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Book SynopsisFollowing a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, Oil-Age Africa offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. This collection brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of oil politics, economies and societies through theoretical critique and ‘on the ground’ ethnographic methods. Climate change highlights the need to understand the intricate ways societies are built on and for oil energy. Oil-Age Africa analyses the effects of oil production and the global energy structure, offering relevant insights and avenues for future research on oil. Contributors Helmut Asche, Joseph N. Mangarella, Immo Eulenberger, Harouna Abdoutan, Monica Skaten, Yorbana Seign-Goura, Laura Smith, James Van Alstine, Geertrui Vannoppen, Mahamidou Aboubacar Attahirou, Salissou Oubandoma, Jannik Schritt.

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Book SynopsisThe Florida Research Ensemble (Ulmer, Revelle, Freeman and Tilson) is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group developing choragraphy, a method of inquiry which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design and testing of image as category. The authors argue that image categories functions for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literate concepts. “Chora” was retrieved for contemporary philosophy by Jacques Derrida, in the context of his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Grounded in grammatology (the history and theory of writing), Derrida’s critique of Being and Becoming as primary concepts of reality is that the category or classification system invented within literacy is not adequate for the apparatus of electracy that has developed since the industrial revolution. The FRE project in Miami designed and tested a prototype for a choral category, capable of coordinating real places, cultural collective information, digital technologies, and personal experience. Miami Virtue tested choragraphy as a method for adopting a particular region (the Miami River), including primary discourses organizing its lifeworld, and articulating it as a category of thought. The designed and recorded virtual site functions for electracy the way concepts function for literacy: as a navigable set supporting holistic intelligence and public discourse.Table of ContentsForeword  Madison Jones Preface Outline Acknowledgments Introduction: The EmerAgency PART 1: Miami – Image 1 Occasion 2 Place 3 Situation 4 Encounter 5 Memory PART 2: Myami – Narrative 6 Allegory 7 Mystory 1: Family 8 Mystory 2: Entertainment 9 Mystory 3: History 10 Mystory 4: Theory PART 3: Miautre – Oracle 11 Reading 12 Invention 13 Jazz 14 Vortex 15 Choramancy Afterword: Electrate Virtue  Gregory L. Ulmer and John Craig Freeman Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThe Florida Research Ensemble (Ulmer, Revelle, Freeman and Tilson) is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group developing choragraphy, a method of inquiry which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design and testing of image as category. The authors argue that image categories functions for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literate concepts. “Chora” was retrieved for contemporary philosophy by Jacques Derrida, in the context of his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Grounded in grammatology (the history and theory of writing), Derrida’s critique of Being and Becoming as primary concepts of reality is that the category or classification system invented within literacy is not adequate for the apparatus of electracy that has developed since the industrial revolution. The FRE project in Miami designed and tested a prototype for a choral category, capable of coordinating real places, cultural collective information, digital technologies, and personal experience. Miami Virtue tested choragraphy as a method for adopting a particular region (the Miami River), including primary discourses organizing its lifeworld, and articulating it as a category of thought. The designed and recorded virtual site functions for electracy the way concepts function for literacy: as a navigable set supporting holistic intelligence and public discourse.Table of ContentsForeword  Madison Jones Preface Outline Acknowledgments Introduction: The EmerAgency PART 1: Miami – Image 1 Occasion 2 Place 3 Situation 4 Encounter 5 Memory PART 2: Myami – Narrative 6 Allegory 7 Mystory 1: Family 8 Mystory 2: Entertainment 9 Mystory 3: History 10 Mystory 4: Theory PART 3: Miautre – Oracle 11 Reading 12 Invention 13 Jazz 14 Vortex 15 Choramancy Afterword: Electrate Virtue  Gregory L. Ulmer and John Craig Freeman Works Cited

