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Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts
with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated
nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood.
Innovative chapters explore the relationship of place to art
practice and pedagogy, culturally-responsive and justice-oriented
perspectives, as well as critical and reconceptualist approaches to
materials, technology and media. Ideal for researchers and students
of both early childhood education and arts integration programs,
this volume is an essential step towards a deeper understanding of
how visual arts are understood, valued and practiced in the early
years.
The Hebrew word zimzum originally means âcontraction,â
âwithdrawal,â âretreat,â âlimitation,â and
âconcentration.â In Kabbalah, zimzum is a term for Godâs
self-limitation, done before creating the world to create the
world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Galilee in the
sixteenth century, positing that the God who was âEin-Sof,â
unlimited and omnipresent before creation, must concentrate himself
in the zimzum and withdraw in order to make room for the creation
of the world in Godâs own center. At the same time, God also
limits his infinite omnipotence to allow the finite world to arise.
Without the zimzum there is no creation, making zimzum one of the
basic concepts of Judaism. The Lurianic doctrine of the zimzum has
been considered an intellectual showpiece of the Kabbalah and of
Jewish philosophy. The teaching of the zimzum has appeared in the
Kabbalistic literature across Central and Eastern Europe, perhaps
most famously in Hasidic literature up to the present day and in
philosopher and historian Gershom Scholemâs epoch-making research
on Jewish mysticism. The Zimzum has fascinated Jewish and Christian
theologians, philosophers, and writers like no other Kabbalistic
teaching. This can be seen across the philosophy and cultural
history of the twentieth century as it gained prominence among such
diverse authors and artists as Franz Rosenzweig, Hans Jonas, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Harold Bloom, Barnett Newman, and Anselm Kiefer.
This book follows the traces of the zimzum across the Jewish and
Christian intellectual history of Europe and North America over
more than four centuries, where Judaism and Christianity, theosophy
and philosophy, divine and human, mysticism and literature,
Kabbalah and the arts encounter, mix, and cross-fertilize the
interpretations and appropriations of this doctrine of Godâs
self-entanglement and limitation.
Featuring the work of leading scholar-practitioners, Visual Arts
with Young Children raises critical questions about the situated
nature of the visual arts and its education in early childhood.
Innovative chapters explore the relationship of place to art
practice and pedagogy, culturally-responsive and justice-oriented
perspectives, as well as critical and reconceptualist approaches to
materials, technology and media. Ideal for researchers and students
of both early childhood education and arts integration programs,
this volume is an essential step towards a deeper understanding of
how visual arts are understood, valued and practiced in the early
years.
In German Romantic literature, Jewish mysticism was also a source
of inspiration for Christian authors such as Novalis, F. Schlegel,
Brentano, Arnim, and E.T.A. Hoffmann. Whereas for Romantic
theologians and philosophers the Kabbala represented the primal
religious doctrine of humanity and a bridge between Rabbinic
tradition and Christianity, the literary fraternity saw in it both
an esoteric Jewish doctrine of the arcane and the magical and a
trope for the mysterious power of language and writing to transcend
rationalism and conscious authorial intention.
The religious interest in natural philosophy, magic, pantheism,
mystic language theories and symbolism, theogony and cosmogony
displayed by many German Romantic authors was a response to what
Hegel called the 'aridity of the Enlightenment'. This interest led
to a rediscovery of cabbala. Among Jewish Romantics, and to an even
greater extent among Christian Romantics, Jewish mysticism became
not only a source of religious, philosophical, and artistic
inspiration, but also a subject of scholarly and philosophical
debate. In 1991 the hitherto largely neglected interconnections
between cabbala and the history of scholarship, literature, and
ideas in the Romantic period were the subject of two
interdisciplinary symposia at the University of Kassel and the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Conventional methods for designing water systems in industrialized
countries are not appropriate in developing countries. Despite
this, the use of sophisticated technologies worldwide is
widespread, although in many cases it is inappropriate. There is a
lack of information for those wishing to learn and apply many of
the practices which are suitable for the developing world, and
which can be easily operated and maintained; this book is designed
to fill that gap.;Now available again in print, this book is
addressed to planners and engineers responsible for the design of
water treatment plants to be built in Africa, Asia and Latin
America. In particular, it is intended for small or isolated
communities which may need to employ technologies which do not
depend on capital-intensive mechanization and instrumentation. Many
of the technologies identified in this text minimize the need for
support technologies and highly skilled technicians, and some are
experimental.
This is a new release of the original 1942 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the
pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
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