Author: Anil Behal
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781717947581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Negative Capability" is an expression that was coined by the English romantic poet John Keats, and suggests a peculiar disposition to stay in mysteries, doubts, and uncertainty without the irritable reaching after fact and reason. The phenomenological research was conducted with 14 leaders in order to explore their lived experience under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity, using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. The study draws on ancient and contemporary literature in Dialogism, Dialectics, Buddhism, and Psychodynamics to understand the true essence of negative capability. It not only raises the Keatsian construct to a canonical status, but also suggests how it may be deployed in post-modern times to alleviate the pitfalls of polarized thinking. It is an attempt to open the "negative space" for scholar-practitioners who are interested in pushing the envelope. This work should be of value to leaders, artists, poets, psychotherapists, counselors and others who work at the edge of certainty and uncertainty. Doctoral students interested in pursuing qualitative research in general and phenomenology in particular, will discover how to deploy IPA in their research.
Negative Capability: A Phenomenological Study of Lived Experience at the Edge of Certitude and Incertitude
Author: Anil Behal
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781717947581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Negative Capability" is an expression that was coined by the English romantic poet John Keats, and suggests a peculiar disposition to stay in mysteries, doubts, and uncertainty without the irritable reaching after fact and reason. The phenomenological research was conducted with 14 leaders in order to explore their lived experience under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity, using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. The study draws on ancient and contemporary literature in Dialogism, Dialectics, Buddhism, and Psychodynamics to understand the true essence of negative capability. It not only raises the Keatsian construct to a canonical status, but also suggests how it may be deployed in post-modern times to alleviate the pitfalls of polarized thinking. It is an attempt to open the "negative space" for scholar-practitioners who are interested in pushing the envelope. This work should be of value to leaders, artists, poets, psychotherapists, counselors and others who work at the edge of certainty and uncertainty. Doctoral students interested in pursuing qualitative research in general and phenomenology in particular, will discover how to deploy IPA in their research.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781717947581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Negative Capability" is an expression that was coined by the English romantic poet John Keats, and suggests a peculiar disposition to stay in mysteries, doubts, and uncertainty without the irritable reaching after fact and reason. The phenomenological research was conducted with 14 leaders in order to explore their lived experience under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity, using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) approach. The study draws on ancient and contemporary literature in Dialogism, Dialectics, Buddhism, and Psychodynamics to understand the true essence of negative capability. It not only raises the Keatsian construct to a canonical status, but also suggests how it may be deployed in post-modern times to alleviate the pitfalls of polarized thinking. It is an attempt to open the "negative space" for scholar-practitioners who are interested in pushing the envelope. This work should be of value to leaders, artists, poets, psychotherapists, counselors and others who work at the edge of certainty and uncertainty. Doctoral students interested in pursuing qualitative research in general and phenomenology in particular, will discover how to deploy IPA in their research.
The Visible and the Invisible
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810104570
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining--The Chiasm," that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought. The working notes for the book provide the reader with a truly exciting insight into the mind of the philosopher at work as he refines and develops new pivotal concepts.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810104570
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining--The Chiasm," that reveals the central pattern of Merleau-Ponty's own thought. The working notes for the book provide the reader with a truly exciting insight into the mind of the philosopher at work as he refines and develops new pivotal concepts.
Phenomenology and Existentialism in the Twentieth Century
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048129796
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality – took their inspirations from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl’s phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary directions mingled readily in common vindication of full reality. In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave disseminating throughout all domains of thought. Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl’s shift to the genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), while the foundational underpinnings of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048129796
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality – took their inspirations from Kierkegaard’s existentialism plumbing the subterranean source of subjective experience and Husserl’s phenomenology focusing on the constitutive aspect of rationality. Yet, both contrary directions mingled readily in common vindication of full reality. In the inquisitive minds (Scheler, Heidegger, Sartre, Stein, Merleau-Ponty, et al.), a fruitful cross-pollination of insights, ideas, approaches, fused in one powerful wave disseminating throughout all domains of thought. Existentialist rejection of ratiocination and speculation together with Husserl’s shift to the genesis of rapproches philosophy and literature (Wahl, Marcel, Berdyaev, Wojtyla, Tischner, etc.), while the foundational underpinnings of language (Wittgenstein, Derrida, etc.) opened the "hidden" behind the "veils" (Sezgin and Dominguez-Rey).
Mind and Nature
Author: Hermann Weyl
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819328
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A new study of the mathematical-physical mode of cognition.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819328
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A new study of the mathematical-physical mode of cognition.
