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Paris: Fashion Flair (Hardcover)
Marc-Antoine Coulon; Foreword by Ines de la Fressange
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R896
R791
Discovery Miles 7 910
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This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato's Phaedrus
on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary
discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato's first readers, over
the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and
Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the
reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue's reception
history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established
scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major
figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria,
Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many
others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in
the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and
theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching
and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic,
as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the
dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to
readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to
classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy,
science and religion concerned with the dialogue's reception
history and its main protagonists.
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and
Phenomenon calls attention to the dynamic interaction that takes
place between hermeneutics and phenomenology in Ricoeur's thought.
It could be said that Ricoeur's thought is placed under a twofold
demand: between the rigor of the text and the requirements of the
phenomenon. The rigor of the text calls for fidelity to what the
text actually says, while the requirement of the phenomenon is
established by the Husserlian call to return "to the things
themselves." These two demands are interwoven insofar as there is a
hermeneutic component of the phenomenological attempt to go beyond
the surface of things to their deeper meaning, just as there is a
phenomenological component of the hermeneutic attempt to establish
a critical distance toward the world to which we belong. For this
reason, Ricoeur's thought involves a back and forth movement
between the text and the phenomenon. Although this double movement
was a theme of many of Ricoeur's essays in the middle of his
career, the essays in this book suggest that hermeneutic
phenomenology remains implicit throughout his work. The chapters
aim to highlight, in much greater detail, how this back and forth
movement between phenomenology and hermeneutics takes place with
respect to many important philosophical themes, including the
experience of the body, history, language, memory, personal
identity, and intersubjectivity.
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur: Between Text and
Phenomenon calls attention to the dynamic interaction that takes
place between hermeneutics and phenomenology in Ricoeur's thought.
It could be said that Ricoeur's thought is placed under a twofold
demand: between the rigor of the text and the requirements of the
phenomenon. The rigor of the text calls for fidelity to what the
text actually says, while the requirement of the phenomenon is
established by the Husserlian call to return "to the things
themselves." These two demands are interwoven insofar as there is a
hermeneutic component of the phenomenological attempt to go beyond
the surface of things to their deeper meaning, just as there is a
phenomenological component of the hermeneutic attempt to establish
a critical distance toward the world to which we belong. For this
reason, Ricoeur's thought involves a back and forth movement
between the text and the phenomenon. Although this double movement
was a theme of many of Ricoeur's essays in the middle of his
career, the essays in this book suggest that hermeneutic
phenomenology remains implicit throughout his work. The chapters
aim to highlight, in much greater detail, how this back and forth
movement between phenomenology and hermeneutics takes place with
respect to many important philosophical themes, including the
experience of the body, history, language, memory, personal
identity, and intersubjectivity.
The “Re-Inventing Organic Metaphors for the Social Sciences” is
a volume with the specific goal: to challenge psychological
understandings by connecting psychological approaches with
multidimensional perspectives of various other scientific
streams, meanwhile imbedding the generated knowledge in metaphors
that allows researchers to follow phenomena into a deeper
and more (w)holistic understanding of its appearance. This is
particularly important when the humankind faces challenges due to
systemic biological changes, as the phenomenological dynamics
bonded to those challenges can be conserved in appropriated
context. For this purpose, the organic metaphors are
introduced. A tool that has central advantage over mechanical
metaphors as it can capture the complex and open-systemic nature of
biological, psychological, and social phenomena. For
example—the widely used notion “mind as a computer” may be
more productively replaced by “mind as a membrane”—with
implications (e.g. focus on borders in-between, or in systems in
themselves- exosystemic realities in our world). There are many
other fertile opportunities not yet explored in the realms of
psychology and other sciences. Furthermore, the contributors
operated also as cross-reviewers for each other’s. In this
occasion a new dimension, in chapter construction, will be
introduced. Beside the traditional reviewing of another paper the
reviewer has been asked to add a small list of extending questions
toward the reviewed paper. These added questions have been
introduced as potential questions that the authors were demanded to
add into a final sub-chapter of their contribution. The subchapter
has been titled as “Dialogue” (the author was free to
select between the questions and ideas on those they believe could
inhabit an especially worth for the future readers).
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Hunter with Harpoon (Paperback)
Markoosie Patsauq; Translated by Valerie Henitiuk, Marc-Antoine Mahieu
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R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter,
Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous
fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story
of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous
hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people
struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes
a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation
and vigilance. In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk
and Marc-Antoine Mahieu return to the original Inuktitut text to
provide English readers with a more accurate translation. With a
preface by Patsauq and an afterword from the translators, this
edition offers a fresh and contextualized interpretation of a
cultural milestone. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering
it for the first time, readers will find in Hunter with Harpoon a
sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as
it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of
the Inuit themselves.
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Paris: Fashion Flair (Hardcover)
Marc-Antoine Coulon; Foreword by Ines de la Fressange
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R1,434
R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
Save R861 (60%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Ernst Lichtenhahn ist ohne UEbertreibung ein Doyen der
schweizerischen Musikforschung. Als einer der wenigen
Musikwissenschaftler im deutschsprachigen Raum hat er
unterschiedliche sprachkulturelle und disziplinare
Forschungstraditionen zusammengefuhrt. In seinem
Wissenschaftsverstandnis sind historische und systematische
Musikwissenschaft, Musikethnologie und Musikpraxis ganz im Sinne
des von Guido Adler formulierten holistischen Konzepts sowohl
methodisch wie auch inhaltlich immer eng aufeinander bezogen. Mit
dem Titel "Communicating Music" versucht diese Festschrift zum 80.
Geburtstag von Ernst Lichtenhahn, die durch dieses Verstandnis
hervortretende Vielschichtigkeit wissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen
aufzugreifen und weiterzudenken. Sie versammelt Beitrage, die sich
aus ganz unterschiedlichen methodischen und theoretischen
Perspektiven mit Fragen nach dem diskursiven Charakter von Musik,
den musikalischen Vermittlungs- und Transformationsprozessen sowie
dem Sprechen uber Musik an sich auseinandersetzen. Without any
exaggeration one can call Ernst Lichtenhahn a doyen of Swiss music
research. As one of the few musicologists in the German-speaking
sphere he has succeeded in merging different linguistic-cultural
and disciplinary research traditions. In his manner of scientific
understanding, historical and systematic musicology,
ethnomusicology and music practice are methodologically and
topically related closely to each other, entirely consistent with
the holistic concept of music research as developed by Guido Adler.
With the title "Communicating Music", this Festschrift for Ernst
Lichtenhahn's 80 birthday attempts to take up and to further
develop the diversity of scientific issues as emerged through such
an understanding. It collects papers that come from a variety of
methodological and theoretical perspectives to deal with issues
about the discursive nature of music, about mediation and
transformation processes of music as well as about the discourse on
music itself.
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