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Book SynopsisOften identified as one of the most genuine and enduring American film genres, the road movie has never been explored in the context of experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, Lost Highways, Embodied Travels provides the first book-length study of over eighty unique and often obscure films and videos and situates them within the corporeal turn in American avant-garde cinema, so far mostly associated with body genres and sexually explicit films. Drawing on unpublished archival materials, the book offers a fresh take on both past and current practices of the experimental film community for scholars, students, makers and film buffs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Structure of This Book 1 The Road Movie and the Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film  1 The Road Movie as a Mainstream Film Genre  2 The Road Movie as an Experimental Film Genre  3 The Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film  4 The Road Movie and the Corporeal Turn in Experimental Film 2 Embodied Travels  1 Cars and the Body  2 “I Like to Remember Things My Own Way”: Saul Levine’s Mortgage on My Body  3 Life Shooting and a Road Movie-Therapy-Performance: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Niagara Falls  4 Intuitive Travels: Gary Adlestein’s S-8 Diary: Wildwood 2/88  5 Unmediated Encounters with the World: Dana Play’s Kongostraat  6 Motorcycles and the Body  7 Fading Memories of a Honeymoon Trip: Brian Patrick’s Honey/Moon  8 “Gotta Get Outta Here”: Charlemagne Palestine’s Island Song  9 Cars and Relationships  10 Intimacy That Never Is: Sophie Calle’s No Sex Last Night  11 Depopulated Highways, Empty Hotel Rooms, and Unfulfilled Intimacy: Donald Winkler’s Travel Log  12 Female Bodies, Automobiles, and a Failed Lesbian Relationship: Su Friedrich’s Rules of the Road  13 Two Female Hitchhikers, an Escapist Driver and a Sexual Awakening: Siouxzi Mernagh’s Exit  14 Break Ups, Reminiscences, and Ghosts of the Past: Walter Ungerer’s Down the Road  15 The Ups and Downs of Female Solitary Travel: Jessica Bardsley’s Goodbye Thelma  16 Romance in the Digital Age: Michael Robinson’s Onward Lossless Follows  17 Conclusion 3 Americana, Canadiana, Native Americans, and Eco-Road Movies  1 Americana  2 A Testimony to Chance Encounters: Chris Mullington’s Americans (Mer-Kins)  3 The End of the American Dream: Chip Lord’s Motorist  4 A Country of Contradictions: Lluis Escartín’s 75 Drive-a-Way  5 A Disturbing Portrait of America: James Benning’s North on Evers  6 In Search of American Counterculture: James Benning’s Easy Rider  7 A Nostalgic Evocation of the Frontier: Bill Brown’s XCTRY  8 Canadiana  9 A Dead-End Trip: Philip Hoffman’s The Road Ended at the Beach  10 Roads Where Nothing Ever Happens: Clive Holden’s Bus North to Thompson with Les at the Wheel  11 The History of Canadian Roads Told … Backwards: Michael Snow’s Seated Figures  12 Native Americans  13 “The Dream of America That Never Came True”: Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux and Quixote  14 A Poignant Ode to the Ho-Chunk People and Their Language: Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approx.  