Author: Jacques Derrida File Type: pdf A tribute to one of the fathers of deconstruction as well as an extended essay on memory, death, and friendship.ReviewDerrida offers significant insights into de Mans understanding of Heidegger, Hoderlin, Hegel, Austin, and Rosseau. A warm, personal, and at times touching account of the de ManDerrida intellectual friendship and the existential experience of a friends death, this work shows a very human side to a thinker whose humanity has been questioned by the critics. A welcome addition to any library already containing some writings of Derrida.(Choice ) Language NotesText English (translation)Original Language French

Author: C. Hagen File Type: pdf There has recently been considerable renewed interest in Book 7 of the Physics of Aristotle, once regarded as merely an undeveloped forerunner to Book 8. The debate surrounding the importance of the text is not new to modern scholarship for example, in the fourth century BC Eudemus, the Peripatetic philosopher associate of Aristotle, left it out of his treatment of the Physics. Now, for the first time, Charles Hagens lucid translation gives the English reader access to Simplicius commentary on Book 7, an indispensable tool for the understanding of the text. Its particular interest lies in its explanation of how the chapters of Book 7 fit together and its reference to a more extensive second version of Aristotles text than the one which survives today.

Author: Kat Jungnickel File Type: pdf An illustrated history of the evolution of British womens cycle wear. The bicycle in Victorian Britain is often celebrated as a vehicle of womens liberation. Less noted is another critical technology with which women forged new and mobile public livescycle wear. This illustrated account of womens cycle wear from Goldsmiths Press brings together Victorian engineering and radical feminist invention to supply a missing chapter in the history of feminism. Despite its benefits, cycling was a material and ideological minefield for women. Conventional fashions were unworkable, with skirts catching in wheels and tangling in pedals. Yet wearing rational cycle wear could provoke verbal and sometimes physical abuse from those threatened by newly mobile women. Seeking a solution, pioneering women not only imagined, made, and wore radical new forms of cycle wear but also patented their inventive designs. The most remarkable of these were convertible costumes that enabled wearers to transform ordinary clothing into cycle wear. Drawing on in-depth archival research and inventive practice, Kat Jungnickel brings to life in rich detail the little-known stories of six inventors of the 1890s. Alice Bygrave, a dressmaker of Brixton, registered four patents for a skirt with a dual pulley system built into its seams. Julia Gill, a court dressmaker of Haverstock Hill, patented a skirt that drew material up the waist using a mechanism of rings or eyelets. Mary and Sarah Pease, sisters from York, patented a skirt that could be quickly converted into a fashionable high-collar cape. Henrietta Muller, a womens rights activist of Maidenhead, patented a three-part cycling suit with a concealed system of loops and buttons to elevate the skirt. And Mary Ann Ward, a gentlewoman of Bristol, patented the Hyde Park Safety Skirt, which gathered fabric at intervals using a series of side buttons on the skirt. Their unique contributions to cyclings past continue to shape urban life for contemporary mobile women. **Review This brilliant book is a wonderful insight into the inventiveness and strength of women at the vanguard of societal changes and these stories many of which Kat has uncovered for the first time in a century are truly inspiring. Laura Laker, Casquette The story is as extraordinary as the garments themselves. Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement (Reviews) At its heart, this is a story of imagination and the freedoms we take for granted what we wear, where we go and how we get there. It is about the strictures of gender, and the social and historical cost of resisting them. Brimming with hope, it shows us how we might refashion our realities with ignition and grit. Vonny Leclerc, Spectator (Reviews) This brilliant book is a wonderful insight into the inventiveness and strength of women at the vanguard of societal changes and these stories many of which Kat has uncovered for the first time in a century are truly inspiring. Laura Laker, Casquette (Reviews) Review I was fascinated by this book and by what I learned about what we wear on bikes and how women have worked (and still are working) to make it all fit better. So much has changed since the days of bloomers, and yet so much hasnt. Kat Jungnickels book is a valuable new resource for anyone interested in women riding bikes and how they do it. Emily Chappell, fastest woman in the 2016 Transcontinental Race, founding member of the Adventure Syndicate, and author of What Goes Around A London Cycle Couriers Story (Endorsement) Utterly fascinating, beautifully written and a work of supreme scholarship. Much more than an account of an emergent Victorian cycling revolution, this is a social history told through the story of invention, technology, craft and female subjugation. More importantly, this is a book about controlling narratives and the telling of history itself. Dallas Campbell, BBC presenter, Bang Goes the Theory author of Ad Astra An Illustrated Guide to Leaving the Planet (Endorsement) Kat Jungnickel effectively rewrites a traditionally masculine history of bicycles these women are recast as makers of the world, not just spectators of masculine innovation. Through radical sociology, Bikes and Bloomers breaks new ground for design studies and dress history while also becoming an exemplar of inventive research methodology. A rigorous, enjoyable read! Timo Rissanen, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability, Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York author of Zero Waste Fashion Design (Endorsement) This meticulously researched book demonstrates how women hacked their way into cycling culture. Kat Jungnickel opens up new pathways for thinking about and researching the relationships of design, mobilities and womens history. Guy Julier, Professor of Design, Victoria and Albert Museum and University of Brighton (Endorsement)

Author: Michael P. Lynch File Type: pdf ReviewWit is surpassed only by acumen in this pithy book. Chief objections to physicalism are stated lucidly, and rebutted convincingly. The field is enlivened and even readers who demur will reap.--Ernest Sosa, Departments of Philosophy, Brown University and Rutgers UniversityAn engagingly written, carefully reasoned defence of objective truth as a respectable, even desirable goal and standard. Barry Allen The Globe and Mail True to Life is a passionate demonstration that truth matters it is strikingly clear and painstakingly reasoned, and ranges from technical work in the philosophy of logic to a discussion of the role of truth-telling in government. Anthony Gottlieb The New York Times Book ReviewThis is an important and timely volume, and philosophy owes Lynch a considerable debt. Duncan Pritchard The Philosophers MagazineTrue to Life is a bracing antidote to the disease of postmodern cynicism that renders truth impossible and leaves us with nothing but wind-blown opinion. Douglas Groothuis The Denver PostTrue to Life...asserts some simple truths about truth for example, that its good, [and] that its worthy of pursuit... Richard Halicks Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionTrue to Life performs a major public service. Michael Lynch explains with engaging energy and clarity why the concept of truth matters to a decent public culture. Fully accessible to people without prior philosophical training, the book nonetheless explains serious philosophical debates with considerable sophistication. It will be wonderful for use (and debate) in undergraduate courses in many disciplines, but it is also just good reading for anyone who is interested in unmasking deception and confusion, and who thinks that this activity matters for the health of democracy.--Martha Nussbaum, The University of ChicagoFrom the PublisherFrom the New York Times Book Review (July 24, 2005) Lynchs True to Life is a passionate demonstration that truth matters it is strikingly clear and painstakingly reasoned, and ranges from technical work in the philosophy of logic to a discussion of the role of truth-telling in government (yes, Iraq is mentioned). He argues that caring about truth is necessary for happiness because of the roles in our lives of authenticity and integrity, and that valuing truth for its own sake is an essential part of democracy.