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Camargo, Fundação Iberê, Museu Oscar Niemeyer, and São Paulo (Brazil : State). Pinacoteca do Estado, eds. Zero: Zero / edited by Heike van den Valentyn ; editorial office, Violeta Quesada, Cristina Sommer, Heike van den Valentyn. Curitiba, PR: Museu Oscar Niemeyer, 2013.
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Steytler, Klaas. In die somer van '36. Kaapstad: Tafelberg, 1991.
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Koch, Koen. De slag van de Somme 1916. Amsterdam]: Ambo, 2009.
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Somer, Hendrick van, 1607-approximately 1656, ed. Hendrick Van Somer: Due pittori in uno. Napoli: Edizioni Napoli arte, 2021.
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Philippart, Frank. De Atlantikwall: Van Willemstad tot de Somme : een gids langs de Duitse verdedigingslinie van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Tielt: Lannoo, 2004.
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Saarloos, Wim, and José Dijck. The Dutch Polder Model in science and research. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988163.
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Scientific research in the Netherlands is doing remarkably well. Dutch researchers, universities and institutes reside at or near the top of international rankings. In this essay, José van Dijck and Wim van Saarloos, the president and vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), explore how such a small country could become a global player in science and research. They highlight interconnectedness, collaboration, trust, and interwoven research and education among the quintessentially Dutch factors that paved the way to the success. They also show, however, that the country's efforts to reach the top sometimes chip away at these trusted foundations. Investments in its research base are lagging, and some typically Dutch strengths have recently come under pressure. They close off with some suggestions on how the country may turn the tide, prolong its great achievements, and ensure a leading role for Dutch research in the nation's future.
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Dotzler, Bernhard J., and Berkan Karpat, eds. Götzendämmerung - Kunst und Künstliche Intelligenz. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839459768.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end - Seneca. Die hypermoderne Verschiebung der Aufmerksamkeit von Künstler:innen zum maschinellen Prozess, der den künstlerischen Akt zur Mittelwertermittlung von Datenstrukturen reduziert, ist vollzogen. Der Mensch ist in ein neues, epochales Verhältnis zur Maschine eingetreten. Die Beiträger:innen des Bandes zeigen, dass Kunst gleichzeitig immer mehr in den Alltag des politisch-sozialen Raumes hineinwächst und im ästhetischen Kontext ein neues Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine schafft. »Götzendämmerung« war der Auftakt zu einer Reihe von Ausstellungen im Haus der Kunst München und ist nun dessen Dokumentation, Reflexion und Fortführung.
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Schuurman, Bart. Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462986930.
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How and why do people become involved in European homegrown jihadism? This book addresses this question through an in-depth study of the Dutch Hofstadgroup, infamous for containing the murderer of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in November 2004 in Amsterdam, and for plotting numerous other terrorist attacks. The Hofstadgroup offers a window into the broader phenomenon of homegrown jihadism that arose in Europe in 2004 and is still with us today. Utilizing interviews with former Hofstadgroup participants and the extensive police files on the group, Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist overcomes the scarcity of high-quality data that has hampered the study of terrorism for decades. The book advances a multicausal and multilevel understanding of involvement in European homegrown jihadism that is critical of the currently prevalent 'radicalization'-based explanatory frameworks. It stresses that the factors that initiate involvement are separate from those that sustain it, which in turn are again likely to differ from those that bring some individuals to actual acts of terrorism. This is a key resource for scholars of terrorism and all those interested in understanding the pathways that can lead to involvement in European homegrown jihadism.
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Beuningen, Cor, and Kees Buitendijk, eds. Finance and the Common Good. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463727914.
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Over the past fifty years, (financial) capitalism has brought about an enormous growth in wealth. Millions around the world have been lifted out of poverty. However, the downsides of the present global economic constitution are rapidly becoming evident as well. Rising inequality, soaring debt levels, and repeated cycles of boom and bust have proven to be some of its key characteristics. After the 2008 crisis brought the financial system to the brink of collapse, new regulations, stricter supervision, higher capital requirements, and ethical codes were introduced to the sector. Today we find ourselves in the middle of another economic boom. Yet one pressing question remains: has anything changed? Have the (necessary) repairs fixed the flaws in the system? Or do we require even more fundamental reforms? This volume builds on the observation that society has co-evolved with the financial sector. We cannot simply claim that 'finance' was the sole instigator of the 2008 crisis. Society itself has become financialized; the process of replacing relations, structures of trust and reciprocity, by anonymous and systemic transactions. The volume poses vital questions with regard to this societal development. How did this happen? And more importantly: is change possible? If yes, how? This volume contains 21 essays on the themes mentioned above. Authors include Jan Peter Balkenende, Wouter Bos, Lans Bovenberg, Govert Buijs, and Herman Van Rompuy. A recommendation by Dutch Minister of Finance Wopke Hoekstra is also included.
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Nevskiy, Sergey, Aleksandr Hudokormov, Mihail Pokidchenko, Irina Chaplygina, Al'fred Shyuller, Zigena Gol'dshmidt, and Yoahim Cvaynert. The history of the concept of social market economy in Germany. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1703180.
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The monograph traces the history of the development of German neoliberal economic thought from the origins of the Freiburg School in the 1930s to the first results of the practical implementation of the concept of a social market economy in West Germany in the late 1940s-early 1960s. The author demonstrates the broad historical context of the development of German ideas about the theory and practice of the policy of order (Ordnungstheorie und Ordnungspolitik), shows the features of the formation and spread of the scientific and intellectual economic tradition in Germany, as well as beyond its borders, starting with the birth of the German historical school and the perception of its heritage by Russian socio-economic thought in the second half of the XIX — early XX century and ending with the practical implementation of the concept of order of the Freiburg school and the correlation of its ideological and spiritual and moral foundations with the social teaching of Catholicism and liberalism of Friedrich von Hayek. Special attention is paid to some controversial issues of the formation of the theory of ordoliberalism during the period of national socialism and the problems of the social market economy in modern Germany.
The book is intended to fill the shortage of specialized scientific literature on relevant issues and to acquaint the Russian reader, primarily students, teachers and researchers, with the variety of ideological and scientific-theoretical foundations of the socio-economic system of the post-war Germany.
