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Kant and Culture
Kant and Culture. Studies on Kant’s Philosophy of Culture is a collective volume focusing on the figure of Kant as Kulturphilosoph. The challenge of this volume, which gathers scholars who differ in language, method, approach and perspective, is to shed light from different angles on the relevance and complexity of a subject – Kant and culture – that has often been confined to the margins of the Kantforschung and has only recently received the attention it deserves. Yet, on closer inspection, the issues related to the notion of culture in Kant are so varied and at the same time so pervasive and transversal that they allow for important connections between his philosophical reflectionâ€...
The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities
The Routledge Handbook of Cartographic Humanities offers a vibrant exploration of the intersection and convergence between map studies and the humanities through the multifaceted traditions and inclinations from different disciplinary, geographical and cultural contexts. With 42 chapters from leading scholars, this book provides an intellectual infrastructure to navigate core theories, critical concepts, phenomenologies and ecologies of mapping, while also providing insights into exciting new directions for future scholarship. It is organised into seven parts: Part 1 moves from the depths of the humans–maps relation to the posthuman dimension, from antiquity to the future of humanity, pres...
Image Evolution
The history of images can be described as a history of technology and mediality. The development of images is deeply rooted in the potentials of media technologies and the numerous human inventions in the range of traditional craftsmanship, engineering science, computer science, and art and design. The factual embedding of images in the historical-technological processes constitutes a complex structure of an autonomous "image evolution" that must be highlighted, characterized and analyzed by the interdisciplinary academic discourses that are related to the functions and structures of visuality, pictoriality, and forms of multi-sensoric representations. The chosen term "evolution" is deliberately indicating structural laws that underlie historical events. These laws are intentional and logical processes of a historical and technological interdependency. In this interdependency, technology is evolving out of its inherent structures and additionally embedded in anthropological conditions and sociocultural dynamics. In this context, we should work with the concept of an "image evolution".
Kant on Poetry | Kant über Poesie
Obwohl es verbreitet für ein bloßes Nebenthema gehalten wird, spielt das Thema der Poesie doch eine wichtige Rolle in Kants Denken. Mit dem Ziel, geläufige Missverständnisse zu zerstreuen, versammelt der vorliegende Band Beiträge verschiedener Spezialisten zur Bestimmung des Orts und der Rolle der Poesie in Kants Denken. Es handelt sich um den Versuch einer Neubewertung der Wichtigkeit der Poesie für seine moralische, politische, anthropologische, philosophische und ästhetische Systematik.
The Rise and Fall of Generation Now
Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack. This view figures as a largely unquestioned backdrop to discussions of evolution, life and death, longevity, extinction, sustainability, education, climate change, and other matters of contemporary concern. What if we were to think of generations, instead, as wrapping around one another along their length, more like fibres in a rope than stacked sheets? In this compelling new book, Ingold argues that a return to the idea that lif...
Metafora. Tra esperienza e pensiero
Dal momento in cui la pratica discorsiva del filosofo si è imposta come forma di sapere superiore a tutte le altre la metafora è stata vista come un semplice ausilio al quale ricorrere quando la teoria non funziona nel modo in cui è supposta funzionare. Non sono mai mancati, tuttavia, coloro che ritenevano la dimensione del concetto incapace di saturare il senso rendendo possibile eliminare del tutto il metaforico. Sarà Novecento che il discorso filosofico supererà ogni pregiudizio nei confronti della figuratività , dell’iconico, del narrativo integrandoli quali parte integrante dell’argomentazione filosofica. Nel presente numero si farà riferimento ad alcuni autori utili ad illustrare in modo paradigmatico lo scenario appena delineato.
Earthscapes
Le prime immagini della Terra vista dallo spazio ebbero un impatto rivoluzionario. Per la prima volta l’umanità vedeva il pianeta su cui vive dall’esterno: l’oceano, i continenti, i ghiacci polari, l’alone dell’atmosfera. La Terra si era ridotta a un globo terracqueo, privo di geografia politica e di storia, e sembrava un delicato gioiello abbandonato nell’immensità del vuoto assoluto. È stato proprio in quel momento che sono sorte nuove potenti visioni del mondo, con profonde implicazioni antropologiche, politiche e morali. Immagini come «Earthrise» (1968) o «The Blue Marble» (1972) – le prime fotografie del nostro pianeta scattate dallo spazio – hanno inaugurato una ...
Sconfinate
Che cosa unisce il Sahara all’Ucraina, Haiti e il Congo, il Pakistan e il Myanmar? La storia di comunità divise da linee tracciate sulla carta, confini che cambiano provocando deportazioni di intere popolazioni, monarchi che non vogliono abbandonare il loro scranno, frontiere illegali che creano ghetti, lasciti coloniali che provocano guerre... In questo volume – scritto a più mani e curato da Emanuele Giordana senza intenti di esaustività ma rappresentativo delle differenti tipologie di frontiere contese – si racconta la geopolitica dei confini analizzando alcuni casi emblematici, per concludere con un inquadramento storico e letterario sul concetto di confine, un’analisi sociologica sulla sua mediatizzazione come nel caso delle tragedie del Mediterraneo e uno sguardo a una situazione di portata globale più emblematica tra quelle attuali che si va consumando attorno al 38° parallelo.
Atmospheres of Projection
Bringing together cultural history, visual studies, and media archaeology, Bruno considers the interrelations of projection, atmosphere, and environment. Projection has long been transforming space, from shadow plays to camera obscuras and magic lantern shows. Our fascination with projection is alive on the walls of museums and galleries and woven into our daily lives. Giuliana Bruno explores the histories of projection and atmosphere in visual culture and their continued importance to contemporary artists who are reinventing the projective imagination with atmospheric thinking and the use of elemental media. To explain our fascination with projection and atmosphere, Bruno traverses psychoan...
The Human Vocation in German Philosophy
In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way possible for me or just for me as part of humanity? By following the origin and nature of these debates, this collection sheds light on the vocation of humanity in early German philosophy. Featuring translations of Spalding's Contemplation on the Vocation of the Human Being in its first version from 1748 and an extended translation of Abbt's and Mendelssohn's epistolary discussion around the Doubts and the Oracle from 1767, newly-commissioned chapte...