15 Eco-Road Movies  16 An Ascetic Roughness of Land and Nature: Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson’s Mono Lake  17 A Nervous Pean to the New Zealand landscape: Lissa Mitchell’s Bowl Me Over  18 A “Trans-Corporeal” Experience of Rural Ireland: Julie Murray’s Orchard  19 An Ominous Terror of Ecocide, Or the Doomsday that Never Was: Fern Silva’s Tender Feet  20 Conclusion 4 Lost Highways  1 Interstate Highways  2 The Thrill of the Open Road: Hilary Harris’ Highway  3 The Magic of Road Building: Anna Geyer’s Dozer  4 American Freeway, Private Prisons, and the Dark Side of Automobility: James Schneider’s Median Strip  5 The Crisis of Automobility: Emma Piper-Burket’s Driving Dinosaurs  6 Highway Landscapes and Local Roads  7 A Silent Spectacle of Death: J. J. Murphy’s Highway Landscape  8 Countryside Highways and the Suspension of Movement: James Benning’s Small Roads  9 An Australian Rural Dirt Road in 360: Blake Williams’ Coorow-Latham Road  10 Conclusion 5 Through the Windshield  1 Framed Views  2 The Paradoxes of Movement: Gary Beydler’s Pasadena Freeway Stills  3 Multiple Views of a Seashore Landscape: Ken Kobland’s Frame  4 Across America in Suspended Motion: Ken Kobland’s Landscape and Desire  5 Driving Meditation: Al Wong’s Twin Peaks  6 Windshield Views  7 The Icelandic Highway and the Sensation of Velocity: Þór Friðriksson’s Hringurinn  8 A Roller-Coaster Ride Down the Trans-Canada Highway: Stephen Arthur’s Tran Scan  9 A Full-Body Immersion in the Western Canadian Landscape: Stephen Arthur’s Vision Point  10 Driving on a Rainy Day  11 Driving in a Thunderstorm and Female Mobility: Faith Arazi and Madeleine Mori’s Through a Field  12 A Mesmerizing Movement of Raindrops on the Car Windows: Ann Deborah Levy’s Rain Painting  13 The Wiper’s Swing and an Erratic Ride on a Vancouver City Bus: Chris Gallagher’s Seeing in the Rain  14 Squirming Raindrops and a Bleak View of the Frontier: Bruce and Lorie Baillie’s Commute  15 Car Crashes  16 From Violent Death to Creative Transformation: Robert Nelson’s Hot Leatherette  17 A Crash into the Driver-Car’s Mind: Eric Patrick’s Stark Film  18 A Near Deadly Crash and the Afro-American Experience: Paige Taul’s The Promise  19 The Tourist Gaze  20 A Flashy World of Clichés and Hasty Sight-Seeing: Barbara Hammer’s Tourist  21 The Hustle and Bustle of Being on the Move and Haptic Aurality: Christina Battle’s Traveling thru with Eyes Closed Tight (Map #2–January 03 thru January 06)  22 Conclusion 6 Through the Side Window  1 Fleeting Impressions of Canada: Joyce Wieland’s Reason Over Passion  2 Culture Clash and Embodied Memories of Vietnam: Lynne Sachs’ Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam  3 Scattered Recollections of a Family Vacation: Michael Stickrod’s Vacation Tapes  4 Driving and Landscape Painting  5 Impressionist Views of the Country Barn: Larry Gottheim’s Barn Rushes  6 The Color Field Painting on Interstate 5: Martha Rosler’s Flower Fields  7 Still Lifes of the Swedish Rural Countryside: Gunvor Nelson’s Light Years  8 A Cathartic Road Trip and Impossible Panoramic Vistas of the American Southwest: Peter Rose’s The Geosophist’s Tears  9 Driving in the Desert  10 Seeing with a Filmmaker’s Eyes: Stan Brakhage’s Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde  11 A Spiritual Encounter with the Divine: Jon Behrens’ Desert Abstractions  12 The Uncanny Desert Glare: Cathy Lee Crane’s On the Line  13 An Apocalyptic Mediation on the American Wilderness: Kate McCabe’s You and I Remain  14 “The Intense Reality of Desert” and the Juju Charms: Apostoly Peter Kouroumalis’s Desert Road  15 City Driving  16 Flows, Rhythms and Textures of New York City: Marie Menken’s Go! Go! Go!  17 The Whirling Streets of New York City: Bill Morrison’s City Walk  18 Glimpses into the Streets of San Francisco’s Latino Mission: Martha Rosler’s Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure  19 Inside the Driver-Car’s Mind: Steven Woloshen’s Shimmer Box Drive and Zero Visibility  20 An Exquisite Road Trip Across Four Continents: EXcinema’s The Spaces Between Cities  21 Driving at Night  22 A Vibrant Light Show of Chicago’s Nightlife: Mort and Millie Goldsholl’s Night Driving  23 A Hypnotizing Collage of Seattle’s Nocturnal Lighting: Jon Behrens’ The Movement of Light at Night  24 A Head-On Confrontation with the Speeding Highway: Bill Morrison’s Night Highway  25 A Sinister Night Drive and a Mysterious Owl: Michaela Grill’s Carte Noire  26 Conclusion 7 Inside Cars  1 Mirrors, Windows, and (Movie) Screens  2 A Haunting Ride to a New Orleans Cemetery and Back: Bill Morrison’s Ghost Trip  3 An Eerie Venture into the Cockpit and the Driver’s Mind: Jon Behrens’ The Colors of Boulder in the Summer  4 By the Side Window  5 A Cinematic Gaze, Automotive Visuality, and Blues Improvisation: Larry Gottheim’s Harmonica  6 A Claustrophobic Car Interior … After Dark: Saul Levine’s Driven  7 From the Back Seat  8 An Eventless Drive Around Downtown Manhattan … Over and Over Again: Alfred Leslie and the Frank O’Hara’s The Last Clean Shirt  9 An Aimless Journey across the Country: James Benning’s The United States of America  10 A Perception-Altering Tour of Canada and the United States: Chris Gallagher’s Undivided Attention  11 Backseat Passengering  12 A Bumpy Ride and the Impossible Sublime: Lluis Escartín’s Mohave Cruising  13 Cross-Eyed Viewing of the Bay Bridge: Ken Jacobs’ Berkeley to San Francisco  14 Conclusion Conclusion Filmography References

