Author: Henry DircksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Scientific Studies:, Or, Practical, in Contrast with Chimerical Pursuits, Exemplified in Two Popular Lectures
Author: Henry DircksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Scare Quotes from Shakespeare
Author: Martin HarriesPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736213
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. This "reenchantment," at the heart of modernity and of literary and political works central to our understanding of modernity, is the focus of this book. The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare ("scare quotes") allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social world. He also uses these modern appropriations of Shakespeare as provocations to reread some of his works, notably Hamlet and Macbeth. Two pairs of linked chapters form the center of the book. One pair joins a reading of Marx, concentrating on The Eighteenth Brumaire, to Hamlet; the other links a reading of Keynes, focusing on The Economic Consequences of the Peace, to Macbeth. The chapters on Marx and Keynes trace some of the strange circuits of supernatural rhetoric in their work, Marx's use of ghosts and Keynes's fascination with witchcraft. The sequence linking Marx to Hamlet, for example, has as its anchor the Frankfurt School's concept of the phantasmagoria, the notion that it is in the most archaic that one encounters the figure of the new. Looking closely at Marx's association of the Ghost in Hamlet with the coming revolution in turn illuminates Hamlet's association of the Ghost with the supernatural beings many believed haunted mines. An opening chapter discusses Henry Dircks, a nineteenth-century English inventor who developedand then lost his claim toa phantasmagoria or machine to project ghosts on stage. Dircks resorted to magical rhetoric in response to his loss, which is emblematic for the book as a whole, charting ways the scare quote can, paradoxically, continue the work of enlightenment.
Bibliotheca Alchemica Et Chemica: An Annotated Catalogue of Printed Books on Alchemy, Chemistry and Cognate Subjects in the Library of Dennis I. Duveen
Author: D I DuveenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900461415X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Facsimile edition to which is added: Catalogue 62, H.P. KRAUS, The Duveen Collection of Alchemy & Chemistry, supplementing the Bibliotheca Alchemica et Chemica. The Duveen Collection of Balneology.
Bodies/Machines
Author: Iwan Rhys MorusPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1845208765
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
It is hard to believe that the pursuit of artificial intelligence is not a phenomenon of the twentieth century. For over three hundred years, the boundaries between bodies and machines the natural and the artificial, the animate and the inanimate have been passionately explored. These explorations, beginning in the seventeenth and eighteenth and increasing during the nineteenth century, have been all but forgotten, lost beneath the commotion of the modern day world. This book retrieves these lost histories, giving voice to the hopes, dreams, and fears of philosophers, medical practitioners, engineers, craftsmen and artisans who have all been fascinated by the interface between bodies and machines. The journey back in time unfolds with the mysterious advent of mechanical philosophies, which conceptualized the body and the surrounding world largely in terms of mechanistic interactions. These theories develop in intriguing directions and fuel experiments in such areas as material production and social punishment, spiritualism and mental health. From reanimating dead bodies with electricity, which led to the introduction of the electric chair, through to the use of machines to render hysterics and the insane fit for reintroduction into society, this book conveys the dark truths behind our relationship with machines. This book is not only an exceptional contribution to the history of technology but also to contemporary debates about humans and machines.
English Mechanic and Mirror of Science
Author: English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Arts
Author: Bulletin of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia
Author: Mercantile Library of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Subject List of Works of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, the Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Etc., in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Patent Office Library Subject Lists. New Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.