|
|
|
 Mlamuli Nkosingphile Hlatshwayo, "Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers: Struggles for University Transformation in South Africa " English | ISBN: 0367618826 | 2022 | 124 pages | PDF | 3 MB Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers contributes to the current struggles for decolonising education in the global South, focusing on the highly illuminating case of South African higher education. Galvanised by #FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall student protests, South Africa has seen particularly intense and broad social engagement with debates over decolonising universities. However, much of this debate has been consumed with definitions and meanings. In contrast, Decolonising Knowledge and Knowers shows how conceptual tools, specifically from Legitimation Code Theory, can be enacted in research and teaching to meaningfully work towards productive decolonisation. Each chapter addresses a key issue in contemporary debates in South African higher education and show how practices concerning knowledge and knowers are playing a role, drawing on quantitative and qualitative research, praxis, and interdisciplinary research.  Das auratische Kunstwerk: Zur Ästhetik von Richard Wagners Musiktheaterutopie By Sven Friedrich 1996 | 239 Pages | ISBN: 3484660198 | PDF | 19 MB Ausgehend von der Grundüberzeugung Wagners, daß das dramatische Kunstwerk erst in der sinnlichen Mitteilung an alle Sinne seine vollständige und endgültige Gestalt erlange und sich daher nur im Theater verwirkliche, erweist sich die Aura-Metapher Walter Benjamins, die "einmalige Erscheinung einer Ferne, so nah sie sein mag", als treffendes Sinnbild für die künstlerische Absicht Wagners. Hatte Benjamin den "Verfall der Aura" als Symptom des Kunstwerks "im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit" diagnostiziert, so begriff auch bereits Wagners Kritik die als kulturelle und künstlerische Degenerationsform empfundene zeitgenössische Oper als Ausdruck für den allgemeinen Verfall der Kunst im Verlust ihrer ehemaligen Bedeutung und Dignität im Zeitalter eines blinden Materialismus. Wagner entwickelt seinen Kunstbegriff dagegen auf der geistigen Grundlage des deutschen Idealismus der klassisch-romantischen Epoche. Daher erscheint es zulässig, Wagner ästhetikgeschichtlich zwischen die zwei großen idealistischen Denkrichtungen, die Romantik und die Frankfurter Schule einzureihen und den ästhetischen Komplex des 'Musikdramas' von diesen beiden Polen aus zu beleuchten. Wagner setzt sein Kunstwerk und dessen theoretische Untermauerung als Versuch einer 'Reauratisierung', als Restituierung seiner Aura, ihrem Verfall entgegen. Bühnenfestspiel und Bühnenweihfestspiel als Verbindung von elitärer splendid isolation und demokratischem Kunstideal treten dabei in Beziehung zu kultischen und religiösen Wirkungsabsichten, wodurch im Rahmen der Regenerationsthese ein aus der Ästhetik gewonnener, rezeptionsgeschichtlich jedoch prekärer kulturtheoretischer Ansatz in Reichweite rückt. Faszinosum und Skandalon von Wagners Werk erweisen sich mithin als zwei Seiten derselben Medaille.