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Trade Review"Africa Yearbook 2004 signals the arrival of an English language resource that will unquestionably prove useful to researchers, journalists, scholars, students, teachers, NGOs, politicians and diplomats, as well as businesspeople. [..] Libraries and archives should be encouraged to order this handsomely crafted, easily handled and easily read book, and make space for future volumes." – Thembisa Waetjen in Transformation "Die Chancen, dass sich tatsächlich ein neues Referenzwerk etabliert, stehen nicht schlecht" – Volker Weyel in EINS. "The book remains coherent, despite different methodological and theoretical approaches. It is written in a readily-accessible style. The Africa Yearbook is an indispensable resource for scholars, journalists, development cooperation practitioners, diplomats and business people." – Ruben Eberlein in Magazine for Development and Coorporation 8-9/2006

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Book SynopsisCe volume édité offre des nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA) et présente aux spécialistes dand la domaine paix et securité africaine des approches épistémologiques, conceptuelles et méthodologiques innovantes. Basé sur une ouverture intellectuelle et un intérêt pour les perspectives transdisciplinaires, le volume remet en question les courants dominants, nous invitant à réfléchir sur les pratiques de recherche elles-mêmes. S'appuyant sur les perspectives des études globales et des études critiques internationales, les auteurs suivent des approches inductives et laissent les données empiriques enrichir leurs cadres théoriques et leurs outils conceptuels. Dans cette entreprise, ils se concentrent sur les acteurs, les pratiques et les discours impliqués qui donne forme aux institutions regionales. Les analyses ici-présentes examine les hypothèses qui informent habituellement les études sur le régionalisme et la gouvernance en Afrique.

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Book SynopsisFrom the French origin of Coca-Cola to McDonald’s sponsorship of the 2015 Milan Expo, the book presents the first comparative history of these multinational corporations in two Western European countries, addressing some compelling questions: to what extent our increasingly globalized world is persistently shaped by forms of American hegemony, and what are some of the forces that have been most effective at challenging the relationship between Americanization and globalization? Through the local history of global companies, the book tells a new story about not only the influence of American businesses in Europe but also the influence of European governments and societies on those American businesses and their adaptability.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Think Global, Act Local Part 1: Coca-Cola: North-Atlantic Crossings, 1886–1946 1 Thirst Knows No Borders: Coca-Cola Lands in Europe 2 War Goes to Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Goes to War Conclusion: A Transatlantic Product Part 2: The Coca-Colonization of Europe, 1947–1972 3 “McCarthyism in Reverse” 4 “The Sun Never Sets On Coca-Cola: Atop the Eiffel Tower” 5 “The Sun Never Sets on Coca-Cola: Beside the Colosseum” 6 “The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola” Conclusion: Differences and Similarities between France and Italy Part 3: From Coca-Colonization to McDonaldization, 1973–1990 7 The Golden Arches Join the Red Sign 8 Paninari on the Spanish Steps 9 Fast Food Generations in the McWorld Conclusion: American Vessels of Globalization Part 4: Glocalizations, 1991–2015 10 “Always Coca-Cola” 11 Fast Food, Fast World 12 We Are What We Eat: from le Malbouffe to Slow Food Conclusion: The “Glocal” World Conclusion Archives and Primary Sources Secondary Literature Index