Verstehen
Author: Michael Martin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351327100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this approach were opposed by positivists who stressed the unity of method between the social and natural sciences and an external, experimental, and quantitative knowledge. Although modified over time, the dispute between positivists and antipositivists--nowadays called naturalists and antinaturalists--has persisted and still defines many debates in the field of philosophy of social sciences. In this volume, Michael Martin offers a critical appraisal of verstehen as a method of verification and discovery as well as a necessary condition for understanding. In its strongest forms, verstehen entails subjectively reliving the experience of the social actor or at least rethinking his or her thoughts, while in its weaker forms it only involves reconstructing the rationale for acting. Martin's opening chapter offers a reconsideration of the debate between the classical verstehen theorists--Wilhelm Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G. Collingwood--and the positivists. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with positivist critiques of verstehen as a method of social scientific verification and understanding. In the subsequent chapters Martin considers contemporary varieties of the verstehen position and argues that they like the classical positions, they conflict with the pluralistic nature of social science. Chapter 4 discusses Peter Winch's and William Dray's variants of verstehen, while chapters 5 through 9 consider recent theorists--Karl Popper, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz--whose work can be characterized in verstehenist terms: In his conclusion Martin defines the limitations of the classical and recent verstehen positions and proposes a methodological pluralism in which verstehen is justified pragmatically in terms of the purposes and contexts of inquiry. This volume is the only comprehensive and sustained critique of verstehen theory currently available. It will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351327100
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this approach were opposed by positivists who stressed the unity of method between the social and natural sciences and an external, experimental, and quantitative knowledge. Although modified over time, the dispute between positivists and antipositivists--nowadays called naturalists and antinaturalists--has persisted and still defines many debates in the field of philosophy of social sciences. In this volume, Michael Martin offers a critical appraisal of verstehen as a method of verification and discovery as well as a necessary condition for understanding. In its strongest forms, verstehen entails subjectively reliving the experience of the social actor or at least rethinking his or her thoughts, while in its weaker forms it only involves reconstructing the rationale for acting. Martin's opening chapter offers a reconsideration of the debate between the classical verstehen theorists--Wilhelm Dilthey, Max Weber, R.G. Collingwood--and the positivists. Chapters 2 and 3 deal with positivist critiques of verstehen as a method of social scientific verification and understanding. In the subsequent chapters Martin considers contemporary varieties of the verstehen position and argues that they like the classical positions, they conflict with the pluralistic nature of social science. Chapter 4 discusses Peter Winch's and William Dray's variants of verstehen, while chapters 5 through 9 consider recent theorists--Karl Popper, Charles Taylor, Clifford Geertz--whose work can be characterized in verstehenist terms: In his conclusion Martin defines the limitations of the classical and recent verstehen positions and proposes a methodological pluralism in which verstehen is justified pragmatically in terms of the purposes and contexts of inquiry. This volume is the only comprehensive and sustained critique of verstehen theory currently available. It will be of interest to sociologists, philosophers, political scientists, and anthropologists.
Collaborative Information Seeking
Author: Preben Hansen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319189883
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts: · Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field. · New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS · New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world. Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319189883
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Compiled by world- class leaders in the field of collaborative information retrieval and search (CIS), this book centres on the notion that information seeking is not always a solitary activity and working in collaboration to perform information-seeking tasks should be studied and supported. Covering aspects of theories, models, and applications the book is divided in three parts: · Best Practices and Studies: providing an overview of current knowledge and state-of-the-art in the field. · New Domains: covers some of the new and exciting opportunities of applying CIS · New Thoughts: focuses on new research directions by scholars from academia and industry from around the world. Collaborative Information Seeking provides a valuable reference for student, teachers, and researchers interested in the area of collaborative work, information seeking/retrieval, and human-computer interaction.
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Author: J. Daniel Elam
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823289826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon’s political writings and Erich Auerbach’s philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823289826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth recovers a genealogy of anticolonial thought that advocated collective inexpertise, unknowing, and unrecognizability. Early-twentieth-century anticolonial thinkers endeavored to imagine a world emancipated from colonial rule, but it was a world they knew they would likely not live to see. Written in exile, in abjection, or in the face of death, anticolonial thought could not afford to base its politics on the hope of eventual success, mastery, or national sovereignty. J. Daniel Elam shows how anticolonial thinkers theorized inconsequential practices of egalitarianism in the service of an impossibility: a world without colonialism. Framed by a suggestive reading of the surprising affinities between Frantz Fanon’s political writings and Erich Auerbach’s philological project, World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading and critique in the writing of Lala Har Dayal, B. R. Ambedkar, M. K. Gandhi, and Bhagat Singh. These anticolonial activists theorized reading not as a way to cultivate mastery and expertise but as a way, rather, to disavow mastery altogether. To become or remain an inexpert reader, divesting oneself of authorial claims, was to fundamentally challenge the logic of the British Empire and European fascism, which prized self-mastery, authority, and national sovereignty. Bringing together the histories of comparative literature and anticolonial thought, Elam demonstrates how these early-twentieth-century theories of reading force us to reconsider the commitments of humanistic critique and egalitarian politics in the still-colonial present.
The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum
Author: Gennaro Auletta
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303016649X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics. The first aspect concerns Interpretation. The author raises the central problems: formalism, measurement, non-locality, and causality. The main positions on these subjects are presented and critically analysed. The aim is to show that the main schools can converge on a core interpretation. The second aspect concerns Foundations. Here it is shown that the whole theory can be grounded on information theory. The distinction between information and signal leads us to integrating quantum mechanics and relativity. Category theory is presented and its significance for quantum information shown; the logic and epistemological bases of the theory are assessed. Of relevance to all physicists and philosophers with an interest in quantum theory and its foundations, this book is destined to become a classic work.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 303016649X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics. The first aspect concerns Interpretation. The author raises the central problems: formalism, measurement, non-locality, and causality. The main positions on these subjects are presented and critically analysed. The aim is to show that the main schools can converge on a core interpretation. The second aspect concerns Foundations. Here it is shown that the whole theory can be grounded on information theory. The distinction between information and signal leads us to integrating quantum mechanics and relativity. Category theory is presented and its significance for quantum information shown; the logic and epistemological bases of the theory are assessed. Of relevance to all physicists and philosophers with an interest in quantum theory and its foundations, this book is destined to become a classic work.
The Letters of John Keats: Volume 1, 1814-1818
Author: Hyder Edward Rollins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107608201
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This 1958 book forms the first part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering 1814 to 1818.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107608201
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This 1958 book forms the first part of a two-volume edition of Keats's letters, covering 1814 to 1818.
Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea
Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940153960X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940153960X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description