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Joseph Weiss (1918-69) showed a single-minded commitment to
identifying and describing the mystical element in hasidism and to
unravelling the spiritual and historical meaning of the hasidic
movement. The studies collected here are still quoted in every
serious study of hasidism. Joseph Dan's Introduction, written
specially for this paperback edition, examines Weiss's scholarship
both in the context of subsequent scholarly research and in the
light of the resurgence of hasidism since the Second World War. He
concludes that many of Weiss's detailed, perceptive, and empathetic
studies are as relevant to understanding developments in the
contemporary hasidic world as they are for understanding the
emergence and growth of hasidism in the eighteenth century.
Too often Indigenous peoples have been portrayed as being without a
future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler
society. This book asserts quite the opposite: Indigenous peoples
are not in any sense "out of time" in our contemporary world.
Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii shows how Indigenous peoples in
Canada not only continue to have a future, but are at work building
many different futures - for themselves and for their
non-Indigenous neighbours. Through the experiences of the Haida
First Nation, this book explores these possible futures in detail,
demonstrating how Haida ways of thinking about time, mobility, and
political leadership are at the heart of contemporary strategies
for addressing the dilemmas that come with life under settler
colonialism.
Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter
Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the
dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the
unresolved contradictions of contemporary music. By following the
outermost mediations between nature, history, and technology, the
book reflects on how advanced music critically responds to the
ongoing catastrophe of both the Middle Passage and Auschwitz.
Following what the author calls the “categorical imperative” of
music, Weiss investigates the significance of a wide range of
musical phenomena including the territorialization of the lullaby,
the improvisation and sorrow song of the blues and jazz, as well as
the cosmological limits of the electroacoustic avant-garde. In the
era of commodity production, racialized violence and dispossession,
the author defends critical music as a singular index of political
possibilities.
Excerpt from Kondensation: Ein Lehr-und Handbuch ber Kondensation
und Alle Damit Zusammenh ngenden Fragen, Auch Einschliesslich der
Wasserr ckk hlung; F r Studierende des Maschinenbaues, Ingenieure,
Leiter Gr sserer Dampfbetriebe, Chemiker und Zuckertechniker Beim
Aufkommen der Burckhardt Weiss'schen Schieber luftpumpen mit
Druckausgleich in den achtziger Jahren fanden selbe gleich auf
ihrem eigentlichsten Gebiet Verwendung als \n kuumpumpen' und zwar
bei Kondensatoren von Verdampfappara ten in Zuckerfabriken, welche
Kondensatoren meistens schon mit barometrischem Fallrohr zur Abfuhr
des warmen Wassers arbeiteten. Indem diese Schieberpumpen einen
viel h heren volumetrischen Wirkungsgrad haben als die fr heren
Klappen und Ventilpumpen, ferner bei abgeschlossenem Saugstutzen in
diesem ein Vakuum bis auf wenige Millimeter an das absolute heran
erzeugen, erwartete man in den betreffenden Kreisen durch Anwendung
dieser Pumpen nicht nur eine bedeutende Verbesserung des Vakuums in
Konden sator und Verdampfapparaten, sondern in zahlreichen F llen
eine Erniedrigung des Druckes sogar noch unter den der Temperatur
des Ablaufwassers entsprechenden Dampfdruck, also etwas physi
kalisch Unm gliches! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes
hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at
www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important
historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology
to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format
whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare
cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or
missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,
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