1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001658590403321

Titolo

Idraulica / G. Nebbia, G. Ippolito, A. Russo Spena, M. Viparelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Liguori, 1966

Edizione

[Nuova ed.]

Descrizione fisica

554 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

627

Locazione

FAGBC

DININ

Collocazione

60 627 B 18

05 62 127

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463136603321

Autore

Warikoo Natasha Kumar <1973->

Titolo

Balancing acts [[electronic resource] ] : youth culture in the global city / / Natasha Kumar Warikoo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-27736-0

9786613277367

0-520-94779-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Disciplina

305.235086/91209421

Soggetti

Youth - Social life and customs

Children of immigrants

High school students - Social life and customs

Assimilation (Sociology)

Academic achievement

Group identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Understanding cultural incorporation -- Music and style: Americanization or globalization? -- Racial authenticity, "acting black," and cultural consumption -- Two types of racial discrimination: adult exclusion and peer bullying -- Positive attitudes and (some) negative behaviors -- Balancing acts: peer status and academic orientations -- Ethnic and racial boundaries -- Explaining youth cultures, improving academic achievement.

Sommario/riassunto

In this timely examination of children of immigrants in New York and London, Natasha Kumar Warikoo asks, Is there a link between rap/hip-hop-influenced youth culture and motivation to succeed in school? Warikoo challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture -- the clothing, music, and tough talk -- to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives. Using ethnographic, survey, and interview data in two racially diverse, low-achieving high schools, Warikoo analyzes seemingly oppositional styles, tastes in music, and school behaviors and finds that most teens try to find a balance between success with peers and success in school.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450028003321

Autore

Cothey A. L (Antony L.), <1951->

Titolo

The nature of art / / A.L. Cothey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990

ISBN

1-134-96737-3

1-280-53908-9

9786610539086

0-203-00433-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Problems of philosophy

Disciplina

701/.17

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Art is anomalous; 2. Forms of aesthetic scepticism: philistines and iconoclasts; 3. Historical note; 4. The central issues; 5. Aestheticism; I Hedonism and the Theory of Taste; 1. General objections; 2. Beauty as a secondary quality: Hutcheson, Reid, Burke; 3. Beauty as a primary quality: Santayana. Bell; 4. Hume's theory; II Theories that Assign a Direct Practical F'urpose to Art; 1. Nutritional and medicinal analogies; 2. General difficulties; 3. Art as substitute satisfaction: Freud; 4. Tolstoy's theory

5. Art as a pseudo-capacity: Plato6. Beauty and inspiration: Plato; 7. Metaphysical aestheticism: Plotinus; III Perfection and the Play of Cognition; 1. Aristotle's theory of pleasure; 2. Beauty and perfection: a dilemma; 3. Rationalist aesthetics: Leibniz, Baumgarten; 4. Kant's theory (I): the existence of a non-cognitiveaim of cognition; 5. Kant's theory (2): the sublime and the moralsignijicance of beauty; IV Art as the Experience of Metaphysical Truth; 1. The reception of Kant's theory: Schiller, Schelling; 2. Art and nature: Schelling

3. Art as the 'sensuous presentation of the Absolute': Hegel4. Hegel's iconoclasm; 5. Art as respite: Schopenhauer; 6. Schopenhauer on



music; 7. Conclusion: the needfor a theory offorms of knowledge; V Art as Language; 1. Knowledge by acquaintance; 2. The phenomenological approach: Dufrenne; 3. Croce's theory of intuition and expression; 4. Presentational symbols: Langer; 5. Art and the general theory of symbols: Goodman; VI Art and Metaphor; 1. The relevance of metaphor; 2. Theories of metaphor; 3. Literalist and tropist prejudices; 4. Dead and faint metaphor; 5. Viewpoints and exponability

6. Art as metaphor7. Unanswered questions; VII Virtues and Indirect Pleasures; 1. A problem about pleasure and 'completeness'; 2. Cognitive virtues; 3. A pragmatic theory of beauty; 4. Art as recreation; 5. The 'institutional' theory of art; 6. Cognitive pleasure: Aristotle on happiness; VIII The Aim Behind Perception; 1. Cognition and the essentially metaphorical; 2. The intellect and the senses: Aristotle; 3. Further problems in understanding particulars; 4. The imagination as a pseudo-capacity; 5. Perception and kinaesthetic experience; 6. Productive skills and conceptual empathy

IX Aesthetic Satisfaction1. Peculiarities of aesthetic enjoyment; 2. Perceptual knowledge; 3. Aesthetic understanding (I): empathic enjoyment; 4. Aesthetic understanding (2): beauty and necessity; 5. Beauty and experiential knowledge; X Art and Artistic Abilities; 1. Questions about art; 2. Two theories of artistic abilities; 3. Creative imagination; 4. Inspiration and works of art; 5. Inspiration and artistic success; 6. Understanding art; 7. The value of art: aesthetic experience as a source of meaning; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although various aesthetic themes have preoccupied many major philosophers, from Plato to Goodman, the central questions of the philosophy of art have remained ill-defined. This book gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient times to the present day, and goes on to propose a new theory of aesthetic satisfaction and artistic abilities.