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Architects of Buddhist leisure
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of materi…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780824865986
- Collation
- xi, 215 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- Contemporary Buddhism
- Call Number
- 155.09 MCD a
Aesthetics and subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities. The original book helpe…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780719024450
- Collation
- vii, 342 p.; 22 cm.
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- -
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- 155.01 BOW a
Touring Pacific cultures
edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.
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- 9781921862441
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- xix, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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- 155 ALE t
Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin: framing the asynchronous city, 195…
As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by th…
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- 9789089648532
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- 212 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- Cities and cultures
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- 153 WAR u
The art of ethics in the information society : mind you
New technologies are often implemented before their ethical consequences have been fully understood. In this volume, experts working in the sciences, arts, and philosophy of technology share novel perspectives on how we can
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- 9789462984493
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- 144p. : ill.
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- -
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- 190 ART a
Persons and their minds: towards an integrative theory of mediated mind
Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the min…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315623658
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- 153p.: ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 128.2 BRI p
Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p.
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- -
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- 171.7 SCH r
Information—Consciousness—Reality : how a new understanding of the univer…
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of the cosmos. From this understanding, the current scientific paradigm emerged, ultimately discover…
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- 9783030036331
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- XXIV, 662 p.
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- -
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- 113 GLA i
Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780520298019
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- xvi, 280p. : ill.
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- -
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- 181.92 KEY l
Sensitive objects : affect and material culture
"The study of affect has become a dynamic field spanning a range of disciplines from psychology over neuroscience to philosophy and cultural studies. Little attention however has been payed to material culture. This book presents an innovative set of ethnographies of the affective relations between people and things. It tackles the sensual experiences of materiality, through taste, sounds, smel…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789188168610
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- 285 p.
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- -
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- 152.4 SEN s
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