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Andrea Bacová
No full textAndrea Bacová focuses on research and teaching in the field of residential architecture. Her work includes systematic research on residential buildings and their urban context. She actively participates in promoting Slovak architecture and is the author of several publications and exhibitions
Viewer-, Author-, and Ownership in the Work of Andrea Zittel
Get PDFAndrea Zittel invites others to collapse the distinctions between artist, viewer, and collaborator by interacting with her usable works. This thesis explores the process of interacting with Zittel\u27s works, and how it affects viewer-, author- and ownership
The Lettere of Andrea Calmo: authorial artifices and historical reality
No full textopenNonostante l’edizione di Vittorio Rossi del 1888, la raccolta di "ingegnosi cheribizzi" e di "fantastiche fantasie" di Andrea Calmo è ancora avvolta da un certo mistero. L’autore, dissimulando la propria identità dietro alla “maschera” dell’umile pescatore veneziano, è stato in grado di offrire uno spaccato della cultura e della società nella Venezia cinquecentesca.
In particolare, è il quarto libro delle Lettere ad aver suscitato maggiore interesse tra gli studiosi ed i lettori: pubblicato nel 1566, a diversi anni di distanza dai primi tre, questo libro si distingue per il fatto che tutte le epistole sono indirizzate a delle donne immaginarie o realmente esistite.
In questa sede si propone, in primo luogo, uno studio della biografia del Calmo accompagnata da un’analisi del contesto storico-culturale della Venezia cinquecentesca; in secondo luogo, invece, viene proposto un commento di alcune lettere dell’ultimo libro dell’opera calmiana, che cerchi di far luce principalmente sull’aspetto linguistico e contenutistico del testo.Despite Vittorio Rossi's 1888 edition, Andrea Calmo's collection of "ingegnosi cheribizzi" and "fantastiche fantasie" is still shrouded in a certain mystery. The author, dissimulating his own identity behind the "mask" of the humble Venetian fisherman, was able to offer a cross-section of culture and society in sixteenth-century Venice.
In particular, it is the fourth book of the Letters that has aroused greater interest among scholars and readers: published in 1566, several years after the first three, this book stands out for the fact that all the epistles are addressed to women imaginary or actually existed.
Here we propose, first of all, a study of Calmo's biography accompanied by an analysis of the historical-cultural context of sixteenth-century Venice; secondly, however, a commentary on some letters from the last book of Calmo's work is proposed, which seeks to shed light mainly on the linguistic and content aspect of the text
Darwinismo e pragmatismo. La filosofia evoluzionistica di Chauncey Wright
Get PDFThe Darwinian evolutionary theory was a real revolution, not only in biology and, generally, in scientific fields, but even in philosophical and epistemological thought. However, in the years that followed the publication of The Origin of Species (1859), virtually nobody, among scientists and philosophers, agreed with the principle of natural selection put forward by Darwin as the main explanation of the evolutionary process. This happened because Darwin’s theory was quite opposed to the “orthodox” view behind natural sciences and the philosophy of nature both in Europe and in America.
Natural theology was taught in every school, academy, college, and it claimed that all the species in nature are created by God for a good purpose or a general design, are fixed in time, and they are already fitted to their environment from the beginning. Some theologians could account for organic forms by evolution to a certain degree, but all of them agreed on the “argument from design” and to the idea that man was «the glory and the supreme king of the natural realm», as Darwin ironically wrote.
One of the few that stood against this background and followed Darwin in his “struggle” against the teleological and anthropocentric interpretation of natural beings was an American philosopher from Cambridge whose name was Chauncey Wright.
Wright (1830-1875) was the well loved master of famous thinkers as William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, or Oliver Wendell Holmes at the “Metaphysical Club” in Cambridge, now considered the birth place of American Pragmatism. Wright started from the William Hamilton’s philosophy and then, in the 1860s, rejected it in favour of the utilitarianism of Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill.