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Brinkmann, Nathalie. A4 Notizbuch Liniert Mit Softcover Design : Glühwürmchen Lampe Camping Natur Sommer Erleuchten Van Life: 120 Linierte DIN A4 Seiten. Independently Published, 2020.
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Findlay, Dick. Bitter Lied Van Die Somer. J L Van Schaik, South Africa, 2004.
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Johnsen, Bredo. Willard van Orman Quine. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190662776.003.0010.
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In this chapter the author corrects other misunderstandings of Quine’s epistemology and focuses on five of Quine’s conceptions. The first is the roles of our sensory experiences, our observations and the stimulations of our sensory organs in our cognitive economies. The second is the nature of our evidence about the world. The third is the epistemological importance of some introspective judgments. The fourth is observation sentences (which include both objective [“a is F”] and subjective [“a looks F”] sentences). The fifth is naturalized epistemology. The chapter concludes with a concise outline of his epistemology, which Quine himself never provided.
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Rello, Jordi, and Bárbara Borgatta. Pathophysiology of pneumonia. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0115.
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Airway colonization, ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT), and hospital-acquired (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are three manifestations having the presence of micro-organisms in airways in common. Newer definitions have to consider worsening of oxygenation, in addition to purulent respiratory secretions, chest-X rays opacities, and biomarkers of inflammation. Bacteria are the main causes of HAP/VAP. During hospitalization there’s a shift of airway’s colonizing flora from core organisms to enteric and non-fermentative ones. Macro- and micro-aspiration is the most important source of pneumonia. Endotracheal tube secretion leakage is an important source, serving biofilm as a reservoir. Exogenous colonization is infrequent, but it may contribute to cross-infection with resistant species. Prevention of VAP can be achieved by implementing multidisciplinary care bundles focusing on oral/hand hygiene and control of sedation. Pneumonia develops when micro-organisms overwhelm host defences, resulting in a multifocal process. Risk and severity of pneumonia is determined by bacterial burden, organism virulence and host defences. Innate and adaptive immune responses are altered, decreasing clearing of pathogens. Some deficits of the complement pathway in intubated patients are associated with increased risk for VAP and higher mortality. Micro-arrays have demonstrated specific different immunological signatures for VAP and VAT. Early antibiotic therapy is associated with a decrease in early HAP/VAP incidence, but selects for MDR organisms. Attributable mortality is lower than 10%, but HAP/VAP prolongs length of stay, and dramatically increase costs and use of health care resources.
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Publishers, Museum. Notebook : James I of England , Attributed to Paul Van Somer, Ca. 1576-1621, Flemish, Active in Britain , Ca. 1618, Oil on Canvas, Support: 86 1/4 × 54 3/4 Inches , Beard, Breeches (trousers. Independently Published, 2021.
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Dörpinghaus, Andreas, and Karl-Heinz Lembeck, eds. Sehen als Erfahrung. Verlag Karl Alber, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783495823729.
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Dass der Gesichtssinn als primärer Sinn der Welterschließung verstanden wird, so dass die Metapher des Sehens sogar in die Urteilstheorie eingeht, wenn dort etwa von ›Einsicht‹ als Erkenntnisqualität und gar als Ausweis von Wahrheit die Rede ist, dass aber zugleich in der Geschichte des Denkens zunehmend Misstrauen gegenüber der bloßen und tendenziell trügerischen Erscheinung der Weltdinge geschürt wird – dieser Antagonismus ist Leitfaden dieses Buches. Mit Beiträgen von Christian Bermes, Gernot Böhme, Andreas Dörpinghaus, Markus Heuft, Herbert Kalthoff / Christiane Schürkmann, Ralf Konersmann, Karl-Heinz Lembeck, Karl Mertens, Reinold Schmücker, Eva Schürmann, Manfred Sommer und Ina Uphoff.
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Vomberg, Elfi, Sebastian Stauss, and Anna Schürmer, eds. Krise - Boykott - Skandal. edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783967074598.
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Krise, Boykott, Skandal – drei schillernde Begriffe, denen ein schlechtes Image anhaftet, die aber auch produktive Potenziale freisetzen können. Besondere Strahlkraft entwickeln sie, seit moderne Krisendiskurse schnell wechselnde, zunehmend massenmedial geprägte Umbruchszenarien befeuern. Als punktuelle Entladung lassen sich Skandale einordnen, die in der verdichteten Atmosphäre von Aufführungssituationen auftreten. Solche konzertierten Aktionen sind auch für Boykotte als Manifestationen der Verweigerungshaltung kennzeichnend. Welche katalysatorischen Möglichkeiten eines Skandals bleiben von den Avantgarde-Bewegungen, wenn seit der Postmoderne ästhetische Provokationen scheinbar unmöglich geworden sind? Inwieweit erlebt der klassische Boykott im Zeichen sozialer Netzwerke eine Transformation zur "Cancel Culture"? Und inwiefern schlagen sich gesellschaftliche Krisenerfahrungen sozioästhetisch nieder? Solche Narrative des konzertierten Ausnahmezustands werden anhand von Beispielen aus den Darstellenden Künsten, den Informations- und Unterhaltungsmedien, von der Nachkriegsgeschichte bis zur Gegenwart, in wechselnden Konfigurationen betrachtet. Mit Beiträgen von Randi Becker, Maren Butte, Maximilian Kutzner, Irene Lehmann, Anne D. Peiter, Nadja Rothenburger, Anna Schürmer, Azadeh Sharifi, Sebastian Sommer, Sebastian Stauss, Elfi Vomberg und Christian Wevelsiep.
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Köhler, Kristina, Fabienne Liptay, and Jörg Schweinitz, eds. Andreas Dresen. edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783967075816.
