Author: Edmund Husserl File Type: pdf Coming from what is arguably the most productive period of Husserls life, this volume offers the reader a first translation into English of Husserls renowned lectures on passive synthesis, given between 1920 and 1926. These lectures are the first extensive application of Husserls newly developed genetic phenomenology to perceptual experience and to the way in which it is connected to judgments and cognition. They include an historical reflection on the crisis of contemporary thought and human spirit, provide an archaeology of experience by questioning back into sedimented layers of meaning, and sketch the genealogy of judgment in active synthesis. Drawing upon everyday events and personal experiences, the Analyses are marked by a patient attention to the subtle emergence of sense in our lives. By advancing a phenomenology of association that treats such phenomena as bodily kinaesthesis, temporal genesis, habit, affection, attention, motivation, and the unconscious, Husserl explores the cognitive dimensions of the body in its affectively significant surroundings. An elaboration of these diverse modes of evidence and their modalizations (transcendental aesthetic), allows Husserl to trace the origin of truth up to judicative achievements (transcendental logic). Joined by several of Husserls essays on static and genetic method, the Analyses afford a richness of description unequalled by the majority of Husserls works available to English readers. Students of phenomenology and of Husserls thought will find this an indispensable work.

Author: Lynne Sharon Schwartz File Type: pdf One marvels at the force of seeing in Schwartzs No Way Out But Through and cannot help but feel a particular gratitude for her abundant humor. Go all in with these poems youll reap unknown rewards. She possesses a quick-witted imagination that sanctifies memories and makes room for the wondrous nature of our cosmopolitan lights. Major Jackson

Author: Kimberly A. Smith File Type: pdf During the period in which Expressionist artists were active in central Europe, art historians were producing texts which were characterized as expressionist, yet the notion of an expressionist art history has yet to be fully explored in historiographic studies. This anthology offers a cross-section of noteworthy art history texts written 1912-1933 that have been described as expressionist, along with commentaries by an international group of scholars. Together they offer a productive lens through which to re-examine the practice and theory of early twentieth-century art history.

Author: Fred Pearce File Type: pdf A 2008 Indie Next Pick In Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce surveys his home and then sets out to track down the people behind the production and distribution of everything in his daily life, from his socks to his computer to the food in his fridge. Its a fascinating portrait, by turns sobering and hopeful, of the effects the worlds more than six billion inhabitants have on our planetand of the working and living conditions of the people who produce most of these goods.From Publishers WeeklyPearces quest to discover the hidden world sustaining Western consumption habits is fulfilled with varying degrees of success in this, his third book. Tracking the routes taken by the items in his homehis coffee, cellphone, computer, green beans, chocolate, socksfrom raw ingredient to finished product, the author presents fascinating firsthand investigations, as when he visits a group of fair-trade coffee farmers, follows the trail of his donated shirts to markets in Africa, visits Uzbek communities whose health, infrastructure and environment have been devastated by the cotton industry, and interviews female sweatshop workers who view their factory jobs as empowering. When Pearce strays from these journalistic portraits, however, he is prone to flaccid opining about the greenest fuel sources and simplistic boosting for urban planners designing small-footprint cities. The most effective chapters puncture the feel-good myths surrounding fair trade and recycling and introduce unique characters, such as the farmers and middlemen responsible for getting prawns from Bangladesh to a London curry shop. Although a timely effort, Pearces diffusion of his reportorial mission with green-pleading mires his refreshing discoveries in moralizing and familiar cant. (Oct.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From BooklistAfter addressing climate change in With Speed and Violence (2007), London-based journalist Pearce joins the growing ranks of the curious and intrepid who are determined to dispel the fog of globalization and find out exactly where our food and belongings come from, where our trash goes, and how this complicated cycle impacts the planet. Vitally interested in the lives of the people who extract, process, and cultivate the materials, plants, and animals that clothe, shelter, and feed us, Pearce begins his far-ranging inquiry by tracing his gold wedding band to an immense South African gold mine. Unsettling conversations with coffee and cocoa farmers, an up-close view of the fish crisis, and exposes of the environmental havoc wrought by the surging palm-oil industry and the high human and natural costs of cotton and aluminumeverywhere his favorite foods, clothes, and gadgets lead him, Pearce is confronted by imbalance and waste, tyranny and greed. And yet the sheer ingenuity of people infuses him with optimism. An uneven yet engaging and informative report on the consequences of overconsumption. --Donna Seaman