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Literary, Cultural and Political Essays, 2009–2021
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Crisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.
Literary, Cultural and Political Essays, 2009–2021
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Crisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming.
Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities
Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, this book introduces the concept of worlding as a new way to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Case studies ranging from film, literature, music, and dance to pedagogy, historical trauma, and present-day discourses of mindfulness investigate how brains are worlded in an active interplay of biological, cognitive, and socio-discursive factors. Combining scholarly work with personal accounts of neurodiversity and essays by artists reflecting on their practical engagement with cognition, Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the study of brains and cognition and explores novel forms interdisciplinarity.
Neurocentrism, Cognition and the Challenge of the Arts and Humanities
Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, this book introduces the concept of worlding as a new way to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Case studies ranging from film, literature, music, and dance to pedagogy, historical trauma, and present-day discourses of mindfulness investigate how brains are worlded in an active interplay of biological, cognitive, and socio-discursive factors. Combining scholarly work with personal accounts of neurodiversity and essays by artists reflecting on their practical engagement with cognition, Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the study of brains and cognition and explores novel forms interdisciplinarity.
The nature of time has haunted humanity through the ages. Some conception of time has always entered into humanity's ideas about mortality and immortality, and permanence and change, so that concepts of time are of fundamental importance in the study of religion, philosophy, literature, history, and mythology. How humanity experiences time physiologically, psychologically and socially enters into the research of the behavioral sciences, and time as a factor of structure and change is an essential consideration in the biological and physical sciences. On one aspect or another, the study of time cuts across all disciplines. The International Society for the Study of Time has as its goal the interdisciplinary and comparative study of time: http://www.studyoftime.org
A Modern English Rendering
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This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
A Modern English Rendering
This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.
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This new book series investigates innovative ways to think about and design our built environment. The premise of Architectural Intelligences is that theories of design can generate innovative design methods and novel design projects. Architectural Intelligences seeks synthesis, hybridity, or tensions between architectural theory with other knowledge disciplines, to produce new insights, new speculations, and new design protocols. Architectural thought and production becomes thereby active and uniquely transformative. Books in this series will unfold new forms of order, organization, innovation, and experimentation that can shape and redirect current architectural thought, in dialogue with other disciplines, as game-changers.
Prospective authors in the disciplines of architecture, interiors, and urban spaces are encouraged to submit truly trans-disciplinary proposals (for single authored, co-authored, or edited volumes). Brill welcomes scholarly works that examine the area of applied architectural theory, drawing expertise in another knowledge discipline, such as:
• Architecture + Game Theory
• Architecture + Hypermodernity
• Architecture + New Ecologies
• Architecture + New Materiality
• Architecture + New Forms of Pleasure
• Architecture + Media-Philosophy
• Architecture + New Subjectivities
• Architecture + New Networks
• Architecture + Posthumanism
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens.
Prospective authors in the disciplines of architecture, interiors, and urban spaces are encouraged to submit truly trans-disciplinary proposals (for single authored, co-authored, or edited volumes). Brill welcomes scholarly works that examine the area of applied architectural theory, drawing expertise in another knowledge discipline, such as:
• Architecture + Game Theory
• Architecture + Hypermodernity
• Architecture + New Ecologies
• Architecture + New Materiality
• Architecture + New Forms of Pleasure
• Architecture + Media-Philosophy
• Architecture + New Subjectivities
• Architecture + New Networks
• Architecture + Posthumanism
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens.
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Les études sur le rôle de la musique dans l’œuvre de Proust ont presque toutes un trait en commun : celui de se situer, au moins en partie, dans la recherche musico-littéraire traditionnelle qui relève les allusions, identifie les œuvres auxquelles il est fait référence et cherche à montrer le rôle joué par la musique à l’intérieur du schéma traditionnel d’analyse du roman. Ainsi dans la Recherche les multiples éléments qui composent le thème de la musique se manifestent sous trois aspects différents :
la première manifestation musicale et la plus évidente est celle de la musique-art. A ce niveau il faut faire une distinction entre la musique réelle et la musique imaginaire de Vinteuil. Quel rôle jouent les allusions à la musique dans l’action, dans la psychologie des personnages, dans le retour des thèmes, enfin dans la composition de l’œuvre ? Ainsi Proust utilise la musique pour peindre la société. Mais la musique apparaît également en tant que telle dans les récits de concert, notamment la musique de Vinteuil.
La deuxième manifestation de l’expérience musicale est celle des sons, des bruits et des voix : la musique naturelle. De nombreuses pages de la Recherche portent l’empreinte des sonorités de la nature et des bruits.
