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A letter from Benjamin Beck, Acting Director for the National Zoological Park, to attendees of the National Council of La Raza, regarding a potential visit by attendees.
No full textA letter from Benjamin Beck, Acting Director for the National Zoological Park, to attendees of the National Council of La Raza, regarding a potential visit by attendees
Alla ricerca dell’aura perduta. Beck, Benjamin, e la riproducibilità tecnica del rischio
No full textIl presente articolo propone alcune note critiche circa l’influenza che la teoria della riproducibilità tecnica dell’opera d’arte di Walter Benjamin riveste nell’elaborazione della sociologia del rischio di Ulrich Beck, con particolare riferimento al nesso tra incertezza culturale, standardizzazione informativa e rimozione identitaria della tradizione. La società del rischio come effetto della inflazione mediale di contenuti, immagini e informazioni, accreditati di una iper-rappresentazione dei rischi post-moderni, percepiti dagli attori in relazione al grado di diffusione nell’agone pubblico
Alla ricerca dell’aura perduta. Beck, Benjamin, e la riproducibilità tecnica del rischio
No full textIl presente articolo propone alcune note critiche circa l’influenza che la teoria della riproducibilità tecnica dell’opera d’arte di Walter Benjamin riveste nell’elaborazione della sociologia del rischio di Ulrich Beck, con particolare riferimento al nesso tra incertezza culturale, standardizzazione informativa e rimozione identitaria della tradizione. La società del rischio come effetto della inflazione mediale di contenuti, immagini e informazioni, accreditati di una iper-rappresentazione dei rischi post-moderni, percepiti dagli attori in relazione al grado di diffusione nell’agone pubblico
The concept of remembrance in Walter Benjamin
No full textThis thesis argues that the role played by the concept of remembrance (Eingedenken)
in Walter Benjamin's 'theory of the knowledge of history' and in his engagement with
Enlightenment universal history, is a crucial one. The implications of Benjamin's
contention that history's 'original vocation' is 'remembrance' have hitherto gone
largely unnoticed. The following thesis explores the meaning of the concept of
remembrance and assesses the significance of this proposed link between history and
memory, looking at both the mnemonic aspect of history and the historical facets of
memory. It argues that by mobilising the simultaneously destructive and constructive
capacities of remembrance, Benjamin sought to develop a critical historiography
which would enable a radical encounter with a previously suppressed past. In so doing
he takes up a stance (explicit and implicit) towards existing philosophical conceptions
of history, in particular the idea of universal history found in German Idealism.
Benjamin reveals an intention to retain the epistemological aspirations of universal
history whilst ridding that approach of its apologetic moment. He criticises existing
conceptions of history on the basis that each assumes homogeneous time to be the
framework in which historical events occur. Insight into the distinctive temporality of
remembrance proves to be the touchstone for this critique, and provides a paradigm
for a very different conception of time. The thesis goes on to determine what is valid
and what is problematic both in this concept of remembrance and in the theory of
historical knowledge which it informs, by subjecting both to the most cogent
criticisms which can be levelled at them. What emerges is not only the importance of
this concept for an understanding of Benjamin's philosophy but the pertinence of this
concept for any philosophical account of memory
The temporality of language : Kant's legacy in the work of Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin
No full textContrary to the idea that there are fundamental differences between the
work of Martin Heidegger and Walter Benjamin, the thesis shows that
there exists a profound similarity in the direction of their projects, by
exploring how they took up Kant's critical legacy concerning the
temporality of language: the belonging together of language and time.
The ground of Kant's system and of the necessity of systematicity - the
three-fold synthesis which 'generates' time under the direction of
conceptuality - is elucidated via the Second Analogy and the Critique of
Teleological Judgment. It is argued that Kant's understanding of language
and time remains fixed within a circular justification of Newtonian
Science, which prevented him from taking up the critical resources of his
treatment of teleological concepts and applying it to his idea of the
critical system itself. Heidegger's and Benjamin's work may be understood
as taking up the hermeneutic circularity of Kant's philosophical system,
though freeing it from its appeal to a limited time determination. They
both develop notions of a more originary temporality in conjunction with
a linguistic phenomenology. They further allow this more critical
thinking of language and time to reflexively fall back on the writing of
philosophy itself. Their understanding of the temporality of language is
explored through the way 'translation' focuses, in each case, a thinking
of tradition and of linguistic works. The thesis rejects attempts to
separate Heidegger's early work from his later approach, and further
rejects a tendency to focus on Benjamin's style of writing in isolation
from its theoretical basis. The thesis concludes by arguing that the
work of both Heidegger and Benjamin points to a rethinking of Kant's
legacy of the necessity of system, in terms of system as the inescapable
belonging together of language and time
Agent (Capt.) Beck to Commissioner
No full textUteLetter regards a purported \u27antogonism\u27 from White River Utes to the author, Agent Beck. Marisco
The Legacy of Ulrich Beck in Asia: Introduction
No full textThis introduction briefly describes the relational trajectory between Ulrich Beck and Asia in the last few years. It draws particular attention to his last words about the role of Asia in the global risk community. Beck began to speak of the concept of metamorphosis in the 2014 Seoul conference as the correct key to understanding emancipatory catastrophism that he had expressed in the 2013 Potsdam conference. He was fascinated by the explanatory power of this concept and was driven to complete a book to explain the cosmopolitan change of the world from this perspective. With his advocacy of cities as cosmopolitan transformers, he urged Asian cities, particularly Seoul, to initiate United Cities of Asia' for a cosmopolitan cooperation for risk governance. Beck also suggested a parliament of risk actors' as a practical task to be realized in the future. In this introduction the author attempts to trace back the formation of these ideas by focusing on the interaction between Beck and Asia before his sudden passing.A&[email protected]
[Charlie Getzien, Detroit Wolverines, baseball card portrait]
No full textBaseball card title devised by Library staff.Issued by: August Beck & Company.Restricted access: Materials in this collection are extremely fragile and cannot be served.Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection
[Mickey Welch, New York Giants, baseball card portrait]
No full textBaseball card title devised by Library staff.Issued by: August Beck & Company.Restricted access: Materials in this collection are extremely fragile and cannot be served.Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection
[Jimmy Ryan, Chicago White Stockings, baseball card portrait]
No full textBaseball card title devised by Library staff.Issued by: August Beck & Company.Restricted access: Materials in this collection are extremely fragile and cannot be served.Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection
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