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Describes the evolution of the structures of cognition and
intentionality over the longue-duree of historical capitalism. This
the first book to analyze this socio-cultural sphere using this
approach. It is timely, given the contemporary period of
educational crisis, and ideal for students of Sociology. This book
tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures - the
so-called divorce between science and the humanities - was a
creation of the modern world-system. The contributors, working from
a common research framework, trace the divorce of facts and values
- indivisible within medieval Europe's structures of knowledge - as
part of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This led to a
polarization between universalist science (destined to become
dominant as the empirical mode of arriving at truth) and the
particularist humanities (defending its legitimacy as an
alternative, more empathetic mode of knowing) and finally to the
creation of the social sciences as an uneasy intermediary in this
epistemological debate. the two cultures that emerge from science,
feminism, race and ethnic studies, cultural studies, and ecology,
ending with an analysis of the culture wars and the science wars.
This book tells the story of how the very idea of two cultures-the
so-called divorce between science and the humanities-was a creation
of the modern world-system. The contributors, working from a common
research framework, trace the divorce of "facts" and "values" as
part of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This led to a
polarization between universalist "science" and the particularist
"humanities" and finally to the creation of the social sciences as
an uneasy intermediary in this epistemological debate. The book
addresses the contemporary attempts to overcome the division
between the two cultures that emerge from science, feminism, race
and ethnic studies, cultural studies, and ecology, ending with an
analysis of the culture wars and the science wars. Contributors:
Volkan Aytar, Ay,se Betul Celik, Mauro Di Meglio, Mark Frezzo,
Ho-fung Hung, Biray Kolloupglu K3/4rl3/4, Agustin Lao- Montes, Eric
Mielants, Boris Stremlin, Sunaryo, Norihisa Yamashita, Deniz
Yukeseker.
Economic changes and political changes which emerged with the
modern capitalist world-economy were accompanied in the
sociocultural domain by changes in the structures of knowledge.
These included the hierarchical separation of the realm of facts
from that of values, institutionalized as a division between the
sciences and the humanities. The social sciences responded to
contradictions inherent in this structure over the nineteenth
century in producing knowledge on which policy decisions could be
based. The problems of the contemporary period indicate we are in a
long-term, structural crisis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in
the theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches through
which social analysts and observers alike seek to understand the
world. Since the 1960s, developments in the field of knowledge,
especially two movements--complexity studies in the natural
sciences and cultural studies in the humanities--have contested the
naturalized, essentialist boundaries separating the sciences, the
social sciences and the humanities. The primary rationale for this
work is to recognize the inseparable whole composed of the material
structures of the world and the structures of knowledge that govern
what actions may be deemed legitimate and effective." Knowledge
Matters "discusses what actions will actually be undertaken by
social agents, and what such an approach means for an analysis of
the present situation in terms of imagining and evaluating possible
futures.
Low temperature is a major environmental constraint impacting the
geographic distribution and seasonal activity patterns of insects.
Written for academic researchers in environmental physiology and
entomology, this book explores the physiological and molecular
mechanisms that enable insects to cope with a cold environment and
places these findings into an evolutionary and ecological context.
An introductory chapter provides a primer on insect cold tolerance
and subsequent chapters in the first section discuss the
organismal, cellular and molecular responses that allow insects to
survive in the cold despite their, at best, limited ability to
regulate their own body temperature. The second section,
highlighting the evolutionary and macrophysiological responses to
low temperature, is especially relevant for understanding the
impact of global climate change on insect systems. A final section
translates the knowledge gained from the rest of the book into
practical applications including cryopreservation and the
augmentation of pest management strategies.
These stories are about searching for the genuine-what really
matters-through the eyes of one man, who is a pilot, a husband, and
a father. This guy lives out his dreams in ways he thinks will
bring meaning to his life. He raises a family and aims for the
"good life." He faces career fallout after the 9-11 attacks and
copes with life in a combat zone. Like all of us, his experiences
are sometimes exciting and elating, and at other times they are
downright disillusioning and disappointing. Although this is not a
religious book, it is about seeking and finding, losing and
recovering. It's about having faith and latching on to a power
greater than our own. It is my hope that you will enjoy the read,
extract from it what you may need, and find some measure of truth
about what is truly real and lasting in life.
This volume provides an authentic and rigorous way to engage
students in science and environmental issues and is a unique and
essential resource for high school or college-level classroom.
Moving world-systems analysis into the cultural realm, Richard E.
Lee locates the cultural studies movement within a broad historical
and geopolitical framework. He illuminates how order and conflict
have been reflected and negotiated in the sphere of knowledge
production by situating the emergence of cultural studies at the
intersection of post-1945 international and British politics and a
two-hundred-year history of conservative critical practice. Tracing
British criticism from the period of the French Revolution through
the 1960s, he describes how cultural studies in its infancy
recombined the elite literary critical tradition with the First New
Left's concerns for history and popular culture-just as the liberal
consensus began to come apart.Lee tracks the intellectual project
of cultural studies as it developed over three decades, beginning
with its institutional foundation at the University of Birmingham's
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS). He links work at
the CCCS to the events of 1968 and explores cultural studies'
engagement with theory in the debates on structuralism. He
considers the shift within the discipline away from issues of
working-class culture toward questions of identity politics in the
fields of race and gender. He follows the expansion of the cultural
studies project from Britain to Australia, Canada, South Africa,
and the United States. Contextualizing the development and spread
of cultural studies within the longue duree structures of knowledge
in the modern world-system, Lee assesses its past and future as an
agent of political and social change.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern
view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question.
Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge III:
Dualism provides an in-depth look at the debates surrounding the
status of dualism in the sciences, social sciences, and the
humanities in detailed and wide-ranging discussions among experts
from across the disciplines. The extent to which the questionable
necessity of a transcendent nomos; individualistic approaches
versus systems ontology; rationality material and formal and how
scholars might overcome the two cultures divide might impinge on
the possibility, but not the inevitability, of progress are among
the issues explored here. Weaving together in-depth articles and
invigorating follow up discussions, this volume showcases debates
over the status and validity of dualism. Of special interest are
developing alternatives to traditional dualistic categories through
an innovative, new approach based on biological naturalism;
challenges to the dualism of people and things; the imperfectness
and subjectivity of perception; and the overcoming the dualism of
philosophy and science.
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making
literature and its creators better understood and more accessible
to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards
of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary
Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible
format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary
history. Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents
career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all
genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature
and time periods. For a listing of Dictionary of Literary Biography
volumes sorted by genre click here. 01
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