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L-R: Katie Lee; Leo Walters; Bruce Berger sitting on a boat on the Colorado River.
No full textPhoto of Photo of Arizona folk singer and author Katie Lee (far left), Leo Walters (center), and writer Bruce Berger (far right), sitting on a raft on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon, Uta
Robert W. Berger, The palace of the sun. The Louvre of Louis XIV. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania University Press, 1993, 232 p.
No full textLiévaux Pascal. Robert W. Berger, The palace of the sun. The Louvre of Louis XIV. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania University Press, 1993, 232 p.. In: Bulletin Monumental, tome 153, n°2, année 1995. pp. 209-210
A local meshfree radial point interpolation method for Berger equation arising in modelling of thin plates
No full textIn this study, two-dimensional (2D) Berger equation arising in deflection of thin plates is
solved numerically. A local meshfree collocation technique based on radial point interpolation is developed for the Berger equation. As radial basis function thin plate splines are
used to avoid selecting optimal shape parameter. The method is used to solve both linear
and non-linear Berger equation on regular and irregular geometries. Obtained results during numerical simulations, are compared with different methods exist in literatrue such
as method of fundamental solutions, local Kansa’s method and Pascal polynomial based
meshless method. The comparisons affirm the accuracy and reliability of the suggested
method
Configurations of Values
No full textCentral to public debates about commonalities and differences between citizens of different religious and cultural backgrounds is the compatibility of cultural values and the norms through which these values are actualized. Values, and changes in value systems, are the central theme in Chapter 14 of this volume, in which Peter Berger discusses a specific strand of structural anthropology that he emphasizes can be useful in the analysis of both empirical and historical data: the theory of value as developed by Louis Dumont, which has its roots in Durkheim’s sociology of religion. Berger begins by contextualizing Dumont’s theory in the history of the discipline of anthropology by outlining the main features of Dumont’s analytical framework and how it has been developed by Joel Robbins. He sketches how Dumont, informed by his Indological and anthropological research on the Hindu caste system, developed a general theory of hierarchy, the latter being just the other side of the coin of value (as posing a value introduces hierarchy). While Lévi-Strauss was mainly concerned with binary oppositions in cultural structures, Dumont argued that relationships between ideas are hierarchical. Left and right, for instance, are not simply opposites but stand in a hierarchical relation. When taking an oath or shaking hands after making an agreement, only the right hand is appropriate because it stands for the whole person. Dumont discussed the various properties of value and added the concepts of “context” and “level” in order to account for a dynamic relationship between ideas and values within a certain framework he called ideology. Joel Robbins further developed the dynamic potential in Dumont’s theory in explaining processes of change and globalization. In line with Mason’s argument that the label of “religion” as a universal cultural category often obfuscates more than it illuminates outside the Western world, the author demonstrates that the theory of value as developed by Dumont and Robbins provides an important perspective from which to study religion, precisely because it does not depend on “religion” as a privileged analytical concept or domain
René Berger. L'art vidéo
No full textVideo art history
René Berger, director of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne from 1962 to 1981, and president of the International Association of Art Critics from 1969 to 1975, is a pioneering figure in the field of the theorization of video art, which he developed in parallel to the scientific symposia he organized at the VideoArt Festival in Locarno. Challenging the importance of exhibiting art and shaking up our apprehension of art by introducing a temporal factor, Berger suggests that video participates in an effect of dislocation and relocation of the work, which he considers one of the fundamental features of installations.
Borrowing tools of analysis from linguistics, cybernetics, and semiology, Berger positions video art as a practice situated at the intersection of different media, part of the development of mass-produced animated images, culminating with the explosion of technology. Berger’s reflexion on video, far from being limited to the claim of the medium’s specificity and to the promotion of its local actors (the “musketeers of the invisible” to use his well-known phrase), contributes to the renewal of the function of curator, considered as an author in their own right.
This publication gathers together for the first time the most important texts that René Berger dedicated to video art, published for the most part in magazines and exhibition catalogues between 1971 and 1997.
The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings
Organisations internationales
No full textDictionnaire encyclopédique de l'Etat., Berger Levrault Editions[No abstract
Organisations internationales
No full textDictionnaire encyclopédique de l'Etat., Berger Levrault Editions[No abstract
Peter's L. Berger sociology of religion: development, reflections and critics
No full textTato práce se zaměřuje na postavu a dílo amerického luteránského sociologa Petera L. Bergera. Snaží se poskytnout základní nahlédnutí na jeho působení v oblasti sociologie náboženství, podává přehled o jeho stěžejních teoretických koncepcích a myšlenkách obsažených především v dílech The sacred canopy, A rumor of angles, The heretical imperative a A far flory, přičemž neopomíjí jak jeho dřívější práce, tak sledovat autorovu současnou vědeckou aktivitu. Důležitá část této práce se věnuje tématu (proměny) náboženství v moderní době, tak, jak ho vnímal právě Berger, sleduje posun v jeho názorech na sekularizaci i jeho chápání situace náboženství v pluralitní době, jak ze strany sociologa, tak věřícího. Práce dává nahlédnout na způsob, jakým Berger ve svých dílech uchopuje náboženský fenomén, všímá si autorových přesahů mimo (pro Bergera příliš úzký) referenční rámec empirických věd a zohledňuje jeho metodologická východiska. Tématem práce není samotný Berger a její určitá část je tak vyhrazena ohlasům na jeho dílo, a to jak kladným, tak záporným.This diploma thesis is focused on the personality and work of Lutehran sociologist Peter L. Berger. The thesis tries to grant basic inspection of his activity in the area of sociology of religion. Also, it provides survey of his pivotal theoretical conceptions and ideas which are contained mainly in works The sacred canopy, A rumour of angles, The heretical imperative and A far flory; whereas, it doesn´t omit not only his previous works, but it also follows author´s contemporary activity. The important part of the thesis is dedicated to the religion changes in modern age as Berger perceived them. It follows the shift in his opinions on secularization, and also his understanding of religion´ s situation in pluralistic age in both - sociologist´s and also believer´s point of view. This work provides inspection of the way that Berger uses to handle religious phenomenon. It takes notice of the author´s overlaps outside the referential scope (which is too narrow for Berger) of empiric sciences and it takes into account author´s methodologic resources. The subject of the thesis is not Berger himself, and therefore its certain part is appropriate to either positive, or negative public acceptance of his work.Katedra religionistiky a filosofieDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
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