1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910132089703321

Autore

Rocher Guy

Titolo

Le Québec en mutation / / Guy Rocher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicoutimi : , : J.-M. Tremblay, , 2004

ISBN

1-55442-925-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Classiques des sciences sociales

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Avant-Propos -- Introduction : Le Québec en mutation au seuil d'un avenir incertain -- I. Changements de structure et mutation culturelle -- II. Le conservatisme québécois -- III. Un incertain avenir -- Conclusion générale.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974789203321

Autore

McCance Dawne <1944->

Titolo

Medusa's ear : university foundings from Kant to Chora L / / Dawne McCance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8429-7

1-4237-4015-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Disciplina

378/.001

Soggetti

Postmodernism and higher education

Philosophy, European

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- MEDUSA'S EAR -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. MOURNING THE VOICE -- 2. THE ARCHITECTURE OF INSTITUTION -- 3. PASSAGES -- 4. WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR? -- 5. FOUR WAYS OF READING TWO PAIRS: OF SHOES -- 6. ARCHITECTURE'S (THE UNIVERSITY'S) CHORA: TWO POSTMODERN COLLABORATIONS -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Reads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. In traditional mythology and iconography, Medusa's killing powers are attributed to visual means: the monster is slain for her looks and her effect is to kill men for looking at her. Challenging the familiar account of the modern era as ocularcentric, this book reads the Medusa-effect on the philosophy of the modern research university as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy. Author Dawne McCance links phonocentrism to an aural imaginary by tracking the trope--and terror--of the deaf ear and mute mouth in the discourse on the university that was inaugurated by Kant and that extends through Hegel and Heidegger to the present. She shows how, repeatedly, in



founding texts on the modern research university, the philosopher's fearful recoil from an animal-female figure that he defines as deaf and dumb has the effect--the Medusa-effect--of cutting off his own, and therefore the institution's, ear and tongue. McCance also considers some recent efforts to shake the modern institution out of its Medusa-effect petrification. Dawne McCance is Professor and Head of the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba and a Fellow of St. John's College. She is the author of Posts: Re Addressing the Ethical , also published by SUNY Press, and the editor of Life Ethics in World Religions .