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Book SynopsisCet ouvrage explore les phénomènes migratoires aux Comores en s’appuyant sur un corpus de 18 textes de genres différents publiés entre 2008 et 2017 auxquels il offre une relecture contextualisée, humanisée aux côtés des premiers concernés, témoins et victimes. This book explores the migratory phenomena in the Comoros based on a corpus of 18 texts of different genres published between 2008 and 2017 to which it offers a contextualised, humanized rereading alongside those primarily affected, witnesses, and victims.Table of ContentsMaharaba Libre Accès au Lieu des Royalties Financement Table des illustrations Extended English Summary Photo de couverture Introduction  1 Questions de recherche  2 Corpus : critères de sélection et hypothèses   2.1 Hypothèses  3 Méthodologie et objectifs   3.1 Préambule  4 Structure de l’ouvrage et approches théoriques 1 Le principe d’anarchipel : Mayotte et « la Malmémoire épileptique »  1 Le « réferendum » de la discorde  2 En plein dans le non-droit et la départenUance  3 Pourquoi l’obstination pour Mayotte ? 2 Peau Comorienne, masques français: l’aventure ambiguë de la fabrique de « l’Intranger »  1 Géographie procédurale : Fanon et l’aventure ambiguë de la fabrication de l’Intranger  2 Une si longue lettre de la psychose 3 « Migration » et spectre de la violence multiple et en relation  1 Ceux qu’on jette à la mer  2 T.H.U.G L.I.F.E: Dit Violent et T(r)opique de la Violence   2.1 Disqualification sociale et instrumentalisation politique des jeunes   2.2 La négociation de l’altériCité « violente »   2.3 Des jeunes victimes du T.H.U.G   2.4 Le Langage et le corps comme lieux de la violence  3 Violence émotionnelle chez des métropolitain.e.s  4 Anarchipel (néo)colonial, ‘identités meurtrières’ et ‘jihad’ contre la ‘Franche’ 4 Walking and Talking, Tshapalodrome relationnel et « La campagne des gens en ballade »  1 Positionnalité, réflexivité et circulation ‘relationnelle’ des livres  2 Walking and Talking  3 Tshapalodrome relationnel  4 Du boycott du colloque de 2015 au « con qui a établi le visa Balladur »  5 « ‘Edouard Balladur ou la campagne des gens en ballade »  6 Mayotte: ‘l’espace des arrivées’  7 Repenser la ‘relation’ entre les étudiant.e.s  8 Time to Keep the Relationality 5 Kwassa Kwassa: (im)mobilités, économie et écocritique d’un objet relationnel et intersectionnel  1 Domoni : ‘l’espace’ des départs  2 Kwassa Kwassa et ingénierie de (sur)vie  3 Kwassa Kwassa: (im)mobilités, économie et écocritique d’un objet relationnel et intersectionnel   3.1 Kwassa Kwassa et (Im)mobilités   3.2 Kwassa Kwassa : Économie et Écocritique   3.3 Kwassa Kwassa : (im)mobilités et intersectionnalité 6 Géographie des sensibilités: Écriture décoloniale et esthétique poétique  1 Bricolage générique et coolitude  2 Poétique créole du « mélangue »: Attoumanismes et Zamirismes  3 Intranquillité et esthétique de la vulgarité dans la postcolonie  4 Pourquoi la poésie en temps de crise ? 7 Comme-Mort-Rien, Homo Sacer et Géopoét(h)ique archipélique de la Fraternité  1 « L’homo migratus » chez Glissant/Chamoiseau & Sambaouma/ Djailani  2 Agamben et Saïndoune : Home sacer - Comme-Mort-Rien 8 Keep smiling: Décadence, Départenance et la thérapie du « Pleurerrire »   Concluding-Giving Back-Carrying on…   Inédit : Extrait de « Kwassa-Kwassa, pour le paradis ou même pour l’enfer » de Soly Mohamed Bibliographie Index

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Book Synopsis* The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. * At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique ethnographic account of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp. By unraveling the complexities of social, material and institutional interdependencies, the author invites us to rethink conventional notions of dependence and vulnerability. Exploring issues of personhood as they relate to the exchange of material goods and care, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the seemingly promising shift towards a rights-based approach. A compelling read for anyone seeking to reshape the humanitarian agenda.