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Das freundliche, fast liebevolle Bild von Menschen, die einen zähen Kampf mit Erwartungen und Normen des gesellschaftlichen Daseins führen – häufig wenig erfolgreich, überfordert und mit ungeeigneten, fragwürdigen Mitteln –, charakterisiert die Filme von Andreas Dresen (*1963). So grotesk Situationen dort erscheinen mögen, die Handelnden werden nie zu Zombies, sie laden in einen vielschichtigen subjektiven Raum der Teilhabe ein. So ist es bei "Gundermann" (2018), der teils in der DDR spielt, und auch in "Halbe Treppe" (2002) oder "Willenbrock" (2005), die von der prekären Nachwendeperiode erzählen, aber auch in "Nachtgestalten" (1999), "Sommer vorm Balkon" (2005) oder "Wolke 9" (2008), für die dieser Hintergrund weniger bestimmend ist. Häufig ist von einer dokumentarischen Anmutung die Rede. Stimmig gewählte Orte und Ausstattungen, Improvisationen beim Drehen oder auch Einsätze der Handkamera stützen den Eindruck. Sie suggerieren Nichtinszenierung, obschon es Mittel einer durchdachten Inszenierung sind, die beim Schnitt ihren endgültigen Rhythmus findet und Verstand wie Emotion bewegt. Solchen Aspekten des Kinos von Andreas Dresen widmet sich der Band.
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Milonni, Peter W. An Introduction to Quantum Optics and Quantum Fluctuations. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199215614.001.0001.
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This book is an introduction to quantum optics for students who have studied electromagnetism and quantum mechanics at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level. It provides detailed expositions of theory with emphasis on general physical principles. Foundational topics in classical and quantum electrodynamics, including the semiclassical theory of atom-field interactions, the quantization of the electromagnetic field in dispersive and dissipative media, uncertainty relations, and spontaneous emission, are addressed in the first half of the book. The second half begins with a chapter on the Jaynes-Cummings model, dressed states, and some distinctly quantum-mechanical features of atom-field interactions, and includes discussion of entanglement, the no-cloning theorem, von Neumann’s proof concerning hidden variable theories, Bell’s theorem, and tests of Bell inequalities. The last two chapters focus on quantum fluctuations and fluctuation-dissipation relations, beginning with Brownian motion, the Fokker-Planck equation, and classical and quantum Langevin equations. Detailed calculations are presented for the laser linewidth, spontaneous emission noise, photon statistics of linear amplifiers and attenuators, and other phenomena. Van der Waals interactions, Casimir forces, the Lifshitz theory of molecular forces between macroscopic media, and the many-body theory of such forces based on dyadic Green functions are analyzed from the perspective of Langevin noise, vacuum field fluctuations, and zero-point energy. There are numerous historical sidelights throughout the book, and approximately seventy exercises.
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Kowalewski, Sabina L., and Werner Stark, eds. Königsberger Kantiana. [Immanuel Kant. Werke. Volksausgabe Bd. 1, hrsg. von Arnold Kowalewski]. Felix Meiner Verlag, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-4003-3.
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Von dem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Volksausgabe der Kantischen Schriften in 5 Bänden, mit dem Arnold Kowalewski von der Stadt Königsberg 1941 beauftragt worden war, um einen Überblick über das Kantische Schaffen zu erleichtern, ist allein das Typoskript für Band 1 vollständig ausgearbeitet worden. Mit der vorliegenden Ausgabe wird ein Erbteil der Königsberger Kant-Forschung, die wesentliche Beiträge zur Sicherung und Überlieferung von Kants Werk geleistet hat, bewahrt. Arnold Kowalewski (1873-1945) war der letzte Vertreter der Königsberger Kant-Forschung, die mit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges abbrach. Von dem unabgeschlossenen Projekt einer Volksausgabe der Kantischen Schriften in 5 Bänden, mit dem er von der Stadt Königsberg 1941 beauftragt worden war, um einen Überblick über das Kantische Schaffen zu erleichtern, ist allein das Typoskript für Band 1 vollständig ausgearbeitet worden. Der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit war der erreichte Stand der Realisierung unbekannt. Typoskript, korrigierte Druckfahnen und weitere Dokumente zur Entstehung der Ausgabe blieben bis in den Sommer 1998 Teil des unveröffentlichten Nachlasses. Die besondere Bedeutung des im Nachlaß von Arnold Kowalewski bewahrten Manuskripts mit Dokumenten und Quellentexten zu Kants Lehrtätigkeit liegt heute darin, daß der anerkannte Kant-Philologe und -Interpret für seine Edition noch auf Texte und Zeugnisse aus den Beständen der Königsberger Bibliotheken zugreifen konnte, die seit 1945 verschollen sind. Dies gilt vor allem für die ausgewählten Texte aus Kants Vorlesungen über Anthropologie, Geographie, Logik und Metaphysik, die - wenn auch in sekundärer Überlieferung - durch den vorliegenden Band erhalten sind.
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Hoffmann, Arne, ed. Gleichberechtigung beginnt zu zweit. Tectum – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783828872776.
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Wie können Feminismus und Maskulismus zusammenwirken, um beide Geschlechter voranzubringen? Welche Chancen und Vorteile würden so entstehen? Warum stehen sich die beiden Bewegungen bislang oft als verfeindete Lager gegenüber, statt gemeinsam Synergien zu erzeugen? Und wie kann man als Frauen- oder Männerrechtler sein soziales Engagement beibehalten, ohne die immer stärker werdende Polarisierung unserer Gesellschaft noch zu fördern? Statt wie bisherige Bücher ein Plädoyer nur für die Anliegen eines Geschlechts zu führen, stoßen Feministen und Maskulisten sowie Mediatoren, Konfliktforscher und Paartherapeuten hier einen zukunftsweisenden, ganzheitlichen Ansatz an. Dabei reichen die facettenreichen Beiträge thematisch von der Berliner Regierungspolitik über Konflikte in den sozialen Medien bis zu Menschenrechtsverletzungen wie geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt. Auf dieser Grundlage entsteht konstruktive Diversität in einer Debatte, in der auch interkulturelle Blickwinkel nicht zu kurz kommen. Mit Beiträgen von Arne Hoffmann, Lucas Schoppe, Mithu Sanyal, Gerd Riedmeier, Sandra Hermann, Ingbert Jüdt, Maike Wolf, Wendy McElroy, Robin Urban, Dr. Hanna Milling, Monika Ebeling, Eilert Bartels, Professor Christina Hoff Sommers, Astrid von Friesen, Elinor Petzold, Dr. Katja Kurz und Jeannette Hagen.
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Türegün, Gökçen. Vergessen und Erinnern: Die Verankerung der Vergangenheit in Uwe Timms Werken. Peter Lang D, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b17240.
