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Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture
One of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017) made reflection on culture a fundamental part of his academic work. He published a substantial number of papers on the topic, and many of his concepts would go on to significantly influence the social sciences and humanities. Bauman began his theoretical studies on culture when working at the University of Warsaw and continued them all his life. Inspired by the many intellectual currents he encountered over his more than six decades of work, Bauman wrote on culture in the contexts of such issues as Marxism and socialism, modernity and the Holocaust, ...
Theory and Society
The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important pieces appeared in edited volumes and journals that are not readily available. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the theme of theory and society and also makes available previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds. A consistent theme of Bauman’s work was his sustained engagement with humanism, and this provides a unifying thread in the pieces brough...
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond
This volume brings together eminent scholars from various parts of the world, representing different fields of knowledge in order to explore the social, cultural, political and economic effects of the development of new technologies. On the one hand, the book contextualises the discussion of algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) within the broader framework of the digital revolution, on the other it also examines individual experiences and practices. Moreover, in light of the speed at which algorithms and AI are being incorporated into various aspects of life, contributors also question the ethical implications of their development. The widespread development of AI and algorithmic solu...
History and Politics
A victim of the Nazis, then the communists. Twice a refugee, yet always remaining a committed socialist. In countless ways, Zygmunt Bauman lived the political upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He was an actor within them. Bauman’s own lived history informed his politics, which found expression in varying degrees in his sociology, as he wrote extensively on socialism, democracy, bureaucracy, morality, Europe and the Jewish experience. This volume brings together hitherto unknown or rare pieces by Bauman on the themes of history and politics by drawing upon previously unpublished material from the Bauman Archive at the University of Leeds. A substantial introduction by the editors provides readers with a lucid guide through this material and develops connections to Bauman’s other works. The second volume in a series of books that will make available the lesser-known writings of one of the most influential social thinkers of our time, History and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to a wider readership.
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
The multi-volume set LNAI 13713 until 13718 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, which took place in Grenoble, France, in September 2022. The 236 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 1060 submissions. In addition, the proceedings include 17 Demo Track contributions. The volumes are organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Clustering and dimensionality reduction; anomaly detection; interpretability and explainability; ranking and recommender systems; transfer and multitask learning; Part II: Networks and graphs; knowledge grap...
Utopia a edukacja. Tom 4 Dysonanse, kontrasty i harmonie wyobrażeń świata możliwego
Zebrane w niniejszym wydawnictwie artykuÅ‚y kontynuujÄ… zatem zadanie badania i ukazywania tego, w jak różny, czÄ™sto nieoczywisty sposób, edukacyjne przestrzenie teorii i praktyki sÄ… przenikane przez utopiÄ™, jej pochodne i skÅ‚adowe. Przy czym należy zaznaczyć, że Autorkom i Autorom patronujÄ… zarówno różne pojÄ™cia i teorie utopii, jak i edukacji, co czyni dyskusjÄ™ i poczynione w jej toku ustalenia bardziej wnikliwymi. Pierwsza część publikacji zawiera prace zorientowane na rozpoznanie stanu niepokoju kultury współczesnej, na której bazuje edukacja, utopia jest w tym kontekÅ›cie rodzajem medium lÄ™ków i jednym z jej interesujÄ…cych konstruktów, odzwierciedlajÄ…cych spoÅ...
SZKICE Z TEORII KULTURY
Szkice z teorii kultury są dziełem ze wszech miar wyjątkowym. Książka ta miała pierwotnie ukazać się w roku 1968, jednak w wyniku wydarzeń marcowych i represji nałożonych na jej Autora, zamiar ten nie mógł zostać zrealizowany. Przez wiele lat dzieło to uznawano za bezpowrotnie zaginione. Ocalało z pożogi dziejowej w jednym, niepełnym egzemplarzu korektowym, który został niedawno odnaleziony i stał się podstawą niniejszej edycji. Z jednej strony praca ta jest szczególnie ważnym - urastającym wręcz do rangi symbolu - przykładem przedemigracyjnej twórczości Zygmunta Baumana i fascynującego klimatu intelektualnego końca lat sześćdziesiątych XX wieku. Z drugiej ...
The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman
This edited volume will illustrate the continuing interest in Bauman’s work through a number of chapters each dealing with the important aspects of his work and shedding light on some new angles and perspectives on his life and work. It seeks to position Bauman within the field of sociology and to provide some examples of his lasting contribution to and relevance for the discipline. Bauman’s ideas remain an important source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters, and all chapters are devoted to the presentation and discussion of themes and ideas that were characteristic of Bauman’s way of doing and writing. The purpose of this volume – as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press ‘Companion to Sociology’ series – is to provide a comprehensive overview of Zygmunt Bauman’s continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines.
New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns, NFMCP 2014, held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2014 in Nancy, France, in September 2014. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They illustrate advanced data mining techniques which preserve the informative richness of complex data and allow for efficient and effective identification of complex information units present in such data. The papers are organized in the following sections: classification and regression; clustering; data streams and sequences; applications.
Discovery Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2016, held in banff, AB, Canada in October 2015. The 30 full papers presented together with 5 abstracts of invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions.The conference focuses on following topics: Advances in the development and analysis of methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine learning, data mining, and intelligent data analysis, as well as their application in various scientific domains.