 Das Reisebuch Island: Die schönsten Ziele entdecken - Highlights, Naturwunder und Traumtouren von Kerstin Langenberger, Olaf Krüger Deutsch | 27. Mai 2022 | ISBN: 3734325196 | True EPUB | 288 Seiten | 89.4 MB Unvergessliches Island - Insel des Nordens  Daily Life in a Medieval Monastery by Sherri Olson English | August 12, 2013 | ISBN: 0313336555 | True PDF | 211 pages | 6.8 MB How did the Western monastic tradition begin? What was monastic life typically like for a monk or nun? How was the institution of the monastery formative to Western culture from antiquity through the Middle Ages?  DKfindout! Reptiles and Amphibians by DK English | September 19, 2017 | ISBN: 1465463100 | 66 pages | PDF | 22 Mb Supporting STEM-based learning, this fact-filled book for lizard lovers ages 6-9 is the ultimate guide to reptiles and amphibians from across the globe, entertaining and educating young readers through a combination of close-up images, quirky trivia facts, quiz questions, and fascinating tidbits on everything from turtles to tree frogs.  DApps: What Are DApps? Unlocking The Full Power Of Decentralized Applications, Blockchains, Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, Web 3.0, DeFi, NFTs, Build Your Business & Generate Passive Income by Patrick Ejeke English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B9NH1R9X | 180 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb You've heard some incredibly interesting things about DApps, but you're having trouble understanding what they are. Everyone appears to have their own definition of what they are, at least in the computer industry, and the more you look into it, the more confusingly technical it all gets. You might also be eager to create a DApp and participate in the decentralized community, but you're not exactly sure how they differ from regular applications.  Cyclotomic Fields By S. Lang 2011 | 253 Pages | ISBN: 1461299470 | PDF | 22 MB Kummer's work on cyclotomic fields paved the way for the development of algebraic number theory in general by Dedekind, Weber, Hensel, Hilbert, Takagi, Artin and others. However, the success of this general theory has tended to obscure special facts proved by Kummer about cyclotomic fields which lie deeper than the general theory. For a long period in the 20th century this aspect of Kummer's work seems to have been largely forgotten, except for a few papers, among which are those by Pollaczek [Po], Artin-Hasse [A-H] and Vandiver [Va]. In the mid 1950's, the theory of cyclotomic fields was taken up again by Iwasawa and Leopoldt. Iwasawa viewed cyclotomic fields as being analogues for number fields of the constant field extensions of algebraic geometry, and wrote a great sequence of papers investigating towers of cyclotomic fields, and more generally, Galois extensions of number fields whose Galois group is isomorphic to the additive group of p-adic integers. Leopoldt concentrated on a fixed cyclotomic field, and established various p-adic analogues of the classical complex analytic class number formulas. In particular, this led him to introduce, with Kubota, p-adic analogues of the complex L-functions attached to cyclotomic extensions of the rationals. Finally, in the late 1960's, Iwasawa w 1 I . made the fundamental discovery that there was a close connection between his work on towers of cyclotomic fields and these p-adic L-functions of Leopoldt-Kubota.  Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement By Frank Fernández 2001 | 154 Pages | ISBN: 1884365191 | PDF | 3 MB This inspiring history of the Cuban anarchist movement is also a history of the Cuban labor movement. It covers both from their origins in the mid-19th century to the present, and ends with an enlightening analysis of the failure of the Castro dictatorship.
 Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations By Didier Fassin (editor), Axel Honneth (editor) 2022 | 456 Pages | ISBN: 0231204329 | PDF | 3 MB The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture―a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been normalized. How can the notion of crisis be rethought in order to take stock of―and challenge―our understanding of the many predicaments in which we find ourselves?Instead of diagnosing emergencies, Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Contributors inquire into the social production of crisis, evaluating a wide range of cases on five continents through the lenses of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Considering social movements, intellectual engagements, affected communities, and reflexive perspectives, the book foregrounds the perspectives of those most closely involved, bringing out the immediacy of crisis. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a singular intervention that utterly recasts one of today's most crucial―yet most ambiguous―concepts.  John Western, "Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait " English | ISBN: 1138248150 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 4 MB The past hundred years of Europe are distilled in the experiences of the citizens of Strasbourg. From the turn of the twentieth century until 1945, Europe's ruling idea of nationalism rendered Strasbourg/Straßburg the prize in a tug-of-war between the two greatest continental powers, France and Germany. Then, in the immediate post-war period, ideals for European unity set up various European institutions, some headquartered in Strasbourg, which have gradually created a partially supranational Europe. At the end of the 1950s, a third theme arises: the large-scale settling in Strasbourg and other such richer, western European cities of persons from poorer lands, frequently ex-colonial territories, whose appearance and cultural practices render them essentially "different" to local eyes: expressions of racism thereby jostle with professions of multiculturalism. Now in the globalisation era, the issue of "immigration" has broadened yet further into transnationalism: the experience of persons who are embedded in varying manner in both Strasbourg and in their land of origin. Based on in-depth, lively interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world (France, Germany, Alsace-Lorraine, Portugal, Italy, ex-Yugoslavia, Albania, Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Cameroon, and Afghanistan amongst other countries), the author draws out of these compelling testimonies all sorts of compelling insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a unique and valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European. |
: 