When Darwin’s Origin arrived to America, in 1860, he immediately became a firm supporter of the evolutionary theory. To him, the principle of natural selection was just an application of the Mills’ utilitarian philosophy and, moreover, it was even an improvement of it: e.g., the principle of natural selection could shed new light on the origin of different complex human feelings, ideas, behaviours, whereas the principles of mental association, which were the basis of the utilitarian ethics, were very vague and generic on these genetic problems.
For these reasons Wright thoroughly studied the Darwinian theory for ten years and then he wrote some articles on this topic in the early 1870s. Three of them aimed to take issue with Alfred Russell Wallace and George Mivart’s arguments against the principle of natural selection, and they were so well conducted that Darwin himself thanked Wright and decided to publish one of them in England as a pamphlet at his own expenses. The last of these articles on evolution, titled The Evolution of Self-Consciousness (1873), is the most important of the series. After the death of this author, in 1875, his friends collected almost all his published works in a book entitled Philosophical Discussions (1877) and most of his Letters (1878).
In general, until now, Chauncey Wright’s philosophy has been obscured by the more famous thought of the American Pragmatists, such as Peirce, James, Dewey. Not many scholars wrote on this philosopher and, among them, those who studied his philosophy were more interested in comparing it to the Pragmatist one, rather than in directly elucidating its basic principles and in deeply exploring its theoretical features. For these reasons Edward Madden, the most important Wright scholar, named him a “forgotten philosopher”. At present, only one of Wright’s articles (The evolution of self-consciousness, 1873) has been translated into Italian, and, in general, this thinker is almost unknown in Italy.
On the contrary, my work sets out to prove that Wright’s philosophy is not only fundamental to well understanding the origin and the roots of American Pragmatism, but it is also very important in order to focus on the most interesting philosophical implications of the Darwinian evolutionary theory. In particular, my thesis examines the new epistemology worked out by Wright, which, beginning from a deep analysis of Darwin’s theory, highlighted the still unseen importance of the principle of “the new uses for old functions”. In his stressing the significance of this principle, Wright showed to conceive the evolutionary process in a very similar way, in its main features, to the one advanced by some modern biologists, such as, for example, Gould, Eldredge or Lewontin.
As Wright did a century and a half ago, the above mentioned biologists highlight the importance of this mechanism of new uses for old functions, or, as they call this transformational principle, “exaptations”, in order to go beyond an “adaptationist” or “panselectionist” interpretation of the Darwinian theory.
This pluralistic view, as a working hypothesis, is very effective in its approach to the theoretical problems, especially when Wright applied it on the very classic philosophical question of the nature and of the origin of self-awareness. The main role of these new uses of old powers (like “memory” or “attention”) in relation to the new importance accorded by Wright to the habits and to the use of signs, establishes that Wright’s approach to the problem of the evolution of self-consciousness is a very new one, as it appears to be an interesting combination of an original (and modern) version of Darwinism and an incipient kind of Pragmatism. Nowadays, the solution developed by Wright in his approach to the question of the “human”, could be useful in philosophy and biology to better think and to shed new light on this very controversial and ancient riddle, namely, the origin of language and the evolution of human mind from an evolutionary point of view
L’influenza di Wright sulla cultura architettonica napoletana del secondo dopoguerra
No full textIn the first period after the Second World War, in Naples the inspiration from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright depends largely on the central role of Bruno Zevi in the architectural debate, also because especially at that time the cultural life in Naples had so many connections with Rome. The influence of the American master on Neapolitan architecture has been quite heterogeneous and there has not actually been an “organic” school; but we can find different personalities, who might be considered Wright’s spiritual heirs, everyone in his own way, and among them Giulio De Luca, founder of the local APAO section, and other younger architects, such as Michele Capobianco, Alberto Izzo, Camillo Gubitosi and Aldo Loris Rossi, are remarkable. They all teach at university and there are not external and non-academic figures, like elsewhere Ridolfi or Nervi. Just in a few cases the buildings of these architects, like Punta Molino Hotel, in Ischia, by De Luca, have curvilinear forms, following the main interpretation of Wright’s work. More frequently, they consider organic architecture as a new approach to nature, context and human being, all aspects which are strictly connected.
