Author: Marco Nørskov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134806639
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as individuals seems to be limited by our technical limitations and phantasy alone. This collection contributes to the field of social robotics by exploring its boundaries from a philosophically informed standpoint. It constructively outlines central potentials and challenges and thereby also provides a stable fundament for further research of empirical, qualitative or methodological nature.
Social Robots
Author: Marco Nørskov
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134806639
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as individuals seems to be limited by our technical limitations and phantasy alone. This collection contributes to the field of social robotics by exploring its boundaries from a philosophically informed standpoint. It constructively outlines central potentials and challenges and thereby also provides a stable fundament for further research of empirical, qualitative or methodological nature.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134806639
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Social robotics is a cutting edge research area gathering researchers and stakeholders from various disciplines and organizations. The transformational potential that these machines, in the form of, for example, caregiving, entertainment or partner robots, pose to our societies and to us as individuals seems to be limited by our technical limitations and phantasy alone. This collection contributes to the field of social robotics by exploring its boundaries from a philosophically informed standpoint. It constructively outlines central potentials and challenges and thereby also provides a stable fundament for further research of empirical, qualitative or methodological nature.
Das Prinzip Aufklärung zwischen Universalismus und partikularem Anspruch
Author: Kristina-Monika Hinneburg
Publisher: Brill Fink
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Der Begriff »Aufklärung« steht für eine Wertekonfiguration, die - universelle Gültigkeit beanspruchend - Freiheit und Gleichheit zum Allgemeingut erklärt. Eine Analyse historischer »aufklärerischer« Prozesse verdeutlicht jedoch, dass diese keineswegs das Versprechen von individueller und kollektiver Emanzipation für alle gesellschaftlichen Subjekte gleichermaßen einlösen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele lässt sich zeigen, wie die als allgemeingültig postulierten aufklärerischen Werte mit partikularen Interessen religiöser, ethnischer und geschlechtlicher Minderheiten in Konflikt geraten können. Neben theoretischen Fragestellungen zu diesem Themenkomplex erörtern die im Band versammelten Beiträge Fallbeispiele aus dem Zeitraum vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart.
Publisher: Brill Fink
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Der Begriff »Aufklärung« steht für eine Wertekonfiguration, die - universelle Gültigkeit beanspruchend - Freiheit und Gleichheit zum Allgemeingut erklärt. Eine Analyse historischer »aufklärerischer« Prozesse verdeutlicht jedoch, dass diese keineswegs das Versprechen von individueller und kollektiver Emanzipation für alle gesellschaftlichen Subjekte gleichermaßen einlösen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele lässt sich zeigen, wie die als allgemeingültig postulierten aufklärerischen Werte mit partikularen Interessen religiöser, ethnischer und geschlechtlicher Minderheiten in Konflikt geraten können. Neben theoretischen Fragestellungen zu diesem Themenkomplex erörtern die im Band versammelten Beiträge Fallbeispiele aus dem Zeitraum vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart.
Der Systemblick auf Innovation
Author: Michael Decker
Publisher: edition sigma
ISBN: 3894049464
Category : Technological innovations
Languages : de
Pages : 473
Book Description
Publisher: edition sigma
ISBN: 3894049464
Category : Technological innovations
Languages : de
Pages : 473
Book Description
Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination
Author: Bernd Huppauf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136603603
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136603603
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.
The Law of Blood
Author: Johann Chapoutot
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674985826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die. Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals, apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot explores. The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values—Jewish values in particular—had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674985826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Observers and historians have offered countless explanations since the 1930s. According to Johann Chapoutot, we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves. We need a clearer view, in particular, of how they were steeped in and spread the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die. Chapoutot, one of France’s leading historians, spent years immersing himself in the texts and images that reflected and shaped the mental world of Nazi ideologues, and that the Nazis disseminated to the German public. The party had no official ur-text of ideology, values, and history. But a clear narrative emerges from the myriad works of intellectuals, apparatchiks, journalists, and movie-makers that Chapoutot explores. The story went like this: In the ancient world, the Nordic-German race lived in harmony with the laws of nature. But since Late Antiquity, corrupt foreign norms and values—Jewish values in particular—had alienated Germany from itself and from all that was natural. The time had come, under the Nazis, to return to the fundamental law of blood. Germany must fight, conquer, and procreate, or perish. History did not concern itself with right and wrong, only brute necessity. A remarkable work of scholarship and insight, The Law of Blood recreates the chilling ideas and outlook that would cost millions their lives.
Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine
Author: Daniel Schäfer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317324099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317324099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.
Work in France
Author: Steven Laurence Kaplan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments. This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Eighteen scholars from both sides of the Atlantic look at the question of work across three centuries of French history. Representing both younger and older generations, they move beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to consider human labor as it was actually performed and to determine what it has meant to specific groups and individuals at particular historical moments. This book proposes some fundamental revisions in the history of work which will have important implications for our understanding of social, political, economic, and cultural developments not only in France but throughout Europe.
Monstrous Imaginaries
Author: Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496825306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496825306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.
The Topos of Music I: Theory
Author: Guerino Mazzola
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319643649
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
This is the first volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains the theory's conceptual framework of denotators and forms, the classification of local and global musical objects, the mathematical models of harmony and counterpoint, and topologies for rhythm and motives.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319643649
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 675
Book Description
This is the first volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains the theory's conceptual framework of denotators and forms, the classification of local and global musical objects, the mathematical models of harmony and counterpoint, and topologies for rhythm and motives.
The Topos of Music II: Performance
Author: Guerino Mazzola
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319644440
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of principles of expressive performance theories.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319644440
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
This is the second volume of the second edition of the now classic book “The Topos of Music”. The author explains his theory of musical performance, developed in the language of differential geometry, introducing performance vector fields that generalize tempo and intonation. The author also shows how Rubato, a software platform for composition, analysis, and performance, allows an experimental evaluation of principles of expressive performance theories.