the university of chicago press nov 2017 (38 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Originally published: Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, Ã1955.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason, renowned philosopher Mark Johnson presents a selection of his best essays on the bodily basis of meaning, understanding, and reasoning that represents the culmination of decades of work. He argues that any viable view of the mind must ultimately rest on the ways in which human cognition, language, action, and values are grounded in and shaped by our embodiment. Johnson calls this view 'embodied cognitive theory,' which combines cognitive science, pragmatism, and philosophy of mind. He shows how meaning emerges from our embodied engagement with our environments and how both what we are able to think and reason about, as well as the very character and structure of our thought and reason, depends on the nature of our bodies and brains. Johnson also provides 'embodied' analyses of the key role of action in our capacity to conceptualize and shows how our reasoning recruits sensory-motor processes to achieve our most impressive accomplishments of creative thought. Ultimately, he argues that taking embodiment seriously launches us on a path of discovery that leads us to a rethinking of the fundamental nature of mind, meaning, thought, and language.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - You might think that any reader is a good reader (publishers certainly do). Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek subtitle calls out 'bad' readers--the kind whose approach to literature is naive, superficial, therapeutic, or escapist, at least in the eyes of scholars. They are not properly 'literary' readers--not by the standards of university literature classrooms through most of the postwar era. Rather, bad readers read novels, stories, and poems for more vulgar reasons: to be instructed, improved, moved, even to feel civically engaged. In this book, Emre suggests that we think of bad readers not as non-literary but as 'paraliterary,' forged in institutions that have promoted literacy and writing well outside literature departments throughout the postwar period. Emre examines the rise of paraliterary reading and its role in helping readers acclimate to the rise of American power from the years just before World War II through the Cold War. While university literature departments were turning out good readers by the hundreds, other institutions--diplomatic missions, cultural exchange programs, multinational corporations, global activist groups--trained a vastly greater number of bad readers: diplomats, debutantes, tourists, and magazine subscribers. Emre's book explores a series of fascinating questions about American culture during this era: How did women's colleges teach students like Mary McCarthy and Jacqueline Kennedy to read novels What hopes did idealistic Fulbright Scholars like Alfred Kazin and F. O. Matthiessen, enlisted to teach American Studies in Europe, carry with them How did American Express become such a touchstone, both for the counterculture and family-oriented readers The result is an invigorating and original look at the cultural life of reading during America's postwar ascendancy.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Anthropologists David A. Palmer and Elijah Siegler explore the globalization of Daoism: the interactions between international spiritual tourists, traditional Chinese monks, and American scholar-practitioners at the sacred Daoist mountain of Huashan, China. Palmer and Siegler show how the spiritual and religious histories of China and the West intersect, collide, and interpenetrate, revealing the paradoxes and dilemmas of the search for spiritual authenticity in a globalized world.--Provided by publisher.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - No filmmaker has more successfully courted mass-audience understanding than Alfred Hitchcock, and none has been studied more intensively by scholars. In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what seems impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in Hitchcock's movies, a secret style that imbues his films with a radical duplicity.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language Is it in our nature to think in any particular way For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does not exist at least not as we usually think of it. Flying in the face of major trends in Evolutionary Psychology and related fields, he offers a provocative and compelling argument in this book that the only thing humans are hardwired for is freedom: freedom from evolutionary instinct and freedom to adapt to a variety of environmental and cultural contexts. Everett sketches a blank-slate picture of human cognition that focuses not on what is in the mind but, rather, what the mind is in namely, culture. He draws on years of field research among the Amazonian people of the Piraha in order to carefully scrutinize various theories of cognitive instinct, including Noam Chomsky's foundational concept of universal grammar, Freud's notions of unconscious forces, Adolf Bastian's psychic unity of mankind, and works on massive modularity by evolutionary psychologists such as Leda Cosmides, John Tooby, Jerry Fodor, and Steven Pinker. Illuminating unique characteristics of the Piraha language, he demonstrates just how differently various cultures can make us think and how vital culture is to our cognitive flexibility. Outlining the ways culture and individual psychology operate symbiotically, he posits a Buddhist-like conception of the cultural self as a set of experiences united by various apperceptions, episodic memories, ranked values, knowledge structures, and social roles and not, in any shape or form, biological instinct. The result is fascinating portrait of the 'dark matter of the mind,' one that shows that our greatest evolutionary adaptation is adaptability itself.