Et troisièmement il y la musique née non pas de sensations auditives, mais visuelles, tactiles ou psychologiques : la métaphore musicale. Ces trois aspects sont traités diversement dans le présent recueil. Et comme l’a écrit Marcel Proust : "Il y a pourtant un royaume de ce monde où Dieu a voulu que la Grâce pût tenir les promesses qu’elle nous faisait, descendît jusqu’à jouer avec notre rêve […] : c’est le royaume de la musique."
Avec des contributions de Sabine van Wesemael, Sjef Houppermans, Manet van Montfrans, Laurence Miens, Luc Fraisse, Isabelle Perreault, Kaéko Yoshikawa, Manola Antonioli, Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Arthur Morisseau, Anne Penesco, Akio Wada, Cédric Kayser, Annelies Schulte Nordholt.
la première manifestation musicale et la plus évidente est celle de la musique-art. A ce niveau il faut faire une distinction entre la musique réelle et la musique imaginaire de Vinteuil. Quel rôle jouent les allusions à la musique dans l’action, dans la psychologie des personnages, dans le retour des thèmes, enfin dans la composition de l’œuvre ? Ainsi Proust utilise la musique pour peindre la société. Mais la musique apparaît également en tant que telle dans les récits de concert, notamment la musique de Vinteuil.
La deuxième manifestation de l’expérience musicale est celle des sons, des bruits et des voix : la musique naturelle. De nombreuses pages de la Recherche portent l’empreinte des sonorités de la nature et des bruits.
Et troisièmement il y la musique née non pas de sensations auditives, mais visuelles, tactiles ou psychologiques : la métaphore musicale. Ces trois aspects sont traités diversement dans le présent recueil. Et comme l’a écrit Marcel Proust : "Il y a pourtant un royaume de ce monde où Dieu a voulu que la Grâce pût tenir les promesses qu’elle nous faisait, descendît jusqu’à jouer avec notre rêve […] : c’est le royaume de la musique."
Avec des contributions de Sabine van Wesemael, Sjef Houppermans, Manet van Montfrans, Laurence Miens, Luc Fraisse, Isabelle Perreault, Kaéko Yoshikawa, Manola Antonioli, Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Arthur Morisseau, Anne Penesco, Akio Wada, Cédric Kayser, Annelies Schulte Nordholt.
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Les études sur le rôle de la musique dans l’œuvre de Proust ont presque toutes un trait en commun : celui de se situer, au moins en partie, dans la recherche musico-littéraire traditionnelle qui relève les allusions, identifie les œuvres auxquelles il est fait référence et cherche à montrer le rôle joué par la musique à l’intérieur du schéma traditionnel d’analyse du roman. Ainsi dans la Recherche les multiples éléments qui composent le thème de la musique se manifestent sous trois aspects différents :
la première manifestation musicale et la plus évidente est celle de la musique-art. A ce niveau il faut faire une distinction entre la musique réelle et la musique imaginaire de Vinteuil. Quel rôle jouent les allusions à la musique dans l’action, dans la psychologie des personnages, dans le retour des thèmes, enfin dans la composition de l’œuvre ? Ainsi Proust utilise la musique pour peindre la société. Mais la musique apparaît également en tant que telle dans les récits de concert, notamment la musique de Vinteuil.
La deuxième manifestation de l’expérience musicale est celle des sons, des bruits et des voix : la musique naturelle. De nombreuses pages de la Recherche portent l’empreinte des sonorités de la nature et des bruits.
Et troisièmement il y la musique née non pas de sensations auditives, mais visuelles, tactiles ou psychologiques : la métaphore musicale. Ces trois aspects sont traités diversement dans le présent recueil. Et comme l’a écrit Marcel Proust : "Il y a pourtant un royaume de ce monde où Dieu a voulu que la Grâce pût tenir les promesses qu’elle nous faisait, descendît jusqu’à jouer avec notre rêve […] : c’est le royaume de la musique."
Avec des contributions de Sabine van Wesemael, Sjef Houppermans, Manet van Montfrans, Laurence Miens, Luc Fraisse, Isabelle Perreault, Kaéko Yoshikawa, Manola Antonioli, Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Arthur Morisseau, Anne Penesco, Akio Wada, Cédric Kayser, Annelies Schulte Nordholt.
la première manifestation musicale et la plus évidente est celle de la musique-art. A ce niveau il faut faire une distinction entre la musique réelle et la musique imaginaire de Vinteuil. Quel rôle jouent les allusions à la musique dans l’action, dans la psychologie des personnages, dans le retour des thèmes, enfin dans la composition de l’œuvre ? Ainsi Proust utilise la musique pour peindre la société. Mais la musique apparaît également en tant que telle dans les récits de concert, notamment la musique de Vinteuil.
La deuxième manifestation de l’expérience musicale est celle des sons, des bruits et des voix : la musique naturelle. De nombreuses pages de la Recherche portent l’empreinte des sonorités de la nature et des bruits.
