Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Editorial GEDISA
ISBN: 8497849957
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Frente a un mundo en el que imperan los mensajes cortos, la inmediatez y la necesidad de crear sensaciones, la filosofía reivindica meditar sin prisas y pone en tela de juicio los lugares comunes. Como actividad libre, su objetivo no es la persecución del poder, sino la verdad entendida como la línea de meta que nunca se cruza pero que ha de guiar nuestro debate y reflexión. Este atractivo diálogo trata sobre la actualidad de la filosofía y sobre el modo en que las preguntas permanecen a pesar de que cada época las da por canceladas. La filosofía orientada al ámbito de lo público y lo común, nos recuerdan Charles Taylor y Richard Bernstein, nos ofrece un contrapunto en el sistema democrático (ayudándonos así a evitar cierres en falso) y una herramienta para aproximarnos a un horizonte de justicia. Este horizonte como promesa debe articularse en un contexto de diversidad ideológica, étnica, cultural y religiosa, donde el pluralismo de los valores elimine los peajes culturales para acceder a la ciudadanía y no recluya las identidades en compartimentos estancos, sino que promueva la reciprocidad, el reconocimiento y la vitalidad social.
Author: Howard Rheingold
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889330464
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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They Have a Word for It takes the reader to the far corners of the globe to discover words and phrases for which there are not equivalents in English. From the North Pole to New Guinea, from Easter Island to Tibet, Howard Rheingold explores more than forty familiar and obscure languages to discover genuinely useful (rather than simply odd) words that can open up new ways of understanding and experiencing life. --Sarabande Books.
Author: Howard Rheingold
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262681155
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. The digital revolution did not begin with the teenage millionaires of Silicon Valley, claims Howard Rheingold, but with such early intellectual giants as Charles Babbage, George Boole, and John von Neumann. In a highly engaging style, Rheingold tells the story of what he calls the patriarchs, pioneers, and infonauts of the computer, focusing in particular on such pioneers as J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Bob Taylor, and Alan Kay. Taking the reader step by step from nineteenth-century mathematics to contemporary computing, he introduces a fascinating collection of eccentrics, mavericks, geniuses, and visionaries. The book was originally published in 1985, and Rheingold's attempt to envision computing in the 1990s turns out to have been remarkably prescient. This edition contains an afterword, in which Rheingold interviews some of the pioneers discussed in the book. As an exercise in what he calls "retrospective futurism," Rheingold also looks back at how he looked forward.
Author: Bob Mayberry
Publisher: Bob Mayberry
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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This volume introduces the reader to the disassociation of acoustic and visual space in certain experimental one-act plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee. These plays are shown to achieve their desired effect by placing the audience in the role of protagonist charged with creating consonance out of dissonance.
Author: Paul Hawken
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Author: Michael Issacharoff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804717090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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One of the first books to apply contemporary linguistic and semiotic research to drama, Discourse as Performance is an investigation into theatrical discourse - the specifically theatrical use of language in the broadest sense, from verbal utterance to non verbal uses comprising the visual elements of gesture, facial expression, movement, costume, players' bodies, properties, and decor. The book is in three parts. In the first part, the author deals with theatrical discourse proper and distinguishes between its two main modes: dialogue and stage directions. Both modes address the problem of the specificity of theatrical discourse in contrast to other types of discourse, both literary and non-literary. The dialogue raises the questions of who speaks in a play (author, characters, actors) and to whom; the stage directions raise the question of reading a play, as opposed to seeing it performed onstage. The author links these issues to speech act theory and intertextuality.
Author: Eugène Van Erven
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253347886
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Denis Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Author: Thomas Kilroy
Publisher: Gallery Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Catholic ascetic Matt Talbot, the "workers' saint" (1856-1925), provokes Kilroy's ingenious examination of the idea of sanctity in the modern world. The very incorporation of penance and spiritual search, his conversion from alcoholism to prayer, fasting and self-mortification is sketched in the textured resonances of the idiom of the Dublin streets and in the soaring lyrical versions of the final visions -- all while Talbot's coffin remains on stage. in the words of the playwright, Talbot's Box is "a play about aloneness, its cost to the person, and the kind of courage required to sustain it.
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140124347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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