Transforming Topoi

Transforming Topoi
Author: Andrew James Johnston
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 384700896X

Traditionen leben von der Dialektik der Wiederholung, die das Gleiche stets anders inszeniert. Sie speisen sich aus den Erinnerungen; an der Grenze von bedacht und selbstverständlich getan lassen sie sich nur als selbstverständliche Überzeugungen bestimmen. Aber wie ist es dennoch möglich, Traditionen zu beeinflussen? Der vorliegende Band widmet sich der Frage, wie man mit Traditionen Symbolpolitik machen kann. Was sind die Zumutungen der Traditionen, wenn sie politisch instrumentalisiert werden? Gibt es Grenzen der Manipulation, die im Wesen der jeweiligen Traditionen liegen und sie folglich definieren? Die BeiträgerInnen geben eine Vielzahl von Antworten, indem sie sich Topoi aus Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive widmen. Traditions thrive on the dialectic of repetition. Drawing their topoi from the well of memory, they are situated on the very border between the deliberate and the habitual. Yet how is it possible to influence traditions? The present collection of essays studies the ways in which traditions are employed in the service of symbolic politics. What are the burdens and impositions of traditions, when their topoi are consciously exploited in the service of ideological purposes? Are there certain limits to manipulation that lie in the very nature of the traditions in question, a nature which therefore defines them? The contributors give a host of answers, studying topoi in medieval and early modern Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Lecture Notes on Topoi and Quasitopoi

Lecture Notes on Topoi and Quasitopoi
Author: Oswald Wyler
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1991
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9789810201531

Quasitopoi generalize topoi, a concept of major importance in the theory of Categoreis, and its applications to Logic and Computer Science. In recent years, quasitopoi have become increasingly important in the diverse areas of Mathematics such as General Topology and Fuzzy Set Theory. These Lecture Notes are the first comprehensive introduction to quasitopoi, and they can serve as a first introduction to topoi as well.

Ars Topica

Ars Topica
Author: Sara Rubinelli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-04-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 140209549X

Ars Topica is the first full-length study of the nature and development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes, between Aristotle and Cicero. Aristotle and Cicero configured topoi in a way that influenced the subsequent tradition. Their work on the topos-system grew out of an interest in creating a theory of argumentation which could stand between the rigour of formal logic and the emotive potential of rhetoric. This system went through a series of developments and transformations resulting from the interplay between the separate aims of gaining rhetorical effectiveness and of maintaining dialectical standards. Ars Topica presents a comprehensive treatment of Aristotle’s and Cicero’s methods of topoi and, by exploring their relationship, it illuminates an area of ancient rhetoric and logic which has been obscured for more than two thousand years. Through an interpretation which is philologically rooted in the historical context of topoi, the book lays the ground for evaluating the relevance of the classical approaches to modern research on arguments, and at the same time provides an introduction to Greek and Roman theory of argumentation focussed on its most important theoretical achievements.

Transforming Visions

Transforming Visions
Author: Michael A Lyons
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0227903552

This volume includes nine essays that move Ezekiel's creative reuse of older materials to the foreground of discussion. The essays highlight the transformation of earlier texts, traditions, and theology in Ezekiel. They explore the diverse ways thatEzekiel reshapes Israel's legal texts, rituals, oracles against foreign nations, royal ideology, conception of the individual, remembrance of the past, and hope for the future. The work concludes by noting the subsequent transformation of Ezekiel inscribal transmission and in the New Testament.

Forcing and Classifying Topoi

Forcing and Classifying Topoi
Author: Andrej Ščedrov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1984
Genre: Categories
ISBN: 0821822942

We give a general method of forcing over categories as a category-theoretic universal construction which subsumes, on one hand, all known instances of forcing in set theory, Boolean and Heyting valued models and sheaf interpretations for both classical and intuitionistic formal systems; and, on the other hand, constructions of classifying topoi in topos theory.

Topos Theory

Topos Theory
Author: P.T. Johnstone
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486493369

Focusing on topos theory's integration of geometric and logical ideas into the foundations of mathematics and theoretical computer science, this volume explores internal category theory, topologies and sheaves, geometric morphisms, and other subjects. 1977 edition.

Transforming National Holidays

Transforming National Holidays
Author: Ljiljana Šari?
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9027206384

How do people construct collective identity during profound societal transformations? This volume examines the discursive construction of identity related to important national holidays in nine countries of Central Europe and the Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. The chapters focus on the decades during which these countries moved from communism towards democracy and a market economy. This transition saw revivals of national values and a new significance of regional and transnational ties, entangled with negotiations of national identity that have been particularly lively in discourse concerning national holidays. The chapters apply discourse analysis in addition to approaches from history, sociology, political science, and anthropology. All of the analyses make use of empirical material in the Slavic languages, including newspaper articles, interviews and other media contributions, sermons, addresses, and speeches by members of the political elite.

Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)

Higher Topos Theory (AM-170)
Author: Jacob Lurie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 948
Release: 2009-07-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780691140490

In 'Higher Topos Theory', Jacob Lurie presents the foundations of this theory using the language of weak Kan complexes introduced by Boardman and Vogt, and shows how existing theorems in algebraic topology can be reformulated and generalized in the theory's new language.

The Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt

The Symphonic Poems of Franz Liszt
Author: Keith T. Johns
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780945193401

"Each symphonic poem is discussed in terms of its melodic and harmonic organization, origins in surviving sketches and manuscript drafts, and reception by critics in major German cities, as well as in Paris, London, and New York. The volume is illustrated with ... facsimiles and full-page musical examples"--Publisher.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2013-07-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400846153

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.