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UNINA9910780432203321 |
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Autore |
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), <1657-1757.> |
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Titolo |
Conversations on the plurality of worlds [[electronic resource] /] / Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle ; translation by H.A. Hargreaves ; introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1990 |
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1-282-35575-9 |
9786612355752 |
0-520-91058-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (134 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Plurality of worlds - Early works to 1800 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-82). |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Translator's Preface -- Preface -- Dedication -- The First Evening -- The Second Evening -- The Third Evening -- The Fourth Evening -- The Fifth Evening -- Notes |
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Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me."In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific |
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discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture. |
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UNISA996456644403316 |
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Autore |
Pfeiffer Sabine |
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Digital Capitalism and Distributive Forces / / Sabine Pfeiffer |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 p.) |
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X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Frontmatter -- Content -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Digital Capitalism Revisited-again? -- 3. The First Blind Spot: Value in Digital Capitalism -- 4. Transformation and the Productive Forces -- 5. The Second Blind Spot: The Realisation of Value in (Digital) Capitalism -- 6. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: What is New? -- 7. The Distributive Forces and (Digital) Capitalism: Some Clarifications -- 8. The Distributive Forces in Digital Capitalism: Some Empirical Illustrations -- 9. Digitalisation: Distributive Force or Destructive Force? -- Bibliography -- List of Figures |
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Are robots taking away our jobs? Those who ask this question have misunderstood digitalisation - it is not an industrial revolution by other means. Sabine Pfeiffer searches for the actual novelties brought about by digitalisation and digital capitalism. In her analysis, she juxtaposes Marx's concept of productive force with the idea of distributive force. From the platform economy to artificial intelligence, Pfeiffer shows that |
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digital capitalism is less about the efficient production of value, but rather about its fast, risk-free, and permanently secured realisation on the markets. The examination of this dynamic and its consequences also leads to the question of how destructive the distributive forces of digital capitalism might be. |
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