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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
In this urgently needed book, Marc Crepon addresses the nature of
hatred and its manifestations in international and domestic
terrorism, racism, war and other forms of violence. Looking at the
evidence of violence motivated by hatred, including US racial
segregation, South African apartheid and the terrorist attacks in
New York City in 2001 and in Paris in 2015, Crepon makes a
compelling case for why hatred is the burden of our times.With
inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma
Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals
how philosophy and literature, using courage and a new language,
can overcome the many forms of hatred and violence present in our
lives today.
A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings
Catherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative
intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today. Her
work articulates a coherent conceptualisation of 'plasticity' by
merging recent neurobiology and medicinal sciences with the history
of philosophy and political theory.Across the essays gathered in
Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Malabou carves a
philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction,
cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism. By
demonstrating the plastic transformability at the heart of these
disciplines, a change that always promises future explosion,
Malabou, as a female philosopher, also articulates the need to
'change difference' within patriarchal concepts of tradition
itself.The collection is divided into four thematic parts, each of
which showcases a major aspect of Malabou's conceptualisation of
plasticity. In his introduction, Ian James situates Malabou's work
within contemporary philosophy and navigates the contours of her
unique work.
A career-spanning collection of published and unpublished writings
Catherine Malabou is one of the foremost, most innovative
intelligences working in contemporary French philosophy today. Her
work articulates a coherent conceptualisation of 'plasticity' by
merging recent neurobiology and medicinal sciences with the history
of philosophy and political theory.Across the essays gathered in
Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, Malabou carves a
philosophical space between structuralism, deconstruction,
cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and speculative realism. By
demonstrating the plastic transformability at the heart of these
disciplines, a change that always promises future explosion,
Malabou, as a female philosopher, also articulates the need to
'change difference' within patriarchal concepts of tradition
itself.The collection is divided into four thematic parts, each of
which showcases a major aspect of Malabou's conceptualisation of
plasticity. In his introduction, Ian James situates Malabou's work
within contemporary philosophy and navigates the contours of her
unique work.
Spoken language communication is arguably the most important
activity that distinguishes humans from nonhuman species. While
many animal species communicate and exchange information using
sound, humans are unique in the complexity of the information that
can be conveyed using speech, and in the range of ideas, thoughts
and emotions that can be expressed. Despite the importance of
speech communication for the entire structure of human society,
there are many aspects of this process that are not fully
understood. One problem is that research on speech and language is
typically carried out by different groups of scientists working on
separate aspects of the underlying functional and neural systems.
On the one hand, research from an auditory perspective focuses on
the acoustical properties of speech sounds, their representation in
the auditory system, and how that representation is used to extract
phonetic information. On the other hand, research from
psycholinguistic perspectives examines the processes by which
representations of meaning are extracted from the acoustic-phonetic
sequence, and how these are linked to the construction of
higher-level linguistic interpretation in terms of sentences and
discourse. Till now, there has been relatively little interaction
between speech researchers from these two groups, in spite of a
dramatic expansion in recent years of research into the neural
bases of auditory and linguistic functions. This book bridges the
gap between these two lines of research, recognising that both have
the same aims in understanding how the motor gestures of a speaker
are transformed to sounds and how those are mapped onto meaning in
the comprehension of spoken language. It presents the work of
leading researchers specializing in a wide range of topics within
speech perception and language processing - along with
contributions from key researchers in neuroanatomy and
neuro-imaging. This important new work cuts through the traditional
boundaries and fosters crossdisciplinary interactions in this
important and rapidly developing area of the biological and
cognitive sciences.
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