Essays on Kant's anthropology / / edited by Brian Jacobs, Patrick Kain [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450384603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-107-12947-8; 1-280-41808-7; 1-139-14666-1; 0-511-17015-7; 0-511-06710-0; 0-511-06079-3; 0-511-29723-8; 0-511-49819-5; 0-511-06923-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 128/.092
• Soggetti: Philosophical anthropology - History - 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Historical notes and interpretive questions about Kant's lectures on anthropology / Werner Stark -- Kant and the problem of human nature / Allen W. Wood -- The second part of morals / Robert B. Louden -- The guiding idea of Kant's anthropology and the vocation of the human being / Reinhard Brandt -- Kantian character and the problem of a science of humanity / Brian Jacobs -- Beauty, freedom, and morality : Kant's Lectures on anthropology and the development of his aesthetic theory / Paul Guyer -- Kant's apology for sensibility / Howard Caygill -- Kant's "True economy of human nature" : Rousseau, Count Verri, and the problem of happiness / Susan Meld Shell -- Prudential reason in Kant's anthropology / Patrick Kain.
• Sommario/riassunto: Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its development, ; and the notoriously difficult relationship between it and the critical philosophy. This 2003 collection of essays by some of the leading commentators on Kant offers a systematic account of the philosophical importance of this material that should nevertheless prove of interest to historians of ideas and political theorists. There are two broad approaches adopted: a number of the essays consider the systematic relations of the anthropology to critical philosophy, especially speculative knowledge and ethics. Other essays focus on the anthropology as a major source for the clarification of both the content and development of Kant's work. The volume also serves as an interpretative complement to the translation of the lectures in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.

Creating Standards : Interactions with Arabic script in 12 manuscript cultures / / Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori, Lameen Souag

• Record Nr.: UNISA996309143403316
• Autore: Bondarev Dmitry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2019; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 3-11-063508-9; 3-11-063906-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326)
• Collana: Studies in Manuscript Cultures ; ; 16
• Disciplina: 492.7
• Soggetti: Language; Literature & literary studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) -- Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script -- Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in ; the First Centuries of the Islamic Era -- Writing Judaeo-Arabic -- Cross Palaeographic Traditions. Some Examples from Old Christian Arabic Sources -- Uses and Written Practices in Aljamiado Manuscripts -- How to write Turkish? The Vagaries of the Arabo-Persian Script in Ottoman-Turkish Texts -- Developing Consistency in the Absence of Standards - A Manuscript as a Melting- Pot of Languages, Religions and Writing Systems -- Standardisation in Manuscripts written in Sino-Arabic Scripts and xiaojing -- A Collection of Unstandardised Consistencies? The Use of Jawi Script in a Few Early Malay Manuscripts from the Moluccas -- Standardisation Tendencies in Kanuri and Hausa Ajami Writings -- Kabyle in Arabic Script: A History without Standardisation -- Beyond 'aǧamī in Ethiopia: a short Note on an Arabic-Islamic Collection of Texts written in Ethiopian Script (fidäl) -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons
• Sommario/riassunto: Manuscript cultures based on Arabic script feature various tendencies in standardisation of orthography, script types and layout. Unlike previous studies, this book steps outside disciplinary and regional boundaries and provides a typological cross-cultural comparison of standardisation processes in twelve Arabic-influenced writing traditions where different cultures, languages and scripts interact. A wide range of case studies give insights into the factors behind uniformity and variation in Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew script, South Palestinian Christian Arabic, New Persian, Aljamiado of the Spanish Moriscos, Ottoman Turkish, a single multilingual Ottoman manuscript, Sino-Arabic in northwest China, Malay Jawi in the Moluccas, Kanuri and Hausa in Nigeria, Kabyle in Algeria, and Ethiopian Fidäl script as used to transliterate Arabic. One of the findings of this volume is that different domains of manuscript cultures have distinct paths of standardisation, so that orthography tends to develop its own standardisation principles irrespective of norms applied to layout and script types. This book will appeal to readers interested in manuscript studies, sociolinguistics, literacy studies, and history of writing.