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Re-envisioning Jewish Identities
This innovative study combines readings of contemporary literature, art, and performance to explore the diverse and complex directions of contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the diaspora.
Ästhetische Erziehung in Russland im XX. Jahrhundert
Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um ein Forschungsvorhaben auf dem Gebiet der historischen und vergleichenden Kunstpädagogik. Dabei werden die Entwicklungsperioden im XX. Jahrhundert der Bildungssysteme in Russland und Deutschland, hier speziell in Bayern, einer umfangreichen Untersuchung unterzogen. Die Ereignisse des letzten Jahrhunderts in den untersuchten Ländern zeigen deutlich, dass das System der Kunsterziehung ein sehr dynamisches Konstrukt ist und ständigem politischem bzw. bildungspolitischem Wandel unterliegt. Das XX. Jahrhundert brachte zwei Demokratisierungswellen in Russland mit sich, die in vielen Bereichen starke Auswirkungen zeitigten und einen darauf folgenden Wandel insbesondere auch auf der Bildungsebene bewirkten. Der Gründer der Sowjetunion Vladimir Lenin schrieb, dass die Schule außerhalb der Politik nicht existieren könne. Diese These wird in dieser Studie verifiziert. Zudem werden die Entwicklungsperioden der Bildungssysteme in Russland und Deutschland in anschaulicher Weise aufgeschlossen und durch zahlreiche Abbildungen veranschaulicht.
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues. Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined is both an introduction to the capability approach and a thorough evaluation of the challenges and disputes that have engrossed the scholars who have developed it. Ingrid Robeyns offers her own illuminating and rigorously interdisciplinary interpret...
The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition
Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.
Agency, Freedom and Choice
In this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however, ascribing importance to freedom’s agency value requires one to adopt a refined value-based approach. Binder employs an axiomatic framework in order to develop such an approach. She shows that a focus on freedom’s agency value has far reaching consequences for existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one to move beyond a person’s given all-things-considered preferences to the values underlying a person’s preference formation. Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only) for those differences between choice options which really matter to people. Binder illustrates the implications of her analysis for the evaluation of public policy and human development with the capability approach: only if sufficient importance is ascribed to freedom’s agency value can the capability approach keep its promises.
Keys to Play
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