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Die Autorin des Buches analysiert Uwe Timms Werke Heißer Sommer, Morenga und Am Beispiel meines Bruders und geht der Frage nach, inwiefern und in welchem Grad das kollektive und kulturelle Gedächtnis von individuellen Erinnerungen beeinflusst wird. Das Buch untersucht auch, welche Wirkung für die Erinnerungskulturen das Symbolsystem Literatur hat, wie der gegenseitige Bezug zwischen literarischen Auslegungen vom Gedächtnis und Erinnerungskulturen aufzufassen ist sowie welche Funktionen und Wirkungsweisen die Literatur auf die Erinnerungskulturen hat. Schließlich setzt sich die Autorin mit der Frage auseinander, wie literarische Auslegungen zum Übermittler des kollektiven Gedächtnisses werden.
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Schürmann, Eva, Sebastian Spanknebel, and Héctor Wittwer, eds. Formen und Felder des Philosophierens. Verlag Karl Alber, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783495813812.
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Die Frage, was Philosophie ist und wie sie betrieben werden sollte, kann nicht ein für alle Mal beantwortet werden. Vielmehr muss jede Generation aufs Neue für sich klären, was unter einem philosophischen Problem zu verstehen ist und wie man philosophieren sollte. Die Verständigung darüber, was Philosophie ist, bildet somit einen Teil der philosophischen Tätigkeit selbst. Der Sammelband bietet eine Bestandsaufnahme des Selbstverständnisses von Philosophinnen und Philosophen unserer Zeit, die repräsentativ für die Vielfalt der Gegenwartsphilosophie ist. Diese Vielfalt ergibt sich einerseits aus der historischen und systematischen Breite der Themen, mit denen sich die Philosophie beschäftigt – den Feldern des Philosophierens. Darüber hinaus ist die Philosophie der Gegenwart andererseits auch dadurch charakterisiert, dass sie ihre Gegenstände auf verschiedene Weise, z. B. analytisch, phänomenologisch oder pragmatisch, untersucht. Diese Formen des Philosophierens konstituieren seine methodische Vielfalt. Mit Beiträgen von Rolf Elberfeld, Markus Gabriel, Michael Hampe, Ludger Jansen, Matthias Kaufmann, Olaf Müller, Kristina Musholt, Jan Schmidt, Eva Schürmann, Marc Nicolas Sommer, Sebastian Spanknebel, Rainer Totzke, Christiane Voss und Héctor Wittwer.
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Skow, Brad. Scientific Explanation. Edited by Paul Humphreys. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.15.
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This chapter argues that the notion of explanation relevant to the philosophy of science is that of an answer to a why-question. From this point of view it surveys most of the historically important theories of explanation. Hempel’s deductive-nomological, and inductive-statistical, models of explanation required explanations to cite laws. Familiar counterexamples to these models suggested that laws are not needed, and instead that explanations should cite causes. One theory of causal explanation, David Lewis’s, is discussed in some detail. Many philosophers now reject causal theories of explanation because they think that there are non-causal explanations; some examples are reviewed. The role of probabilities and statistics in explanation, and their relation to causation, is also discussed. Another strategy for dealing with counterexamples to Hempel’s theory leads to unificationist theories of explanation. Kitcher's unificationist theory is presented, and a new argument against unificationist theories is offered. Also discussed in some detail are Van Fraassen’s pragmatic theory, and Streven’s and Woodward’s recent theories of causal explanation.
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Hinton, Alexander Laban. Aesthetics (Theary Seng, Vann Nath, and Victim Participation). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820949.003.0007.
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The second part of the book, “Turbulence,” centers on the transitional justice encounter of three survivors (Theary Seng, Vann Nath, and Bou Meng) involved in victim participation at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Chapter 4, for example, is loosely structured around the idea of aesthetics and the experience of two victims who participated in the proceedings, Theary Seng and former S-21 prisoner Vann Nath. If the 2008 reenactment highlighted the performative dimensions of the transitional justice imaginary, it also suggested an implicit aesthetics as a former prison that had been converted into a genocide museum was, in this moment, envisioned as a crime site now inhabited by court personnel, victims and witnesses, and defendant, and evidence. The ECCC has a similar aesthetics of justice, ranging from court regalia and symbols to courtroom demeanor, technologies, styles of speech and movement, and public participation. The first part of the chapter centers on the experience of the first civil party, Theary Seng. Originally skeptical of the ECCC, Seng came to believe it had transformative possibilities in terms of promoting democracy in Cambodia. To this end, in a series of pretrial hearings, she sought to speak directly in court. Initially successful, Seng was eventually silenced as the Pre-Trial Chamber ruled that civil parties could only speak through their lawyers. Seng, for her part, became increasingly critical of the court, stating that she refused to be a piece of “décor” in a “sham.” Eventually she would renounce her civil party status and become an outspoken critic of the court, which was increasingly beset by controversy. The remainder of the chapter focuses on Vann Nath’s Case 001 testimony. On the day of his testimony, the 500-seat courtroom was packed, as it would be during many subsequent trial sessions. Vann Nath’s art, much of which he had produced during People’s Republic of Kampuchea for display at Tuol Sleng, was reintroduced as juridical evidence and shown in court. The chapter explores some of these aesthetic dimensions of the transitional justice imaginary even as it considers the lived experience and practices that informed Vann Nath’s art, including Buddhist aesthetics and beliefs.
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Murphy, Elaine, Yann Nadjar, and Christine Vianey-Saban. Fatty Acid Oxidation, Electron Transfer and Riboflavin Metabolism Defects. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199972135.003.0008.
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The fatty acid oxidation disorders are a group of autosomally recessively inherited disorders of energy metabolism that may present with life-threatening hypoketotic hypoglycemia, encephalopathy and hepatic dysfunction, muscle symptoms, and/or cardiomyopathy. Milder phenotypes may present in adulthood, causing exercise intolerance, episodic rhabdomyolysis, and neuropathy. Specific investigations include acylcarnitine profiling, urine organic acid analysis, fibroblast or leucocyte studies of fatty acid oxidation flux/enzyme activity, and genetic testing. Management varies depending on the condition but includes avoidance of precipitants such as fasting, fever, and intense exercise, a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet, and supplementation with carnitine or riboflavin. Inborn errors of riboflavin transport mainly present with Brown-Vialetto-Van Laere syndrome. Some patients respond dramatically to riboflavin supplementation; therefore it has to be tried in all suspected patients.
