books about: hypomnemata     books:       Uncontrollable Societies of Disaffected Individuals: Disbelief and Discredit, Volume 2 Bernard Stiegler Polity, 2012 Max Weber argued that the development of capitalism would lead to the progressive rationalization and disenchantment of society: today this process is reaching its endpoint and capitalism is collapsing into a disturbing kind of irrationality. It engenders spiritual misery - a paralysis of the function of the human mind or spirit - where reason disappears as a motive of hope, a ‘kingdom of ends’ in Kant’s sense. Absolute disenchantment ...             Foucault, Sport and Exercise: Power, Knowledge and Transforming the Self Pirkko Markula-Denison, Richard Pringle Routledge, 2006 Michel Foucault’s work profoundly influences the way we think about society, in particular how we understand social power, the self, and the body. This book gives an innovative and entirely new analysis of is later works making it a one-stop guide for students, exploring how Foucauldian theory can inform our understanding of the body, domination, identity and freedom as experienced through sport and exercise. Divided into three themed ...             For a New Critique of Political Economy Bernard Stiegler Polity, 2010 The catastrophic economic, social and political crisis of our time calls for a new and original critique of political economy - a rethinking of Marx's project in the very different conditions of twenty-first century capitalism. Stiegler argues that today the proletarian must be reconceptualized as the economic agent whose knowledge and memory are confiscated by machines. This new sense of the term ‘proletarian' is best understood by reference ...             Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and ... Eleanor Dickey Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Ancient greek sholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and the lack of translations or scholarly aids often discourages readers from exploiting the large body of commentaries, scholia, lexica, and grammatical treatises that have been preserved on papyrus and via the ...             Greek Papyri: An Introduction E. G. Turner ACLS Humanities E-Book, 2008 An account of what papyrology is and what the papyrologist does. _             Decadence of Industrial Democracies Bernard Stiegler Polity, 2011 Translated by DANIEL ROSS Bernard Stiegler is one of the most original philosophers writing today about new technologies and their implications for social, political and personal life. Drawing on sources ranging from Plato and Marx to Freud, Heidegger and Derrida, he develops a highly original account of technology as grammatology, as a technics of writing that constitutes our experience of time, memory and desire, even of life itself. Society ...             Collected Papers on Alexander the Great Ernst Badian Routledge, 2012 Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of articles was reinforced by lectures and reviews in his own formidable style. Badian's earliest work transformed understanding of aspects of the Roman ...             New Creed: Fundamental Religious Beliefs in the Athenian Polis and Euripidean Drama (Hypomnemata) Harvey E. Yunis Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 1988             Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution William R. Newman University Of Chicago Press, 2006 Since the Enlightenment, alchemy has been viewed as a sort of antiscience, disparaged by many historians as a form of lunacy that impeded the development of rational chemistry. But in Atoms and Alchemy, William R. Newman—a historian widely credited for reviving recent interest in alchemy—exposes the speciousness of these views and challenges widely held beliefs about the origins of the Scientific Revolution.  Tracing the alchemical roots ...             Hypomnemata: Stories, Fables, Memories Kenneth A. Symington Xlibris Corporation, 2010 A collection of fictional stories, dreams, visions, word plays, metaphors, and personal memories about the human predicament, accumulated over the span of a lifetime in various locations throughout the world, by an interested explorer who enjoys a good laugh whenever circumstances permit.             Isokrates' Enkomion auf Helena: Ein Kommentar (Hypomnemata) Sandra Zajonz Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002             Palintonos harmonia: Studien zu komischen Elementen in der griechischen Tragodie (Hypomnemata) (German ... Bernd Seidensticker Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982             Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias (Hypomnemata) Jonas Grethlein Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006 Phenomenological and narratological approaches are the basis on which the idea of history in the Iliad is analysed. The first part examines the relations of the heroes to the past. The second part reads the narrative form of the Iliad as an expression of the underlying idea of history.             Measures of Praise: Structure and Function in Pindar's Second Pythian and Seventh Nemean Odes (Hypomnemata) Glenn W. Most Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 1985             The Rhetoric of Cicero's »In Verrem« (Hypomnemata) Thomas D Frazel Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009             Myth and Personal Experience in Roman Love-Elegy: A Study in Poetic Technique (Hypomnemata) Richard Whitaker Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG, 1983             The Dispute concerning Rhetoric in Hellenistic Thought Yosef Z Liebersohn Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010 English summary: This study attempts to reconstruct the dispute over rhetoric in Hellenistic thought by using two main interrelated axes. Firstly, it delineates the exact milieu in which this dispute took place, including locations, dates and persons. Secondly, five main arguments used against rhetoric have been reconstructed, all of which concentrate on rhetoric's claim to be considered an art. German text. German description: Diese Studie ...             Virtues for the People: Aspects of Plutarchan Ethics (Plutarchea Hypomnemata) (English, French, German, ... Leuven University Press, 2011 Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch's authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall ...              search for books alexander, association, collected, commentaries, concerning, democracies, disaffected, euripidean, experience, experimental, fundamental, geschichtsbild, grammatiacl, griechischen, hellenistic, hypomnemata, individuals, industrial, introduction, isokrates, love-elegy, palintonos, plutarchan, plutarchea, revolution, scholarship, scientific, transforming, uncontrollable, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Ven Conmigo! Cuaderno de Gramatica: Cuaderno de Gramatica   ... home  impressum - about us