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Walk the Camino Ingles or `English Way' from the Spanish seaport
cities of A Coruna or Ferrol on the path long-trodden by British
pilgrims arriving by sea. This lesser-known Camino route showcases
the misty forests and enigmatic culture of Galicia, and can be
walked in 4-7 days. With full-color stage maps and city maps,
you'll always know where you and where you're going. Detailed
accommodations listings show everything you need to know about
pilgrim hostels (albergues) as well as private accommodations for
each budget. Planning and route tips keep you informed, in a
pocket-sized book with no fluff.
Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that
is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social
classes and therefore well suited to building democratic
communities in the 21st Century. This book is about teachers,
students and parents in the Republic of Kazakhstan who opened new
educational directions and democratic possibilities for themselves
through a series of ethnographic studies about their local
communities. By unfolding practical experiences of teachers and
students with ethnographic study, this book builds and expands
understanding about education and democracy across five points of
view: Renewing professional development and building academic
knowledge through ethnographic inquiry Acquiring democratic living
through ethnographic study of participatory, caring citizenship
Connecting democratic ways of life with ethnographic study of
identity formation in diverse communities Building knowledge about
democratic perspectives through reflexive reading and writing about
ethnographic inquiry Building meaningful education at the
intersections of ethnographic inquiry, literacy practices and
theorizing about local communities The authors propose that teacher
and student-led ethnographic inquiries develop educational
experiences that enrich educators' professional growth and provide
innovative research opportunities for them and their students that
generate up-to-date academicknowledge, which can be used to inform
course offerings, design lessons and address state policy mandates.
Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the
philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing
what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume
understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the
inductively-established universal regularities discovered in
experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying
manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a
deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of
scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature
sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using
a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
Hume's Science of Human Nature is an investigation of the
philosophical commitments underlying Hume's methodology in pursuing
what he calls 'the science of human nature'. It argues that Hume
understands scientific explanation as aiming at explaining the
inductively-established universal regularities discovered in
experience via an appeal to the nature of the substance underlying
manifest phenomena. For years, scholars have taken Hume to employ a
deliberately shallow and demonstrably untenable notion of
scientific explanation. By contrast, Hume's Science of Human Nature
sets out to update our understanding of Hume's methodology by using
a more sophisticated picture of science as a model.
Kant's Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a
reading of Kant's theory of mental representation as a direct
response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human
Nature. Kant rejects the conclusions that Hume draws on the grounds
that these are predicated on Hume's theory of mental
representation, which Kant refutes by presenting objections to
Hume's treatment of representations of complex states of affairs
and the nature of judgment. In its place, Kant combines an account
of concepts as rules of inference with a detailed account of
perception and of the self as the locus of conceptual norms to form
a complete theory of human experience as an essentially
rule-governed enterprise aimed at producing a representation of the
world as a system of objects necessarily connected to one another
via causal laws. This interpretation of the historical dialectic
enriches our understanding of both Hume and Kant and brings to bear
Kant's insights into mental representation on contemporary debates
in philosophy of mind. Kant's version of inferentialism is both
resistant to objections to contemporary accounts that cast these as
forms of linguistic idealism, and serves as a remedy to misplaced
Humean scientism about representation.
Bashō 's Haiku offers the most comprehensive translation yet of the poetry of Japanese writer Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who is credited with perfecting and popularizing the haiku form of poetry. One of the most widely read Japanese writers, both within his own country and worldwide, Bashō is especially beloved by those who appreciate nature and those who practice Zen Buddhism. Born into the samurai class, Bashō rejected that world after the death of his master and became a wandering poet and teacher. During his travels across Japan, he became a lay Zen monk and studied history and classical poetry. His poems contained a mystical quality and expressed universal themes through simple images from the natural world. David Landis Barnhill's brilliant book strives for literal translations of Bashō 's work, arranged chronologically in order to show Bashō 's development as a writer. Avoiding wordy and explanatory translations, Barnhill captures the brevity and vitality of the original Japanese, letting the images suggest the depth of meaning involved. Barnhill also presents an overview of haiku poetry and analyzes the significance of nature in this literary form, while suggesting the importance of Bashō to contemporary American literature and environmental thought.
Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the
sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While
much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by
students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted
efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and
students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online
harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with
particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic
criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies
surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of
exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of
different national contexts. It looks at how the increased
neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current
climate, and considers how academics and their universities should
respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established
scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US
and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend
our universities as places for critical thinking and free
expression.