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music, the preeminent landmark and fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion. Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time, when he was working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost Quintet. In this book, jazz historian and musician Bob Gluck explores the performances of this revolutionary group-Davis's first electric band-to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest geniuses and, by extension, the extraordinary transition in American music that he and his fellow players ushered in.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Deep Refrains is a wide-ranging investigation of the philosophy of music. Michael Gallope asks what it means for music to 'speak' when it is not saying anything in particular. To answer this question, he turns to the writings of some of the most revered thinkers of the twentieth century--Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankelevitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari. For these theorists, Gallope argues, the paradox that music is both ineffable and yet harbors deep philosophical wisdoms is fertile ground for thinking outside of conceptual boundaries. It provides the lens for a utopian potentiality that inspires hope (Bloch), an ethical critique of modernity (Adorno), an exemplification of the ephemeral movement of lived time (Jankelevitch), and a sonic extension of the syncopated, contrapuntal rhythms of sense and social life (Deleuze and Guattari). Gallope argues that a philosophical engagement with music's ineffability rarely calls for silence or declarations of the unspeakable. Rather, it asks us to think through the ways in which the impact of music is made to address complex philosophical problems specific to the modern world.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Founded by Al O'Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O'Connor, Cliff Alexis, Liam Teague, Yuko Asada, and a plethora of NIU students and staff members, the program has flourished into one of the most important in the world.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 28. Describes the current status of the Putumayos plant, fish,amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal communities, as well as the current and historical use of its rich natural resources by local indigenous and campesino communities.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A collection of essays by American art critic Dave Hickey, nicknamed 'The Bad Boy of Art Criticism.'.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Great William is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes-wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation of remarkable intellectual and emotional encounters.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its fundamental properties and such physical behaviors as reflection, refraction, and diffraction. This dramatic shift--which A. Mark Smith characterizes as the 'Keplerian turn'--Lies at the heart of this fascinating and pioneering study. Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler's new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument--as traditionally understood--Kepler's account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history--Publisher website.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero's Italy, discussions of poetry and oratory, and philosophical training for Seneca's friend Lucilius. This volume, the first complete English translation in nearly a century, makes the Letters more accessible than ever before. Written as much for a general audience as for Lucilius, these engaging letters offer advice on how to deal with everything from nosy neighbors to sickness, pain, and death. Seneca uses the informal format of the letter to present the central ideas of Stoicism, for centuries the most influential philosophical system in the Mediterranean world. His lively and at times humorous expositions have made the Letters his most popular work and an enduring classic. Including an introduction and explanatory notes by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long, this authoritative edition will captivate a new generation of readers.