Et troisièmement il y la musique née non pas de sensations auditives, mais visuelles, tactiles ou psychologiques : la métaphore musicale. Ces trois aspects sont traités diversement dans le présent recueil. Et comme l’a écrit Marcel Proust : "Il y a pourtant un royaume de ce monde où Dieu a voulu que la Grâce pût tenir les promesses qu’elle nous faisait, descendît jusqu’à jouer avec notre rêve […] : c’est le royaume de la musique."
Avec des contributions de Sabine van Wesemael, Sjef Houppermans, Manet van Montfrans, Laurence Miens, Luc Fraisse, Isabelle Perreault, Kaéko Yoshikawa, Manola Antonioli, Nell de Hullu-van Doeselaar, Arthur Morisseau, Anne Penesco, Akio Wada, Cédric Kayser, Annelies Schulte Nordholt.
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Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction animate and inform philosophers from Theodor Adorno to Paolo Virno. While also examining the way in which reading Marx casts new light on such philosophers as Spinoza. At the centre of this transformation is the production of subjectivity, the manner in which relations of production produces ways of thinking and living.
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Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction animate and inform philosophers from Theodor Adorno to Paolo Virno. While also examining the way in which reading Marx casts new light on such philosophers as Spinoza. At the centre of this transformation is the production of subjectivity, the manner in which relations of production produces ways of thinking and living.
An Ethnography of the Classics-reading Movement in Contemporary China
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China Studies, Volume: 46
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Sandra Gilgan’s Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education examines the classics-reading movement in contemporary China as not only driven by attraction to certain elements of tradition, but even more by caesuras in the past that caused people to detach from their cultural roots. The author argues that activism in the classics-reading movement arises from an entanglement of past, present, and future. Social and political upheaval in the near past of the twentieth century caused people to disconnect from their traditional culture and ways of living, resulting in the present need to reconnect with perceived “original” culture and tradition from the more distant past. Through peoples’ imaginaries of a better future that are informed by past traditions, new ways of the past find entrance into life and education in study halls and academies. This new study draws on multi-sited ethnographic field research in ten Chinese cities, with the broadest database currently available. It combines theoretical elements from anthropology, history, sociology and sinology in a grounded theory approach. As an interdisciplinary study, the book is of interest for academics in Asian and Chinese studies, heritage and memory studies, religious studies, educational sciences, history, and cultural anthropology, as well as social and political sciences.
An Ethnography of the Classics-reading Movement in Contemporary China
Series:
China Studies, Volume: 46
Author:
Sandra Gilgan’s Utopia in the Revival of Confucian Education examines the classics-reading movement in contemporary China as not only driven by attraction to certain elements of tradition, but even more by caesuras in the past that caused people to detach from their cultural roots. The author argues that activism in the classics-reading movement arises from an entanglement of past, present, and future. Social and political upheaval in the near past of the twentieth century caused people to disconnect from their traditional culture and ways of living, resulting in the present need to reconnect with perceived “original” culture and tradition from the more distant past. Through peoples’ imaginaries of a better future that are informed by past traditions, new ways of the past find entrance into life and education in study halls and academies. This new study draws on multi-sited ethnographic field research in ten Chinese cities, with the broadest database currently available. It combines theoretical elements from anthropology, history, sociology and sinology in a grounded theory approach. As an interdisciplinary study, the book is of interest for academics in Asian and Chinese studies, heritage and memory studies, religious studies, educational sciences, history, and cultural anthropology, as well as social and political sciences.
This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President’s Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time’s variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art.
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The Study of Time, Volume: 17
This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores how the notion of time varies across disciplines by examining variance as a defining feature of temporalities in cultural, creative, and scholarly contexts. Featuring a President’s Address by philosopher David Wood, it begins with critical reassessments of J.T. Fraser’s hierarchical theory of time through the lens of Anthropocene studies, philosophy, ecological theory, and ecological literature; proceeds to variant narratives in fiction, video games, film, and graphic novels; and concludes by measuring time’s variance with tools as different as incense clocks and computers, and by marking variance in music, film, and performance art.
Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore
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Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.
Selected Essays by Paola Volpe Cacciatore
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Philology, philosophy, commentary and reception in Plutarch's work are only some of the main topics discussed within a large academic output devoted to the writer of Chaeronea by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore. The volume is divided into four sections: Plutarchean Fragments, Quaestiones convivales, Religion & Philosophy, and Plutarch's Reception from Humanism to Modern Times. The eighteen studies collected in this volume, originally published in Italian and here translated into English, concern the Corpus Plutarcheum, including Table-Talks, De Iside et Osiride, the treatises against the Stoics, De genio Socratis, De liberis educandis, De musica, and some Plutarchean fragments. The volume is a tribute to celebrate the lifelong study of Plutarch's work by Professor Paola Volpe Cacciatore, one of the most remarkable Plutarchean scholars of the last decades.