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Missing a soul that endows bodies with life: an introduction
No full textIn the history of ideas, innumerable attempts to explain life and to define living activities have invoked the notion of the soul. Yet this theoretical entity seems to be an unfathomable thing. Difficulties beset the mere definition of it, and controversies span from whether the soul is a material body or an immaterial form, an immortal or a mortal thing, a subject of experiential or of theoretical knowledge, to the question of whether it is the subject of a specific discipline or rather of a scientia de anima that, in the Aristotelian tradition, was also regarded as a part of natural philosophy—the field of philosophy that deals with natural particulars. Not only was the soul thought, from a theological angle, to define the unity and unicity of living beings (and in some cases, even their individuality), but it was also seen as the source of several bodily activities such as nutrition and growth in living beings. And since some of the beings that grow and nourish themselves also sense and think, the relation of the origin of vegetative powers to the origin of perceptual and intellectual powers has always been an object of debate. In this sense, the soul has not just been a topic of one specific field, but has rather drawn upon many disciplines, combining the work of philosophers, religious thinkers, physicians, naturalists, chymists, and so on, thereby blurring the boundaries between different fields of knowledge. Botanical treatises of the Renaissance, for example, begin with the definition of the soul of plants and its primary role in bringing forth vegetal activities. Indeed, the presence of the soul was thought to be involved also in the life of animals, human beings, and, in some cases, it was even ascribed to minerals and stones, not to speak of the world-soul, the latent idea that the entire cosmos is animated with a soul. Furthermore, the theory of the materiality of the soul was developed since Antiquity and found new momentum in early modern times, in the reappraisal of Epicurean ideas by thinkers such as Guillaume Lamy, Pierre Gassendi, and Julian Offray de La Mettrie. Yet, with the Cartesian Henricus Regius, the understanding of vegetative, sensitive, and rational souls as material importantly surfaces as a peculiar attempt to mechanize the living functions of bodies
Truth, love, purity and fidelity : semi-annual returns of [blank] Temple of Honor, No. [blank] located in [blank]...
No full textA blank form to be filled out ''after the last meeting in each term.''Full catalog title: Truth, love, purity and fidelity : semi-annual returns of [blank] Temple of Honor, No. [blank] located in [blank] : to the Grand Temple of Honor, State of Texas, for the term commencing [blank] 1st, 185 , and ending [blank] 1st, 185 ..
Master's Recital: Judith A. Blank, piano
No full textThis recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degreeMs. Blank is a student of Marry NorrisJesu, Joy of Man's Desiring in G-Major, Chorale from Cantata No. 147, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- Fantasie in C Minor, K. 475, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- Sonata in C Minor, K. 457, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) -- Visions Fugitive, Op. 22, Nos. 1,8,5, and 14, Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953) -- Ballade in F-Minor, Op. 52, Frederic Chopin (1810-1849
Oral history interview with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blank
No full textMr. and Mrs. Carl Blank discuss farming in Spink County, South Dakota, threshing, and fiddling at county dances
The multiple lives of a blank book
No full textThe multiple lives of a blank book is a cross-cultural tale of bookness, blankness and multiplicity, bringing the cinematic genre of documentary fiction to the printed page.
Fifty contributors were provided with a blank book to use as a symbol, tool or prop for conducting and documenting experimental enactments. The resulting story – a sequence of deeds, episodes, tableaus and vignettes – seeks to reveal as much about the zeitgeist as it does about the book.
Over 200 photographs are presented alongside texts including an essay on blank books encompassing histories of book arts, conceptual art and cinema by Federico Antonini, notes on the role of documentation in contemporary publishing by Darius Ou Dahao, reflections on the Philippine's counterfeit textbook market by Clara Lobregat Balaguer, tips for hiding valuables in books by Per Törnberg, a manifesto for elevating graphic design by Masaki Miwa, and a new poem by John Freeman.
The edition was collaboratively designed and produced during a ten-day workshop in London on transdisciplinary inquiry and publishing. Participants of the workshop undertook research into practices of documentary fiction, social sculpture and post-digital publishing to devise a hybrid reading experience that blends communication techniques from the fields of art, design and theory.
Published in parallel with But now space was part of the object¹ (Zyxt and Booksfromthefuture, 2015).
Contributors:
Luigi Amato, Federico Antonini, Joana Chicau, Hyunho Choi, Cecilia Denti, Matheus de Paula, Neil Donnelly, Rafaela Drazic, Spassky Fischer, John Freeman, Simon Goode and Ira Yonemura, Luana Graciano, Kristian Henson, Thomas Hervé, David Horvitz, Helge Hjorth Bentsen, Eric Hu, Hirofumi Isoya, River Jukes-Hudson, Tomoko Kawai, Ayse Koklu, Sean Kuhnke, Marie Lécrivain, Jen Lee, Clara Lobregat Balaguer, Corbin Mahieu, Claude Marzotto, Esa Matinvesi, Rita Matos, Kevin McCaughey, Niko Mihaljevic, Masaki Miwa, Jangs Müller, Jan Novák, Jozef Ondrik, Darius Ou Dahao, Pimeriko, Kasper Pyndt, GaEun Ryu, Ryo Shimizu, Soji Shimizu, Ying Tong Tan, Per Törnberg, Joseph Townshend, Risa Tsunegi, Ghazaal Vojdani, Seiko Watanabe, Lena Wurz, Makoto Yamada, Nobuo Yoda
Editors: Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees with Krister Olsson
Design: Joana Chicau, Cecilia Denti, Matheus de Paula, Luana Graciano, Yvan Martinez, Claude Marzotto, Krister Olsson, Kevin McCaughey, GaEun Ryu, Joshua Trees, Lena Wurz
First edition
Print on demand
292 pages
107.95mm x 174.752mm (4.25 x 6.88 inches)
Softcover
English
ISBN 978-0-9573509-3-
Helen Blank Collection 2001
No full textThe collection contains a questionnaire filled out by Helen Blank regarding her life in Austria before World War II, emigration from Austria to the United States, and life in the United States. Also included is a certificate confirming her employment at the Wiener Talmud-Thora Schulverein and a letter of recommendation from the school.Helen BlankHelen Blank was born Helene Bilber on April 15, 1917. She left Austria in January 1939 and arrived in the United States in Feburary 1939.An inventory is available in the folderAustrian Heritage CollectionGrowing up in Vienna previously removed to Memoir Collection (ME 1299, Aleph 201763)Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
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