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - There are over 30 books about Andy Warhol. Jonathan Flatley's will be the first that is truly comprehensive--there's so much more to Warhol than the famous silk screens of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup cans--and the first to reveal the internal logic of the artist's life and his aesthetic activities, showing what binds them together, enabling us to see his art and life as a totality. Here's a partial inventory of Warhol's doings: movies (this includes Warhol's affection for bad acting), his collecting (jewelry, Art Deco furniture, perfumes, conversation tapes [10,000 hours], snapshots [66,000], even scores of Polaroids of male genitals [visitors to his studio were asked to drop their pants for the camera]), and, in addition to the silk screens, the paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, as well as novels and memoirs, there was even a monthly gossip magazine. For one two-year period, everyone who came to his studio (the Factory) was obliged to take a screen test, a collectivity of 'misfits misfitting together.' Warhol had an extraordinary talent for liking things. Flatley appropriates 'liking' as a central theme here, showing how Warhol helps us see likeness across differences. Liking/likeness can take the form of desire, of similarity, of commonality. For Warhol, liking is an activity, one that fuses feeling with thought and creates new forms of social affiliation, and in this wise is central to queer theory. Flatley sees in Warhol's promiscuous liking a set of attempts to figure out how to emotionally engage the world in a context where, as he said, 'it would be so much easier not to care.' In practice, the celebrity silk screens show the process of making the same image over and over, but each time a little different, a way of collapsing distinctions between similitude and difference. Another example is Warhol's life-long interest in drag, which Flatley shows dovetails with his interest in race (the 'Race Riot' series), and thus demonstrates liking across gender and race simultaneously. And so: Like Andy Warhol is the best full-length study of the artist--and no single artist today is more representative of postmodern culture than Warhol.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, September 10-December 10, 2017.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Leaves are all around us--in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it's easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a close look at them provides one of the most enjoyable ways to connect with the natural world.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Today the emotions are a topic of intense concern not only in the psychological and neurobiological sciences but among humanists and social scientists as well. The number of research publications in the field is enormous, and the interest generated by that research has spilled over into the public realm. Yet, for all this, there is no consensus as to the basic nature and workings of the emotions. On the contrary, disputes that can be traced back more than a hundred years continue to haunt. The situation is so fraught that, in spite of flourishing laboratories and thriving journals, the field appears to lack cumulative progress. Ruth Leys provides a genealogical analysis of what brought us to where we are today. Focusing on the period from the post-World War II revival of interest in the emotions to the present, she illuminates the debate and in the process sheds light on why so many of today's humanists and social scientists not only are drawn to the neurosciences but also embrace what she argues is the wrong picture of the emotions. An essential read for anyone seeking to understand the science of emotion.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The history of what we call finance today does not begin in ancient Mesopotamia, or in Imperial China, or in the counting houses of Renaissance Europe. This timely and magisterial book shows that finance as we know it--the combination of institutions, regulations, and models, as well as the infrastructure that manages money, credit, claims, banking, assets, and liabilities--emerged gradually starting in the late nineteenth century and coalesced only after World War II. Kevin Brine, a financial industry veteran, and Mary Poovey, a historian, lay bare the history of finance in the United States over this critical period. They show how modern finance made itself known in episodes such as the 1907 Bankers' Panic on Wall Street, passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913, and the marginalist tax policies adopted by the federal government in the 1920s. Over its long history, the distinctive feature of modern economics has been its reliance on mathematical modeling; Brine and Poovey show how this reliance came about, and how economists themselves understand it. 'Finance in America: An Unfinished Story' provides the long view that we need to advance our national conversation about the place of finance. The story is unfinished because the 2009 financial crisis opened a perilous new chapter in this history, with reverberations that are still felt throughout the world. How we arrived at this most recent crisis is impossible to understand without the kind of history that Brine and Poovey provide here.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What's less well-known, however, is that the connection predates the Reagan revolution, going all the way back to the Depression and World War II. Evangelical businessmen at the time were quite active in opposing the New Deal--on both theological and economic grounds--and in doing so claimed a place alongside other conservatives in the public sphere. Like previous generations of devout laymen, they self-consciously merged their religious and business lives, financing and organizing evangelical causes with the kind of visionary pragmatism that they practiced in the boardroom.