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A Touch of Doubt
What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits of touch? Scepticism claims that there is always something that slips through the epistemologist’s grasp. A Touch of Doubt explores the significance of touch for the history of philosophical scepticism as well as for scepticism as an embodied form of subversive political, religious, and artistic practice. Drawing on the tradition of scepticism within nineteenth- and twentieth-century continental philosophy and psychoanalysis, this volume discusses how the sense of touch uncovers contradictions within our knowledge of ourselves and the world. It questions 1) what we can know through touch, 2) what we can know about touch itself, and 3) how our experience of touching the other and ourselves throws us into a state of doubt. This volume is intended for students and scholars who wish to reconsider the experience of touching in intersections of philosophy, religion, art, and social and political practice.
Teaching the Middle Ages through Modern Games
Games can act as invaluable tools for the teaching of the Middle Ages. The learning potential of physical and digital games is increasingly undeniable at every level of historical study. These games can provide a foundation of information through their stories and worlds. They can foster understanding of complex systems through their mechanics and rules. Their very nature requires the player to learn to progress. The educational power of games is particularly potent within the study of the Middle Ages. These games act as the first or most substantial introduction to the period for many students and can strongly influence their understanding of the era. Within the classroom, they can be deplo...
Habit Forming
Habitual drug use in the United States is at least as old as the nation itself. Habit Forming traces the history of unregulated drug use and dependency before 1914, when the Harrison Narcotic Tax Act limited sales of opiates and cocaine under US law. Many Americans used opiates and other drugs medically and became addicted. Some tried Hasheesh Candy, injected morphine, or visited opium dens, but neither use nor addiction was linked to crime, due to the dearth of restrictive laws. After the Civil War, American presses published extensively about domestic addiction. Later in the nineteenth century, many used cocaine and heroin as medicine. As addiction became a major public health issue, comme...
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2018
The Yearbook mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Maimonides Centre and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures taking place at the Centre. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. Staff, visiting fellows, and other international scholars are invited to contribute.
The Language of Touch
"Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, which often fails to address the ontological nature of touch, providing new insights in the philosophy of language. This book draws together an international team of linguists, anthropologists and philosophers, many of whom are members of the 'second generation' of Ljubljana's School of Theoretical Psychoanalysis, to demonstrate from a variety of disciplinary perspectives that the experience of touch is inextricable from the structure of language. Examining the intersections between phenomenology, Marxism and poststructural linguistics, this work draws upon figures such as Nancy, Derrida and Lacan to question both how language structures touch and how touch structures language"--Provided by publisher.
FUNDAMENTALISME ISLAM ; Kritik atas Barat
Buku ini membahas konstruk fundamentalisme Islam yang berkembang di Barat sebagaimana dalam pandangan-pandangan sarjana Barat kontemporer. Sebagian sarjana Barat mengasosiasikan fundamentalisme Islam sebagai kekerasan agama, terorisme, dan ancaman bagi Barat. Studi yang bersifat kritik atas konstruk fundamentalisme Islam menjadi krusial mengingat konstruk wacana fundamentalisme Islam saaat ini telah melampaui makna yang wajar karena dimaknai sebagai representasi kekerasan agama dan terorisme. Akhirnya, relasi yang timbul adalah Islam dan Muslim dinilai sebagai penebar teror dan menjadi ancaman potensial bagi Barat.
My Kind of Sound
This volume explores the importance and significance that music has in our lives. The relationship between music and identity is based on conceptions about meanings and identification, especially powerful when connected with youth and popular music. We narrate ourselves in a musical way and we must study ‘music as culture’ rather than ‘music in culture’. The contributions to this book attend to emerging phenomena such as the rise of the Reggaeton music around the world, the importance of music in anime media, and music industry changes and uncertainties in the new millennium. Music is art, but it is also an industry and a business, and the two are intertwined: through the sale of tic...
Europa neu denken II
Bei der Auftaktveranstaltung von "Europa neu denken" 2012 in Triest wurde das Verhältnis von Region, Innovation und Kulturalität diskutiert. 2013 lag der Fokus auf der wichtigen Rolle, die die regionale Ausdehnung für die europäischen Herausforderungen im Bereich Kultur und Soziales spielen kann. 2014 ist jenes Jahr, das den Beginn der neuen adriatisch-ionischen Makro-Region darstellt, um die Debatte in einem größeren Kontext weiterzuentwickeln. Der spezifische Kulturraum der Adria wird ausgeleuchtet, seine historische Widersprüchlichkeit, seine Biosphäre sowie sein überreiches kulturelles Angebot. Die aktuelle Debatte in der EU wird von ökonomischen Überlegungen und Krisenmanagem...
Partisans in Yugoslavia
The ubiquitous Partisan narrative in Yugoslavia served well as founding myth of its newly united people. Its retrospective deconstruction has absorbed most of the academic attention for the Yugoslav Partisans since the break-up. This edition in contrast looks into the (hybrid) nature of partisanship itself as it appears in film, art, and literature. It explores the Partisans in Yugoslavia in Partisan novels, films, and songs, analyzes the - still ongoing - transformation process of the Partisan narrative, and reviews its transitions into popular (visual) culture.
