Dialogues on the beauty of nature and Moral reflections on certain topics of natural history

Dialogues on the beauty of nature and Moral reflections on certain topics of natural history
Author: Johann Georg Sulzer
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780761830863

Swiss critic Johann Georg Sulzer's Dialogues on the Beauty of Nature (1750) and Reflections on Certain Topics of Natural History (1745) are exemplary specimens of eighteenth-century European theology, philosophy, natural history, and aesthetics. Sulzer's contemporaries-notably Goethe-read him with attention. Eric Miller's elegant translation comes with a vivid, informative, and strongly contextualizing introduction. Sulzer's early works are a curio cabinet of the philosophical and theological arguments that exercised and enticed the intelligentsia of his period. These topics and arguments have by no means forfeited pertinence today.

Kant on Freedom and Human Nature

Kant on Freedom and Human Nature
Author: Luigi Filieri
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2023-08-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000936058

The essays in this volume provide new readings of Kant’s account of human nature. Despite the relevance of human nature to Kant’s philosophy, little attention has been paid to the fact that the question about human nature originally pertains to pure reason. The chapters in this volume show that Kant’s point is not to state once and for all what the human being actually is, but to unite pure reason’s efforts within a unitary teleological perspective. The question about human nature is the cornerstone of reason’s unity in its different activities and domains. Kant’s question about human nature goes beyond our empirical inquiries to show that the notion of humanity represents the point of convergence and unity of pure reason’s most fundamental interests. Kant on Freedom and Human Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Kant’s philosophy.

On the Philosophy of Central European Art

On the Philosophy of Central European Art
Author: Max Ryynänen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1793634181

This book is an introduction to the history of the concept and the institution of (fine) art, from its ancient Southern European roots to the establishment of the modern system of the arts in eighteenth century Central Europe. It highlights the way the concept and institution of (fine) art, through colonialism and diaspora, conquered the world. Ryynänen presents globally competing frameworks from India to Japan but also describes how the art system debased local European artistic cultures (by women, members of the working class, etc) and how art with the capital A appropriated not just non-Western but also Western alternatives to art (popular culture). The book discusses alternative art forms such as sport, kitsch, and rap music as pockets of resistance and resources for future concepts of art. Ultimately, the book introduces nobrow as an alternative to high and low, a new concept that sheds light on the democratic potentials of the field of art and invites reader to rethink the nature of art.

Invasive Technification

Invasive Technification
Author: Gernot Böhme
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-08-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1441194657

Technology has extended its reach to the human body, not just in a literal sense, through implants, transplants and technological substitutes for biological organs, but in a more figurative sense too. Technological infrastructure and the institutions of a technified society today determine what perception is, how we communicate and what forms of human relationship with the natural world are possible. A fundamental new conception of technology is urgently needed. Technology can no longer be seen as a means for efficiently attaining pre-established ends. Rather, it must be seen as a total structure which makes new forms of human action and human relationship possible, while limiting the possibilities of others. In Invasive Technification, acclaimed German philosopher Gernot Böhme offers a reading of technology that explores the many dimensions in which technology presents challenges for modern human beings. It is a book about the preservation of humanity and humane values under the demanding conditions of a technically advanced civilisation and makes a major contribution to the contemporary philosophy of technology.

After nature

After nature
Author: Franz-Josef Deiters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010
Genre: German literature
ISBN:

The Problem of Being Modern, Or, The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution

The Problem of Being Modern, Or, The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French Revolution
Author: Thomas P. Saine
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780814326817

In The Problem of Being Modern, Thomas P. Saine provides a lucid introduction to German thought in the eighteenth century and the struggle of Enlightenment philosophers and writers to come to grips with the profound philosophical and theological implications of new scientific developments since the seventeenth century. He concentrates on those points at which the essential modernity and the secular viewpoint of the Enlightenment conflicted with traditional thought structures rooted in the religious world view that governed attitudes and behavior far into the eighteenth century.

Science Education in the 21st Century

Science Education in the 21st Century
Author: Tang Wee Teo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811551553

This book reflects on science education in the first 20 years of the 21st century in order to promote academic dialogue on science education from various standpoints, and highlights emergent new issues, such as education in science education research. It also defines new research agendas that should be “moved forward” and inform new trajectories through the rest of the century. Featuring 21 thematically grouped chapters, it includes award-winning papers and other significant papers that address the theme of the 2018 International Science Education Conference.