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A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English.Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth century from an African intellectual’s point of view, The Mudimbe Reader provides an introduction and a comprehensive bibliography that frame four thematic gatherings of Mudimbe’s writings. Part 1 bears witness to Mudimbe’s attempts, as a university professor in the new nation-state of Zaire, to balance the postindependence discourse of authenticity with his training in Western philosophy and philology. Part 2 focuses on Mudimbe’s exploration of racial, ethnic, and religious discourses to reflect upon postcolonialism in Zaire and in the United States. In the third part, Mudimbe interrogates ancient Greek and Latin texts as a strategy to engage the legacy of antiquity for European and African modernity. Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe’s recurring attempt to elucidate how African "primitiveness" has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the present day.

Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Intellectual life.

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Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Politics and government --- Foreign relations.

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Das erste umfassende Grundlagenwerk über energieautarke Aktivhäuser Das Aktivhaus ist eine logische Weiterentwicklung bisheriger Gebäudestandards. Es gewinnt regenerativ Energie aus Sonne und Wind mit dem Ziel, möglichst den eigenen Energiebedarf vollständig zu decken. Die Grundlagen der Aktiv-haus-Idee werden in diesem Standardwerk ausführlich beschrieben und dienen allen am Bau Beteiligten als Leitfaden zur Planung von Aktivhäusern. Von den Grundsätzen des nachhaltigen und energieeffizienten Bauens bis hin zu Planungswerkzeugen und technischen Details erfährt der Leser, was Aktivhäuser ausmacht, wie man sie entwickelt und welche Komponenten bei ihrer Umsetzung infrage kommen. 14 realisierte Bauten aus den Bereichen Wohnungsbau, Nichtwohnungsbau, Neubau und Sanierung veranschaulichen die Aktivhaus-Architektur. The first comprehensive reference work on energy-independent Active Houses The Active House is a logical development of existing building standards. It draws renewable energy from the sun and wind in order to cover energy needs as completely as possible. The basic ideas of the Active House are described in detail in this standard work and serve as a planning guide for all parties involved in the construction of Active Houses.From the principles of sustainable and energy efficient construction to planning tools and technical details, the reader learns what constitutes active houses, how they developed, and the components required for its construction. Active House architecture is illustrated by fourteen built works in the areas of residential, non-residential, new construction, and renovation.

Dwellings --- Energy conservation. --- 2000-2099 --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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Physical Geography --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Groundwater --- Ground water --- Subterranean water --- Underground water --- Water, Underground --- Water --- Hydrogeology --- Asia. --- Asien --- Asiaten --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia

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In this remarkably erudite work, Christopher Bundock argues that the repeated failure of prophecy in Romantic thought is creative and enables a renewable potential for expression across disciplines.

Romanticism --- 82:2 --- 82:2 Literatuur en godsdienst --- Literatuur en godsdienst --- Europe. --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- 1700-1799