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Book SynopsisCrisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Moment of Critique 1 The Distance of Critique 2 Matter against Materialism 3 Apocalypse and Crisis Part 2 Crisis Culture 4 The Aesthetics of Crisis 5 Scale, Commodity, Totality 6 The Crisis of European Philosophy Part 3 Crisis and Communisation 7 Communisation and the Fabric of Struggles 8 Communisation and the End of Art 9 War and Communisation Part 4 Critical Figures 10 The Masses Make History: On Fredric Jameson 11 History and Crisis: Gregory Elliott and the End of Marxism 12 Crisis as Catastrophe: Francis Mulhern on Cultural Criticism 13 Crisis and Capitalist Realism: The Antinomies of Mark Fisher Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates the immense scope of the drama unfolding within human culture. In a classical approach, evaluation is inevitable—with regard to various theories of culture, human culture as such, and all its main actors. Jaroszyński’s work shows that realistic study of what it means to be a human person leads to the most comprehensive understanding of culture as it is and should be.Table of ContentsEditor’s Preface Introduction PART 1: Culture in Science 1 Sciences Concerning Culture  1 Particular Sciences Concerning Culture  2 Philosophy of Culture 2 Culture: A History of the Term and Concept  1 From the Cultivation of the Soil to the Cultivation of the Soul  2 Culture and Cultus  3 From the Culture of the Mind to the Culture of Mankind  4 From National Culture to Mass Culture  5 Civilization and Culture 3 Selected Definitions of Culture  1 Social Dimension of Culture  2 Transmission of Culture  3 Culture and Values  4 Culture and Symbol  5 Culture and Meaning  6 Culture and Behavioral Models  7 Culture and Cultural Fields  8 Culture and Person PART 2: Theories of Culture 4 From Mythology to Philosophy: Nature vs. Culture in Antiquity  1 Nature and Man  2 From Negation to Apotheosis of Nature (Empedocles and the Sophists)  3 Divine Origins of Culture (Plato)   3.1 Philosophical Variant   3.2 Mythological Variant  4 “With Reason and Téchne” (Aristotle)  5 The Soul Is God (Plotinus) 5 Between Philosophy and Theology: Christianity  1 In Search of Perfection  2 Natura Corrupta (Thomas Aquinas)  3 Towards Anti-Cosmism (Manichaeism and Gnosis)  4 Natura Totaliter Corrupta (Protestantism) 6 Between Philosophy and Ideology  1 Nature Worship: Nature Is Perfect  2 Apotheosis of Culture: Culture Produces Nature   2.1 Individualism (Sartre)   2.2 Further Perspectives of Positioning of the Concept of Culture  3 Recapitulation PART 3: Foundations of Culture: Truth, Goodness, Beauty   Introduction to Part 3 7 Truth 8 Goodness  1 Finalism  2 Emanationism  3 Creationism 9 Beauty PART 4: Cultural Fields   Introduction to Part 4 10 Science as a Cultural Field  1 Four Conceptions of Science   1.1 Science as Cognition by Causes   1.2 Science: From “How many?” to “How?”   1.3 Science: The Question of a Priori Conditions   1.4 Science: The Question “Why Not?”  2 Negation of Science: Postmodernism 11 Cultural Fields: Morality  1 Ethics: Goodness or Value?  2 Economy: For the Good of the Family  3 Economy: Family as the Subject  4 Relations within the Family  5 Public Life: Types of Political Systems  6 Dispute over the Common Good: Individualism, Collectivism, Personalism  7 Dispute over Democracy 12 Cultural Fields: Productive Action (Ποίησις)  1 Scope and Purposes of Productive Action  2 Tools and the Capacity for Rational Thinking  3 From Copying to Creating 13 Religion as a Cultural Field  1 What is Religion?   1.1 “Religion” and Related Words   1.2 Various Interpretations of the Word “Religion”  2 Religion: Constitutive Elements  3 Classical Definition of Religion  4 Reasons for Religiosity  5 Philosophy on Immortality  6 The End-Purpose of Religion  7 Against Religion  8 Religion and Culture  9 Existence of God: From Faith to Metaphysics  10 God and Sacrum  11 Religion and Holiness  12 Religion and Examples to Follow  13 Religion as a Virtue (from Cicero to St. Thomas)  14 Religion as the Focal Point of Culture  15 Religion and Other Cultural Fields   15.1 Science and Religion   15.2 Πρᾶξις and Religion   15.3 Ποίησις and Religion  16 Religion: Towards the Fulfillment of the Person 14 Culture: For the Person, but Person How Conceived?  