Another difference from the rest of Italy is the absence of a strong ideological interpretation, so that sometimes the need to renew the architectural language and the spreading of jerry-building are not so far from each other. Anyway, the admirers of Wright are not part of South Italian architectural main stream, because they represent isolated cases, who reclaim their cultural independence, always in their own way and in different social-political situations, from the late 40’s up to the present time. Nowadays, the work of Aldo Loris Rossi shows how the model of Wright can remain alive even after many decades since his death
Trusted Tales: Creating Authenticity in Literary Representations from Ex-Yugoslavia
No full textThis research deals with questions of authority and authenticity and how they are expressed, constructed, and appropriated within the Anglophone book market. It considers the body of literature written about ex-Yugoslavia since the 1990s Balkan conflicts by exiled writers from the region which has entered the international literary canon. Books’ routes from original publishers into English translation are discussed through practices of trust, one of the crucial social devices underpinning their exchange. Within these cross-cultural processes, the role of cultural brokers is crucial. Symbolic and cultural resources are specifically mobilised through their powerful author brands.
By exploring authenticity in the context of book publishing, I further look at how ideas and practices of community are employed and negotiated by writers and those who promote their books. My field is multi-sited and fluid, reflecting how different individual and national positions are enacted and performed through strategies ranging from unconscious dispositions to deliberate intentions. This research thus brings together ideas of the author as an authentic, representative voice together with exile as a position that grants them a new lease of relevancy in the post-socialist context.
Although ex-Yugoslav books occupy a ‘high end’ niche of the UK market, constrained by commercial as well as political, cultural, and institutional forces, in public discourse ideas of the ‘free market’ and ‘free speech’ are mobilised to produce various types of modernisation narratives. The (post)socialist production of literature is perceived as having to ‘evolve’ into a capitalist model: this would allow not only healthy competition and consumer choice but guarantee an individual writer ‘free speech’ as a basic human right. Therefore, the most general question this research raises is what kind of foreign literature gets translated into English, under what socio-cultural conditions and which politics of representation it serves within the project of world literature
320 - DeeDee Susan Wright
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Historically in the US, some students are underrepresented in STEM fields. Quality STEM teachers can advance efforts to close these gaps. However, 17-50% of teachers leave within the first 5 years. The goal of the project is to develop resilient teachers by providing tools to be successful as they encounter a dynamic education landscape. This will be accomplished using a two-pronged approach of mentoring and place-based education curriculum. The proposed project will take a novel approach examining human interaction between teachers and the education community through a social ecological systems framework. We predict this model will increase STEM teacher resilience
Age-related effects on language production: A combined psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic perspective
No full textMs. Courtney Chartier, RWWL AUC, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Ms. Courtney Chartier. Ms. Chartier talks about her work on the "New Georgia Encyclopedia" and "Online Voter Education Project." Andrea Jackson, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Crispin Wright
Get PDFCrispin Wirght (born 1942) is a British philosopher whose works cover fields like the philosophy of language and mathematics of Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein (in both cases, through the influence of Michael Dummett's thought), the debate between realism and anti-realism, vagueness, first-person knowledge of mental states, and skepticism. By promoting novel and promising research programs (here outlined in their essentials) in all these areas, Wright stands out as one of the most authoritative figures in contemporary analytic philosophy.Crispin Wright (1942) è un filosofo britannico la cui vasta produzione copre ambiti quali la filosofia della matematica di Gottlob Frege e la filosofia del linguaggio di Ludwig Wittgenstein (entrambi autori ai quali le posizioni di Wright si sono significativamente ispirate, grazie anche all'influenza di Michael Dummett), il dibattito tra realismo e anti-realismo, la vaghezza, la conoscenza dei propri stati mentali e il problema dello scetticismo. In ciascuno di questi ambiti Wright ha promosso importanti programmi di ricerca - qui presentati nelle loro linee essenziali - che ne fanno una delle voci più influenti del panorama filosofico contemporaneo
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