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Savage, Steven. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0018.
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When I was asked to write about music and shape for this volume I immediately thought of the reverb programmes that I use to add ambience to individual tracks when I am mixing. Reverb presets often come in the form of representations of physical space. General categories might include stadiums, concert halls, churches, theatres, auditoriums, nightclubs, small rooms, etc. Today’s sampling reverbs, which can translate specific acoustical spaces into ambiences that can be used on any sound, include such presets as the Sydney Opera House, St Paul’s Cathedral or the Ryman Auditorium at The Grand Ole Opry, as well as less renowned, smaller spaces such as a closet, a tiled bathroom or the interior of a Ford Econoline van. Some programs simulate very specific types of spaces such as a ...
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Pang, Changhyun, Chanseok Lee, Hoon Eui Jeong, and Kahp-Yang Suh. Skin and dry adhesion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0022.
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Close observation of various attachment systems in animal skins has revealed various exquisite multi-scale architectures for essential functions such as locomotion, crawling, mating, and protection from predators. Some of these adhesion systems of geckos and beetles have unique structural features (e.g. high-aspect ratio, tilted angle, and hierarchical nanostructure), resulting in mechanical interlocking mediated by van der Waals forces or liquid secretion (capillary force). In this chapter, we present an overview of recent advances in bio-inspired, artificial dry adhesives, and biomimetics in the context of nanofabrication and material properties. In addition, relevant bio-inspired structural materials, devices (clean transportation device, interlocker, biomedical skin patch, and flexible strain-gauge sensor) and microrobots are briefly introduced, which would shed light on future smart, directional, and reversible adhesion systems.
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Freeden, Michael. 5. Liberal luminaries. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199670437.003.0005.
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‘The liberal canon’ explores the views of some major thinkers and philosophers who shaped and refined liberal thinking since the early 19th century, when liberalism emerged as a distinct ideology. It begins with four British thinkers—John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, and John Atkinson Hobson—before assessing the impact on liberalism of other individuals such as Mary Wollstonecraft; France’s Benjamin Constant; the Germans Wilhelm von Humboldt, Max Weber, and Friedrich Naumann; the Italians Benedetto Croce and Carlo Rosselli; the American philosopher and educationalist John Dewey; and, finally, economist, philosopher, and political thinker Friedrich August von Hayek.
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Pitozzi, Enrico. Body Soundscape. Edited by Yael Kaduri. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841547.013.43.
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Starting from an interdisciplinary perspective of methodological integration of the concepts of body and sound in the contemporary dance scene, this chapter addresses the general aesthetic notion ofsonorous body. Through a survey of some key practices and pieces by Wayne McGregor, Ginette Laurin, Angelin Preljocaj, Cindy Van Acker and others, the author analyzes the audiovisual dimension of these works, developed with digital technologies and in a collaboration of choreographers with electronic musician and sound artists such as Scanner, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Granular Synthesis, and Mika Vainio. This audiovisual tension, defined as the sonorous body, can be read through two interpretations. In the first, thesound is a body, which means the electronic sound of the scene is an acoustic material. In the second, the body is a sound, which means the body of the dancers produces the soundscape of a scene.
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Guymer, Sheila. Eloquent Performance. Edited by Danuta Mirka. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.0023.
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This chapter explores how skilled performers use topical analysis in their interpretative decision-making, presenting material from lesson-interviews conducted with fortepianists Robert Levin and Bart van Oort. Drawing on treatises by Türk, Quantz, Kirnberger, Koch, and Leopold Mozart, it examines some historical foundations of Leonard Ratner’s topics, their connections with eighteenth-century concepts of musical character and expression, and topics’ limitations as tools in the process of analysis and interpretation. The chapter takes the Allegro movements of Mozart’s Sonata K. 333 as two case studies. It concludes that awareness of topical references in this repertoire aids performers in systematically identifying and executing contrasts, enabling more expressive and communicative performance. It suggests that a sensitive understanding of historically informed performance practices benefits topic theorists, as analyses may be undermined by anachronistic assumptions about how the music sounds in performance.
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Moses, Matthew S., and Gregory S. Chirikjian. Reproduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0007.
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Computing pioneer and polymath John von Neumann introduced the concept of a Universal Constructor as part of his effort to develop a mathematical theory describing living organisms. A Universal Constructor is a kinematic machine able to manipulate and assemble primitive building blocks. Von Neumann showed how this hypothetical constructor, being itself composed of the same primitive blocks, could self-reproduce and evolve. Remarkably, although this model system pre-dates the discovery of the genetic code, it applies to cell molecular biology as well as man-made machines. This chapter describes some key laboratory demonstrations related to universal construction and machine self-reproduction, and discusses parallels between reproduction processes in machines and biological cells.
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Fischer, Thomas, and Eric Hilgendorf, eds. Gefahr. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783845299082.
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Der Begriff „Gefahr“ spielt in vielen Disziplinen eine große Rolle. Häufig wird auch der Ausdruck „Risiko“ verwendet. In der Rechtswissenschaft spielt der Gefahrenbegriff etwa in Strafrecht und im Polizeirecht eine große Rolle, aber auch im Medizin- und Sozialrecht sowie in der juristischen Grundlagendebatte. Im vorliegenden Band werden die Konzepte „Gefahr“ und „Risiko“ in interdisziplinärer Perspektive geklärt und ihre Anwendungen in verschiedenen Kontexten diskutiert. Es handelt sich um die Ergebnisse einer Tagung, die im Sommer 2019 in Baden-Baden durchgeführt wurde. Beteiligt waren, neben Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der Rechtswissenschaft, auch Autorinnen und Autoren aus Nachbardisziplinen bis hin zur Informatik. Mit Beiträgen von Jan-Hendrik Dietrich; Tobias Engelstätter; Ralf Eschelbach; Felix Fabis; Thomas Fischer; Eric Hilgendorf; Simone Kämpfer; Julia Maria Valentin-Gerecke; Hans Kudlich; Regina Michalke; Felix Ortgies; Tobias Singelnstein; Michael Tsambikakis; Michael Zwick
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Touber, Jetze. Responses to Spinoza: Burman to Le Clerc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805007.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 surveys early responses to Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus in the Dutch Republic. These include well-known published refutations, such as those by Regnerus van Mansveld (1674) and Frans Kuyper (1676), but also initiatives that never came to fruition, such as those of Jacobus Alting and Antonius Perizonius. Within these responses two main themes stand out: on the one hand, puzzlement at the metaphysics that implicitly underlies Spinoza’s terse biblical exegesis; on the other, indignation at his carefree employment of well-established philological methods in arguments that led to outrageous conclusions. Focussing on the latter, it is argued that a substantial part of the dismissive response to Spinoza was characterized by ‘scripturarianism’, the philological engagement with the biblical source texts in their original languages. Dutch scripturarians were unsettled, as their philological approach could be portrayed as leading to the highly unconventional biblical interpretations voiced by Spinoza and some of his eccentric contemporaries.