Kant's Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a
reading of Kant's theory of mental representation as a direct
response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human
Nature. Kant rejects the conclusions that Hume draws on the grounds
that these are predicated on Hume's theory of mental
representation, which Kant refutes by presenting objections to
Hume's treatment of representations of complex states of affairs
and the nature of judgment. In its place, Kant combines an account
of concepts as rules of inference with a detailed account of
perception and of the self as the locus of conceptual norms to form
a complete theory of human experience as an essentially
rule-governed enterprise aimed at producing a representation of the
world as a system of objects necessarily connected to one another
via causal laws. This interpretation of the historical dialectic
enriches our understanding of both Hume and Kant and brings to bear
Kant's insights into mental representation on contemporary debates
in philosophy of mind. Kant's version of inferentialism is both
resistant to objections to contemporary accounts that cast these as
forms of linguistic idealism, and serves as a remedy to misplaced
Humean scientism about representation.
A collection of Basho's prose works include all of his longer prose
pieces--the travel journals and Saga Diary--along with eighty short
essays in haibun, prose in the spirit of haiku.
Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the
sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While
much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by
students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted
efforts to silence the critical voices of both academics and
students, through the use of bureaucracy, legal threats and online
harassment. Such tactics have conspicuously been used, with
particularly virulent effect, in an attempt to silence academic
criticism of Israel. This collection uses the controversies
surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means of
exploring the limits placed on academic freedom in a variety of
different national contexts. It looks at how the increased
neoliberalisation of higher education has shaped the current
climate, and considers how academics and their universities should
respond to these new threats. Bringing together new and established
scholars from Palestine and the wider Middle East as well as the US
and Europe, Enforcing Silence shows us how we can and must defend
our universities as places for critical thinking and free
expression.
Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that
is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social
classes and therefore well suited to building democratic
communities in the 21st Century. This book is about teachers,
students and parents in the Republic of Kazakhstan who opened new
educational directions and democratic possibilities for themselves
through a series of ethnographic studies about their local
communities. By unfolding practical experiences of teachers and
students with ethnographic study, this book builds and expands
understanding about education and democracy across five points of
view: Renewing professional development and building academic
knowledge through ethnographic inquiry Acquiring democratic living
through ethnographic study of participatory, caring citizenship
Connecting democratic ways of life with ethnographic study of
identity formation in diverse communities Building knowledge about
democratic perspectives through reflexive reading and writing about
ethnographic inquiry Building meaningful education at the
intersections of ethnographic inquiry, literacy practices and
theorizing about local communities The authors propose that teacher
and student-led ethnographic inquiries develop educational
experiences that enrich educators' professional growth and provide
innovative research opportunities for them and their students that
generate up-to-date academicknowledge, which can be used to inform
course offerings, design lessons and address state policy mandates.
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Thinking Palestine (Paperback)
Ilan Pappe, Laleh Khalili, Sari Hanafi, Ghada Karmi, David Landy, …
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R1,349
Discovery Miles 13 490
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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This book brings together an inter-disciplinary group of
Palestinian, Israeli, American, British and Irish scholars who
theorise 'the question of Palestine'. Critically committed to
supporting the Palestinian quest for self determination, they
present new theoretical ways of thinking about Palestine. These
include the 'Palestinization' of ethnic and racial conflicts, the
theorization of Palestine as camp, ghetto and prison, the
tourist/activist gaze, the role of gendered resistance, the
centrality of the memory of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe) to the
contemporary understanding of the conflict, and the historic roots
of the contemporary discourse on Palestine. The book offers a novel
examination of how the Palestinian experience of being governed
under what Giorgio Agamben names a 'state of exception' may be
theorised as paradigmatic for new forms of global governance. An
indispensable read for any serious scholar.
Nature writing, as Thoreau knew, can be deeply subversive because
it points to ways of living that diverge fundamentally from
dominant attitudes. Thoreau would have welcomed these essays by
America's most important nature writers, for in exploring our
intrinsic relationship with the earth, they also consider our
alienation from nature and how that alienation is manifested.
The book's principal focus is on the possibilities of being at home
on the earth: Finding place, reinhabitation, and becoming
native.The collection begins with essays by N. Scott Momaday and
Leslie Marmon Silko, who accentuate the links between culture and
nature. Other essays speak to the loss of place and to being
stewards of nature and of bioregionalism, nativeness, and of
interdependent communities, be they in rural areas or urban
neighborhoods. Several essays address how our current ideologies of
growth and individualism run counter to a sustainable relationship
to the land and to each other. In the final three essays, Gary
Snyder critiques various views of nature, Alice Walker articulates
a vision of a responsive universe, and Linda Hogan celebrates the
interaction of nature and human habitation. The contributors'
views, writings, and contexts are variegated, but all share a sense
that human identity is intimately tied to the land one lives on.
And as in an ecosystem, the collection's great diversity yields
abundant riches.
"At Home on the Earth" represents the cutting edge of environmental
thinking in the United States today. Throughout, the interactions
between humans and nature convey a politics of hope, one sustained
by faith in place itself. As Gary Snyder writes, "We are all
indigenous to this planet, this mosaic of wild gardens we are being
called by nature and history to reinhabit in good spirit."
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