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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.
James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of
Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the
Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the
German-American actor Marlene Dietrich (1901-92). Considered by his
contemporaries one of the most significant directors of interwar
Hollywood, Sternberg made seven films with Dietrich that helped
establish her as a style icon and star and entrenched his own
reputation for extravagance and aesthetic spectacle. These films
enriched the technical repertoire of the industry, challenged the
sexual mores of the times and notoriously tried the patience of
management at Paramount Studios. Sternberg and Dietrich: The
Phenomenology of Spectacle demonstrates how under Sternberg's
direction Paramount's sound stages became laboratories for novel
thought experiments. Analysing in depth the last four films on
which Sternberg and Dietrich worked together, Phillips reconstructs
the "cinematic philosophy" that Sternberg claimed for himself in
his autobiography and for whose fullest expression Dietrich was
indispensable. This book makes a case for the originality and
perceptiveness with which these films treat such issues as the
nature of trust, the status of appearance, the standing of women,
the ethics and politics of the image, and the relationship between
cinema and the world. Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of
Spectacle reveals that more is at stake in these films than the
showcasing of a new star and the confectionery of glamour: Dietrich
emerges here as a woman who is at ease in the world without being
at home in it, an image of autonomy whose critical potential has
yet to be realized, let alone exhausted.
Our lives are dominated by technology. We live with and through the
achievements of technology. What is true of the rest of life is of
course true of medicine. Many of us owe our existence and our
continued vigour to some achievement of medical technology. And
what is true in a major way of general medicine is to a significant
degree true of psychiatry. Prozac has long since arrived, and in
its wake an ever-growing armamentarium of new psychotropics; beyond
that, neuroscience promises ever more technological advances for
the field. However, the effect of technology on the field of
psychiatry remains highly ambiguous. On the one hand there are the
achievements, both in the science and practice of psychiatry; on
the other hand technology's influence on the field threatens its
identity as a humanistic practice. In this ambiguity psychiatry is
not unique - major thinkers have for a long time been highly
ambivalent and concerned about the technological order that now
defines modern society. For the future, the danger is that the
psychiatrically real becomes that which can be seen, the symptom,
and especially that which can be measured. Disorders and treatments
might become reduced to what can be defined by diagnostic criteria
and what can be mapped out on a scale. This book exams how
technology has come to influence and drive psychiatry forward, and
considers at just what cost these developments have been made. It
includes a range of stimulating and thought-provoking chapters from
a range of psychiatrists and philosophers.
Work with business scenarios and discover best practices to get the
most out of Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer
Voice Key Features Explore step-by-step instructions to integrate
surveys with Microsoft 365 apps Automate surveys and follow-up
actions from survey results using Microsoft Forms Create custom
report dashboards and explore advanced analytics for managing
insights Book DescriptionMicrosoft Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer
Voice enable organizations to collect and analyze feedback from
employees and customers, helping developers to integrate their
feedback and business users to collect feedback that will guide
them to develop customer-centric solutions. This book takes a
hands-on approach to leveraging Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365
Customer Voice capabilities for common feedback scenarios and
covers best practices and tips and tricks to have your solution up
and running in no time. You'll start by exploring common scenarios
where organizations collect feedback from employees and customers
and implement end-to-end solutions with Forms. You'll then discover
how to create surveys and get to grips with different configuration
options commonly used for each scenario. Throughout the book,
you'll also find sample questions and step-by-step instructions for
integrating the survey with related technology such as Microsoft
Teams, Power Automate, and Power BI for an end-to-end scenario. By
the end of this Microsoft book, you'll be able to build and deploy
your complete solution using Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365
Customer Voice, allowing you to listen to customers or employees,
interpret their feedback, take timely follow-up action, and monitor
results. What you will learn Get up and running with Microsoft
Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer Voice services Explore common
feedback scenarios and survey best practices Understand how to
administer Microsoft Forms and Dynamics 365 Customer Voice Use
Microsoft Forms or Dynamics 365 Customer Voice to monitor your
survey results Set up the Microsoft Forms app for Teams for
conducting live polls Automate feedback collection and follow-up
actions Who this book is forThis book is for business users who
want to increase customer and employee engagement and collect data
for measuring user satisfaction and driving product and process
improvements. Beginner-level knowledge of Microsoft products such
as Office 365 (including Teams, Outlook, and Excel) is expected.
The book also includes advanced topics for citizen developers to
automate sending Customer Voice surveys, follow-up actions, and
creating custom dashboards using Microsoft Power Platform
applications like Power Automate and Power BI.
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.
Sometimes we don't live, we cope. I have coped, not lived, for a
long time. So have you I think. A passionate love story set between
London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion
of Cyprus in 1974, has made a home in London and cocooned herself
from ghosts of the past. There, she meets Jonathan, an English
classical scholar, who falls deeply in love with her. Against a
backdrop of war and the partition of countries, can love overcome
the grief of the past?
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