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Janssen, Ted, Gervais Chapuis, and Marc de Boissieu. Origin and stability. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824442.003.0006.
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The origin of the stability of aperiodic systems is very difficult to answer. Often the terms ‘competitive forces’ or ‘frustration’ have been proposed as the origin of stability. The role of Fermi surfaces and Brillouin zone boundary have also been invoked. This chapter deals with the numerous attempts which have been proposed for a better understanding. First, the Landau theory of phase transition, which has often been applied to understand the stability of incommensurate and composite systems, is presented here. Various semi-microscopic models are also proposed, in particular the Frenkel–Kontorova and Frank–Van der Merwe models, as well as spin models. Phase diagrams have been calculated with some success with the ANNI and DIFFOUR models. For quasicrystals, only the simplest general features are found in model systems. For a better understanding, more complex calculations are required, using, for example, ab initio methods. The chapter also discusses electronic instabilities, charge-density systems, Hume–Rothery compounds, and the growth of quasicrystals.
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Gander, Hans-Helmuth, and Magnus Striet, eds. Heideggers Weg in die Moderne. Klostermann, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783465142690.
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Nicht erst seit dem Erscheinen der »Schwarzen Hefte« wird Martin Heideggers persönliche wie denkerische Verstrickung in den Nationalsozialismus diskutiert. Die Debatte, ob er sich aus dieser Verstrickung jemals entschieden gelöst hat, begleitet die Auseinandersetzung mit Heideggers Denken seit Jahrzehnten. Die Tagung Heideggers »Schwarze Hefte«. Ideologieanfälligkeit der Intellektuellen, die im Dezember 2015 an der Universität Freiburg i.Br. stattfand, wendete sich im Blick auf Heidegger und darüber hinaus der Frage zu, wie es dazu kommen konnte, dass sich Intellektuelle in der Weimarer Republik wenigstens zeitweise für die NS-Bewegung begeisterten. »Immanent-kritisches Weiterdenken mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger« (NZZ) zeichnet die aus Anlass der Tagung gehaltenen Vorträge in ihrer Gesamtheit aus. Der Band enthält die Beiträge von Wolfgang Eßbach, Andreas Urs Sommer, Claus Arnold, Lore Hühn, Christian Bermes, Jeff Malpas, Emil Angehrn, Peter Trawny, Christoph Demmerling, Oliver Müller, Georg Essen, Rainer Marten und Dieter Thomä.
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Gödde, Christoph, ed. Theodor W. Adorno und Alfred Sohn-Rethel. edition text + kritik im Richard Boorberg Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783967074543.
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Die 48 erhaltenen Briefe und Karten, die Adorno und Sohn-Rethel wechselten, dokumentieren eindringlich die mühevolle Geschichte von Alfred Sohn-Rethels Hauptwerk 'Geistige und körperliche Arbeit', vor allem die Anstrengungen und die frühen Entwürfe aus den Jahren 1936 und 1937. Adorno, den Sohn-Rethel 1925 in Süditalien kennen lernte und mit dem er in den Jahren vor der Emigration gelegentlich zusammentraf, erschien ihm als idealer Leser der eigenen Entwürfe, ging es doch beiden seit Mitte der dreißiger Jahre um eine kritischen Überwindung des Idealismus, um dessen Überführung in dialektischen Materialismus. Sohn-Rethel hatte im Sommer 1936 seine Überlegungen zu einer Materialistischen Theorie der Erkenntnis in einem ersten Exposé zusammengefasst und dieses Adorno, ebenso wie auch Walter Benjamin und Max Horkheimer, zukommen lassen in der Hoffnung auf eine Mitarbeit am Institut für Sozialforschung, wenigstens aber auf Förderung seiner Arbeit. Adorno, der damals mit der Ausarbeitung der späteren 'Metakritik der Erkenntnistheorie' befasst war, erkannte die Nähe der Thesen Sohn-Rethels zur eigenen Konzeption. 'Er kommt von einer gänzlich anderen Seite zu merkwürdig übereinstimmenden Ergebnissen mit meinem gegenwärtigen Versuch. Das gemeinsame Gespräch mit ihm halte ich sachlich für überaus belangvoll', schrieb er an Benjamin. Nach Adornos Übersiedlung in die USA war das 'gemeinsame Gespräch' ausschließlich auf Briefe verwiesen. Die Beziehung Adornos zu Sohn-Rethel wird in diesem Band der Reihe 'Dialektische Studien' zum ersten Mal unentstellt dokumentiert. Christoph Gödde ist Mitarbeiter am Theodor W. Adorno Archiv in Frankfurt.
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Lämmlin, Georg, ed. Zukunftsaussichten für die Kirchen: 50 Jahre Pastoralsoziologie in Hannover. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748932130.
