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In this book philosophers try to answer the following question:
What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde)
signify? Remi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in
order to track the worldhood (mondaneite) of the world, that is,
the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde
shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no
longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action,
but become the very means by which people exist in the world.
Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels -
that of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi
analyses the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world
other than the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miro
Quesada C. emphasises that the great political questions are not
solvable without worldviews that express value systems. David
Rasmussen describes sensus communis as a cosmopolitan concept,
which founds a political globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp
attempts to grasp the meaning of that globalization upon which the
destiny of our planet depends."
The essential companion for lovers of the contemporary novel
 Over the past fifty years, fiction in English has never
looked more various. Books bulkier than Victorian three-deckers
appear alongside works of minimalist brevity, and experiments with
form have produced everything from verse novels to Twitter-thread
narratives. This is truly a golden age. Â But what unites
this kaleidoscopic array of genres and styles? Â Celebrated
writer and critic Peter Kemp shows how modern writers are obsessed
with the past. In a series of engaging and illuminating chapters,
Retroland traces this novelistic preoccupation with history, from
the imperial and the political to the personal and the literary.
 Featuring famous names from across the United Kingdom,
United States, and the wider Anglophone world, ranging from Salman
Rushdie to Sarah Waters, Toni Morrison to Hilary Mantel, this is a
work of remarkable synthesis and clarity—a wonderfully readable
and enjoyably opinionated guide to our current literary landscape.
Before us in the bright spring sunshine lay the entire Clyde
valley, dominated by the vast sprawling mass of Glasgow, the dear
green place. There was a time no too long ago when the old heavy
industries would have made this view much less clear. But today we
could see the Cowal Hills and Greenock in the west to the Pentlands
in the East. From the time he bagged his first Munro, Peter Kemp
has remained an enthusiastic hillawalker and this book is a
testament to his passion for Scotland's outdoors and hillwalking
culture.
In this book, Peter Kemp traces his life from his early years in
urban Glasgow to his adventures in the Scottish mountains. 'Of Big
Hills and Wee Men' sees Peter Kemp recount his tales of the
mountains and of life growing up in Govan, tackling those two
traditional images of Scotland - the shipyards and the glens.
The wisdom about the good life and about norms in general cannot
be deduced from neutral scientific and technological knowledge.
Therefore, education as upbringing and formation of the human being
cannot dispense the commitment of the educator who must stand for
what he or she teaches. A school with a teacher that educates as a
machine is like a school without teacher. Thus, the crucial
questions for the philosophy of education in our time are: What is
commitment? What is a committed educator? How is it possible to be
committed in education?
Peter Kemp is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the School
of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark and is general
treasurer of The International Institute of Philosophy.
In this book philosophers try to answer the following question:
What is globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde)
signify? Remi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in
order to track the worldhood (mondaneite) of the world, that is,
the process by which the idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde
shows how a world has developed, in which technologies are no
longer considered neutral means serving the ends of human action,
but become the very means by which people exist in the world.
Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two levels that
of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi analyses
the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world other than
the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miro Quesada C.
emphasises that the great political questions are not solvable
without worldviews that express value systems. David Rasmussen
describes sensus communis as a cosmopolitan concept, which founds a
political globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp attempts to
grasp the meaning of that globalization upon which the destiny of
our planet depends."
H.G. Wells's view of the world - and hence his writing - was
strongly influenced by the biologist's training he received during
his three years as a student at the Normal School of Science, South
Kensington (now Imperial College, London). Those things which a
creature needs in order for it and its species to thrive get
particular attention in Wells's books. Tracing biological themes
through Wells's work, as Peter Kemp does here, shows the pattern of
his thought and brings to light the bizarre workings of a
fascinating imagination. For the book's reissue in paperback, an
afterword has been added.
There is no education that can avoid being political. Still, the
question is, in what sense is education political, and if all
education must be political, to what extent politics must be made
the explicit telos of the formation and upbringing, and how the
relation might be between the principles needed for education and
those of the political sphere. Today, after the successive
collapses of the modern models of good society - first realized
socialism and then neo-liberal market society - the question is,
what should the standards be for education and, especially, what
the relation should be between these standards and politics. Do we
for instance have to raise human beings to become citizens of a
civic republic, a world society, or a league of nations? Can
education limit itself to local concerns or must it transcend the
limits to become international, transnational, or even global?
Should we educate to a global social democracy? This book examines
these questions. (Series: Philosophy of Education - Vol. 2)
This Companion is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using
sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed
backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in
hardback format. The most comprehensive and authoritative reference
book of its kind, The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea was
first published in 1976 to huge acclaim, hailed as 'a beguiling
book' (Daily Telegraph), 'marvellous' (The Times), and 'totally
absorbing' (Financial Times). This second edition was published in
2006 and brought together more than 2,600 entries on every
imaginable aspect of the seas and the vessels that sail on them,
from shipbuilding, yachting, diving, and marine mammals, to tidal
power, piracy, and the literature and language of the sea. This
edition provides significant material on topics that have come to
prominence in recent times, such as oceanography and marine
archaeology: key contributions on these subjects from marine expert
Dr Martin Angel at Southampton Oceanography Centre include climate
change, environmental issues, marine pollution, and marine
wildlife. Entries added to this edition are underwater vehicles,
tsunamis, warfare at sea, marine pollution, the Economic Exclustion
Zone, and ship preservation. This Companion also includes
authoritative and fascinating entries on maritime history: its
naval battles, its great ships, from Noah's Ark and the Bounty to
the Titanic and the Mary Rose; and its most famous individuals,
both real and fictional, including Christopher Columbus, Horatio
Nelson, and Robinson Crusoe. Entries are fully cross-referenced,
and the text is illustrated with over 260 detailed drawings.
This book considers the ways in which a cosmopolitan vision
might constitute the ethical basis for the validity criteria of a
new world order, and thus the basis for the validity of
international law in a future global political reality. It examines
the transformation of some of the fundamental pairs of concepts
associated with the change of the concept of the state in our
post-national epoch, and it analyzes the change of the perception
of the legal subject and the new role of the individual person in
international law after the Second World War.
This third volume of the journal Eco-ethica is now being published
by LIT Verlag (Germany). The main theme of this bilingual,
English-French volume is that of a group of philosophers who
examine the relationship between nature and culture in an
eco-ethical perspective - in considering human nature and the human
environment confronted with today's technological conjuncture. The
second part of the book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the
French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005), who supported the
eco-ethica approach and was an inspiration to many participants in
the annual eco-ethical symposia. The book includes an unpublished
text by Ricoeur. [PLEASE NOTE: Twelve essays in this book are
presented in English, while six additional contributions are in
French text.] (Series: Eco-Ethica - Vol. 3)
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