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Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. Late Enlightenment discourse on aesthetic experience proposes a decisive account of the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood. The aesthetic forges a powerful "racial regime of representation" whose genealogy runs from Enlightenment thinkers like Kant and Schiller...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La elegancia del erizo, segunda novela de la escritora francesa Muriel Barbery. En ella, a través de una crítica hacia la burguesía y la importancia que ésta otorga a las apariencias, narra la historia de una joven superdotada de 12 años y una portera, cuyas vidas se cruzan y cambian para siempre.
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11163) The Banality of Heidegger
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Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of another: Heidegger and anti-Semitism. What do we learn from analyzing the anti-Semitism of these private writings, together with its sources and grounds, not only for Heidegger's thought, but for the...
11164) Rose
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I.
Epistle
The Gift
Persimmons
The Weight Of Sweetness
From Blossoms
Dreaming Of Hair
Early In The Morning
Water
Falling: The Code
Nocturne
My Indigo
Irises
Eating Alone
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Always A Rose
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Eating Together
I Ask My Mother To Sing
Ash, Snow, Or Moonlight
The Life
The Weepers
Braiding
Rain Diary
My Sleeping Loved Ones
Mnemonic
Between Seasons
Visions And Interpretations.
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Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political...
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One size does not fit all when it comes to education.
In modern society, education has been and continues to be shaped, informed, and driven by a so-called "grammar of schooling": an approach which completely ignores the many and diverse identities that learners own, are given, and encounter. Categorising students into neat, labelled boxes, splintering knowledge into strictly defined subjects, and fracturing learning—this grammar of schooling desperately...
11167) The Virtue of Nationalism
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A leading conservative thinker argues that a nationalist order is the only realistic safeguard of liberty in the world today
Nationalism is the issue of our age. From Donald Trump's "America First" politics to Brexit to the rise of the right in Europe, events have forced a crucial debate: Should we fight for international government? Or should the world's nations keep their independence and self-determination?
In The Virtue of Nationalism, Yoram...
11168) Identity
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Destiny is defined as the power or agency that determines the course of events. Some call it fate, while others call it chance. How does an individual's course of life stay on a determined path in a world of constant change of choices and consequences? “The Destiny” Series takes an individual through an in depth exploration of their original design. Once discovered, momentum of purpose perpetuates an enduring legacy. Book 1, Identity, begins this...
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A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality
Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell...
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"Winner of the 2008 Prix François Guizot, Académie française" Lucien Jaume is a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas. The author of a number of books, he is research director at France's Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po. He teaches in Paris, Rome, and Shanghai.
A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context
Many American readers like to regard Alexis...
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In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of philosophy with current events to shed light on the Anthropocene (the age of humanity).
Briggle offers a framework to help us understand the many perspectives and policies on climate change. He does so through the idea that energy is a paradox: changing sameness. From this perennial philosophical mystery,...
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Partez à la rencontre de Ludwig van Beethoven avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Si nous ignorions tout de la vie de Beethoven, mais si son œuvre entière nous était parvenue, nous la comprendrions, nous l'aimerions peut-être moins profondément, mais cette œuvre continuerait de nous apparaître comme celle d'un des plus grands musiciens.
Inversement, si un cataclysme avait anéanti la totalité de l'œuvre musicale de Beethoven, mais si l'histoire...
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Living mindfully, people in recovery can learn skills that allow them to be the people they want to be. Instead of being prisoners of harmful habits, they can consciously create healthy behaviors in support their recovery and live their lives free from active addiction. Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery-values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action-utilizing lessons,...
11174) The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
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Paul J. Nahin is the author of many bestselling popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, In Praise of Simple Physics, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.
How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution
Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use-from...
11175) The Psychedelic Experience
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Years after the Summer of Love, the promise of the psychoactive 1960s-that deeper self-awareness and greater harmony can be achieved through reality-bending substances and practices-is close to becoming a mainstream phenomenon. The signs are everywhere, from a renewed interest in the therapeutic effects of LSD to the popularity of ayahuasca trips and the annual spectacle of Burning Man.
The Psychedelic Experience, created by the prophetic shaman-professors...
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Le travail est-il liberté ou aliénation ?
Le travail est-il, quoiqu'on fasse, l'opposé de la liberté et de la « vraie vie », don’t l'humanité pourrait, et devrait parvenir à se libérer ? Ou bien, est-il une modalité essentielle de l'accomplissement de soi, le lieu essentiel de la vie sociale en même temps que d'une transformation du monde capable de libérer l'homme du règne de la nécessité ? La modernité a exalté cette seconde...
11177) Contes et histoires courtes
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Extrait: "Parmi les génies qui président aux empires du monde, Ituriel tient un des premiers rangs, et il a le département de la haute Asie. Il descendit un matin dans la demeure du Scythes Babouc, sur le rivage de l'Oxus, et lui dit: Babouc, les folies et les excès des Perses ont attirés notre colère."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique...
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I AM is a book where the author takes you on a journey of a Four Pillar Process. The world is full of people of all ages who have formed beliefs in their lives. Where do these beliefs come from? How were they learned? Are they my beliefs, or are they past down through generations? An even a bigger question - How do they influence my decisions on a daily basis? It has been proven by medical experts that your core values and beliefs are formed at a...
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Profound-In Depth-Taijiquan Theory
In the last seven centuries, many songs and poems have been composed about Taijiquan. These have played a major role in preserving the knowledge and wisdom of the masters, although in many cases, the identity of the authors and the dates of origin have been lost.
As lifelong pursuit, Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming has translated many of these documents and according to him, believes many are incomplete for reasons relating...
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'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian
There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While academia was once thought of as the best job in the world - one that fosters autonomy, craft, intrinsic job satisfaction and vocational zeal - you would be hard-pressed to find a lecturer who believes that...
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