Author: Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
ISBN: 3830970617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
ISBN: 3830970617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Form and Clarity in Euclid’s ›Elements‹
Author: Anna-Maria GasserPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110670593
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
As of yet, the remarkable and highly influential textual form of Euclidean mathematics has not been considered from a literary-aesthetic perspective. By its extreme standardization and seeming non-literariness it appears to defy such an approach. This book nonetheless attempts precisely a literary-aesthetic study of the language and style of Euclid’s Elements, focusing on book I. It aims to find out what is literary about the form and what motivates this form as form. In doing so, it employs the concept of clarity, asking: How is the textual form related to logical and communicative clarity? That is, how far is the omnipresent standardization necessary for the accomplishment and successful communication of the proofs? Based on a close analysis of the standardization at all levels of the text (lexicon, grammar, structure, and especially diagram), it argues that the textual form of the Elements is standardized beyond logical-communicative purposes, and that it is in this sense ‘aesthetic’. The book exposes the unexpected literary dimension of Euclid’s Elements, provides a new interpretation of the peculiar form of the work, and offers a model for determining the role of clarity (not only) in Greek theoretical mathematics.
Aesthetik
Author: Moriz CarrierePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Deutsche Stilkunst
Author: Eduard EngelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Trade and Transfer Across the East Asian "Mediterranean"
Author: Angela SchottenhammerPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447051132
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The present volume is a collection of studies discussing trade and exchange relations across the East China Sea in the time period between c. 1400 and 1840. It introduces and analyses characteristics of trade and exchange, of economic and personal networks including knowledge transfer between East Asian countries, the importance of which has for a long time been underestimated or misinterpreted. The authors want to show that from the fifteenth to the early nineteenth century East Asia was far from being a group of more or less isolated states, but was characterised by multifarious contacts and connections.The countries or regions investigated include China, Japan, Korea, the Ryu-kyu- Islands and Tsushima. The contributions are subdivided according to topical themes and focus on sea and land routes, archaeology, trade and commodity exchange, knowledge transfer and exchange in the field of medicine (including physicians), and European images of parts of East Asia. Examining a great deal of sources ranging from diaries, letters, tomb inscriptions to commodity lists and government documents, this volume sheds more light into hitherto neglected aspects of maritime trade.
W.G. Sebald
Author: Ben HutchinsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110223430
Category : German literature
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This book uses the annotations in W.G. Sebald's private library (held in the Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Marbach) to construct an interpretation of his prose style as fundamentally dialectical. Alongside his readings of writers such as Benjamin, Bernhard, Bassani, and Lévi-Strauss, it uses in particular Adorno's and Horkheimer's "Dialektik der Aufklärung" to help develop a close reading of Sebald's syntax and narrative structures. The key concern of Sebald's prose emerges not as the Holocaust, but rather the dialectical processes of ,progress' and ,regression' inherent in history.
Neotestamentica et Patristica
Author: W.C. van UnnikPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900426583X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Coming to Terms
Author: Markus AsperPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111314782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies
Author: Cyrus HamlinPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300103298
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Cassirer's conception of culture & theory of symbolism anticipated much of later cultural theory. The essays in this volume explore aspects of his thinking & demonstrate the influence that it had on later scholarship.
The Geometry of Creation
Author: Robert Odell BorkPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754660620
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
This book offers a new perspective on Gothic architectural creativity. It shows, in a series of geometrical case studies, how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in the hours of the draftsman's labour, and across the centuries of the late Middle Ages. In each case, a series of computer graphics show how a medieval designer could have developed his architectural concept step by step, using only basic geometrical operations. Taken together, these analyses demonstrate remarkable methodological continuity across the Gothic era, and the development of sophisticated permutations on venerable design themes.