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In der Corona-Pandemie sind die Herausforderungen, denen die pastorale Rolle ausgesetzt ist, und die Veränderungen insbesondere im Blick auf digitale Kommunikationsformen, vor denen sie steht, wie unter einem Brennglas deutlich geworden. Die Kontexte, Formen und Fragen pastoraler Praxis und religiöser Kommunikation neu in den Blick zu nehmen, dieser Aufgabe stellt sich die pastoralsoziologische Perspektive. In diesem Sammelband finden sich die verschriftlichten Beiträge der Jahrestagung vom Sozialwissenschaftlichen Institut der EKD sowie weitere Beiträge aus dem Institut aus dem Bereich der Pastoral- und Religionssoziologie. Mit Beiträgen von OKR’in Petra-Angela Ahrens, Prof. Dr. Arnd Bünker, Prof. Dr. Karl-Fritz Daiber, Prof. Dr. Lutz Friedrichs, Dr. Horst Gorski, Prof. Dr. Matthias Koenig, Prof. Dr. Georg Lämmlin, Landesbischof Ralf Meister, Simon Michel, Dr. habil. Hilke Rebenstorf, Dr. Gunther Schendel, Prof. Dr. Thomas Schlag, Prof. Dr. Matthias Sellmann, Prof. Dr. Regina Sommer, Dr. Julia Steinkühler, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wegner und Dr. Edgar Wunder.
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Snyder, Jean E. Burleigh Spirituals and the Harlem Renaissance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039942.003.0017.
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This chapter examines the controversy between Harry T. Burleigh and his colleagues and critics over the issue of spirituals during the Harlem Renaissance. Although Burleigh was still regarded as the pioneer and by most as the master arranger of spirituals during the mid-1920s, there were dissenting voices. Henry Krehbiel, for example, warned against oversophistication of African American folk music “by standardizing its form, making it conform to the standard of music of European conception.” Carl Van Vechten also criticized Burleigh and his colleagues for relying on the Hampton and Fisk collections for most of their arrangements. This chapter considers how Burleigh came to be the target of criticism from some of the most outspoken of the younger Harlem or New Negro Renaissance voices, as well as his counterargument that the movement was chauvinist and separatist, or sacrificed what he felt were basic artistic standards. It also discusses Burleigh's belief that the vast repertoire of spirituals must be preserved in simpler versions accessible to untrained singers, as well as in art-style transformations for professional singers.
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Simmons, Amy. Antichrist. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733414.001.0001.
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Written and directed by Lars von Trier, one of the most influential and provocative filmmakers working today, Antichrist (2009), tells a story of parental loss, mourning and despair that result from the tragic death of a child. When the film screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, it split audiences down the middle. Some attacked von Trier for misogyny (amongst other things), while others defended him for creating a daring and poetic portrait of grief and separation. Dense, shocking, and thought-provoking, Antichrist is a film which calls for careful analysis. The book follows an account of the film's making with an in-depth consideration of the themes and issues arising from it — the ambiguous depiction of the natural world, the shifting gender power relations, its reflections on Christianity and the limitations of rationality. At the film's heart, says the author, is a heart-breaking depiction of grief-stricken parents, a confounding interplay between psychology and psychosis, misogyny, and empowerment.
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Köchy, Kristian, Matthias Wunsch, and Martin Böhnert, eds. Philosophie der Tierforschung. Verlag Karl Alber, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783495811320.
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Die Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte Philosophie der Tierforschung wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet und ergänzt es durch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung des gesamten Kontextes der naturwissenschaftlichen Tierforschung, inklusive der philosophischen Hintergrundannahmen, der Forschungsverfahren und -orte (Labor/Feld), der Handlungslogiken, Denkstile und Sprachspiele der Forscherkollektive sowie der jeweils ausgewählten Modellorganismen. Nachdem der erste Band „Methoden und Programme“ der Verhaltensforschung historisch und systematisch diskutierte, stellt der zweite Band unter dem Titel „Maximen und Konsequenzen“ mögliche soziale und ethische Konsequenzen in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei werden sowohl die kulturellen Deutungen biologischer Befundlagen als auch die aus biologischen Erkenntnissen und deren Deutung resultierenden ethischen Implikationen zur Sprache gebracht. Zugleich geht es immer auch um die Frage, ob und wieweit Ethik und Kultur selbst biologische Wurzeln haben. Mit Beiträgen von Andreas Aigner, Arianna Ferrari, Herwig Grimm, Hans-Werner Ingensiep, Ute Knierim, Peter Kunzmann, Volker Sommer, Dirk Westerkamp und Markus Wild.
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Filzwieser, Christian, and Lioba Kasper, eds. Asyl- und Fremdenrecht Jahrbuch 2022. NWV Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37942/9783708340913.
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Umfassender Überblick über die Entwicklungen im Asyl- und Fremdenrecht oder: Vielfältige Entwicklungen im Asyl- und Fremdenrecht Das Jahrbuch Asyl- und Fremdenrecht erscheint zum zweiten Mal mit dem neuen Herausgeber*innen-Team und widerspiegelt auch dieses Jahr die Vielfalt des Bereichs. Vertreten sind die im Asyl- und Fremdenrechtsbereich zur Entscheidung berufenen Gerichte ebenso wie Rechtsvertreter*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen des Bundesministeriums für Inneres. Neben der Praxis kommen auch Beiträge aus der Wissenschaft zu Wort und geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Entwicklungen im Bereich des Asyl- und Fremdenrechts im Zeitraum von Sommer 2021 bis Anfang Juni 2022. Der Sammelband setzt aus aktuell traurigem Anlass zwei länderspezifische Schwerpunkte (mit Fokus auf die Auswirkungen auf die österreichische Praxis): zum einen zur Ukraine und zum anderen zu Afghanistan. Sowohl das materielle Asylrecht, das Aufenthalts- und Staatsbürgerschaftsrecht als auch das Verfahrensrecht werden jeweils in Beiträgen namhafter Autor*innen thematisiert. Die europäische Dimension findet ihren Eingang nicht nur in den einzelnen Beiträgen, etwa zur Migration und Praxis der Pushbacks, der Fokus wird mit einem Beitrag eines slowenischen Richters zum Prinzip des mutual trust auch auf nicht-österreichische Diskurse erweitert.
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Steiner, Rudolf, and Christian Clement, eds. Rudolf Steiner: Schriften. Kritische Ausgabe / Band 1: Frühe Schriften zur Goethe-Deutung. frommann-holzboog Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783772834813.
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The first volume of this critical edition of writings by Rudolf Steiner features some of the earliest publications of the founder of anthroposophy. These texts document Steiner’s attempt to reconstruct the epistemological and scientific principles, which ‒ in Steiner’s view ‒ guided Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s efforts in the field of natural science. In light of Steiner’s interpretation, Goethe’s efforts in this area appear as a progressive and forward-looking approach to the understanding of life, grounded in sound scientific methodology and philosophy, and at the same time deeply spiritual in nature.
