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“Reason” and “rationality” are, today, problematic notions: considered for a long time, in the history of Western thought, as distinctive traits of man and of the Euro-American civilization, from a certain point onwards they have been called into question and ripped apart by the crisis and the malaise of the latter. In the light of the most recent controversies and reflections on the subject developed over the first half of the 20th century, this book aims to riegnite the debate on “ratio” with the intention of highlighting – through a series of “case studies” – the fine texture of the multiple meanings and uses of the notion of reason, but also to question the different “eras” of reason by attempting to reconstruct its “history”. The essays included in this volume, therefore, contextualise and analyse the meanings and ambiguities of the term “ratio” and its derivatives within the framework of the many discussions that have marked its history from the earliest modernity, when the concept assumed new configurations with respect to the uses attested in Ancient and Medieval thought, to the contemporary debate. “Ragione” e “razionalita” sono oggi nozioni problematiche: considerate a lungo, nella storia del pensiero occidentale, come tratti distintivi dell’uomo e della civiltà euro-americana, da un certo punto in poi sono state messe in discussione e lacerate dalla crisi e dal malessere di quest’ultima. Alla luce delle controversie più recenti e delle riflessioni sul tema sviluppate nella prima metà del Novecento, questo libro si propone di riaprire la querelle sulla ratio con l’intento di mettere in luce – attraverso una serie di “casi di studio” – la grana sottile dei molteplici significati e usi della nozione di ragione, ma anche di interrogarsi sulle differenti “epoche” della ragione provando a ricostruirne la “storia”. I saggi contenuti in questo volume, dunque, contestualizzano e analizzano le accezioni e le ambiguità del termine ratio e dei suoi derivati nel quadro delle molteplici discussioni che ne hanno ritmato la storia a partire dalla prima modernità, quando il concetto assunse nuove configurazioni rispetto agli usi attestati nel pensiero antico e medioevale, sino al dibattito contemporaneo .

reason --- rationality --- rationalization --- history --- modernity --- contemporary philosophy

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In works whose subjects range from the religious to the carnal, the whimsical to the foreboding, Jennifer Maier's debut collection of poems, Dark Alphabet, explores the everyday mysteries of our common experience with humor, lucidity, and an unblinking yet compassionate eye. Whether occasioned by a song overheard on the car radio, a packet of risqué postcards from the 1920's, a conversation with a dead parent, or the behavior of ducks in mating season, each poem sets off on a journey that ranges far from its origins, arriving with the reader in a clearing at dusk

Civilization, Modern --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- History

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Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Frage nach der Rolle des Hörens in modernen Wissenskulturen. Lange galt die Moderne als primär visuelles Zeitalter. Die Sound Studies haben in den letzten Jahren jedoch in vielfacher Hinsicht gezeigt, dass auch dem Hören zentrale Bedeutung in der Moderne zukommt. Der Schwerpunkt lag dabei jedoch zumeist auf den kulturellen Variationsformen des Hörens und zeitlich auf dem 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert. Demgegenüber verlängert dieser Band die historische Perspektive bis zurück in die Frühe Neuzeit und legt den Schwerpunkt auf die Frage nach dem epistemischen Status des Hörens in der Moderne. Er folgt dabei einem weiten Wissensbegriff und untersucht 1) welche Arten von Wissen über das Hören sich historisch rekonstruieren lassen und 2) welche Funktionen das Hören selbst im Prozess der Wissensproduktion und -kommunikation hatte, welche Formen des auditiven Wissens sich also innerhalb der Wissenschaften, der darstellenden Künste, der Musik, der Literatur und der Politik beschreiben lassen. Dadurch trägt der Band zur Historisierung von zentralen Begriffen und Annahmen der Sound Studies bei und problematisiert die Hypothese einer Hegemonie des Visuellen in der Moderne. This interdisciplinary volume examines the epistemic status of listening in modernity, presenting thirteen case studies on the scientific, aesthetic, musical, literary, and political "knowledge of listening". The studies contribute to the historicization of key terms and hypotheses in sound studies. They also question the notion of the hegemony of the visual in the epistemic history of modernity.

Civilization, Modern. --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- History

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Die Erdöl-Moderne ist ein lokales Phänomen der Geschichte Kuwaits, aber auch ein globales Ereignis und massgebliche Ursache des Klimawandels. Die Studie untersucht die Rolle von Erdöl in der visuellen Kultur Kuwaits im Kontext von Ideologien wie Modernisierung und politischer Repräsentation. Der Begriff des Irisierenden, eines in Regenbogenfarben schillernden Farbenspiels, dient als analytisch-ästhetisches Konzept, um den umstrittenen Beitrag von Erdöl in der Moderne zu diskutieren: sowohl Wohlstandsversprechen wie auch destruktive Kraft in soziokultureller und ökologischer Hinsicht. Das Buch versammelt eine Fülle historischen Bildmaterials, darunter Luft- und Farbfotografien, Briefmarken, Stadtpläne und Architekturdarstellungen, um unter Berücksichtigung von zeitgenössischer Kunst aus der Golfregion das visuelle Erbe der Erdöl- Moderne kritisch zu hinterfragen. Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum's role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum's ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity's visual legacy.

ART / Art & Politics. --- Kuwait. --- Visual culture. --- modernity. --- oil.

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Title in English: Momentum. Art and Cosmopolitan Modernity. This book attempts to capture the momentum, a moment of transformation, where the complex processes related to the expansion of heterogeneous cosmopolitan modernity intersect and converge, processes that influence and change both Euro-American civilisation and the planet as a whole, and along the way transform the state, economic, cultural and social arrangement, the practises and the notions used in order to understand our existence in the world. The authors of the studies that make up this publication look at the problem from several selected aspects falling within the domains of sociology, culture and new media art, which have in common an effort to put current phenomena into more general and more profound social, political and cultural contexts. They strive to avoid presentism in order to observe the processes gathered under the umbrella of “cosmopolitan modernity” from the point of view of the longue durée.

Theory of art --- momentum --- cosmopolitan modernity --- new media art