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Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism

Author : Myra Seaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814213049
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism written by Myra Seaman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism brings together scholars working in prehistoric, classical, medieval, and early modern studies who are developing, from longer and slower historical perspectives, critical post/humanisms that explore: 1) the significance (historical, sociocultural, psychic, etc.) of human expression and affectivity; 2) the impact of technology and new sciences on what it means to be a human self; 3) the importance of art and literature in defining and enacting human selves; 4) the importance of history in defining the human; 5) the artistic plasticity of the human; 6) the question of a human collectivity--what is the value, and peril, of "being human" or "being post/human" together?; and finally, 7) the constructive, and destructive, relations (aesthetic, historical, and philosophical) of the human to the nonhuman. This volume, edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy, insists on the always provisional and contingent formations of the human, and of various humanisms, over time, while also aiming to demonstrate the different ways these formations emerge (and also disappear) in different times and places, from the most ancient past to the most contemporary present. The essays are offered as "fragments" because the authors do not believe there can ever be a "total history" of either the human or the post/human as they play themselves out in differing historical contexts. At the same time, the volume as a whole argues that defining what "the human" (or "post/human") is has always been an ongoing, never finished cultural project.

Fragments from the History of Loss

Author : Louise Green
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271087587
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Fragments from the History of Loss written by Louise Green and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anthropocene’s urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the “Anthropocene,” “the great acceleration,” and “rewilding” in order to explore what the philosophy of nature in the era of climate change might look like from postcolonial Africa. Utilizing a practice of reading developed in the Frankfurt school, Green rearranges narrative fragments from the “global nature industry,” which subjugates all aspects of nature to the logic of capitalist production, in order to disrupt preconceived notions and habitual ways of thinking about how we inhabit the Anthropocene. Examining climate change through the details of everyday life, particularly the history of conspicuous consumption and the exploitation of Africa, she surfaces the myths and fantasies that have brought the world to its current ecological crisis and that continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood. Beginning with African rainforest exhibits in New York and Cornwall, Green discusses how these representations of the climate catastrophe fail to acknowledge the unequal pace at which humans consume and continue to replicate imperial narratives about Africa. Examining this history and climate change through the lens of South Africa’s entry into capitalist modernity, Green argues that the Anthropocene redirects attention away from the real problem, which is not human’s relation with nature, but people’s relations with each other. A sophisticated, carefully argued call to rethink how we approach relationships between and among humans and the world in which we live, Fragments from the History of Loss is a challenge to both the current era and the scholarly conversation about the Anthropocene.

Fragments of the Past

Author : Samantha Tamburello
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the Past written by Samantha Tamburello and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of the Past: Post-Traumatic Poetry is an exploration of the human psyche following trauma. It is a pandemic time capsule of processing fragile memories, wrapped up with a pretty bow in poetic structure. _____________________ ★★★★★ "I wasn't expecting the emotion that overtook me upon reading only the first few pages. This is a book that simply must exist." ★★★★★ "Samantha effortlessly describes the indescribable. I've never had a way of explaining certain feelings and now I do. Thank you so much for this work of art."

Memory

Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226902587
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Memory written by Alison Winter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.

Fragments of the Lost

Author : Megan Miranda
Publisher : Crown Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399556729
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the Lost written by Megan Miranda and published by Crown Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though she thinks Caleb's mom blames her for his accidental death two months ago, Jessa agrees to pack up her ex-boyfriend's bedroom, but every item she touches makes Jessa question what she knows about his death, his family, and their year-long relationship.

Fragments of a Past

Author : Eiji Yoshikawa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of a Past written by Eiji Yoshikawa and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering

Author : Michael O'Loughlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442231866
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering written by Michael O'Loughlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation’s attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface. Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our silence.

Railroads of Pennsylvania

Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811743578
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Railroads of Pennsylvania written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional histories of the great railroads. Rail stories of the people and events that shaped history. Includes Rails to Trails paths, tourist attractions, and more.

The Fragment

Author : William Tronzo
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892369264
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Fragment written by William Tronzo and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe may well have begun with an immense act of fragmentation, "the big bang," that sent particles flying in all directions to perform spectacular acts of creation and destruction. The fragment, volatile and unpredictable, is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing but itself something in motion. Drawing upon art history, archaeology, literature, numismatics, philosophy, and film, this book explores the significance of the fragment and addresses the powerful drives that have impelled it into the cultural mainstream. Book jacket.

Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments

Author : Åslaug Ommundsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317086732
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments written by Åslaug Ommundsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.

Railroads of New Jersey

Author : Lorett Treese
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081174356X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Railroads of New Jersey written by Lorett Treese and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-03-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Regional histories of the major railroads • Railroad attractions Dividing the state into regions, the author recounts the stories of the people and events that shaped the state's railroad history, explores the major phases of the industry's development, and identifies the state's rail-culture relics--steam and diesel locomotives, routes, bridges, stations, and landmarks, as well as tourist railroad lines and Rails to Trails paths.

Fragments

Author : Binjamin Wilkomirski
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Binjamin Wilkomirski and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.

Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past

Author : Silke Helmerdig
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839436249
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past written by Silke Helmerdig and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction alone, but only by keeping the depicted moment actual at every present moment. Instead of counting on the documentary quality of photography that speaks in the past tense of "what has been", Silke Helmerdig suggests a different approach to photography: an extension of a future subjunctive (photographic) tense speaking of "what could be, if", allowing one to think possible futures instead of harking back to the past.

Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections

Author : Suzanne Keene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136402349
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections written by Suzanne Keene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy their value for future generations? Should they simply be kept safely and as economically as possible as a resource for the future? Fragments of the World examines these questions, first reviewing the history of collecting and of collections, then discussing the ways in which the collections themselves are being used today. Case studies of leading examples from around the world illustrate the discussion. Bringing together the thinking about museum collections with case studies of the ways in which different types of collection are used, the book provides a roadmap for museums to make better use of this wonderful resource.

A Philosophy of History in Fragments

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631187554
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophy of History in Fragments written by Agnes Heller and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby

Author : Robert Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby written by Robert Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume I

Author : Ian C. Storey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674996623
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Old Comedy, Volume I written by Ian C. Storey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter in stitches. The era of Old Comedy (ca. 485 – ca. 380 BC), when theatrical comedy was created and established, is best known through the extant plays of Aristophanes, but there were many other poets whose comedies survive only in fragments. This new Loeb edition, the most extensive selection of the fragments available in English, presents the work of more than fifty-five poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis, the other members (along with Aristophanes) of the canonical Old Comic triad. For each poet and play there is an introduction, and for many there are brief notes and recent bibliography. Also included are a selection of ancient testimonia to Old Comedy, nearly one hundred unattributed fragments (both book and papyri), and descriptions of thirty vase paintings illustrating Old Comic scenes. The texts are based on the monumental edition of Kassel and Austin, updated to reflect the latest scholarship. The complete Loeb Fragments of Old Comedy is in three volumes.