrophysical techniques
course, particularly those geared towards radio astronomy (and
radio astronomy techniques).
This second volume in Nancy's The Deconstruction of Christianity
explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us
now, in the wake of the dis-enclosure of religion and the retreat
of God: that of adoration. Adoration is stretched out toward
things, but without phenomenological intention. In our present
historical time, we have come to see relation itself as the divine.
The address and exclamation--the salut!--that constitutes adoration
celebrates this relation: both the relation among all beings that
the world is and what is beyond relation, the outside of the world
that opens us in the midst of the world. A major contribution to
the contemporary philosophy of religion, Adoration clarifies and
builds upon not only Dis-Enclosure, the first volume in this
project, but also Nancy's other previous writings on sense, the
world, and the singular plurality of being.
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was one of the most important writers
of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary
criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over
several generations of writers, artists, and philosophers. In works
such as Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of
the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Blanchot produced some of
the most incisive statements of what it meant to experience the
traumas and turmoils of the twentieth century. As a journalist and
political activist, Blanchot had a public side that coexisted
uneasily with an inclination to secrecy, a refusal of interviews
and photographs, and a reputation for mysteriousness and seclusion.
These public and private Blanchots came together in complicated
ways at some of the twentieth century's most momentous occasions.
He was among the public intellectuals participating in the May '68
revolution in Paris and helped organize opposition to the Algerian
war. During World War II, he found himself moments away from being
executed by the Nazis. More controversially, he had been active in
far-right circles in the '30s. Now translated into English,
Christophe Bident's magisterial, scrupulous, much-praised critical
biography provides the first full-length account of Blanchot's
itinerary, drawing on unpublished letters and on interviews with
the writer's close friends. But the book is both a biography and
far more. Beyond filling out a life famous for its obscurity,
Bident's book will transform the way readers of Blanchot respond to
this major intellectual figure by offering a genealogy of his
thought, a distinctive trajectory that is at once imaginative and
speculative, at once aligned with literary modernity and a close
companion and friend to philosophy. The book is also a historical
work, unpacking the 'transformation of convictions' of an author
who moved from the far-right in the 1930s to the far-left in the
1950s and after. Bident's extensive archival research explores the
complex ways that Blanchot's work enters into engagement with his
contemporaries, making the book also a portrait of the circles in
which he moved, which included friends such as Georges Bataille,
Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jacques
Derrida. Finally, the book traces the strong links between
Blanchot's life and an oeuvre that nonetheless aspires to
anonymity. Ultimately, Bident shows how Blanchot's life itself
becomes an oeuvre-becomes a literature that bears the traces of
that life secretly. In its even-handed appraisal, Bident's
sophisticated reading of Blanchot's life together with his work
offers a much-needed corrective to the range of cruder accounts,
whether from Blanchot's detractors or from his champions, of a life
too easily sensationalized. This definitive biography of a seminal
figure of our time will be essential reading for anyone concerned
with twentieth-century literature, thought, culture, and politics.
Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was one of the most important writers
of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary
criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over
several generations of writers, artists, and philosophers. In works
such as Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of
the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Blanchot produced some of
the most incisive statements of what it meant to experience the
traumas and turmoils of the twentieth century. As a journalist and
political activist, Blanchot had a public side that coexisted
uneasily with an inclination to secrecy, a refusal of interviews
and photographs, and a reputation for mysteriousness and seclusion.
These public and private Blanchots came together in complicated
ways at some of the twentieth century's most momentous occasions.
He was among the public intellectuals participating in the May '68
revolution in Paris and helped organize opposition to the Algerian
war. During World War II, he found himself moments away from being
executed by the Nazis. More controversially, he had been active in
far-right circles in the '30s. Now translated into English,
Christophe Bident's magisterial, scrupulous, much-praised critical
biography provides the first full-length account of Blanchot's
itinerary, drawing on unpublished letters and on interviews with
the writer's close friends. But the book is both a biography and
far more. Beyond filling out a life famous for its obscurity,
Bident's book will transform the way readers of Blanchot respond to
this major intellectual figure by offering a genealogy of his
thought, a distinctive trajectory that is at once imaginative and
speculative, at once aligned with literary modernity and a close
companion and friend to philosophy. The book is also a historical
work, unpacking the 'transformation of convictions' of an author
who moved from the far-right in the 1930s to the far-left in the
1950s and after. Bident's extensive archival research explores the
complex ways that Blanchot's work enters into engagement with his
contemporaries, making the book also a portrait of the circles in
which he moved, which included friends such as Georges Bataille,
Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jacques
Derrida. Finally, the book traces the strong links between
Blanchot's life and an oeuvre that nonetheless aspires to
anonymity. Ultimately, Bident shows how Blanchot's life itself
becomes an oeuvre-becomes a literature that bears the traces of
that life secretly. In its even-handed appraisal, Bident's
sophisticated reading of Blanchot's life together with his work
offers a much-needed corrective to the range of cruder accounts,
whether from Blanchot's detractors or from his champions, of a life
too easily sensationalized. This definitive biography of a seminal
figure of our time will be essential reading for anyone concerned
with twentieth-century literature, thought, culture, and politics.
This second volume in Nancy’s The Deconstruction of Christianity
explores the stance or bearing that would be appropriate for us
now, in the wake of the dis-enclosure of religion and the retreat
of God: that of adoration. Adoration is stretched out toward
things, but without phenomenological intention. In our present
historical time, we have come to see relation itself as the divine.
The address and exclamation--the salut!--that constitutes adoration
celebrates this relation: both the relation among all beings that
the world is and what is beyond relation, the outside of the world
that opens us in the midst of the world. A major contribution to
the contemporary philosophy of religion, Adoration clarifies and
builds upon not only Dis-Enclosure, the first volume in this
project, but also Nancy’s other previous writings on sense, the
world, and the singular plurality of being.
The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003)
is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century
has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and
politics has yet to fully acknowledge its discreet but enduring
impact. Arising from a conference that took place in Oxford in
2009, this book sets itself a simple, if daunting, task: that of
measuring the impact and responding to the challenge of Blanchot's
work by addressing its engagement with the Romantic legacy, in
particular (but not only) that of the Jena Romantics. Drawing upon
a wide range of philosophers and poets associated directly or
indirectly with German Romanticism (Kant, Fichte, Goethe, Jean
Paul, Novalis, the Schlegels, Hoelderlin), the authors of this
volume explore how Blanchot's fictional, critical, and fragmentary
texts rewrite and rethink the Romantic demand in relation to
questions of criticism and reflexivity, irony and subjectivity,
narrative and genre, the sublime and the neutre, the Work and the
fragment, quotation and translation. Reading Blanchot with or
against key twentieth-century thinkers (Benjamin, Foucault, de
Man), they also examine Romantic and post-Romantic notions of
history, imagination, literary theory, melancholy, affect, love,
revolution, community, and other central themes that Blanchot's
writings deploy across the century from Jean-Paul Sartre to
Jean-Luc Nancy. This book contains contributions in both English
and French.
This book focuses on Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre within a
timely framework, and on the counterpoint to this, being organized
around areas of Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre that appear to be untimely
in their relation to narratives of the period.
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