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In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to
Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is
implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves
neither conflating Nazism and the continuing philosophical project
that is Heidegger's legacy, nor absolving Heidegger and, in the
process, turning a deaf ear to what he himself called the
philosophical motivations for his political engagement. It is
important to establish the terms on which Heidegger aligned himself
with National Socialism. On the basis of an untimely but by no
means unprecedented understanding of the mission of the German
people, the philosopher first joined but then also criticized the
movement. An exposition of Heidegger's conception of Volk hence can
and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a response to the
enduring impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the
dilemma between liberalism and authoritarianism.
In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to
Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is
implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves
neither conflating Nazism and the continuing philosophical project
that is Heidegger's legacy, nor absolving Heidegger and, in the
process, turning a deaf ear to what he himself called the
philosophical motivations for his political engagement. It is
important to establish the terms on which Heidegger aligned himself
with National Socialism. On the basis of an untimely but by no
means unprecedented understanding of the mission of the German
people, the philosopher first joined but then also criticized the
movement. An exposition of Heidegger's conception of Volk hence can
and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a response to the
enduring impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the
dilemma between liberalism and authoritarianism.
This book, the first of its kind, surveys the career of the
renowned Australian-German theatre and opera director Barrie Kosky.
Its nine chapters provide multidisciplinary analyses of Barrie
Kosky's working practices and stage productions, from the beginning
of his career in Melbourne to his current roles as Head of the
Komische Oper Berlin and as a guest director in international
demand. Specialists in theatre studies, opera studies, musical
theatre studies, aesthetics, and arts administration offer in-depth
accounts of Kosky's unusually wide-ranging engagements with the
performing arts - as a director of spoken theatre, operas,
musicals, operettas, as an adaptor, a performer, a writer, and an
arts manager. Further, this book includes contributions from
theatre practitioners with first-hand experience of collaborating
with Kosky in the 1990s, who draw on interviews with members of
Gilgul, Australia's first Jewish theatre company, to document this
formative period in Kosky's career. The book investigates the ways
in which Kosky has created transnational theatres, through
introducing European themes and theatre techniques to his
Australian work or through bringing fresh voices to the national
dialogue in Germany's theatre landscape. An appendix contains a
timeline and guide to Kosky's productions to date.
Each essay in "Cinematic Thinking" is organized around an
interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues
his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred
Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman,
Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected
here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume
approaches its subjects with a different set of interests and
commitments from the bulk of works in film theory. Memory,
judgment, subjectivity, terrorism, feminism, desire, race
relations, experience, the work of mourning, and utopia are among
the questions discussed in relation to some of the most significant
films of the last fifty years. This collection analyzes the
theoretical and political contexts in which the films were made and
examines their reception down to the present day.
This volume contains the proceedings of the Fifth International
Confer ence on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter held June 2-6,
1986 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The
preceding confer ences were held at St. Maxime and Paris in 1972,
at the University of Nottingham in 1975, at Brown University in
1979, and at the University of Stuttgart in 1983. The Illinois
conference dealt with both traditional and newly developing topics
in the area of phonon scattering. Papers were presented on phonon
scattering in glassy and crystalline dielectrics, semi conductors,
metals (both normal and superconducting), and in the areas of
phonon imaging, large wave vector phonons, optical techniques and
new experimental methods. The 12 invited papers and 100 contributed
papers were presented by the 125 scientists from 14 countries. A
citation was presented to Professor Paul Klemens of the University
of Connecticut for his pioneering contributions to the physics of
phonon scattering in solids. Paul Gustav Klemens Born - Vienna
(1925) B. Sc. - Sydney (1946) D. Phil. - Oxford (1950) National
Standards Lab. , Sydney (1950-1959) Westinghouse Research Labs. ,
Pittsburgh (1964-1969) Univ. of Connecticut (1967- ) Fellow:
American Physical Society British Institute of Physics &
Physical Society A long career dedicated to the understanding of
thermal transport. Few papers are published on phonon thermal
transport that do not reference his work.
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association published the
5thedition of its"Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders"(DSM-5). Often referred to as the "bible" of psychiatry,
the manual only classifies mental disorders and does not explain
them or guide their treatment. While science should be the basis of
any diagnostic system, to date, there is no knowledge on whether
most conditions listed in the manual are true diseases. Moreover,
in DSM-5 the overall definition of mental disorder is weak, failing
to distinguish psychopathology from normality. In spite of all the
progress that has been made in neuroscience over the last few
decades, the psychiatric community is no closer to understanding
the etiology and pathogenesis of mental disorders than it was fifty
years ago.
In"Making the DSM-5," prominent experts delve into the debate
about psychiatric nosology and examine the conceptual and pragmatic
issues underlying the new manual. While retracing the historic
controversy over DSM, considering the political context and
economic impact of the manual, and focusing on what was revised or
left unchanged in the new edition, this timely volume addresses the
main concerns of the future of psychiatry and questions whether the
DSM legacy can truly improve the specialty and advance its
goals.
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Each essay in "Cinematic Thinking" is organized around an
interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues
his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred
Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman,
Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected
here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume
approaches its subjects with a different set of interests and
commitments from the bulk of works in film theory. Memory,
judgment, subjectivity, terrorism, feminism, desire, race
relations, experience, the work of mourning, and utopia are among
the questions discussed in relation to some of the most significant
films of the last fifty years. This collection analyzes the
theoretical and political contexts in which the films were made and
examines their reception down to the present day.
"Tragic Play" explores the deep philosophical significance of
classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic
dimensions of contemporary experience. Romanticism, it has often
been claimed, brought tragedy to an end, making modernity the age
"after" tragedy. Christoph Menke opposes this modernist prejudice
by arguing that tragedy remains alive in the present in the
distinctively new form of the playful, ironic, and self-consciously
performative. Through close readings of plays by William
Shakespeare, Samuel Beckett, Heiner M?ller, and Botho Strauss,
Menke shows how tragedy re-emerges in modernity as "tragedy of
play." In "Hamlet," "Endgame," "Philoktet," and "Ithaka," Menke
integrates philosophical theory with critical readings to
investigate shifting terms of judgment, curse, reversal,
misfortune, and violence.
"The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant" asks how the
literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be
considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In
1801, the twenty-three-year-old Kleist, attributing his loss of
confidence in our knowledge of the world to his reading of Kant,
turned from science to literature. Kleist ignored Kant's apology of
the sciences to focus on the philosopher's doctrine of the
unknowability of things in themselves. From that point on, Kleist's
writings relate confrontations with points of hermeneutic
resistance. Truth is no longer that which the sciences establish;
only the disappointment of every interpretation attests to the
continued sway of truth. Though he adheres to Kant's definition of
Reason as the faculty that addresses things in themselves, Kleist
sees no need for its critique and discipline in the name of the
reasonableness (prudence and common sense) of the experience of the
natural sciences. Setting transcendental Reason at odds with
empirical reasonableness, Kleist releases Kant's ethics and
doctrine of the sublime from the moderating pull of their examples.
As he approached his 100th birthday in 2021, the Reverend J.
Phillips Noble reflected on his journey from segregated rural
Mississippi to being a white progressive pastor in Anniston,
Alabama, at the height of the 20th century civil rights movement.
In Anniston, where white supremacists famously burned the Freedom
Riders' bus in 1961, and committed other violence and intimidation,
Noble became a voice of reconciliation and justice. He worked with
local leaders, black and white, to move the community past the
divisions of Jim Crow segregation. Noble served on the local
interracial commission established by the city, and he formed
enduring friendships with black ministers. His short reflection on
this history and the role he and his family played in it is an
affirming declaration of faith and fellowship.
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