1 The Person: From the Mask to Self   1.1 Theater   1.2 Privileges   1.3 In the Image of God  2 Selected Philosophical Conceptions of the Person   2.1 The Person Is Not a Part   2.2 The Person Is Not a Thing   2.3 The Person Is Not a Totality   2.4 The Person Is Not a Tool   2.5 The Person Has Its Dignity and Its End-Purpose   2.6 The Person Is a Self   2.7 The Person without Own Self?   2.8 The Self of a Rational Nature 15 In the Trap of Nihilism  1 Personalism Threatened  2 What Is Nihilism?   2.1 Etymology   2.2 Nothingness: From Metaphysics to Ontology  3 Philosophical Nihilism: From a Notion to a System   3.1 From Atheism to Nihilism   3.2 Nihilism and the Negation of Culture   3.3 Nihilism and Nietzsche Epilogue: A Theology of Culture: Towards Divinization of Nature Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role and limits of policies in shaping attitudes and actions toward war, violence, and peace. Authors examine militaristic language and metaphor, effects of media violence on children, humanitarian intervention, sanctions, peacemaking, sex offender treatment programs, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, community, and political forgiveness to identify problem policies and develop better ones.Table of ContentsJoseph C. KUNKEL : Editorial Foreword Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Preface PART ONE Communication and the Construction of Worldviews Introduction One William C. GAY: Public Policy Discourse on Peace Two Ron HIRSCHBEIN: Massing the Tropes: Metaphors of Nuclear Strategy Three Melissa BURCHARD: The Power of Entertainment: Violence in the Stories of Our Times PART TWO The State and Its Apparatus: Worldviews in Practice Introduction Four Nancy NYQUIST POTTER: Can Sex Offenders Learn Victim Empathy in Prison? Five Judith PRESLER: Justice, Difference, and Community PART THREE Normative Dimensions of Interventionist Policies in the Global Domain Introduction Six Avery KOLERS: Self-Determination in a Cosmopolitan World Seven Robert H. KIMBALL: Is “Humanitarian Intervention” an Oxymoron? Eight Joseph C. KUNKEL: Applying Morality to the Economic Sanctions on Iraq PART FOUR Alternative Responses to Conflict in the Global Domain Introduction Nine Beth J. SINGER: Nationalism and Dehostilization Ten Jerald RICHARDS: Keys to Political Forgiveness in International Relations Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Knowledge Creation: Intellectuals in Academia, the Public Sphere and the Arts brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and cultures and involves them into a multi-dimensional dialogue on the mechanisms of knowledge creation in the present-day society with a specific focus on intellectuals as knowledge creators in three main arenas of their activity: the ‘institutionalized’ arena - academia - and two adjacent arenas: the public sphere and the arts.Table of ContentsIntroduction Nikita Basov and Oleksandra Nenko: Intellectuals and the Transformation of Knowledge Creation Intellectuals in Academia: Institutionalized Knowledge Creation Jeroen van Andel: The Rationalization of Academia: From Bildung to Production James Moir: The Democratic Intellect Reconsidered Intellectuals in the Public Sphere: ‘Organic’ Knowledge Creation Sechaba Mahlomaholo and Vhonani Netshandama: Post-Apartheid Organic Intellectual and Knowledge Creation Tunde Adeleke: Walter A. Rodney and the Instrumentalist Construction and Utilization of Knowledge Georg F. Simet: Possibilities and Risks of Influencing Public Knowledge: The Case of Hrant Dink Olga Procevska: Not a Sin, but a Side Effect: Collaboration and Knowledge Creation by the Organic Intellectuals Intellectuals in the Arts: Emotional Knowledge Creation Carlos David García Mancilla: Art and the Passion of Intellect Claire Heaney: Emotional Intelligence: Literature, Ethics and Affective Cognition in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Oleksandra Nenko: Aesthetic Emotional Experience: From Eye Irritation to Knowledge Conclusion Nikita Basov: Knowledge Creation in the Intellectual Networks Notes on Contributors

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