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Julia Guarneri's book considers turn-of-the-century newspapers in New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago not just as vessels of information but as active agents in the creation of cities and of urban culture. Guarneri argues that newspapers sparked cultural, social, and economic shifts that transformed a rural republic into a nation of cities, and that transformed rural people into self-identified metropolitans and moderns. The book pays closest attention to the content and impact of 'feature news,' such as advice columns, neighborhood tours, women's pages, comic strips, and Sunday magazines. While papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Editors drew in new reading audiences--women, immigrants, and working-class readers--giving rise to the diverse, contentious, and commercial public sphere of the twentieth century.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Although largely forgotten now, the 1885 trial of German artist Gustav Graef was a seminal event for those who observed it. Graef, a celebrated sixty-four-year-old portraitist, was accused of perjury and sexual impropriety with underage models. On trial alongside him was one of his former models, the twenty-one-year-old Bertha Rother, who.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In addition to his groundbreaking contributions to pure economic theory, F. A. Hayek also closely examined the ways in which the knowledge of many individual market participants could culminate in an overall order of economic activity. His attempts to come to terms with the 'knowledge problem' thread through his career and comprise the writings collected in the fifteenth volume of the University of Chicago Press's Collected Works of F. A. Hayek series. The Market and Other Orders brings together more than twenty works spanning almost forty years that consider this question. Consisting of speeches, essays, and lectures, including Hayek's 1974 Nobel lecture, 'The Pretense of Knowledge,' the works in this volume draw on a broad range of perspectives, including the philosophy of science, the physiology of the brain, legal theory, and political philosophy. Taking readers from Hayek's early development of the idea of spontaneous order in economics through his integration of this insight into political theory and other disciplines, the book culminates with Hayek's integration of his work on these topics into an overarching social theory that accounts for spontaneous order in the variety of complex systems that Hayek studied throughout his career. Edited by renowned Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell, who also contributes a masterly introduction that provides biographical and historical context, The Market and Other Orders forms the definitive compilation of Hayek's work on spontaneous order.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Why is Dave Kehr 'one of the best writers on film the country has produced' Jonathan Rosenbaum, his highly regarded successor as movie critic at the 'Chicago Reader' from 1987 through 2008, has a good answer in his Foreword to this volume: 'For the range of films and filmmakers treated, the analytical tools employed, and the intellectual confidence and lucidity of his arguments, Kehr's prose really has no parallels.' In this 'sequel' to 'When Movies Mattered' (published in 2011), Kehr deploys those gifts in 50 brilliant pieces, ranging from a thoughtful discussion of the sobering Holocaust documentary 'Shoah' to an irresistible celebration of the raucous American comedy 'Used Cars.' Although that first book featured pieces only from the 'Reader,' this volume also contains essays from 'Chicago' magazine, where Kehr's column on movies appeared from August 1979 through September 1986 (his work in the 'Reader' appeared from late 1974 through late summer in 1986). As with 'When Movies Mattered,' most of this material (and all of it from 'Chicago' magazine) has not been reprinted or available online since its original publication. Readers will now have the opportunity to know more of what Rosenbaum calls 'a body of work that . . . strikes me as being the most remarkable extended stretch of auteurist [director centered] criticism in American journalism.' Although Kehr ended his career as a critic toward the end of 2013 when he stopped writing his weekly DVD column for the 'New York Times' to become an adjunct curator in the film department of the Museum of Modern Art, his reputation will be further enhanced by this second collection of his outstanding work--definitely must reading for cinephiles.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Oduduwa's Chain is renowned historian and anthropologist Andy Apter's provocative statement on how scholars of the Black Atlantic should think through African heritage. Based on a lifetime of study of Yoruba history and culture in Nigeria, and filled with fascinating ethnographic and historical detail, the book argues that West African cultural frameworks--when critically reformulated--illuminate important New World historical trajectories. Apter applies a generative model of cultural revision to syncretism, creolization, ritual, gender, and ethnogenesis in the Americas, thereby identifying formative Yoruba influences without reifying its culture and tradition. Apter thus establishes the conceptual ground for recovering African genealogies in the Black Atlantic, not merely as objects of imperial ideology, or of transnational elite intellectual production, but as frameworks of collective empowerment in West Africa and the Americas.

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