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Augsberg, Ino, and Gunnar Folke Schuppert, eds. Wissen und Recht. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783748921479.
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For a long time, jurisprudence believed that it did not have to deal with the relationship between the law and knowledge. Through the clear separation of factual and legal issues, the problem seemed to have been clarified. But for some years now, the idea of the law having a ‘cognitive dimension’ has been discussed more and more intensively. On the one hand, there are calls to abolish the separation of factual and legal issues, because the law itself (co-)determines the knowledge base necessary for its application. On the other hand, this separation should be maintained or restituted at the same time—for its own normative reasons and, above all, for its theoretical legitimation. The contributions in this volume address this question and develop it further. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Dr. Ino Augsberg; Prof. Dr. Dr. Burkhard Josef Berkmann; Prof. Dr. Christian Bumke; PD Dr. Peter Collin; Prof. Dr. Thomas Duve; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, LL.M.; Prof. Dr. Nils Jansen; Prof. Dr. Ann-Katrin Kaufhold; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl-Heinz Ladeur; Dr. Katharina Reiling; Johannes Schmees; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz; Prof. Dr. Margrit Seckelmann; Prof. Dr. Hans-Heinrich Trute; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang van den Daele and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Thomas Vesting.
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Newman, Judith H. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190212216.003.0006.
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Although by no means offering a complete taxonomy of scripture formation, the book considers a wide range of literary genres and practices across the diverse population of Judeans throughout the region. The conclusion draws out some of the implications for understanding the fluid nature of scriptures in the Hellenistic-Roman era. The search for the “original text” of the Bible is a vain one; rather, scriptures were formed through a traditioning process that involved sacralization through the entwinement of prayer practices and textual interpretation. These texts were mediated by learned teachers and leaders in textual communities.
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van der Vlies, Andrew. Present Imperfect. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793762.001.0001.
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Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the ‘new’ nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa’s literature, it understands ‘disappointment’ both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that was promised by the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid Struggle (a dis-appointment). Attending to contemporary writers’ treatment of temporality, genre, and form, it considers a range of negative feelings that are also experiences of temporal disjuncture—including stasis, impasse, boredom, disaffection, and nostalgia. Present Imperfect offers close readings of work by a range of writers—some known to international Anglophone readers (J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb), some slightly less wellknown (including Afrikaans-language novelists Marlene van Niekerk and Ingrid Winterbach), others from a new generation (Songeziwe Mahlangu, Masande Ntshanga). It addresses key questions in South African studies about the evolving character of the historical period in which the country now finds itself. It is also alert to wider critical and theoretical conversations, looking outward to make a case for the place of South African writing in global conversations, and mobilizing readings of writing marked in various ways as ‘South African’ in order to complicate the contours of World Literature as category, discipline, and pedagogy. It is thus also a book about the discontents of neoliberalism, the political energies of reading, and the fates of literature in our troubled present.
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Sobel, David, Peter Vallentyne, and Steven Wall, eds. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 6. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852636.001.0001.
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This consists of eight papers in political philosophy that were presented at the Sixth Annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, at the University Pavia, Italy, in June 2018. In Part I: Rights and Wrongs, Kimberley Brownlee analyses how wrongs can create new rights. Zofia Stemplowska argues that it is possible to mitigate some past injustices done to those who are no longer alive. Japa Pallikkathayil develops an account of how our bodily rights constrain the right to free speech. In Part II: Immigration and Borders, Valeria Ottonelli defends the right to stay where one lives, on the basis of the right to control one’s body and one’s personal space. Nils Holtug argues that the equality required by justice has global scope and that open borders can be expected reduce global inequality. Johann Frick argues that special relationships among members of a group (e.g. one’s compatriots) cannot justify strong forms of partiality, unless the boundaries of this group can also be justified. In Part III: Other Matters, Christian List and Laura Valentini argue that the normative facts of political theory belong to a higher—more coarse-grained—level than those of moral theory and that, consequently, some questions that moral theories answer are indeterminate at the political level. Aart van Gils and Patrick Tomlin explore the issue whether weaker claims can be aggregated in order to collectively defeat stronger claims, and they focus on the limited aggregation view, according to which this is sometimes, but not always so.
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Soloman, Wm David. Early Virtue Ethics. Edited by Nancy E. Snow. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.013.35.
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This chapter examines some of the main lines of development of virtue ethics in the early days of its revival, roughly from the mid-1950s until the mid-1980s. The emergence of virtue ethics is linked to other changes in Anglophone academic ethics during this time, including attacks on non-cognitivism, the rejection of the sharp distinction between meta-ethics and normative ethics, and the revival of large-scale normative theories. Among the figures whose contributions to the revival of virtue are discussed most fully are William Frankena, G. H. von Wright, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Alasdair MacIntyre. Focus throughout is on the Aristotelian heart of this revival.
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Peari, Sagi. Choice Pillar I. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190622305.003.0003.
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This chapter provides a re-examination of the choice-of-law theory of the foundational father of the discipline, Friedrich Carl von Savigny and shows how Savigny’s theory has been misconceived in choice-of-law literature. First, the chapter introduces Savigny’s three basic interrelated insights on the nature of the subject which serve as a basis for Savigny’s argument development. Secondly, it presents the central contention that the principle of “voluntary submission” lies at the heart of Savigny’s choice –of-law theory rather than the mythical so-called “universal seat” formula. Finally, this chapter demonstrates several of Savigny’s deviations from his own organizing principles and makes some observations about them.
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Van Der Auwera, Johan, and Alfonso Zamorano Aguilar. The History of Modality and Mood. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.4.
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This chapter traces the current understanding of mood (or mode) and modality back in time, in the Western tradition, giving pride of place to F. R. Palmer, G. H. von Wright, I. Kant, Priscian, Quintilian, Dionysius Thrax, Apollonius Dyscolus, and Protagoras. It sketches how there were and still are at least four different notions of mood, the domain of which was progressively taken over by a notion of modality. It also sketches the tradi¬tion of some key elements in the understanding of modality, viz. necessity and possibil¬ity, which were studied from Greek antiquity onward long before they were subsumed under the heading of modality.